Just a couple more weeks until the raffle is drawn for the fundraiser for Allan Briotti’s funeral bills. Get in quick for your chance to win some great prizes. Thanks again to The Sanction for putting this together. You can enter here.
Doing limited edition stuff is something I really dig, you may have seen these already but here is a video on the process of Mick Bazyand sticker bombin the 10 limited colourway Teddy frames that Strictly BMX have out now.
I posted up some old photos I had shot from the years before digital cameras came around over on focalpoint, included in the photos is this one of Mick Bayzand slaying a rail a good six years ago. This was actually the first time Mick and I rode street together back when he had recently moved to Melbourne. If you wanted to see some more photos check here.
Tom shot me an email about a little mission he took recently…
The other day we went to shoot a new add for Afray. Was heaps of fun from the get go as Mikey hopped out of the car with Raph and a carton of goldies in hand. Was a great recipe for nothing to get done but we got a few tight shots. Was a heaps fun afternoon with Big Brenno, Nitai, Mikey and Raph all coming out for a good time! Just wanted to say thanks heaps to those boys for making my afternoon! I think the ad is for the new 2020 so until then heres a few photos from the day. Just a few of us chillin and one of how you definitely dont want to fall off a ledge haha. She’ll be right mate.
I am up in Brisbane at the moment to help with the new shipment arriving next week. We were out today working on a little project that should be out soon with Chris Courtenay. Keep an eye out for that soooooon. Thanks to Sam Illman for the photo.
Valvo sent us an email about a trip he recently took to south Brazil Santa Catarina,Blumenau. Riding a bunch of parks with friends. From the photos he sent though it seems to have been a fun trip. Valvo also got a new bike this week so we will have a bike check up from him soon aswell.
Our flow rider from the USA Broc Raiford has the current advert for Colony in the new Ride US. Featuring the popular Bull Bars. This photo was shot about a month ago whilst we were over in the USA. Amazing spot!
Team rider Paddy Gross sent me over this photo he came across of Clint Millar from what must be a lifetime ago (year 2000 actually) riding the very ramp Paddy grew up riding and learning tricks on in Trier, Germany. It really is a small world when it comes to BMX!
Random fact I found out when working out where Trier was is that it is the oldest city in Germany.
We have been out and about this week riding around Melbourne, sometimes we need to hide from the rain so undercover spots are in order….
Zac Miner wallride
Our flow rider from Germany Paddy Gross travels alot and always emails in a nice story/update for us. Read on about Paddys travels to India and Romania along with future trip plans to the USA and Australia!
“I´ve been able to ride my bike at lots of different places in the last couple month and being on the road with and because of that little bike is always a blast and i am just thankful BMX takes me around so much and i am having a chance to meet the world preety much. after being to india for 10 days i went to romania for a contest and some demos. it´s been my first real street contest ever and i really enjoyed doing the things in a contest which i am not doing so much at all, the more i was surprised taking second place, haha good times. first place went to italien simone barraco and he´s the control in person, good tricks and good style this boy has. right after romania i went for the vans “let it ride” tour in portugal and there will be another edit of our “lisbon” crew in the net soon. the vans trip ended up with the rebeljam in portimao and for everyone who´s been at a rebeljam before knows how laid back this contest is even if over a 100 riders just in pro class participate. i was taking it easy and just did the things i felt save with because after 8 days on the road before i was feeling a little out of shape. the guy who impressed me the most on that weekend was tood meyn from australia. never heard of that guy and boom i got slapped in the face with a huge amount of unbelievable tricks performed like it was not even a struggle plus he´s an awesome dude on top of that. well after portugal i went home and straight to work for a week before i left to cologne to ride demos for sony at a photo tradshow. the demo format was the craziest i´ve ever ridden, 3 teams split into 2 BMX guys and 1 skateboarder, a tiny miniramp in the middle of a huge sony booth and each team had to ride a whole hour 3 times a day. there were the newest cameras set up next to the ramp, so the people could try them right on the spot and that was the reason that there had to be movement on the ramp for the whole day. so after 6 days of doing that my body was like: ” hey do ya need me any longer or can i take off for vacation? ” at the end it´s been a good time with my mates and nobody got hurt. after cologne i flew over to belgium to ride demos at a metalcore festival which is taking place every year and it´s crazy because they always built up a huge skatepark with everything you need to have fun just for a couple demos. since i am listening to a lot of metalcore i felt comfortable riding my bike with lots of screaming in the background haha. well after belgium i went home again to get some work done and to chill out for a couple days and hang out with my mates in my local skatepark, sometimes it´s good to be home. so now the contest season is taking a break over here and i am enjoying riding my bike and trying out new things. i am slowly getting ready for the USA in december to spent x-mas and new years eve with my mom and my best friends family where i used to live for 3 years in portland, oregon. my savings for australia are done and soon i will book my ticket, can´t wait to finally sit in the plane to come over. on all the trips i´ve done in the last time a lot of people and kids ask me about colony, and i was fulfilled with happiness and proud to say that colony is making my dream come true with having one of my best friends taking care of me, having a perfect bike and being a part of an amazing team/family. all of these trips, good times and feeling awesome on my bike wouldn´t be possible without colony. thanks a lot for helping me living my dream.” cheers! paddy
A couple weeks ago Broc won the high air contest and the best trick at a new park that just opened up near his house, High air was at 9ft and the best trick was a 540 air bars and a flair invert, nice! From what I can see the place looks rad!
Micky Bayzand is back in Melbourne and after recovering from a shoulder injury he has been out and about riding a bunch lately. Whilst driving back home from a day out searching schools we spotted this ship wreck out to sea that none of us had seen before, so we pulled out the camera and took some shots. The background in the photo almost seems fake.
Good friend of mine and many others here in Australia, Allan Briotti past away in September and the crew over at The Sanction have setup a raffle to help raise some money to put towards Allans funeral bills. We have gotten behind the raffle with some prizes. So if you have some spare coin and want to have the chance to win some great prizes go here to get involved.
Peta Shepherd arrived home on the weekend from her USA trip and is already back into the daily grind. Here are a few random pics from her adventures.
Tom Stretton features in our latest DIG advert doing a rad curved wall over some bins up in Brisbane. Check it out! You can get more info on the Guardian forks here.
Tom Stretton was also in Sydney on the weekend for the Halloween Jam. I came across this clip of him at the jam doing something rediculous.
Spotted this fresh photo of Liam Zingbergs over on the Dave Rubinich site, check it larger here.
Mick recently put together a fresh new rig with the limited edition Translucent Black which is only available at Strictly BMX. It looks pretty fresh to me, with just the right amount of gold in there.
I spotted this cool photo of Zac Miner on Doug Taylor’s portfolio site and thought I should share it. Zac just got back from America and is up in Brisbane for the next few days so keep an eye out for him floating about.
Down here in Melbourne we have been fortunate enough to score some really nice weather the last few days. This photo is of Marnold enjoying an evening school mission that we did during the week.
Whilst we were in LA a few weeks ago, we hooked up with Fat Tony and he was down with doing some bike checks. Visit Ride to see the bikes from myself, Tom Stretton, Clint Millar, Mick Bayzand and Broc Raiford.
Check back soon for how you can win Clint’s bike featured in these checks !!
In between it raining and the general cold weather in Brazil at the moment Henrique Castro got some nice trails photos, thanks to RuiOgawa for the photos. Hopefully you get some more sunny days mate.
We updated our Product Guide over on Vital BMX with all the new 2011 product and colours! Check it out here.
I remember Mick Bayzand saying that one of the best memories he has from the recent USA trip we did was feeding this squirrel whilst in Long Beach. Tom Stretton grabbed my camera and captured the moment for Bayzand so I am sure he will be stoked to see this photo.
Our flow rider from South Australia Liam Zingbergs has been out and about shredding it by the looks of this photo, rail to hop over!. Thanks to Dave Rubinich for the photo. Be sure to check out Dave’s site here.
We have two more days before most of us fly back home. Clint is out of hospital as well so that’s good news. We paid a visit to Hollywood and while we were in the area we cruised down the strip and did the tourist thing for a minute…
Thanks to Daniel Johnson for this photo he shot of Marnold grinding a super high ledge back home.
