Thursday, July 31, 2008

Sugar?

Not just a girls magazine.

This is their bar:

"I wanted to do a different bar… so I designed the HABILIS with a thinner and a bit lower cross tube (132MM) with more marked curves, it reminds me of my first bmx bar when I was 14 years old. Although those were not good and these are. The HABILIS is 700mm / 27″ inch width, but you can cut up to 3cm more than 1″ inch on each side before the lever gets to the bar curve if you don’t like so width"
Not really sure why they'd think that lowering the cross-bar just to get a look would be a good idea, but hey, there we are. According to the thread on Bikeguide, "ask to David inĂªs!". Hmm.




Their forks:

"As the name says this fork has the minimum of material without losing strength

Machined tube were the fork arms are welded

Arm tubes reduce diameter as they reach dropout

Smaller dropouts with a large laser cutted triangle, even smaller it allow the use of pegs the same way

Steer tube has three diferent thicknesses, thinner on the top thicker on the bottom

CR-MO 4130 heat treated"


Probably trying to win "Nicest top-cap" award, even though the fact that that allen key broach is offset means my mindset is swapped to 'kill' after the trauma of dealing with Odyssey's infernal topcap on their Classic forks.

They've also got a frame coming out, but with no pics, just generic dimensions (74.5HA, 71SA, 20.5; 20.75; 21; 21.2TT, 13.75CS), there's not really much point going into too much detail. They have an estimate weight of "4.92lbs" which, for a frame drawing on a piece of paper, is pretty heavy...

Aversion vid

Rinsed straight from the 'Phire, this vid rules!


sean and dave from aversean on Vimeo.

This post was made wearing the last Avetris shirt to be sold, haha.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Jersey's Back...

After a lengthy off-the-bike stay due to an ACL death, Jersey is properly, properly back on it:


mike taylor bmx from michael taylor on Vimeo.

Champion. His old interview in Dig is awesome.

PijinBlog Comp and a Levis Video

First things first, new Levis vid. You can probably turn it off after you get to 00:35, that 3 is nuts.



But yeah, the comp (Of sorts).

This is my bike:



At the moment, I've got a new Tierra frame in flat raw. Currently, it's a little plain for my liking, so I want to spray it a new colour. I can't decide what to do, so whoever suggests the best colour-scheme for my bike (Only frame and rims, unless you come up with a pretty amazing combo that makes me actually want to spray my forks and bars too) will not only get to see their idea become a reality, but will also get a copy of Us And Them. Just leave a comment in the comments bit with the frame/rim colours you're recommending, but make sure you use a legit e-mail address so I can e-mail you if you win...

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

I <3 Wales

No really, it's awesome.

In non-Wales based news:

Chris Doyle has a new web-vid up from Duo that I saw on Defgrip (Speaking of Defgrip - they have a pretty awesome comp on. If someone pays my fuel costs, I'll happily do the photo for them ;-)) that you're now seeing here because John saw the need for a Blog. Detailed enough?



Embed codes have just not been working well recently, here's hoping Youtube will buck the trend.

I am currently hungry.

Monday, July 28, 2008

This is all kinds of awesome.


Coventry Confrontation from matt parker on Vimeo.

I find it hard to express in words just how awesome Project5 and Mute really are. You need to be at this jam.

Vans "Off The Wall" trailer



The more observant of you will have noticed a vid I posted here a week ago of the Vans team riding London - well, this is the teaser for the free DVD coming on Ride 120. RideToGlory DVD next month, Vans DVD the month after? Why aye!

Found out Streetphire.

Mike Mastroni outtakes.


WebVid5 Outtakes Montage from Mike Mastroni on Vimeo.

I think calling these 'out-takes' with the quality of some of the lines in there is selling him a bit short, but hey, his call...

Carlos.



As seen here.

Photo: H-Man (Who I introduced to Dan's girlfriend as "H-Man". Awkward moment)

GT's newest rider

Bob...


Bob's GT Edit from cleon on Vimeo.