Happy New Year...

Last day of '09, have a good '10!

Last blog post of the year has some good stuff in it - Ride UK have been doing "Highlights of 2009" posts with a select few riders. Next up is Owain Clegg and it's a pretty good read. Check it out here.

It's taken all year to do it, but in the last day of 2009 the Shadow Conspiracy have made a T-shirt I actually like. Go over to Defgrip to view the collection!

Brad Simms is awesome, and today TCU posted up an old part of his from Broke Off. I put his NYC web edit up before, click his label down there to go check it out. It's well worth it...



Another cold, snowy day means another day I'm jealous of the weather they have over in Texas - check out this scene report that I saw over on Dig.



I've just spent the past few hours trying to sort out car insurance. That sucked, but at least it's done now, so I'm off for a quick ride before working out what I'm doing tonight. Wherever you end up, have a good one.

Carhartt win.

(Helpful edit: Auto-running videos need to stop. In any case, about 4 videos down that Profile video's going to start blaring away so you might wanna scoot down the page, nip that in the bud, then head back up here and begin reading...)

It's really no surprise Rich Wilson (or Forne depending on where you look/who you speak to?) won the Nike Apprenticeship with skills like these! The dude's awesome at making videos, this is no exception. A pretty different take on indoor park videos, so no doubt the interwebs are going to be flooded with copy-cat edits asap. You know it'll happen...



Niki was riding the P5 jam with some "RIP Broady Banks" stickers on his bike, commemorating the recently merked Nottingham spot. To give you an inkling about what the spot was like, here's a section from The Make's What's What DVD with some classic footage from there.



I can't remember whether this Mulville video got posted out, but basically the dude utterly rules so any content is good content. This video is a bit older, and this Profile video is... well... newer? Anyway, here's two videos of Mark Mulville.





I shamelessly copied those videos from Deluxe.

Oh, and in other news that's very much less interesting from my point of view, Jake Daw is now riding for Stereo BMX, who aren't Stereo set up by My Name Is Earl star Jason Lee. I mean really - there are a katrillion different words in the English language, I'm sure they could've found something else? "Publish"? "Post"? "Save"? "Now"? "Draft"? "Autosaved"? Just a few that spring to mind...



That's Jake riding, anyway. Enjoy it if you're into that parky biz.

Owain Clegg.

That last gap. What?! Seventies/Shadow:

Long-video-tastic

Well, due to Carlos feeling a little fragile today, P2 work's hit the buffers so I've decided to use Joel's net connection to hit up the Blog, and on a reasonable day too - full length videos from Derelict, Carhartt and... well... that's it, but that's pretty much an entire hour of BMX which should really be enough. Oh, there was a Sunday video too that felt like a feature film even though it wasn't, but that was more 'cos I just didn't really want to watch it anyway...

First up, the Derelict video (Seen over on Deluxe - from their full length vid released in early '08:


Derelict BMX - Never Gonna Win (2008) from Dave King on Vimeo.

Secondly, the Carhartt Gran Canaria vid (Features Stefan Lanstcher, Bruno Hoffmann, Owain Clegg and some other people who were reasonably forgetable. I don't think I've seen a bad Stefan L or Bruno H part, and although this video dragged at times, there's still some awesome riding.


CARHARTT RAVAGE GRAN CANARIA BMX TOUR from woozybmx.com on Vimeo.

Speaking of awesome riding, if you live in Southampton, come ride some street tonight? Do it, you won't regret it...

In genuine news though, Fly are the latest company to get ESPN'd, go check that out here.

Erny crafting some kind of drop nose Pivotal hybrid, seen over on Mutiny:



Lastly, 'cos I need to go use Joel's shower, here's some online Joel action, his interview on Ride re: OMB. Ch-ch-check it!

Fit UK in Greece.

Courtesy of 4Down - to quote a text I just got from Tim, "Ben Lewis, Marv, Alex Kennedy. Killing it."

Quite so...


Channel 4Down BMX :: Fit UK In Greece! from Channel 4Down on Vimeo.

Owain Clegg, ahead of his time...

Everyone knows Owain Clegg is rad. He's been around the UK scene since time began, and has always been doing some cool, new and interesting lines. This is a video from 2003, check out how ahead of it's time it was...



From 4Down.