Smorgasbord.

So, here we are again. Another big gap in posts, another load of videos that were cool.

First up, Chad Kerley - hadn't really heard of him before, but it appears he's pretty good! Certainly good enough for the-company-formerly-known-as-Nike-6.0 to hook him up, which is saying something.



Sticking with shoe companies - this is the crash edit from the Osiris trip I posted before. Again, half cabs = danger danger.



Tenuous shoe company related - thought Shaun Hadlington was still on Orchid, but who knows? Not me. Anyway, Shaun's got an amazing style that's even better to see in person. This is his section from Rain Dogs and it's got some rad lines in it.



Can I keep this up? Vans have fully put out their Vans/Cult collaboration shoes, and here is Vans/Cult rider Chase Hawk doing some cool moves in the ridiculously good looking new concrete park in Austin. As if they needed more to ride over there?!



Apparently I can keep it up - Alex Donnachie rode for Lotek in this year's RideToGlory (that magazine's out now, and is well worth checking out for the DVD alone. Some awesome stuff in there, all the edits rule!), but here he is in an edit for Mutiny.



Still going - Ben Lewis hit up the Etnies 'TF' whilst over on a visit with Fit, here's a self-confessed 'dodgy iPhone edit'. Ben's also in RTG and also does good stuff. Not that surprising...



Still on Etnies - Brian Kachinsky has a new shoe out, a variation of the Jameson 2. Fairly... er... 'interesting' looking. Here's a video explaination of it, and some standard hefty riding from him too.



...and that's about it, really. I'd sort of feel bad posting up non-shoe-sponsor-related stuff even though that just seemed to pop out of nowhere. Coffee time...

EDIT: Actually, just remembered one. Must... find... connection... Darryl Tocco rides for Osiris and Aaron Smith (I think?) rides for DC. Here's a trademark "Never put out a bad edit" video from Kink of their latest sojourn to France.

For the sake of the blog?

This is George Boyd's section from For The Sake Of The Video. Looks pretty good, eh?



In related good video news, Nathan Williams had this video out today too.



Ben Hucke has a new frame out, you can hear about it here:



Lotek have some new shoes out. Fruity colours...

And with that, I'm off. Hungry hungry hippo.

Belm.

Forgot to post this up before - Craig Passero doing rad things for a TCU Premiere vid for Lotek. Really good lines in this.

"That's what she said."

This is going to be a long one.

Top billing today most definitely goes to one of the best BMX photographers out there, Mr. Rob Dolecki. His new site is up now and is super good. Go check it out here and have a good nose around, plenty of awesome content!

In other creative type stuff, Mutiny have re-posted Rich Wilson's Media Apprentice video, with a cryptic 'Expect more soon' kinda thing. Should be interesting to see what that's all about, but in the mean time, an awesome video:



New video from RideTheSky that's worth a watch:



Dig have a bike-check with "So hot back then" Erik Elstran - click here to see a not-your-average bike check.

S&M have both a new website and a new webvideo:



Very much unrelated, apart from the it has the name 'moon' in the title, but the sequel to the absolutely awesome Lotek Mixtape is out later this year, according to their site. Can't wait for that, big guns!

It was pretty big news a while back, but Brad Simms has an interview out with some cool photos of rad (and sorta un-pulled stuff) trickery that talks a bit about his dropping from the Snafu team. Go to Ride US to check that out.

Last but not least, here's a Howies web-video for you to feast your eyes on.



...and with that, I'm gonna eat some soup, shoot some pool, then take some photos of shiny coloured aluminium stuff.

Relaxed...

Just spotted this on Facebook. Pretty cool, relaxed video of a guy called 'Tilgner' who rides for Lotek through All-Ride.



EDIT: That doesn't seem to work too well... Click here!

Stranger than fiction?

Well, there's been some rumblings from the Cult camp recently, and I happened to spot a photo of a prototype Stranger frame (Rich Hirsch's new setup) on BG earlier - apparently it's go time for new companies.

Anyways, TCU posted up a link to the Lotek site where Rich has a few photos up of his bike. Looks pretty good...

Sweet.

Having a job is surprisingly awesome!

Anyway, been away for 3 days - catchup time.

Couple of web-vids that are most excellent:

Tom Blyth:



Darryl Tocco:



Ollie Wainwright (and friends):



Little Andrew:



Other news:

Kyle Hart has a sweet bike.

Cause and effect.

Here's a video of George French riding Sheffield (Spotted on Ride.



Here's a video of Joe Cox riding (Amongst other places) Sheffield. Cause and effect?



Heard a few mixed reviews of Joe's section on TWW, but I'm fully keen. Bangers, bangers and more bangers. The dude's too good, and - as with everything on TWW - the sound track is awesome.

Entirely different kinda video now, ODI's team headed over to 'frisco for a session. Hefty. Ender.



Totally different, yet again, is this video from the Oakley Trails Championships thing. The unofficially kick-out comp still going on?



Yet more 2010 completes, this time it's Eastern.

Seeing as everyone else is doing it, Lotek have put the Mike Hoder web-video up for embedability (WORD UP) everywhere now, rather than just their own site (And Streetphire thanks to H-Man's 1337 skillz).

Busy day?

Moving house, driving for 7 hours, not water in my house all day. Grumble. May well explain this post?





These are two new videos from Nike (That I saw over on Defgrip - linkity link!). I can appreciate that people outside of BMX might be able to make better looking videos with fancier graphics, but if you want someone to capture the 'feel' of BMX, someone involved with it is always going to get the point. It's pretty much a fact. If you look at photography and video work by people like Edd Templeton, Larry Clark and so on, their work is amazing because they're actively involved with what they're portraying. You can't get the real atmosphere and vibe of something if you have no involvement with it. There are so many talented filmers and photographers involved with BMX it seems ridiculous that they overlooked all of them. The majority of the BMX media world are generally under-valued as it is (Bearing in mind that without good filmers, those DVDs and web-videos everyone like to watch wouldn't exist, and without good photographers, those magazines that people like to read wouldn't exist either), so when they're denied even getting some kind of break by companies (Nike aren't alone in this, there are other BMX companies just as guilty), it seems utterly ridiculous.



Take it like a man! Sinisi filmed a large part of a video part with a broken leg... From Proper.

Posted the rest of these, so here's Day 5 of the Frenchys tour.

Leo won.

Lacey is also a winner, but for different reasons (Side note - it's nuts people are doing stuff this substantial for a little web video?!):



Also on Seventies's's's's's video stream, Dakota Roche checking the readiness of Brighton.



Saw the pole jam in this S&M web-video, and it reminded me of how awesome pole jams are. Seriously, if you haven't ridden one, you're missing out. They're ride-able pegless too, so even if you aren't a fan of trick sticks you can still get involved. If you can't find one, make one - it's not hard.



Rickey Bates is now pro for TheLongURLtotypeout.



I am tired. Night.

Busy?

Apparently everyone decided to put cool stuff up online today?

Dan Lacey likes weed (who knew?) and custom paint jobs: Bikecheck.

T1's new Freaky Friday is up:



This was something fun I had an idea for when I went to Spain to film the Fox Andalucia series. This idea came to me one night while lying in bed. I thought it would be a cool way for people to see Ruben’s hip for the first time. I thought that the matador was fitting due to the fact we were in Spain. Then, I heard this song by Beruit and it fit together perfectly in my mind. But due to music rights issues, I never got clearance, therefore the idea couldn’t be used for the Fox vid. For those of you that have seen the riding in the 3rd part of Andalucia, this contains a few clips from that, plus one pretty funny ending one. These clips never get old to me. We laughed for awhile with this one. Hope you dig it” - Joe Rich

Joe rules!

Mike Hoder has a new webvideo up over on the Lotek site, where they also have pics up of the Hoder slims, a more padded version of the "Other" Mike Slims. Swish. Webvideo's awesome anyway: Watch here.

Sam Lowe is WTP's Canadian rider, who has a cool little edit up:



Lastly, it's not BMX, but it is awesome - the trailer for Season 2 of Nitro Circus. Check out their Vimeo channel here.

Bits 'n' bobs.

Give-D have a cool edit up on Odyssey's site. Some really, really good riding in this, and a generally cool vibe.

GIVE D'S TEXAS TRIP FROM ODYSSEYBMX.COM

Lotek have both an entirely new product line, but also a warranty page. Probably a first for a BMX shoe company? Either way, for those of you out there with hassles with Loteks, find your receipts and e-mail away.



Everyone's firing out 2010 completes, Verde are no exception.

Lightsinthewoods have an edit from NASS up, spotted on Proper:



And, according to the tabs I have left open on Firefox, that's a wrap!

Free shoes?

Give it a pop....

If you luck out on that and don't win either due to sheer stupidity in not getting the answer right, or just because you weren't lucky enough to win, you can still buy all those shoes at the best BMX shop around.

New Ride UK, #130!

The new issue of Ride is out, #130. Saw the preview cover up on Mutiny's site.



TheComeUp appear to be hinting that Fremont is no more - no Fremont logo on Ian "Best section in the new Sunday video by a country mile, and makes it worth buying for his section alone" Schwartz' signature shoes, now out on Lotek?

EINBITTEN!

Is it wrong that "EINBITTEN" amuses me? Guessing that's "Embed" in German. Either way, poached this from over on Woozy. This video utterly rules in every sense.



Semi-related (In that they're a Vans Half-Cab bite), here are the new colour-way Lotek Eddies. They look sweeeeeeet.



The Federal blog is now up on BMXFeed, meaning I got the chance to see this Dan Cox updated bio with the greatest of ease.

Similarly, there's this rad update on FBM. Being able to make whatever frame you want has gotta be pretty damn awesome.

Bits 'n' (video) pieces

If you want to buy coloured parts that, in the UK, will only be colourful for about 2 days out of the year, then here's your chance! (Having said that, this weekend the UV index is up to 8, so you never know...)



Pretty sweet trailer by FUTU:

Animal Promo from Charlie Crumlish on Vimeo.

Alex Kennedy broke his nose doing a twist to fakie at FISE today/yesterday, head over to Ride's site for some Mini qualifying video footage and some pics. Mark Webb got smooth?

Lastly, Lotek have put a Mike Hoder edit up (a few days ago - I forgot, alright?!):

Mike Hoder from Lotek on Vimeo.

Bruno Hoffmann/Jason Enns

Bruno H has a profile up on the interwebs from Fuel, I think? Anyway, saw this over on WTP.



Secondly, Jason Enns has a webvid up for Lotek:

Enns clips from Lotek on Vimeo.

New products...

New Loteks have been released, loving the black/white/green Coastals!

Assorted videos.

Perzam.



Trey Jones appears to have exchanged his freecoaster for the ability to properly crank at stuff, and to good effect.

Mike Hinkens has some rad clips in this video:


Mike Hinkens - 2008 Leftovers from Mike Hinkens on Vimeo.

Lotek's team have a video update here:

VIMBY - Lotek Team Update

Forgot to put a title on.

I first met Tom Davis at a P5 jam in Leicester. I didn't know who he was, and in a write-up I did for S43 I just called him Chase Dehart in lieu of his real name. He did some rad stuff at that jam, has put out some cool videos, and this is his latest one. It's a bit OTT on the post production for my liking, but horses for courses, as they say.



The latest installment of "The Making Of Stay Fit" is up courtesy of Kuwahara, this time featuring Chase "Dems some tabez" Hawk.



Lotek's latest attempt at foot coverers is a "collab" with Shadow as Chase Dehart's signature shoe. Click here to check that out.

DUB have decided to cut back on their coke and weed budget to further their camera budget, resulting in a shiny new HD cam. As a result, here's some SD footage to use it up. To quote Props, remember these are trained professionals in controlled circumstances...


3Chip Ender... from Dub BMX on Vimeo.

Snippets.

Lotek have unveiled their new line of shoes and clothing - some pretty rad T's this time around, and some pretty sweet looking shoes too. Click here to go there directly.

Speaking of - Fremont/Lotek rider Wolfman has a video bikecheck up from the Macneil site.


Wolfman Bike Check from MACNEIL BMX on Vimeo.

Linked in with Macneil, Gary Young is one of the four riders in a surprisingly bad web-edit, considering it's made by Vans and has some pretty good riders in it. One line, for example, is about 15secs long and ends with Ali Whitton doing a 180 down a 3-set. Right... Anyway, if you're really bored and don't have anything else better to do, click here.