BRO RAPE

This might be my first completely non-bmx post, but bro-rape is definetly something a lot of long haired BMX kids are at risk of, so be safe.

Interbike Photos.

New Odyssey forks which apparently are supposed to be bent. WEIRD.



New Sunday downtube. I guess the idea is that you can't dent it, which is pretty interesting.

More pictures, none of which are particularly interesting here.

NORA CUP WINNERS

Ride posted the Nora cup winners. Here's my review of the winners:

#1 Dirt Jumper of the Year - Corey Bohan

Who the fuck is Corey Bohan? I hear this guy's name all the time but I have no clue who he is or what he did to make himself the dirt jumper of the year.

#1 Racer of the Year - Donny Robinson

I refuse to believe there is anyone on earth who still acknowledges that racing exists.

#1 Flatlander of the Year - Justin Miller

Similar to racing, I don't know anyone who knows anything about flatland. The profound difference however, is that racing is totally gay and while I would assume that flatlanders are on average more likely to be homosexuals than riders of other disciplines, flatland is pretty cool.

#1 Ramp Rider of the Year - Morgan Wade

I can't even really think of anyone else who could hold a candle to Morgan in this category.

#1 Street Rider of the Year - Corey Martinez

Corey is an amazing rider, but am I wrong to say that he has probably gotten less coverage this year than he has in a long time? I'd probably favor Tom White or Eddie Cleaveland over Corey just because they both had amazing video parts this year and I'm pretty sure Corey didn't have any video parts this year.

#1 Video Part of the Year - Josh Harrington

Uh... there was a Premium video? I would think that one portion of the criteria for this category would be that people would have had to actually have seen the video part ( or at least be aware that said video part existed ).

Ride also posted a bunch of pictures of "the girls of interbike" but if you ask me almost all of these bitches look like they had their faces ran through a Kink chain/Profile blackjack sprocket drive train set up. Come on Fudger, pussy has no face, but you don't need to parade that gnarly looking faces all over your website. I want to know which one of these chicks you banged and what strain of ghoneria she gave you ( JK ).

I've been giving it to niggas for years, I'm responsible for nigga's careers.

Johnny Devlin from Florida has a real good blog going. Also you should check out this sick trailer for his video, which is a sequel to his other video, which was really good but I can't remember the name of.

BONUS: Check out these new clips of Chad Degroot. I think I was actually there for the ones of him riding that pool.

Presence BMX Trailer

Get this video and more at MySpace.com

Unlike the ten billion other BMX trailers I've posted in the duration of this site, this one has a release date. Looks pretty crazy.

PS:

WTF.

I like Blackman and everything, but fuck this picture is funny. Full size here.

EDIT: This one is even funnier. And much more action packed.

I found that picture lurking Emo Joe's Myspace, where I also saw this picture of him doing an impossibly high double peg:

09/28/06 News

It's a little late but there are a bunch of Banks Jam pictures and some words up on the Ride site via Russ.

Rick thorne will never stop blowing my mind:

PETA Is doin' a campaign against tha abuse 2 dogs, It's called "Chains are for Bikes, not Dogs".

Read more insight on the Fat site.

Lastly, check out the Union Bmx Trailer:

6 Questions with Skinny

When I first came to NYC on a trip 3 years ago, Skinny was one of the first kids I rode with and he convinced me to try a trick I had never tried before within about 10 minute of knowing him. He's a sick rider too, so I sent him some questions to get the scoop:

1) You just left Bulldog to get flow from Volume. What prompted that decision?

Well I've been on bulldog for 3 years now, and although Jimmy and I are close friends I felt volume had more to offer. I do appreciate everything jimmy has done for me past and present, I left on good terms.

2) Mike Brennan, you, Marlon, Oba, Brad Simms... it seems like everyone who was in the Bulldog video is off all of a sudden. Is shit messed up over there?

Things at Bulldog are a bit shaky at times, but everyone left for various reasons. We all hoped that we could help the company grow, but out grew the company instead

3) You're semi-injured right now, what happened and how's recovery going?

I'm actually fully healed and currently filming for Volume's "On The Clock" video. I injured my ankle trying to whip some stairs, slipped the pedal, ran my foot over, heard a loud 'POP' and was out for three weeks. I'm all good now though, talk about sexual healing... Lol

4) There was some beef going down at the Banks Jam, do you think NYC is kinda fucked up right now in terms of gossip and fighting or was that more of an isolated incident?

N.Y.C isn't fucked up at all. What would any scene be without gossip and fighting? The incident was isolated, but just happened to occur in the middle of a jam(lmao)

5) What's your personaly policy on non-blacks using the N word in your presence and what effect does changing the ended from "er" to "a" have?

That topics a little touchy. I have non black friends around me that say it as a term of endearment. Changing the affix from "er" to "a" doesn't really make a difference. If someone I'm not too familiar with says it around me it puts me in a wierd predicament. Most times I pretend that I don't hear it just to avoid a conflict

5.5) Word on the street is that Tijon may be the best lover that the new york bmx scene has ever had, can you confirm or deny those rumors? No homo.

Lol that's so funny, I went to skate night ( every tuesday, open bar from 10-11, will taubin on the wheels of steel, "Fontana's" on the corner of eldridge and grand st) and I overheard this girl telling her friends how good tijon was in bed, and how he "stares passionately into my eyes". Lol. She literally slithered out of her chair thinking about the passionate fellow while saying "I wish I he was in me right now", hahah

6) What advice can you give all the kids reading this in terms of how to become a "sexy ass nigga" like yourself?

Always remember, being sexy is a state of mental being. Confidence is sexy, girls love to laugh, keep em smiling, charm the panties right off of that lady, and then gimme her number, lol

Check out these links below

Www.Myspace.com/skinnyissexy
Www.myspace.com/basebrooklyn1986
Www.animalbikes.com
Www.basebrooklyn.net
Www.volumebikes.com

Joof.

When Steve sent me this video of Joof the filename was "stupidjoof.mov" which I thought was pretty funny. He's really good, check it out.



There's some stuff of his friend in there too but I don't know his name, someone fill me in.

And I gotta go but if this video doesn't work I'll fix it later, Youtube hasn't verified it yet.

EDIT:

2 things, thanks to Fit for linking to my site. I'm thinking about buying the new Edwin frame.

And check out the Seth Kimbrough interview on the Ride site.

Also I really don't think Youtube is ever going to make the Joof video work.

Rutger Pauw.

Steve from DFTU messaged me and let me know the following:


"hows it going? we just got back from rotterdam (in holland) and it was awesome. too much good spots. i tanked my coxsis so hard on a ledge that my eyes were full of cry juice but i was laughing so hard it made it better haha."

He also said to definetly check out this website. Upon inspection, it's probably the coolest bmx photo site I've ever seen, a lot of the pictures seem like they were taken on a different planet. He took the one above and is going to the UK on a road trip soon.

Get Down Or Lay Down.

Nick C from Team Hater Mixtapes. Check out this section from their upcoming mixtape here:




Also see that rail that Nick is toothpicking above? I heard Eric Holley barspinned into a rail ride down it on Road Fools 15. Yup.

Dave Friemuth is off of Macneil I guess. As well as some other dudes?

Here's the new cover of Cream magazine, which has pictures of a bunch of the Animal team. Scans, anyone?

Speaking of Animal, Skinny is off of Bulldog and on Volume. He never answered my questions I was going to post either :(.

I never checked it until a few days ago, but the Bad Timing blog is definetly a good read.

Interview with one of my favorite rappers, Beanie Sigel.

PL

Peg Leg's Jeff Martin feebling a rail. Peg Leg has a bunch of new t shirt designs up that you can browse/buy here. Check it out.

SJBMX

Kent Blakely, tailwhip. I posted a video of him a few days ago but they want me to let you know that view a higher quality version on their site, here.

Also you can check out the new End Of Summer Jam video on SJBMX.com if you click here. That site is pretty dope as a whole, I reccomend it.

BLAT

NYC street vet, Boo Jew barspinning over a ledge. This picture is from RIDE-LI which I reckon is the best scene website on the net and you need to bookmark now. He just did an ill update with a bunch of pictures of Steve-o, Boo Jew, Joof and Spam.



Chris from England who I rode with at the banks recently has been updating his site a lot lately with a bunch of good shit. I'm pretty sure this one is of James Cox, which makes me think that the vast majority of people from the UK who rides bikes have the last name "Cox".

FILTH OR DIE is an awesome site. It's kinda like The Come Up but weirder. The most recent video he posted is so fucking weird.

Trans Am has some cool shots of Van Homan and Kevin Porter doing a can can on a jersey barrier.

NEW RIDE

Davey Watson made it onto the cover of Ride 2 months after his buddy, Mike Hoder made it on the cover. That's gotta feel good. I still can't get over that Hoder edit I posted yesterday, it's gotta be one of my favorite edit's ever.

MIKE HODER JUMP OFF

I managed to aquire this secret Mike Hoder footage from a year or two ago. Almost all new ( edit: new meaning new as in you haven't seen it yet ) footage although a little bit is from his Shook part. Awesome.

VINTAGE NYC VIDEO

Highlights include Steve-o doing an x up ride and a kid who blatantly does not know how to bunnyhop trying a rail 10 times.

( cast: Tom Bonner, Jeff Martin, Randon Hogan, Colt Scyzgiel, Steve Croteau, Kyle Pelletier, Robb Davitski, Curtis Martin and Mike Labbe circa 2003 )

BONUS: Danny Hickerson's ridiculously tech Empire part:



EDIT: Steve sent me 2 videos of this SICK kid, Alex... Definetly check both of these out:

FACAD TRAILER

Get this video and more at MySpace.com

DFTU MIXXELANIOUS

I'm never going to post anything better than this video ever, so check it out. I posted the download link in the last post but if you don't feel like doing that, just watch it here.

"I'm from where Nicky Barnes got rich as fuck..."

This Bad Timing trailer may or may not have been posted previously, but it's good so it's making a return visit:



This video from a bunch of UK kids is so dope. It's kinda long and not the best quality but the riding is really good. Check them out here after you watch it.



You can download the DFTU mixtape here. This is probably one of my favorite videos of all time even though it's only 12 minutes long. I got the link via BMX VIDS which is your one stop shop for video piracy if you're into that sort of thing.

Speaking of the DFTU crew, they are in Rotterdam. I guess. I don't know what that is or anything, but that's what Steve said. Also I should let you know that Steve's brother, not Steve himself is the one who uploaded the Gonz and Ratboy sections from Shutdown.

Apparenly Seth Kimbrough did a smith grind to hard 180 barspin on the Mean Streets which comes with Ride.

Garret Reynolds, bunnyhop 540.

Villiani...

... is really good even when he's just fucking around.

BLACKMAN / NIGEL

I'm not trying to stay on people's good sides anymore. Here's Blackman and Nigel's split part from Living In Exile. Speaking of Nigel I knew he was fucked up but I didn't know he got broke off this bad.



And here's Seth K's part from the same video. Thanks to Michael Kadas for hooking me up.

Bonus: You thought Papoose was underground but he gets crazy love. At the pool.

Dre's still rapping, motherfuckers.

Someone sent me a really sick video of Andrew Alsup riding street but it's one of those things where I can't get the actual Youtube embed code. So you gotta click here to watch it, it's in his About Me section and definetly worth it.

BONUS: This ain't no gay ass Allister Whitton shit.

Made you look.

That's my boy Mike from Lowell riding the infamous mill tranny ( RIP ).



New BLACK BMX trailer. Lot's of good shit, all street, corner wallride to barspin and the filming is on point. Check out their site here if you're interested. They have a ton of other videos up on their Myspace too so check that out.

Animal posted up a bunch of pictures from their most recent road trip as well as a trip review. I heard they might have a new video dropping real soon, and it might possibly be free? Who knows.

MY HOOD

I don't know exactly what's going on here but it looks crazy. The picture is of Kean from Nova Scotia, check out this video of him too:



BONUS:

New Team Pimpske Trailer:

Portland, Oregon.

Eddie Cleaveland - Big barspin 180 over the rail, from Vital's Portland, Oregon scene report.

I thought I had some other shit to write here but I guess I don't. I'm getting shirts made soon and I need to take a shit.

Creedence Commercial.

I'm a NH boy and I'm real proud of all these guys getting coverage and killing it. Featuring the likes of Brian Hunt, Clint Reynolds and the legendary Josh Heino.

BONUS: New Hoffman Trailer. Brad Simms and Seth better be ready to make up for the fact that I can't name anyone else who is on that team.

JIM C BEEF ????

Eli Platt left Sunday Bikes to ride for Ryan Sher's new company. You get the vibe that Jim C isn't exactly feeling that decision based on this quote from the Sunday site:


"Eli Platt is an amazing rider and a good friend, he has decided to leave Sunday for new opportunities. I want to say good luck to him, he will be missed here. He moves on to join Ryan Sher, Rich Hirsch and the Wizard of Florida in Subrosa. Sounds like a bunch of creative wording to me just like some other conspiracy."

Who exactly is he talking about here? The Shadow Conspiracy? Subrosa? Someone fill me in.

WHEN IT'S REPPING TIME.

Vinnie Sammon by Keith from RIDE LI. Check his site out, there's a ton of good shit on it.



Josh Perry video edited by Charlie. Crazy shit.

George K interview on DefGrip.

There's a new Standard trailer on the Ride site. The riding is good, but has the guy who edited seen a bike video since Seek & Destroy? Step it up plz.

The new Jim Jones video might be the greatest music video of all time.

Rustic BMX Trailer.

7 Questions with Sean Burns

1) What's it like living in Brockton? Do you agree with it's nickname, Hard City? Have you met Rick Brophy yet?

Im actually living in Boston now, fuck Brockton.. That place is a used peice of toilet paper. And it's totally a hard city, but isn't it refered to as "The City of Champions?" Rick Brophy... that dude could snape a lizard's tail in half by the sound of his rasp vocals.. he's an alright guy I suppose.

2) Mike Hoder and you; friends or not friends and why?

Are you kidding me? Let me break it down to. I had never met the kid in my life... and hes following me around the country oneing me up. Whatever is going through that kids mind... it must have something to do with High School Football. I could care less now, I aint gonna play his "Game" of one up. I'm hoping this phase of BMX dies out real fast, 'cause its bringing alot of people down, theres a million things I could say but like I said, I dont give a fuck.

3) Tomorrow you find a dumpster full of aborted fetuses; what do you do?

( burns conspicuously left this one unanswered )


4) What if they are pig fetuses?

Uhhrr make a studded belt made of bacon snaps?

5) Thoughts on this year's Bone Deth in comparison to last year's?

Both of them were unplanned, rough nights, no sleep. Both of them we built the shit in 3 days. Fuaaack. its such hard work, last year might have been better.. only because we got shut down at 3 locations... which made people doubt it. Next year's will be intense though... more thought into it before hand, and hopefully more huckers show up.

6) Can we expect anything mind-blowing or relatively interesting from Metal coming soon?

Theres a video in the works... I don't know exactly know if it's necessarily going to be mind blowing, but its going to be entertaining as hell... fast and loose is a good way to describe it.

7) The Gonz or Troy Mcmurray and why?

Gonz, for one reason only--- flip tree fakies in 1994.

THE GONZ INTERVIEW

I interviewed The Gonz a month or two ago and I figured I'd post it instead of letting it sit and wait for the zine to be done. Check it out here. Make sure to leave any questions you have for him in the comments and I'll try to get them answered.

SHUTDOWN

Steve from DFTU posted 2 of the best street parts of all time from Ells Bells' Shutdown:



The Gonz.



Ratboy.

I'm going to post my Gonz interview in a little bit.

Facad Clips

Facad has 2 clips on their Myspace that I hadn't seen til just now.




Seth Kimbrough - Toothpick hangover to 180.




Davey Watson - Some rail finesse.

Bonus: Joof's Hacketstown Edit:

Video Update 9/17/06

Ride put together a really cool retrospective with some of their old pictures of riders from NYC. It is awesome.

Yellow Snow Productions sent me a sick trailer for a video they are working on. Chris Wilson is a footage machine.




I never thought that I would enjoy a bike video that was seemingly filmed with a microscopic camera inserted inside an elderly man's dick, but somehow this is pretty dope regardless. Rider's name is Matt Desson.



Trailer for some new video, I don't really know what it's called but it looks good.

Rick Thorne weighs in at the FAT site. I have absolutely no idea what the fuck he's talking about, so that's pretty funny.

09/15/06 News

Vital did a really cool video interview thing with Tom White and Edwin.



The new Lotek fall line is up on their site. Looks real good, I don't know why but I love this Motorhead rip off.

New Aaron Ross picture.

Crazy new song by Hi Tek featuring Jadakiss, Papoose, Talib and Raekwon.

6 Questions with Steve Crandall.

I think Steve Crandall likes The Come Up. And yesterday, perhaps to show me that he likes it, he sent me a photo of himself eating a slice of pizza in NYC out of the blue. I appreciate the photo, but figured I needed a little something to go with the photo in order to complete the package, so I asked him 6 questions.


1) Right now on a certain BMX messageboard there's some bitching and moaning going on about FBM's warranty situation. What's the deal with that and how do you feel about kids who take their vendettas against frame companys to the messageboards?

BMXBoard is awesome, where else can you go and read about how fat I am because some kid broke a frame. I have even been threatened by a kid named Austin Omalley who lives in Chicago. He said he was going to kick my ass and blow up the FBM warehouse.
Bikes break from being ridden, some bikes break sooner than people would like, and that sucks, but what can I do? If you want a bike thats going to last forever, In my opinion, you should ride something gnarlier than a trailstyle frame.

We are not trying to rip kids off, we do what we can and we try and be fair. there are a lot more kids stoked on the FBM frames they have than there are kids talking shit online. I think those dudes ( the ones that arent shittalking ) are out riding, or building jumps, or ramps or working a second job, or taking care of their kids, or what have you, but they aren't standing on a digital soap box yelling and making threats.

Do you know how many warranty claims ( bikes returned) are made by retards that sent a frame with no info? Or the wrong info, or just flat out lied to one of us on the phone? Or called up and threatened us? And we are the ones who are shady?
I wish I could make every customer happy, but thats unrealistic, and if it took us a while to get ahold of some kids, I apologize, we are trying....
I guess to answer the question though, people have the right to say what they want, wether I like it or not....


2) What's the deal with Aaron Ross? Is it hard sponsoring such a madman?

It took me a second to get used to someone who rides down the street, nearly getting killed by traffic, and text messaging the whole time, and then tailwhipping down a flight of stairs. Aarons pretty cool, I wish i had more time to film with him, but he's hot right now, and filming for like 44 projects, but when that Etnies video drops, people are going to freak out.


3) What member of the FBM army is most likely to switch sides and not be able to say "no homo" anymore?


You mean turn gay or come out of the closet? I am more worried about paying my rent on time, than I am on other peoples sexual orientation. No homeowner....


4) If you had to pick one video part from one FBM video and use it to represent everything you've done with the company, which part would it be and why.


Probably the slide show on the 10 year, it shows a long history of alot of us having fun and riding bikes. Either that or Albert St. I think we were crazy back then, I can't even believe some of the shit that was in that thing. I guess all the videos for different reasons, you know? I've been around a while, so its fun to look back.


5) When is the next FBM video coming out and what can we expect from it?


I havent made the new FBM video yet, but its probably on you toob already.
Expect Cameron Wood footage that will make you nervous, expect people laughing, expect people to talk shit on us when they see it, and expect us to not give a fuck, because we will have had fun making it, and thats all that matters. I'll make a whole video filled with indian givers, ballrides and box jump footage, I dont even care.


6) Tony Hamlin claims you jerked off in his sleeping bag in his interview on the FBM site. True or false and why?

Tony has spent alot of time traveling with me, and I am not confessing to anything. These youngsters might get scared from time to time when travelling with the older FBM crowd, but none of them have gone cross country with Lou Bickle, that even freaked me out.

Good shit. If you have time check out the FBM site, there are a bunch of good interviews with their riders, as well as some photos and videos and shit.

2 things.

Steve ( above ) over at DFTU interviewed me for his site, so go check that out, then go on some messageboards and get mad about it.

Steve Crandall interview coming up tomorrow or the next day.

VIDEOS

Here's footage of Steve-o's smith rail against the wall at the banks jam. Probably the best move on the rail all day along with the icepick grind to barspin.



I don't know what this is from or anything, but Vidal is so fucking good.



I grew up 5 minutes away from this park. Good to see some shredders kill it, word to Charlie for sending it to me.



Video of the Maitland trannies featuring Ricky from Orlando. I rode this exact same spot with him once before, but I did not do a flat ground fakie wallride.

Video of a bunch of BMXBoard kids riding, possibly including the infamous Catfish.

NEW DANS COMP COVER

Edwin with a monster double peg.

STILLMATIC

FBM Banks Jam review here.

If you haven't bought the LOTEK mixtape yet, you definetly should. This is Ian Schwartz's part, but there are like 10 other sick parts in the video too.



Van Homan interview.

Brian Castillo video interview.

Lino got married. Awwww.

GUTTERATS VIDEO TRAILER

I haven't seen many falls as nasty as this in a while. These kids are nuts, I bet the video will be sick. Check them out on Myspace here if you're feeling it.

Bonus:

Another Brooklyn Banks jam edit:



Mike Spinner bike check.

Like it or not, Scotty Cranmer is killing it. Manual to front flip attempt on a box jump... Barspin to footjam in a contest. Video up here.

A LITTLE BIT MORE BANKS JAM STUFF

I swear this is my last Brooklyn Banks Jam post. At least until I get another video for you.

Russ ( Not Eddie Roman ) wrote a long, complete and well done summary of the jam for Defgrip that you can read here.

Animal has a bunch of good pictures up taken by Matt ( including the one above which I like for some reason ) although Steve-o's smith rail is conspicuously missing.

Bonus:

Check out this ill video of Chris Savoy. I know I've been posting a lot of videos from kids you've never heard of lately, but I promise they've all been really good.


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

BROOKLYN BANKS JAM 2006 VIDEO

Decent video, I'm sure there will be more to come. All I have to say about the suplex Blackman recieves in the begining is HOLY FUCK. I didn't think that kind of thing happened in real fights.

Bonus:

Check out this sick video of my boy Kent from San Jose. Kid is nuts.

9/11 RIP

I remember when the Fit - Puerto Rico video came out, someday said something on BMXBoard like "I'll be impressed by all that pegless icepick shit when I see a locked in 15 stair rail icepick with no pegs". Well here's Mike Hoder with a locked in 15 stair rail icepick with no pegs:



The Facad video looks like it's going to be pretty good. Here's another clip from it, it's the same trick I posted a few weeks ago but from a different angle, looks way better.

Steve from DFTU interviewed me for his site, so keep an eye out for that, it should be up soon. I am very wordy. His site has good stuff on it.

Rich Hirsch interview about Lotek on the Sneaker Freaker site.

I love Mike Ardelean but man is he weird.

Lastly check out my dude Chris rocking to a Gang Starr instrumental:

Quick Steve-o interview.

My man Steve Croteau had a few things on his mind following the Brooklyn Banks jam and I figured I'd give him a chance to get them off his chest. He's got a full interview coming up in my zine with some ill photos too, so keep an eye out. Peep game:

You were pretty heated about some of the shit people said to you in regards to the fight at the Banks Jam, namely someone calling you a "nigger lover" on BMXBoard. What's that about?

I dont know, these kids on bmxboard honestly think they know it all. That shit between Blackman and the other dude is their business, not for some punk to post pictures and videos on the internet, Blackman isnt my best friend or nothin, but it would suck to see something like that. He had it coming to him is what people are saying, and I fully agree, but it was yesterday and todays today, so get over it. As for that kid who called me a "nigger lover", he will get dealt with, thats some fuckin wrong shit.


Do you think that kids who would say that shit online are straight up racist or just trying to front like they're hard on the internet? Because I think everyone knows that none of those faggots are going to call Black a nigger to his face.

Just bmxboard punks man. Not one of those kids who say that type of shit would ever call Blackman or Ed or Rone a nigger... and who the fuck says nigger anyway? Some fucking hillbilly bullshit, kid needs to learn not to be a dick. He'll learn soon.

Who else are you mad at right now in BMX?

Just little kids who think they know it all, how the industry is, and who people are. I dont know I just cant stand it. Especially since I saw a thousand kids yesterday rockin purple cause they thought it was the thing... I dont know shit like that bothers me when it shouldnt.


What's good with the smith grind on the rail next to the wall at the banks jam when you told me 5 days before that you couldn't smith rails anymore? Haha.

I dont know, i told Terra I would do it because he was complaining he had no shots of the rail, and I was like alright I'll smith it, then everyone crowded the rail so I thought it was out, but later in the day the best trick on rail happened, and I don't know, crazy moves went down so I got hyped to smith it. It felt proper, I'm pretty happy, nobody has a picture of it, but oh well.

Any last words?

Just do what you do, don't copy an image, dont change for people, do whatever you wanna do. Copying someone else wont get you anywhere, I saw too many clones yesterday at the jam, and it was too ridiculous.



Also check out this edit of Steve shredding. Some footage from the 2hip video, but a bunch of new stuff too.

HUGE UPDATE

Mike Brennan, huge drop. I don't even know where this is exactly but I know it's in the vicinity of the banks. Lots more pics here.



Ride put together a retrospective of a ton of old photos of The Gonz. I'm stoked on it, lots of good memories for me in there since I've been sweating him since I was a kid. Check it out here.

I don't want to bum PROPS out too hard, but here is the LA scene report from issue 61 which just came out:



I have the following things to say about this scene report.

1) Best scene report I've probably ever seen.
2) Best section in Props in many years, possibly since the Ralph Sinisi interview.
3) Legit street flair.
4) I used to think I liked living in NYC but I think now I want to move to LA and just ride ledges and flat rails all day.
5) I used to think Adam Banton was gross but his interview in Props 60 and his clips in here have me convinced he's awesome.

In other news:

Kevin Robinson did a double flair.

My brother from another mother, 50 cent got arrested and it's on film right here.

I put up a new picture of Devil Feil on The Come Up's Myspace. Check it out, comment, and if you aren't friends with me yet you should definetly send me a friend request.

There has been a bunch of shit talking going on regarding why exactly Blackman ended up duking it out at the banks jam in the comments on my last entry. Check it out, it makes me feel popular when my entries get tons of comments.

And lastly a couple of video submissions from my loyal viewers.


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

Video part from this kid Jeff. This is really good.



Video trailer for "No Rhyme or Reason". This was rad, lots of big ass slam bars, good street and the return of the kickflip barspin. If you want to know more holla at this dude.

BROOKLYN BANKS 2006 RE-CAP

CAN'T KEEP A BLACKMAN DOWN!

I went to the banks jam for a couple hours but I was crazy tired and felt like shit so I headed out quick. However I did recieve this "anonymous" summary of the day.

"Ok so when I got there, there was already wild shit going on. Augie did the wildest bunnyhop superman into the wood, brad simms whiped the ten to flat, all crazy shit. Then mike saw a weird railhop, he did sprocket to hopover and some unknown kid cased thr rail haha. Then mike got the idea to get people to donate money for a long jump contest, some racer dude I don't know. Then he got pople to putup money for a 10step trick contest, villani 3ed into the 1, terramoto 3ed em, brad whipped them once again, and a bunch of wildman were in on it, the last "contest" of the jam was the best rail trick, vinnie drek dustered it first try, scottie feebled it first try, some wildman tooth swungover it, jorge herrera crankflipped to rail, villani did it pegless, streetsweeper did over tooth, over ice and came so close to icepick to barspin, steveo smithed it and ryan howard xup grinded it. Blackman and Bushwick Andy got into a fist fight, where blackman was dropped onto his back, I'm sure you'll see footage of it unfortunately. He also came back 30mins later and 360ed over the rail to flat. Dave Kreinke was there with his typical LSD antics, setting his hair on fire and jumping the 10to flat with a skateboard, all kinds of wild shit. Just another fun filled banks jam. "

Random news.

I don't have a link for it, but I guess Brad Simms is on Hoffman.

New Shook trailer is up. Can't wait to see this.

Rich Hirsch is apparently off Redline.

Taj is apparently on Odyssey. Does that mean he's off Coalition?

Speaking of Coalition I just did the first half of a sick interview with Greg Walsh.

Josh Stricker apparently stole Blackman's thunder and wallrided the backwall out of the Brooklyn Banks.

Don't forget about the Joe Tiseo jam tomorrow in NYC.

Nobody Special Trailer.

Get this video and more at MySpace.com

Nobody Special trailer. Featuring a legit, cleanly pulled 540 down stairs amongst many other things.

Phil Bartlett Video

I've posted videos before of this kid, but this one is a lot better. This kid is the dope, tell him to myspace me.

I got that crack.

This photo is of "Chris" from Scotland, taken by Gavin Will. Pretty gnarly.

There's a new Federal trailer up featuring the one and only Dan Cox who I have a thorough man-crush on. This kid fucking rules. Watch the video here.

There's a new trailer up for this Friends & Family video which is pretty good.

Biz interview on the VITAL site.

Brian Wizmerski bike check featuring a suprisingly large sprocket.

fugg it.

New BMXFU trailer.

Lotek put up an ill preview of their new Vancouver road trip. Mike Hoder, Mike Aitken, Jason Enns.... this is going to be good. The trailer is amazing.

Some dude from BMXBoard put up a really good video of a road trip he took with his friends.

VITAL put up a good pool riding story the other day.

New Spinner footage.

New video part of Mike Spinner riding Woodward.

BLACKMAN INTERVIEW IS UP

Everyone has been asking me to read the Blackman interview I did and although I wanted to save it and make it an exclusive just for my zine, I feel like a lot of the stuff he said is kind of current and won't matter as much in a month or two when it comes out, so I'm putting it online now.

CLICK HERE

Yup.

All's been pretty quiet in terms of BMX news and online videos, but today I did happen to find this:



What video is this from? Think about how far above everyone else Ruben is. If you want to see the bigger version click here.

There's a good video from the Double Ditch Jam on Vital ( and by the way Losey you should hire me to work for your site ).

There's a video up of Spinner doing a 720 whip before he did it in that contest:



The Gayme put out a new G-Unit diss. Is this ever going to stop?

New RIDE cover.

Tom White. Looks pretty massive.