Oskars Zajarskis our flow rider from latvia has been living in the UK for the past year or so & is soon to be making the move back home. He also just recently gave his Rebirth frame a little re-vamp with a raw paint job to keep things fresh.
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There was a jam down in Adelaide put on by our friends at Little Black Bike and Dishonour and Liam was on hand to destroy the rail/ledge setup.
We spent an afternoon filming with Alex for the new web edit series we spoke about a few days back now. Really looking forward to putting it together.
The new 2020 bmx magazine will be out soon & here is a sneak preview. This issue features an interview our own Liam Zingbergs as well as a full story on the making of The Colony DVD due out next month as well. There is even the first in our new advert series featuring Liam as well, check it.
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I have a little feature over on the Crispy Stream website about my top 20 songs/albums of all time. Check it by clicking here now.
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Attila Godi our rider in Hungary, just built a fresh new rig & you can check it out in full on the Offline website by clicking here now.
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Shintaro posted a clip of a link that he has been working on for a while now. Buttery smooth…
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Mick Bayzand & his good mate Kym Grosser feature in this Blazeguard edit jibbing at their local park in Melbourne.
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Ryan recently put together his new signature frame, The Living, in one our new colours for 2012, Bright Purple.
These frames will be available around the world come September/October. Ryan’s frame will also be available in a complete bike as well. The first colourway on offer on these bikes will be pretty close to what you see here, Bright Purple with Black. The Living frame will come in 20.8, 21 & 21.25″ TT sizes. The complete bike will be built around a 20.8″ frame.
Frame: Colony The Living
Fork: Colony Dagger
Bars: Colony Dagger
Stem: Colony Official
Grips: Edwin Animal
Barends: ODI
Headset: Colony
Seatpost: Colony
Seat: Colony Focal Point V2
Cranks: Colony Colonial V2
Sprocket: Colony Official
Chain: KMC Light
Brakes: Colony Transformer
Cable: Odyssey
Brake Lever: Colony Transformer
Detangler: SNAFU
Front Tire: Colony 1.9 Agenda
Front Rim: Colony Contour
Front Hub: Colony Clone
Rear Tire: KHE
Rear Rim: Colony Contour
Rear Hub: Colony Clone Cassette
Pedals: Colony Fantastic Plastic
Pegs: Colony Oneway Alloy
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Our flow rider from Brazil, Valvo put together this edit over four days. A good variety of park, trails and street in this. Thanks to Wellington ‘Tico’ Utida for filming and editing it.
The second round in this years DownUnderGround flatland comp series is on this weekend in Sydney. Check the flyer below for full details. There is also a fresh new Flatland Australia website recently launched which you can check out here now.
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If you are in Australia you have most likely already seen this advert of Pete Radivo doing a superman seatgrab air on the back of the most recent issue of Focalpoint. Well here it is for the rest of the world…
A couple nights ago we lit up Morayfield park with Tom and did a bunch of filming for a new web video series we are working on with the team. Tom really put in work for the clips. More info on these in the coming weeks.
If you check the index page you may have noticed a new image featuring Marnold and the Variant stem. This is also the first sneak peek of the new layout style for the online and print adverts. We wanted to add more of a story to the adverts so that you get to learn a bit more about the behind the scenes especially with the DVD coming out next month.
Cooper Brownlee has been up here in Brisbane for the past week hanging out, riding & getting some work done. Here is a shot from a recent day out & about riding.
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Paddy Gross sent in an update on what he has been up too….
Yo everyone !! Hope all of you are doing just fine and shredding as much as you can. I am doing fine over here good ol Germany and finally the weather is getting better.
I’ve been riding heaps of demos in the last couple months and I also hit up a contest in Innsbruck, Austria with my Vans teammates Tobias Wicke, Markus Braumann, Senad Grosic and Daniel Juchatz. We’ve had a pretty cool time and the location has been awesome. The whole wooden park was placed in the middle of the forrest in front of a huge mountain chain, seriously an amazing scenery. The ramps been very awesome and we’ve had a good time shredding. At the end Markus Braumann won this thing well deserved, I scored 2nd place followed by Tobias and so on. Cool trip, cool people and heaps of fun.
Then another super awesome thing happened haha. I wrote Zac Miner that after he taught me the saying “nahyourritemate” while I was in Australia, that this has been one of my favorite memories of my visit and I got it as a tattoo on my forearm. Since I have heaps of words who have huge meaning in my life written on my arm, that one was another one I had to write on it. So Zac was stoked and told me to send it over to Nick who does the nyrm stuff. So I did, he was stoked, told me about the brotherhood and added me straight to the team hahaha. I was so fucking stoked and it all happened while I was working in a nightshift at the porn store. Wow that’s even cooler than it was anyways. Now I am able to represent one of the most awesome countries I’ve ever seen and my mates as well, can’t be better than that.
I also have kinda bad news because I won’t make it to the Colony DVD premiere cause I am going to need my travel budget for all the upcoming contests in Europe and I am not able to earn enough money from my job for a plane ticket in such a short time, Unfortunately not all the girls need toys hahaha dang it though!
So the season pretty much just started and I’ll keep having fun on my little bike like you are. All the best to all of ya and thanks for reading.
Cheers!
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Raen BMX is a major Colony dealer in Russia & helps out many riders over there. One such rider is Sergey Tkachenko, who they help with Colony parts which we are stoked about. Check out this video below which gives you a small taste of his riding & what Colony parts he runs. Thanks to Raen BMX for the support for Colony & for helping out Sergey.
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Adam Ingles and the crew down at Drift are putting on another jam which we are getting behind. This time its at some trails. There will be all the good things that make a jam such as music, food, drinks and giveaways so make sure you get down there. You can also check out their facebook page here. Look out for a bunch of prizes from us here at Colony as well.
The world premiere of our first full team DVD is set for July 16th… check the flyer below for details. Should be a great night, see you there. There will also be various other premieres set around the planet as well. Check here in the weeks ahead for details.
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Broc Raiford is over in Cali on a riding trip right now & broke his scaphoid bone in his right wrist on a fall at some trails. This cuts his planned trip short & he is heading back home now to get surgery. We wish you the fastest recovery mate. Check out the video Fat Tony from Ride BMX managed to get together from his two days there before the crash, thanks Fat !!
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Looks like I scored a recent one clip as seen over on the Focalpoint site.
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Our Contour Wheel Sets are one of the easiest way to get rolling on a dialled new set of wheels straight from the box. In a wide variety of colours & axle choices check them out at a dealer new you now. In the meantime click here for more info.
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Inspired from our very popular Official Stem is our top load version, the Variant Stem. Available in all our colours at a dealer near you now. Click here to read more about them.
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Random photo of Zac Miner from early last year in Melbourne. If you are wondering what he is doing in this, he rides along the edge of the left side gapping across to the right side transition. You can see a bunch more team photos on our Flickr page.
I had the pleasure of visiting Matt & Jack from Little Black Bike earlier this week down in Adelaide, South Australia.
I gotta say Matt runs a very tight ship down there & his store is very impressive. A very well laid out store that is very welcoming. It also has the cleanest work shop I have ever seen !! The scene down there seems really cool as well with some amazing city sanctioned trails, great parks & good street. Liam Zingbergs is supported by the guys as well, so you know they are on it.
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Ride BMX have featured our Colonial V2 Cranks on their current buyers guide. Click here to check them out.
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Our friend James Wade from South Australia just released his latest online photobook which showcases the Adelaide scene every month or two. Make sure you check it out, Liam gets a bunch of love in there aswell. Liam also recently started a tumblr which you can check out here.
Here is our current print advert for DIG featuring our flow rider, Broc Raiford. This was shot whilst we were in the USA on a trip which was also the first time most of us met Broc.
We have set up a twitter account for us to post up randomness, sneak peeks on projects we are working on and just the general things that go down on a day to day basis here at Colony. If you use twitter make sure you follow us.
On another note, we are also currently working on team rider interviews for the site and we want everyone to have the chance to ask anyone on the team anything so if you jump onto our facebook page and leave a comment here we will do our best to get it answered.
