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

Stu Munro is down here in Melbourne this week so we have been trying to get out and about as much as possible. The photos below…

Stu, Marnold, Kym checking footage whilst Mick hangs out with the local scooter kids…

Marnold watching the Bayzand show…

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.

Marnold and myself were up in Sydney for the weekend to hit up the annual Halloween Jam along with hitting some spots. We had a great time as always on road trips. Below are a few B-side images from the trip… Thanks to Daniel Johnson for the photos.

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.

Over on the RideBMX site Tom Stretton has a how to on hang-5’s which is pretty cool. I couldn’t think of anyone better to show you this trick…

Clint was fortunate enough to have his operation last night and things went as well as they could so that’s good news.

The rest of us went out today and rode the best ditch I have ever ridden in my life. Fun was had, alot of water was drunk and clips were filmed! The photo below is from a spot we hit yesterday which is one of those million in one spots (we have hit a few of them this week) the tree roots have lifted this sidewalk up enough to have a good pop for riders to shred it. Tom gets his game on…

After an awesome day out riding, literally last spot of the evening we were riding Clint unfortunately landed wrong on an up rail to 180 which resulted in a pretty bad leg break. I can’t upload photos from the day until tomorrow so for now here is a photo from happier times for Millar at the first spot we hit out of Vegas a couple of days ago. He is having surgery tonight we hope so i will keep all posted.

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Yesterday afternoon we got into LA from Vegas and we had a really solid ride all day today in Downtown LA. The photos below are of Zac at a spot we came across on the way to LA which was fun! Then we have Tom hitting a spot we hit up towards the end of the evening.

We are happy to be able to help out the jam happening down at Newcastle park on the 7th of November in NSW. Make sure you check it out…

Wow! RideBmx really know how to put on an event. This years Nora Cup was my first and it blew me away. Congrats to all the winners and thanks to Ride for the great night! There are a boat load of photos etc.. here.

Another day at Interbike today. Rail Jam was great and we are about to head over to Nora Cup. Here a few more photos from our booth… The new front and rear tyres which will be available towards the end of the year and also A bunch of products in the Red Storm.

We are in Interbike right now, so I grabbed a few photos. I will post up some more tomorrow. This place is out there!

During the week I spent a couple days riding around Canberra with Zac Miner shooting photos and enjoying some sunshine! Here is a left over shot which I actually really really like from the last spot we hit on the mission. If you havn’t already seen it, make sure you check out Zacs recent web edit.