One time James stated that his goal in BMX is to ride as much like Chris Doyle as possible. That’s pretty great, and James cranks a mean turndown. Also, how awesome are Kush trails?
Around 2001 a guy named Jon Bot moved to Kelowna. He stayed for about six months, we went on a couple of trips and then he left for Australia. While he was in town, Jon showed us a video full of raw footage from Kenora, Ontario. The video included a guy on a Blue Schwinn complete who did tricks I’d never seen done and a bunch of big gaps and rails. Some of those clips ended up in the last part of the 807 video, which is one of the best Canadian scene videos ever. Karl Engstrom had the ender; it was awesome in 2003, and it still holds up today.
Ladyhawk took four years off and after a few years of prolific side projects (SPORTS, Duffy and the Doubters, Baptists etc.) they pulled the band back together to quietly record this banger of an album. I’ll spare you all the long windedness of a typical album review and just say this – the album is awesome, the whole thing is streaming here, they’re on tour right now with Baby Eagle (Kelowna tonight) and they finish up at the Biltmore November 1st with Shotgun Jimmie.
The thing that really struck me about this video is that Princeton appears to have a street spot. Rick continues to dominate this small, fun looking park.
This edit concludes our series of posts from Montana. If you haven’t seen the rest of the series, check it out here. The song is by Jon-Rae and the River, who no longer exist but were awesome.
Danny Cox is a Calgary legend. This video came up on BMXboard recently and it’s too good not to share. I have no idea where this guy is today, but last I heard he was riding road bikes across continents. Ten years ago he was crankflipping, cranksliding and pushing the boundaries of the GT Snowracer.
Hango by Ridgeway.
Today’s post is the longest of the series, but it’s awesome. Ridgeway sent over a four page long paragraph detailing the ins and outs of our trip and we’ve gathered a bunch of photos and four or five short edits to go along with the spots that we visited.
Jordan Hango shoots awesome photos. Who knew? Check out his gallery of photos from Montana below:
35MM GALLERY BY JORDAN HANGO
EMBASSY MONTANA
In July, eight of us took a trip to explore the open skies and amazing concrete parks of Montana. It was a trip I’d been wanting to make for years, and I was fortunate to share it with some of the best riders in Canada. Legendary Alaskan David Clay also jumped on the trip three days before it started (“I just bought some guns, but I think I can drop $500 on a plane ticket”). We came home with a ton of content and decided to put together a micro-site dedicated to our adventure. We hope to give you a sense of the people we met and places we visited along the way.
We’ll be releasing the site in four parts on Sundays and Wednesdays over the next two weeks. It will have a permanent home here. First up is a gallery of photos from Mat Ridgeway’s disposable camera, along with some of the stories that accompany them.
Clockwise from top left: Jordan Hango, David Clay, Slade Scherer, Mat Ridgeway, Ty Scott, Aaron Gates, Andrew Lazaruk, Kurt Murseli.