So yeah...

Spotted the "Defgrip Studio" bit at the top of the freshly-Converse-branded Defgrip site, and in between then and now (not long at all), a sweet Chase Hawk feature dropped. Sweet timing by me... Anyways, it's over here, so check that out then hit up the Studio section for some other cool related and unrelated stuff.

Linky linky...

Two people who I've both seen do awesome things in person as a result of P5.

Firstly, if you've ever been to a P5 jam you will have seen Mole do something outrageous. The guy's too good.



Secondly, Bertie Buck is a guy I've known as a friend-of-a-friend for a while, although I did get to ride with him for a couple of P5 jams too. Another guy doing things his own way, but with a totally different style.



Didn't realise he was on Stolen either, but that's cool!

Balance.

Often get accused of being too biased towards street on here, so here's a purely indoor park video. It's not just a token thing either, this video's awesome! So much good stuff in here - it's cool seeing the synthesis (went there) of a rad skatepark and a creative rider. All good.



Go out and buy a BSD frame while you're at it...

Some things.

Kink have some new stuff coming out, incl. a signature Tony Hamlin frame, a sig. Sean Sexton Pivotal seat and some new other bits 'n' bobs. Go here to see them.

Couple of bits from Interbike, firstly Clicked's "Top 3's":



Secondly, Tunney's opinion of things - speaking of, should be interesting seeing how all the millions of smaller, distributor-with-a-different-name brands work out. I didn't really think there was enough money around to do that kinda thing, but we'll see...

Hideout have a new video out that makes the current rainy autumn/winter action seem even worse...



Scott Marceau took some sequences of the guys riding for the new OSS video, so if you want to watch a sort of jittery, silent version of some of the lines in the video, here you are:

POOWWWEER

Gotta be an amazing feeling doing the last combo...

Understatement?

Do I really need to tell you how good this Cult Interbike promo is? Didn't think so...

Ben Green has more fingers in more pies than the entire workforce of Greggs. Latest project from him is spelling-nazi-hated Purpl. Bit different to everything else out there which is pretty much the aim of the game. There's a Boiski edit up on there too to lure you in...

Amity had a pretty fun-looking trip to Portugal that'll make you resent the on-coming winter just that little bit more:



...and I now need to do some work.

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-

Slack.

Man, I forgot how balls being ill is. As a result, looking at not-very-interesting videos from Interbike hasn't been too appealing. Seems most people are just bringing out new colourways of old products, "new to them" catalogue products or just a range of bangin' completes. Once it's all died down a little I'll try and put up some highlights rather than going for the total media saturation that everyone else is keen on.

In total contrast, I've been pretty into this after seeing them on the Case Facebook page - the raw footage from Clint Reynolds' coast to coast trip. Here's part one - click through their channel for others. After being totally blown away by This Is United, most other vids seemed pretty tame but the pure awesomeness and simplicity of this video really got me. It's always cool seeing people having fun doing what they enjoy, and when 'what they enjoy' happens to be blasting rad tables, super smooth gaps and boosting airs like Clint Reynolds, it's even better.

Title

Me when I was watching the new United video:



Call the shop and buy a copy now. It's that good.

This Is In-Store...

This Is United premiere at the shop: 20th September! Can't wait to see the video - if you can make it, do so...