A good way to escape the winter in Sweden is to go on road trip to visit some indoor parks. That’s exactly what my buddies from back home did. It’s the Childstore Winter Tour, featured in episode #10 of Childstore TV.
My buddy Antti who runs Signature BMX, a web shop in Finland who happens to also be the distributor for Terrible One products, just got his bikecheck posted on the Terrible One site. He’s got one of the new Ruben frames decked out with a bunch of goodies — including the complete wheels from Simple that features that nifty Eject hub I’ve heard about somewhere.
Here’s a sneak peek of his bike, click on the thumbnail to get warped to the T1 site so you can check out the rest of the goodness.
This is not normally a technology blog, but every once in a while it’s nice step outside of the confines of posting things only related to BMX…
I guess most of us know that the iPhone is a pretty kick-ass device, although some are militantly against it “just because” or something like that.
This little video shows just how far behind other devices are when it comes to the touch screen technology.
Jeremy Muller just sent this to a bunch of friends. Apparently these trails are getting plowed and he made this tribute edit from leftover footage filmed there. I’ve never been to these trails, but it’s always sad to see such nice looking sets get destroyed.
Also be sure to check out the Compression DVD (all trails I think) that will be out in mid May.
I stole this one off Facebook. Colony rider Liam Fahy-hampton has got a new rig and it’s looking mighty fine. And yes, it has a chain this time around.
On a side note, Liam is probably the only person in the world who used to run Eject hubs both front and back, one modded of course, to make it fit in the rear of the bike.
I’ve been posting a bit about Tempered Bikes upcoming products, the Bones stem and the Anchor Down sprocket. I just saw some new shots of the two fine products on a nice blue bike on the Tempered site. This looks so sweet!
Polly aka. Paul Cooper (green tee and S&M bike) used to be a flatlander.
He also lives in Frankston, which is one of the more sketchy areas of Melbourne (or so I have been told). This is a day edit from the Frankston park together with his mate Boekel.
Here’s a cool video of a custom frame getting built @ the Standard Bykes machine shop. Always interesting to see the labour that’s put into building frames (and other bike parts for that matter).
Video courtesy of Ben Polaschek (as found on the BikeGuide forums).
I just read on the Focalpoint website that Australian BMX distributor TripleSix (Tempered, Fly, Subrosa etc…) will take a rather large group of guys for a roadtrip starting at the end of March. Here’s a quick copy & paste of the info I saw on FP:
Triplesix are proud to announce our 2010 roadtrip from Melbourne to Brisbane starting on the 26th of march(next friday) to the 5th of April. We are taking 12 – 13 guys along for the ride from the Aus Triplesix riders as well as special guests Ryan Sher (Shadow Conspiracy/Subrosa) and Hoang Tran (Subrosa) both from the USA. We will be hitting shops along the way and stopping at parks to hang and ride with anyone that is keen to have a roll around with us.
After a long and chaotic winter in Sweden, as well as probably all of Scandinavia/northern Europe, with 60+ straight days of sub-zero temperatures (that’s sub-thirtytwo for you inclined towards Fahrenheit) and massive amounts of snow, the snow is slowly disappearing in Stockholm. Over the course of the winter the amount of snow have caused roofs of sports halls and supermarkets to collapse from its weight and public transport, among other things, have been unbearably strained.
Imagine the feeling for my buddies back home when they were able to have their first outdoor street session in a couple of the only spots where the snow has disappeared and the ground is dry. This is a short edit from the very day when this happened.