The guys at Strictly BMX are at it again with another pimpin’ custom complete bike. This time using one of the very limited 2012 Teddy V2 Kits. Mick Bayzand was also in the shop today & signed the bike. To make this bad boy yours jump to it & click here now.
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On December 3rd, 2011 almost the entire Colony team will be in Adelaide, South Australia. It’s all to help promote the up coming Vans / Colony collaboration shoe release. There will be two new models based off the Vans Wylie & Vans Milo shoes with Colony artwork. These will be out in March next year.
Ryan Guettler, Alex Hiam, Zac Miner, Mick Bayzand, Cooper Brownlee, Tom Stretton, Liam Zingbergs, Brock Olive, Valvo & myself will be there.
We will be having an in-store at Little Black Bike at 1pm & then a ride at the city park at 3pm. Come along, meet the team, get some freebies & then let’s all have a ride. Should be a great day.
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Shane Badman sent in an email about what he has been up to of late…
“After having my arm operation in May to get some issues worked out (I had my bionic, Terminator style arm installed), I’ve been keeping things on the downlow while it’s been healing up. As any rider knows, downtime seriously sucks. When you see all of your mates and everyone around you riding and you can’t… it’s tough! But I’ve been keeping busy with the store over at Newcircle and have done a few interviews on BMXflatlandAustralia and Offline Magazine out of Hungary which was super awesome.
Since I’ve slowly started to ride again in the past few weeks I’ve also been doing a few demos. I did one at the Bike and Lifestyle show in Brisbane and more recently got one done at a company called H2 Insurance Solutions for a launch party. The H2 Insurance gig was awesome – the guy Jason Holmes that runs it is fully down with BMX and action sports and is the guy who does the insurance for Travis Pastrana’s Nitro Circus when it tours Aus and also monster trucks. Stoked that I’m riding again haha!!”
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… but for anyone that knows me, knows that I like old school VW Type 3 Squareback’s. This here is one fine specimen.
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We had a pretty good day riding around yesterday. Valvo, Peta, Alex & myself rode a few of the various parks here in Brisbane & had a great time while doing so. Check out a few random pics from the day below, good times.
Alex with an invert at Kuraby.
Valvo with a boost over the hip at Kuraby.
Peta with a toboggan at Crestmead.
Valvo slinging the bars at Crestmead.
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Daniele De Piccoli our flow rider from Italy, has a new edit out. Check it out below. Thanks to Hood BMX Distribution for looking after Daniele & BMX in Italy in general.
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Peta loves Kuraby park and rides it really well, we spent an afternoon there a couple of months back and she went to work producing some good lines.
We have released some very limited edition 2012 frame & fork kits for Australia only. There are only 5 of each kit in existence & only a hand full of lucky Colony dealers in Australia will have them.
The 2012 Teddy V2 Kit which includes Mick Bayzand’s brand new Teddy V2 frame in 20.85″, Guardian forks both in our limited Matte Titanium colour with a polished Official stem & Colony headset with our adjustable headset spacer also included. These Teddy V2 kits are only available from Strictly BMX. So jump to it before they’re gone.
Next up is the 2012 Miner Kit. This includes Zac Miner’s first signature frame the Miner in 21″ with Guardian Forks both again in the Matt Titanium colour with a polished Official Stem & Colony headset & also includes our adjustable headset spacer. These are only available from Backbone BMX so jump to it if you want one of these for yourself.
Available exclusively from Crossley Cycles are our 2012 Sweet Tooth V2 Kits in a 19.8″ version in the Matte Titanium colour again for the frame & the Dagger forks. The Official stem & headset are again polished alloy & it comes with our adjustable headset spacer also. Contact Crossley Cycles if you want to grab yourself one of these five kits made.
Ryan Guettler’s first signature frame with Colony, The Living in 21″ will also be available as a kit & once again is only available in the Matte Titanium colour for the frame & forks. It also comes with a polished Official stem & Colony headset. The adjustable headset spacer is also included. These are available at Strictly BMX, Lux BMX & Bike Trax of Cessnock. So contact your favourite Colony dealer now before they’re all gone.
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Our 2012 complete bikes arrive into the country November 15th & will be in stores soon after. We will be updating our product section of the site in the next few days & all info will be shown there then. These will be available at your local Colony dealer soon.
For now check out these images for all our 1st drop of colours available around Australia after the 15th November & the rest of the world closer to Christmas.
Endeavour in Rising Blue
Endeavour in Matte Black / Clear Raw Two Tone
Inception in Matte Black with Purple
Inception in Matte Black / Clear Raw Two Tone
Descendant in Matte Black with Blue
Descendant in Matte Blue with Polished
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Last night I picked up Valvo from Brisbane airport after his mammoth 36+ hour journey from Brazil. After some much needed sleep, we have come to the Colony office today & I took Valvo shopping in the warehouse for a new bike. His choice was our new 2012 Teddy V2 frame in Matte Black. He is putting it together right now & we will do a bike check later.
A big thanks to Marcelo & Andre from Dream BMX for helping get Valvo out here to Australia.
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Henrique Castro our flow rider from Brazil has started the long journey here to Australia. He will stay here in Brisbane for a month of riding & enjoying the Australian lifestyle. Below is an edit of his last ride in Brazil with his mates before he started the trip here. See you soon mate !!
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Brock Olive put together a new 2012 Teddy V2 frame in our Rising Blue (Blue with Blue splatter) last week & here it is. Thanks to the guys at Lux BMX for helping him get it together. In case you missed it, check out Brock’s ten clips edit from last week here now.
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Alex has been quietly collecting some footage while out riding with his mates & this is the end result – Bro Cam 2. Some really good technical ramp stuff in here. It’s awesome that every time I see Alex he has learnt another bunch of tricks. So good. Sit back & enjoy the Alex Hiam show. Alex also edited it this himself by the way.
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A few of us are in Canberra at the moment filming and shooting an article for the next 2020. I really love Canberra, good people and good spots.
We are supporting yet another jam going down in the Newcastle area, these guys are really helping to build a great scene in the Central Coast of NSW.
Most of the guys on the team are putting new bikes together right about now & Marnold chose the 2012 Teddy V2 frame in our Bright Purple. Here is some iPhone action below with better photos to come soon but thought we would share this little teaser here now. Thanks to the guys at Backbone BMX for helping Marnold get his bike together.
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Peta Shepherd dropped by the warehouse during the week & picked up her new 2012 swag of goodies. She had Mick Lav at Crossley Cycles build it up & here is her new 2012 Miner frame in Rising Blue (Blue with Blue splatter). Peta also picked a few various Polished parts from our 2012 parts ranges including the new CC Sprocket from Chris Courtenay. These will be available from your favourite Colony dealer now.
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Here is a sneak iPhone peek of Cooper Brownlee’s new bike… a 2012 Teddy V2 frame in our Gloss Clear Raw. Better photos to come soon.
We will also up load all the 2012 product info on our site here in the next week or so. Cooper took 1,111 product photos the other day, no joke. So give us time… thanks !!
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Chris Courtenay is in Greenville, NC at the moment & he wrote a quick email on what he has been up too…
Been in America for 6 weeks now, still got another 2 weeks left. Greenville is going awesome, been riding everyday. Not too many people in town at the moment, seeing it’s going into winter. It’s sorta better in a way that sessions are really small and the parks aren’t really packed! Also the weather is soo perfect to ride in!
Filmed a ten clip edit with Ryan at Jaycee park a couple of weeks back which I was pretty stoked to film, been wanting to do one for a while but injuries weren’t letting me.
Also Vitamin Water put on a comp at Skatecary which is an hour and a bit away from Greenville. I was fortunate enough to win 1st in the pro section. The park was a lot of fun to ride and it was an awesome day, was stoked.
I attached a photo aswell and cant wait to get back to film some more Colony stuff on this new projects Coops has got going on!
Talk soon mate – Chris.
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A new little product we have out now for 2012 is our new Adjustable Headset Spacer. It is made from hi-impact plastic & will enable various stack heights of 10mm, 11mm, 12mm, 13mm & 15mm. Just rotate the spacer around to rest on it’s various steps to get the different stack heights. Check them out at a Colony dealer near you now.
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Our range of 2012 parts have arrived in Australia. Look out for them in stores over the next week ahead.
We will also update our products page with all the new products over the next week as well. Cooper took 1,111 photos (no joke) over the last 48 hours & once he goes through them all they will be online. This includes our much anticipated signature frames from Ryan Guettler with The Living & Zac Miner with the Miner. Chris Courtenay’s signature CC Sprocket & Cooper Brownlee’s signature Twenty Four Seven Bars are also in now plus much much more of course.
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Mick sent through an update about his recent travels in the West…
I’ve been lucky enough to the have been invited to do some box jump demos at the Perth Royal Show for 8 days and 8 nights. It was a really fun time and the demos were sick not to mention the amazing fire works display.
I just want to thank Shaun Jarvis from Freestyle Now for hooking this up and all the amazing people I met and rode with for making it such an enjoyable experience.
Now I am traveling all around Perth doing lots of coaching clinics, demos and judging lots of comps so if your in the area come have a shred with me.
A few weeks back we took Brock down to Capalaba park in Brisbane to film a ten clips web video. He really put in work for this so we hope you enjoy it.
Edited: Cooper Brownlee.
Filmers: Cooper Brownlee (fisheye) Stewart munro (long lens).
The last few times I have been at Woodridge skate park for a ride, there has been a young kid there who has always shown some skills on his bike. The bike he had was a real piece of work & he needed something decent big time. We were there on Saturday for a roll & once again, 9 year old Josh was there hanging out. He was still on his old bike & I thought I could help him out some what, so I told him to meet me at the park the next day.
The next morning I went through the warehouse & built him up a bike from spare stuff we had laying around. I was pretty stoked to be able to help him out & he was very stoked for sure. Enjoy the bike Josh & I can’t wait to see you ride again soon.
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