Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Shintaro Misawa on a roll...

Colony rider, Shintaro Misawa recently got a 3rd place in the Paseo Cup 4 - one of the biggest local contests in Japan... huge congrats to Shintaro!


Final placings:

1st place Moto Sasaki
2nd place Yoshihiro Shinde
3rd place Shintaro Misawa

Thanks to Effraim at flatmattersonline.

New 2020 out now!

The new 2020 is out.

Flatland highlights include a feature article on the one and only Ben Moran and the Colony D.U.G round 4 report.

Head to www.2020bmxmag.com.au for a preview or pick up a copy for $9.95 AUD.

Monday, September 7, 2009

New OG video out!

OG Bike Co. from Hungary have just put out a new web video! Featuring Denes Katona, Matthias Dandois, Shane Badman, Michael Sommer, Camilo Gutierrez & more.

To download the video click here or check below.




OG Bike: Project "B" from Denes Katona on Vimeo.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Badman checks in - Part 1...

Shane Badman has been clocking up a few travel miles recently. After leaving Sweden he spent a month in Hungary riding & travelling a bunch. From Hungary, he's in the UK at the moment, riding on the south coast with a stop off in Cornwall, Bristol, Southampton, Portsmouth & this weekend off to London to ride & hang out with the Jason Forde & the TGM crew.

Here's a few snaps from along the way...

Hanging out with Tom @ SEVisual in Szeged, Hungary

Riding at SEVisual Tom's home spot (photo: SEVisual Tom)
At the wake boarding cable park with Peter Sarlos

Riding at the Gypsy Spot in Budapest (photo: Peter Sarlos)

Sessions at Southsea Skatepark (UK) (Photo: Chris Hall)

Effraim Catlow - riding dialled as ever at his home spot, Southsea Skatepark (Photo: Chris Hall)

Part 2 coming soon!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Paul Chamberlain: TGM/Brighton Jam weekend

This weekend in London was a banger!

Phil Dolan announced a jam at the Green Mile on Saturday and people came from miles around to attend it.

Being particularly keen to ride with some other people I headed down at about 10am and was greeted by Lee Wilson and shortly after that by a new by the name of Yingke. Within the next hour or so there were about 10 of us which eventually became about 20. The weather was lovely and we rode all day. Manu Massabova was filming and James White, Phil Dolan and Jay Forde were busting out. The Green Mile is a great spot to ride. It’s massive and less windy than surrounding areas. Phil’s backwards nose manuals are immense. It’s great seeing them in real life. Anyway, I won’t say too much more about the Saturday because I’ve got no pictures!!! A great day was had by all.

On Phil’s word we all headed to Brighton (a seaside town that hosted the infamous clashes between the mods and rockers in the 70’s) the following day.

A few of the Londoners made the trip over and we were greated by a different cast of around 20 riders that included Effraim and Lincoln Blacksley (Southbank legend). The session went down again and ascended into drinking as the sun went down. It was the coldest day I’ve experienced since I left England and was a real taste of things to come in the autumn here!!! OH dear… I was stoked to be riding though and stoked to see how stoked Effraim is about riding. Phil went for a swim in the sea which was cold and England-rough.

The following day I hit the mile and rode mostly on my own. I was joined by Yingke after a few hours. On Saturday Phil told him that if he learned a new trick by next Saturday he’d give him frame. Well he’d already learned one on the Sunday and then Mario showed up, taught him another one and gave some ammo for the rest of the week! Now that’s flatland!

I met loads of new riders over the past few days who have started in the past couple of years. UK flat is alive and the jam was a great demonstration of that. Phil and Effraim were talking of getting some more jams going soon. Count yourself lucky guys. Soon it will be highs of 5 degrees and getting dark at 4 O’clock here!

I’m pretty stoked and have made good progress over the past few weeks. Time to re-flatland the bike setup! I’m on Flatlandfuel right now putting an order together. Some pegs over 10cm long and some Freq G’s should do the trick!!! See you at Down Underground!!!!!!



Some of the people who attended on Brighton beach - No sand? Welcome to England!!!


After the shoot and back to riding! It's cold!!!


I gave this to Phil because he was pretty stoked on it. DUG worldwide baby!


The end of the event and Trev Lacey falls asleep in the bar once again... Oldies? Can't take 'em anywhere. .

Paul Chamberlain 2009

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Imax Jam report - Rob Barker

Melbourne rider Rob Barker sent through some great pics & a few words about a jam they had recently..

Augest 30th Sunday at 1.30 pm myself and partner Kylie (aka camera girl..lol). And the young bloke Markus got to Imax. Most people arrived around 2.00pm with Shaun, Karl and Grant arriving soon after and Jim around 3.00pm. It was a fairly cold day with a little bit of wind and a few raindrops here and there but luckily winter is slowly leaving us. There was some nice afternoon jamming: Grant was dialling combos as usual... I was doing my usual..not too much..lol... Markus was getting some tricks out... Shaun was clean with some new things up his sleeve.. Karl was just warming up and got a puncture(bums and their bottle smashing) and Jim was powering his combos out. The weather stayed average so we headed for a feed and checked at the Bali spot for a half hour afterwards.. loads of skaters and not much room with all of us guys and them there so we all headed back to faithful Imax for the rest of the arvo...

Great day!!

Most of us were there..and the rain stayed away as best it could!!


Grant Cruise

Jimmy Couwenberg

Markus

Rob Barker
Photos: Camera Girl Kylie

Colony Down Underground finals vid by Mike B: part 2 - Middies

Mike B has sent through the 2nd vid he has made from the Colony Down Underground finals for the Middies class - check it!