This is our most recent advert in the new issue of DIG which is out now. We shot this photo with Chris Courtenay a week before he blew out his knee a few months ago now. Chris will be back rolling in a couple of months.

Whilst up here in Brisbane I put together a new bike with the 2011 parts, Pretty stoked on the wasabi colour with the black. You will see the whole range of the 2011 parts online in the next few days.

Set-up as follows…

Frame: 2011 Teddy 20.85
Forks: Guardian.
Stem: Variant.
Bars: Bullbars.
Headset: Colony
Grips: Mountjoy
Seat: Cee
Post: Colony
Rims: Contour
Front hub: Clone
Cranks: Colonial V2
BB: Colony
Pedals: Fantastic Plastic
Pegs: Oneways Cr-mo

Well today went off without a hitch, everyone seemed to have a good time and the crew you see below were the top three after all was said and done! New flow rider Liam Zingbergs came in first along with Daniel Johnson (right) second and Macca (left) in third. Daniel Johnson also won best trick. Thanks to everyone who came out for the event and to everyone who made it possible. The next King of the Jibs will be in Brisbane on the 9th-10th of October later this year.

We spent all day setting up the course that we had already build for the event, We had a quick test ride and it works really well! Little tight but all good. So make sure you come out tomorrow and check the comp out! You can get more info here about the comp, here for the address and transport info. Oh and also under 18’s get into the tradeshow for free! Practice is at 12.30 and the comp starts around 2pm. See you there!

Tuesday night I worked until who knows what time to get everything dialed in. Once I was finally done I snapped a few photos to keep everyone in the loop. Sooooo psyched to set everything up and ride it on Saturday. Make sure you come down and say hi!

South Australian shredder Liam Zingbergs recently got added to the flow team, you can now check his bio out here, long long nosey…

We have nearly finished everything for this event. I am psyched! This is the roller coaster rail which I had a quick test of, grinds real well and is crazy fun grinding on 4 pegs!

Our flow rider from the UK, Jonny Devine was in Australia a couple of months ago with some of his crew. They made a fun edit from there time here, good vibe in this…

Danny Heng has been added to our international flow team with the helps of the good folks at Twenty Inch Circle in Singapore. If you’re in Singapore, Malaysia or any other surrounding countries in the area, make sure you contact Simon at Twenty Inch as they will look after you with all things Colony.

As you would know by now the King of the Jibs comp is coming up in a few weeks. We started work on the angle and rails for the course today, It’s all starting to come together and I am looking forward to seeing it all layed out and not piled up in our carport.

Here Shane Badman gives you a run down of the location of the finals for the Newcircle DownUnderground series. Happening in Redcliffe Queensland on the 28th of August.

Zac Miner shot me an email today letting me know how his knee was going, you may remember he dislocated it when we were in France a couple months ago. Well Miner tells me that it’s getting better but not 100% yet, some days its fine then other days not so fine. hopefully he is back in action for the King of Jibs in a few weeks! The photo below is from a few months ago at a very unique spot we were fortunate enough to ride.

I build the last bank for the comp today, this is the closest thing to transition you will see in the course. Just got the rails and coping to go! Check here for all the info about the comp.

This is quite interesting, if you ever wondered what the two black bands on Ryan’s forearm meant well have a watch as he talks about how important they are to him.

We have been out and about alot lately rolling around town here in Melbourne. Quite a famous spot this one. Marnold was psyched to learn new moves…

Liam Zingbergs has been riding for Colony through his local store Little Black Bike for a while now but we recently decided to make it official and put Liam on the flow team. Keep an eye out for a team page in the near future along with no doubt some solid edits from this young street shredder. This edit from nine months ago is pretty rad also.

Shintaro has a cool FATFAVS over on Fatbmx, check it out and learn a little more about the Japanese flatlander.

Simon O’Brien sent through some news about a recent exhibition he was apart of….

“Not long ago I was part of an art exibition in Venice, Italy. the topic was spinning. A backwheel spin shot in a grimy location played back in super slow mo. The exibition was then recently turned into a hard cover book. It’s always fun to be part of one of Sydneys most young, contemporary and outstanding visual artists Shaun Gladwell’s projects!”

Don’t forget to check out Simons latest DVD Dejavu.

The other night we went over to an indoor mini setup that Pete Radivo frequents and he killed it! You may remember this recent edit we did with Pete at the same place. This superman seat grab is rediculous, the spine is maybe 4 and a half foot high. Nice!

It might be sunny all year round up in Colony HQ land, Queensland. But down south here in Melbourne we sometimes have to retreat to the indoors to escape the rain. Last weekend we had a real fun session at a skater built spot (no beef here as far as I know). It works both ways you see. They skate spots we build and vice versa.  Here are a couple photos from the day of myself and Marnold. Thanks to Sam Illman for pressing the button on my photo.

This is our most recent advert which is currently on the back of the new issue of Focalpoint. Marnold riding an amazing spot with no run-up.

Thanks to Stu Munro for sending this photo over of Tom Stretton from the weekend whilst they were out rolling. Be on the look out for more on Stretton in the coming months.

I am definately looking forward to riding this setup once we are done! In this photo you can see a cheeky in and out on its side which is pretty fun, the pad on the ground will have something super fun on it at the end of the ledge, should be interesting when its done.

I started work on the two main banks for part of the course, before I built the 2nd bank I gave this one a quick test. Stoked on the pop it gives you!

Marnold recently put together a new ride. This one is a Teddy frame in the silver storm colourway. You can also see on there the new Variant topload stem which will be out early September depending on where you are in the world.

Our team rider in Sweden, Jens Kahlstrom sent us over a shot of his set-up which looks really nice in the purple storm colour-way. Jens has a bunch of Colony parts on there, check the list below…

Frame: Colony Gnarkill
Fork: Colony Official forks V4
Cranks: Colony Colonial Cranks V2
Bars: Colony Bloody Oath V2
Stem: Colony Official
Headset: Colony
Pedals: Colony Fantastic Plastic
Grips: Colony LFH
Sprocket: Colony Official
Hubs: Colony Clone
Rims: Colony Clone
Seat: Colony Super Slim
Seatpost: Colony Pivotal
Pegs: Colony Oneway Alloy
Hub guard: Colony Clone

After getting my bike taken off me in Barcelona a few weeks ago by the Police. Once we got back I was keen to get a new Teddy going, exactly the same setup I had but this time in Candy Red! Stoked!

Matt King sent in some pics of his new ride along with a riding photo. He has been keeping very busy as a father in recent months but still getting out on the bike as much as possible. Matt has been repping Colony for as long as I can remember with the strong support of the Gold Coast’s premiere BMX shop, Helensvale BMX.

I’ve started work on the wedge to wedge setup, this will have a rail running up and down one side, should be fun! All the jibs we are building will be for the jam/comp we are holding at the Ausbike tradeshow on the 21st of August in Melbourne and the 9th/10th of October in Brisbane.

So I worked more on the jibs today, in the photo below you will see a manual pad which is also high enough as a ledge on the sides, one of the sides will have a flat rail running across it aswell. Then we have the outledge  which just needs coping.

More progress reports to come…