Bobbie Altiser sent through this photo his friend Dylan Crane shot, it was the first shot they took with their new lens so they hooked us up with it.

Seems like a good time to re-post this aswell…

Our Instagram gets hit pretty hard from all the team all over the world so make sure you are following us for daily insights into the riding world of the team. Be sure to tag us in on any of your photos that relate to Colony as we love to see them all! @colonybmxbrand

Shane Badman just released an indepth interview with Ross Lav over on the Flatland Australia website talking about the early years of the Brisbane fresstyle scene and his project Unscene History, you can read all about it here.

Get down to Box Hill in Melbourne this Saturday for the next round of the SEL comp series!

Myself, Clint, Chris Courtenay and Peta Shepherd will be hitting up Helensvale park tomorrow afternoon around 2-2.30 then most likely onto Runaway Bay afterwards. If anyone is keen for a roll we look forward to seeing you guys down there!

With the release of Ryan’s Tabes for the Babes Episode 2 in the coming days, I thought we would get a few words from both Ryan & Jourdan Barba.

First up is Ryan & tomorrow we will have a few words from Jourdan.

So Ryan, I am really stoked on these trips you are doing. How did the idea come about to do them?

The start of last year I moved to California from Greenville, North Carolina. It kind of started the first week I was here there seemed to be endless parks and trails. So every time I rode a new park I snapped a photo of it and made an album of spots around here. I stole the idea from Cooper Brownlee, haha. Just by doing that made me want to travel more because riding new spots improved my riding so much more, than riding the same spot over and over. So being back out in California anytime my sponsors wanted to do a road trip whether it was Vans or Monster, we got the chance to use their RV’s. It was just always so amazing having like 10 riders and a driver, not always being crammed in a van, so I decided to buy a cheaper version.

Since last year when we came out to Cali with the team, the RV has taken a major overhaul. You gotta be stoked with the outcome? It looks a million bucks now.

So I bought the RV myself but I really wanted all my sponsors help so I kind of turned it into a long term project. First I hit them up about wrapping the whole thing which was the most expensive part of it. Then kicker hooked up all the speakers inside so now it has 4 subs and 10 speakers. It’s got 2 TV’s and a Vans checkered feel on the inside. So to me, it looks like a million bucks. I definitely get a lot of looks and people yelling at the RV when I’m driving down the road.

What was your favourite place or spot you hit up?

Theres been so many favorites, because every trip I’m trying to take it somewhere I’ve never been before, so every trip is an adventure. This last trip we got to ride this really cool ditch in Las Vegas. It was so good it could almost be considered a concrete skate park.

Who did the move of this trip in your eyes? What was it?

To me it was Jourdan’s riding in general. Just because he’s such a street machine. He looks at everything so differently compared to me. So every time he would call something out to film it would blow my mind because it was such opposite tech riding than what I normally do. He has so many combos when it comes to rails.

Any cool stories or happenings off the bikes?

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

Plans for the next one? Where are you thinking of hitting?

One spot I’ve always heard about and wanted to visit, is called the Sunken Sea. It’s meant to be an abandon town with a bunch of abandon swimming pools to ride. So I’m working on making that happen right now. And another dream trip I want to do is an all trails trip with a few different riders but that’s going to be hard to do because unless your a local that digs there is going to be hard to show up an expect to start filming. But it’s not completely impossible.

Most should be aware that you took a hard crash recently & were admitted to hospital. How is the recovery going?

Just real slow and painful. Even right now I’ve got my girlfriend typing this for me. Without Kelsey nursing me I’d probably still be in the hospital. The doctors said no physical activity for 3 months, but with her support I’m sure ill be back within a month.

Any thanks?

Of course, always have thanks. Huge thanks to all my sponsors who have stuck behind me all these years Monster, Vans, Colony, Pro-tec, Ethika, and Epic Bike Shop, all my friends who visited and wished me a speedy recovery, huge thanks to Kelsey for helping me get back on my bike, a massive thank you to Dylan Phol who spent so much time filming these road trips and putting out these edits, and most of all thanks to all the fans who sent me funny photos and messages to cheer me up while I was in the hospital, I didn’t realize how much support I really had.

Over on the Unscene History website today there is a cool article about the fact there was a comp 18 years ago today that we ran & organised with the help of our close friends. An interesting read especially if you were from the era or want to learn some about the roots of BMX in this country.

From time to time we will post interesting articles or happenings from the site here for all to see.

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We are very proud to be getting behind this project showcasing the history of freestyle BMX in Brisbane. Unscene will showcase factual information & photos, as well as original relics from the era.

The curator, Ross D Lavender has been putting in months of work into this project & will be something really special. Check out the site by clicking here now for all the info. Keep an eye on it for updates all the way leading up to & beyond the exhibition set for October 26th & 27th this year. This will be a great look into what made freestyle BMX what it is today in Australia.

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Zac just got back from a trip with the Backbone guys…

Last weekend was sick, Rhys got most of the Backbone crew together and hit the road heading out to the Midwest of NSW. We hit up Will and Chris’s trails on our way through Youngs, I sat back and watched the boys shred the dirt! We then hit up a heap of parks like Manildra, Dubbo and Milthorpe.. It was just a real good trip to hang out with the Backbone crew. Thanks to Jason Cousins for driving in his tour van. If anyone out there wants to do trips up and down the coast you should definitely scope out roadtripz.com.au

Ryan might be stuck in hospital right now but it hasn’t stopped the guys getting the trailer out for the next episode of TBFB and I know Ryan is already planning the next trip! Look forward to seeing this next week when it drops…

I was going through some older photos the other night and came across this sequence of Marnold from our Barcelona trip in 2010. If only my bike didn’t get confiscated on the 2nd day.

Ryan had surgery yesterday & his spleen ended up being removed. All went well though & he will be all good. Here are a few words from the man himself…

Thanks to everyone for the kind words. I just have to rest in the hospital for a few days, but keeps the messages coming they’re fun to read when I’m doped up on drugs haha – Ryan.

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Just got word that our main man Ryan Guettler went down & is currently in hospital with a ruptured spleen & lacerated kidney.

Rest up mate & keep positive. Our thoughts are with you. Give Ryan some love via his Instagram @ryanguettler

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Bobbie shot through an update of the latest with him over in Missouri…

Hello world. I’ve gotten pretty into road cycling over the last couple of months. Averaging around a 100 miles a week, or about 160 km depending on where you’re reading this from. Nothing too crazy.. Spring is here, my local park opened up for the season and I’ve also been working on kind of a secret ramp set up in the back of the shop that I work at. For the most part I am building everything out of wood from old skateparks, construction sites, houses.. pretty much anything I can get my hands on. Trying to save a bit of money! Ha ha. Slowly coming along though. Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to!

Here is something a little outside the usual BMX world here but one many will appreciate regardless. For many months now we have been working on this joint project together with Type 2 Detectives in the UK, who are one of the more famous VW custom shops on the planet. To have them contact us and offer such a colab was an honour and one that we could not pass up.

Basically the plan was to build to our own look and specs, an awesome and very rare, 1965 VW Type 3 Squareback panel van. The idea was to make it into vintage look company car, complete with roof racks for a couple bikes. The perfect promo vehicle and a lot of fun to boot. It was debuted at the world class Volksworld show this past weekend in the UK with some great feedback. The end result turned out awesome and exactly how we wanted it to look. Thanks heaps to Paul and his team at the Type 2 Detectives. Hit them up for any of your VW needs. Check out their website and their FB page.

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Miner shot through another update…

So in the last week or so I’ve been hitting a few places just out of canberra. I went to Goulburn for a roll, the place is huge but the ramps are weird which makes for an interesting ride. Also went out to Bungendore which is only half hour outta canberra but its got a sick little bowl and the kids there were loving the chance to get some free stickers! Also big news in Canberra. Act jam is back and it’s gunna be sick. Over the long weekend there will be jams at 3 iconic skateparks finishing up with a BBQ at Backbone. Gunna be an epic weekend, everyone should come!!

Zingbergs has a dope photo within TCU trip photo gallery, all shots by Devin Feil so you know they are the goods, check it.

I spotted this online and was immediately psyched on it! Custom artwork on frames is something I am really into so I’ve hit up Jourdan for some more photos but for now you get to see a sneak peek with this shot.

Ryan just got back from Woodward West trip where he learnt some new moves and had a blast, there is a comp on up there this weekend which Ryan will be at as well. You can see in the photos he is trying out the new Protec full face helmet so we will see how he goes with some more testing. Ryan has also been invited to a Redbull comp in Mexico called Red Bull Dirt Conquers! So be on the lookout for that very soon.

Zac shot through an update…

It’s been a crazy couple of months of late, I moved into a new house with a couple of locals around my area, I went down to Melb’s for a weekend a while back which was good to hang out with the crew down there, watching Marnold trying an ice down a sketchy rail was crazy! I’ve also been up to Sydney a couple of times. Went to bowlarama in Bondi to watch my cousin skate, pretty much rained out the whole weekend which sucked but got to party with my mum and aunty at the after party which was hilarious! Along side of working an 8 to 5 I’ve picked up a job at Smoque which is a Texas smoked bbq restaurant, the food is off the chain, if your ever in canberra you’ve gotta give it a crack.

Brandon Van Dulken scored a pic or two in a photo gallery over on The Union site. They are at a special undercover dirt spot in Vancouver, Canada. One of the only dry spots to ride at the moment over there.

Thanks to the guys at Kill Em All Distro for the heads up. For any dealers in Canada looking to get our products, hit Kill Em All up for the goods.

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Jourdan has a few clips in this quick edit from a recent street jam in Santa Ana.

Liam Zingbergs has a section in an upcoming DVD coming out of Adelaide from our friend Doug Underhill. Can’t wait to see the finished product when it drops.

Ryan Guettler’s signature Dagger Forks are available in a variety of colours for 2013 as seen below. Check them out at a Colony dealer near you now.

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We freshened up the splash page of the website with this dope photo of Brandon going large with a bucket load of style. Love, love! Brandon’s riding. Thanks to Shawn Duffield for the photo.
Follow him on Instagram @brandonvandulken

Well this is pretty damn cool! Guettler makes an appearance in there aswell. Via Vans.

I’ve been seeing alot of Instagram photos of Ryan lately putting in work at the trails and when this video from Vans dropped I was real excited to watch and the riding level Guettler seems to be at right now is a treat to watch. Hit play, watch it all then hit play again. Oh and if you’re not already following him Insta, hit him up! @ryanguettler

Zingbergs is in the USA right now and he shot through an update of what he’s been up to…

“What’s good guys! If you didn’t know I’m currently on holidays in the USA hanging out in Arizona, I’ve been here for a few weeks and I head to Cali in a few days to go on a TCU trip. I have been having a blast and meet alot of new homies that will be down for life. I cant even describe how amazing this place is from the spots to the scenery. I”ve been doing a whole lot of sleeping, eating mexican and hanging with some g’s. if you interested and wanna see some more photos from my trip follow me on insta @leezy_zingbergs and if you aint already hit the @colonybmxbrand one up too. I’m out for now.”

I am really hyped on the roadtrip videos Guettler is organising, looks like a blast of a trip so I’m hyped to see the full video when it drops.

Devin Feil has a really dialed photogallery up on TCU and it includes this awesome photo of Jourdan. Make sure you check out the entire gallery for some images to get you stoked.