Tony Watkinson

I'm pretty sure that those are Osiris with Etnies tags on.. "This guy is amazing" is an understatement.. Darn those inverts....

BMX vs Car

Sebastian Keep and Ben Shenker race James May on Top Gear show. I saw an old Fiat 500 the other day and it was fast!

A dream backyard

Matt Berringer rules!!

Love Hate

Checkout these cool gloves from Union

Dannyboy by FJ

FJ jumped on the bandwagon and got himself a digital SLR like the other 785746321513 kids out there.. Soon he will have a Photoblog like all the other 588467261 kids out there too.. Haha.. Sorry..

Frankfurt BMX

Here's a pretty darn cool video from Germany. Click here to download the full version. You will need DIVX player to watch it tho.

15 and clueless

Save Hush trails

Dudes at Back Bone BMX sent me a message on Myspace asking for support the petition against the closing of their trails. I can't think of anything more worse than you riding spot taken away, let alone one that has your blood and sweat over it. So do them a favor, sign the petition today. Ride on!

Stephen Savage big 360

(Click on the picture for sequence)

Ride posted this sequence of South African rider Stephen Savage doing an almost impossible 360. But impossible stuff will usually become normal tricks in a few months time to come, just like double tailwhip backflips. Stephen also rides for Sunday , so if his bike can take the shit he does you know they are good enough for you. Can't wait for the Black Wave frames to come.

NEW SEXY BRA

This is crazy..

Kum Check

Roy took some cool shots of Calvin with his new cam. Pretty good stuff.

Stephen Murray

Fuck, I actually cried watching.. Take care Stephen..

KGB Space II Fork

This is pretty cool. But I guess you're gonna have trouble grabbing the fork.

Chicks dig BMX

I dunno what to say. Go check out Respectbikes for more amazing riding pics and non-riding pics like this. I wanna go to Taiwan!!!!

Clicked

Ok, Farhan did this clicked turndown at Sunsetbowl. But Luke took the picture. Luke didn't have a camera so he used Zhen Yao's digi cam to snap it. So if Farhan didn't do the turndown. Luke wouldn't be able to snap this. But if Zhen Yao didn't bring the camera,you wouldn't be seeing this as well. If Luke wasn't at Bowl that day, he's prob playing CS at home or doing guard duty in camp.

Ares Boo freecoaster

I've been using this Ares Boo hub for a couple of months now. Tot I should prob share my experience with you guys. I've heard too many ppl crushing their driver bearing in their K** freecoaster, but since this hub uses a 10mm axle the driver bearing is much bigger. I haven't had any problems with the driver bearing or any other bearing on this hub(high quality SKF bearings inside), but since it's a 10mm axle you should prob not use pegs with it. Slack adjustment is a problem tho, this was designed for flatland and most flat guys doesn't ride with that much slack. You'll prob only get abut 1o'clock crank b4 it engages after you remove the washer, which is too little for me. So I removed the axle and machined it as shown below. I took away about 2mm which give me about a good 1/4 of a crank before the hub engages.



I've been running it for more then 5mths now and honestly had no problems at all. Still looking for the LSD version tho since I do lots of grinds on my right and tend to slam the driver quite a bit, but it's still holding up fine. Replacement parts are pretty affordable, I get them from the Theduotonecorp . Hope it helps. e-mail seanlai88@gmail.com to purchase this hub.

Sunday!

Sunday bikes has a new website and it sure looks good. Do checkout the interviews. Oh yes, listening to MP3 whilst riding is rude. Here's a short video of the Sunday warehouse.

RIP Bedok halfpipe

For some stupid reason, the town council at Bedok decided to tear down the hafpipe there. It wasn't the best place to ride but strangely I kinda enjoyed the times I had there. One less place to ride.







Small table. Photo BACKYARD

Mystery bike check

Frame: Fit S3
fork: Primo Kamikaze
headset: No idea

bars: Odyssey Lumberjack
grips: Primo Martinez
stem: Macneil
barends: Yes

seat: Odyssey Denim
post: Primo Rod
clamp: Primo

cranks: Primo Excel
bb: No idea
sprocket: Macneil
pedals: Welgo
chain: that will never break

front rim: Fly
front hub: Shadow
front tire: odyssey Aitjen knobby

rear rim: Fly
rear hub: Shadow V2
rear tire: Fly Ruben 1.95

brake: Vans

That's sooo rad!!

I saw this on Yahoo videos. Rad.

Daniel Etter photography

BMX riders don't just stop at riding. Many does amazing stuff like video editing and photography. Denial Etter is one hell of a BMX photographer and you can own some of his work here . Check out his website and be amazed.

Sean

Sean asked me to post a pic of his bike. I'm posting a pic of him with his bike.

New MOSH Video

Mosh added a new video featuring Mike Ardelean and some others. Yeah, the guy from Nowhere Fast. We might see MOSH parts in Tiong Hin soon. You didn't hear it from me.

New tee design

"All about riding... Plus fun and games...."

Smoker Dave quits smoking

I remember watching him kick ass in many of the Ells Bells videos back in the day. I dad coincidentally is suffering from cancer as well, so I guess I could relate to what his family is going through.

Details of where to get the Smoker tees

KORE Bike Industries
1126 North Scottsdale Road
Tempe, AZ 85281
Tel: 1-480-966-5673


A recent video of Smoker kicking ass. Checkout his last trick.

BMX video?

Luke sent me this shit. Check out the barspin-smith-nosewheelie-whiplash out thingy.

Volume fixed gear

After a long long wait, Volume will be producing their own fixed gear track bike. Get the details in their website. Do I want one? Hell yeah.

Simple session 2007

I saw this clip on Youtube, but I'm not too sure when or where the contest was held. Oh, Josh Harrington won. And he got hurt-again..

Same trick done at different height

Animal seatpost

Well here's a seat post lots of ppl out there are waiting for. A lot of guys modded their pivotal post invented my Macneil (and copied by many) with wages salvaged from old skool 1" stem to eliminate the use of a seat clamp. Not that it saves weight, but it does make the bike look cleaner and simple. So Animalbikes save you guys all the trouble with this ready made. Checkout the VitalBMX video on how to use and install this shit. Let's hope to see them on sale at Tiong Hin soon.

Standard Bykes is still alive and well

Yes they are still around. Some sick freecoast'in skills there.

Calvin in Japan

Calvin flew over to Fukushima Japan for the KOG round 2 event over the weekend. He came in 25th in the Expert class. Pichit Woraa-nan from Thailand won Expert while Yoke Ono took the pro event.

Results:

2007 Round 2 Expert Class result
Rank Name Points
1 Pichit Woraa-nan 1000
2 Tomokazu Morinaga 939
3 Yorimitsu Miyata 897
4 Pakphum Poosa-art 865
5 Akira Okamura 840
6 Tomoyasu Nozaki 817
7 Yoshiaki Mukai 796
8 Keiji Nakamura 778
9 Yasushi Tanabe 761
10 Toshihiro Michida 745
11 Yuki Takeuchi 728
12 Yousuke Shibuya 712
13 Hironao Doukou 696
14 Yuki Sakai 681
15 Akihiro Kasahara 665
16 Kazuma Sakou 650
17 Fumiya Sasagawa 635
18 Yasunari Ishijima 620
19 Takahiro Ikeda 605
20 Ayumu Nishihara 590
21 Gou Takuno 576
22 Shinpei Hanawa 562
23 Kairi Funabiki 548
24 Takumi Eto 534
25 Calvin Tan 520
26 Masato Ito 507
27 Hiroyuki Nishikawa 493
28 Yasuhiro Uehara 480
29 Ryousuke Kobayashi 467
30 Minehito Shinzato 454
31 Yoshiaki Nakayasu 442
32 Hirosuke Honda 429
33 Yorihisa Shiota 417
34 Kenji Mori 405
35 Manabu Yamaguchi 393
36 Yasunori Itagaki 381
37 Ryousuke Takagi 370
38 Syusaku Ikegami 359
39 Masanori Takayama 347
40 Yuuya Morita 336
41 Kouji Takahashi 326
42 Michitarou Abe 315
43 Yutarou Ueda 305
44 Toshihiro Fujisawa 294
45 Daisuke Ono 284
46 Akihiro Itou 274
47 Soutarou Misawa 265
48 Kazushi Satou 255
49 Makoto Amano 246

Jimi Hendrix and BMX

No Jimi doesn't ride BMX, but Joseph Mcintire edited this promo for Status Quo. That's the first wheelchair 180 I've seen. Badass....

Mosh Video

Click the video button on the top of the page for the SF trip video. It is rather old but they will be uploading more videos on the 1st of every month beginning from Aug. So do check it out at Mosh.

Eli Platt in Micreation

Micreation posted this Eli Platt video on it's website. That guy is amazing!! He is also riding for Subrosa . Want to get Subrosa stuff? Go to Scarybikes.com

Sputnic

Checkout this video of Talem Cowart on the Sputnic site shredding a parking lot late at night. MIZ-29 could be carrying Sputnic products soon. Can't wait to get my hands on the Stratocaster.

Chill Bro!

Joel Moody did a great job fliming and editing this video for Empire. It's been out for a while, but it's good watch. Enjoy.

Animal Pivotal seat

Tired of bending you Pivotal seats? Animal has one that's strong enough for you. They look really sick too. Hope to see them at Tiong Hin sometime soon.

Rihanna-Good Girls Are Boring

Well yeah.. They should all ride BMX

Finally!!

Luke Philemon won his first contest last Saturday at the Youth Unite! contest held at Youth Park. Busting out tricks like allyoop tailwhip transfers, 720 tailtap-pedal-270 out and some HUGE airs. All these while riding with a fractured rib.

Results:

Luke Philemon- 1st
John Chan- 2nd
Danny Heng- 3rd

Photo credit Backyard

More videos..

Last trick is a killer.. A killer...

Youth Unite! - Fusion of sports and music

Ok I'm a li'll late at posting this. So the contest happens tomorrow at Youth Park. Registration starts at 8am and BMX park event begins at 12.15pm. It's not going to rain. See you there!!

DK BIKE AUCTION TO SUPPORT STEPHEN MURRAY.

Click on the Gif image above for the link. Loads of help have been pouring in since day one of his accident. How I wish I had some financial help from others when I was hurt.....

Drew Bezanson-Shadow Conspiracy's newest shredder

from Mark Butler and Vimeo.

This guy is amazing! Check out that HUGE pocket air whip.

Hubba hideout

First Rule S.F. Street Jam '07 from Erik and Vimeo.

RED BULL ELEVATION FINALS 2007

Benefit Fund for Stephen Murray

On Friday June 22nd at the AST Dew Tour BMX Dirt Finals in Baltimore, MD, Stephen Murray took a horrific fall on the final set of the dirt section while sending a double back flip. Stephen has received career ending injuries to his spinal cord and vertebrae.


Here are three ways you can contribute:
Email StephenMurrayFund@hotmail.com with the dollar amount you would like to contribute. You will then receive an email back with the invoice that leads you directly to a Pay Pal Secure account where you can pay by credit card or bank account number.

Mail a check payable to Stephen Murray Family Fund:
92 Corporate Park Ste. C #171
Irvine, CA 92606

Make a bank deposit or wire funds directly to:
Stephen Murray Family Fund
Bank of America
4500 Barranca Parkway
Irvine, CA 92614
Routing # 121000358
Account # 1015867459

Levi's BMX team

Here an introduction of the Levi's BMX team. Yeah, the more you fall on those jeans the better they look. But that doesn't include doing faceplant.

RedBull empire of dirt

A few lucky guys get to ride the RedBull dirt course before everyone else does, and Gary Young killed it first try. More videos at Freecaster.

RedBull Elevation jumps

Checkout MacNeil's site to see some pics of the RedBull Elevation course set up. It's not completed yet but it sure looks bloody sweet. Judging by the huge success they had at the Singapore Metro Jam '07, this is gonna kick some serious ass. It's really amazing to see the contest that Jay Miron has been putting up.

Xtreme Singapore-Programe details for BMX Park

Xtreme Singapore Ngee Ann City

16th June 2007

0930 – Registration Begins

Practice Run for Heat 1

0945 – Heat 1 (First 10 riders)

1000 – End of Heat 1

Practice Run for Heat 2

1015 – Heat 2 (Next 10 riders)

1030 – End of Heat 2

Practice Run for heat 3

1045 – Heat 3 (Last 10 riders)

1100 – End of Heat 3

Announcement for Finals

Practice Run for Finals

1130 – Finals

1145 – End of Finals

1200 – Announcement of Winners

More at scarybikes.com

Screw MTV

Here's what you need to watch. Derek Adams rocks!!

Singapore Xtreme Circuit

The next leg of the Singapore Xtreme Circuit will be on 16th June and will be held at Ngee Ann City at the heart of Orchard Rd. Scary Bikes will be working with 20InchO this year for BMX. Scary Bikes will be doing the Park and "Best Trick" events; 20InchO will be doing the Flatland events.

Event details:

The calendar for the events is as follows:

• 16 June – Ngee Ann City
• 4 August – Somerset Skatepark
• 6 October – Tampines Millennium Court
• December (TBC) – Finale at Downtown East

Download the XTREME SINGAPORE CIRCUIT 2007 REGISTRATION FORM. Click here!

Registration:
BMX Park - maximum 30 riders only
BMX Flatland - maximum 30 riders only

Below is the proposed layout for the ramps but it's subject to changes.


For more info please visit Xtreme Singapore Circuit website , Scarybikes.com or 20InchO.com

Sunsetjam updates

The crew have been working really hard preparing for the Jam. Checkout the roll-in done by SuperBam and friends.

A Simple Hub…

Simple bikes have a new prototype hub that they're testing. It looks simple (no pun intended) , light and rather strong. It uses a huge axle through the middle and it bolts through the forks. No more broken spokes from grinding!!

Sunset Dirt Jam 2007

Riot-Bike Co. will be sponsoring some (a little) prizes for the Sunset Jam this year. See you there!! More details at the Sunsetrails website

Date:June 24th 2007
Location : Sunsetrails
Time: 2pm

Ryan

Jonathan took this pic of Ryan doing a wallride off a tiny bank. This guy has the pop!

It's all Lotek.

Lotek has a nice, casual vid of Ian Schwartz taking a day around Portland. Pretty chill vid with amazing film quality, editing and not to mention some real fun freecoaster moves. Also they recently added about 50+ very nice new pics, some show a preview of the new kicks. Rich and the team have been putting in some work on the brand and everything is looking amazing.

RIP Wayne Thunder 1977-2007

21st of May'07 was a sad day. Riot-Bike co's friend Wayne Thunder left us peacefully in his sleep last night. He was part of The Suns which was formally known as The Boredphucks. They revolutionize the local music scene and took Australia by storm. Keep rocking up there bro. Miss you..

Here are some links you can visit.

Wayne's webpage

Wayne Thunder's Myspace page

The Suns Myspace page

Pro Angels

Riot-Bike Co. products are now available at Pro Angels Located at Downtown East. You can find motorcycle accessories, jerseys and armored jackets there as well as assorted t-shirts there. Do check them out!!

Pro Angels
No. 1 Pasir Ris, Downtown East
#01-04, Shoppers Lane
Singapore 519599

Tel: 65827748

E-mail proangels@gmail.com

York Uno And Hiro Morisaki at Swatch FIVB at Sentosa

These 2 riders will be here on the 24/05 to 27/05 for a Swatch evert at Sentosa Island.

Also there will be a JAM CONTEST on 26 and 27 May at the same spot. Riding surface is concrete.. like Basketball court surface.

There will be prizes given out.

heres the schedule

Thur 24 May
10.30am - 11.30am: Jam
1- 1.30pm: Demo (local)
1.30pm - 2pm: Clinic
3.30 - 4.30pm: Jam
4.30 - 5pm: Demo (local)

Fri 25 May
10.30am - 11.30am: Jam
1 -1.30pm: Demo (Jap & local)
1.30pm - 2pm: Clinic
3.30 - 4.30pm: Jam
4.30 - 5pm: Demo (Jap & local)

Sat 26 May
10.30am - 11.30am: Jam
12.30 - 1pm: Demo (Jap & local)
1 - 3pm: Jam Contest
3.30 - 4pm: Demo (Jap & local)
4 - 4.30pm: Clinic

Sun 27 May
10.30am - 11.30am: Jam
12.30 - 1pm: Demo (Jap & local)
1 - 2.30pm: Jam Contest
4 - 4.30pm: Demo (Jap & local)
4.30 - 5pm: Clinic


More details at Flattica.com

SCG Shoes in Singapore

Good news for riders. Here's a kick ass shoe company called SCG founded by Will Love. It's available from Shukor Distribution for distribution in Singapore and Malaysia. Here's a pic of John ripping it up for Shukor.

Birthday flatland jam!!!

Hey guys!! Zenn and Sean will be celebrating their 18th birthday the BMX flatland way - with a flatland jam!! It can't get better than this. Anyone is welcome to go BUT if you are a street rider and you are not familiar of how flatlanders ride DO NOT get in their way when they are in the middle of their links and let the others have their turns. Details as quoted from Flattica below. See you guys there!!

"Hi everyone, me and zenn are planning a jam on the 28th april which just BY CHANCE happens to be my birthday too. Anyways, it's about confirmed and we've booked the hall for the event. There be fans and lights and hopefully drinks.

Venue: Blk 517 Pasir ris st 52 (very close to white sands)( it's a large hall)
Date: 28th april (sat)
Time: afternoon till 11pm"

PS, I'll post the contact e-mail soon so they can anticipate how many rider would turn up.

Metro Jam Singapore 2007

It was a blast. Guess we really have to thank Jay Miron for bring the craziest but laid back BMX comp at the moment here, but I don't think we can ever thank him enough. So many of the big names were here including Mirra, he still remember us from his last visit 7yrs ago and it's so damn cool to know. Catfish has got to be the funniest guy on a 20inch BMX bike, he even got himself a Merlion tattoo. There way too much to write about it and it's already happened a good 2 weeks ago so for more info on what actually happened visit the official Metro Jam website for more. Bart De Jong was in town for judging as welll and he has good things to say about the trip here . I was supposed to meet him abut the rain and due to the fact that he was judging I wasn't able to talk to him, but I'm sure he'll be back to collect his Riot-Bike tee sometime in the near future. FatBMX rules!

New shirts out now!!

Finally! After such a long break the new line are out for sale. Printed on 190gsm 100% cotton tees, these shirts are available in black, white, olive green, charcoal and brown. 20 dead presidents will get you one of these so grab it now. Available at Tiong Hin, MIZ-29 or e-mail me at riotbmx@gmail.com

Now go out and ride!!