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13 Feb

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California is typically known as the sunshine mecca of palm trees and warm sandy beaches all year round. Well my friend Cubby from San Francisco, who’s always on the hunt for abandoned pools and fullpipes, just posted this picture of this forgotten pool he recently tried to drain. Sadly the water in the deep end had frozen solid. A scene we here at the Embassy empathize with.

This photo was a good excuse to mention Full Frame Collective. It’s one of my favourite riding photo sites. With contributions from a small crew of talented guys who are shooting almost exclusively medium format. Going back with a couple years of archives, there’s some real beauts in there.

10 Feb

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The friendly pals and kooks at Vancouver’s most “together” BMX house, 450 Salsbury, are back at it again. Jason Teet, Jordan Hango, Carl Arnett, and guest starring the wacky neighbour Matt Desson all put down moves for this new one by Riley McMaster (with the shaving cameo at the end).

10 Feb

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In the ever evolving sequence of Chris Silva edits, this new one on a freecoaster may have caught some people off guard. Chris has been testing a prototype MacNeil freecoaster for the last few months, and before the snow made us all shut-ins across Ontario, he filmed enough to put this edit together. Traditionalists fear not, as he has already returned to his faithful cassette hub, but you can read an interview with him about hubs, riding, California, Toronto, and more on the RideBMX site.

09 Feb

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With all the recent Hango-Mania I thought I would re-visit this video that we posted over three years ago. Jeremy spent a weekend with Jordan Hango and in just two short days he had enough to put this edit together. It was also the first time he even rode the Woodyard ramps. Much has changed in three years, but Hango is still pedalling really fast, and going much higher than most other riders.

Now for more current Hango offerings, may I turn your attention to the incomprehensibly scary photos below shot by Dave Scott. A terrifying ledge ride to fence hop on the left, and a wallride to anal sphincter releasing drop on the right. You can see them larger over on the Open Liquor website.

hango

07 Feb

Posted at 22:28h in archive by

Matt Desson nose manual by Zach Rampen

Matt Desson lets nosie loose on a dumpster in East Van. This was the last cruise of 2012 for myself and probably the last sunny day for Vancouver in 2012. How bout that computer blue???