Nick with his spending money for his first US trip.

For those out there old enough will know the tour of the states that occured in the late ’80’s with the name above. Colony will be Stompin’ The States later this week with our first team trip in the good ol’ US of A.

On the trip will be…

Ryan Guettler
Dave Freimuth
Nick Richardson
Liam Fahy-Hampton
Mick Bayzand
Steven Woodward
Matt King
Toby Matthews
and myself.

We will also have Ryan Fudger from Ride BMX magazine to cover the entire trip. So expect some good coverage from it all. We will also be filming the whole time.

Places we are going for the trip….

18th till 22nd October in Orlando to hang out & watch the final Dew Tour.
22nd & 23rd October in Atlanta.
24th October in Athens.
25th October in Tallahasee.
26th till 29th October for Baco Jam in Longwood, FL at Mesh Skatepark.
29th October till 2nd November in Greenville, NC.

Should be good times for sure. If you see us around, come & say g’day.

Ryan will be showing us all the cool stuff to ride in Greenville.

Can’t wait to experience my first ever Baco Jam.

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Ryan just sent me a quick email to say that he has been riding heaps at home on his backyard ramp & also digging down at Colin Mackay’s trails in Greenville. He is heading to the last Dew Tour this weekend in Orlando as well. He also would like everyone to know that his re-vamped website is up and running at ryanguettler.com so check it out now !! In the meantime enjoy these pics Ryan sent over.

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Bruno Faucon has been busy in France it seems… winning local comps, getting video sections done, living the BMX lifestyle basically. Here are some cool pics I have been sent of him from the guys at Maniable Clothing Co. Enjoy !!

Pic by Lothaire Hucki

Pic by Lothaire Hucki

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Check out the article Ride UK just did on my dealings with running Colony here.

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James Steele sent me some cool pics of a pool him & John Heaton found & sessioned recently. Enjoy.

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For a while now I have been flowing Steve some Colony parts when ever he needed them. I finally got to meet him recently at Interbike & got along with rather well with him. Steve had told me he wasn’t happy with his current deal & would be stoked to rep for Colony.

So, Steve is now our newest team rider for Colony. Expect to see him around on a Bloody Oath frame & bars loaded with other fine Colony merchandise. Steve will also be on our first Colony team trip in the states in a week or two… more on that soon.

Welcome to the team Steve !!

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Christian ‘red dogg’ Noskoff couldn’t resist but to feel the power of Kenny’s knee pads a few days ago… looking the part for sure Christian !!

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Yesterday we did the mad dash from Melbourne to Sydney & got in rather late to the Central Coast to Triplesix HQ We will hang here for a few days now before we go back to good old Brisbane.

Along the way we stopped at a cool submarine in Holbrook, NSW & stretched our legs. We snapped a few tourist pics & then went on our way.

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We arrived into Melbourne on Sunday & have been riding around checking out some cool spots the last few days. We checked out the famous Flemington Banks on Sunday which was great to finally ride. We then had a quick session at Kensington Spine after Liam & Mick showed us their street skills. Pretty impressive.

Today we went to Strictly BMX & checked out there new shop… very cool to see. We then went to Werribee & rode an awesome street style park… very fun indeed.

Tomorrow we going riding more & I will post more news when I get time…

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Sorry it’s a few days late but on Saturday just gone we were all at the Bendigo Jam. It was a pretty wild time for sure. Some good riding went down & some wild times. Not much to write here but here are a couple pics from the jam.

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We dropped into a small town called Warwick late yesterday & checked out the local park. Matt King had ridden it before for some demos & said it was really bad. So that just made us want to check it out even more! We wepleasantly surprised that it wasn’t as bad as first thought. Well, good enough to stretch our legs at anyway. Richo spotted some quarter that he wanted to flair & we laughed at him. Lately he has been flairing all kinds of weird ramps & the smaller the better. This one was his smallest. 4 feet & mellow & then right after he did a 3 feet quarter as well. It was pretty damn awesome. The locals were impressed & we then headed to the bottle shop for some roadies. Word.

Excuse my poor photo expertise… Richo & a flair.

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Myself, Richo & Matt King are about to drive down to Bendigo for the jam down there this weekend then head down to Melbourne. Should be a fun trip for sure. We will also meet Liam Fahy-Hampton, Mick Bayzand, Kenny Raggett & Pete Radivo down there. Colony will be in the house. Yeah !!

I will post reports as we go…

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Well, seeing as Millar Posted Just after me there, I thought that I would post a pic of my new custom Blue frame as well. It’s a yet to be named Colony prototype, made out of high grade high strength Steel, custom mods, brakeless, Airless tyres for less weight, Custom seatpost height for sit down wheelies, Brakeless, of course!! Custom screw on extra extra lightweight frame standers, low air resistance peddles, extra high length gooseneck for turndowns and Leary’s!! Anyways, not too sure weather this Bad Boy wil go into production, gotta wait and see if BMX Plus will do a bike shootout on it first, heres hoping, bwahahaha!!! Mwwaarrffwwaarkkkaa!!

Today I arrived back from the states & put together a nice new MVP frame & MVP forks.

What is so special about this frame you ask? Well, I had Robert Lewis from, Lewis & Sons Purest Finishes, powder coat my new frame a nice Baby Blue. One of my favourite bikes of recent years was my old WTP Thrillseeker in Baby Blue with Silver forks & Black bars. I wanted to re-create that old bike in my new set up & I like how it turned out.

Contact Robert Lewis (as seen in Rebelyell BMX Magazine) on 07 3899 1277 for all your powder coating excellence needs. Robert specialises in old school restorations & new school creations.

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So whats up homies, how are things!!?? Just thought that I would update with a few pics, Zombie Mike and I went for a lil bit of a ride last week, anyways, we got so parched that we had to go to starky’s (a local daytime wateringhole on the main street here in Auckland, Queen Street) Following that we needed a full feed so we went to Burgerfuel which was up the road, anyways, to cut a long story short, there was this guy there making blow up animals for kids out of balloons, we dared him to make a BMX out of balloons and as you can see in the pics, here’s his result!! bwahahaha!!

I did some babysitting other week as well, my Nutbar niece and nephew, Caleb and Alyssa, here they are eating their dinner under the watchful eye of their uncle Haimona. ahaha!!

Also, heres some shots from a few evenings thats been going down here in the 09, nothing but summery beaches with beers and shit, and Wazman and myself roasting the airtime in some afternoon sessions takin from video footy!! Bring on friggin summer here in NZ!!

Today Chris & myself hired a Mustang & drove from Vegas to Long Beach in California. We are going to check out Tip Plus tomorrow before flying home tomorrow night. Here are a few random pics Chris took while driving along.

The Muu-tang… even Schneider said it was cool. haha.

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Here are some concept pics released on the new park getting planned for Nerang on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Construction should start by the end of the year… looks like we will have another great place to ride soon.

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Shane just dropped me a report from his recent trip…

Hey Clint,

Just got back from the Remax Fieldcontrol contest in Portugal. It was held in Portimao in the far south of the country where the worlds and other big contests have been over the years. The guys put a lot of effort into the weekend constructing a massive tent over the riding area and putting down about 30m2 of ply floor. Picked up and dropped off at the airport, crazy parties and good friends and that’s not to mention how awesome the beaches are…

I got The Cube built just a day before leaving for the contest and didn’t really get a chance to ride it properly until the day of the qualifiers. Rode it like crazy and got used to it really quick. The frame is sharp and responsive, but also really stiff and with plenty of room in all the right places. Being light-weight, it’s super easy to move around and takes little effort to get this bad boy moving. It got a lot of really positive comments from the other riders and people were really stoked on its simplicity and function.

Qualifiers went well. Pulled most of my stuff during my run and even some new stuff that I’ve just learnt. I wasn’t around for the results, but Frank Lucas told me I got third – stoked!

Results were only scored down to 5th place so I’m not sure where I placed. Despite all this, had a really good time, got to ride at an awesome spot hung out with friends and made some new ones. The Cube did it’s job super well, people were psyched on it and now it’s time to go think up some new tricks to learn.

Shane.

I have been helping out Matt King now for a while ever since he had a bike stolen a few years ago. When it came time to have someone test one of the first Bloody Oath frames I flowed one to Matt to test & it’s still going fine today.

Matt is now officially a part of the flow team for Colony & has just put together a Hell Stallion prototype frame to test for us. It looks pretty good we think… but check the pics yourself.

Matt also has a small section in the bonus footage of our new roadtrip DVD, ‘A Month In The Life Of’ I love watching Matt ride… such an awesome style. Check it out in stores everywhere in the coming weeks.

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If you’re going to be in Vegas for Interbike this coming week & wanna check out our new roadtrip DVD – A Month In The Life Of – then come to the Tip Plus booth 5151.
Starts around 3.30pm (loosely) on Thursday 27th September & we will have the world premiere showing.

Tip will also have the new Primo roadtrip DVD showing too. If these are still not enough reasons to come along then we will also have a keg of beer as well… now I got your attention hey?

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Here is a video from vitalbmx.com featuring a BBQ session Ryan had to break in his new backyard ramp a couple weekends ago. Enjoy.

Our first DVD release, A Month In the Life Of, is finally done… I have just spent a marathon 5 days locked inside my house editing away & will be sending the masters off for duplication this weekend.

Over the last 7 months in between my busy travel schedule, I have edited 38 hours of footage into a 39 min DVD plus 13 minutes of bonus footage. It will be in stores late October / early November at the latest depending where you live on this planet.

The DVD has a relaxed roadtrip lifestyle vibe to it & you can check a short teaser I did for it here.

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Is pretty much what I thought the first time I saw it too… Tim Wood’s roll-in on his backyard vert ramp. Damn vert riders… what are they thinking? Seriously. More in the coming weeks from Tim.

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Ryan sent me a quick email on what he has been up to & his weeks ahead…

What’s up?… Yesterday I had a backyard BBQ and we all rode my new ramp. Everyone came
out, it was a good time. A friend filmed the lot and its going to be on vitalbmx.com later this week as a spot check, should look good. Only a few more days till I fly out to Salt Lake City for Dew Tour and then Vegas for Interbike, then I come home for Ryan Nyquist’s wedding, should be cool a time. Well enjoy the photos.

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Ryan sent me some pics of his new bike he just built up… looks awesome. His Mirraco Black Pearl Limited Bike for ’08 will have much the same colour scheme & loaded up with heaps of Colony parts.

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It’s been too long in the making due to my busy travel schedule but it’s finally getting closer to a reality. ‘A Month In The Life Of’ the roadtrip DVD, will soon be out.

The entire Colony pro team spent close to a full month on the road from Brisbane to Sydney for a couple of comps then over to New Zealand’s South Island for a week of relaxing & riding before finishing up at the X-Air comp in Wellington. We also had a very special guest in the way of Dave Osato.

I have been very busy trying to get as much editing done as possible while I am home. We will have a small mini premiere at Interbike in Vegas, in a few weeks at the Tip Plus booth on the Thursday afternoon of Interbike.

It will be available in shops hopefully sometime in October.

I have been getting used to this view of my desk & computer a lot of late…

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FocalPoint BMX Magazine are having their long awaited DVD premiere October 19th in Melbourne. Check the flyer or their website for more info… www.focalpointbmx.com

Look out for sections from our own Liam Fahy-Hampton & Mick Bayzand… word.

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Some say that it doesn’t but Nick Richardson may think otherwise. Check out his first car he bought entirely on his Bloody Oath Bar royalties from us here at Colony. Pretty farkin’ shweet if you ask me…haha. It’s a Ford Falcon EB ’92 model complete with alloy wheels, it’s lowered, got aircon & even a CD player !! Talk about high rolling !! Seriously though, Nick is very happy to have his first car. Even though, it makes me a little sad that I wont need to drive him around everywhere now.

Just for comparison, on the other end of the scale, we have one of Ryan’s many cars… a rather pimped out Chrysler 300C. Maybe BMX really does pay?

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Buzzy shit happens when you open your eyes and look hard! Why am I typing this? Well, myself, Wazman and Zombie Mike went on a bit of a ‘joint’ this weekend, to our favourite pie shop, I’m not gonna give away its location, that’s a secret, but it’s somewhere between Auckland and Wellington, thats all I’m going to say! Anyways, I really needed to use the porcelain throne, so we pulled over in the middle of no where, and off I went, only to wonder a bit further down the road and come across the proverbial ‘cats meow’!!
We did a little bit more exploring and low and behold, our exploring was rewarded with what I can best sum up as probably one of the best ‘natural’ spots I’ve ever seen! Take a squizz at the pics, but they don’t do it justice, wallrides, bank to walls, sub boxes, transitioned wall, this place has it all, except for the jump box in the middle! Ha, thank goodness!
All really good size as well! We hungout there for a while and took it all in, I took some navagational readings with my mobile GPS unit, so that we know exactly where this bohemoth sleeps. We will be going back with shovels and brooms once summer arrrives, so I’ll def get some pics of that! Just goes to show that if you stray off the broken path looking for a place to go number two’s, you never know what you will find!

In other random news, got me new Colonic hubs built up, dang! These are prototypes, but are pretty much spot on! Thanks to Dagger at Hedgehog Takapuna for the build, not too sure when these suckers are avaliable, but all you need to know is that they’re light, light, have a buzzy colony logo laser etched into them, and they make your bike go fast!

Peta Shepherd has been in Vancouver now for a few weeks & her trip is coming to an end soon. She sent me this quick email with a few cool pics.

Hey hows it going? I’m having the best time in Van, but I only have a week left before a long flight home 🙁 My trip has gone way to fast. I have ridden so many amazing parks, trails and street, and love it here so much. Here are a few pics, enjoy 🙂

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