I'd had to sign out of this account and sign into another one quickly whilst writing that last post, and had forgotten to re-sign in. Thought I'd lost the whole thing, glad I hadn't. I'm lazy and repetition = bad.
Anyway, forgot to put this in the last post - generally, product information from manufacturers is about as interesting as watching nitro-cellulose coloured lacquer dry on an aluminium frame (which it never seems to, properly), but this is actually interesting and almost got an audible "aaaah" from me. G-Sport George knows what's up, and what is currently up is the Birdcage rim.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Confusion.
Every time I hear the name Joss Fenn I always, despite his name being different, think it's my old friend Joss from Southbank. As a result, I alway think "No way, cool!" and then watch the video. Over time, I've learnt that although he's not who I think he is, Joss Fenn's videos are worth watching in any case. Couple his riding with the cool editing from Purpl, and you get a cool Purpl30. Speaking of editing, Mike King gets his own Purpl30 too where you get to see him use one of those weird-yet-good mouse (mice? mouses?) things, edit some clips, and show he's part of the Dell Massif. RPRZNT.
Mutiny posted this video of Grant C and Brandon H (can never really remember how to spell this surname. Good thing I don't work for ESPN or someone like that where you have to do the whole "I'M A PRO SPORTS REPORTER!" thing of refering to people by their surname only...). I'm also posting it, purely because you really need to check out how incredibly casual Hoerres' (did it) barspin down the 2-set is at 1:32. I mean, I know it's only a 2-set, but it just looks so good and I don't really know why. You'll see.
Lastly, this is a Mark Webb video so you should probably know what to expect, but the frontie onto the building thing's pretty cool.
Mutiny posted this video of Grant C and Brandon H (can never really remember how to spell this surname. Good thing I don't work for ESPN or someone like that where you have to do the whole "I'M A PRO SPORTS REPORTER!" thing of refering to people by their surname only...). I'm also posting it, purely because you really need to check out how incredibly casual Hoerres' (did it) barspin down the 2-set is at 1:32. I mean, I know it's only a 2-set, but it just looks so good and I don't really know why. You'll see.
Lastly, this is a Mark Webb video so you should probably know what to expect, but the frontie onto the building thing's pretty cool.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sour.
Niki Croft is a rad dude, so it sucks that this happened to him...
As some people are aware Niki had a very bad crash at the Cycle Show London on Sunday. He hit his head hard and was rushed to hospital. Because of the severity of his injures the doctors felt it necessary to put him into an induced coma so he could not increase his injures by moving while they ran tests on his brain and neck. On Sunday night all initial scans showed he had no bleads in his brain and no neck damage so the doctors started to bring him round. He was supposed to come round within 2 hours but for unknown reasons he did not wake up for nearly 20 hours. Yesterday he was awake for no more than 2 hours and this was a real concern to the doctors. thankfully today he has improved drastically and has been able to return to Hastings. He has made amazing progress considering his accident was on Sunday. Although this will not be a lightning quick recovery I am confident he will make a full recovery. Anyone who knows Niki knows he is one of the most determined people you can meet, and he is fighting hard.
Anyone who wants to send Niki a message please email me orlando@themakebmx.com and I will print them out for him to read, as this is much better for him than staring at a screen.
Thanks to everyone who’s called and sent messages already
Orlando
Get well soon dude!
Seeing as I mentioned 'rad dude', here are another 1 - 2 - 3.
As some people are aware Niki had a very bad crash at the Cycle Show London on Sunday. He hit his head hard and was rushed to hospital. Because of the severity of his injures the doctors felt it necessary to put him into an induced coma so he could not increase his injures by moving while they ran tests on his brain and neck. On Sunday night all initial scans showed he had no bleads in his brain and no neck damage so the doctors started to bring him round. He was supposed to come round within 2 hours but for unknown reasons he did not wake up for nearly 20 hours. Yesterday he was awake for no more than 2 hours and this was a real concern to the doctors. thankfully today he has improved drastically and has been able to return to Hastings. He has made amazing progress considering his accident was on Sunday. Although this will not be a lightning quick recovery I am confident he will make a full recovery. Anyone who knows Niki knows he is one of the most determined people you can meet, and he is fighting hard.
Anyone who wants to send Niki a message please email me orlando@themakebmx.com and I will print them out for him to read, as this is much better for him than staring at a screen.
Thanks to everyone who’s called and sent messages already
Orlando
Get well soon dude!
Seeing as I mentioned 'rad dude', here are another 1 - 2 - 3.
Checklist.
If you want to see, amongst other things, a cat drop in on a quarter, Mark Love drop the trademark back-rail fuf then oppo back-rail fuf, and Davey Watson do some sort of impossible manny-180 business, then this Federal Soulatour video is for you...
Federal aren't the only people who've been on a jaunt recently - Sunday have been at it too, up in Canada. Good riders + interesting spots = good video.
Federal aren't the only people who've been on a jaunt recently - Sunday have been at it too, up in Canada. Good riders + interesting spots = good video.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Related?
Funnily enough, I just cased the back wheel of my road bike (yeah, yeah...) riding from my car to my house and got a savage pinch flat. Sucks to be me.
In case-related news, the new Case is out. Considering there's been a few "street riders are scum of the earth/street isn't real BMX"* opinion-based pieces in there before, no doubt some of the more ardent followers aren't going to be feeling the cover. Still, it's cool to see a slightly more balanced output.
Plus, as we all know:
Anyways, the new layout looks really cool - check that out over on Defgrip. Seems like the design is maturing with the content = all good in my book!
Purely because it's not an incredibly weak bite of TheBerrics, I'm posting this particular jam/comp vid and not a couple of videos of others that have surfaced recently. Tyrone looks a hell of a lot like Will.i.am in this, I noticed. Probably because I don't think I've ever actually seen him when he's not riding, maybe...
*Slight exaggeration, but not far from the truth...
In case-related news, the new Case is out. Considering there's been a few "street riders are scum of the earth/street isn't real BMX"* opinion-based pieces in there before, no doubt some of the more ardent followers aren't going to be feeling the cover. Still, it's cool to see a slightly more balanced output.
Plus, as we all know:
Anyways, the new layout looks really cool - check that out over on Defgrip. Seems like the design is maturing with the content = all good in my book!
Purely because it's not an incredibly weak bite of TheBerrics, I'm posting this particular jam/comp vid and not a couple of videos of others that have surfaced recently. Tyrone looks a hell of a lot like Will.i.am in this, I noticed. Probably because I don't think I've ever actually seen him when he's not riding, maybe...
*Slight exaggeration, but not far from the truth...
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Oh noes, skateboarding!
Yeah, well, it's good. Alright? The Get Busy Living videos are all worth watching, whether it's the full video or just the 'Episodes'. Free, rad content.
Watching how ridiculous awesome that footage looks also reminded me about Defgrip's camera feature. A pretty good read, 'specially if you're into all things video.
Lastly, from Mutiny, is a video that I didn't really get, but was amused by.
Watching how ridiculous awesome that footage looks also reminded me about Defgrip's camera feature. A pretty good read, 'specially if you're into all things video.
Lastly, from Mutiny, is a video that I didn't really get, but was amused by.
...right.
Usual weirdness from Erik Elstran - all good though!
I have a feeling I neglected to post this when it originally dropped, but hey ho - the new Get Used To It video looks like it should be pretty cool:
Speaking of 'pretty cool', Pete's reply of "Take a hike, Spielberg" to a negative commenter on TheComeUp is definitely one of the best rebuttals I've seen on a BMX site. While I'm talking about TheComeUp, those BallParkFranks adverts need to go. I've got about 12 tabs open at the moment, so the race to find which tab was randomly autoplaying Dave Mirra talking about things I don't care about wasn't much fun. That's not even mentioning the massive skating adverts all round the page too. Matador nailing that targeted advertising. Oh, wait...
This was up a while ago, but it got re-posted by Cult and is worth watching again.
This is a Caleb Quanbeck video which obviously means it's going to contain at least one ridiculous nose manual, but this one luckily contains two.
Having been stuck in bed the past few days, I'm going to go and resume my marathon BBC iPlayer session. Woke at 8am, watched the end of the F1, watched the end of the MotoGP, then smashed through the Commonwealth Games coverage. I am so bored.
I have a feeling I neglected to post this when it originally dropped, but hey ho - the new Get Used To It video looks like it should be pretty cool:
Speaking of 'pretty cool', Pete's reply of "Take a hike, Spielberg" to a negative commenter on TheComeUp is definitely one of the best rebuttals I've seen on a BMX site. While I'm talking about TheComeUp, those BallParkFranks adverts need to go. I've got about 12 tabs open at the moment, so the race to find which tab was randomly autoplaying Dave Mirra talking about things I don't care about wasn't much fun. That's not even mentioning the massive skating adverts all round the page too. Matador nailing that targeted advertising. Oh, wait...
This was up a while ago, but it got re-posted by Cult and is worth watching again.
This is a Caleb Quanbeck video which obviously means it's going to contain at least one ridiculous nose manual, but this one luckily contains two.
Having been stuck in bed the past few days, I'm going to go and resume my marathon BBC iPlayer session. Woke at 8am, watched the end of the F1, watched the end of the MotoGP, then smashed through the Commonwealth Games coverage. I am so bored.
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Convenient.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Cough cough.
Just been using some tinted lacquer in the next room, and that + a cold = bad times in a respiratory sense. Not cool.
What is cool is going online and finding a Cinema promo up. Chase Dehart, Garrett Reynolds, Corey Martinez, Sean Sexton, Nathan Williams? Mm-hmm.
Now - if someone named their contest and had the phrase "Street" in there, you'd expect some street, wouldn't you? Well, apparently not...
What is cool is going online and finding a Cinema promo up. Chase Dehart, Garrett Reynolds, Corey Martinez, Sean Sexton, Nathan Williams? Mm-hmm.
Now - if someone named their contest and had the phrase "Street" in there, you'd expect some street, wouldn't you? Well, apparently not...
Monday, October 04, 2010
Miscellaneous.
Not Mixellaneous, although that vid was awesome...
Speaking of 'awesome vids', there's some cool stuff from Purpl that I hadn't spotted previously, namely their "Purpl30" features with Dan Paley and Thomas Pratt - one features some cool riding, the other features some cool 'stuff'. Interesting range of content though, always a treat.
Totally unrelated, but inbetween writing the first bit of that and finding the embed codes, I watched the final of the The Battle At The Berrics and seeing Paul Rodriguez turn on God mode about 3/4 of the way through was out of hand. Shut-down!
Speaking of TheBerrics, and also BrightonAin'tReady (which we weren't, I suppose), Kink have created a new 'project' for themselves in the form of The Kink House. Essentially a brand specific version of B.A.R., it also gives Lloyd Wright an awesome opportunity to escape the winter and hit up Cali. Jealous?
California related is this video from Defgrip, feat. Timmy Theus and Kevin Porter. I appreciate the way that every time I see a K.P. edit he does something that I think would be pretty fun to learn. It's obviously not the be-all and end-all of content for web-edits or even riding in general, but it's nice to see instead of the usual "+1" school of riding-related thought.
Ben Lewis scored the latest Fit UK ad, and this is the Ride UK video about how it happened. I sincerely hope I never see another video with those type of transition/layered clips ever again. I mean that.
In total contrast to pretty much everything else in this (that's generally been about clean brand identities, warm sunny weather and all that sorta jazz), here's a video of Jersey riding his signature BSD frame up in Aberdeen. Barca and California it ain't, but he still gets the job done.
Lastly, before I go and try and clean some of the Nitromors burns from earlier frame-stripping, apparently I Wanna Live got 'leaked' online. I'd strongly recommend going and looking at how awesome some of the sections in that video are, then I'd recommend giving the shop a call and buying a copy, thus supporting the company that brought that video to you in the first place, the best BMX shop in the UK who are giving you the opportunity to own it, and also getting to enjoy what's a really, really good video in the quality it deserves. Pirate copies just aren't the same. I don't wanna get all "FACT" on you or anything, but it's cool being able to watch videos in the way they were intended. Also helps when your house-share happens to also comprise of a beasting flatscreen HD TV...
Speaking of 'awesome vids', there's some cool stuff from Purpl that I hadn't spotted previously, namely their "Purpl30" features with Dan Paley and Thomas Pratt - one features some cool riding, the other features some cool 'stuff'. Interesting range of content though, always a treat.
Totally unrelated, but inbetween writing the first bit of that and finding the embed codes, I watched the final of the The Battle At The Berrics and seeing Paul Rodriguez turn on God mode about 3/4 of the way through was out of hand. Shut-down!
Speaking of TheBerrics, and also BrightonAin'tReady (which we weren't, I suppose), Kink have created a new 'project' for themselves in the form of The Kink House. Essentially a brand specific version of B.A.R., it also gives Lloyd Wright an awesome opportunity to escape the winter and hit up Cali. Jealous?
California related is this video from Defgrip, feat. Timmy Theus and Kevin Porter. I appreciate the way that every time I see a K.P. edit he does something that I think would be pretty fun to learn. It's obviously not the be-all and end-all of content for web-edits or even riding in general, but it's nice to see instead of the usual "+1" school of riding-related thought.
Ben Lewis scored the latest Fit UK ad, and this is the Ride UK video about how it happened. I sincerely hope I never see another video with those type of transition/layered clips ever again. I mean that.
In total contrast to pretty much everything else in this (that's generally been about clean brand identities, warm sunny weather and all that sorta jazz), here's a video of Jersey riding his signature BSD frame up in Aberdeen. Barca and California it ain't, but he still gets the job done.
Lastly, before I go and try and clean some of the Nitromors burns from earlier frame-stripping, apparently I Wanna Live got 'leaked' online. I'd strongly recommend going and looking at how awesome some of the sections in that video are, then I'd recommend giving the shop a call and buying a copy, thus supporting the company that brought that video to you in the first place, the best BMX shop in the UK who are giving you the opportunity to own it, and also getting to enjoy what's a really, really good video in the quality it deserves. Pirate copies just aren't the same. I don't wanna get all "FACT" on you or anything, but it's cool being able to watch videos in the way they were intended. Also helps when your house-share happens to also comprise of a beasting flatscreen HD TV...
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