Hard Yards has been an event in my head for quite some time now. Saturday the 24th of June, 2023 was the day we finally made it a reality. I wanted to put on a BMX event that was completely fun & with a feel like an older comp from the 1990’s or the 2000’s. From the feedback I’ve received, looks like we achieved that. Really stoked on seeing so many smiling faces all day from riders & the crowds alike. All riders were absolutely killing it, with almost all styles of ramp riding going down.

I wanted Hard Yards to really stand out from other events. It had to be fun for those to ride in it & fun to watch those who were lucky enough to attend. Being it’s in my own backyard, invitees (19 x riders this time around) & crowds had to kept to a minimum, it’s just how it has to be.

But luckily, for those that weren’t there on the day, Cooper Brownlee & Troy Charlesworth were on hand to film the action. Expect some full blown comprehensive video coverage to come out soon. We even had Nick Richardson & Yonny Wakefield on the microphone, which was pure gold. Thank you guys.

Hard Yards was a jam format comp with groups of 4-5 riders having a 20 min jam to take as many runs on the ramp as they wanted. They could also take as many attempts at a certain trick that they wanted as well. Just like the old days, you were not stopping until you pulled what you wanted. It was great.

Classes were judged & split into different styles of riding as well. We had Tech, Burly & Style/Flow. This really enabled all riders to be able to excel in their own style of riding & grab some glory. Some riders did well in all 3 categories.

To top it all off, it was all rider judged. That’s right, each rider after the event, had their own judging form & then chose their own top 3 riders for each Tech, Burly & Style/Flow.

We also had 3 best trick events as well. One on the street spine, one on the wallride & to finish it off, one on the hitching post. Again all rider judged with all riders choosing their own winner for each.

To top it all off we had $4,750 as the prize purse for the winners.

Once all was tallyed up, the results were…

Tech

1. Paterico Fallico $500
2. Karl Southern $300
3. Clint Millar $200

Burly

1. Sam Grace $500
2. Chris James $300
3. Dean Florian $200

Style & Flow

1. Sean Gardiner $500
2. Dean Florian $300
3. Jayden Fuller $200

Street Spine Best Trick

1. Paterico Fallico $500

Wallride Best Trick

1. Chris James $500

Hitching Post Best Trick

1. Dean Florian $500

There was also a Pixeld Energy rider of the day chosen by none other than Nick Richardson himself, the owner of Pixeld Energy. For absolutely killing it all day in every way, Richo chose his rider of the day.

Pixeld Rider of the Day

1. Karl Southern $250

I plan to have two Hard Yards events each year with the next one already in the planning stages to be about 5-6 months from now.

Look out for the video coverage to be coming out in the weeks ahead. It’s going to be something really special to watch & will give you the feeling of being here in person, regardless if you were or not.
Thanks to all those that helped out along the way, you all rule. Thanks to all the riders that came along & rode all day, you all rule. Thanks to everyone that came out & supported the event, you all rule.

Hard Yards #2 will have a date announced soon.

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The Colony Sweet Tooth Pro is a high end BMX bike setup for all types of riding. Be it hitting parks, trails or street riding this bike has you covered.

The current all Black model also features the Colony Swarm Freecoaster hub.

23 years to the day after Prody 7 was premiered, it’s finally happened.

Featuring riders from all over the planet, it’s a video that will appeal to anyone that loves BMX from the ’80’s, ’90’s, 2000’s, 2010’s & to the current day.

A classic mix of mini ramp, park, flatland, dirt, vert & street riding.

Filmed & edited by Clint Millar.

“Prody 8 – What Goes On” will premiere on the big screen at the Elizabeth Picture Theatre, 175 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane City.

Tickets on sale now with only 130 seats available & as of right now, there are only 25 seats available.

Head to the Family Distribution site or the link here to grab your seat now.

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Watch 12 minutes of raw footage from Sam Grace’s bangin’ video that we dropped last week. Sam sure did put in some work to get a lot of these clips…

Watch the final cut version in the post below…

2021 was another crazy year, starting off with some fun trips before parts of Australia were locked down yet again which really restricted us getting together as much as we would have liked.

We made it work as best as we could and still got some great footage from the crew. Let’s hope we can get on the road more this coming year.

We hope everyone has a great new year, thanks for the support as always.

Riders featured:
Alex Hiam, Paterico Fallico, Chris James, Clint Millar, Ricky Catanzariti, Jayden Fuller, Nick Watts, Max Cvetkovic, Jai Lakeman, Alec Danelutti, Anthony Napolitan, Kio Hayakawa, Konstantin Andreev, Joe Battaglia, Steven Woodward, Chance Brejnakowski, Luke Parker, Troy Harradine, Paddy Gross, Marcel Gans and Zac Dangerfield.

Watch Pat, pick out his new parts, build it up and then shred the hell out of it!

Celebrating 10 years of The Colony DVD, this week we have the mix section featuring Shane Badman, Broc Raiford, Peta Shepherd, Atilla Godi, Bruno Faucon, Steven Moxley, Paddy Gross and Simon O’Brien.

Shot and cut by Stewart Munro.

We’re giving away a Colony frame! All you have to do is click here and subscribe to our Youtube channel. Then on June 10th we’ll pick a subscriber at random who will win a frame. Simple as that!

Another week, another classic video uploaded by Clint, check out Prody Two. This was released in 1994.

Stoked to have Luke’s new video out! ​Filmed over the past 6 months in Melbourne, Australia. Colony’s Luke Parker turns it on with his effortless and natural ability to hit anything put in front of him.

Alex sat down with LUX BMX and answered a bunch of questions that riders sent in along with giving you the scoop on what he’s been up to lately.

We’re stoked to have the new Colony X Fist gloves available. You can check both the Hardy glove and the Corpo glove here. To tie it all in, you may have seen the colab seat we just released this week with Fist which you can check out here.

We’ve got 10 minutes of raw Alex Hiam clips for your viewing pleasure. Including a bunch of unseen clips that didn’t end up being used for Take A Ticket.

Filmed in the states of Paraná and São Paulo. Paulo chose 4 amazing places, one of which was the place (Anonymous Trail) where he started riding BMX and it was extremely special to be able film there for this video part.

Shot and Cut by Danilo Bueno.

We put together 9 minutes of some of our favourite clps and outtakes from the Take A Ticket full length.

Watch the full video below…

We now have Griplock Tyres and Much Room Grips in Grey Camo. Hit your local store or mail order for the goods!

Some of the crew spent a couple evenings riding The Village and some heavy moves went down. Peep the video we put together from the sessions.

Jayden rips the Griplock tyres hard, we’ve got these in both 2.35″ and 2.2″ sizes.

Family have posted a very detailed article about frame choices and what to look for when buying a new BMX frame. Read it all here.

Alex banging out clips on request, that last move was ridiculous….

Focalpoint just posted a cool article about our video “Take A Ticket”. With interviews with a bunch of the guys from the video, check it all here.

New vid from Polly that we filmed over the past 6 months or so. Polly just put on a cassette hub again so he wanted to start fresh on another new vid from the get go, check out some goodness with the coaster…

Hit this link to watch the online premiere over on the OUR BMX Youtube at 9am AEST this morning…

Ricky’s section from Doug Underhill’s “Playback” full length just went online. As you’d expect from Rick, ridiculousness throughout…

Jake Wallwork recently built up a new Sweet Tooth, peep the details and images below.

Frame: Colony Sweet Tooth 20.4.
Forks: Colony Sweet Tooth.
Cranks: Colony Venator 165mm.
Bars: Colony Sweet Tooth 9.4″ rise.
Stem: Colony Squareback.
Pedals: Colony Fantastic Plastic.
Headset: Colony regular.
Rear Hub: Colony Wasp.
Front Hub: Colony Wasp.
Sprocket: Colony Blaster 28t.
Seat: Colony CC.
Rims: Colony Contour.
Barends: Colony Konka.

Watch the playlist below to find out more about the latest drop of bikes including the Sweet Tooth Pro, Tradition Pro, Bloody Oath Pro, Endeavour, Premise and the Emerge complete bikes.

We just got in new colours for the Sweet Tooth Pro, Premise, Emerge and Endeavour. Along with limited supply of a Tradition Pro and Bloody Oath Pro complete bikes. Check them all here.

We’re very stoked to officially welcome Kio Hayakawa to the Colony family. He has been riding for us for a little while now but it was time to release a welcome edit. Thank you to both Simon O’Brien and Stewart Munro for bringing it all together.

Here is to many years ahead with Colony and Kio with his magical brand of flatland.

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We just got in some new Colony 5 panel hats and also unstructured snapbacks. Check them both here. Available now online or at your local.

Here in Australia (with the rest of the world soon) we just landed some new Colony goods! New Chris James Blaster frames, Kostya signature M8 frames, the light weight Venator Cranks. Coloured Crank Bolts, Hardy V2 Bars, along with Black Brass and Rainbow Alloy spoke nipples.