This is the real shit. Pure fluid motion on two wheels.
Posts Tagged ‘bmx’
Macneil re-ignites my BMX flame.
June 9, 2011George Marshall takes great photos.
May 4, 2011
And this one is no exception – Matt Hoffman aka ‘The Condor’ my childhood hero, complete with grey beard.
I had a Hoffman flash once, it was too short for me, I didn’t care, it was a Hoffman.
George is currently working on Albion magazine and snapping shots for Rapha’s survey… amongst other things. Dude is in demand!
Peep George Marshall.
The descent.
January 4, 2011
Stunning Swift.
August 4, 2010
When cycling my 12 mile cycle path route to work on my BMX overtaken by mountain bike’s, racers and folding bikes, I dreamed of owning an old school Hutch pro racer cruiser with skinny wheels and hard set gearing. The opportunity never arose, but I did end up getting a Freeagent cruiser set-up with skinnys and good gearing it was a gorgeous fast, bike. But after trying a mix of old and new cruisers, every cruiser I rode felt wrong, the top tubes too short, the chainstays too long, the bikes felt stodgy, with thick unnecessarily clumpy dirt tyres, but worst of all, they were difficult to manual or slow.
So I designed the Swift and thanks to Mark Noble at Deluxe on help with tried and tested quality manufacturing, the frame became a reality.
The swift rides with modern BMX geometry. So your body retains the same agile body position, to the floor, to your bars, to your rear axle as a modern BMX. With the added benefits of larger faster sleeker wheels.
The Swift also comes with limited edition graphics designed by type design legend Seb Lester.
Seb’s type design can be found everywhere, Intel logo found inside your PC, the New YorkTimes, GQ magazine.
Sebs client list is a who’s who of dream clients, and he’s recent breakout into type illustration has instantly created waves. Each letter is custom drawn for the Swift graphics.
Sh*t looks tight. Wish I had room ( money ) for another bike and especially another bike that looks like this!
More info over at Emer Bicycles.
Shouts to Lee for the heads up.
Chainless.
May 25, 2010This is new to me. I had heard of freecoaster hubs before for the use of freewheeling backwards but never this. Either way, Rad.
Thanks Mattyboy for the heads.
Sidecar Radness.
January 18, 2010
BMX Design.
January 8, 2010
Music, a design studio in Manchester got BMX as their nominated sport and created posters by getting BMX riders to ride around in paint in a warehouse. Each bike used started off completely white.
“Music were one of the 30 agencies invited by Grafik to design a poster celebrating an Olympic sport for their exhibition that was part of London Design Festival,” explains Music’s Ali Johnson.
“We were asked to design a poster for BMX, which was a stroke of genius/fate because Manchester is the home of British Cycling and Team GB. We enlisted the help of 3 young members of Manchester BMX Club and their coach Sam Foakes (former World No.1 Flatland BMX Champion) who helped us ‘make the posters’. It’s them on the bikes in the film…not us…we’d have fallen off!
We then persuaded Olympic 2010 BMX hopeful (and Manchester based) Shanaze Reade to sign 100 of them. All proceeds going to the British Paralympic Fund and the charity Right To Play.”
See more here.
KAO.
December 9, 2009
Another product that I like the look of yet have no information on. Man I could seriously do with a few lessons in the Japanese language. Actually I should really try and master my own first!
Kao Stem seen at Pedal Consumption.
Something for the weekend.
November 27, 2009BMX x Porsche.
November 23, 2009Not sure of the connection here but the pictures are plenty rad!
Pure slams.
November 9, 2009Real CMX.
October 27, 2009
Spotted at Rotterdam Fixed.
Whirling Dervish.
October 26, 2009Thanks for the linky Hardy!
I know 700cmx seems to be gaining a whole lotta momentum right now but seriously this is the real sh*t and more over I find that this new wave of fixed gear trick riding to be somewhat limited.
Now I have always hated flatland as I don’t find it to be ‘Rad’ enough but never the less this is real impressive.
let the discussions commence!
Similarities.
October 21, 2009I have posted on this subject before here but after seeing the following frame I feel it has gotten worse.
Is that Killorado BMX not simply ridiculous? Just take a look at the length of the seat-tube for the answer.
This guy sums it it pretty good:
The worst offender in this regard, of course, is Blackeye’s Cory Jarman, whose signature frame, the Killorado is an abomination against everything ever. It looks like a stripped-down girls bike from Toys R Us. I know he does 180 whips down stairs, but it’s ridiculous for the same reason it would be if someone hit 2,000 home runs while using a special aluminum/carbon bat. I hesitate to call it cheating, but it’s pretty freaking lame.
Words from SPFRLS
A Quick rant.
October 16, 2009
To those across the world wide web who like the posts of SPINWELL and link to them… Thank you! And I will continue to do the same also as it is you that has put in all of the work to find these gems that we all love so much.
And to those pirates who straight jack posts including those off other blogs and websites and then don’t link to them or sometimes even pass a found gem off as their own – You suck… infinitely. Oh and remember pirates, this is not a numbers war so burn your stats!
To say a quick thanks to those who have linked to me, here is a small list of blogs I read and link to regularly.
Fixed Gear Leeds.
Hipster Nascar.
Double Oh Two.
14 Bike Co.
Rapha Blog.
Birmingham Fixed Gear.
Go check them out if you havn’t already, they are great blogs and always worth tapping in.
Now to lighten the mood a little after my negative indulgence here is a vid of my favourite BMXer right now – Mike Aitken. This guy flows tighter over dirt packs than anyone I have ever seen. No big tricks like flairs or cash rolls, just a real simple, beautiful, effortless flow.
Ride safe friends and enjoy your weekend.
Ruined.
June 30, 2009
Supreme x BMW
May 26, 2009I saw the bike featured here a while back in or on the cover of an old Supreme look book and since that time I firstly forgot about the bike and then upon remembering it I struggled to find a picture of it anywhere, until now.
Sometime back in 07 Supreme linked up with Brooklyn Machine Works to produce this one off ( ? ) 24″ wheel cruiser and just look at how sick it is. Forget the fact it has ‘Supreme’ written on the downtube this thing just oozes dopeness and it is exactly how I think a cruiser should look. Man those crispy amber wall Tiogas are the sh*t!
BMX back in Birmingham.
May 21, 2009Remember last week I mentioned plans to rebuild Perry Barr/Great Barr BMX track?
Well a visit yesterday to Ade at Sprocket revealed the news that the rebuild has begun.
Those pictures were taken last week so I am guessing they have gotten quite a bit further by now but anyway well done to all the guys involved, you have done a grand job!… I can’t wait to see it again, that track was sitting there unloved and rotting for far too long.
More info at BMX Talk forum.
Also check Birmingham BMX.
Want to go peep it?… here is the Address.
Max Air.
May 12, 2009A friend of a work colleague passed by the store last weekend on this: A Rad as hell 1985 Skyway Streetbeat.
They said at the time: Forget the ordinary with Street Beat, Skyway’s new full-on freestyle machine. It’s light enough to grab max air, and strong enough to beat the street. “Max Air” ! how times have changed, you would sound a complete idiot spouting that lingo today for sure.
Peep all of the excessive tubing though compared to todays basic utilitarian ‘Freestyle’ bikes… Nowadays BMX bikes look like scooters with pedals on and this thing looks like a spaceship with wheels on… I love it.
Props to you emalie ( hope I spelt your name right ) you got a real nice whip there.
