Compare and contrast.

Odyssey have knocked up this edit of Gary Young, Aaron Ross and Chase Hawk riding in the X-Games.



Have Kink made a bad video ever? It doesn't really seem like it. This video's no exception - and in case you were wondering, I did some calculations, and that last rail is about 948% steep. So steep you don't even measure it in angles, it's a percentage. That's scientific fact.

Kink Central Canada Tour 7/09 from Kink Bike Co. on Vimeo.

Winners.

One day, two edits, two DUB and Odessa riders? Boom! First up is the now strangely not-as-goofy-footed-as-I-thought Fooman with a pretty sweet Will Evans-edited webvid:



And secondly is The Man, Scott Ditchburn. Too good - that's all that needs to be said. I didn't know who had edited it, but was fully into it, and it turns out it was none other than Jason Phelan. Haven't seen anything by him before, but this was awesome!

This is all I have time for!

Advanced Independent Projects, finding a house, finding a job - time is short! Cleggy is awesome, TheCreaseMeister is awesome, this interview is awesome:



Being ill is not awesome.

Behind the scenes.

I opened up BMXFeed to see what was up today. Spotted "TIMMY THEUS VINYL EDIT" in a few feeds, but then realised it was in Defgrip's feed so I was fairly sure it was worth checking out. Certainly was! In the same mould as Andrew Jackson (Click the tag below for similar edits!) and Jaumell Campbell - smooth as hell, nice tricks, ridiculously high hops - is Timmy Theus, Vinyl's latest featured matey.

Corey Bohan has scraps?!

4:21 of scraps, to be precise. Saw this on Dig with no real clue to as to what it was scraps for, but I'm not complaining!

New Superstar cassette

The latest in the line of companies trying to compete with the G-Sport Ratchet and create a strong female-axle rear hub is Superstar, although, like many others, they appear to have gone for the weaker 3/8" female axle, rather than a 14mm female axle. It can't be that hard to make one with a 14mm female axle, surely? At least it'd be more reassuring for peg use then...



In ooooother news:

Fit are keeping up the exercise regime and are still trying to Stay Fit:



And The Source took a trip to Paris and made this hefty web-edit. Rob Castle footage!

Riding for silver...

Seriously, everyone else really is riding for silver. Garrett Reynolds, gold #7 in X-Games Street. Whaaaaat?

X-Games...

Watching the X-Games live here...

Anthony Napolitan just did two double frontflips incredibly smoothly on the Mega Ramp, but no quarter tricks means no dice.

K-Rob just did an 18.8ft no-handed flair having no-handed flipped the 70ft jump.

He actually just won doing that - as I typed that, Chad Kagy flip-whipped the gap then messed up a 20ft flair-whip.

K-Rob 1st, Kagy 2nd, Mirra 3rd.

Watching the X-Games usually gives me a feeling of not having any relevance to what I know as BMX, nothing more so than the Megaramp. Loads of body armour, full-faces, telling people what you're going to do over each jump before you do it, massive roll-ins, etc. - amazing how 2 20" wheels can cover everything from just riding the Wasteland with friends, right up to winning several thousand dollars for mega-tricking the Megaramp...

EDIT: Some French dude just did the freestyle motocross best trick comp in shorts and a T-shirt, with a full-face. Laid back, haha. Bearing in mind most of the other guys are wearing more armour than a medieval knight going into battle, that says a lot!

Promo...

Yeah, it's me, but there we are! I finally got with the times and got Flickr. Well, if you look at it, you'll see I used that account 3 years ago, but this is the first time I've properly used it.

Not in any way BMX related

except that it was awesome and got you laid.