Tom Stretton, Peta Shepherd & myself are off to the states this morning. Quick little photo at the Qantas Club waiting to go… yeah!

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Today Tom Stretton, Cooper Brownlee, Peta Shepherd & myself are off to the USA to ride. A few days later Chris Courtenay & Alex Hiam will be meeting us in Cali as well where we will ride around & stay with Ryan Guettler.

Then the week of June 3rd till June 9th, we will all travel to Woodward West along with Jourdan Barba, Bobbie Altiser, Paddy Gross & Brandon Van Dulken. We will be at Woodward West to ride with the campers & film for an edit or two. If you’re lucky enough to be staying at Woodward West that week (week 1 of camp), make sure you come up & say hi to us all.

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Peta Shepherd shows you how in this video below. Get to it !!

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A few weeks ago I rode at Kuraby with Peta Shepherd one afternoon & there was a local rider there doing some good stuff. Well 2 days ago, Peta comes by the office with a video on her phone of the said local rider ripping it up. She said we should hook him up at some point down the track. I was down with the idea & so today she bought him into the office. We got him on a fresh new 2013 Teddy frame & full set up. Check it out below.

Introducing 16 year old Chusak Sri-akharach, otherwise & more easily known as Nuke. Sorry Alex, you’re not the youngest on the team anymore !! Be on the look out for this kid in the future. Welcome to the team mate.

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Jourdan recently got back from a quick trip to Vegas to film some more clips for his up and coming The Hunt section. Jourdan has definitely been busy of late scoring a job with his dad as an apprentice electrician and  working on his first Colony web video so I am excited to get to work on that edit in the coming weeks. Thanks to Ryan Galvan for the photos. You can keep up to date with all Jourdan’s happenings via his twitter here.

Pef from Unleaded BMX in France sent in a little report about the Fise in Montpellier on behalf of Istvan Calliet.

Istvan qualified himself to the Freegun Air Spine contest, facing Pat Casey, Mark Webb, Daniel Dhers, Brett Banasiewicz, Alex Coleborn… so it wasn’t an easy contest, considering the opponents level! The only frenchmen on the final list too!

Spine final happened on Saturday evening, the weather wasn’t that great, got some rain over here, but they did prepare a cover in case. 720 on spine, 360 whip, Flair, also tried a 900 as best trick but sadly didn’t land it.A few clips here.

See you this weekend at the Street Station in Lyon for your revenge Istvan!

PICTURE : By Thomas DEBATISSE

Over the past couple of weeks Pete and I have been working on filming a web video but I swear Pete has the worst luck in the world. Besides all the knee issues he has had over the years, last week at work he blew out his back and could barely move. It seems he has a bulging disc issue and can’t do much about it but rest. Get well soon my man and from what we have filmed so far it will be worth the extra wait. Below is a screengrab from one of the wildest moves we’ve filmed so far…

Oskars Zajarskis sent in a quick update…

The past weeks in Latvia where a blast, I got a new job at a bike shop, where I restore old dutch bicycle and I love it. Can’t ride every day but it’s not so bad. The weather here is finally in summer mode, so I can shred in a tee shirt! Here is a random pic from today’s sesh, hope you like it and talk soon – Oskars.

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Over the past few weeks Peta has been filming with her friend Tristan Montagu and they sent thought this web video from all the footage together, really stoked on the level Peta is riding at right now.

Valvo just sent through an update, he seems to travel more then anyone I know…

“This month was so busy, I was a judge at the Old School and Flow Bmx Contest then I went on a big trip to do some Dirt Demos, it was sick! 20 thousand people at the event it was really crazy.

I arrived home a week ago but I’m waiting for weather to get better, so I can get back to filming my edit.

Next week I going to a little trip with ESPN Brazil to One New Bike Shop, it will be a big Jam session at the new ramps over there, it will be fun.”

Peta sent in a quick update of what she has been up to…

Brandon put in some work at the Queensborough Skatepark, New West in Canada. Some dialed lines for sure!

Filmed and edited by Shawn Duffield.

Colony 10 Clips – Brandon Van Dulken from Colony BMX on Vimeo.

Attila put together this web video at his local park, he does some creative lines in this that got me stoked! The park looks pretty fun aswell. Make sure you check it out.

Attila Godi – Chillin in the park from bmiksz on Vimeo.

More Bruno, although off the bike at the moment, he has some good clips in this edit for MA Clothing. The spots in this look really fun to hit.

Our friend Istvan over in France is hitting up both the FISE and Street Station contests later this month, good luck with it all man. Istvan just put together a new Miner frame so check back for some photos of his new ride.

Bruno is still dealing with his hand surgery, one more month to go and he should be back on the bike. You guys may or may not know that Bruno is also a DJ and recently played at a launch party for a clothing brand called Us and Them. Good to see Bruno being productive whilst off the bike.

Our main man in Canada Brandon Van Dulken sent thorugh a bunch of good photos of his current setup…

Frame: Colony Teddy V2, 20.5″
Fork: Colony Guardian
Bars: Colony Bull bars
Stem: Colony Variant Top Load
Grips: Colony Much room grips
Headset: Colony
Clamp: Integrated
Seatpost: Colony Pivotal Post
Seat: Colony Shield (Fat)
Cranks: Colony Colonial V2
Sprocket: Colony CC
Front Wheel: Colony Contour
Rear Wheel: Colony Contour
Pedals: Colony Fantastic

“One thing I’m really stoked on are the Guardian forks. The 30mm offset makes it easier to get comfortable on the front wheel tricks without it being really twitchy carving around in a bowl or riding trails. Along with the forks goes the frame. I’m really bad with breaking frames and I haven’t had a single problem since I’ve ridden the Teddy frames. No bending or cracks, nothing.”

Liam sent us an update about what’s been happening over in New Zealand, last weekend there was a comp at Stanmore which Liam came 3rd in. Check the video for all the footage from the days happenings. Liam is currently filming for his first Colony web video so keep an eye out for that aswell.

Paddy Gross checked in with a quick update on his move to the USA, read on below.

I am still dealing with adjusting myself to this country after a couple months since I moved here and everyone who has ever been to the states already knows that some things’n people are kinda weird, funny and beyond the moon haha but well i am not doing it the american way i guess with not eating fastfood and hang out watching telly all day.

I am riding my bike almost everyday and I usually start riding the legendary Burnside skatepark under the city bridge for an hour before I am heading to work. This place really became one of my favourites because it’s a challenge every time I ride it. No transition is like the other and because I’ve been riding mini ramps most of my life, this place is teaching me to ride lines and not using my brake so much, even I still have them and I always will.

The weather is getting heaps better and my mom who has had some big time health issues going on is doing super fine again and likes my colony shirts a lot (as you can see haha)

The good thing about this area is that it has skateparks and spots everywhere and I pretty much have a new place on every weekend I can go and this picture was shot by my misses who loves to join me once in a while when I go ride. Well that’s pretty much it and I hope your all happy’n healthy out there. So then, I am out, thanks for reading and have fun! Cheers, Paddy.

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Brandon recently made the move to Vancouver city and has been taking full advantage of the move. Large 360 tuck, on some of these he was actually buzzing his face on the tyre.

It’s been a pretty good few days of driving around hitting up various parks between Sydney & Bathurst. We’ve hit up Macquarie Fields, Penrith, Lawson, Lithgow, Millthorpe & Manildra. It’s been really good so far with great weather & some good times along the way.

We rode the park in Manildra today & it was a blast. Check it out below. More from the road soon as we are at Newtons Nation now for the next few days.

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I really, really like the photos the guys put together for this bike check of Michal’s bike. Check below for the list of Colony product being repped on this beast! Thanks to AVE BMX for their strong support for all we do over in Poland & beyond.

Frame: Colony 2012 Teddy V2 21″
Fork: Colony Guardian
Stem: Colony Variant top load
Bars: Colony Twenty Four Seven
Cranks: Colony Colonial V2
Pedals: Colony Fantastic plastic
Sprocket: Colony CC 25T
Seat: Colony Shield Pivotal Fat
Front wheel : Colony Contour Rim, Colony Clone Female Hub
Back wheel: Colony Contour Rim, Colony Clone cassette 9T male axe 14mm

On the weekend over in Fréjus, France there was a contest called “BBC Contest” our friend Istvan Caillet came 2nd in. Going off the flair whip photo he shredded! Thanks to Nils for the photo

Chris Courtenay, Tom Stretton, Peta Shepherd & myself are off to Sydney for 5 days to ride & film. Tom will be staying in Sydney & meeting up with Zac Miner while the rest of us including Ryan Guettler will be travelling out to Bathurst for the weekend. Should be good times.

Pete Radivo’s brother Dao, runs a dirt bike business & sent me this quick little video of Pete doing a nose pick on his dirt bike. Pretty cool I thought. Go the front brakes !!

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We have a road trip planned for this week starting in Sydney.

Chris Courtenay, Peta Shepherd, Tom Stretton & myself will meet up with Ryan Guettler in Sydney on Wednesday then ride some of Sydney’s parks on offer. Thursday we will ride a bunch of parks on our way out to Bathurst for Newtons Nation on the weekend. Should be a good few days & the comp at Newtons should be really good as well. Reports from the road no doubt, so check back through out the week.

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Peta Shepherd scored some coverage over on the Redbull website… check it out here now. Plus below is her Ten Clips from last year as well. Enjoy.

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Michal Mycek always seems to be travelling around, read below for his latest adventure and incase you missed his web video from a couple of weeks ago click here.

“I Just came back to Poland after 6 weeks travelling around Spain & Portugal. Barcelona was my playground whilst getting back to riding after that crash… Four months later and it still hurts a little sometimes. My friends Filip and Brad joined me, in Portugal got more confident, the guy with the mustache is one of my best friends. He made me start doing big things again because I was scared about the shoulder the whole the time. It’s kind of loose, different than before but whatever, I don’t thing about it anymore.

We took a roadtrip near the ocean from San Sebastian in Spain to Lisboa in Portugal, Hit plenty on awesome concrete bowls & parks, we saw so many wild people because we took that trip with surfers filming an documentary for Sony. It was good trip. Portugal rules, you have to see it if you ever go there!!”

Attila just sent through some new photos of his current setup.

Frame: The Living
Fork: Guardian
Bars: Teddy V2
Stem: Official
Grips: Much room
Headset: Colony
Cranks: Colonial V2
Sprocket: CC Sprocket 25T
BB: Colony Mid
Pedals: Fantastic Plastic
Front Wheel: Clone hun with contour rim
Rear Wheel: Clone hub, female 9t with Contour rim.
Tyres: Hidden Agenda
Tubes: Hidden Agenda
Pegs: One way
Seat: No dig No ride