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thisissue on the cover Simon O’Brien’s got whopper//Nitai

in the contents You’ve seen ET right? Dave Dillewaard heading for home//Steve Hillenbrand

010 spoken word 014 news + assorted happenings

All the stuff you need to know.

036 state of the nation

East to west to north to south + NZ!

040 reformist

Fear of a flat planet + Robin Eriksson interview.

044 bmxgames 2007

Australian BMX comes together...

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052 photolife

Nick Gascoine words you up on what it takes

to get that Velvia moment.

raphael williams interview How’s this, his Dad rode for Hutch...

the cam jam Build it and they will come.

troy jackson interview Troy ain’t scared.

xair The BMX world heads to NZ

behind bars Three stuntbiking rulers...

086 tech Keep your ride rolling with these easy steps.

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Doing it for the love//Matt Holmes, Mike Daly G5unit//Holmes Mac Wench//Robola B

Volume 7 March 2007

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Sydney to Perth is a long way. Even longer if you drive it...

I guess it’s been a mission I’ve wanted to do for a long time. So, with a month to get there and back, we took off. Bike, check. Surfboards, check. Van full of food, sleeping gear, ipod and CD’s, check. We didn’t really have a plan, just drop in to see friends and family on the way, find good spots to chill and ultimately enjoy the nomadic styles that life on the road brings...

Of course there was a vague list of parks in places we hadn’t checked out, plus the favourites we’d known for years, but ultimately, we were just going to roll with the journey.

See what came up day to day and basically not stress on anything.

The day to day routine went kinda like this, drive for a while, make it to somewhere better than the day before, set up the van, find the local park or trails, session for a bit, cook up some food, chill, sleep and wake up in the middle of nowhere and if near a break, get a surf in. Now I’ve never been much for routines, but I was kinda digging the way this was panning out…

Now what this trip brought to light was that it seemed that many of these little towns on the long road across this big ‘ol country sported more than just cool historical stories.

Think a park of some description, some trails (however small) and of course a group of riders who rode for the hell of it. Even better was that they more than welcomed a new rider into their scene, even if it was just for a day.

Basically, what I’m getting to is that if you get the chance to travel this crazy country, do it. Make the time, save the dollars, get a crew together, pack your car and drive.

I know how often people make their whole world about getting to the states or whatever, but this country has so much going on and even more to see.

In the end, the trip really opened my eyes to just how widespread BMX is getting. So, no matter how good you reckon you or your local scene is, odds are that there’s a local scene going off just as much in places you may have never figured BMX ever even happened at.

When they said we live in the lucky country, they were spot on. Holmes

Kim Johnson throwing a lawnmower in Grasso style for those over 30 still riding 20inches...Nannup rules//Holmes

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Nicky Buckard//morrisey

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Dillewaard whip to manual the sub//morrisey

spinaldisorder

The latest comp at Beenleigh was a little different from the regular Heavy Metal Heroes comps that they run.

This time, Vans shoes came on board with some support for a one off comp on the new spine mini ramp.

Because it was a mini ramp only comp the HMH guys decided to call it Spinal Disorder, to follow on from the comp of the same name in Canberra last year. Beenleigh head honcho Mark Schneider decided to try out a new judging system for this comp, it seemed a little complicated but basically ran something like this. The comp ran like a regular comp with timed runs and finals, but the 3 judges each judged a different aspect of the riding. So there was a first place for style, first for toughest tricks and first for overall best rider. The overall level of riding at the comp was incredible, all the Aussie big guns were in town, so the line up looked more like a international comp.

I guess this gives you an idea of the level of Aussie riders worldwide. Even the amateur class was off the hook, so you know the next crop of pro’s are not far behind.

Beenleigh is always hot… and nothing changed for this comp, the tar was melting all day but I guess the Beenleigh and QLD locals are used to that by now. The whole park was sessioned all day with more than a few bandanas in attendance, I guess you gotta show your colours in Beenleigh… Another new addition at Beenleigh is the permanent grandstand which was full all day, there were lots of people checking out the comp, which was good to see. The Colony team arrived in true rock star style in a limo, something to do with a DVD they are filming, so I guess you will have to want and see that one for more.

In no particular order here’s some highlights from the pro class. Chris Edgar was pulling out massive flairs, a turndown flair and old school no hander to turndown 360’s, he took out second in both overall and best trick. Nicky Buckard 360ed over the spine both ways, plus had flairs both ways. Vince Byron pulled a bar to fuf to bar on the sub, crazy, plus old school no hand 360ed the spine and had stretched superman seat grab air’s as well. Dillewaard took out first in style with 360 table’s, a 360 whip, 180 old school no hander and a 180 whip, all over the spine. First place in overall and tricks went to Ryan Guettler who started out with a 720 over the spine, plus pulled his new no footed cancan flair, I think this one took out first for hard trick… Nick Cooper cancan foot jammed the face of the sub (on the vertical bit) and double pegged to fakie into the ramp from the 6ft sub, so that’s 12ft off the ground. He landed OK but couldn’t get the roll back, still, props for the drop in, awesome. Brendan Jones represented Sydney by fufing the back rail over at least 6ft of deck, tough as, plus he rode super fast as always. Kenny Raggett crashed pretty bad trying a bar to oppo fuf, he fell backwards onto the coping and tweaked his back, he’s all good now though. Chris danger O’Donnell opened a few eyes to his riding with whips everywhere, including double whip airs, good to see he’s getting out of Sydney.

Over all a great comp with awesome riding, and its great to see the new additions at Beenleigh coming through… im sure there’s a heavy metal heroes twenty seven thousand coming up soon so head up and check it all out…

Guettler in his new ride//morrisey

Chris Edgar//morrisey

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Kie Ashworth//Lloyd

livewirejam

A group gathering of bicycle motocross stunt riders at any time is always a good thing. It’s a time to give hand slaps to other stunt riders that you have never met before and it’s also a time to give some stick to others you haven’t seen in a while.

It’s a time to reflect on your own personal growth and to see how much progress you need to make to achieve the bicycle motocross stunts that you have been thinking about.

On this occasion the group gathering was to be the Livewire Jam held at the Mandurah skatepark. This was to be the second annual jam held in memory of our friend Chadd Walton. The weeks before the jam, the discussion between the riders and the anticipation from everyone were creating a lot of hype.

for his efforts. Jamo got a prize when he placed his back tyre on the edge of the platform of the quarter set up on the mini ramp to complete a fufanu, it was a hard task for sure.

Somehow a bike sculpture was started and the first person to climb to the top was Dylan and he got a set of grips for his antics. Many other prizes were given out throughout the day and many were thrown out to any one who could snatch them from others. It created a certain amount of chaos that kept the fun and excitement flowing all day.

When I arrived mid morning with the temperature already going up, there were a few riders already there, set to enjoy the festivities of the day. Once we had set up the freestyle now ramps (jump box in the middle of the park and small quarter on top of the mini) and with the tunes pumping out of the PA, it was time to let the fun begin. Riders started to roll up at about the same time the lovely girls from red bull arrived to hand out some of that famous drink. I had set up a drink stall on the day with drinks for sale and with the profits going towards the after party later that night. I thought that this was a good way to contribute to the after dark festivities. With at least 130 riders there on the day you could bet that there was going to some fun and excitement. The banger of the day went early when Ben Davis launched himself from the freestyle now jump box, transferring all the way over the grind box and letting his tyres reunite with the skatepark on the flat bank on the other side. This would have to be without a doubt a gap that was begging to be done. I’m sure Kie had it planned that way when he said to set the jumpbox up in that location. Many riders opted not to ride but just to socialize with others and quench their thirst with some good tasting drinks. Many of those good tasting drinks were also consumed later that night at the after party.

The only two really organized things that took place on the day were the bunny hop and long jump comps. I personally was looking forward to the bunny hop comp. I wanted to equal my personal best of 82cm from last years jam. This proved to be correct and I was a happy biker after this, my day was done. Only a few certain riders had the extra pop to get over the 90cm but it was Wazza who got the prizes and the noise from the gathered riders once he cleared the 100 cm mark.

As the day transpired there were heaps of prizes to give away. Some riders who had really bad seats and grips were given new ones and other riders had to really earn their prizes. Certain tricks were called out and who ever did them first would get a prize. The first rider under twelve that could do a double peg stall would get a prize. That happened and the young dude was happy. Who could do the best fast plant was the call. Rex took it out with style. Nose wheelie across the ledge and after a few attempts it was young Calvin who took the prize. Rail ride to tail whip was the call from someone so it was announced over the PA, Owen stepped up to the plate and proceeded to do the stunt and got a prize

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Would you pedal with all your might at a small wooden jump to launch your bicycle as far as you could? Well there were quite a few bicycle stunt riders that did, and there was just as many who crashed doing that. But it was a good shoot out between Wazza and Mandurah local Jason. Both seemed crazy enough to temp fate but it was Jason who was handed some prizes for jumping a total of 11 metres off that little jump.

As 5pm rolled around, the words “after party” started to circulate and the day started to come to a close but most definitely the shenanigans did not. As the after party was set at Kie’s house, the mini ramp seemed a good place to ride, especially for Dempsey who ripped it to bits, and later it also doubled as a bed to many. As the party consisted of mainly bicycle motocross stunt riders, you can only imagine the antics that only they could get up to.

The 2006 Livewire Jam would not have been as much of a success as it was without the help from Stowaway Distribution, Tempered Bikes, Wasted BMX, DK bicycles, Coalition, Drive, FBM, Freestyle Now, Failure and of course every bicycle motocross stunt rider that made the trek from wherever they came from. Start planning for the 2007 Livewire Jam as you will need to be there to be part of history. Shaun Jarvis

Ryan Lloyd//Wade

downandout+atownscumjams

A few months ago, a young man by the name of Tim Dougherty tried something retarded at city skate, seriously retarded.

For those of you not familiar with city skate in Adelaide, there is a 3 foot sub that is on top of a 5 or 6 foot bowl, with about 10 to 15cm of deck in between the coping and the sub, it’s a pretty intimidating sight. Yeah, well, Tim decided that he was going to 360 off the sub into the bowl. I guess it doesn’t sound that bad until you actually see how gnarly it really is.

After 15 minutes of psyching, he jumped off the sub, spun, got at least 340 degrees, landed right at the bottom of the transition, dropped a foot, and hammered the shit out of his ankle.

Some big burly guy picked him up, put him in someone’s car and he was rushed to hospital.

Tim could have got bummed out and done a whole lot of not much. But instead, he’s managed to put on two of the coolest jams that Adelaide has seen in a while. Instead of being run by people who aren’t really a part of the scene, it’s been almost entirely organized by Tim, prizes, drinks, barbeques, the whole lot. Jase and Dave from CMBMX have helped out with cash and prizes and I have done up a few flyers and got the word out, but that’s about it.

The first jam was at city skate on Sunday the 3rd of December. Being a Sunday, I could barely keep my eyes open… but it was still a lot of fun. People turned up that I hadn’t seen for 3 or 4 months, and heaps of young rippers that nobody had even seen before.

This young dude called Ryan Lloyd absolutely shredded, easily hitting 10 foot airs and cranking both hips at fence height. I distinctly remember him airing about 10 or 11 feet, coming down and nose casing with his wheel like a foot behind where the coping is… he just jumped over the bars and ran away from his bike, then dusted himself off and did it all again. There were prizes for best trick, highest air, and long jump… not really stuff that was taken seriously, just little nib jibs to spice up the action and keep everyone interested.

I’m pretty sure Ryan won highest air, I have no idea who got best trick (everyone ripped)

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and the long jump was a tie between this dude from Cali and Nate. Speaking of Nate, after the long jump ended, he decided to tyre grab and turndown the same gap… like 30 feet, out of a 6 foot steepish bank.

The second jam was a little something different. Tim being Tim, realised that basically every comp or jam in Adelaide had been held at city skate or occasionally West Beach and opted for something a little different… a jam at the infamous Ridge Park. One of the better parks in Adelaide, it seemed like a pretty good choice to me. No prizes this time, no comps, just a fun day at one of the better parks in Adelaide.

I guess the only bummer about this jam was the weather. It was 41 degrees, really stinkin’ hot. We did contemplate filling up the bowls with water and having a pool party, but the water restrictions down here are pretty gnarly… Seriously though, I woke up at about 12pm on the day, got some lunch, and drove up to Ridge with Anthony and Dehney. We weren’t expecting anyone to be there, I was only going up to say hi to Tim and Jase. But to our surprise, 30 or 40 riders had rocked up to session the bowls. Ryan from down south was absolutely killing it, airing the bowl 3 times without touching the flat… all transition baby!

Paul was doing some no footed toothpicks with a little assistance from Kane and every girl there had been saturated by Anthony. Anthony also had a bottle of tomato sauce in his back pocket to ensure he stayed dry…

A really fun day was had at both jams and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Tim for getting off his ass and getting shit organised! I’m pretty sure there will be another one fairly soon, as winter is creeping up on us. Stay tuned on cmbmx.com.au and the safreestyle.com forums for news on that! JamesWade

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Internal Headset/Mid BB Toptube: 20.25’’, 20.65’’, 21’’ Chainstay length: 13.8“ Material: CrMo, Ovalised Sanko Japanese tubing Angles: HT: 74.5°, ST: 71.5° Bottom bracket: Height: 11.8“, Mid size BB only Weight: 20.65‘‘: 2.4kg Colors: Reed green, Pure white, Grey Blue, Limited Colour: silverblack with or without u-brake pivots

Luke Wainman blasting//raine turnbull

reeftonskatepark

So how does a tiny town in the middle of nowhere on the south island of New Zealand get a half million dollar skatepark?

You may be forgiven if you haven’t heard of the town of Reefton on the south island of New Zealand. It’s a small town of approx 1000 people, four hours drive from Christchurch and about the same from the Picton ferry… Apparently its claim to fame is for being the first town in the southern hemisphere to have an electricity supply… But it does have one thing going for it… a massive concrete skatepark… WTF… When we rolled up to check out the park we were surprised to see a grey bearded guy with a panel van and a shovel setting the coping on a new section of the park… after a few minutes we got the story of how the park came about. Apparently the local kids were getting in trouble for skating in the school and down the main street so they built a wooden ramp.

After a couple of years in one of the rainiest parts of the world the ramp was starting to get a little sketchy so the council tore it down. Obviously the local kids weren’t too happy about this, but instead of digging out the play station and taking up underage drinking they all got together and did something about it. After a couple of years of hard work and some design input from a local skater called Dave North the Reefton skatepark was underway.

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Now based on the size of the park, we figured that it would have cost around half a million dollars to build, but due to some creative council lobbying and the fact that the local community donated almost everything needed to build the park, they got the whole thing done for less than $100,000, bargain. It seems that the local community got together and basically built the park, with no previous experience, well maybe someone had laid some concrete driveways or something, but no skatepark construction experience…

Check the big bowls… there’s plenty of “professionally” built parks in Aus that don’t have trannies as smooth at this puppy…

Moral of the story, if you want something, just go get it done, don’t let anyone say it’s too hard, too expensive, or too big. Hell you want a massive concrete skatepark in your tiny town. No problem, get a concrete company to donate the cement, an excavator company to lend you a bobcat and go build a park. The sponsor list at Reefton was massive, there’s only a thousand people in the town and it looks to me like everyone donated something… Mike D

You can’t see Kenny’s 80’s shinpads//morrisey

4.62lbsect

Here’s a little bit about Kenny Ragget’s super light signature frame from none other than Colony co-founder, Clint Millar

The release of the first frame from Colony is a pretty major event for me. I feel it really enforces the fact that Colony is a legitimate brand within the BMX world. When we first decided to do a high-end frame I knew it had to be something special and unique in it’s own way. But how do you achieve that this day and age? With everything needing to be simple and refined Kenny and I chose a simple design that is tried and true. I worked on developing our own special Cromo tubing which we call, Colonized tubing. This special tubing affords Kenny’s frame to have an un-believable weight of 4.62lbs for thr 20.5” and 4.7lbs for the 21”. This tubing also gives it a better strength than

most other brands out there and Colony backs this with a one year warranty. To mark this special event Strictly BMX have a very limited edition Sect frame in stock with specially stamped serial numbers and colourways. Some of these limited edition Sect’s also have no brake mounts.

Be quick as these matt clear coat and black frames will go quick. There are only 20 in existence. The Sect is available elsewhere all over Australia in Tan, Blood Red and Traffic Green in both 20.5” and 21” lengths.

As Kenny would say, “That’s how we do it boys… !!”

Clint Millar.

framespecs…

Full ‘Colonized’ Cromo frame.

Heat treated Cromo 14mm drop outs, internal headtube with removable gyro tabs and mid BB. Lowered chain stays for 25-9 gearing.

Toptube length: 20.5 and 21” Rear End: 13.75” HT: 74.5 ST : 71.0 Weight: 4.62lbs (20.5) 4.7lbs (21”)

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The North Western BMX titles took place over the last few months of 2006 and covered a bunch of good skate parks across Melbourne. The comps were organised by Banyule council with help from Dinny Spicer so a big thanks must go out to them for running the whole show. In all, there were 13 comps at 13 different parks over 4 months. Here’s what went down…

Greensborough 1st Daniel Rosenthal 2nd D.T. 3rd Andrew Mini

Sunbury 1st

Greensborough park is pretty gnarly with big bowls and drops, definitely a good park for a BMX comp. Highlights included Jake Andrews riding brakeless, doing whip airs and the smoothest flair I have ever seen in the tight tranny. Andrew Mini ripping it right through every heat was so consistent. DT from Ballarat going really high and in his last run doing a flair in the confined space of the quarter with the weird double coping and sunken deck. Danimal had a few tech tricks some over vert stuff and a 360 drop off “the Knox” so named because of Claw’s rowdy commentating. His 360 transfer over the massive side fence into the wrong way bank was the trick that blew the roof and sorted him with first place. This was also the craziest trick of the comp… maybe even the whole series. The kids in under 13’s and 16’s were also ripping, Emerson had his full face helmet in effect and was doing stuff only the bigger kids usually do as well as learning bar spins out of a quarter. The Knox local Gaylan Young showed everyone his style and his bag of trail style tricks in under 13’s, and Brad Green took his first pair of many shoes in first place.

This was an amazing day even with the 42 degree heat but with no shade it hit everyone fairly hard. Liam from Melton threw down some cool shit like big no foot cancans and bar spins on the steep 7ft quarter and came really close to flaring with no brakes to the big bank.

Andrew Mini was attempting downside double whips over the hip but also had solid runs with whips and 270 look backs on the hip. Andrew Gull and Fuzz seemed to be competing for highest flair on the big quarter with fuzz caving too much and landing hard on his ribs on the corner of a bank, which almost put him out. Gull had other plans to take first place with 270 whips and big twisted flips on a tranny to tranny hip. A little kid named Chris on a 16 inch had a few clean runs airing high and was attempting a flip out of a steep quarter in the mini. He accidentally landed on his sprocket and everyone went nuts he had a few more goes and just keep slipping his foot off but still 180’d back into the mini.

Diamond Creek 1st Andrew Mini 2nd Nathan Saunders 3rd Fuzz Biggest highlight of this round was definitely ‘Knox Dave’ getting disqualified, Fuzz fuf’ed the big back rail and busted his balls on a flair attempt on the long quarter, almost pulling it. Andrew (mini) was throwing downside goofy foot whip airs with heaps of style and a downside whip to back pedal. In the under 13’s and 16’s class another Knox local 13 year old Gaylan was using every part of the park going high for a little goofy foot tacker, as was Brad Green. Both are not only going to enter open from now on but should open up a shoe shop with the amount of Orchids they have been winning.

Northcote 1st

Damian Banko 2nd Fuzz 3rd Daniel Rosenthal (Danimal)

This time around organisers and judges had trouble with time and running all the heats due to the skateboarding running overtime. The heats were cut down to one which made everything run a lot smoother. Brad Green won again in the under 16’s class so another pair of Orchid’s to him. It was difficult to judge the opens due to the park being hard to get lines going, if you have ridden Northcote you will understand. But… Danimal was hitting everything even if he hangs up from 5ft on his sprocket, he still flowed around and attempted to no-foot can across the big channel gap. The fuzz went stupidly high without hesitation even with the 100km wind. He did a fufanu on one quarter to flair the next and flared a few other things as well. The rider who took the cake and first place was Damian Banko, who just returned from an overseas trip. He threw down more tricks in one minute than he would have accumulated in mileage on his flight. I had to assist Dinny Spicer on the mic because he couldn’t keep up with all the tricks Banko did.

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Andrew Gull 2nd Liam 3rd Fuzz.

Kensington Open 1st Andrew Gull 2nd Nathan Saunders 3rd Fuzz.

The final turnout was huge and started off with the under 13’s, observing these tiny rippers on a ramp suited for the bigger boys was awesome. Seeing tiny Emerson jumping a 7ft spine clean and dropping down his air tricks and 270 to smith stalls had to be seen.

Gaylan took out the finals with style and height with every trick. The under 16’s saw Liddle’s stylish no foot cancan’s and smooth runs put him in third place, while Brad Green and Lachlan whipped each other to first and second place. Brad’s seamless runs with whip airs to 540’s to bar spins and all the rest put him head first in the under 16’s. Open had something extra installed with every rider pushing it to the limit and making the crowd cheer loud.

Melton rider Liam got the crowd behind him to be the first brakeless rider I have seen to flair Kensington. Nathan S was solid and laid down trick after trick doing some big old school no hander airs and downside whip airs, but had a hard crash after attempting a whip over the big Kensington spine. Damian was close behind with third showing everyone the tech side of Kensington with a million and one variations and so many tricks. Andrew Gull and Fuzz were again going stupidly high on every trick. Gull’s boost air bar spin on the edge of the spine was amazing, he even did bar spins across the quarter which no one even jumps and made the mini look like a “mini” with back to back fufanu’s and wall slap’s on the big back rails. Andrew Gull stormed to first with Nathan S so close in second. The winners received a frame and fork kit from Dragonfly or a complete Free Agent bike and other prizes like handle bars, Orchid shoes and gift vouchers followed for the other guys.

Over all, the BMX titles ran very smoothly at each event, the riders and even the little ghetto kids were all involved with cleaning up rubbish to get a few stickers. So I’d just like to say thanks to everyone that came along and watched or participated and thank you to Gerry from Banyule Council and Dinny Spicer for holding such a series. I did think that there were too many flairs and not enough nac nac’s though... Adam Hough.

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paradisecity Paradise city was an artistic performance that took place at the Sydney Opera House and it just happened to showcase what we all know and love; BMX...

The performance involved a breakdancer, skater, bmxer, dancer, acrobat, singer and sound artist. It’s about bringing elements of the street to theatre and exploring different relationships from integrating the different disciplines together. From the 16th of October to the 10th of December 2006, I took part in the second stage of this production. We spent six weeks in Leichhardt in a creative development period to create more ideas and finalise a show. This at times was hard work, trying to think of new material, transitions for scenes and working with everyone so closely full time could get quite tiring and frustrating. We then spent two weeks at the ‘Sydney Opera House’ doing a total of ten shows.

The show was the last for the studio season, was a sellout, everyone loved it and we had a lot of interest from overseas art companies, as well as interest from Adelaide and Melbourne festivals. It looks like the show will tour overseas and Australia.

Being part of this show and having the opportunity to perform in the ‘Sydney Opera House’ was amazing! After talking to the audience I found a different side to riding, skating and relationships with these types of activities was opened up, as the art world looks for the whole relationship deal, not just tricks as a bmxer would. Integrating my riding with a team of people was so different and at the same time showing flatland to a very different audience felt like I was doing something for our bike art. It was a great experience.

Simon O’Brien Simon up in lights at the Opera House//Holmes

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launceston

Story and photos Hugh Andrew Lonnie is tight. We all rock a real good friendship not only tied together by bikes.

It’s hard riding BMX in Launceston, it is one of the most cold and miserable places ever in the heart of winter, but in summer it brightens up and the place is alive. It’s also hard because Launceston as a city is relatively microscopic compared to most of the cities around Australia, so the street is minimal. This does not mean that street is unheard of, it means that street becomes a lot more creative, spots are looked at ten times more closely and sessioned that much harder. There are some amazing street riders in Lonnie, Kirk Lucas, Brad Cross and Luke Bachelor (who is in the states still) are some of the most predominant names, but up and comers such as Matt Finley rip the streets up. Launceston has two skate parks, the main one in the heart of town called Royal Park and another up the hill a bit in a rather shady place called Ravenswood. There are lots of parks in the little towns out and around Launceston and also the two other main cities in Tassie have some awesome parks in them too!... Ever heard of the North Hobart bowl? Check it out yo! The one thing I really like about our scene is the almost family feeling you get when you rock into the park. It’s a really good vibe because we are all good friends and doing what we all love and do best. The trail scene is building gradually which is the best thing that has happened in years to Lonnie! Our BMX scene I would have to say is one of the most kooked out scenes in Aus. Just the way we like it. This is what a few dudes have to say.. Hugh.

Our scene revolves around a small group of young riders, which is starting to grow slowly. Our scene might be small but there is a good vibe between all riders, which is something every scene should have. Not only do we have some talented riders but awesome personalities within. The older riders are more than willing to help out young kids getting into the best thing in the world, called BMX. It’s fantastic to see this in our scene. I look forward to the future of these young riders and seeing how they put their energy back into our scene in Lonnie. Jes. Well Tasmania’s scene has to be one of the best in Australia. Everyone has fun with each other, it doesn’t matter who you are, we ride, we have fun. We are all just one big family that loves each other. We all get along with each other really well, what else do you want? It’s the best location in Australia. Matt I think we have a pretty cool laid back kinda scene in Lonnie.. We’re a good group of mates who are down to have fun on our bikes no matter where or what we are riding, we pretty much rep one-leggers like they are going out of fashion, this is no joke.. Come to Lonnie and experience it for yourself. Chris V As a lot of people would probably know, Launceston isn’t the biggest place, but that doesn’t stop anyone from having a great session or hitting a new spot. Everyone gets along because it’s a smaller area and are always down to help a fellow rider out whether its filming or lending parts, our scene usually has a great vibe and seems like its only gonna’ get better.. Aaron The Launceston BMX scene you ask… Well I discovered it in 1997. I’d been riding flatland and street for about a year before but thought nobody else rode, until I met Luke Batchelor. I was wagging school one day and on my way to the local half pipe to carve some wall-rides… As I approached the ramp I saw a guy blasting like 5 foot airs. The combination of seeing this and therefore finding someone else that rode, made me almost poo my pants. It turned out that Luke had a couple of bro’s that’s rode and to cut a long story short, we hooked up practically every weekend for the next 8 or so years grinding the crap out of everything we could! For some reason there weren’t very many riders, less than 10 in fact, and they were mostly all flat riders. Probably because of the lack of stuff to ride. The scene remained like this for around 7 years and sometimes at points it was back to only three who rode. Then all of a sudden people started popping up and now there’s quite a few riders, who don’t have any clue as to how good it must be to have people to ride with and also have a skate park for that matter! Back when I started there was a half pipe and one quarter in the whole place, which forced us to ride street often, a blessing in disguise really. It turned out Tassie had a sick street scene because of this and led us to hook-up with the Hobart crew who were mad down with street as well. Now there are a bunch of riders ripping who are really cool guys and a tight crew. One thing for sure is they are riding, and that’s all that matters to me. The scene is only getting bigger and better. Keep on rolling. Brad C

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northernexposure As with most places it’s taken a long time for parks to be built, but over the past ten years or so more parks are being built close to Cairns. Mission Beach park has a fun open bowl with a spine which is definitely worth a look before heading up to the tablelands. Atherton has a large fast open park with a bowl and mini and is a fun place to go and ride with a small crew of riders. The new Cairns esplanade or town park is in full swing now with large step up bowls, a cradle and smaller bowls off the sides. There’s also a kidney style bowl next to it and it overlooks a bank style street section with rails and boxes surrounded by ledges. It’s a large park and has the full attention of the young crews and is always busy with young guys getting their skills down and starting to ride good and learn new stuff. The likes of Josh Mules and Levi, two kids with serious skills rip around the park and are learning new stuff

Cairns has had a long history in BMX, with a long standing race and freestyle community. So what’s going on up north nowadays? faster than ya can blink. A lot of kids are getting into BMX in Cairns with the new park, a good BMX shop in Edge Cycles and the race track has a strong following too. Cairns is flat so its slim pickings for ledges and rails, with not much street to be found. Daniel Delaney has some nice trails in a sweet location and half an hour south is Preston Bucks trails, which are going well, he digs like a machine so he has killer jumps in a mad location. Over all, Cairns is getting more parks to ride, more crew are digging dirt or building and riding heaps and the effort is showing. Cairns is about a four hour flight from Sydney but worth a trip to ride our new park, winter is the best time in Cairns so go book a ticket..... Kris Finglas

bikecheck

We scored the latest 07 rides from Mongoose and Fit. Heres what we thought.

Fit team trail www.fitbikeco.com Mongoose Legion www.mongoosebikes.com.au The Legion is one of higher end complete bikes from Mongoose, its pretty well spec’d and looks the part too. The frame is full cromo with mid bb and integrated headset. The design has T1 style seat stays and the brakes are up top so there’s no problem with the small drive train. The angles are all what you would expect, 74.5 head, 71 seat and the top tube length is 20.75”. Parts wise it’s all looking good, nice cromo cranks, sealed bb, Sun rims (chrome rear, black front), a genuine Odyssey cassette hub and a stack of Snafu parts like concave pedals, seat and cables, there also TSC tyres and grips as well. Not bad for a complete bike, even the colour scheme looks good with the dark orange frame, grey bars and forks and black and brown parts. This ones easily the best Mongoose complete we’ve seen in years!

The Team Trail is one of Fit’s lower end complete bikes but its still set up well for all types of riding. The frame and forks are 100% cromo with a mid bb, integrated headset and 20.5” top tube. The frame design is nice and simple with wishbone chain stays, machined head tube and no gyro tabs. Parts wise you get cromo 3pc cranks, Sun rims, an Odyssey rear hub, Odyssey tyres and S&M pedals, pretty good original parts for a cheaper complete. The drive train is 13/36 and it’s a freewheel so upgrading to a cassette would probably be pretty high on the list of upgrades. There’s three colour combo’s, red / grey, black / white and green / white and I reckon they all look good. All up a good starting point for riders that don’t want to run a gyro or front brakes and with a few upgrades you will have a solid bike.

fivedockreborn

How sweet the memories are of the days when I, a ratty 13 year old kid, had that first momentous idea. As the sun set on our session, I was carving about the decades old, ridiculously bumpy, yet somehow flowing lines of ye old Five Dock capsule bowl when something dawned upon me.

“How good would it be to put a jam on here!” I look back now and think of all the better locations I could of chosen to build a bunch of mangy dilapidated constructions out of stolen wood. Yet to this day I’ve no regrets and I’m so glad I stayed true to my local and tried to make it work. For three consecutive years we coated the 1970’s snake run with odd contraptions and extensions and carved as much dirt as we could to replicate some dingy ghetto trails.

Each year the jams grew bigger in both attendance and the amount of stuff we were building, and with my faithful mother dishing out innumerable steaks ‘n’ snag sangas (and soy produce). We could safely say the jam dug itself into a nice little niche, looked forward to by all, with the obvious exception of the neighbours living opposite the park. It’s this grimy yet growing past that juxtaposed so strangely against bowl jam number four. About 6 months ago I rolled down to ‘the bowl’ to find a nice big fence around it. I pretty much burst. After the years of bickering with council we were finally getting somewhere.

huge bowls all flowed into each other with spines and hips, which have since been connected to the old capsule bowl and snake run with another set of tight bowls and interesting street transitions. Quite frankly the design is possibly the best park in NSW. I soon realized the intended date for bowl jam 4 had been missed due to the construction of this masterpiece, but why not try and keep it annual by throwing the jam nice and early in the year. That was probably my biggest mistake.

Come jam day we were all greeted with sweltering summer heat, and coupled with the ridiculous bright and shiny bowls, I was one of the many victims of heatstroke. Still, there’s nothing a longneck or Reschs can’t fix right? Apart from a few shredders content on killing themselves with every massive trick over every possible line in the park (Brendan Jones, Seaton and Danger) the general consensus was to crack some beers open and enjoy the spectacle. With the possible exception of Xave who definitely won the award for most inebriated.

Somehow in his state of stupor he managed to climb 2 trees, man wrestle and lose against Nick Edwards, As the holes were dug and the concrete was poured, it started becoming obvious that the Dock wasn’t tackle Matt Damon and snap tables well higher and flatter than anyone over the hips (with the exception of intended as another slap job joke to keep kids occupied. Something amazing was taking place. The three Donges, who resembles a human spring).

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As the sun sank deeper into the west my vision grew blurrier and when you couple a hundred or so tanked BMXers with a park, you’re bound to have ruckus. Eventually the police started taking names and everyone was making the split, except Tom Streton who foot jam tire-grabbed the tallest section of the bowl in twilight darkness, with his front wheel balanced on a dead pigeon. Slowly everyone parted and went their separate ways and after starting to nurse my fantastically bright red skin and aching arms and legs, a knock on the door was heard. In stumbled a well intoxicated posse of burnt and rowdy bike riders, so we continued watching Steadfast and getting more drunk for some bizarre reason. Around here everything starts to phase out apart from random bouts of violence against my penis inflicted by Xave and Tom and I actually heard some excellent Jim Morrison esque jamming from our music room.

For me, it’s days like this that make BMX worth being a part of and as the new section of Five Dock opened about two days ago, I’m already starting to figure out the new stuff to build for Five Dock Jam V. Speaking of which, I’m going for a roll now, adios! Dave C

temperedbikes

Tempered bikes is a new company run by Aussie rider Matt Lawton. We talked to Matt about the company and what inspired him to start a bike co.

How did Tempered come about, what inspired you to start a bike company?

TemperedBikes was definitely influenced by the riders I grew up with. It was something I loved doing, it was just clothing for a long time and then I started doing a lot of research into BMX, not just product wise but I was heavily interested in the history of BMX. After a while, I started thinking more and more about how far I could take things, I had been researching into a lot of things related to the products I had intended to sell on the market. Things like, what a hub was actually made out of, why the BB height had an impact on a persons choice of frame. I tried to look into everything about BMX as deep as I could. Some of the hardest things were trying to understand the business side of BMX, its not just like you can go to business school, complete the course and come out with a super mega company, I had always known that I needed to gain respect and a good image for TemperedBikes.

turn out. Luckily they turned out really good, the company is actually a lot bigger up here than it was in Western Australia, that could be because I started getting hard goods arriving in Australia when I moved to Brisbane. The scene in Western Australia is mostly a bunch of groups here and there, everyone knows each other but rarely rides together. In Brisbane the skateparks are always packed and there’s massive groups of riders everywhere you go.

Where do you see Tempered in 5 or 10 years time?

I would really like to see Tempered go outside of Australia. Everybody knows that there’s so much money in BMX in places like the states and other countries. There are so many well respected companies have distribution in countries such as Australia and with no Australian BMX companies existing, everybody is buying US owned products which means all the money goes back to the states. It would be rad to have the reverse effect and have money coming into Australia from other countries. But putting aside the money factors, distribution in other countries is going to be a big task, not having experience in these places or knowing people in these places makes it hard to be able to represent new products. Unless you have amazing riders representing your products I believe the company will not do so well outside of Australia… but one day, maybe soon!

Did you study design or engineering or anything related that helped you start up?

When I was first interested in designing BMX products I was introduced to Simon Wills, he’s been a really big help in the forward movement of the company where products are concerned. It’s usually me coming up with really weird designs and unique ways of doing different things to other products on the market, Simon tweaking the measurements, drawing up the final designs in AutoCAD and then I order a bunch of samples for testing over the next 6-12 months.

What do you think makes Tempered stand out from other brands?

I like to think that Tempered represents the image of an underground company, not just any other ordinary Is it just you or are there other people involved?

It has been just myself for a long time now, but lately the guys that ride for TemperedBikes have really been company out there, we didn’t come about because we had a lot of money to blow. We had an image of getting involved with the company, I feel that for them to be happy with the direction of the company then a direction that we wanted to take things where others were not going. I really try to put the emphasis on they need to get involved as much as possible. If it hasn’t been for the ongoing support of guys like Mitch bringing out new fresh and unique ideas with my products, but the R&D into these products can cost A LOT of money, especially with things where you need to make new moulds for your designs. As for the image I try Wood and Justy Bumpstead, the company might have taken some directions for the worst a while ago. so hard to follow, I struggle with coming up with artwork inside the company. Things like websites, clothing What has been the hardest part of starting Tempered? and marketing really fall behind because I put so much money into the hard goods side of the company and My hardest hurdle has and still is, getting Tempered off the ground. There are so many respected, I have little money for the soft goods and marketing. This means the image of my company can sometimes well-known BMX companies out there already and lately it seems there has been an ever-growing number be misunderstood or misrepresented. of people starting new companies. This just means more and more competition and struggles for other Do you have a team or other riders that give you input into the design of the parts? companies already existing. I believe a lot of people in the BMX industry do not take me seriously because Temperedbikes supports a small bunch of riders that I hope can one day grow into a bigger family. At of my age. I just knew what I wanted to do and I’ve been pushing for that dream ever since day one. the moment the team consists of Jerry Vandervalk, Justy Bumpstead, Mitch Wood, Mathew Lawton and What has been the most rewarding thing?

Nathan Saunders. Each rider has a big impact on the company, more importantly with input into new Definitely seeing my products out there on peoples bike’s that I don’t know, which is actually strange designs and the direction of the company. I try to get the guys involved in each design as much as possible, because the products are only available through me at the moment. haha. The guys on the team push the no ideas are scrapped or put aside, I take in every idea they give me and try to work with it. products as much as I do and they sell just as much, even more than I do sometimes. The feeling I get Why did you choose to work with these particular guys, do they have anything when products arrive from overseas that I have designed is really overwhelming, its so exciting knowing extra to offer, photography, engineering skills etc?

I can start putting products on the market. Just the other day we had 25 frames arrive, unpacking every Each rider I currently support has a unique style in their riding and they are not like everybody else. Mitch frame and holding each one was just amazing and a feeling of achievement. There’s been a lot of rumours Wood is amazing with his camera’s, photography and film. He puts a lot of effort into the media side of the that TemperedBikes was never even going to get frames, so when they arrived and people started realising, company and I cannot thank him enough for this, but his skills on his BMX are also amazing. He’s not a I started to get a lot more acknowledgement and respect towards the company. super mega flip whipping king, he has mad tech skills and an amazing personality to follow, that is for sure!

Has moving from Perth over to Brisbane helped the company progress?

Justy Bumpstead is also dedicated to the company in more ways than one, he’s always shooting photos When I was first thinking of coming to Brisbane I was worried about the company, because TemperedBikes with his new equipment for ads and other things and his riding style is big and fast but he can pretty much is just as big in my life as BMX. I always knew that I would be riding up here or wherever I was but I was do every front wheel trick in the book! Jerry Vandervalk has only been involved for a little while now and he’s just afraid I would lose track of things because I was staying with friends and wasn’t sure how things would always the first guy to ask if any help is needed when it comes to working in the company, he’s also the only

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All photos by Steve Morrisey dude I know that can hang five or hang nothing super dialled for as long as he wants! Nathan Saunders is the latest edition to the company, I feel that all his ideas and suggestions can push the company into a new direction that I am happy to lead and as many people already know, he can shred anything.

Has the company changed your perspectives on the way you look at life?

TemperedBikes is a massive part of my life, I find myself thinking what I would be doing or where I would be if it hadn’t come as far as it has and I can only hope it keeps on progressing at a large level. BMX is also a massive part of my life and it’s the biggest influence towards the company. Just being on my bike riding to the shops or coming home from a rad ride is one of the best feelings in life, knowing that BMX is always going to be there for you and in no way can people outside of BMX take it away from you. Riding my bike is one of the biggest motivations to keep going with the company, if I had problems in life that forced me not to ride, I’m not sure where I would have influence or motivation to keep the company moving in a strong path. But that’s not to say I would just give up, because TemperedBikes has become my life and I wouldn’t give it up for anything.

When and where can people check out and buy your products?

WE HAVE FRAMES IN STOCK NOW!, haha, we also have t-shirts and hubs in stock. We’re currently working on a new website at the moment, the old one has been uploaded to www.photobmx.info but all the recent up to date stuff is currently on our Myspace. Myspace might be lame but it’s one of the biggest ways you can market a company! Check that out at www.myspace.com/temperedbmx just drop me an email to ask about anything or if its easier to contact me at temperedbikes@westnet.com.au feel free!

Any thanks or props for people that have helped you?

Definitely my family for always being so supportive, all of my friends (nothing would have come this far if it wasn’t for all of you), you all know who you are. Mitch wood and his family, Justy Bumpstead and his family, Simon Wills , Shaun Jarvis for always being behind me and lending a hand whenever its needed, Kie Ashworth, Nick Edwards at Martial clothing, a big thanks to Mike Daly and Steve Morrisey for taking the time to do this interview, Josh Parsons for all his artwork help! Thank you to everybody who has helped me in my journey.

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But of course there could only be one winner and that lucky guy was Matthew Anderson. While we were meant to give away a Purple Endevour, it seems anything Colony is running out the door and we only just got our hands on the last Sand coloured bike. But we figure a complete bike aint such a bad deal, whatever the colour! A big thanks goes out to TripleSix and congrats to Matt!

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Do you know if ur next issue (24) of 2020mag comes with the DVD Hindsight 3? thanx heeps Mark Waugh Hindsight 3 has been a mission to make happen. Time, cash, equipment... But enough of the excuses. We’re slowly getting it all together. And with any luck it’ll be bigger and more bad arse than ever before... Looks like it’s still a couple of months off but its on its way, look out for few extra goodies packaged with it too...

nzbru Ur mag owns! My name is Ezra and I am 12 yrs old. I live in Hamilton, New Zealand and all the local parks are shit. I have been riding for 2 yrs and so far my best tricks are 360’s, tailwhips and old skool no handers. I ride a 2005 WTP 4 seasons complete but with a lot of new parts (I just got the Colony Unlucky 13 bars and I love em).

I used to live on the Gold Coast and go to Beenleigh with some older guys who pretty much taught me how to ride, their names are Luke Morrison and Tom Burnstein and Jed Darrow, so hi if ur reading this! Anyway I was wondering what do you have to do to get your local council to even think about putting in a new park or comp (zombiebmx only have jams and comps in Auckland) .

Can you please put this email in ur mag cos there’s hardly ever stuff from New Zealand (apart from Jed Mildon in issue 23) and it would be good see it in there anyway... ezra We be thinking there’s a whole lot more going on under your nose. And more than a couple of good parks starting to emerge around the place. Check the story on the Reefton Park in this issue, if those guys can make a park happen, maybe you can to. So get too it!

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goodtyres

trialsandttrails

Hey boys, nice mag, so hindsight 3 is gonna shred, aye well just wondering what’s a good psi for ur tyres if you ride dirt and park? Well yer I run my front rock and my back a little soft and it just doesn’t feel right but yer I was hoping you would know.

I live in Sydney in a small town near Penrith, known as “Wallacia”. About 3-4 years ago we built a set of 6 jumps down at the paddock near my place. Eventually our old trails were wrecked by some local kids so we came up with the idea of building a set of trails in a more enclosed area “down the bush” and started our new set of 3 jumps.

Once we got them running, our trails got wrecked for the second time! So we gave up on spending so much time building jumps. As a few years went by and I had lost complete interest in BMX riding. But I ran into a few locals I used to build with and we all started to hang out a bit more. Then we came up with the idea of building jumps in my backyard and I wanted to get back into riding. My parents agreed it was not a bad idea, as long as we didn’t make any major holes in the property. In August 2006 We decided to order and pay for dirt at about 10 tone every month for about 4 months (40 tonne total) and slowly build them bigger! So finally we had a decent size set of 3 running by Christmas as planned. We have also just finished our foam pit we started building recently.

Zip PSI for park eh? I reckon running em hard as you can is best.

While it’ll feel hard and you’re wrists might suffer a bit, it’ll give you more speed and pump. Running em soft means more chance of a pinch flat and they’ll feel squishy which can lead to washouts... Check the max PSI on the sidewall and go with tires like KHE, Odyssey or Animal, they can run 80 to 100PSI, but depending on how big you are anything over 60 may be cool!

rampplans I’m just about to build a backyard ramp. I’ve got the dimensions but I need some sort of construction plans. If you can help, much appreciated, thanx!

A fellow rider Check out www.tumyeto.com/rampplans.php or just google ramp plans, there’s a stack out there.

downsouth

Aaron If you’ve got the space and the time, trails in your own backyard are pretty much the dream of many. Keep on digging!

I was wondering if your any of the people you sponsor would want to come down to Port Lincoln. We just got a new funbox, hip and a curved wall with coping. We need some people to get Lincoln bike riders to ride again.

Ryan Perry We checked out Lincoln early one morn after xmas on route to Perth. Nice bowls, and nice invert Ryan!

Jason Worthington

Chase//Wade DaveC rules 5Dock//PaulKim

newsouthwales The new park at Five Dock is now finished with the old bowl incorporated into the design and it’s seen some good sessions going down. Seaton crashed his car into a wall… he’s OK though cause he’s tough… Gee has been working on a frame design for Mankind Bikes, should be out later this year. Apparently there’s a new Emancipate DVD in the works, don’t know how long for that one though.

Mike S has taken a few days off from riding in Hyde Park to head over to Japan for a RedBull comp, no doubt he will be back in the park by the time you read this. Jamie Mahon also headed over to Japan but for the snow, Jamie must have been taking travel lessons from Smiley cause I think he had like $10 a day for the whole trip, what am I saying, Smiley can live off $10 a week… Bike Culture are running an Easter Jam at the Menai skatepark on the 17th of April, it starts at 7pm and they will have lights set up, plus givaways, music and a BBQ. There’s a new park going in at Helensburgh, should be finished in the next couple of months. Jay’s jam is going down at Shoalhaven Heads skatepark on the 31st of March from 11am. It’s to help raise money for one of the local riders, Jay, who just got diagnosed with Cancer. Check out myspace. com/roofdrop for more and come down for a day of riding and a BBQ to support Jay. Hey, apparently I have the memory of a fish, i.e. 3 seconds, so if anyone remembers anything else that’s happening in NSW email me at miked@2020bmxmag.com.au and tell me, even if I was there… cause I’m sure I will have forgotten… Mike

austalianconcreteterritory Cam White’s recent backyard trail jam was amazing. Big ol dirt jumps, crazy tricks, and a few flickouts all in the name of charity. Well done Cam and we hope it becomes a yearly thing! Cam is also jetting out again in a month to kill it at the comps in the USA, so wish him all the best if you see him. Rusty has gone away again, this time tripping up and down the east coast, doing a whole bunch of sightseeing and surfing with his Jersey girlfriend Emily. Bentley turned 24 recently and his party will commence tonight, so I’m sure half of Canberra will be hosed with him while rocking out to bands covering Motorhead. We have finally had some

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decent rain! So kids, get on your shovels and start digging dirt jumps! Weston sessions have been ripping lately, I don’t know if it’s the sewer air but kids are getting crazy. Come down any Friday night to see what’s up. Back Bone BMX is stocked full with product and currently has Thomas Fordyce napping underneath the t-shirt rack (getting ready for the party) so come on down and check it out. While you’re at it take a look at www.backbonebmx.com.au for all your news and new product mail order! tyson and Kris

southaustralia OK, well this is my first time writing the news for SA. Dave Sayer (of safreestyle fame) has decided that he isn’t feelin the whole writing the news vibe, so now it’s my turn. Hopefully I do a decent job of it! Flagstaff Hill park is currently being finished off as I write this and it looks damn gnarly. I went down and had a look at it the other day, the bowl rivals that of Bondi (with full pool coping), and the street section looks pretty neat too. No doubt there will be some photos hitting 2020 soon from that park, it’s the shit. Steele and Damon have just returned from England, they did some riding I think. Ben Radeki has just recently left to go there too, I have no idea how long he is going to be there for, I don’t think he knows either. I think it’s the middle of winter there right now and I reckon he only packed shorts and tee shirts… Pickle has also departed from SA, he has relocated to Gove in NT for the next 6 months on a work thing. Weirdly enough, ex-SA local Tim Rossiter has returned from the NT to live in SA and mooch off the government. Is it just me or every time someone returns from a random place, someone goes there to live?

Weird. There is a whole bunch of injury news right now… Ernie broke his nose off his face dropping into the big bowl at West Beach.

Apparently it was just a little damp and he slid out, smacking his face into the ground. I saw him the other day and his nose was fine, but still, that’s gnarly! He snapped his nose clean off his face! Dehney cut his hand open, almost to the bone, trying to impress some girl. The word is that he was chatting her up in a way that only Dehney can and broke a glass on a table with his hand. The glass cut real, real deep and he went to hospital to get stitches. Needless to say, he didn’t take the girl home. On somewhat related Dehney news, at some point in the last three months, he decided to quit riding and

start skating. Add Dehney to myspace and tell him to keep on riding! Tim Dougherty’s foot has started to heal and he’s been rolling around on his bike a bit, but keep that quiet cause his doctor said he isn’t allowed to touch his bike until March. Cairns is back on his bike a bit… his back is still rooted, but he has been seen out and about a little more than usual. I think he said he tweaked his wrist though…

Also, Vivian knocked himself out a few days ago doing a 360 tail tap, ain’t that the darndest thing? Tom Blanch recently invested $800 into a fully sick VL Commodore and has been seen all over the place doing burnouts. It has 5 speeds that you can manually choose from and is waiting to be stolen. In other car related news, Dehney wrote off his Toyota Sprinkler… the car is dead but he sold the motor to mozface. Yeah boss! Mozzy has picked up a couple of new sponno’s, he is now on Protec and Red Bull. I think they sponnoed him cause he did a backie or something. He’s a backie king, ask anyone.

Word on the street is that Trav from Murray Bridge is ripping way more than a 14 year old should, I tend to agree. This kid goes really high, really fast and is wacky as, funniest kid ever. In unrelated Murray Bridge news, Ted told me to tell Mozzy to stop calling him so early. No reason for that to go in the news, but oh well.

We’ve been rolling out the jams pretty hard and fast. After a long break between organized jams in SA, there have been two jams in the last three months. Word on the street is that there are more planned by Tim Doughterty, CMBMX, and myself. Keep an eye on www.safreestyle. com/forum news is always posted on there about this stuff. The next jam is scheduled for March 11 at the city dirt park, entitled the GET LOOSE AND GO BIG JAM. There should be a little writeup and a photo or two about the first two jams somewhere in here. The Colonel Light Hotel has $2.50 base spirits between 12-1am on Saturday nights?! Enough said… I’ve been told by a fairly reliable source that Kane has bought some deodorant and doesn’t smell so bad anymore. He’s also been sighted giving dudes in Mercedes a hard time… I think he killed their sunroof or something? Jase had his 31st on the weekend, the party was rowdy and shit went down. I don’t really think I should put into print some of the things that happened, but if you ask around you’ll find out! I think that’s about it for the last three months or so. Keep an eye out for jams and what not, there will be a few more before it gets too wet to hold them…

Ben Davis//Lloyd

Also, if you have any news or anything that you want me to include, drop me a line or email me on jamesdwade@gmail.com. Yehawwww!

queensland Summer has hit hard and stunting only happens after three pm in the arvo at the moment with many a XXXX shortly afterwards.

Dan Montoya, Adrian Galaz and Jose Munoz are in Chilli somewhere at the moment on their worldly adventures having a great old time.

Brendan “I hand wash my shoes” Davis has been busy ridin and working with Anton, Sui and Sealy on their new rap album dropping some time in 2007 apparently. Trav just got back from a holiday in NZ. Rick Hayward is heading to Perth for a bit with Smiley, back packers beware. There is still a new drainkid video coming out soon with most of the sections being close to finished, just waiting for the kids to get back from their trip so we can all be there for the premiere. peece LC Nitai got all his camera gear stolen last weekend, Josh Harrington is chilling with Dave Dillewarrd in bris for a few weeks and you now have to wear a helmet at Hibiscus skate park due to a kid falling over and an over zealous father. Steve M Heavy Metal Heroes is scheduled now for May 5th and 6th. Expect classes in Mini Ramp, Street and the new Vert ramp. Should be huge... all should come and ride for a fun weekend! Nick Richardson is being graced with his own signature frame on Colony called the Bloody Oath. Apparently its gonna weigh in at a mere 4.1lbs! Expect to see it in stores later this year. In case you haven’t figured it out this also means he has left WTP, on good terms.

The Colony “Month in the life” tour happened recently which included the HMH Spinal Disorder comp in Beenleigh, the BMX Games in Sydney and a week of travel on the South Island of NZ, ending up at X-Air in Wellington.

Expect to see a tour DVD in May this year... Nick Cooper could have some very big news for all from his recent trip to protown USA, Greenville.

Did someone say Haro? Hmmm, only time will tell. I smashed myself really good on a failed downside whip to 360 nosepick at Browns Plains recently and was admitted to hospital with a major concussion. I took a week off and then on my first ride back broke my wrist within 5 mins! I have a cast on now and will not be riding until late March. I am OK with that cause

Adam Hough loving the back alley

I got so much Colony work to do... Jay Miron is having a Metro jam in Singapore the weekend of April 7th and 8th. All are invited and the Colony team will be there in full force. Colony will also have a team in the BMX PIG games scheduled for the following week in Singapore as well. The team for Colony will be Dave Freimuth and our own Pete Radivo. Millar

westernaustralia The last few months have been a bit quiet on the news front but on the riding front it’s been friggin loud. Western Australia had a total of 17 riders head over to Sydney for the BMX games to represent flatland, dirt, mini and park. Large amount of props go to Chris Jones for making the pro dirt finals and nailing a front flip turndown on the first set. Props also to Todd Meyn for his 5th in mini and park and for Josh Mete for his 6th in park. Getting 6th in am flatland for Andrew “buff” McDermott must have been a bit of a shock as he has only really been riding seriously for a year.

Congratulations to all riders that made the trek over as its awesome having WA represented so well. The Perth flatland crew have been showing some good old flatland WA hospitality to Canadian Pete while he’s been on his worldwide trek. He has injected lots of mad skills into the scene. It’s sad to know that he will be leaving us soon to continue his plunder of the world. Kie Ashworth recently had a handle bar mishap, which resulted in some front teeth being demolished. He was unfortunate enough to also have his fingernail ripped clean out from a trailer accident. Being a flatland rider must be paying off for Aaron Bandy and wife Melissa as they have just moved into a new house. Did some of the west oz crew have a near miss with a street gang while in Sydney over having one of their bikes stolen from their hotel? Josh Brind gave me a text to let me know that he is building some trails on his boss’s farm down in Manjimup. If you’re in the area hook up with Josh for a ride and a chin wag. A Joondalup street jam is in the pipeline so keep your ears on to see when it will take place. Owen Dorren has a new bike and a new smashed face, take it easy ay Dozza. Stewart Keenan has gone on a diet and lost stacks of weight, no reality TV shows were needed here, just a new lighter bike. Jamo should also be having a new ride very soon as well. Is it true that Aussie Tim got beat up recently by 10 dudes for no reason?

Well if Earl Hicky is right, Karma will set out to

destroy them. Keep a look out for issue two of the FN zine. Trent Karrow and his lovely wife Tanya are expecting child number two very soon. Is Chris Jones really doing front flip fly outs at Perry Lakes skate park, I mean we are talking about Chris Jones here so I would say it’s very true. The neighbours of flat rider Lloyd must have thought he was having a domestic dispute with his girlfriend when they called the cops. But after Lloyd answered the door in his jocks he explained that he and his girlfriend were only playing Nintendo. Just remember folks to keep the noise to a minimum while playing those games ay. The Joondalup huckfest is on again for 2007, with $2000 up for grabs, make sure you get there on the 31st of March and the 1st of April to partake in the final round of the W.A.N.K.S. (Western Australia New Komp Series) There will be two classes for park and a flatland battle on the Sunday. If you’re in the goldfields then watch out for some comps in Kambalda on the 14th of April and one in Kalgoorlie on the 22nd of April. Waroona will be having a youth event on the 20th of April with a BMX jam going all day and prizes to be given out. This will also be the format for the Stirling youth event on the 21st of April. That’s about it for this issue but if you got any news or you know a good lawyer then email to shaun@ freestylenow.net.au Shaun Jarvis

victoria It’s been the summer of fun down here in Melbourne. The last three months have been a blast with a lot of riding going down. Josh Ticks from Ballarat is getting married to his lovely partner Nerinda. Marc Arnold has joined the FocalPoint team, he is the youngest rider in the crew. Be on the lookout for a new FP mixtape style video in the coming months.

Both Zack Musarsa and Kym Grosser have a couple clips in the recent Props (issue 63) of them shredding at metro jam. Connections, the rider run BMX shop in Bendigo recently had their second birthday, some said it wouldn’t last but Ash and Yags have worked hard and are going strong. FreeAgent are looking to build up their team with some of the best riders in Aus, if you think you have what it takes, please email FreeAgent product manager Andrei Sablinskis on andrei@ozemail.com.au with some riding shots and you could join the team.

Cooper Brownlee has joined the Australian Wethepeople team and in other Wethepeople news Will Jackson, Ashley Charles and Hannu

Haimona lofting Vic park//

Cools have all been floating around Aus the last few months, so if you see them looking lost do what you’re supposed to and help a fellow rider out. Jake Andrews jacked his only good knee and now has to have a reco on it, second reco in a year for the 18 year old. By the time you are reading this, Louis Reeves will have a bio up on The Take website. Issue 3 of Untitled video zine will also be available now, grab a copy from any quality bike store. The indoor bowl known as the “ring of fire” has started letting bikes in on Monday nights from 6pm till 10pm. It’s at 234 Ballarat Rd in Braybrook and you can get more info at myspace.com/skatetheringoffire Cooper

newzealandnorth The biggest news New Zealand wide this month is that X-air has been and gone, and it was a blast! The number of international riders who competed in the event was amazing.

One thing worth mentioning is definitely Tim Wood doing a perfect 900 straight into a flair… bananas all around. It goes without saying that Mike Spinner landing the world’s first 1080 on the world’s worst box jump was a highlight, that and all the wild parties! Apart from X-air, there has been a bit going on around Auckland. Aaron Ross, Corey Martinez and Morgan Wade were around for a few days filming for a Levis video and an article for Ride UK. They managed to shred the shit out of the Auckland streets and do some pretty amazing things over the Tole Street bowl gap. Morgan officially shut that thing down with a 360 over the gap. In other news, the Wazman has been unofficially sponsored by Maxis and is receiving as many free hook worms as he wants. I think the Wazman is waiting for maxis to release a slime green version of their dual compound tire, but don’t expect that to happen anytime soon. There’s a new park in Otara which is looking pretty hot, heaps of fun with lots of lines and it’s only half finished, so it’s going to get even radder. Paul Moffat is filming for his third video and rumour has it Paul Beadle’s street section is going to be loose. The terrible twins are riding hard and better than ever. George placed first for New Zealand at X-air and was the only Kiwi to get into the final, congratulations George! Expect to see more of those guys in the future. If you’re browsing around on the web check out quietchaos.co.nz, Lester has been updating his page regularly and has a good range of t-shirts out with jeans in

the making. After a month of being slack and on vacation zombie-flesh-eaters.co.nz will be updated regularly, so keep an eye out for all your NZ news. Oh yea and keep an eye out for the Red Bull ‘tires of fire’ bicycle skid comp hitting the streets of Auckland soon. Finally the Auckland based BMX rap group ‘steel riders’ should be recording their second song soon, after the huge world wide success of their first song ‘rolling on twenties’ so keep an eye out for that… Mike Davies

newzealandsouth Queenstown turned into “pro town” for a day as ramp destroyers Dave Freimuth, Dave Osato, Kenny Ragget, Ryan Guttler, Haimona Nagta and the rest of the Colony crew stopped by to take in the wonders of Qtown. A late afternoon session went down at Qtwn park that was technically advanced to say the least. The Chch crew tripped down this way too along with Mike Daly, Puni, Hunt, Rayne and Luke from Canberra. They stayed an extra day and were treated to the Qtown hookup programme, thanks Stefan! All that toured the south island made a point of riding Reefton skatepark, the only disappointment they experienced was that they had to leave Reefton behind and roll up to welly for Xair.. That park is amazing!

German rider Gregor has been sending it on a regular basis as he has made Qtown his home for the past few months and also made the trip up to Xair where he stomped some sweet trickiness on the park. Brian Vent also made the trip up to welly to compete. Its been way too hot here to ride... 30+ degrees! Xair... what the hell! Amazing as always! But aside from all the craziness that we witnessed, it was just so rad to meet up with the riding massive of NZ. Catching up with old friends and making new ones is such a cool part of BMX. The Gorge Road dirt jumps have been fixed up and are rolling pretty good. Good enough for Puni to throw down on so they must be good eh.

Massive thanks goes out to all the riders that have hung out with the Qtwn crew over the past few months and enjoyed the good times. Safe travels guys! Devin

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Shane Badman halfpacker switch//moore

flatground

With Stu John and Ali Finlay

Well the BMX Games have came and gone again. The comp ran really well and it Here comes the sun, the flatland lifestyle DVD is now done, go to www.flatlandaustralia.com to see the full trailer! Also we’ll be getting Brett Stumpy Mason to do a was good to see all the up and coming flatlanders! full review of the DVD next issue. www.flatlandaustralia.com has recently got a facelift and will have more write ups The second nicest guy in flatland, Todd Hartford (the Todd) has moved from on jams, photos and videos. So remember to go check out the site and join up to swinging sunny Sydney to the ground rider Mecca of Northern Australia due to re the forum! deployment by this great nations defence forces.

Flatlander Chris Moore is now living in Vancouver, Canada and said it’s been The Australian Grand Prix looks set bring back Flatland to its line up after a few too cold to ride so he’s been snowboarding, ice climbing and drinking maple syrup. years of, errr, not having it in its line up. Twelve riders have been engaged to take Ballarat’s favourite son Ben Moran flew out to Middle Earth in late December. Ben part in the pre-race chick with flags bit. It will be interesting to say the least. aim is to ride, hit up X-Air and enjoy the delights of the land of the long white cloud.

Wethepeople’s rider James Smith launched his London based news website Stumpy and I have started putting together the next back2basics jam, we hope STYLE43 focusing on the latest BMX, Skate, Music and Art happenings around to have the jam indoors and have lots of prizes to give out. The jam will be around London and worldwide. Some more things are in the works and well worth checking winter time so for more up dates go to www.flatlandaustralia.com out, go to www.style43.com

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robineriksson

Upon my late arrival home from a gig one night, I jumped on the net to check my e-mails and I found that I had received a couple of rather odd ones. One for male porn and also this weird mail from a Swedish flatlander named Robin, asking if anyone had a place he could live for a year. He stated his love for flatland and his love of travelling, something we would all love to do, and more so with our bikes. Todd Harford and myself shot him back an e-mail inviting him to stay with either one of us... Needless to say he chose Todd over me, but that’s another story... He’s grown to like Subway, Milo and beer in his few months here, and all I have to say about him is that he is a genuine nice guy, easy to get along with and receives much respect from the Sydney riders, myself included. Here is an intimate candle-lit interview with Robin Eriksson, Sweden’s answer to the Hoff.

First things first...

Robin Eriksson, 20 years old, I’ve been riding for about 7 years.

How did you get into riding?

My dad had a bike shop several years ago and me and my friend David used to hang out there, looking in bike catalogues and stuff. We saw photos of people riding flatland in those and it looked like lots of fun so we bought bikes and started riding. My brother Jimmy started riding at the same time so we have always been three riders in our area.

My first BMX bike was a 98 Dyno blast. We started riding seriously after seeing a GT bicycle air show with Phil Dolan.

You’re only 20 and the other day you were telling me that there are maybe 10 flatland riders in Sweden.

Do you think riding with such a small group has influenced your riding and style in particular?

Not maybe my riding that much but it definitely made us travel more than we probably would have done if we were not riding. Because of the lack of riders in Sweden we have travelled all over Europe to contests and jams to meet up and ride with other riders. This is the great thing about riding, you get to meet so many people and see cool places.

Why did you move to Australia?

I moved here because I was fed up with the Swedish winters. It usually drops down to about -10 degrees Celsius and sometimes even colder and we also get lots of snow, which makes it impossible to ride outside. The only positive thing about that is that you can have a snowball fight with your friends, or enemies. I have an indoor spot back home but it is just available once a week for a few hours and that is not enough for me. I had heard so many nice stories about Australia that got me intrigued to travel here, and now when I am here I don’t regret leaving for second.

How would you describe your riding style?

I try to mix it up, ride both front and back wheel equally. I would say that my riding is pretty much all round, I can not say that I have a certain style really. I am curious about all the tricks you can do on a flatland bike. I never get consistent with my riding though because I keep moving on to new tricks all the time, I rarely stick to one thing and get it dialled, I just find it boring for some reason. Pretty bad in some ways I guess but that is how I prefer to ride and I am happy with it.

What was it like growing up in Sweden? Any crazy stories? Or Crazy animals like drop bears us Aussies should watch out for?

I grew up in a small town called Eksjš in southern Sweden. The chance of seeing a bear there is probably as big as seeing a Tiger in Australia. All the bears hang out in the north. What you should watch out for in Sweden though are some people called “Moderater”, they are evil.

Ever had any injuries from riding flatland?

Not really had any bad injuries, been lucky on that front. Just a tip though, don’t try decades while you are drunk...

Describe your 1st taste of Vegemite?

Like throwing up salt water, but the opposite. continued over...

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I reckon my odds are pretty good. I do push ups and sit ups every morning, trying to stay in good shape in case I ever run into a kangaroo unarmed someday.

Explain what you have shown us as the “Chomp Manoeuvre”.

The Chomp Manoeuvre? I once had a dream about that me and my friends were hanging out outside our indoor spot were we usually ride during the winters. It is snowing and freezing cold, suddenly from nowhere, Effraim Catlow shows up, dressed in just a pair of shorts and a T-shirt. Everyone stops riding and watches him bust out a few combos. Then he does it; The Big Chomp. He is going into a hitchhiker, standing on both pedals, biting the tire and throws his hands in the air. That is the story.

Who do you ride with back home and who would you like to ride with?

I usually ride with my brother Jimmy and my friend David, we have always been riding together and share lots of great memories. If I could ride with anyone I wanted right now I would actually have to choose these two guys.

On outside interests, you have a passion for photography, filming videos and editing them? Is it something for personal keep-sake? Or do you plan to use it for the greater good? (Telling Swedish backpackers we have giant drop-bears).

At one point I would like to make a flatland video. I have lots of ideas in my head I would like to make reality, I know some riders out there that got some serious stuff going on, I would like to capture their best stuff, especially the bomb tricks. This is something I am pretty sure about that I am going to do one day. It would also be cool to make a book with photos of flatland riding from all over the world. I already have some photos collected but I have to do much more travelling before I can finish that project.

You hate spiders, any plans of attack as of yet?

It’s funny, I had been in Australia for about one month when I was in the bathroom and saw a huge huntsman spider on the wall. I knew before I came here that you have creepy spiders here but I had not thought about until that point. At first I thought it was one of those fake rubber spider you find in the toy store, but then the son of a bitch started to move. I did not kill it so it is still probably lurking around somewhere in the house. Sometimes during the nights I think I can hear it crawling outside my room.

I noticed on the way to a gig the other night that you don’t mind a brew or 8, Any crazy stories of riding whilst under the influence?

Like I said earlier, decades drunk in Helsinki, not a good idea.

What is a typical day for Robin in Australia?

Sleep to 11-12, ride for 2-3 hours, go home, cook some food, watch some movies and just chill out for the rest of the evening. I love living this kind of life, no stress, just enjoy life to the fullest. Wish I could live like this for the rest of my life.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Other then hiding in Todd’s basement from the authorities?

Haha. As for the moment I will probably go back to Sweden and work some more, then I might travel again or maybe study. I find it hard to plan this kind of stuff though, anything can happen, I like to live one day at a time and not plan too much.

Anything in particular you want to do in Aus? I definitely want to go to the BMX-Games next year, try to get some riding on tape from there so I can make a video out of it. Would like to go to Queensland and check out the beaches there and try out surf and body boarding.

I would like to go to the King Of Ground contest in Japan, just seems to be an awesome scene over there. Would like to stay there for some time and learn more about the culture, their way of living and stuff like that. Hopefully I will go there next year right before I am heading back to Sweden.

You told me you want to fight a Kangaroo, what do you rate your odds on an outcome where you do not come out with your guts ripped open?

I reckon my odds are pretty good. I do push ups and sit ups every morning, trying to stay in good shape in case I ever run into a kangaroo unarmed someday.

What do you think of the Australian scene, if you have heard of it?

There are lots more riders here than in Sweden so obviously I consider it is big. Most of the riders I met are laid back, really cool and fun to ride with. Seems like the scene is growing all the time, lots of riders are eager to learn, so in the following years I think Australia is going to kick some serious ass on the flatland world map.

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What direction can you see flatland going in the coming years, particularly in Europe?

It is hard to predict that kind of stuff. When it comes to the frames it seems like everything is getting smaller and with more bends. As I am a tall dude I rather prefer longer frames. I don’t really understand why more companies don’t make longer frames for flatland, I know a lot of riders are interested in them. As for riding, I seriously do not have a clue, and that is what I like so much about flatland, it can evolve in any way.

Any thank you’s, shout out’s?

I would like to thank my Mum and Dad for being the best parents a kid could ever ask for. You have always helped me out with all sorts of stuff and always been supportive about my riding. Thanks to Jimmy Eriksson and David Lundquist for just being great friends, do not think I would ride right know if it were not for you guys, you have always kept me motivated. Thanks to Henrik Claudelin and all the other Finnish riders for helping us out every time we visit Helsinki, already looking forward to next year, crossing my fingers for a sauna party then. Thanks to Todd Harford for helping me out with accommodation in Sydney. And at last, thanks Mitch for doing this interview, I hope everyone enjoyed reading it.

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Ryan Guettler. Pro mini final. Last run. No foot can flair. 1st attempt//Gascoine

Well it’s that time of the year and the biggest comp Australia has to offer rolls around. The 2007 BMX games were again held at the infamous Monster Park in Homebush, Sydney.

The dirt comp was located 100 metres up the road from the park and a day earlier, out front of the Brewery hotel.

The jumps were literally put up two days prior and pulled down the day after the comp. There was a bit of a problem last year with the dirt jumps, so a lot of people were wary that they might be lacking again? A big thanks must go out to the crew of Shane Biffen, Chris Anderson, Mike S and Kenny Raggett, who busted their arses to build good jumps this year. They managed to pull off some good sets, which everyone seemed happy with, so big props to the crew. The unfortunate thing was that the wind would become gale force. And by that I mean when I flew into Sydney the plane was dancing around like a drunken hippy at Woodstock before it hit the tarmac. This was causing some problems that couldn’t really be controlled, but the comp that went down was still world class. Once again Guettler dominated, he didn’t get to where he is by not being super consistent. He threw out 720’s, double whips and fronties and still managed to nail hard trick after hard trick pulling it all together to come out on top. Hot on his heals was Cam White and Colin Mackay, both are super consistent and have the tricks to take him out, but with the wind causing a little havoc they just couldn’t touch Ryan. Notable mentions also go out to Dave Dillewaard and Cam Pianta who just missed out on the podium, Dilleward by half a point so the boys were not letting up at all. It was disappointing that after all the effort put in, the wind was still a problem that, I guess, couldn’t be avoided. But just goes to show everyone put in 100 percent, and the comp was a reflection of that.

In case you have been living in a cave, Monster Park is probably the best park in Australia? Well indoor one anyhow!

It has a seriously massive vert ramp (almost too big) and a spine mini ramp that has to be one of the best in the world. There is also the street course which is indoor and good, but does lack a little due to the setup being almost identical to last year!

Flatland this year had a good turn out, there were so many riders in the am and the pro class that I was stoked to see.

I guess flatland has been quietly growing in the underground and this comp was a testament to that. The am’s had some familiar faces. Tim Hall had original tricks and some nice switches that gave him the number one spot for am.

A shout out to Brett (stumpy) Mason who was riding well in pro, and pointing out to me the up and coming rippers in both classes. Pro had a couple of international flavours with the usual summer face of Michael Steingraber in full effect, as well as our own Simon O’Brien. It was always going to be between these two and in the end Steingraber had trouble getting a link that kept him back, probably due to spending the last five days digging dirt instead of riding…

As for persistence, he would only try to get into his link after about a 30 second set up series of tricks until he would try the switch and it went to show that German precision payed off as the arena was screaming when he nailed it in the end. I don’t know what I can say about Simon that could make you realise how good he actually is? He is in a league of his own and not only does he do the most original tricks, but he’s switching and flipping between links that have everyone scratching their head’s. If you ever go to a comp and think flat is boring then you obviously haven’t seen these guys ride! People are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to see Simon ride inside the Opera house and the thousands of people that watch Mike S daily at Hyde Park! You should grab the next chance you have it will make you realize what the words dedication and skill mean.

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The street comp was, to say the least, crazy. The amateurs were far from that, with countless flairs and more whips than a Devo song! It seems they are the first tricks kids learn these days! It would have been a hard comp to judge, but to be honest, the same tricks went down time and time again, all massive and crazy but there wasn’t much diversity with the riding. Don’t get me wrong, the quality of riding was nothing short of impressive but I guess there wasn’t that many kids taking a chance and trying something different to mix it up. They more or less just let the bangers fly, but I guess it’s a comp and the bangers get judged good, it’s just a shame kids didn’t even try to hit a grind or lip trick to change the box jump / wall tap / air / air / box jump line. With that aside, Luke Morrison rode like a madman and by the shit he threw down, I guarantee that is the last am comp he will be in. He could hang with the pro class for sure.

As for pro, the size of the class was huge, I believe around twenty entered and some of the big names weren’t even there. There was only one overseas contingent, Colony’s Dave Freimuth, which meant there were a few new faces to the pro class and they didn’t disappoint. The locals consisting of Brendan Jones, Seaton Sprat and Chris “Danger” O’Donnell let the local knowledge fly with Brendan doing the biggest transfer across the street course and danger sending a double whip or two. But it was the tuff man himself, Seaton Spratt, who did possibly the trick of the comp by launching a whip over the sub rail about seven foot high. Nicky Buckard has been constantly improving his riding and made the final cut, nailing a perfect flip whip to over the box. Toby Mathews is a machine, 360 double whips anyone? But a few crashes kept him back. Colin Mackay was dominating all weekend, his airs were easily up around the nine to ten foot mark, it looked like he might take a back to back title until a 720 loop out rang his bell. That left him a little scattered and sore and held him back in the placing’s. In the end, Ryan Guettler fired out his mix of burliness and consistency and also landed his first barrel roll over the box which was clean as a whistle, it took me a while to figure out what he did because he just flicked it out of nowhere and landed perfect and kept on cranking!

This landed him the second place spot. After all was said and done the big man himself Dave Dillewaard took top honours. For a guy that can jump like a demon it’s his ability to mix it up and do all facet’s from hard sub rail tricks to lip tricks, street moves and then boost airs, that makes him stand out from the rest of the field. He used the whole course, every ramp, and I doubt he repeated any trick twice. With that said he has the best 360 flatty in the game, he seriously goes to sleep on those things and I swear his tyre rests on his back for a good second or two!

The new addition to the BMX Games was girls street which is a positive thing as most big comps these days are cutting classes, the Guys at Freestyle BMX are adding which only promotes and supports the riders. With only four entrants (next year will double guaranteed) the girls rode well with a lot of pressure when a stadium full of people are watching you roll about. Peta Sheperd took number one and scored

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herself a frame for the trouble and Angela who made the trip down from Brisbane with Peta also rode well. It was good to see all four girls giving it a go, props to them all, we will see how many troops they can round up for next year’s event?

“Monster Park” is named because of the massive vert ramp that resides there, whilst it is made well, it is on the verge of too big. The Comp saw a bunch of flairs and the likes with Tim Wood and Matt Fairbain being the big guns and Vince Byron, Clint Bensley and Chris Edgar battling it out as well. Vince Byron is a new face and in the short time he has been around he is definitely turning heads. He’s from Brisbane where we don’t have a public vert ramp but he still has whips, 540’s and bar spins down and took bronze. It should be interesting to see his riding in a year or so with the new vert ramp going in at Beenleigh, big things could be in store for this Kid. Matt Fairbain did the biggest alley oop 540 across the roll in channel as well as throwing the bars in a few 540’s at around 6 feet out, its awesome to see how dialled Matt is on vert these days. He has moved back to OZ and has been riding Monster every week so its very apparent, if you haven’t seen Matt ride, trust me he will leave you on the edge of your seat, smooth dialled and not afraid to take a crash. Very close second place went to him. Tim Wood has the skill on vert that few in the world have and he isn’t afraid to roll the dice once in a while. He has done 900’s before and it has been suggested that he does them smoother than anyone, he decided to let one fly on the monster ramp from about six foot out and just landed too hard and blew off. This didn’t stop him getting up and having another run, he actually knocked himself a little silly as after the comp he didn’t remember exactly what happened? But he still managed to do flairs and a huge superman seat grab. The size of the ramp is spectacular to say the least, even just to stand up there is scary but whilst talking to Matt and Tim in New Zealand and watching the quality of riding that they produced there, it did seem the Monster ramp held a few people back, but either way vert riding in Australia has never been as progressive or strong as it is today!

SEQ// Colin Mackay is always a contender whatever he rides//cHris benny TOP//Clint Bensley rode Monster's Spine ramp faster than anyone and only just missed out on taking the win again in Pro//Paul kim ABOVE//Lee Kirkman took the Fuel "Hungry like a wolf" award//morrisey LEFT//Cam Pianta//Gascoine

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ABOVE//Seaton Spratt may have only just qualified for Pro park, but come finals time he rolled with the best of them, local knowledge and 360 nosepicks all a part of the show//morrisey BELOW//Damon Fox is the new force in Aus flatland, he rolled away with 3rd//morrisey

Over the whole BMX Games the main event would have to be the spine mini comp. There were a lot of rippers in mini and again it seemed like you had to blast flairs and whips to even get close to the finals. One rider that really stood out in am for me was Luke Gorecki, who rode with style and flow and did possibly the best no hander airs of the comp, although he didn’t make it to the podium he impressed the hell outa me. The winner was Jaie Toohey, he has been riding stronger every comp I see and puts 100 percent effort in. It showed and he took the class top honours, all with a smile on his face, so top effort to Jaie.

Now to Pro and one of the most progressive riders ever to have front brakes or ride a ramp is Dave Freimuth and for me it was a treat to see him ride in this comp. The sun was probably in the worst position possible by the finals, basically blinding you when you jumped one way or aired but the guys didn’t let this phase them too much. Last year there was a little bit of controversy about the judging but with either way this was a new year and a fresh plate. Vince Byron again rode with the style and dailed’ness of someone twice his age, he pulled a bar spin to fuf on the sub to bar spin in! Along with the old school no hand three over the spine and countless list of other tricks. You have to remember this kid is only 16 and I believe you are gonna hear a lot more of this kids name. Seaton Spratt rode well but you could tell he was not relaxed, he still 360 whipped the shit outa the spine and nailed a whip to nose pick but ended up with 6th for his effort, in true Seaton style he shook his head and thought he rode crap… haha! Lee Kirkman was a bit of a surprise and good to see because he has done the hard yards and has been around for a long time but to end up with 5th place in mini riding brakeless was a feat in itself, he launched flairs and the like but the coolest by far was the hang nothings he did at full speed across the deck of the ramp. The USA contingent and Colony rider Dave Freimuth was a treat to watch, he is one of the tech’est guys out there. I think his first trick was a Canadian nose pick on the over vert section, he then proceeded to pick apart the ramp and spine and sub. He also did the craziest stunt of the day, a tail whip to peg stall on the spine to pull over the other side, that is serious commitment. Talking to him later he said he was only just starting to get the feel of the ramp so would have been interesting to see him ride it if he was comfortable but then third isn’t exactly bad! Then there were the top two of “The Colonel” Clint Bensley and Ryan Guettler, they both rode hard and fast and in the end Guettler just edged the Colonel out of the top spot. The colonel rode every part of the ramp and 540 tapped the over vert section which took him a few tries but he nailed it perfect in the end. Ryan G just let the ramp have it from word go, he dropped in and flaired the small 3 foot quarter on the deck then proceeded to whip and jump and spin over everything. His pure energy probably let him fit in more tricks than anyone as well as uncork his signature Indian cancan flair. I don’t think he took a foot off till he stopped his run on the deck, so the dollars and the top honours go to him.

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The after party (that was actually the before party on the Friday night), consisted of a few hundred BMXers and friends, one Volume DVD premiere, a couple of bands and a shit load of drunken behaviour that was all in good fun. But there might have to be a new hotel sponsor because I doubt the one everyone stayed at in Parramatta will invite riders back again? In the end, the 2007 BMX Games were the best to date, both the turnout and level of riding was better than any before. If you haven’t made the trip to the BMX Games in the past I recommend you do next year, it should be a definite on the calendar. Morrisey

ABOVE//Vince Byron is dialled. From foot jam to bar spins in to huge superman seat grabs off anything, his skills are snowballing by the day//morrisey TOP RIGHT//Kie Ashworth//Gorak MIDDLE RIGHT//Matt Fairbairn was going high on his almost local vert ramp//morrisey BOTTOM RIGHT//Dave Friemuth made the trek to Australia to meet up and travel with his new Colony team//morrisey

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D F K D AI BR R L IV U ET E RE T JA N PO IE AT PL H T A E O N O H S E E Y A R LE

When looking through the pages of this magazine, you probably don’t realise how much time and effort goes into gathering the photographs that you see in front of you. From finding a spot to shoot, then the right rider to ride it; then deciding the trick to be done on it. A lot goes into just these first few steps.

But that’s not even a drop in the mythical photographic ocean. This is where the excessive amount of text messaging plays into the whole ordeal, it’s mind blowing how many text messages I have to send to organize shit. From sending one to try to organize a good time after their work to shoot then trying to tell them where the spot is and finally the weather, something that I unfortunately can’t control. Oh don’t forget about the security guards or even better, the good Samaritans that stop to tell you that you are doing something ‘wrong’ and should leave, even when they have no authority to do so. And all this is even before I have to shoot the photo. So when looking at the photographs on the following pages please spare a thought for the time and effort on the behalf of the photographers and riders who bust a gut to just expose a piece of emulsified film to light. Nick Gascoine

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The brick tranny walls at Erindale are very appealing to me; so any chance I get to shoot a photo on them I jump at. The day had been nice and warm and the sun was starting to set and come through the trees nicely. I really wanted to capture the feel of the afternoon so I threw in a roll of Kodak VS, which is a very nicely saturated film and would reflect the feel that I was aiming for. We shot a whole roll so I knew I had the shot and we were done and dusted.

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I had never ridden Fadden ‘bowl’ before, and there is a good reason to it. This tranny has to be the shittiest thing ever built. Some how the people constructing it were able to build two trannies in one. There is a massive lump inwards half way up the ramp that puts you off so bad it makes you forget what you were even trying. After seeing Luke air this a couple of times I asked him if he wanted to shoot it and once again he obliged. After we shot this I went up to give him a knuckles as a well done gesture and he told me that this was the place he first learnt to air and was stoked that he finally got a photo on it. I was utterly surprised that someone could learn to air that piece of shit ramp.

Kym is without a doubt one of my favourite riders to shoot. He’s everything you’d want in a subject.

Spending a large portion of the summer in Vancouver with him really opened my eyes as to just how good he is when it comes to riding a bike. Where others would take a look at a gap, line or rail then simply ride away, he’d get it done. No qualms about it. Only stopping for a cigarette and a swig of Coke, then onto the next spot. Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever set up for a photo without Kym coming through with the goods. Oh yeah, and you gotta love a guy that helps you pack up your gear. Not to mention only moments after taking a severe slam….. Thanks Kym.

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The day this photo of Luke was shot was the nicest day Canberra had seen all year and the sky started to turn the beautiful blue and had the wildest gradient in it. Luke had been blasting these one-footed inverts over the hip all day so I asked him if he wanted to shoot it, and he obliged. So I quickly threw all my flashes onto my light stands and took readings. After Luke did a couple so I could see how high he was going I told him to roach one because we were losing light fast. After we shot a couple he did one more and clicked it so hard he buzzed his hair with his front tire. The only thing that you can’t tell from the angle is that he is going about 6 foot over a 5 foot hip and that is it opposite.

Erindale is home to some very weird obstacles and tight trannies. The bowl has this one point where it meets the brick walls and it gets really step. I had been wanting to shoot a photo all day and when I saw Thomas do a foot jam on it I was surprised and stoked at the same time that someone did something on it. So after the usual asking if I could take a photo of it, I set up and found my angle.

After we shot a couple of normal foot jams on it Thomas casually asked if I wanted to shoot an under handed one.

After he did it a couple times I ran out of film on that roll and called it a rap.

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Just as I was setting up to shoot this photo it start to spit rain, so I had to be quick. After screwing around for a minute taking light readings from my two flashes I decided to set up a third. As soon as I pulled my third flash out of my bag I remembered that it had been hit by a skateboard the previous night, which had snapped the foot off it and this is the bit I attach to my light stands. So after a second of swearing and yelling I just put it on the ground on its back and tried to make do, in the end it wasn’t such a big deal and I was just acting like a pussy.

But at the time I was sweating it due to the rain and the possibility of not getting the photo.

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Who is Raphael Jeroma-Williams?

Some say dirty shyzer but most say Raph.

Out of all things a kid could get into, why BMX? Pretty much cause my dad was way into it when I was born and I used to see all the mags and see him ride, it looked like so much fun.

Your dad used to ride BMX back in the day even to the point of getting hooked up with sponsors, was he a big influence to get involved or was it just coincidence?

Yeah he was a huge influence to me, he was on the flow team for Hutch back in the day and I got involved because he used to take me to the race track or skate parks and go for a ride. I used to watch him in awe cause that was the first time I ever saw anyone do jumps and tricks and I just thought that was the raddest thing ever, especially when he would do 360’s, that used to blow my mind haha.

Your parents seem like they support you a lot and let you live life your way?

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Interview and photos by Steve Morrisey

I know, and I couldn’t thank them enough for that, they are the best parents to have, I just have to be straight up to them, do my best in life and have fun while doing so, I don’t think that’s too much to ask for You just came back from a surfing and riding road trip with your dad. I am sure not many people would say they road trip with their old man.

Yeah that was a sick trip, just my old man and me, roughing it down the coast line, drinking beers, surfing, skating and riding some really cool skate parks and drains. It was really good, we both needed to get out of town and just go for a little adventure.

I know you have surfed for years and can skate, do you get into them seriously?

Naa, never really took any of it seriously. I nearly quit BMX in grade 9 cause I kept breaking parts ‘n’ my paper run job wasn’t getting me much money so I thought skating would be cheaper, but then turned back to BMX cause skating was way too damn hard haha. With surfing, I have been going down every weekend with my dad

since I was 10, not so much any more cause I am mostly too hung over. I went in some surfing comps when I was in the Narrow neck surf club but I couldn’t do it, I would just rather surf when I felt like it.

For your age you have spent a fair amount of time overseas, how did that happen?

Well my mum is all to blame, she gave me the travel bug and she is also from Germany, so we went overseas quite a bit to catch up with family and she encouraged me to go overseas for a year after high school, that was one of the best years of my life.

I noticed when you came back from your overseas stint you seemed to have grown up mentally? You seem to have a good grip on what you want outa life.

Haha really well yeah I do think that sometimes too, I also feel a lot more self confident for being a year on my own.

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Tell me a crazy story from your time overseas? I know you have a few!

Man there are so many ‘n’ most of them are a little R rated haha, but one is when I was in Spain, Barcelona and I meet up with all these guys from England that skated ‘n’ they showed me all these crazy spots. We rocked up to this one spot, banks with rails on them everywhere, a spot that I could only ever dream about! I started riding ‘n’ grinding but what we all forgot about was that at two in the arvo or something it’s siesta, where they all go to sleep and rest up, and we are making shit loads of noise cause of the grinding. Next thing I know a glass jar full of water gets thrown at me from the top of this huge apartment block and landed about four foot away, I shat my pants and we bolted. I grabbed a beer and thought about it, woke me up a bit, I realised I was not in Australia, shit’s different over there.

Is that where Spiderman learnt how to smash a bottle on his head?

Oh yeah man, shit the parties over there are wild, haha.

What was the biggest difference you found with life overseas compared to Australia?

I found that everything had rules and everything was a bit more strict in a way and a lot of people found it hard to make ends meet over there.

How many people may be living at your house at any given time?

Anywhere form 0 to 9 random people at any time, haha.

What is important to you?

Family and friends, and good times.

Do you have dreams to get on the BMX bandwagon and try your luck overseas, maybe try to make a living outa BMX? Not really, that doesn’t interest me at all cause for that to happen you just have to train and pretty much do all the flip whip fronties and shit which is just not my style. I just like to find new lines, explore new spots and countries and ride with mates when I feel like it.

What was the main difference with the BMX scene overseas compared to Australia? Which do you prefer?

Biggest difference was entering parks there, cause they were always sooooooo exited to see another BMX rider cause they hardly see anyone that rides. It was real cool rocking up to a spot feeling like they are your best mates when really you’ve known them for like 5 min, haha. They also all just ride and

laugh all the time and sometimes I get the feeling that some here in Australia try to become the next big thing but hey its not for me to say what is what…

You speak fluent German, which must be a huge help in Europe, where else in the world do you want to head to and experience?

Yeah that helps a heap, well I want to go to the south of Spain, Greece and Sweden cause they have hot chicks, haha but pretty much want to explore all of Europe.

I believe that for your age you are far beyond the mentality of a lot of kids with a similar age as far as being grown up, but its not like you’re a “cool guy” about things, it just seems you have a good grasp on reality!

Holy shit man this is a crazy one haha. Ummm well sometimes I think that I did grow up a bit and this might be cause I was thrown into another country and had to do a lot of things by myself that I’ve never had to do before, all while trying to get used to speaking another language. I think that made me grow up a bit and see what really happens in this world.

That said, you still party like a 16-year-old just discovering beer! And don’t mind cutting loose! Especially dressed as Spiderman.

Getting loose with all your mates around is the best thing in the world, I love partying, everyone’s just laughing and talking shit getting loose and sometimes Spiderman comes out haha! Being dressed in a Spiderman outfit got me the chance to see a chick pull her pants down to show me her Spiderman underwear…

What do you think of the current “trends” or direction of BMX at the moment?

Oh this is a touchy one but I can’t say it’s really my cup of tea.

What motivates you outside of BMX? Lots of things, like hanging out with mate’s and drinking beer and having rad parties, love listening to old school rock like Sabbath, Maiden all sort of stuff. Going for a surf, some times watching surf DVD’s, camping, getting my shit box car on the road haha, travelling, filming and sunny days.

What if anything do you hope to achieve, do you have any mottos or anything you live by?

Really in the end I just want to have as much fun as possible, see lots of new spots and meet some awesome people. A motto that I sort of lived by is that you only live once.

You are doing a film and television course full time, what got you into that and how is it work’n out?

I got into it cause I’ve always loved watching BMX videos and loved pulling out a camera ‘n’ filming all my mates ‘n’ then trying to make a video of it all. It’s working out really good, having lots of fun doing it and learning lots. I just finished a month working on a feature film so that was a crazy experience.

What do you hope to achieve out of that.

I’m not too sure, would love to get into cameras but I’m slowly finding out how hard and how cut throat the industry is to get into. What I want to get out of it, is to make some really good BMX videos with all the stuff I’ve learnt from film school.

How do you make ends meet money wise?

I’m a fridge labourer.

You ride quite uniquely, well its kinda messed up actually, a bit confusing. You naturally turn one way but you learnt to air and table the other way better and then spin another way, then whip and grind another. What the hell is going on?

Man I still don’t know, haha its weird, I ride left foot forward when I do turndowns, bar spins, grinds and when I do bunny hop 180’s, and 360’s I do them to the right… but when I go off jumps, I have my right foot forwards and do 180’s and 360’s to the left, I do all my no footed tricks with my right foot forwards… Oh its too hard to explain, it’s really messed up.

Was it a hindrance or an advantage being that everything is all about the oppo now?

Most of it is an advantage but some times I want to do a certain trick and just can’t do cause my feet will be the wrong way round, maybe I’m just a pussy haha.

What grinds your gears in this world?

I would have to say chicks, cause they make no sense haha, but this whole fighting going on round the world, it sucks, wish we could live in peace and not have to worry about getting blown up.

Are you trend whore or not?

I’m a huge trend whore, haha only riding for the money ‘n’ bitches!

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You sent me a link to some old school POW (Pro’s Of Westminster, an old rider house in LA) thing and I remember how stoked you were on the life style back then before ESPN and the x-games. It seems odd considering how young you are, most kids don’t know about all that shit, how come you get psyched on that era.

I don’t know, it just seems like such pure BMX, there was a huge crew of mates that lived together, had really crazy times riding, partying and getting up to all sorts of shit, that just seemed like the best thing in the world.

Backies or fronties?

Well, I would say backie but then go straight into a frontie, as you’re coming round, check the tire for the right tyre pressure and chuck a quick whip in there for more points hahaha…

Who do you respect in life and why?

I respect my family for everything they have done for me and the life they have given me and respect my mates because they have taught me so much, even though I don’t think they know that.

What goals are you hoping to achieve in the future, being you’re only quite young now?

I want to make some BMX video’s that are a bit different to your normal video, I really want to travel more of the world and see more crazy places and just have a good time.

What have been some of the biggest influences that you have had?

My dad for sure, he has taught me a lot in life, the TK crew, you guys know who you are, pretty much the most influential and best mates ever. My cousin Andy, he opened my eyes to a lot of things when we were travelling and definitely Mat Hoffman and Van Homan, do I need to say much more haha, they are Gods!

Any lessons that life has taught you?

You only get one go at things so you might as well give it your best.

Anything you want to add or say to young bin rats like you once were?

Well I would say just go out and ride that bike, laugh, don’t get too caught up on what’s trendy and most of all have fun and don’t take it serious because remember that is a little kids bike haha!

Shout outs and thank you’s.

Want to thank mum for keeping me well fed and taking care of my injuries, my dad for getting me into this mess in the first place, TK crew Mike, Will, Row, Shaun, Byron all the boys, you guys are the best ever. Thanks to you Steve for this interview, I didn’t expect this at all, crazy, and also for hooking me up with cheap parts champ cause you know how poor I am haha. All the people overseas that hooked me up with a floor to sleep on and gave me beers ‘n’ showed me their spots, you guys rule. Andy at &X in Germany for hooking me up with shirts “BMX is my PARTY”, pretty much anyone that has helped me out, cheers!

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The news spread quick, a backyard jam at Cam Whites…

Cam had dug a ‘dirt park’ in his parents’ front yard, and they are easily the biggest BMX dirt jumps ever to be built on Australian soil.

A lot of credit has to go to Cam and his parents for all the time, effort and money that they put into this. It really is exceptional. Think five months of hard work and around $20,000 of dirt and roll in! And also think how good Cam will be getting now he’s got this to ride when he’s home…

The event was held for the charity Camp Quality and money was donated through a BBQ and raffle. Camp Quality helps kids and their families that are affected by cancer. So with a with a live DJ, a BBQ, and around 40 of the best in the Aus BMX community hitting big, fast downhill jumps, it was all on. Mongoose donated a 07 Brawler as the raffle prize and every kid who attended was issued with his own Mongoose Tee. The crowd was small but there was considerable press coverage.

Channel 9 did a prime time news item on the event and the Sydney Morning Herald did a feature too. The event was also covered by all the BMX media and was filmed for FUEL TV (in both Australia and the US).

Cam White was rocking his usual jaw-dropping style, he didn’t fall or even wobble once all weekend and he basically rode 2 hours a day! Andrew Gul was hot on his heels with huge no-handed back flips, Andrew is definitely heading for the big league.

Tim Fountain showed up and even with a knee injury, he managed to float through the massive jumps. AM rider Daniel Taylor recovered from a front-flip injury in the foam pit in time to style his way through the set a few times before landing on his butt hard overshooting the last set. These guys are super-human! Even with injuries that would hospitalize the rest of us, they can still take on the biggest dirt Australia has seen.

Cam White//GASCOINE

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Andrew Gul//HilleNbraNd

Daniel Donges made it clear he has untouchable flow, he boosted higher than anyone, much to the appreciation of the crew gathered in the trees… The big names of Mackay, Bohan, Guettler and Dillewaard made a late entrance and flowed through the huge sets a few times under lights, but at the end of the night, the Cam White Hillside Dirt Jam 2007 King of the Hill trophy went to Dane Searls. He was out to prove he isn’t joking around and was pulling off huge, clean double whips on the hip, whe also pulled an old school no hander to tailwhip on the last jump. I guess that’s progression from the tyre grab to whip he was doing earlier? $2,500 was raised for Camp Quality, Cam’s backyard turned into a camp ground and the night was long and rowdy. Overall it was a rocking affair in favour of the riders. As we were tidying up the mess the following morning, I overheard Cam describing what he has planned for Cam Jam 2. Look out! Phil townsley

The man, the machine, Cam White...//GOraK

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Speechless, flabbergasted, astonished, astounded, amazed, thunderstruck! I could use so many words to describe how I was when I first witnessed Troy ride and it’s kind of weird considering the fact that in the first 6 months I barely heard him speak at all.

I had to pay close attention to know that he made a noise at all!

In addition, that same silence roamed freely through his riding, making the harshest of cases become unspoken and true to the calm that is Troy Jackson. What is never heard through words comes out loud and clear in Troy’s riding. At almost every stop,

whether it is on the obstacle everyone sessions or the nearest gutter by himself, Troy seems to always bring something new and inventive! If you’ve seen Focal Point “WHAT” then you’ll understand what I ramble about, if you are yet to see it, hit up your local store or Focal Point magazine to get yourself a copy and appreciate what Troy is doing for the development of Australian BMX. Come with me as I extrude as many words out of Troy as I can, find out what is going on in that head of his and how he got to where he is today.

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Name/age/hometown; Troy Jackson, 19, Diamond Creek Where did you grow up?

I grew up in Hurstbridge all through my primary school years and later moved to Diamond Creek when I hit high school.

Have you got any fond memories of growing up?

Swinging on this big old metal clothes hanger, Super Nintendo was pretty awesome, WWF was also a great watch, not sure how that worked out for me.

What about getting into BMX? I always rode bikes and what not and always liked launching off things so BMX seemed right. I would guess around age 8 or 9 I had a 16inch and maybe around 12, 13ish I got my first BMX, a Torker.

Tell me how you see yourself, what sort of person do you believe yourself to be?

I seriously have no idea man, haha. I guess I try to be cool with everyone and anyone, try not to

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let stuff bother me too much, not sure how that’s working out for me.

Do you try to live by certain morals?

Not really, have fun, enjoy life as it comes.

Any daily rituals you have to complete before riding your bike or going to work or anything like that?

Pee outside before I go to work, drinking water before going to bed, risky! As for riding I put on two pairs of socks every time I go, I do a lot of tailspins and whacking my feet is a regular occurrence.

What are the five most important things to you?

Family, friends, bike, computer and money What’s your ride at the moment?

Fit series 3 frame, mostly odyssey parts. I hopped aboard the lightweight craze, but still try to build a solid bike. Odyssey parts are great quality and the lifetime warranty never hurts. My first real frame was a Fit Series 1 and it was a really nice frame. So I thought I would try a S3, as

I had heard good things. I was and still am a bit tense of how light it is but it has held up well.

Any plans for the future?

Anything you’d change?

Not really, could you true my wheels though? Please…

Ride as much as possible, try and save money, maybe travel a bit here and there. I would really

How many hours a week do you ride?

I would say around 20-25ish over the weekdays and everyday Saturday and Sunday. I work 7 till 3:30, so I normally will get to the park or spot at about 4:00, 4:30 and ride till whenever.

and would be great to check them out.

How many of that are on your porch?

Haha, maybe 2 or 3.

Any sponsors for BMX riding?

Yeah Focalpointbmx, I recently got hooked up on Strictly and Duffs. Psyched!

You had a section in Focal Point “WHAT”, was that fun to make?

Very very fun, every Friday night, Saturday and Sunday I was constantly out getting clips and seeing the video progress was amazing.

like to get over to America and England at some point, seems they both have huge BMX scenes

If you had no bike, what would you be doing with your time?

Possible trying to be pro at computer games!

How many in your family and who are they?

Four. Mum, Dad and two sisters.

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Where do you fit into that?

Youngest child.

What games do you play?

Counterstrike, Counterstrike-Source, Day of Defeat, used to play WoW but recently stopped.

Who do you consider your closest friends?

Dj, Cooper, Flags, Sam Dowley, Dean, Big Jase, T1 Jake and a few others. Most of these guys I ride with every week. They are what make it so much more enjoyable and without them riding wouldn’t be the same.

Do you MYSPACE? Nope.

What would a normal day out with your friends include?

A lot of riding, laughing, maybe fishing.

How often do you keep in touch with your friends?

Everyday. Mostly MSN, but also a lot of phone calls and msg’s.

Is it made easier with Computers?

A lot, MSN FTW. What is this I hear about a computer game addiction?

Ha-ha no idea man, people seem to think I am addicted to computer games.

How many hours a day/week would you spend at your personal computer?

20ish.

Is it just games or do you create stuff on there as well? What do you do on that thing?

Haha mainly games, searching the internet for awesome things, trying to find the best you tube video ever made, sometimes I will play with Photoshop or Msn. If I were to search your computer, what would you not want me to find?

The Saddle club theme, “Hello world”

Get on MSN much?

Quite a bit.

What do you do to make money?

Form setter, pretty much making steel rule dies, I do a few other things but just learning it all at the moment.

I understand you’ve been through a few job changes, give me a list of what you’ve done in the past few years?

Haha yeah, a lot of trails for apprentiships, Carpentry, Electrician, Plumber, Cabinet Maker. I really wanted to find something I could enjoy and not dread waking up every morning and have it feeling like a chore. I always wanted to work with my dad as a form setter, so when the job opportunity came up, I took it and couldn’t be happier.

What would be your dream job?

What I am doing now, I would like to run my own business though.

Before we go to sleep, is there anything you’d like people to know about Troy Jackson?

Goodnight, thanks for the interview Gorak, thanks to all my family for the support, friends, FP, www.focalpointbmx.com Thanks for reading, Gorak!

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To add to this interview I’ve asked Cooper of Focal Point BMX to say a few words, this is what he has to say: I first saw Troy ripping it up at his local (Diamond Creek) about two years ago, I remember Dean Lucas calling Troy his protege and that he ruled, well Dean was right about one of those things, Troy did rule on a bike.

Back then, Troy didn’t talk much he would just flow around Diamo doing original shit, all clean cut, then a couple months later I came out with him and did an interview for an early issue of Focalpoint and also to film for Hindsight. It was during this time I realised his passion and dedication to BMX! From having a dialled bike to being up to date on all the latest going on’s from the BMX world around the globe, he lives it.

At the ripe young age of eighteen, Troy has somehow delved into more job adventures than probably the whole FP crew put together but he seems to have found his feet with working with his dad as a forme setter during the weekdays. At night you won’t see him out and about getting drunk in a bar, he is most likely doing fakie whips on his veranda or playing some intense computer game with his high tech keyboard and mouse for all his gaming pleasures. All whilst sending me random you tube videos of kids getting shot playing paintball.

Troy has gone from this quiet kid with his favourite orchid hat on backwards to an amazing rider who loves nothing more than to ride his bike. No matter where or what, if he is whipping something he’ll have a smile on his face. It’s a pleasure to be able to ride with such an enthusiastic rider on a regular basis, hopefully the good times continue for many years to come. One day I will buy you a wallet chain Troy, you know it. Cooper Brownlee

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Once again, January comes around and this means a trip to NZ for X-Air. I’m sure everyone who goes to NZ comes back saying how nice it is so I will leave it as this, NZ rules, nice people, nice skateparks and more scenery than you know what to do with, big mountains rule…

Cam in first, Luke Parslow, who flipwhipped and frontflipped his way into second and Corey in third. A mention also needs to go out to Paul Langlands and Jed Mildon who were the first two New Zealanders, coming in fifth and seventh…

After travelling the south island for a week we were ready to chill and watch some riding at the comp, but before it even started a big session was going down at the recently completed Chaffers park in the centre of the city. For those of you that have been there before this used to be a vacant block with a bunch of crappy steel ramps… well, they now have a sick pool bowl… just don’t touch the pool coping or the skaters will lynch ya… a rather bumpy spine mini and real street style section with banks and rails. The pool was so much fun and it was cool to see so many BMXers carving and speeding round that thing all day long…

Next up was vert and with only six riders I thought it might not be so exciting… I guess I was wrong… A nice surprise for this year was seeing Dennis McCoy ride vert, haven’t seen him ride for a while and cool to see him having fun and riding in the comp. Felt a bit sorry for him as he kept being reminded that he’s over 40 by the commentator… we are all on our way there and 40 year old’s riding won’t be an uncommon thing soon… Anyway, Tim Wood took out first place with a smooth as 900, plus flairs and all his usual variations, Tim just gets better every time I see him ride, I guess having two vert ramps in your back yard helps… Second went to US rider Mike Mancuso who pulled the first flair whip I have ever seen, crazy.

Mike also went high and had big, smooth flairs and variations as well. I think Tim was just a little more dialled… Third place went to Dennis who looked a little sketchy on the ramp and crashed a 900 but still went high with some nice variations and flairs… Matt Fairbairn took fourth with 540 bar spins, alley-oop variations and some nice smooth riding.

OK back to the comp. First up was dirt, huge crowd, three big sets and a whole bunch of wind. Seems that recent dirt comps have been plagued by wind and once again this made the jumps hard to ride and held back the trickery. That said, the pro class was pretty solid with most of the Aussie big guns plus a few NZ riders and US imports battling for the prize money. Highlights for me were Corey Bohan’s ever stylish 360 flatties, Cam White ignoring the wind and pulling out all the big tricks and Colin Mackay taking fourth with his usual all style, style… not sure what’s up with the commentator calling him George Clooney though?? Anyway, I think the wind really caused some dramas for most people but the end results had

Final event of the weekend was street and the line up was sounding pretty good. There had been 3 qualifying heats to cut the field down to 18 riders for the final and some good riders didn’t make the cut. Here’s some highlights from the street comp…. Dave Mirra’s no handed 360 flip… it looked kinda messy, in fact I thought he was crashing but he pulled it clean… just try and imagine how that one works. Guettler’s no foot cancan flair, mmm these tricks shouldn’t be possible… Sergio Layos, riding super smooth and tech and even jumping on the flair bandwagon…. Seemingly to his own surprise.. Mike Spinner, I hadn’t even heard of this guy before the comp… seems like he has a good name for his riding style as he pulled the

X-Air this year was in Wellington at the bottom of the north island. They run dirt, vert and street for BMX as well as skate, inline, moto and a bunch of drunken river jumping and random bikini contests… oh yea and there’s parties every night…

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Corey Bohan//Morrisey

Pete Radivo//Morrisey

Matt Fairbairn//Morrisey

first ever 1080 over the box. Dave Osato, over tooth on a 6ft rail out of a 8 ft quarter… Corey Bohan taking his smooth dirt style to street and pumping every ramp and bank for more speed, he also did some nice whip and bar manual combos from the big wall ride over and into the small quarter… Dave Mirra took first with all the big tricks, flair this, flip that… but he rode fast and solid as well… Mike Spinner came in second, he pulled the 1080 in the best trick comp after the finals so his second place was due to a whole bunch of other spinning during the comp, double whips, 360 whips and a 900 on the 8ft quarter… Third place went to Diogo Canina, another guy I hadn’t heard of before the comp, he just rode really solid, fast, smooth and with big tricks, you are gonna hear about him again soon.

As with every year at X-Air there were parties every night, this year the bar manager at the official party venue decided he had had enough and didn’t even open on the last night. I guess that gives you an idea of how loose the party had been over the first few nights. But hey that’s what X-Air, and New Zealand in general, seems to be all about, having a good time… See ya next year! Mike Daly

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resides canberra, act I’ve known little Jeffy for four years now and he is the craziest kid I’ve ever met.

The first time I saw him ride was on an old junk heap bike we put together for him, busting big no footers out of a dirt bowl. It doesn’t matter what it is, when it comes to riding little bikes, Jeff will give it a go. Over the years he has improved more than anyone I know. He doesn’t learn tricks he just does them. So keep an eye out for this lash in the future, coz he’s going places. Aaron Gallagher

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Stomping the banks//Gascoine

tedtowie resides adelaide, sa

Tim or Ted as he is more regulary known as, is one of those guys that consistently blips on and off the radar. You see him at best once or twice a month and sometimes you might not see him for three months. It’s almost like you start thinking he has stopped riding because you haven’t seen him in that long. Only thing is that each time you do see him he has got twice as good and his ability to blow your mind with some stupid tech trick never fails. He doesn’t really conform to any stereotype, so I guess I’ll try describing him in five words: Sarcastic, car boy DRIFFFFT, straight edge, sarcastic, and RAD! Apart from that, there isn’t much else I can say. Oh yeah, he lives in Murray Bridge… Elizabeth on the river, anyone? James Wade City Sk8 whip//James Wade

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markdavis resides new zealand

Sometimes I wonder what the hell is going on in BMX these days. I look around the parks and it seems like kids care more about how their bikes look or how their hair sits than riding. But then there is Mark Davis, Mark is the complete opposite, he’s a breath of fresh air compared to these other kids.

There is so many ways to describe him and all I can say is that he is a super nice guy. His riding is fast and aggressive and most of the time he just wants to shred and have a good time. That’s what makes Mark one of the funniest guys to ride with, every ride with Mark is a good ride. Mike Davies

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Kym Gorsser//Pereira

Here are ten simple things you can do to make your bike run better. Hopefully this will help keep your bike running smooth and maybe save you a few dollars in new parts too…

1. Keep your cranks tight

6. Don’t use WD40 on your chain

Your cranks take a hell of a beating, all your weight goes through them and when you land heavily the force can be huge. It doesn’t matter which cranks you run, Profile, Primo, Fly, you have to keep all the bolts tight, if you ride on loose cranks you can pretty much destroy them in one session.

WD40 is not good for chains… it evaporates very quickly and won’t actually lubricate the chain at all. There are a stack of bike oils available but pretty much any light oil will work fine. Try Pedros or Triflow.

2. Oil your brake cables Setting up your brakes can be a pain the ass… I think it probably takes more patience and thought than any other part of the bike. The secret to getting your brakes to work well is to get every part, from the lever to the brake pad, working the best it can. All the cables need to the oiled, preferably with the Teflon based oil or at least a good one from a bike shop. The ends of the outer cable should be capped with those little silver end caps to stop the wire from poking out and all the adjusters on your lever, gyro and frame should be done up tight so there’s no slack in the cable anywhere. Finally your u-brake posts should be greased so your brake arms are free to move but not too loose on the posts. Your brake pads should be set up so the whole pad hits the rim at the same time, or if your brakes squeak badly, you can toe them in a little so the trailing edge of the pad hits the rim first. This will make your brakes feel a little spongy but should help stop the squeak. You should also check your cables regularly as kinks and squashed bits will make your brakes feel crappy as well.

3. Grease the threads As a general rule, any time you do up a bolt anywhere on your bike, put a little bit of grease on the thread before tightening the bolt. This will make the bolt do up a lot tighter and make it easier to undo later. If you have any titanium parts you should use a copper based grease like Ti prep. If you are not using Ti stuff then pretty much any grease will do, bike shops sell nice white grease if you want to look tech.

4. Don’t over tighten stuff When you are tightening things like your stem, be careful not to over tighten the bolts.

Generally you should be able to tighten stuff like a stem as tight as you can by hand, with a regular Allen key. You shouldn’t need to use extra things like shifters on the Allen key to get extra leverage. This is just going to put more stress on the bolts and stem and will either strip them out, snap the bolt or deform the alloy in the stem. Greasing the bolts will help you get a tighter clamp without damaging the bolts too.

5. Use a shifter to take rim dings out When you hang up airing a ramp or on a ledge or gutter on street, you can dent your rim. Sometimes this is the end of the rim but if you get one that’s not too bad you can bend it out with a shifter. First let your tyre down and pull the tyre off to one side, you probably don’t need to take it right off the rim though. Get a medium size shifter and tighten it onto the rim right in the middle of the dent. Now carefully pull the rim back into place, take it really slow and be careful not to crack the rim side wall or put too much stress into the metal. Some dents will come back almost perfect but some will just be better than they were, either way you might get a few more rides out of that rim…

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7. Don’t use tyre levers to put a tyre on Tyre levers (or a screw driver) are good for getting a tight tyre off a rim. If you use them to put it back on, you can pinch the inner tube and have to start all over again.

Finding that you fixed one flat, but gave yourself another when you put the tyre back on… Unless you have a really tight tyre you should be able to get it back on the rim using your hands only. Start off by fitting one side of the tyre, then put the tube in, making sure that it’s even all the way around. Put the valve through the valve hole and push the tube right up into the tyre as far away from the rim as possible. Now work the second side of the tyre onto the rim using your thumbs to push it on for the last bit. As you go, check that the tube is not stuck anywhere between the tyre and rim, pushing the valve up into the tyre a little will help make sure that the flat section of tube around the valve does not get stuck as well.

8. New grips New grips can be hard to get on, this is a good thing because if they are too loose they are gonna slip when you ride… There’s nothing worse than a bad case of throttle grip.

What you want is to lubricate your grips with something that will disappear after they are on so they stick good… The best thing for this is air… Most bike shops have a compressor and air gun, you can use this to squirt air under your grip to help you slide them on, squirt from the flange end and cap the other end with your hand to seal in the air and kinda inflate the grip a little. If you don’t have a compressor handy you can use hair spray, which dries like glue but does attract dirt and crap. Or you can just use a tiny bit of water (or spit!!), just enough to get the grip on, then use a screw driver under the grip to open it up enough to get air in, this will dry out the water and you are good to go.

9. Tighten the screws in your pedals This might sound like a weird one but all those little screws in your pedals are what give you grip, and they come loose all the time. If you tighten them up every month or so they won’t fall out or get loose and strip out their threads. This way your pedals will last a whole lot longer.

10. Leave your brake levers and seat a little loose Obviously you need your seat to stay where you put it, but, if you leave it a little loose it may be more inclined to move rather than bend or break if you crash and your bike lands on it. This goes for things like brake levers too, its easier to grab an Allen key and straighten your lever if you crashed rather than having it break and you have to buy a new one. Just make sure you keep everything tight enough so it doesn’t move during regular riding…

Mike D

hang5 I’m pretty sure almost all of you have been asked by someone to pop a wheelie, do a mono, basically to ride on one wheel. And for most of you it would be the first trick you learned on your BMX. It sure was for me. But how cool would it be if you could just ride on the front wheel, not the back wheel? This trick is called the hang 5 and just like it’s brother the wheelie it’s probably the most fundamental front wheel trick, the hang 5 will open a lot of doors for you on the front wheel for flatland, street and ramp. So here we go...

By Mike S

1. Start with one foot on the front peg and the other foot on the opposite rear peg. You can also start with your rear foot on the pedal, but starting of the rear peg is easier.

2. Roll along at a comfortable pace, fast enough to be stable but not outta control. First step is to shift your body weight forward over the handle bars / front hub.

3. In the same motion push off your rear peg, push the bars forward and put all your weight on the front peg. Keep your arms as straight as possible and wait for the seat to come

up to your backside. It might be tempting to use your front brake but if you really want to learn the hang 5 you should rely on balance and keep off the brakes…

4. Keep your weight centred over the front hub at all times, only using your free leg for balance.

5. To come back out of the trick, shift your weight back and put your free foot back on the rear peg or pedal.

Note: This trick is definitely a building block, once you have learned the hang 5 you can progress to many other variations, take it to ramps or do it on street obstacles.

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A Beautiful Lie does have a slightly bleeding heart emo rock feel that waves in and out though it. However it does bring to the plate just a little more. The title track ‘A Beautiful Lie’ is pretty standard pop-rock-emo, as is ‘The Kill’, the first single off the album, which is definitely my favourite. ‘Was it a Dream’ which takes influence from The Cure really got me and I love a good string arrangement which ‘A Modern Myth’ provides. The final track is a cover of Bjork’s ‘Hunter’, I never could have imagined that a dude could ever do justice to a Bjork song but Jared certainly has. Although this CD probably won’t do it for a lot of folks, it’s not just your standard emo rock deal. It really is different and I highly recommend whacking it in your stereo. Amber McNiell

Despite shitty weather reports, nothing could dampen the spirits of the endless stream of punk and hardcore kids as they descended on the first Soundwave Festival.

Mike Muir from ST//kristie James

With the rain pouring down, it was decided to skip a few of the real early acts in favour of a few brews in the always warm and friendly Town Hall in Newtown. From there we sussed the deal with friends already in the gig. Wet and long lines was the call, and this meant a quick run to the two dollar shop for ponchos and a trip to the bottle shop had us dacking multiple bottles of Wild Turkey. Straight edge? Not no more… It was pretty funny to see crew with passouts getting half naked and drying their clothes in Laundromats…

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The Bronx played early and coulda been the headliner. Battling with a less-than-awesome sound system and pouring rain, the LA rockers put on a kick arse show proving their worth. As the rain subsided, Unwritten Law took to the main stage. Clearly a crowd favourite, they ran through a set that spanned their 17-year career with pretty much everyone singing em! Daniel Donges was hella stoked to see Thrice rock out and also realise that they too love Flanno! As always, Send me an Angel was the raddest! As dusk descended +44 took to the stage.

After a sketchy start that included a complete PA power outage, +44 ripped through a solid set that brings the ex Blink 182 crew into a new era?

The Sick Puppies have come a long way from the first time I saw them back in 2001 when they played support for Good Charlotte at Bar Broadway. They possessed a very raw angry youth sound, which is probably what secured their place as the Sydney winner for JJJ’s unearthed comp. They’ve had some time, some life experience and a move to LA under their belts now. This shows in their new work. They still have an angry edge but their sound is very polished and well produced. My favourite track is ‘Asshole Father’ which I think has strong undertones of their Mosman roots. ‘All the Same’ was the single release that grabbed my attention and after over 50 plays I still totally dig it’s absolute desperation. The whole CD rocks, I haven’t been so impressed with an EP in a long, long time. Amber McNiell

For me, the highlight of the day was the unstopable force known as Suicidal Tendencies.

Undeniable fathers of the skate punk hardcore sound. They truly deserved to be on the main stage, but nonetheless made the most of their smaller stage. Their still unique style of metal, thrash, punk, funk and hip hop cranks had everyone on the stage for the finale! There ain’t many like Mike Muir that can still stay so true to their original cause. ST for life! The Deftones emerged to a soundscape of haunting synth and rumbling bass sounds. In one of the most ferocious main-stage performances of the day. Chino Moreno and his crew tore through a set encompassing much of the groups experimental metal sounds and it stood the test of a live gig PA. Despite the hella bad weather at times, crazy timetable and ridiculous fenced-off bar area, the Soundwave festival proved it’s worth, and will hopefully return bigger and better next year! Thanks to Robyn, Kristie, Tash and Donga for the laughs all day! Holmes

untitled Issue 3 Ben, Chili and the Untitled crew have just put out another issue of their all Australian video mag, with this latest edition not being a disappointment. The Vid kicks off with melting pot section of the Melbourne street scene and other random clips showing some of the newest stuff getting done at the moment. There is coverage of the Drainkids suit jam. Then you have a roadtrip section with Kym Grosser and Clint Millar riding street in Vancouver, Grosser kills it with an ice 270 truck thing on this barrier which was mad. There’s a Perth section giving you a good insight into what the Perth scene has to offer. All the crazieness of the Btown Trail jam is in there along with a few other treats like a Bris Gummet section and the winning team from the RIP melbs street battle. More than enough reasons right there for you to wanna pick up this home grown gem. LC

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ride flipside The latest ride DVD features two very different groups of riders. The idea was to take a bunch of underground street riders from NYC to Greenville to ride with the likes of Dave Mirra and Josh Harrington and then take the pro’s back to NYC to ride some street. The DVD has good riding, both from the street guys and the pro’s and it’s good to get an insight into both lifestyles. It’s also cool to see that riders from very different parts of BMX can come together to hang out and ride and still get along. Even though the concept is good they don’t quite seem to pull it off. We don’t see much of the street guys riding in Greenville, apart from them learning back flips, and it seems that the only pro that made it out to ride street in NYC was Dave Dillewaard. It is cool to see Dave ride street though and Josh Harrington also does some good street stuff in the Greenville street section too, it just would have been better to see all the pro guys riding NYC!

props 63 The latest Props features the Vancouver Metro Jam, Berringer’s Knar-BQ jam, Credence bikes, Fly bikes and Profile road trip sections, a New England scene report, plus bonus sections of the Trans Am jam and an Orchid Kevin Porter section. You can also win product from Animal and Hoffman Bikes in issue 63 as well. The Metro Jam section is really good, it seems that some of the most progressive riding is going down at Metro and its good to see Zack, Clint and Corey representing Aus there too. The backyard set up at the Knar-BQ is awesome, ramps, dirt, rails, bowls, there’s a bit of everything and some good riding too. The New England scene report seems to go on a little long although there’s some good street riding and the other road trip sections are interesting for the first couple of watches, but you might wanna skip some of them on the second or third watch. Overall another good DVD from Props.

here comes the sun The decision to make a lifestyle BMX DVD was easy. The chance to work with some of my friends in creating a new production company “Cutting Room Floor Media” was the perfect opportunity to showcase extremely talented flatlanders from all over the World. Spending countless hours emailing riders, it took just over a year to get all the footage.

The DVD is filmed on DV, Super 8 and 16mm film, then into the editing studio.

Four months of excruciating editing later, Here Comes the Sun is finally finished.

I’d never really thought about how much time goes into a DVD before, but it was worth it and I’m going to start working on a new DVD straight away. Thanks to all the filmers, flatlanders, Glen, Linz and Marc.

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flyrubenpedals www.triplesix.com.au As you might expect Ruben’s signature pedal is simple, light and tech. They are made from 6061 alloy with 16 replaceable pins, sealed bearings and weigh 450g a pair. They come in a bunch of cool colours and have a really low profile design, nice.

tsgevolutionhelmet www.supersports.net.au The evolution helmet from TSG looks like a skate helmet but is approved for bike use so you wont get helmet fines. It has lower sides to keep your fringe under control and “heat sucking ventilation”, well that’s what the web site says. There’s a stack of colours to match your shoelaces too.

unitedbag www.stowaway.net.au United’s new bag has mesh pockets, wet and dry sections for your smelly pads, a notebook pocket with extra padding and a ipod compartment with holes for you headphones. Pretty much everything you need for a riding session or meeting at head office.

uniontispokes www.kickassbmx.com These Ti spokes weight 2.8g each, so will save you about 200g off a pair of 36 spoke wheels over regular stainless spokes. They come in plain Ti colour, plus blue, purple, gold and rainbow. Start saving your pennies cause they ain’t cheap…

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unitthrottlekeyring www.unitriders.com Unit is a clothing company from QLD, Chris Edgar, Niki Buckard, Nic Cooper, Tim Wood and Ash Cosgriff all ride for them and they have a stack of T-shirt and clothing designs out. Check their website for more info about Unit. Seems Australia now has a serious riders clothing company...

odysseyforks www.odysseybmx.com Odyssey is well known for their forks. These have butted legs and steerer, 5mm drop outs with peg clearance and a 7075 top bolt. They weigh under 1kg so there pretty damn light too.

solidstem www.kickassbmx.com Solid’s new stems come in a stack of nice colours and are CNC machined in the USA. The stem is machined out on the inside to save weight, has a 47mm reach and weighs in at 300g.

easternpegs www.easternbikes.com A while ago Eastern decided that you really didn’t need a bunch of the metal in things like frames and they have now applied that theory to pegs. These ones have multiple anti rotation points and are super light, mainly because half the top side has been cut out…

etniesjeans www.etnies.com Etnies make a stack of clothing as well as shoes, their jeans come in all sorts of styles and fits, these even come with an Etnies guitar pick so you can look all rock at the skatepark.

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So we came up with a plan to ensure you can always access and affordamped on and greatest riding DVD’s from here and around the world and stay of DVD’s cost the cuts the riding experience! BMX DVD Direct mail order not only but we send ‘em straight to your door! Stoked.

SELFTITLED tRIPLeSIX $19.95

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OK, this DVD has been a long time coming and for good reason, the TripleSix team is big and widespread! Clint Millar has upped the ante from all his Prody productions and unleashed Selftitled, a DVD dedicated to the amazing riders on the TripleSix roster. Big sections come from Nick Richardson, Nick Cooper, Brendan Jones, Ryan Guettler, Kym Grosser, Zac Musarsa, Clint himself, Kenny Raggett and a massive section from Pete Radivo along with a few friends sections.

Easily the biggest Aus BMX production to date with more whips than a BDSM party...

Ride’s latest DVD takes 4 hardcore NYC street riders and drops them in Greenville for a look at the protown lifestyle. Featuring big name’s like Dave Mirra, Josh Harrington and Aussie Dave Dillewaard ripping up the million dollar private indoor parks of Greenville, plus some cutting edge street from NYC. This DVD is all about uniting the fringes of BMX. You know the production will be up to Ride’s high standards, check next issue for a full review.

PATTERNS StOWAWAY $19.95

LIVIN IN EXILE RIDeBMX $29.95

Filmed over the past 4 years and showcasing Stowaway’s team riders doing it their own way. Full of snap shots of riding spots, landscapes and people travelling different corners of the earth with complimenting music all add to the feel of this contemporary BMX video documenting the lifestyle of travel and cool times associated with BMX riding.

Brad Grantham, Peter Koh, Craig Bennett, Jamie Moore plus plenty of friends that are associated with the Stowaway crew get shit laid down.

Stowaway distribution have built a solid team of riders and put together a nice creative piece you will proudly add to your DVD collection.

Mike “Rooftop” Escamilla, Corey Bohan, Danny Hickerson, Will Love, Kurtis Elwell, Sergio Layos, Scotty Cranmer and Steven Lilly all blow up in the latest Ride BMX DVD. Although BMX continues to be one of the most popular of all the lifestyles, it still remains one of the weakest industries, with lower-paid professional athletes and active persecution by police, parents, security and even other sports. Why, for so little reward, do these riders still push themselves so hard?

Where does inspiration come from when you are... Livin in exile

MADE YOu LOOK SIMON O! $29.95

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Simon’s OBrien’s directing debut goes a bit deeper than just his amazing bag of tricks promoting himself and his riding. As for the riding, everyone can love it, but it’s the personal touches to the video that show Simon’s personality and how he chose his production to let people see his life. You can see his riding spot right outside his house, his lifestyle, both he and his family bodysurfing, friends on motorbikes, some unreal skating, wildlife, the amazing ramp/dirt riders Australia has to offer along with the many experiences from Simon’s global travels.

Against all odds features an impressive line up of riders including Ryan Metro, Chris Wilson, Leland Thurman, Tony Hamlin, Derrick Gabbert, Richard Ayers, Billy Ashby, Jesse Bower, Ross Tanner, Gene Coffman, Cameron Wood, Derek Girard and Mike Tag. Each rider gets a section, most of which are pretty street orientated and there’s some really original and gnarly stuff going down. Lots of big gaps, long rails and scary crashes as well as really tech street with heaps of original spots.

Bonus wise there’s about a hundred sections which as you might expect from Shitluck feature a combination of burnouts, fire, vomit and general drunkenness.

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Featuring Gary Young, Morgan Wade, Ryan Nyquist and Corey Martinez, plus the Animal team and bunch of others, you know this DVD is going to have some awesome riding. You get the usual slick Ride production in one of the best BMX DVD’s to date.

SOuL 30 SOUL DVD $16.50 The new issue of soul has 89 minutes of footage from all over Europe including the Rebel Jam in Berlin, the BMX Masters in Cologne and scene reports from Munich and Sofia in Bulgaria. Guess what riders in Bulgaria run their seats low too… only difference is they all have names that end in ek or arov… Once again Soul has packed so much footage into this DVD, check it out and see what’s happening in BMX outside of the USA…

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RHYTHM + HOW TO DIRT JuMP RIDeBMX $29.95

Ride BMX has combined two classic videos onto one DVD. Rhythm is a trails video that takes you all over the United States, including: Indiana, Ithaca, Florida, Iowa City, California, Long Island, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and many other places. How to Dirt Jump is hosted by Fuzzy Hall, and stars T.J. Lavin, Cory Nastazio, Robbie Miranda, and many others teaching you everything you need to know to become a better dirt rider.

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macneilhubs www.triplesix.com.au These new MacNeil hubs are designed for street and have thicker flanges that protect your spokes. You can get one piece drivers in 9t, 10t or 11t sizes and cogs up to 14t if you want to run bigger. They come in left or right drive, 36 hole only and weight in at 530g. These ones are a nice blue colour but you can also get black as well.

simpleenigmaframe www.kickassbmx.com The 07 version of the enigma frame looks sweet. It comes in 20.55, 20.8 or 21.05 top tube lengths, is made of Sanko tubing with double butted tubes has 5mm heat treated drop outs, a Spanish bb, internal headset and removable gyro tabs. The 07 frame is lighter at 5.1lbs and has a cool X seat stay brace. You get 2 sticker sheets with each frame, along with the new racing stripe colours on the frame too.

spysunnies www.spyoptic.com These are Cory Nastazio’s signature sunnies, the come in 5 different colours but were thinking Nasty likes the black ones. They have 8 Base ARC lenses, an oversize hinge and 100% UV protection… but who cares cause they look cool.

animalnewera www.stowaway.net.au Yep, the gold sticker says it all. Get your Jersey style going on!

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snafupedals www.snafubmx.com These snafu pedals are available in alloy or magnesium and sealed or unsealed. They have forged, heat treated cromo axles and come in cool colours like 1998 GT Pro Performer blue.

colonyguettlerforks www.colonybmx.com.au Guettler’s signature forks from Colony are made from heat treated cromo, with butted legs, a CNC machined steerer, 4mm drop outs to save weight and come with either 3/8 or 14mm slots.

You can get them with or without brake mounts and they have a lifetime warranty. They also come stock on Ryan’s signature Mirra Co complete bike.

knighthubguard www.covenantdistribution.com This front hub guard works with the G-sport Marmoset front hubs and replaces the cone spacer, its CNC machined from 6061-T6 alloy, made in USA and weighs 31g.

dcbolt www.dcaus.com Would Corey Bohan wear anything less? Probably not! The Bolt is one solid shoe built for your riding and chilling pleasure...

twentyseat www.kickassbmx.com Twenty has 4 new seats including this one, called the French Kiss, it has 8mm rails and weighs in at 295g.

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oldguys Last night two older riders took to their 20inchers for the first time in years at Monster.

Dave “Dangerman” and Alex (Spankie) had egged each other on to go ride and reluctantly took the plunge. Standing just inside Monster watching Brendon Jones, Seaton Spatt, Kenny Raggett, Lil Danger, et al going off on the mini ramp. Both had their bikes safely in their cars and eager to bail out of the adventure. Years of riding cushy mountain bikes had softened up the two hard riders from back-in-the-day.

After ten minutes of eyeing the riding, they couldn’t stand it just watching any longer.

Either they had to leave or go ride. They explored the waiver and decided to give it a go.

Out came the heavy old school bikes with 44t sprockets and front brakes.

With huge nervous grins on their faces they took to the park section. The mini looked too daunting with all the young rippers of today going 8 foot out! A bit of rolling back and forth warmed them up and wetted their appetite for more. Soon they were testing the trannies and then the fun began regaining old skills. Manual the grindboxes,

manual to dropin on the quarter, wall tap, wall ride, fuf the quarter, tail tap, ice pick, slowly it was all coming back.

Next it was time to re-evaluate the mini. Rolling the transitions and jumping the spine. By the end of the session Dangerman had his 540’s back. Throughout the evening he sported the biggest grin across his face.

With tired and sore muscles and the rediscovery of some that haven’t been used for years the pair contemplated their next mission on their little bikes. Maybe some upgrades are in order? Maybe another ride next week? Maybe other old school mates can be encouraged back onto the bike instead of just watching?

Just goes to show that even if you get lazy with suspension, big wheels, gears and disc brakes you can’t replace the pure joy and exhilaration of riding 20inches. Justice

Spankie and Dangerman avoided Seatons camera, but Brendan Jones had no such luck//Seaton Spratt

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