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| Hawk, BF, and Joe Rich in NorCalThe new park in Morgan Hill (a little south of San Jose) is opening next Saturday, June 27th, at 3pm. To help celebrate the occasion, Morgan Hill-based Fox is flying in Chase Hawk, Brian Foster, and Joe Rich for a little demo at the park. Those three dudes are loaded with style and effortless boost, so get your ass out to this opening to see what proper BMX riding is all about. For more info on the park, peep this. If you can't make the opening, or just want to get another chance to hang out with those dudes, they'll also be making an appearance the day before at the Fox store in Santa Clara at the Valley Fair Mall (see flyer above). Channels: Bike Odyssey seats, pedals, grips, and Gsport rimsOdyssey released Chase Hawk's new signature grips and their new "chameleon" seats and pedals, which expose their true color in the sunlight but turn a bland glow-in-the-dark clear look indoors. Though I have recently taken a disliking to most plastic parts, this is cool. Even if it was a plastic block that served no purpose, it would be cool. And Gsport is putting out their ribcage and rollcage rims in more colors. Regardless of color, these rims are the shizzle and everybody should use them. Peep the pics below... Channels: Bike Fit Team BuildsSome pictures of Fit Bike Co team riders Brian Foster and Trey Jones wither their new builds... BF is rocking the Lurch and Trey Jones is sporting the new Chase Hawk frame. Dig it! Channels: Bike Chad Shackelford VideosWhat? You don't know who Chad Shackelford is? Well, do you watch BMX videos? Okay, good. Did you like Odyssey's latest DVD "Electronical?" Did you like the latest work with Sunday Bikes' web videos? Or maybe you know more about the SHOOK interactive BMX videos in which Chad played a big part with ninetofive films... Now you know! Well. Chad got on vimeo recently and the BMX community is stoked because we get to see... well... enough words, see for yourself! Channels: Bike Ruben Alcantara's Big HipFly Bikes' Ruben Alcantara does not usually do things that others do. This is well known in the BMX world so I need not elaborate. He could just go around manualing ledges and doing invert airs out of quarter pipes all day but he does not. Instead, he does and creates things that remain in your mind for years and years... so here you have it, Ruben Alcantara's BIG HIP. Story by Fly Bikes: "It's been years since Joe, Garret and I talked about jumping a giant hip. When we were filming for the T1 video we got the oportunity to build one and got to work really good, so good that we couldn't pedal even faster to go higher. Since then i have been curious about how much fun will be to go faster to something like this and see what will happen. One day riding at the trails looking at this littlehill next to the jumps i had the idea and i found this line going between the jumps that will give you a ton of speed and also ended in a good spot to build "The Big Hip" and with no much digging involve. The problem was that to make the landing was a lot of hard work due to it's size done by hand, and one day while digging at the trails with my good friend Sami (who used to work with digging machines) called me and told me that one of the machines was free one weeked and we could use it to make the landing... When i hang up i was so excited that i stoped fixing this little jump at the trails and went to start "The Big Hip" and the first afternoon i almost finished the take off and in a couple of more days everything was ready except the landing.....then the machine came and, boom!! there it was!.. over three floors of hill and rollers to get the speed, a NINE foot tall take off ,and a step landing 30 feet away!! ... sooo beautyfull!....but then it was the moment to give it a go..... Yes, I was a bit scared because you had to go really fast and it was huge!... so, it made me think a lot the first time... I remember having flash baks of back in the day trying backflips for first time or something like that ...so fun!... the jump it worked out so good! and I felt like i was 18 years old again... I won't forget this day, incredible!...and it's provably one of the best feelings that i ever had on my bike...but, it's even better seeing my friends jumping it for the first time with scary faces and after they clear the jump you can tell how stoked and happy they are seing their faces.... we all agree how good his jump is and that makes me happier. Here there is a drawing that gives you a better idea of how the Big Hip is and why is so fun to ride it. Well, all you guys who ride bikes know how fun is to ride a hip ... so much that makes you think why is that fun? Small or big, a bank or transition... it doesn't matter.... it's just sooo fun! It's hard to describe the feeling but can be compared to a good day in life... maybe because the different ways to do it? ... because you can pick the trayectory that you want even if you don't know what is going to happen?.... because in the middle of it you can correct this trayectory? ..... because it always gives you a new good feeling?... yes, it's sounds like a good day in life and because good days exist big days does too. Maybe is the reason why i started The Big Hip?... who knows but one thing is for sure is that we all had big days riding it." "Looking at the last articule at Dig magazine and news about the Big Hip brought me so many good memories and i miss it a lot because we can't ride it to the next winter because we need rain to work on it and now everything is to dry. My best memories is no only riding and jumping, it's even better to see my friends going full speed and hit this big thing and getting sent in the air and see them all stocked. Here are some pictures of all of us and I don't get tired watching this pictures for the good times and memories that brings to me Thanks for the good times and your help with the jump... oh! and you are all invited to ride it next seasson! I hope to see you next winter." Channels: Bike | ||||||||||||





