Here’s a quick one that came to us. Ky Bridesbois, and appearances from Jesse Hildebrandt and Jeff Jeglum, for One Six shop in Victoria, BC. Filmed and edited by Kerr Bilsland.
It looks like Mike Zinger and Jesse Hildebrandt have been hunting for the perfect image. This little gem of a DIY mini was found in the rainforest of Vancouver Island. Throw in a stunt, scenic backdrop, and a few spices you have the recipe to a Ridebmx Focus feature. Go pick up a printed copy at your local news stand or check out the new digital versions Ride is offering.
After long last the DWOK Mixtape is finally out. This whole thing clocks in at just over 30 minutes but it felt like it flew by when I watched it. A number of full parts, split parts, and mix parts from Eli Taylor, Jack Leonard, Mason Gray, and a bunch more of London, ON’s finest. Creative editing, so many instances of great spot usage, great soundtrack, and the VX filming looked crispy. It’s great to see a crew investing so much time to create a unique end result that really stands out and shines against a sea of rushed web edits. Nothing felt fake or forced, DWOK is the real deal. This is a must watch.
The Hinterland from Least Most on Vimeo.
It’s February, and most of us have been buried by snow or have battled grey skies and rain for months. At this point, with spring just around the corner, I wanted to share this video that a few friends and I made years ago in Alaska.
In Alaska, snow hits in late September and melts in April leaving only a short period for riding and other summer activities. In a way, the winter defines the entire year. I’ve never seen a group of people live life as aggressively as Alaskans do in June and July. Walking around a neighborhood at 10 pm is different there. There is often a surprising number of kids out playing, there might be people out doing yardwork and if you want to, you can ride all night in semi-daylight.
I hope that some of you will watch this and be able to relate to it. Alaska is an extreme example, but there are lots of places in Canada with the same long winters and the same necessity to get out there and make things happen in the summer.
Saskatoon’s Peter Olsen may arguably be one of the tallest flatlanders out there, and he’s also one of few flatlanders supported by S&M Bikes. He has been talking about filming for a new web edit for them for some time now, so it’s great to finally see all his hard work come to fruition. For the unexperienced viewer (namely, people that haven’t ridden much flatland before), Pete’s riding pushes the realms of technical and complicated cross-handed and cross-footed rolling tricks. The link at 1:12 with a cross-footed turbined hang 5 to a backwards cross footed whiplash is unbelievable, and the death-truck ender may be short but I had to watch it a few times to wrap my head around it. A solid video through and through.
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.
Nick Lindstrom getting his “Muska” on at UBC. The dudes not enrolled in school but he sure is in a hurry to get to class.
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).
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.