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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Shintaro shot us an email about how he just recently got back from the Double Control flatland comp over in Bangkok, Thailand. He said he had a blast. Shintaro is one well travelled man.
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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Stas Shatilo rides for Raen Bmx, a retail store and our distributor over in Russia who also help him out with some Colony product, here is a web video of him killing a local park.
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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When I was up in Brisbane a little while back I went down to Helensvale park with Clint and filmed his first 10 clips edit, stoked on how it came out. He has only pulled the last trick once before in his life I believe, check it out.
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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Bayzand has been all over the place up north of late, here is the latest from Teddy.
Hey guys, it’s Mick again to let you know some more of what I’ve been up to. Kimberly and I sailed on a catamaran for a few days around the Whit Sundays. It was amazing. We woke up in the early hours of the morning to snorkel the reef. Underneath the surface the coral and fish were mind blowing. I’ve never seen so many crazy colours altogether. One day we even saw a whale breach the water, it was right out of a documentary. We got to go to White Haven beach. It’s by far the most beautiful beach I’ve ever seen. We walked up to the lookout where you could see the water and sand swirl together down below like a painting. It was unreal. By night we got to drink with the others on board and the crew. Thanks to the Skipper and crew for making it such a great trip, something we’ll remember for a very long time.
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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If you haven’t seen it yet, check out these couple of videos to get an idea of what to expect.
I randomly thought about this photo today that I shot of Ryan a couple of years back now at a roadtrip we were on where we stopped in at Cam Whites jumps.
A nice random photo of Simon O’Brien entertaining the local fishing kid taken by Nathan Penonzek.
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This edit is made up of Cooper Brownlee’s left overs that didn’t make the cut from our DVD, check it out. If you haven’t seen our DVD yet, track yourself down a copy at any Colony retailer now.
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We have now launched a retail online store where you can buy all our products except our complete bikes. With the age of the internet & the online store well upon us all, it was time we moved with the times & offered such a service ourselves.
We would still recommend that you buy from your local BMX shop if you have one in your area but use this retail online store (or any online store for that matter) when you do not have such a luxury of a local store near you.
This store will also serve as place where riders in countries that may not have Colony distribution can get our products easily as we will send to anywhere in the world. We will also from time to time, release special limited edition items on here that will only be available directly from us as well.
You can get to our retail online store by clicking the button to the right hand side of the site.
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Oskars Zajarskis is our flow rider in Latvia & has been repping Colony now for a while through the guys at Par BMX. Here are a few random pics from his recent travels to the Adrenaline Games in Moscow.
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Thanks to Unleaded BMX & Soul BMX Magazine in France, Cyril Lapoirie is now the proud owner of a brand new 2012 Miner frame. Congrats !! The video comp was judged by none other than the man himself, Zac Miner. Check the video out below & look out for Zac’s signature frame to be out in October this year.
*Miner Frame
*Zac Miner Signature – Totally New Model for 2012 (available October, 2011)
*Full CrMo frame.
*Heat treated Integrated Headtube, MID BB and 5mm CNC machined dropouts.
*Tapered down & down tubes & rear stays.
*Offset internal gussets on TT & DT tubing.
*Specially tapered seat tube.
*Built-in seat clamp with replacable nut & bolt.
*Removable brake mounts & hardware.
*Unique & exclusive invest cast removable Colony brake tabs.
*Sizes: 20.75” and 21” TT.
*13.25” rear, 75.5 degree HA, 71 degree ST.
*11.5” BB Height.
*Stand over height 7.75” (centre of BB shell to centre of TT)
*Weight: 20.75” version 4.95 lbs (2,248 grams), 21” version 4.98 lbs (2,259 grams)
*Matt Black, Gloss Clear Raw, Matt Red (shown), Bright Purple & Rising Blue.
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Our good friend & team rider from Brazil, Valvoline is coming to Australia in November to stay in Brisbane to ride. We will organise a road trip around his visit which should be good times. Can’t wait to see you here mate.
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Our 2012 complete bikes will be out in early October around the planet. There will be the ever popular Endeavour & Descendant in fresh new colour ways. We will also have for the first time, the all new Inception, which is like a more affordable Sweet Tooth style bike for the smaller riders.
We will also Ryan Guettler’s first signature complete bike with us called, The Living. At the top of the range will be the very limited edition Teddy Pro, Sweet Tooth Pro & the all new Miner Pro. These pro bikes are in very limited numbers with less than 10 of each model made for the world. Expect all these 2012 bikes out in early October.
The guys at Strictly BMX however have a very limited run of only one bike each on the above models. With the exception of the Miner Pro, who the guys at Backbone BMX have since Zac rides for them as his shop sponno. So act fast & get in touch with the guys at Strictly or Backbone & be the first to have the 2012 bikes now.
2012 Endeavour in Matt Black/Clear Raw two-tone
2012 Endeavour in Rising Blue with Blue
2012 Descendant in Matt Black with Blue
2012 Descendant in Matt Blue with Polished
2012 Inception in Matt Black with Purple
2012 Inception in Matt Black/Clear Raw two-tone
2012 The Living in Bright Purple with Black
2012 Teddy Pro in Matt Black with Gold
2012 Sweet Tooth Pro in Matt Red with Red
2012 Miner Pro in Matt Titanium with Polished
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We have got behind the North Western League of comps for 2011. Starting this Saturday & then one almost every weekend till Xmas… check them out below. Click here for more info now.
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Flow rider from Latvia Oskars Zajarskis sent through a quick edit form his local park, some good moves in this and the park looks real fun.
Flow rider from Germany and good friend Paddy Gross sent in a bit of an update for everyone…
Hope all is good and everyone is having fun doing what you like to do. I am doing fine, still missing the good times I’ve had with all of ya. I am riding heaps of demos this month and right now I am writing this update from europeans biggest games convention tradeshow kinda thing where we’re playing our own game on our bikes. I am also having heaps of fun with my new bike and “The Living” frame works real good, loving it!
Besides riding demos, doing workshops and working in a porn store I am filming heaps for my next web edit which is going to with one of my best mates and a little less tailwhips haha, I love to do that trick but too much is too much. We’re going to make this edit also look like a little message for the kids outhere, just to give them an idea to do their own thing and don’t have to follow any trends to be a part of the BMX community, we’ve been filming for the last 2 months for it and it’s almost done. there’s some photos attached taken by a friend who loves to take photos, hope you’ll like them. ok that’s it for now, more soon! take care all of ya and stay happy’n healthy. cheers-Paddy.
The rescheduled Belconnen comp/jam is on for tomorrow, it looks to be good weather this time too. A big shout out to Backbone BMX for putting this one… should be a great day.
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