Spinwell Cycling Club » bmx

Macneil re-ignites my BMX flame.

Gavin Campbell — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:46:27 +0000

This is the real shit. Pure fluid motion on two wheels.

George Marshall takes great photos.

Gavin Campbell — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:28:05 +0000

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.

Gavin Campbell — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:04:33 +0000

Gravity bikes. Nothing short of awesome!

Found./

Stunning Swift.

Gavin Campbell — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:35:30 +0000

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.

Gavin Campbell — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:52:49 +0000

This 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.

Gavin Campbell — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:31:29 +0000

BMX Design.

Gavin Campbell — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:45:18 +0000

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.

Gavin Campbell — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:49:34 +0000

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.

Gavin Campbell — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:02:46 +0000

BMX x Porsche.

Gavin Campbell — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:34:43 +0000

Not sure of the connection here but the pictures are plenty rad!