We have a road trip planned for this week starting in Sydney.
Chris Courtenay, Peta Shepherd, Tom Stretton & myself will meet up with Ryan Guettler in Sydney on Wednesday then ride some of Sydney’s parks on offer. Thursday we will ride a bunch of parks on our way out to Bathurst for Newtons Nation on the weekend. Should be a good few days & the comp at Newtons should be really good as well. Reports from the road no doubt, so check back through out the week.
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Peta Shepherd scored some coverage over on the Redbull website… check it out here now. Plus below is her Ten Clips from last year as well. Enjoy.
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Anton McGuirk had a bad crash in Estonia at Simple Session & has been off the bike since. He will be off the bike for another 6-8 weeks at least yet but is healing up well. Back injuries are always very scary. Just glad he is gonna be all OK. He will be back on the bike soon enough though.
He recently got a cool feature in the new issue of Ride UK & the guys at Tabletop Distribution did a news piece on it on their site. Get yourself a copy of the magazine which is out now.
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Michal Mycek always seems to be travelling around, read below for his latest adventure and incase you missed his web video from a couple of weeks ago click here.
“I Just came back to Poland after 6 weeks travelling around Spain & Portugal. Barcelona was my playground whilst getting back to riding after that crash… Four months later and it still hurts a little sometimes. My friends Filip and Brad joined me, in Portugal got more confident, the guy with the mustache is one of my best friends. He made me start doing big things again because I was scared about the shoulder the whole the time. It’s kind of loose, different than before but whatever, I don’t thing about it anymore.
We took a roadtrip near the ocean from San Sebastian in Spain to Lisboa in Portugal, Hit plenty on awesome concrete bowls & parks, we saw so many wild people because we took that trip with surfers filming an documentary for Sony. It was good trip. Portugal rules, you have to see it if you ever go there!!”
Vale BMX down on the Gold Coast have recently moved to a different location which is more central to everyone on the Gold Coast. They are in Southport now & the new location is a very tidy one. Vale BMX are the premier BMX shop on the Gold Coast & Mitch has been riding himself since the early ’80s so he knows what’s up. Hit them up on their website or better still go see them in person. You will be impressed by the showroom full of BMX eye candy.
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Tomorrow is the 1st round of the 2012 Core Series & we have once again got behind the event. This first one is set for Morayfield & should be a good one as always.
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Brock Olive popped by the office recently & picked himself up a new ride. Check it out below as expertly built by the guys at LUX BMX in the Valley here in Brisbane. Thanks for the photos guys.
Frame: Teddy V2 21″
Fork: Guardian
Bars: Twenty Four Seven
Stem: Variant
Headset: Colony
Cranks: Colonial V2
Sprocket: CC 25T
Pedals: Fantastic Plastic
BB: Colony
Front Wheel: Contour with Clone Hub
Rear Wheel: Contour with Clone LHD Hub
Front Hub Guard: Clone
Rear Hub Guard: Clone
In other news, Brock is off to China this Thursday with Marnold, Cooper & Liam for the Asian X Games in Shanghai. More news on that soon.
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Attila just sent through some new photos of his current setup.
Frame: The Living
Fork: Guardian
Bars: Teddy V2
Stem: Official
Grips: Much room
Headset: Colony
Cranks: Colonial V2
Sprocket: CC Sprocket 25T
BB: Colony Mid
Pedals: Fantastic Plastic
Front Wheel: Clone hun with contour rim
Rear Wheel: Clone hub, female 9t with Contour rim.
Tyres: Hidden Agenda
Tubes: Hidden Agenda
Pegs: One way
Seat: No dig No ride
Ryan Guettler has an interview over on the ESPN site with some pretty interesting things to say. Check it out here now.
(photo by Jeremy Pavia)
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Beenleigh has been a BMX mecca for as many years as I can remember & the local shop there, South East Cycles are a big Colony supporter. They have a comprehensive range of our 2012 complete bikes & parts in stock ready to go. Next time you’re in Beenleigh for a ride, go check them out.
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It’s a re-post but well worth another look. Liam Zingberg’s epic video from his trip to Long Beach earlier this year. Check it out again.
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There is a jam set for Sunday at the awesome Woden park down in Canberra. It’s pretty much Zac Miner’s local park & he will be there having a roll around. He will also have a few goodies for giveaway’s with him to give out to anyone who he see shredding the park. So get yourself there for a great day on the bike & for a chance to grab some Colony goodies for your troubles.
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Cooper Brownlee is a man of many talents. Whether it be with the artwork duties for us, our in-house photographer, team manager for all the guys, our in-house video editor & filmer he has it covered. He can also ride a bike damn well too & this video shows this rather well. I don’t know how he finds the time to do all that he does & still progress with his riding but he does. I was stoked to see this video & hopefully you will be too. Read on below for a little bit of what went into it…
Looks like it was filmed in a bunch of different cities, what city would be your favourite to ride & explore in Australia?
Yeah we filmed clips in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide. That’s a real tough one though to answer as each state has its pros and cons, but if I had to pick one I would say Sydney, even thought there are no clips from Sydney in this haha.
For you personally were there any firsts for you in this edit?
The last 2 clips were for me and the over smith to bars was the first one I’ve done on street
If I remember correctly, the feeble easy 180 on the white rail at the start was your first one on street? And we were only there passing as we were getting kicked out. Did you secretly plan to do this trick previously, or was it a spur of the moment thing?I don’t remember you ever talking about it!
I honestly can’t remember if I’ve done one on a street down rail before but that white rail is so fun! Sam was filming me do a crooks combo on it originally but it wasn’t really working, I slipt onto a feeble one of the times and it got me thinking to try feeble 180. I honestly got real lucky on this one, just happened to be in the right spot for 180 on the 2nd attempt.
How does it feel to have your own signature bars out? How did it come about?
Yeah, real stoked! I had been running the first prototype set for about a year, I just put a new pair on last week. I was talking to Millar about needing a bigger set of bars and he hit me back with the idea. Definitely something to be stoked on, everytime I see a set on someone’s bike it’s a spin out!
It’s not often I see you crash so it was a surprise to see you go down on that ice grind. Did you take many other hits filming for this?
I have a lot of funny crashes because I mostly ride flat ledges and flat rails, I crashed pretty good on that feeble to hardway on the skinny ledge but it was mainly because I changed my mind when I got on the ledge to what trick I was going to do haha.
You have run a freecoaster for a number of years, and are now on the Colony prototype hub. Do you ever see yourself going back to a cassette or is it too important to your riding to think about going back? You may not do a huge number of fakie specific tricks, but I can see them not looking as good if you had to pedal backwards.
I can’t see myself going back at all really. These days I mainly ride street and I love it for it, like you said I don’t do a huge amount of coaster moves but it just feels so natural now and I love it!
What clip was the hardest to film?
The 180 wallride to opp smith 180 on the red banks took forever! 2-3 hours, we started when it was still daylight and when it got to dark we had to setup the generator haha. There was another clip I tried to film for this edit, going off the camera I tried it about 420 times over 3 visits with no luck! Hopefully I get it one day haha.
What would have been the most satisfying clip to film?
Probably the 2nd last clip just because I was stoked to ride a perfect ledge for it and get it pretty clean.
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Cooper Brownlee’s new web video is above now for all to see. Check it out & his signature Twenty Four Seven Bars at a dealer near you now.
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This weekend is the 1st round of the 2012 Core Series & we have once again got behind the event. This first one is set for Morayfield & should be a good one as always.
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Liam sent in a quick update on what he has been up too of late, read on below…
I’ve just started my new job, that’s going pretty good. I also judged comps at Murray Bridge and at Elizabeth last weekend which was fun. Apart from that, I’ve just been riding and hanging at Little Black Bike.
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Crossley Cycles in Manly, QLD are one of the OG BMX shops of Australia. They have been strong in BMX since 1988 & have not slowed down at all. In fact, recently they have launched their own online store where you can see all their products & purchase them online. They can send your orders to anywhere in Australia & even overseas as well.
Of course you can always visit them in person as well for expert advise & service. Plus they sponsor Alex Hiam so you know they know what’s up in BMX.
Check them out on their website for more details.
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This Saturday there is a BMX comp in Muswellbrook & we have supported the event with a bunch of Colony prizes. Should be a good day for all involved.
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The Frankston area is not only fortunate enough to have some really good parks but they are also very lucky to have the one and only Polly, he is one hell of a character. He works hard at one of the local shops, Peninsula Star Cycles. Polly is now also riding a Colony set up which we are pretty stoked about.
The guys have a great stock of our complete bikes and parts, so if you’re ever out in that area of Victoria make sure to pop in and say hi.
We are supporting The Last Jam to go down at the East Shore park in Lansing, NY. It’s unfortunately closing down after 4 years at the end of April though. But they are going out with a bang with one last jam on this Saturday the 21st of April.
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There is a jam set for this Sunday at the awesome Woden park down in Canberra. It’s pretty much Zac Miner’s local park & he will be there having a roll around. He will also have a few goodies for giveaway’s with him to give out to anyone who he see shredding the park. So get yourself there for a great day on the bike & for a chance to grab some Colony goodies for your troubles.
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Ryan Guettler’s signature complete bike, The Living is ready to shred almost anything right out of the box. Featuring some great parts including Ryan’s own pro model signature frame & our Contour rims for starters it’s a bike you know will handle what ever you (or Ryan) can throw at it. Check one out at a Colony dealer near you now.
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After a month off his bike from destroying his hand in Canberra Mick is back on it, although his hand is not 100% we took a day trip to Geelong yesterday to film and Mick seem to get straight back into the swing of things. He will have a web video coming out over the next couple of months which I am excited about!
Border Bikes are down in Tweed Heads South on the NSW/QLD border & they carry a good range of our products. Go check them out & if Darren doesn’t have what you need he can certainly order it on for you no worries.
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Cooper features in the new advert that we placed in the current issue of 2020. Cooper has a web video coming out next week which he has been filming for the past few months so keep an eye out for that one.
You can check out Cooper’s signature Twenty Four Seven Bars at a dealer near you now.
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One of the nicest people you will ever meet, Valvo from Brazil sent over some shots of his new setup. Thanks to Felipe Correia for the photos.
Frame: Teddy V2
Fork: Dagger
Bars: Bull bars
Stem: Official
Grips: Much Room
Bar Ends: Konka
Headset: Colony
Cranks: Colonial V2
Sprocket: Official Sprocket 25T
BB: Colony Mid
Pedals: Fantastic Plastic
Front Wheel: Contour Female Axle
Rear Wheel: Contour Male Axle LHD
Front Hub guards: Clone x 2
Rear Hub guard: Clone
Tyres: Agenda
Tubes: Hidden Agenda
Pegs: One Way
Seat: No Dig No Ride
Post: Colony Pivotal
Our good friend Michal Mycek just put out this edit for AVEBMX. I really enjoyed how it was put together and Michal did some great riding, have a watch for sure!
Next up is Zac Miner…
Last movie you watched… 21 jump street is sick, Jonah Hill is a legend.
A musician you are hyped on at the moment… I’ve been listening to Pretty Lights heaps lately, it’s electronic soul dubstep hip hop all in the one. It’s amazing!!!
What did you get up to yesterday? Drove back from Batemens Bay after a really chilled weekend swimming, hiking, fishing etc with the misses.
Last time you came off your bike pretty hard… The last Backbone edit, tried a gap at Woden and got whiplashed backwards into the ground.
Websites you have been hitting up of late… TheComeUp actually, Zingbergs edit, Greg Illingworths edit just to name a few.
Last clip you filmed… Dubs to over on some average flat rail.
Last meal you ate… Zamberos.. The best Mexican fast food burrito ever.
Newest part on your bike… My whole new set up.. Absolutely love my bike.
Last web video you watched… Talk is Cheap promo.
Last SMS you received… The misses getting raunchy haha.
Instagram/Twitter… @nahyouriteminer on Instagram. Love instagram!
Our newest team rider, Bobbie Altiser recently put his first Colony together & you can check it out below.
Frame: Colony Teddy V2 20.85″
Fork: Odyssey F25 w/ Tree front brake bolt
Bars: Tree Sequoia 4 degree upsweep w/ Tree bar ends
Grips: Colony Much Room
Brakes: Colony Transformer
Gyro/Cables: Odyssey
Stem: Colony Variant
Headset: Colony
Cranks: Colonial V2
Bottom Bracket: Colony
Sprocket: Tree OG 28t
Pedals: Colony Fantastic Plastic
Front Wheel: Colony Contour rim with Tree Hub
Rear Wheel: Colony Contour rim with KHE Reverse Hub
Pegs: Tree Trick Sticks
Front Hub Guard: Tree
Tires: Colony Agenda 2.15 rear/ Odyssey Aitken 2.25 front
Rear Hub Guard: G sport
Seat: Tree
Seat Post: Colony Pivotal
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This weekend there is a BMX comp set for Sunday down in Port Lonsdale, Victoria. Get yourself there & enter the comp for your chance to win a Colony prize pack & a 2012 Teddy V2 frame courtesy of us here at Colony & the good guys at Mainly BMX in Geelong.
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