The Core Series final is on this Sunday at Kuraby skatepark. As a special incentive ride we are giving a set of free Colony grips to every competitor that enters the comp. So get yourself down to Kuraby on Sunday & have a a ride or at least hang out for a good day regardless.
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Matt King sent in some pics of his new ride along with a riding photo. He has been keeping very busy as a father in recent months but still getting out on the bike as much as possible. Matt has been repping Colony for as long as I can remember with the strong support of the Gold Coast’s premiere BMX shop, Helensvale BMX.
Spotted this video from a comp at ‘The Shed’ back in 1996 over on the Crossley Cycles website. Enjoy.
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The video for the second round of the Downunderground series is online now & you can check it out below. Look our for clips from our own Simon O’Brien & Shane Badman who scored 1st & 2nd respectively in the event. Supported by your own stop source for all things flatland in Australia, Newcircle.
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There was a huge turnout for the BMX Day Out in Beenleigh yesterday. So good to see. So many old faces turned up & had many a good story to talk about. Thanks to all that came out & thanks to Ling for organising it all for Leif, our thoughts are with you mate.
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I’ve started work on the wedge to wedge setup, this will have a rail running up and down one side, should be fun! All the jibs we are building will be for the jam/comp we are holding at the Ausbike tradeshow on the 21st of August in Melbourne and the 9th/10th of October in Brisbane.
We recently sent our flow rider in Colombia, Ricardo Rodriguez, a new package with a Teddy frame & some other bits & he put together this quick edit showing the bike build & the first session. Check it out.
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There have been some recent positive changes in the way Colony will be distributed in the UK. Alan Woods from Alans BMX, has started his own distribution house called, Tabletop Distribution. Colony will be one of it’s first brands & what this means is that BMX shops all over the UK will now be able to stock Colony much easier now. Interested BMX shops out there can contact Tabletop by emailing sales@tabletopdistribution.com with any of your enquires. Of course riders can still buy their Colony products from Alans or you will also now have many more stores to choose from as well.
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Spotted this cool little edit of our boy in the USA, Broc Raiford. It was filmed at Woodward East on the new street plaza set up there in 20 mins. Some good stuff in there for sure. Enjoy.
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We are proud to announce that Sidewall Distro are now our exclusive USA distributor for our 2011 & beyond line of complete bikes. They will take delivery of their first shipment late October this year. They will have our 2011 model Endeavour, Descendent, Sweet Tooth Pro, Teddy Pro, Rebirth Pro & Lowcut Pro bikes available. Initial stocks will be limited so I would suggest that any US dealers wishing to stock them place your pre-book with Sidewall sooner rather than later. Click here now for their contact details.
Tip Plus will continue to be our exclusive distributor for all our frames, parts & accessories as per usual. So please contact them for any of these needs for the USA. Click here for their contact details.
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So I worked more on the jibs today, in the photo below you will see a manual pad which is also high enough as a ledge on the sides, one of the sides will have a flat rail running across it aswell. Then we have the outledge which just needs coping.
More progress reports to come…
Yesterday we visited the Vans headquarters here in California & met up with none other than the Vans TM, Jerry Badders. He gave us the grand tour of the offices there & Alex was blown away by the sheer size of the place. So much cool stuff to see too. Jerry was also nice enough to take us shopping at a nearby Vans store. He hooked us up big time & you can expect to see Alex decked out in some fine Vans kicks & fresh new clothes.
A huge thanks must go out to Jerry & Vans, thanks heaps mate, it is appreciated.
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Last week we went out and filmed this edit with Pete Radivo at a private indoor spot that he is fortunate enough to have access to. I was impressed at how easy Pete got this done and he seemed to be really enjoying riding, which is great to see from a guy who has had more knee surgeries then I could probably count on both hands.
Ed note: That was awesome Pete… F-ing stoked !! – Millar.
Don’t forget the BMX Day Out planned for this Sunday at the infamous Beenleigh BMX park. See ya there !!
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About six weeks ago we posted about this years Ausbike tradeshow happening in August down in Melbourne and that we were going to hold a street jam/comp on the main day of the event where we invite 20 riders from across Australia to get their jib on!
Well today I started building the things to ride. The course will consist of a bunch of ledges, wedges, banks, rails and what ever else we can come up with to keep the riders psyched! I thought it would be cool to post up some progress photos as I go through the build. Here you can see a couple flat ledges and also an up ledge that I am real excited about, these are basically done besides coping. Plenty more building to go so stay tuned!
As most of you would know Chris Courtenay did his ACL a couple months ago, well I spoke to Chris just before and it seems everything is going well in the recovery. He is off crutches now and should be back on the bike in about four and a half months. I spotted this photo of Chris on facebook (obviously shot before the injury) and had to post it. Shot by Michael Harris at Shoalhaven Heads park in NSW. Dialed!
Here is a video put together by Data BMX from the local comp in Aurillac that we attended while on our French trip. Look out for clips from Marnold, Bruno Faucon, Mick Bayzand & myself. A massive thanks again to Unleaded for hooking us up big time while in France.
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Last night we celebrated July 4th here like locals & let off a bunch of fireworks. It was pretty cool actually & we had fun doing so. Here are a couple random pics from the night. Enjoy.
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It’s July 4th here in Greenville & we’re celebrating like only Aussies know. A few beers, food & some backyard footy. Good stuff. It was a close game with the first 10-4 & the second 10-9 in my teams favour. Take that Guettler & co !! haha
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Our main man, Cooper Brownlee has scored our advert in new issue of DIG magazine. Check it out below & the magazine will be available any day soon. Now go buy some Fantastic Plastic pedals !!
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It’s been an amazing few days here & we are all pretty much ridden out now. I haven’t felt this sore from riding in a while… all good though for sure. Today we are leaving Woodward to go back to Ryan’s place in Greenville for a few days before returning home. I would like to once again thank everyone at Woodward for letting us stay & ride, it’s been an amazing time. Here are a few random photos from the last few days – Alex on the go-karts, Ryan & Broc on the new dirt jumps.
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Henrique Castro sent over some nice photos from a jam at the Carapicuiba trails. Thanks to Rui Ogawa for the photos.
Alex, Ryan & myself arrived at Woodward yesterday. We meet up with Broc Raiford here as well & rode all day. It was amazing. I haven’t been here since 1998 & the place has changed so much since then. So much stuff to ride that I don’t think we will even get to ride it all during our 4 day stay. Thanks to the friendly staff at Woodward for hooking us up, appreciated.
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Shintaro Misawa the most travelled man in flatland, is off to the BMX Masters in Cologne, Germany in a few weeks. I am sure the Kolsch will be flowing there during the comp as well. Cologne is such a party city & always a great time. He is also off to Malaysia again soon to hang with his girlfriend but will of course take the bike as well.
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Oleg Alexandrov sent us over a few photos of his bike and him riding a cool bank. Oleg is our team rider over in Russia repping a bunch of Colony products…
Teddy Frame, Phantom Forks, Colonial V2 Cranks, Fantastic Plastic Pedals and Clone hubs.
Cooper Brownlee has got his new bike together after his last one now resides permanantly in a Barcelona police station. We will have photos of his new bike in the next few days. In the meantime he has been having a blast riding again & doing 180’s over things. He has also been hard at work on the newest issue of Focalpoint, due out soon.
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Today we had an awesome session on Ryan’s new backyard mini ramp. It was crazy hot but good times for sure. After that we went swimming in a campus pool to cool off & then hit up the Unit for a night session. We were pretty much spent from the get go but still was fun to have a roll there. Tomorrow we head off on the drive up to Woodward & will be there till Saturday, looking forward to that.
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Most of you would by now know that both Liam and Nick have parted ways with Colony but it was all on good terms, here are both their final edits with the footage we had off them.
Many thanks to both of the guys for the many laughs we had over the years. Good times for sure…
Today we went riding in the crazy 100 degree (38 degrees celsius) here. We went to Raleigh today to do a little street jibbing in the crazy heat. Was a fun day for sure. Below are some photos taken by Colin Mackay – one during the drive home today & the other while chilling at Ryan’s place yesterday.
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