Next weekend over in Mandurah Western Australia, there is a comp set for March 17th with a huge $10,000 prize money up for grabs for BMX.
The good crew at Freestyle Now are behind the event & we are supporting it. Park & Mini Ramp disciplines are going down, should be good times.
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One of my best days of riding ever was a few years ago over in Athens, GA. We rode the university there for a full day & could not get enough of the place. It was for me, the best day of street riding I had ever had and still stands as such today almost 5 years later. Check out the video below of that memorable day back in 2007 but first, we are supporting an event that happens there yearly. The Twilight BMX comp is going down on April 28th & should be a great day for all. If you’re in the area, get yourself along for the day.
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Focalpoint have a new tee out now & here is a cool promo video for it featuring Marnold & Cooper. You can order the tees here now.
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Our Brazilian distributor Dream BMX, took all their team guys on a trip in Brazil & this is the teaser video for it. It looked like a lot of fun, full video out soon. Look out for a few shots of Valvo in the mix.
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Liam Marshall from New Zealand is now riding for us over there. Thanks to the guys at BMX.CO.NZ Liam will have his own bio on the site soon, so check back for that in the weeks ahead. It’s good to have you a part of the family mate.
He built up his first bike recently & here is a quick bike check with his Colony parts list…
Frame: Colony The Living
Fork: Colony Dagger
Bars: Colony Twenty Four Seven
Headset: Colony
Stem: Colony Variant
Grips: Colony Much Room
Cranks: Colony Colonial V2
BB: Colony Mid
Pedals: Colony Fantastic Plastic
Sprocket: Colony CC 25T
Rear tyre: Colony Agenda
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Our rider from Poland, Michal Mycek is over in Barcelona right now on a filming trip & he is a little teaser for what is to come from the trip.
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Brock spent four days in Melbourne over the weekend filming with me for an upcoming web video. Besides a bit of rain everything worked out and Brock destroyed a few spots. The switch ice he is doing in the photo is on a pretty famous rail in Melbourne and it was crazy having all the kids from the school next to it chanting at Brock whilst we filmed. Here are some words from the man himself…
“Hey all just got back from Melbs Monday night from a little weekend trip to hang out and finish off a web edit me and Cooper have been working on and yeah it all went sweet, had a blast can’t wait to see what the edit turns out like. Peace.”
It was leaked a couple times last week for those that were savy on their website news but it is official, Broc Raiford is moving on from us here at Colony.
It’s sad to see him go but it’s all on the very best of terms. Like all things in life, things do change. I personally would like to publicly thank Broc for his efforts over the past few years. We were his first sponsor & helped build his reputation & image out there in the BMX world to what it is today. It’s been amazing to have watched Broc turn into the amazing bike rider he is & I wish him all the best in his future endeavours.
As Broc’s last rep for Colony, he went to the Toronto BMX Jam on the weekend & placed an impressive 8th in pro park. Congrats.
We have also done up a little farewell edit for Broc using clips he collected for his section in The Colony DVD from last year. Thanks for the good times mate.
Broc with an ET tooth hanger at the Toronto BMX Jam.
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I picked up Liam Zingbergs from the airport here in Brisbane this arvo & he is here for a week to film with Salad for the next 2020 BMX Magazine DVD. Updates here as they happen.
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Crossley Cycles are one of Australia’s OG BMX shops & still going strong after all these years. Over 30 years to be precise. They recently joined the 21st century & have a full blown website & online store now. The store is ever expanding with more & more products added but you can now order directly from it & pay online as well. A really cool feature they have is a pay & collect in store option. Check them out now by clicking here.
Alex Hiam also rides for Crossley’s so you know they are down with BMX & supporting riders out there. Speaking of Alex, he recently just had surgery on his leg & is on the slow road to recovery. He should be back riding in a few months all going to plan.
A slightly sedated Alex after surgery.
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Peta Shepherd just sent in a quick email to say she won the girls park event in Toronto. Congrats Peta !! Now she is off to go snowboarding for a few days.
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Over on the ESPN website they have a little write up on our shoe collaboration series out now in the USA & out here in Australia in April. Check it out here now.
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Brock has been in Melbourne the past couple of days, so far it’s been pretty productive when it’s not raining. We are filming for an up and coming Colony web video which should be solid as a rock!
Chris Courtenay & Troy Charlesworth have been putting some work in the last few days for an up coming edit they are both working on. I met up with them yesterday for a roll down the Gold Coast & snapped a couple shots along the way. Look out the edit in the next couple of weeks, from what I have seen so far it should be banging.
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Peta Shepherd is over in Canada for the Toronto BMX Jam & is having a ball. She also got to meet up with Broc Raiford whilst he was at JoyRide150 as well. She sent in this quick little update, read on below…
Just a little update on my Canada trip. I’m having the best time, everyone’s really awesome over there. I’ve been riding joyride150 a lot, probably the best park I’ve ever ridden, and it’s bikes only, No scooters ever!! I had prelims yesterday for Toronto Jam and managed to qualify first. Today I got asked to enter the girls freestyle mountain bike comp, so I did. I’ve never even ridden one before, but somehow got first haha. Won $175. Pretty stoked with that. Tomorrow I have finals for BMX and maybe another MTB bike comp. – Peta.
Peta & Broc.
Peta cashed up after winning the MTB comp & 2nd place getter, Trish.
It’s snowing over there right now.
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Brandon Van Dulken joined our team a few months ago now & has been killing it up in Canada for us. He got together with Ben Jenacek to film this welcome edit over 2 days at the Joyride 150 park. Thanks also go out to Kill Em All Distribution for helping out Brandon & repping Colony for us in Canada. Colony is now available in more dealers across Canada than ever before. Check them all out here now.
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We have once again for the 3rd year in a row now, got behind the South Eastern League series of comps held down in Melbourne. With a multitude of stops, there is sure to be an event near you. Heck, why not make it to them all? The action starts at Prahran Skatepark on March 17th. You might be lucky enough to spot Mick Bayzand there since it’s his local park.
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We used this photo of Chris in a RideUS advert fairly recently, now you can run it on your desktop if you are into it. 360 table at Browns Plains park in Brisbane. You can download the standard screen size here and the widescreen version here.
Cooper Brownlee has a shared edit with his good mate, Daniel Johnson for their clothing hook up, Zoo York. Some solid street stuff in there & it’s well filmed/edited. Check it out.
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Available only in Australia, are these fresh new design tee shirts, singlets & 3/4 sleeve raglan tees. Produced in very limited numbers so get in fast if you want one at selected dealers Australia wide.
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Liam Zingbergs has some not so jibbing clips in this edit with his mates down in Adelaide. Spotted over on the Little Black Bike site. Yeah! The first clip is pure gold. Edited by Tim Towie.
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We had a bit of a heat wave here in Melbourne over the weekend but Mick was still keen to get out and film some stuff. We’ve been working hard filming for a fresh new Micky web video which I am excited about.
Newcastle BMX presents the High Roller Energy – Wooden Waves of Surfest to be held on March the 17th-18th down in Newcastle, NSW. We have also supported the event & there will be giveaways from us on the days. Be on the look out for our local Drift Bikes / Colony BMX rider – Matt Walker to be there on the weekend as well.
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Zac sent through a quick update for us…
“Hey y’all. So got my new ride last week. Sooo happy with it, probably the most clean cut bike I’ve ever had. I’ve been loving it!!! The weathers been shit here, it hits 4pm and just starts raining everyday! Other then that, been riding Woden heaps found some new stuff to play with, just can’t get enough of that place! Anyway’s till next time. Catchya”
You can check out Zac’s signature ‘Miner’ frame here now, available at Colony dealers all over the planet including Zac’s bike shop sponsor, Backbone BMX.
Peta sets of for a trip to Canada today but before she bailed we got a bit of an update from her…
“I’ve been back riding now for about a month after 8 weeks off because I torn a ligament in my elbow really bad and couldn’t bend it or hold any weight with my arm. Feeling good and almost back to 100%
I’m flying out to Toronto on Monday for a Toronto jam and a two week stay riding around. So excited for it. And these are just some Photos Ange took over the past weekend.”
Valvo has a video interview from his trip in Australia late last year. Check it out, some really good riding from Valvo on a small sample of the many parks we have on offer. Just get your translation on if you wanna know what he is saying. Filmed & edited by Chris Lembo.
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From what I hear, Simon killed it at Down Underground coming first and winning best trick/combo… For some more coverage from the event, check out the Nerve People web site.
