Barcelona Tag

16 Aug

Posted at 20:25h in archive by

Personally, in my mind the high point of Northern Embassy was the Barcelona trip. I fully see the irony of a Canadian based BMX website highlighting a trip to Europe but keep in mind this trip happened in December which any Canadian BMXer will tell you is the time of year they want to escape to warmer weather/ ride outside daily. Let alone get 11 Canadians to the street mecca that is Barcelona.

The earliest beginnings of this trip started thanks to The Hunt video contest. Early summer 2011, my wife Kristina was heading back to Montreal from Vancouver for the summer, once her spring semester had ended which meant I had room for visitors. The Hunt contest was launched, NE got an invitation and the timing was perfect. Dillon was super into filming for it, so came out and spent the summer. Dill would often come chill at Ten Pack for the day while I worked, browsing Chase, Ride and Dig mags from the crazy Ten Pack magazine library then after work/ on weekends it was on.
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04 Jan

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sean cooke - smith

Pretty much all across the country people are dealing with terrible weather, so I dug up this photo of Sean Cooke doing a smith grind last year in Spain to remind us that it’s not so icy everywhere and it will always get better. There is light at the end of the tunnel.

15 Apr

Posted at 12:18h in archive by

If you haven’t gotten a copy of our Embajada En Barcelona DVD yet, you’re missing out. If you buy it through our shop you will get a copy of our Bueno zine that goes a long with it, and this photo might make a bit more sense.

To give you a bit of a back story, the airline company lost Jeremy’s bag for the first couple days of our trip, so he rented this sweet bike to keep up with everyone as he filmed. While sessioning this bump spot with everyone, he still wanted to get rad on it, and charged at it all the same. The look on his face was priceless, and the bike held up.

27 Dec

Posted at 10:21h in archive by

Here’s a random Barcelona photo that will surely make everyone on the trip wish they were back there, and everyone else in Canada look forward to summer/ the end of this white stuff and below zero temperatures.

11 Dec

Posted at 23:13h in archive by

As we previously said, we are all on a trip in Barcelona right now. The crew consists of Jeremy Deme, Dillon LLoyd, Greg Flag, Taylor Elvy, Sean Cooke, Luke Santucci, Ryan Hiebert, Albert Krolikowski, Jeff Evans, Cory Beal, and myself (Prashant Gopal). There are some projects we are working on that we will announce in the near future, but for now here are some photos of the trip so far. Click below to check them out.

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07 Dec

Posted at 07:36h in archive by

There’s a good chance our site will be a bit slower over the next 2 weeks, as most of the Embassy contributors will be in Barcelona for our Embassy Vacation. We will be doing trip updates from Barcelona and will still be checking our Embassy email (northernembassy@gmail.com) for submissions so feel free to hit us up and check back for updates/ news on the trip over the next 12 days.