Mark Schneider recently turned 41 years old & he threw a little chilled afternoon session yesterday on his backyard mini ramp. It was followed up by a BBQ as well, good times were had by all. Happy birthday mate.
Photo by Glen McLaughlin
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Ryan Guettler has scored an invite in the Vital BMX Game of Bike set for this Saturday October 1st at the Vans park in Orange, CA. We wish Ryan good luck on the day & have fun with it mate.
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In Columbia, we have a dealer by the name of Tienda BMX & they carry a good selection of products from us here at Colony. Click here to check out their website now.
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On our way back home from a 2 week trip here in the USA & Canada. Just spent 3 days up in Vancouver with Dave Osato & his wife Johanna, taking in the sites of Vancouver. It was a really nice weekend for sure. They took us around & showed us some cool stuff, we ate good food & had a few drinks. We even caught up with Jay Miron as well. He is doing well it seems with his absence from BMX.
It was also good to catch up with Blaise & Tammy from Kill Em All Distribution as well.
We just spent the day in LA now & got a hire car to cruise around in. Had to go something American & fun. So enter the Dodge Challenger R/T with it’s 5.7L V8 Hemi. Fun times !!
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With our recent distributor change in Canada, we have also picked up a new ripper from the West Coast. Brandon Van Dulken is now riding for us through Kill Em All Distro & you will see him rolling around on a fresh new Colony right now, check it our below. Look out for a welcome edit soon as well. Read on below for a few words from Brandon… good to have you a part of the family mate !!
Name: Brandon Van Dulken
Age: 18
Location: Kelowna B.C, Canada
Sponsors: Colony, Kill Em All Distro, CMFA Clothing & Cyclepath.
Frame: Colony Teddy 20.5″
Fork: Colony Dagger
Bars: Colony Teddy
Front Wheel: Colony Contour
Rear Wheel: Colony Contour
Pedals: Colony Fantastic
Cranks: Colony Colonial V2
Sprocket: Colony Official
Seat Post: Colony Pivotal
Headset: Colony
Stem: Colony Official
Which Parts do you go through the most?
I find I go through pedals, grips and tires the fastest.
Describe your Bike setup and how you like your bike to feel…
I like it super solid not making any noise, not too light either or else everything starts to feel sketchy. Also into the feel of taller bars.
What part are you most particular about or do you feel makes the biggest difference on your bike?
Having the wheels true obviously. Angle of the bars make a pretty big difference and that they’re aligned with the front wheel, I don’t know how kids can ride without it being straight. It drives me crazy whenever the headsets creaking or the chains loose too.
Plans for the future?
Keep having fun and continue filming for a little web edit. Also start saving up this winter for a couple trips. I’d love to head down to Cali and check out Europe one of these days.
Big thanks to Clint at Colony, as well as Blaise and Tammy at Kill Em All Distro for hooking me up with the bike.
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Spotted this cool little preview video Cooper made for his latest issue of Focalpoint & thought it was cool. So enjoy !!
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The guys at Sidewall Distribution had a print catalogue at Interbike for those that were there & now they have released the online version for everyone to see. Check out our 2012 ranges featured inside. These will be out from October around the planet.
Spent the day exploring New York City today again. We visited the 9/11 site which was rather emotional to be there. Just thinking of all those that lost their lives & what it would have been like to be there when it happened.
After that we headed to check out Wall Street & had some breakfast there. We then took a NYC Water Taxi on the Hudson River to check out the sights including the Statue of Liberty. After that we walked & checked out the Brooklyn Banks although they are closed off at the moment with construction.
After this we caught the subway back uptown to check out the Empire State Building. Such a great view of the city from up there. All in all, a great day.
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Spent the day exploring NYC today & have much more planned for tomorrow yet. Snapped a couple quick pics on the go. We also saw a bunch of skaters filming in Times Square. The police nearby didn’t seemed fazed at all either which was cool to see.
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We spent the day in OKC yesterday & the guys at Sidewall Distribution looked after us really well, thanks guys. I checked out Sidewall HQ & after that we had some lunch & went for a quick site seeing tour around the city. One thing Mark Owen showed me was the famous rail Mat Hoffman did back in the day. We then headed to the airport to catch our next plane.
We arrived in NYC late last night. As we flew in we had a great over view of the entire city. I have never seen a city like this before. So crazy big. We headed straight for our hotel & walked around a little & it’s pretty surreal to be here. Today we will be going exploring… should be great.
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Travelling can really suck sometimes. After Vegas we planned to go to Oklahoma City to visit the guys at Sidewall Distribution & have a nice relaxing Sunday there.
Well those plans got thrown out the window when our flight was delayed by 6 hours out of Vegas. It also didn’t help that we arrived 4 hours earlier for our flight. So after 10 hours sitting in the Vegas airport, we finally got on our way but then missed our connecting flight in Dallas. We were given a hotel room but only had 3 hours to try to get some sleep before we had to make the connecting flight. Finally after 24 hours of travelling, we arrived at our hotel in OKC, very much ready for some sleep. Our plans for Sunday blown out but least we finally arrived.
We will go visit Sidewall tomorrow & see where all the magic happens.
The view over Vegas at 11pm.
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The Athelete Recovery Fund is a very worthy cause & Ball Park Franks will donate $1.00 for every time this is watched up to $100,000. Well worth 2 mins of your time.
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Wow, what a party !! As always the Ride BMX Nora Cup was an amazing night. Thanks again to all those that voted for us to make the top 5 video of the year list… so stoked to have been in such a prestigious list.
Oh yeah, Niki & I got the cover of Ride… haha.
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Check out these photos that the guys at Ride BMX took of our 2012 ranges on display at the Sidewall Distribution booth. All these will be available from mid to late October around the planet.
2012 Sweet Tooth V2 in Matt Red.
2012 Miner in Rising Blue.
2012 The Living in Bright Purple.
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We are very stoked to have received a top 5 nomination for the video of the year for tonight’s Ride BMX Nora Cup.
Thank’s to all the pro riders that voted for us, it’s an honour to have been voted into the top 5. Can’t wait for tonight, see you there !!
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Marnold, Mick, Brock Olive and Cooper all have some really good clips in this mixtape edit from Focalpoint.
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This has pretty much nothing to do with BMX but thought it may be of interest of some out there. For those that know me, know that I am a VW fan. It was a beautiful sunny Sunday here, so I went down to a VW Show N Shine in my beloved ’62 Type 3 Squareback. It was a perfect day to chill out & go for a cruise. I captured a few images from the day & here they are below.
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Check out these larger than life (well not quite) posters of Mick Bayzand doing his thing up stairs at Strictly BMX. These are next to all the complete bikes they have including a sample range of our 2012 models… go check them out here.
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We are proud to announce a new distributor for the Canadian market. From September onwards, Kill Em All Distribution will be our sole source for Colony in Canada. They have our DVD in stock now for immediate delivery & will have stocks of hard goods in the next 2 weeks. For all Canadian dealers please contact Blaise & his team at Kill Em All Distribution.
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Chris Courtenay is sitting on a plane right now on his way over to Vegas for Interbike & Nora Cup. He will then start off his USA trip for a few months in Greenville & a few other places. During the last few weeks he put some work in for this little edit for Ride On BMX produced by Jack Birtles. Looking really good for sure… well done guys.
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We are very stoked to have received a top 5 nomination for the video of the year for next week’s Ride BMX Nora Cup in Vegas. Thank’s to all the pro riders that voted for us, it’s an honour to have been voted into the top 5. Can’t wait for the Nora Cup party, it’s gonna be awesome. See you there !!
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Well then watch the Fuel TV episode of the road trip he went on down to Cam’s Jam earlier this year to see what happened.
The show features the biggest names in BMX dirt jumping such as Hucker, Dane Searls, Brandon Dosch, Cam White, James Foster, Anthony Napolitan, Jed Mildon, Colin Mackay and many more.
Below are the first Australian on air times for the show. The rest of the world will need to wait to see the episode.
Friday September 9th – 8.00pm (PREMIERE)
Saturday September 10th – 10.00am
Sunday September 11th – 12.30pm
Monday September 12th – 5.30am
Wednesday September 14th – 12.30pm
Friday September 16th – 7.00pm
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Our German distro, Fastpace Distribution just wrapped up with Eurobike for another year & their booth looked really good. Thanks to Achim & Enrique for their ongoing support as always.
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We proudly supported the 2011 Canadian Concrete Series held in & around Vancouver this year & the organisers have just released the video from the series. Check it our below.
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Raen BMX is our distributor in Russia’s retail outlet & they support Russian rider Tkach with Colony. Check out his bike & some great riding to boot in the video below.
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Broc Raiford has a bike check up on Ride BMX with his new set up. Click here now to check it out. He is now back riding again after his recent broken wrist a few months back. Good to have ya back on the bike mate !!
By the way if you like the look of Broc’s polished alloy parts, they will be available like that from us in October. Polished is our new colour way for alloy parts for 2012.
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Cooper has a new oneclip over on the Focalpoint site with some front & rear brake action on my bike… guess I better learn some new tricks since he just did all 3 of mine… haha.
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Our distributor in Spain, Promotions Otreal have been helping out a local rider there with Colony parts for a little while now. His name is Ruben Vicente Arebalo & has good clips in the video below put together from the summer riding with his friends. Look out for Ruben with the dark curly afro style hair. Enjoy. Thanks to Tito for helping out Ruben.
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