THE NORTHERN EMBASSY

01 Nov

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I am always fascinated by what interests BMXers have outside of riding. The fact that a bike can bring people together even though they may have completely different interests or career outside of riding is cool. I have rode with Luis a few times and never had any idea what he did outside of riding until now. Luis is a Vancouver local who shreds Vanier, Hastings and nearly any transition you put in front of him, very cool to see what he does outside of riding and how talented he is at it.

31 Oct

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Beal’s been taking it easy over the summer, too busy printing shirts but he hooked us up with some footy he’s been sitting on and it’s banging as you’d expect. Also peep the new Repset tee below, rep yo set.

31 Oct

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Somebody get this kid a burger. Pascal Lafontaine is from a suburb outside of Montreal and has been shredding for the last little while. WARNING this edit may cause seizures, I guess there is such a thing as footage shaky enough to make steadycam footy look good. There’s some serious bangers in here though, check it out.

30 Oct

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Last weekend MacNeil held a Halloween BBQ Jam at Railside Skatepark in Port Coquitlam, BC. The original date of Saturday got rained out, but the jam was quickly re-scheduled for Sunday. Even though the morning had some gloomy skies, a number of people showed up (some costumed, some not), ate some burgers and hot dogs, rode bikes, then as the sun started to go down had a rail jam for a case of beer. Whole event looked like a good time and brought together riders from all different corners of Vancouver. Marc Boudreau and Jeremy Deme were on hand filming, and edited this video together for them. You can check out some photos from the day on the MacNeil site here.

30 Oct

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The Albion launched it’s issue 6 online today which includes this crazy picture of Cory Beal doing an insane maneuver on this rail in Barcelona. I remember seeing this picture in the printed issue a while back and thinking how ridiculous it was that Beal did this in and out twice. The first time on one of the first days of our Embajada En Barcelona trip, rolling his ankle super bad first or second try (see the trailer below). He ended up pulling it fourth or fifth try with a messed up ankle and it was the first spot of that day. A few weeks later he would do it again during his Barcelona layover with some English fellows for the above photo, while the rest of the Embajada/Hola crew we’re already back to Canadian winter.

29 Oct

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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.