Saturday Video Frenzy!

That's right - Saturday Video Frenzy time.

Tom Dugan is now riding for Fit. Joe Rich is cool with this. Mike Aitken is cool with this. Ergo, you should also be cool with this. Here's a sort of 'see you later alligator' edit Joe Rich did featuring Tom, Joe and Ruben Alcantara riding some crazy setups in Malaga, at the time for T-1.



Double header from the Etnies/DansComp tour - first up, this edit of the whole trip. Features Chase Dehart, Nathan Williams, Corey Martinez, Tony Hamlin and some other people here and there. That ender is sweet.



The Bakery also have a little edit from when that trip rolled through - I'm assuming I won't be able to embed it, so click here to watch it with the date over-laid over part of the video.

Randy Taylor footage is always good to see, especially after the past 12 months where he's been MIA for one reason or other. This edit is his getting back into things vid for Mutiny.



Dennis Enarson is ridiculous, as this video I saw over on the Props site shows. Just sayin'.



Lastly, another Defgrip exclusive, another cool video. Pretty much on a 100% record there - those guys rule. This time it's a Bobby Simmons video which features some good stuff. Manuals for miles - Link!

Riding time...

Aching.

Man, Saturday's weather was too good. Paying for that now (my shoulders are haggard), but no regrets!

In 'other' news - Craig Passero is still really good. This time it's for Lotek, but ultimately the title sponsor for a video of him doesn't matter. You know it's going to be awesome.



Much like you can be pretty sure a Passero edit's going to be cool, you can generally assume a Mutiny edit's going to look pretty "Aww yeah". This is also the case. Good to see some Randy Taylor clips in there too, even if his riding was limited due to some pretty brutal sounding nerve/hardware issues.



Niki Croft. What else is there to say? From TheMake.



I'm willing to bet all those slams at the start hurt the world more than they hurt Niki.

Speaking of slams...

Context.

I'm typing this seated on a brand new office chair, sitting at a desk with my laptop, a proper mouse and mouse-mat, a digital typewriter, an external hard-drive, a massive dead moth that's staring at me and some turbo strength cold/flu medicine. Just thought I'd set that scene for you. Feels pretty pro...

Speaking of pro - the Rail Jam at Interbike is potentially the only real thing I'm going to post from Interbike in so much as it was the only thing that actually involved riding, and I'm very much more interested in that rather than more unimaginative parts. Some of the lines people do in this are about a million % more original and innovative than almost every part shown at Interbike this year. Vital had this video up - I don't want to put any spoilers, but damn... I really want to say how awesome it was to see some of the moves in there.



Speaking of things that are awesome - any Erik Elstran footage is good, and this video for The Set is no different. I'm keen on anything that's pretty much done purely to wind up people who deserve to be wound up, so if you find yourself recoiling in horror and heading over to TheComeUp to cry about the double 'giver' in this video, then you and I probably wouldn't get along.



In total contrast to that, most Etnies edits seem to be produced to try and appeal to as many people as possible and offend as few people as possible, and this video's not really much of an exception. That being said, there's some cool stuff in there.



Cult apparently had a promo they made to play at Interbike, so it should be cool seeing that when it drops for us 'normies' who didn't go to the Worst Place In The World just to look at some bicycle parts and watch Garrett Reynolds do a fakie nozzer down a ledge (Spoiler!), but The Trip have already put their promo video up. Pretty much a remix of their sweet 35min long 'promo' video from before, but still, worth watching:



Speaking of promos, I can't remember if I put this up before, and checking requires extensive clicking and looking so I'm not going to do that, but hopefully I didn't... Eclat's team is "Stacked" as they'd probably say on ESPN, and for good reason.



That's it. Apologies for the lack of external linking, but I'm very much not in the mood to type a href = "" target="_blank" and all that jazz over and over again. I hope that I'm not about to find that writing that in the middle of this paragraph explodes the Blog when I click "Publish Post" after I write the labels in for this post. If I didn't, woo. If I did, fffuuuuuuu-

Teasers 'n' B-rolls?

Vans have done some tour (that I think they did updates for a while back, maybe?) that's now gonna be in RideUK next issue (In magazine news, Photo Issue of Dig out now - doesn't take a genius to work out there's probably going to be a reasonable amount of Ricky Adam shots in there, which means there's going to be a reasonable amount of awesome photos at the very least). There's going to be an 'exclusive' video on the Ride site when the issue drops, so sit tight. Plenty of big guns in it, watch out!



Everyone in the 'media' seems to be buzzing over Let's Get Mystical, but I'm not really convinced. It's reasonably good, but having watched it after watching Attention Stalybridge and The Wythenshawe Waltz and a few other awesome videos, it just seemed fairly protracted and most definitely more filler than killer. I can appreciate the more artsy sorta videos there, and definitely have no problem with them, but it just didn't really do it for me like Stoked On Being Pumped (ironically) did. Anyways, here's some B-roll stuff, which kinda gives you a reasonable taster of what it's like to watch.

Randy? S and M.

This dude now rides for Eclat, and is also a winner:



It's been a while since Randy Taylor's had an all-out banger section, so it's always good to see this again!

A bit of S&M for you too. I'm too kind.



If you've got a WTP Warrior frame, go here to win some stuff. Pretty exclusive contest - if you've got one, you've probably got a good chance of winning!

Lastly, courtesy indirectly of TCU, and directly of Manmade, a reminder that a fair while back Garrett Reynolds was better than almost everyone else is today.

Oh, the internet...

Intermittent wireless connections are pretty much the worst. I've been trying to do this for about 5 minutes, and I've typed one and a bit sentences. Patience tester!

Anyway, Frenchys have put up a video from Day 1 of their tour. Got some good riding in this, and Randy Taylor doing a flair to kneejam?

Deluxe posted up this video today of Tomas Kudrnac. Metallica in a web-video? Damn straight!



TCU posted up these photos of some new Madera and Profile parts. Now, that seatclamp 'finish' (For want of a better word) is sweet, but it's just another example of a bikepart that looks awesome, but I can't see how it'd look good on a bike? I guess it is only a seat-clamp...





I made a post a day or two ago in which I made a joke about Fit/S&M/Rob-o/Moeller. It was purely based around the often crazy rumours (The highlight being one involving a grandmother taking Robbie Morales to court?!) that are flying around messageboards and forums around the net, and wasn't intended as anything malicious or offensive. If anyone felt put out by it, then I apologise for that, but it certainly wasn't meant in that way.

Uh-oh...

Dig are apparently not quite up to date (which makes a change, 'cos their new "Something new on the site every day" thing's meant they're making the news, not re-posting it) today, in that in the Randy Taylor bikecheck they posted online an hour and a bit ago they list his parts sponsor as Demolition, yet that isn't the case any more. Hand-bags at dawn?

In other bikecheck - how interesting - news, Justin Inman's got a bikecheck up on Ride US. That is one pimp setup, although I spent the whole time thinking "2.3" on the back and 2.25" on the front? That's gotta feel weird..."

Lastly, Orchid made it into Maxim?! Pretty crazy, although those shoes do look pretty sweet. If they were actually vulc soles I'd probably have bought every existing pair of UK10's that are available. Subtle hint for free product? Always on the look-out...

Whoa there, champ.

Vclub - For The Sake of the Video - Trailer from Vclub Clothing on Vimeo.

Doing a wallride and seeing that coming out in front of you has gotta suck.

Seeerheeeo Layyooo has an interview up on Etnies. Click "Part 2" in that link for "Part 2". About 48 thousands times better than any other online interview I've read for some, some time. It's amazing how far doing bad interviews can take you in life. Anyway, John Povah actually has some clue what he's talking about and has an interest in the subject, so it's an interview in which you can actually learn something about the other person. Not that I'm saying that standard "Top 5", "Top 3", or generic-sets-of-questions-that-you-ask-every-person style interviews aren't particularly interesting or compelling, but... well actually, I am. They're just not that great. I'm aware for an online interview you're not going to give it your all, but if you aren't, why bother doing it? It makes no sense. At least research the person you're talking about instead of just firing boring, generic questions at them in the hope that they'll provide something interesting? This is a bee I've had in my bonnet for some time, so you're all going to have to deal with me just letting fly there. Again, that's referring to online interviews. Offline dudes (aka "The mags"), top drawer - keep 'em coming. The new Dig, for example, is really good. Just some online dudes... Jeez, I don't understand how they can be that popular... Speaking of Dig, Edwin fragments from when he was 16? Bueno.

Tangent.

Jersey and the pleasantly named Nailz went to Scotchlandshire for a 'wee' holiday, here's a video of what happened all the way up there.



Speaking of holidays, "Yer Man" Jason Phelan went over to Barca with a bunch of dudes from Liverpool. This is what happened:


More BMX >>


Of Montreal. Who the hell wouldn't like Of Montreal? People of questionable taste, that's who. What's not to like about this music? Courtesy of Mutiny.

Stoked On Being Pumped Mix Section 1 from Mutiny Bikes on Vimeo.

The intro to SOBP's up too. Been a fan of Ryan Smith's riding since Overexposed, set to a Joy Division song it's pretty much going to be a non-stop cavalcade of things I enjoy.

Mutiny's Stoked on Being Pumped - Intro + Ryan Smith's Part from Mutiny Bikes on Vimeo.

Eclat have got some things in the pipeline re: their plastic seat/post combo. CLICK MEEE. Do my eyes deceive me, or is that seat further back on the post than it was before? Looks like the seat's pushed back a bit, which is all good in my opinion. Speaking of, that Eclat Gonzo pivotal. Kicked back pivotal seats: More of them, right now, thanks.

Don't think I posted this up, but Sunday posted that Jim C had an interview on Defgrip about Up, Up & Away - here it is. Kinda weird in some parts, didn't really get who/what he seemed to be semi calling out, but there we are. All adds to the mystique and subterfuge. Either way, it doesn't really matter because there's going to be a new Ian Schwartz and Joe Cox section to watch. That's win.

What's not win is what's happened to Dan, who, having made it through Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo and a bunch of other places unscathed managed to get his laptop, mobiles, iPods and some other electrical (Almost said "Electronical", damn you Odyssey!) items. Sour buzz, but life moves on...

Randy Taylor eating faeces.

Savage. That's all that needs to be said*.


Randy Taylor Props wreck section from Mutiny Bikes on Vimeo.

*Apart from click "Randy Taylor" to see his Props bio...

Late.

Took my sweet time, didn't I? Busy weekends and busy weekdays mean slow posts, apologies...

First up, three trails vids (?!). No doubt someone'll get uppity about calling the first video trails, but meh...


Go to BNQT for more videos.


Pretty rad video from Heath Pinter's jam.


Derelict BMX - March in 50 Frames Per Second from Dave King on Vimeo.

A new "check out my fancy camera" (joking...) video from Derelict.



There's a bit of trails in there, but it's Brian Frickin' Foster so that makes up for the lack of soil content in there.

In other "Sweet video" news:

This is Randy Taylor's part from a recent issue of Props that contains a lot of other awesome riding of this standard, and that you should definitely buy.


Randy Taylor Bio from Adrian Sogaray on Vimeo.

Equally, the new Props is out now, so go buy that here. I've posted the trailer for that before so you should have no doubts as to how awesome that one's gonna be. (In other shop related news, the new DUB video is out right here, as are the Kink seats I mentioned a few posts back.)

Notro kicked off a few days ago, and Garrett Reynolds surprisingly didn't win. He did, however, win best trick for the line you'll see at the end of the video. It's amazing how most US (I know it's Canadian...) comps still look identical to comps from years ago. Looking back at super old issues of Props, it's like nothing's changed (apart from the amount of spins/whips, I suppose), compared to street riding which is significantly different to what it was like 'back in the day'...

(EDIT: Ride's insane coding and "WHY DID YOU THINK IT'D BE A GOOD IDEA?!" autoplay feature mean you're going to have to click this link. It's probably not worth it, unless you fast forward to the end to see Garrett...)

Part 2 of Jim C's interview with Mark Noble is up on ESPN, go read it!

Good stuff.

No joke - Randy Taylor via Stew Johnson via Mutiny - check it!



And lastly, Nathan and Corey being Nathan and Corey, i.e. good. United.


Channel 4Down BMX :: Corey & Nathan Evening Session from Channel 4Down on Vimeo.