After a gruelling
and fun week of crazy challenges, sleepless nights and thousands
of miles of driving, BSD has won Ride to Glory 2010. Everyone
on the team played their part, from tattoos and tits to
amazing tricks the guys really did BSD proud. Watch out
for some photos tomorrow and the RTG DVD which comes out
with the July issue of Ride
UK.
Ride to Glory finishes tomorrow
and we still have a ton of stuff to do. We're now in London
and need to head out early tomorrow if we have any chance.
One of the challenges that I plan to get ticked off tonight
is to paint someone’s bike, I wonder who’ll be
riding a pink frame tomorrow?
As you probably know we’re on the Ride to Glory tour
this week, so far we’ve ridden Liverpool, Southport,
Warrington, Sheffield and Leeds. It’s now 3am on Tuesday
and we've just arrived in Edinburgh, the injury and lack of
sleep toll is pretty high but we're currently laid back in
Dave Sowerby's house supping on Gin N Juice.
Also was Nikki Croft spotted in the Unit 23 shop buying High
Lander bars? Sure seems that way...
Yesterday we forgot
we were supposed to be on Ride to Glory and went to the
Dub Jam in liverpool instead. A great day was had cruising
the streets in a crew of 200 riders stopping cars and getting
chased by police in helicopters. Grant tried to sabotage
the Primo team by sending Tony Neyer over the bars into
incoming traffic however it didn't work. The Relentless
team are just about to be lost in Glasgow looking for the
Mitchell rail, they shouldn't have asked usfor the postcode,
should they?...
Despite hassles
with immigration at Heathrow airport, Tony Malouf finally
made it into the UK today. Bikes are being built with new
parts, the vans are getting packed up and we head off to
Liverpool tomorrow for the beginning of Ride
to Glory 2010. Keep checking
back here for daily updates from the road...
What a weekend, the TWC
jam was on at Unit
23 on Saturday. As usual Kriss Kyle killed the park and
ended up with 1st place in the park jam, check the video below
for some new moves from 'Wee Barra'. The Yorkshire Ripper
Paul Chapman narrowly avoided killing himself for 1st place
in the bowl comp.
Jersey and Nailz are out in Barcelona
filming an edit with Pradas.
They rode at Jam Session in Sant Quirze del Valles yesterday
and managed to get 1st and 3rd place. BSD riders were cleaning
up all over Europe this weekend!
Malouf will be over here later this
week for the beginning of Ride
to Glory. Not long after that's done most of the team
will be on a road trip that'll be headed over to Paris for
the Soulardouzant street
jam. More news on both of those trips later this week...
The latest Dans
CompVital BMX
gear guide features Tony Malouf giving a run down of the
specs of the Forever frame as well as doing some riding,
click it below...
Krafty has recently
picked up Jason Teet to ride for BSD. Here are some blurry
pics of him riding chainless at home in Vancouver. Check
what he had to say...
"Had some issues with the old bike as of late,
past weekend I broke bolt for rear eclat hub and couldn't
source new one. I was so bummed and really needed
to go roll so I put an old front wheel on the back broke
the chain off and pumped the bowl. It worked for the
sunday evening bowl sesh I guess. My Irish bro John
Wells even was keen enough to snap these included iPhone
shots of some hip boost. I know they're not nice quality
but just a sesh, thought you might dig. He did alright
with the timing considering the shit delay of the cam"
Yorkshire madman Paul Chapman is
currently up in Scotland building another new indoor park,
here are some photos of him that Dave Sowerby took at the
beginning of construction...
It's gonna be
a hell of a summer at Unit
23 this year. They have a massive plot of land across
from the park, some heavy machinery and are busy building
trails right now. Check out the progress on their
blog and some photos of Kriss Kyle, Chaz Mailey and
Lewis Jennings' bowl session last night.
Tony Malouf has just been bumped
up to the ODI pro team, click below for an edit from his trip
to California last week. Not long now until he hits the UK
shores again...
Ride to Glory is on again and this
year BSD is on it. Mike 'Jersey' Taylor, Kriss Kyle, Tony
Malouf, Chaz Mailey and Nailz will all be on the week long
roadtrip starting at Rampworx in Liverpool on 30th April,
more news on this as and when we get it.
Here's a downloadable Vans wallpaper
of Anto Lille which is another angle of the photo from our
new print advert. As always Vincent Perraud does a great job.
Tony Malouf, Matt Markese and the
blackneck Gully dogs have just dropped another sick edit,
check out Markese's sick rail ride at the end. Also Malouf
is featured in the new ODI LA mixtape... p.s. Happy 21st Tony!!!
Our Spanish distro Rapit BMX has
just picked up street monster Julien Inorreta to ride for
BSD. He'll be filming with Jersey and Nailz in Barca later
this month but for now you'll have to make do with this crazy
video of him from a year
ago>>
Anto Lille is going to be on the
injured list most of the summer this year, not to worry though
he is at work on his new frame design and doing some graphics
for BSD. Here's an interview with him in the new Landscape
magazine...
Here's a short Warrington
Outlaws edit with Nailz slingin' like mad in it. Jersey
and Nailz will both be riding at the Dub
Jam tomorrow at Liverpool Rampworx skatepark in England.
Tony Malouf and the rest of the
Gully
crew are headed out to Woodward in Pennsylvania next week.
Tony sent me this picture of Gullymeister Jeff Wescott riding
a BSD Forever at Circus skatepark with what BMX
Plus describe as a precision wallslap!
As we mentioned a few weeks ago,
Angie Marino was riding at the girls weekend at Ray's
MTB park. Here are a few pictures of her and she's also
is in this
video from RideBMX.com along with Nina Buitrago and a
few others.
Japanese BSD rider Hayato Kobayashi
has some pictures up on his
blog from the Simpel session where he crashed on his second
trick and broke his collarbone, ouch!
Blackout
Distribution in Rochester, NY are now distributing Jersey
Barrier hubguards in the USA. So for all you cats looking
in the US looking for these
guards you should finally be able to get them.
BSD have just signed with new company
Krafty
Bike Distro to distribute the full BSD line in the USA.
Click the link to see the press release and their website.
Issue 75 of Dig
Magazine is just out and it's looking great. There's a
travel sickness article on the BSD
Midwest tour that Tony, Drew, Kriss, Chaz and Angie were
on a few weeks back.
The DSAB DundeeSAB jam took place at Dundee skatepark last
weekend. BSD riders Simon Gibb and Sean Lafferty both did
well in the best trick contest however check out Brad McNicol's
box jump 540 at the end of this edit by Alex Donnachie, it's nuts!
>
Bad news, Anto
Lille was in the South of France on the way to Malaga
in Spain yesterday when he fell and snapped his ankle falling
from a huge wallride. The photo is pretty gruesome so beware.
He's in hospital right now getting his ankle pinned back together.
Get well soon Anto...
Jersey is on the cover of Ride UK
this month with a sweet over grind in the snow, there's also
a behind the scenes story showing how he dug the run up out,
nice one Mike! Also Kriss Kyle has a bike check and a rad
photo of him blasting in his bowl.
BSD team rider Drew York has a new
edit up over on the Osiris
website. Also look out for a new BSD ad with Drew that
was shot during the filming sessions that will appear in Ride
UK and Dig mags soon...
A couple of weeks back Kriss Kyle
and Chaz Mailey flew from the UK out to Tulsa to meet Malouf
and Drew York for a 10 day roadtrip of bikes and partying
throughout the Midwest hitting up most of the indoor parks
and Tony's crazy basement. Angie Marino joined the crew for
the last few days as she was still recovering from a heavy
slam on the T1 ramp. Here's what Tony managed to come up with...
Filmed and Edited by : Tony Malouf
Additional filming : BSD crew
Kriss Kyle, Mike Jersey Taylor,
Sean Lafferty and Hayato Kobayashi will all be representing
BSD this weekend at the Simpel session in Estonia. You can
watch live in full HD directly from the BSD website below
and check
out the timetable is here >
Strictly BMX in Australia and
Unleaded in France both have totally dialled websites and
are carrying all of the latest BSD goodies, check them out:
We are very proud to announce
that legendary French street rider Antony Lille has just
made the jump to the full BSD team. Watch out for his signature
street frame later this year, for now check out this quick
edit made by fellow Toulousian Daniel Mini
and here are photos of Anto on his
new Forever by Freddy Bermond...
The BSD midwest winter tour
kicks off today. Kriss Kyle and Chaz Mailey flew out from
the UK yesterday to join Drew York and Tony Malouf in Tulsa
for a 10 day tour from Oklahoma to Chicago. Angie Marino
is supposed to join them at some point next week however
she is currently recovering from a bad crash this week which
resulted in a broken nose. Get well soon Angie.
Mike King filmed and edited this Zeal
video and also makes a few appearances in it, watch
out for his alley oop 540 footjam nosepick (if that's what
it's called??)
Cider drinking legend Tim Ruck just sent me a picture of
him doing a fastplant on his new BSD set up, thanks to Death
for the photo.
At the end of last year Zeal
picked up Mike King from ffwdbmx.com
to be on the Zeal/BSD team. We met up with Mike in Aberdeen
last year and gave him plenty of stick about his footjam
fetish. Here's his Rapid
Response from Dig>>
Happy New Year and all that,
I hope you're managing to get some riding in. The Nike Tunnel
Jam was on Channel 4 on Sunday morning but no-one seemed
to know anything about that, luckily it's on 4oD. Kriss
Kyle gets a few clips on there >
Kriss, Jersey, Tony Malouf and
Drew York are all going to be riding at the Simpel session
in Estonia next month. The course design has just been finalised
and looks amazing, Have
a look here > We were checking out the weather in
Tallinn and it doesn't seem to be that different than here
right now which is crazy as it's usually about -20C there.
Biggie fan Tony 'the Gimp' Malouf makes an appearance in
this latest G-Fact edit from the Gully
Factory >
Finally, French BSD fan Adrien Crette emailed us these pics
of him and his friend riding their new BSD frames, thanks
Adrien.
Jersey sent me a link to this
edit from DUB BMX of
the DUB Jam at Boneyard a few weeks ago. There are some
pretty sick moves in it from Jersey,
Scotty D and Millsy >
ESPN
have a photo gallery by Jake Geisel featuring the boys from
Tulsa. Click the photo of Drew below to check out Jake's
shots of Tony, Drew, Miles and the OK crew...
In an attempt to escape the UK
perma drizzle this winter and actually get some riding in
Jersey, Nailz and Tommy Gun have been busy building ramps
in a disused warehouse. Here's an edit from DUB
BMX of them riding what Jersey has dubbed as Wazzward
West >
Winter is now in full swing in
Scotland but it's not stopping Kriss Kyle. Here's a new
edit of Kriss riding at Unit 23 and Extreme Tranny in Aberdeen.
Video by Chaz Sands. Kriss
Kyle BSD Unit 23 edit >
Miles
'Danger' Rogoish who could be described as off his head
is now off his bike after popping out his good knee and
tearing all the ligaments. I hope you get better soon dude.
In the meantime check out this interview
with him on the ESPN site>
Tony Malouf
is currently on the injury list too with a broken leg, hopefully
he'll be riding again early in the new year. Tony is on this
Tuesday
with Miles video riding in Muskogee, Oklahoma with Justin
Coble and Jake Geisel.
Check out Jersey is in this new
DUB edit from Rampworx in Liverpool which also features
Scotty Ditchburn, Dan Lacey, Millsy, Phil De Mattia, Olly
Evans and Tommy Gun. DUB
Rampworx edit >
03 November 09 | photos by HRH, Jamie
Dunn, Fraser McNeil and Tian Khee Siong
So how would you expect people to
dress up at heavy metal themed fancy dress jam? Tight jeans,
long hair, ACDC shirts? I guess pretty much like many BMXers
then.
This year we decided a change was in need so we moved the
park jam into Hall 2. Due to the different terrain many more
street moves were happening from the likes of Jersey, Nailz
and Luca DeMarco. Some of the memorable tricks were Jersey’s
truckdriver off the top of the 6ft bowl, Chaz Mailey’s
wallride right over the long driveway and Kriss Kyle footjamming
the big bowl at the end of the rhythm section.
The bowl finals were insane again. In B Group riding buddies
from Porstmouth Declan Brooks and Josh Crosswell took the
top two spots with KGB’s Lewis Collins coming in third
after pulling an impressive truckdriver to fakie pulled after
a few hefty slams.
In the A group finals young gun Katman pulled a massive bowl
to bowl wallride to tuck no-hander, Chaz Mailey went high
as his trousers hung low and local Parky went fast as hell
table-topping the big hip pretty much as high as possible.
In third place Paul Chapman did the meatiest backside boneless
I’ve ever seen. In second place was Martin Cooper, he
dialled in all the tech moves including tailwhip to footjam
nosepick, double whip the spine and some major flair combos.
And for first place, local knowledge reigned supreme. Kriss
Kyle rode the bowl with major flow and style all at mach 10
with some hefty transfers including a turndown from the teardrop
to the 6ft hip.
Afterwards a few short videos were shown from Dario DeMarco,
Nearly BMX, BSD and TuWheelsCo and then the majorly shambolic
BMX in Scotland awards were presented by the drunkest man
in BMX, Gogo.
Thanks to all of our sponsors namely 20twenty, Seventies,
4Down, DSAB, Nike 6.0, Dig, Federal, Rockstar and Zeal. Also
many thanks to Chick and the crew at Unit 23 Skatepark for
letting us hold the jam there. Until next time...
p.s. Watch out for the video edit online later this week.
The Results:
A Group - Park
1st - Kriss Kyle
2nd - Jersey
3rd - Chaz Mailey
A Group - Bowl
1st - Kriss Kyle
2nd - Martin Cooper
3rd - Paul Chapman
B Group - Park
1st - Josh Crosswell
2nd - Declan Brooks
3rd – Martin WS and Will McGibbon
B Group - Bowl
1st - Declan Brooks
2nd - Josh Crosswell
3rd - Lewis Collins
And finally here is the latest BSD / DIGBMX.com exclusive
edit filmed from trips and team rider visits to Scotland over
09 that was shown after the Jam at Unit23. Can
you say BSD? >
The BSD jam is now going to be held
in Hall 2 and the main bowl. At the last minute we decided
to change plans and the crew at Unit
23 Skatepark are currently busy with a few alterations
to Hall 2 in preparation for this. Also there are cash prizes
for 'A' group. See y'all on Saturday!
Spotted at the Dew
Tour finals last weekend. After a totally cracking run
in qualifying Mark Webb was in need of a new frame for the
finals so headed over to Mesh
skatepark in Orlando and bought himself a BSD Forever.
Thanks for repping BSD Mark!
Here's quick edit filmed last weekend
of Sean Lafferty and Si Gibb riding at Transition Extreme
skatepark minutes before they got kicked out. Is Si Gibb back
on it?? Thanks to Alex from NearlyBMX
for the edit.
Stateside street dawgs Tony Malouf
and Drew York are now on the Osiris flow team, here's
an edit of them including BSD Presque team rider Miles
Rogoish.
The BSD jam will take place at Unit
23 Skatepark at 2pm on Saturday 31st October followed
by the BMX
in Scotland awards. The jam will consist of both A and
B group riding the park in hall 1 and the bowl. Also there
is a Heavy Metal fancy dress theme for the day with prizes
for the best costumes. For those about to rock, we salute
you!...
Daniel Mini from Toulouse was filming
an edit with Anto Lille but he's currently laid out in bed
for a week with a bad back. Here
are his FAT Favourites >>
A few of the BSD crew are headed
to the hush hushNike
6.0 Tunnel Jam this weekend in the south of England including
probably the only Scottish entrant,
Unit 23 resident Kriss Kyle (shown here in his skatepark
bed). Kriss has just set up this chromed out BSD beauty from
the parts we had on show at Interbike. On it are the TrailOrPark
frame, GhetToForks, High-Lander bars, top load stem, Superlite
sprocket, Wing-thing seat and prototype hubset...
Finally we're back after another
crazy week in Vegas for Interbike. We had plenty new product
at the show including Mike Taylor's WZA frame, the TrailorPark
frame, the Blackneck stem and pretty much any Jersey Barrier
hubguard you would need. Also a fair chunk of the BSD crew
turned up including Tony Malouf, Drew York, Angie Marino and
Miles Rogoish. Check below for some links to the Ride US,
ESPN and sjbmx.com. More product shots will be online in the
next few days.
As I said yesterday Tony is well
on the way to finishing the Tattour edit in time for Interbike.
Hopefully it'll be on show somewhere there. Here's the Ride
UK article from the latest issue which you've probably already
seen. Thanks to Steve at Ride UK for sending us this.
Also here's a copy of the 'Meeting
Mike Taylor' article by Adam from The Come Up.
Alledgedly Simon
Gibb is nearly finished his long awaited 2009 comeback edit.
Here's a little taste of what he's been
up to> Let's hope the final edit is better than this
mess...
Some older
Malouf footage found by Gogo
on Vimeo today. Tony is currently on Mega Tour with the Profile
team, I wonder if Tattour
will be ready in time for Interbike?
The latest issue of Dig has an article
on Yorkshire's Brighouse trails jam, Paul Chapman got a full
page in it with a huge turndown back before the monsoon of
a summer started in the UK. Fingers crossed for an indian
summer this September...
Mike is kind of taking it easy
right now as he's had a damaged wrist for the last few months.
Here's a video bike check and a few clips of him 'taking it
easy' on his bike. Filmed and edited by Tommy Gun. Go
check out the video>
Miles Rogoish is the first member
of the BSD presque team. Presque?? I hear you ask, well presque
means nearly in French and since Miles' frame sponsor is Mongoose
and he's co-sponsored by BSD he's on the nearly/almost/presque
team. Check
out his bike check > on Dig sitting on our porch with
Elvis and a Tony Malouf edit, photos by Freddy Presquely...
Tony Malouf just returned Stateside
after his trip to Europe, here's what he had to say about
it all...
"I just got back from a trip to Scotland. Glasgow to
be specific. I got to meet all the BSD guys from that area
including Grant Smith the owner. I spent a few days in Glasgow
then we got in the BSD van and drove to Cologne Germany for
the Worlds contest. The entire weekend in Germany was a wash.
It rained everyday just enough for people to stick around
with high hopes of everything drying. But once the ramps were
finally ridable. It would just rain again. Not to worry though.
In Germany there is quick solution to turn things around on
a rainy day. And that's drinking. I had a blast just walking
around drinking and meeting folk. I met some really cool people
at the contest as well as in Scotland and other countries.
During the two weeks over seas I went to Scotland, London,
France, Belgium and Germany. Everywhere was amazing but Glasgow
was my favorite. I stayed a few nights at the Unit 23 skatepark.
Kriss Kyle from BSD who is only 17 lives in this huge party
room at the skatepark. It's full of couches and ratty scottish
mates. It's fuckin radical.
Anyways now Im back in the States only Im in Chicago for the
time being. I'll be here another week hanging with family
before I head back to Tulsa.
Miles Rogoish turned up in Glasgow
after the Worlds to stay at Unit 23 for a few days to ride,
film, party and fight the locals. Here's an edit he filmed
with Kriss Kyle for www.bnqt.com>
Paul Chapman is the latest addition
to the UK team. For those that don't know him Paul is a local
at Brighouse trails in Yorkshire and is the guy who jointly
won A group at last
years BSD jam with Kriss Kyle. Here are some photos for
now and expect to see an edit in the next couple of months.
Welcome to the team Paul!
Jersey is just back from his trip
to NYC and Toronto and he's straight off to the doctors to
get his wrist X-rayed, here's a DUB
edit> of him from the Ride UK site last week.
Lord Forbeeola is living out in Florida right now, last week
he met up with the guys from Barachel
skatepark. Chris from the park had just built up a new
Forever frame and left it next to his Monster truck "Nothing
like a Sunday drive on Saturday!"
Plush Tattour is over, Tony just
made this
trailer for the DVD which will be dropping soon. "Riders
such as Josh Eilken, Seamus Mckeon, Josh Betley, Drew York,
Tony Malouf, Miles Rogoish, and Jeff Wescott all get tattoo's
and travel for 10 days while having rowdy fun and riding".
Looks like they had a crazy time. You can see both Malouf
and Drew York in
the trailer riding red bikes>. Also Malouf is heading
to the UK next week, watch this space...
The next installment of our Dig
Mag exclusive web edits is now up on www.digbmx.com.
It features BSD team rider Kriss Kyle killing it at Unit23
and Transgression over the winter. Spot the yeti and win no
prize.
Check out the video here >
Jersey flew out to NYC yesterday
and is staying there for the next ten days to ride and film
with Adam Grandmaison from the The
Come Up.
The Plush Tattour trip is coming to an end so hopefully
we'll see some of what Tony Malouf and Drew York were up
to as well as their new mandatory trip tattoos.
Speaking of new tats, Simon "Check out my ink bro!"
Gibb has just had the BSD bottles logo penned on his arm.
Down for life.
We are proud to announce Drew York
as our new team rider in the good 'ole US of A. Check out
the Dig
website for his welcome to the team exclusive BSD web
video filmed and edited by Tony Malouf. Welcome to the team
Drew. Also you can add him on myspace
here>
French trail rider Fred Borel has
just been hooked up by Unleaded
on BSD flow with a new BSD setup. Check out this video of
Fred
celebrating his 30th birthday at Elian's trails in the
south of France.
Well unsurprisingly thecomeup
beat us to it! Anyway we are very proud to announce that long
term friend and BSD rider Mike 'Jersey' Taylor is now riding
full factory BSD, expect to see much goodness from the self
proclaimed 'Terminator of Street' and BSD this year...
Also in not so good news, we just
heard from Daniel Mini that Antony Lille was attacked at the
Fise contest in Montpellier last weekend.
Daniel - "I've got bad news about Anto. During the Fise
Saturday night party, a riot/fight started in the street and
Anto wanted to help a friend of his who was on the ground
with blood on his face, a dumb guy kicked Anto hard in the
face (karate style move). Result: Anto's got triple fracture
on his face (under his eye, jaw, etc..) and he needs surgery
to put a titanium plate in there. So during the next few months
no riding for him. That's life.... life's a bitch"
Check out the latest WHC mixtape
featuring Jersey, Nailz, Tommy, Jay and Phil all from Waz
Angeles. Some of these clowns will be visiting Glasgow again
this weekend so watch out...
From Tony "I was in Miami a
couple weeks ago with Degroot, Kachinsky, Dave McDermett and
Miles Rogoish filming and shooting photos for stuff. Weather
was amazing. Spots were amazing. However, I managed to get
hurt the first day not even on my bike. It still hurts but
should be better in a week or so. I just been filming a bunch
and taking it easy, and getting rowdy. You can check out more
photos and a better write up on how I got hurt on my blog"
New Jersey barriers are on the way, some of our distributors
will be receiving the Cassette#3 version for Profile and
Madera hubs in the next few weeks. The Cassette#2 (Primo
Mix), Ratchet and Vandero2 versions will be appearing soon
too.
Meng from Singapore sent us
this picture of a custom BSD Forever set up, neat huh?
Two weeks ago Kriss Kyle and
Sean Lafferty went down to Basingstoke to stay with the
Bruza twins and ride some spots down south.
Sean - "We ended up riding some awesome concrete parks
in the blazing sun with barbecues and cold beers to keep
us going. We got some filming done for the Zeal DVD and
also filmed for this webedit and had a blast with all the
locals..."
Check out the webedit from the trip here>
Also Kriss and Chaz have been
spotted on the Bicycle
Union site at the Decoy bowl in Devon.
If you can find it check out the new
issue of Soul Magazine with the free Douce France DVD.
It's an all street French DVD featuring riding from Anto
Lille, Alex Valentino, Jerome Gauthier, Luc Legrand and
Kevin Guerdner. Anto's section is obviously our favourite
part, filmed and edited by legendary Toulousian Daniel Mini.
Jersey and Nailz are in a couple
of videos on the Seventies
site> from the Dub Jam in Liverpool a few weeks ago,
Check out Jersey's custom rasta BSD Forever shirt!
Tony Malouf is a web edit machine!
He's come out with another, this time featuring a bike check
and park edit video put together with Miles Rogoish for BNQT.com
The DSAB
team held their DunDeeSAB jam last weekend at The
Factory skatepark. It turned out to be a great jam with
some serious riding and of course some not so serious events
to get involved in. BSD team riders Kriss Kyle, Sean Lafferty
and Si Gibb were in attendance and look out for them in a
great edit that Alex
Donnachie put together of what happened. Check
out the video here>
If you've not already got a copy
of the new Ride
UK BMX Mag then get off your computer and down to a newsagent
and show some support for our BMX magazine industry! Theres
lots of BSD team coverage in there including Kris Kyle riding
the infamous Gnarly Bowl in Glasgow, Mike Taylor is your Role
Model!? and Edinburghs Transgression
Park gets a Park Warden article featuring a photo of Dave
Sowerby. Check out an another angle on that above...
The guys at Unit 23 Skatepark just
picked up a new HD camera and will be filming and editing
regular web vids of the locals, visiting riders and events
as they happen. Their first edit to come out is of BSD team
rider Chaz Mailey. Head
over to unit23skatepark.co.uk to check it out >
Lots more team coverge - Tony Malouf
has a 12xU feature in the new Dig
Mag just out and spot another yeti in new
BSD ad with David Lombard riding trails (in January!)
in there too!
David Lombard is living in England
these days, here's a quick update from him and a picture
from Portugal...
" I've been working
hard at IMG distribution since November, did great trail
session (thanks to Petersfield locals) right before Christmas
and so good riding till the end of past year. Then got knee
surgery and so being offered crutches as a christmas gift
present. Now i'm walking again and it seems that life start
again, things are getting really good with Proper, great
new stuff will show up soon! I went to Southsea for the
first time this weekend and couldn't kept myself down not
having at least one run in the snake run... i know it's
bad when you can hardly walk"
Simon Gibb aka Hash Bandy Coot
has just come out of his winter semi-retirement and treated
his bike to a fresh paint-job in preparation for what he
calls 'The Come Back '09'. He's been going on about this
for ever so I am expecting to see some amazing riding on
his upcoming video or he's getting sacked for good.
Antony Lille just finished filming
for his part in the video DOUCE FRANCE. The video is a long
term project from Daniel Mini and the DVD will be out with
the next issue of Soul, 100% street, 100% of french riders.
Check
the teaser here>>
BSD team rider Tony Malouf put
together this new edit for the newest installment of our
BSD/DIGmag video edits. Head over to digbmx.com to check
out the vid >>
Transgression Park in Edinburgh
just celebrated a year of being open and to mark the occasion
Dave Sowerby put this edit together of some of the filming
he and John Bailey have done since the park opened. Look
out for riding from BSd team riders Dave, Kriss Kyle, Sean
Lafferty and Chaz Mailey. Check
out the vid >>
Yoooo, so this was my first trip
outside of the States. I couldn't wait to leave. I flew to
Estonia with Brian Kachinsky and met up with a few other dudes
in Amsterdam. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to go
into town on the way there.
Estonia is incredible. Tons of beautiful architecture. And
tons of Beautiful women. And...the first day there I saw kids
roughly 17 to 18 years old doing beer bongs in the hotel lobby.
Simple Session it self is on a whole other lever than any
other contest. It takes place in a huge arena full of fans.
Riders from all over the world come to ride and party their
balls off. I met a lot of dudes I've never heard of. And lots
of guys I've always wanted to meet.
The course was amazing and the people running the contest
were awesome as well. Basically, you ask for it, you got it.
Even the guys who drove us to the contest everyday were awesome.
On the way back Kachinsky and I had a lay over in Amsterdam
again. This time we had six hours. Enough time to head into
town and kick it for a little. Kym Grosser came with us to
chill. We hung out in a small coffee shop and enjoyed things
you can't enjoy legally in the states. That ended the trip
just right for me. Over all it was the most fun I've had in
2009 thus far. And I plan to make it back next year.
Congratulations to Tony Malouf
who made the finals at the Simpel Session last weekend coming
15th overall. The course layout had something for everyone
and saw some crazy action from the 81 deep line up of big
name riders, this definitely looks to be one of the best
contests yet.
We have a new team rider in Australia,
Daniel Taylor aka DT is from Ballarat near Melbourne where
I'm assured it's hot as hell right now. These pictures are
from a few months ago riding the indoor park there whilst
braving their mild winter.
Tony Malouf is freezing his
ass off in Estonia right now getting ready (and getting
loose?) for the Simpel Session this weekend. Here's a video
of Tony
riding in Texas from the Savage South trip he was just
on a few weeks back.
We'd like to welcome Chicago's
Tony Malouf as the first announced rider in the US chapter
of the BSD team. Tony sent over some photos of his new Forever
frame setup and some great riding shots. Look out for more
from Tony as soon as the weather over there picks up enough
to get out riding!! Welcome to the team Tony!...
Every year we usually run a Halloween
jam at Unit 23 skatepark in Dumbarton but this year we decided
to hold it later in the year. By about 3pm everyone had
turned up and the riding started. The format of the jam
was a lot more relaxed than in previous years which meant
everybody chilled out and seemed to have a good time on
and off their bikes. The riding was insane and it was great
to meet up with all the riders you only see a couple of
times during the year. After the results of the jam and
the BMX in Scotland awards were given out everyone headed
into to Glasgow and partied until the wee hours but I’m
sure the video and pictures will tell the story better than
I can...
BSD LET'S GO BOWLING
JAM... Only three weeks to go until the 2008 BSD jam at
Unit 23. Let's go BUELLING!
NOT JUST A PRETTY SITE... Mike from 20twenty
has only gone and done it again, this time he's opened up
shop in the Transition
Extreme skatepark in Aberdeen, Scotland and it looks like
he's made a great job of it. Also here is a picture of his
new bike - all tricked out in the latest BSD parts! Forever
frame, Ghetto Forks, Too Loose bars, Superlite sprocket and
Jersey Barriers. Yeah Mike!
The lastest in our series of
exclusive videos in collaboration with digbmx.com
has just gone up on the Dig site. This one features Dave
Sowerby riding after hours sessions at his local skatepark,
Transgression
in Edinburgh.
We finally got our first batch
of the new BSD 'Forever' frames
in this week. Its taken a lot of work to get the frame ready
but its so worth it seeing the final result. The frames
look great and all reports from the team and the lucky first
owners are that it rides great too. Check out some photos
of the Forever frame and some of the first setup frames
that have been spotted below. For the full spec on the Forever
frame you can check it out in the product
pages>>
Thats not all the news on the product front from BSD though.
We also have new forks and more of the Superlite Sprockets
ready too. The all new BSD
'GetToFork' comes in white, black and raw and features
a tapered leg and an integrated headset race. The Superlite
Sprockets come in new colours and there is a new 29
tooth option if you want to try out something in between
28-10 and 30-10 gearing. Ideal! All the info about the forks
and sprockets can be found in the
product pages too....
Sunburn at a Livi Jam! Surely
not! Yes that's right, the Livingston skatepark jam went
off last Saturday, organised by the now
infamous DSAB crew, and some how they even managed to
get the sun to come out! Good job guys. With comp titles
such as 'best trick bars backwards' and 'best trick in the
buff' and with Capn Colin at the helm you know its not going
to be your average BMX jam . The emphasis was definitely
on fun and certainly not on tailwhips. The days highlights
included, Dave(Paul) the Sword killing the wall ride with
fufanus and abubacas on a wall with a 20ft drop on the other
side!, BSD's Grant Smith and Blantyre local Skitzo battling
it out for highest air measured on the boaby-o-meter in
the big bowl and the appearance of Capn Colin in a thong!
All in all it was a great turn out and everyone had a fun
day. Congrats to the DSAB team for putting on a superb jam
and I know we are all looking forward to see what they will
have in store for us next year....
Dave is off the bike for a couple
of months after breaking his ankle trying a fence gap at
Perth skatepark. While he's not riding expect some video
edits to appear in the coming weeks including an edit of
Dave riding at his local park in Edinburgh and a web edit
going on the Dig site featuring the BSD summer trip in Scotland
that will coincide with the mag article. Get well soon Dave!
Dave Sowerby just sent over a
web edit of the Vans team riding TransgressionPark in Edinburgh.
Dave was lucky enough to get the chance to film them on
Monday night riding the park that he designed and the Edinburgh
locals built. Chase Hawk, Dylan Smith, Sean Sexton, Niki
Croft, Ben Hennon and Baz Keep were just a few of the riders
in attendance for the first day of the Vans 'Off The Wall
BMX tour'. Check
out Dave's edit here >>
We're in Glasgow and just about
to start day 5 of our Scottish summer tour. So far we've
ridden Livingston, Edinburgh, Penicuik, Aberdeen, Dundee
and Dumbarton and the riding has been insane. Even though
we're only on day 5 Kriss Kyle has done about 3 months worth
of riding, He just doesnt stop. Chaz
has been propositioned by girls and boys and the French
Warrington contingent has shut down the Glasgow streets.
Here are a few video grabs of Anto, Kriss and Chaz... wait
'til you see the footage...
Dave Sowerby just got back from
Ride UK BMX
Mags 'Ride to Glory' road trip with Proper
Bikes. The trip started at Unit23
skatepark and then Proper headed East to session at
Transgression
Park in Edinburgh and Penicuik skatepark. On their way
down south to the finish line in Hastings they were arrested
trying to ride a full pipe in an M.O.D facility, redecorated
countless passing cars in mayonnaise and ketchup, discovered
a few shocking truths about Marv and drove the van through
team Volumes height poles (oops!) Check out a few screen
grabs and photos Dave sent over and look out for the full
story and cover mounted DVD in Augusts Ride Mag...
There's no rest for Dave though
as the BSD roadtrip around Scotland kicks of tomorrow in
Edinburgh (Weds 10th June) with the arrival of Julien Leyreloup,
Antony Lille and Vincent Perraud. Hope to see you at a spot
around Scotland during the coming week and keep an eye on
the site for updates during the trip. Reet!
We'd like to introduce Sean
Lafferty. Sean has been ripping it up lately around the
Glasgow area and we feel he'll be a great addition to our
team. Welcome aboard Sean - blast out the madness!
As part of the tour we’re
having a BSD party at Unit 23 on the evening of Saturday
14th June, this is a riding party NOT a competition so please
turn up with your bike for a fun night of bikes, beer and
burgers. Hope to see y’all there.
Julien Leyreloup, Antony Lille
and Vincent Perraud are arriving from France on Wednesday
11th June for our Scottish summer tour. Livingston, Penicuik,
Edinburgh , Aberdeen , Dundee, Perth , Glasgow and Unit
23 will all be sessioned. So watch out for these guys plus
Simon Gibb, Dean Evans, Dave Sowerby, Chaz Mailey, Kriss
Kyle and others at your local spots.
Joining them that weekend in Glasgow are the two Warrington
street legends Mike
‘ Jersey ’ Taylor and Mike
‘Nailz’ Naylor. All of the tour will be
filmed and you’ll see the best of it on the website
soon.
Once again Mingo at 20twenty
hosted another amazing day, some of the Scottish BSD team
were in full effect at the jam including local boy Simon
Gibb, Chaz Mailey, Mad Mick, Dean Evans and new recruit
Kriss Kyle. John Bailey and Grant filmed the day and you
can see Dave Sowerby's edit
of the footage here>>
The new bowl is basically a bigger
version of the now defunct Little Devil bowl and it's had
it’s fair share of rad sessions already now. Here’s
our new advert which is in the latest Ride UK featuring
Unit 23 local Chaz Mailey boosting the hell out of this
wooden behemoth.
We're having a bowl party there
on Saturday evening 14th June when some of the French team
will be in town, watch this space...
Unfortunately the French flying
freestyle frog David Lombard won't be at the party but check
out his photofeature
on Woozy here>>
In these plentiful days of plenty
skateparks we must remember to pay homage to the original
creation that is Livingston. This legendary park was built
in 1980 probably long before some of you were even born
and to this day remains to be one of the best parks around.
Here are a couple of pics of Grant and Parky riding the
tight vert bowl on their first trip there this year.
Simon is not long back from a
trip Stateside where he managed to get knocked down by a
car straight from a kinked handrail, hopefully we'll see
that footage on here soon. In the meantime check out these
pics of Aberdeen's favourite emo BMXer schralping some of
the city's older spots...
Jersey's back on his bike with
the aid of a knee brace. Here are a few photos of him riding
in Warrington a few weeks ago plus a video
of him and Nailz testing out
the new Jersey Barrier hubguards.
David Lombard (see photos below)
just told us he's now taking care of the advertising over
at watchbmx.com
where the videos are updated on a daily basis.
Julien, Anto and friends just spent
the whole of February in Barcelona. Unfortunately for Julien
he broke his thumb on the first day!! Vincent Perraud shot
these photos and wrote some words...
With my friend Ju Leyreloup, we were bored to stay in France
during the cold winter, so we said " go to Spain!"
like so many British riders... We rented an apartment during
this last February, in the old Barcelona center with a French
contingent: Ju Leyreloup, Anto Lille, John Garcia, Ben Gea
and many more... We were pretty excited, but everybody got
injuries or mechanical problems. Some kids asked us if we
were with Dakota Roche or Morgan Wade cause they were in town
after the Simpel session. But we were more preoccupied to
buy some beers and to find a place to go to partying...
Barça is so beautiful and
the atmosphere was so different than France...more relaxed!
everybody wanted to stay here...finally we stayed one month,
with a lot of alcohol and "punk parties!" but we
are still alive and the trip was perfect...And oh yeah, we
rode some spots we have seen in videos...yes! A nice experience
and live with 7 other guys bring closer together...
La Source trails shredder Jeremy
Muller sent us this rad wee video of himself and some
other Toulouse locals including Anto and Repier. Check
out the video >
Scottish BMX Superstar Simon
Gibb has just cemented his dedication to BSD for life with
this full tilt tattoo featuring BSD logo, sprocket and bars
as well as a cool 20twenty
space invader.
Grant - '
"Now Simon, I've been meaning to speak to you about your
contract expiring..."
And in more Simon Gibb news, Chris Petrie made this short
video of Simon and Lewis Watson tearing it up at the Transition
Extreme park in Aberdeen. Check
the video out >
The Antony
Lille designed TooLoose bars
are out now. These have more sweep and lift than our other
bars and com in at 28 inches wide. Check out the full specs
in the products section...
Grant has been busy on Solidworks
for the last few months planning this monstrosity of a bowl
based on the famous Little Devil bowl...
