…or does he? Travis Collier performs ‘bicycle ballet’ for the YTV children’s panel television show Zoink’d. That kid Caden seems like a jerk.
Tattoos and BMX are nothing new. Many riders are covered head to toe in them, and professional names like John ‘Luc-E’ Englebert, Mike ‘Big Island’ Castillo, and even Canada’s Greg Nicholson have turned their professional career from BMX to the craft of tattooing. I’ve been seeing Lee Dennis, who counts himself on the pro teams of Sunday Bikes and Primo Products, tattoo his friends and himself for a while now, and recently make the jump from garages and his living room to a professional studio. My interactions with Lee in the past had been slim, and I had simply known him as a soft spoken rider that let his riding do most of the talking. One Saturday I took the trip down to St. Catharine’s to meet up with him and speak openly about tattooing, being self taught, balancing it with his responsibilities as a pro rider, and more. Click below to read the interview as we get tattooed with Lee Dennis.
With the speed that the internet moves it’s here today and gone tomorrow with most BMX videos. This was one of my favourite videos that we posted from all of last year and I think it deserves another watch. Check out the Big Baby Carl Arnett, filmed and edited by Riley McMaster.
Terry Proveda follows up his previous bicycle documentary on Billy Borrys with another Winnipeg story of their secret skatepark. This short film centres around the DIY skatepark in a frozen Winnipeg warehouse that Dave McNabb and his friends have been keeping alive for nearly 10 years now. When you live in one of Canada’s coldest major cities and ride BMX, what else are you supposed to do? Beautifully shot and edited by Terry and narrated by Dave McNabb.
Check out this video of Norco‘s Ben Kaufmann laying down heavy moves at the Brose Farm dirt jumps. When you’re performing shows all the time like Ben you’re doing your hardest tricks three times a day on demand, so watching him let loose on some dirt jumps is a real treat.
This past weekend Brad Hill, or Bobby as he is known, gave me a copy of his new photo book, simply titled Bobby’s Book. Despite sharing his photographs on this site, in the pages Union Press, various BMXFU projects, and the odd magazine publication, he still had an overspill of photographs that deserved to be showcased and shared. He did what few people seem to do nowadays and self published his own full colour zine of photographs of his friends and where he’s from. Each photo steers clear of the all-too-common low fisheye angle exaggeration that is common in BMX photographs. Using a multitude of different analog cameras and films, the images are each laid out with careful consideration to the page’s background and hand written captions are scrawled in marker on scraps of paper. If you wanted to get a physical copy of the book you are unfortunately out of luck, as they are already all gone and spoken for. Despite that, Bobby put up a digital copy that you can flip through, and hopefully it inspires others to shoot more photos and share it with their friends.
We posted about the custom patch seat from Finland, so we thought we’d share Chris Silva’s custom hat he made with our nature patch. There’s still some left in our online store so pick one up and get creative.
Here’s a random photo of Luke Santucci with an improvised shoe tripod.
Here’s one we’ve been saving since last summer because of how crazy it is…another NBD from Dillon that is sure to get alot of attention.