THE NORTHERN EMBASSY

This edit is dope for a few reasons: the riding is awesome, these dudes used to be the little kids in Calgary and they’re now growing in to amazing riders, there’s a tweaker tweaking hard in the intro, it’s edited to one of my favorite Joy Division songs, there’s clips of John Alden riding 4 pegs in it, and lastly and most importantly, these dudes are having a shitload of fun riding their bikes and that’s what it’s all about. Featuring Teddy Eyob, Jay Park, Quintin, John Alden and more.

I stumbled onto this video this weekend and found it pretty amazing, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. How lucky are we to live in this amazing country?

Apparently this video was put together with over 65 hours of Canadian’s footage.

This Ant Life edit came in from Jon Fennelly from St. John’s and it’s a great weekend watch. Featuring all the bys from Newfoundland (Jon Fennelly, Rob Yetman, Patrick Sullivan, Sean Slade, Phil Bartlett, Justin Sullivan, Luke Reid, Blair Pennell, Robert Osmond, and Brandon Hedderson) having some fun. The first half is filmed with a GoPro/iPhone, and the second half with a Canon T3i. Enjoy!

“Here is a little edit of Amos Franke. There clips where compiled before he broke his collar bone and fractured his pelvis this summer. The initial plan was do go for a fully rounded edit. With obvious setbacks, we have Amos doing what he does best. Techin’ out on anything in his path.”
– Zach Rampen

Amos does some ridiculous stuff on the UBC slants in here amongst other things including a crazy banger. Put together wonderfully by Zach Rampen, thanks boys! Heal up Amos, we want to see a full edit in 2013 (apparently the above edit was filmed in only a few days).

Lots going on over at BMX Gallery 4130. They’re holding a winter contest where the best BMX & snow picture wins a Cult prize pack (Cult bars, Cult chain, Cult hat and Cult pedals).

“All you need to do is post a picture to Instagram with the #bmxgallery4130 and you’re entered. That’s it. It could be a tire track in the snow, your buddy firing a rail in the snow, or stair hop with the snow shovelled.”

For all contest details click here. In other Gallery news they just released a limited run of Gallery Flames Quintin collab hats. These hats look amazing and will be gone quicker than this NHL season. If you’re in Calgary grab one quick and if you’re from out of town, order one off their new online store here.

As I watched BMX videos instead of football in America today, I came across this edit of two successive weekend trips in 2010. The first weekend was spent in the Kootenays and the second in Seattle. Together they featured attempts at riding in the woods, camping in the middle of nowhere, a brief appearance from Street Lazer, and George Bolter (among others) kicking ass at bike riding.

This is amazing! Desson hooked up Jeff Evans’ first ever edit, dating back to Jeff being in grade 7/8. He barely looks big enough to hop and yet he was already shredding the streets in typical Jiff fashion.

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Isaac Cormack hooked up this dope edit of the Victoria, BC homies enjoying summer and shredding the streets Vic. This edit has a really good vibe to it and it really makes you miss/look forward to summer! Greg Flag will be proud of the last clip.