We’ve had a great response from the 2nd Hard Yards Backyard Invitational event that we put out last week. So this week you get to watch 50 minutes of raw BMX! Packed full of extra riding, crashes, interviews and anything else that went down on the day.

A few weeks back Pat headed over too Woodward for the Props Retro jam and absolutely slayed it!

Sit back and enjoy the 2nd instalment of the Hard Yards Backyard Invitational presented by Colony BMX & Strictly BMX.

29 riders from 5 countries battle it out in the Queensland humidity.

Strictly BMX have built up this fresh Pordy Pro custom with a good looking set of Skyway tuffs. Check it out…

Make sure you come back this Thursday morning at 10am AEST (Melbourne time) for the full video release of the 2nd Colony Hard Yards event!

29 riders from multiple countries battle it out on one of the best backyard ramps in the world.

Troy Harradine recently built up a fresh Army Green Sweet Tooth frame and damn does it look good!

Frame: Sweet Tooth 21″
Forks: Sweet Tooth 25mm offset.
Bars: Colony Tenacious

Cranks: Colony 175mm Venator.
Pedals: Fantastic Plastic.
Sprocket: 28t Blaster Sprocket
Seat: Colony AH Pivotal

Stem: Colony Variant
Tyres: 2.35″ Griplocks.
Hubs: Wasp front / Colony Swarm FC


Rims: Pretoria / Contour.
Bottom Bracket: Colony Mid
Headset: Colony Low.
barends: Colony Konka.

Kim recently built up a fresh bike built around the new Rico frame. Check out the full details over on The Bloom BMX.

Kio recently built up a fresh White version of his signature Enishi frame, check out his spec list below.


Frame: Colony Enishi 18.9″ TT
Bars: Bloodyoath 9.75″
Cranks: Colony 165mm Venator.
Pedals: Fantastic Plastic.

Seat: Colony Solution Combo
Stem: Colony Variant
Tyres: 2.35″ Griplocks.

Hubs: Swarm FC.
Rims: Contour.
Bottom Bracket: Colony Mid
Headset: Colony Low.
barends: Colony Konka.

16 minutes of Max Cvetkovic putting in some real work during the filming of his recent Colony video part.

If you haven’t seen the cut video, check it out below.

Some of our young Colony Cadets came and rode the backyard for what turned out to be an epic session.

Sit back and watch locals Koby Clayton and Raf Manning as well as Chiaki Masui, all the way from Japan, tear up the ramp in a way like only they can.

Tobias Wicke visited the backyard for a session one afternoon & these clips were the result.
Tobias got straight to work on the ramps & did a bunch of things that had not been done before, awesome to see. Pure classic Tobias style with the precision & ease that makes him such a legend. Sit back & enjoy some great riding.

Shot & cut by Clint Millar.

Dean Florian’s recent video part had some awesome feedback but don’t be fooled, a lot of the clips Dean really had to put in some serious work to get them done. We love putting out these raw cut videos because they really show how much dedication it takes to put together a video part.

Incase you missed the final cut…

Clint recently built up a fresh rig, peep the full spec and some riding in the video below…

I recently posted up the Clocked In full length from 2007 that I did with FP, some great memories from working on this project.

During the last few months of Dean’s time in Australia we stacked some great clips for this video part. It was a pleasure to film with him and I look forward to the next time he’s back downunder…

With Hard yards #2 coming up quick we thought it was a good time to put out the wild crash section from Hard Yards #1. It really shows how hard everyone went in on the day, check it out…

And if you missed the full video, check that out here…

Sam Grace recently built up a Colony Sweet Tooth frame in a one off sample colour that we did and then littered it with all the best bits to finish off this fresh build. Check out the full list of specs below.

Frame: Sweet Tooth 20.7
Forks: Sweet Tooth 30mm offset.
Bars: 9.4″ Sweet Tooth
Cranks: Colony 165mm Venator.
Pedals: Fantastic Plastic.
Sprocket: 28t Blaster Sprocket
Seat: Colony Solution Combo
Stem: Colony Square Back.
Tyres: 2.2″ Griplocks.
Hubs: Wasp front / Clone FC rear.
Rims: Pretoria / Contour.
Bottom Bracket: Colony Mid
Headset: Colony Low.
barends: Colony Konka.

A few months back Max spent a couple weeks rolling around Japan with a good crew and he came through with a great video from the trip.

From the wild mind of Ricky Catanzariti comes this madness from sessions in his backyard with Max and old friend Liam Zingbergs.

As you will see from this raw cut video Paterico Fallico had to put in some serious work to get all those amazing clips for his recent video part…

Pat Fallico will never let you down when it comes to masterful technical ramp riding. Filmed over the past year Pat took a lot of hits to the ground getting these clips but always got back up with a smile on his face and came through in the end.

Sam Grace’s recent video part is packed full of insane clips and a lot of those clips he really had to work for! Here’s 12 minutes of hard work from Sam that really shows what goes into a video part.

Sam Grace only has one speed… Full Speed! Watch his new video part that’s packed full of some of the wildest moves you’ll see.

Sam’s video also won this years ACT Jam video contest so congrats Sam!

New video of Marcel burning through spot after spot. Thanks to Freedom BMX and the crew that filmed this for making it happen.

The Sub Rail Best Trick closed out Hard Yards #1 in a perfect way, in was an onslaught on non stop amazing riding from Dean Florian, Sean Gardner, Pat Fallico, Zac Dangerfield and Karl Southern.

Over on the Family website we’ve put together a very in-depth article explaining everything you’ll ever need to know about different tyres. Check it all out here.

This week’s Footage Friday is of the legend Tom Stretton. Crazy to think these clips are over 10 years old…

Paterico Fallico and Clint Millar sure do love a mini ramp! So when we visited old Knox park in Melbourne, they were both all about the old spine ramp setup there.

The crew got creative when we had “Best Trick” on the wallride setup at Hard Yards. Checkout all the highlights from the session…

Riders featured…. Chris James, Sean Gardner, Pat Fallico and Karl Southern.

To celebrate the introduction of The Cadets program we spent the afternoon with Koby Clayton & Raf Manning at Beenleigh and they ripped it up!