2018 has only just begun and Chris Böhm is already busy with shows. Check this Night of Freestyle show with Mountain bikers, Stunt Cars, BMX riders, break dancers with Chris in between the ramps doing his thing…
Johann Chan & Yinka Thomas – P.M.L Bmx Flatland Session
Let’s kick off our tuesday posts with this Chill session edit featuring Johann Chan and Yinka Thomas at a new flatland spot (Pudding Mill Lane) in London.
Art Thomason 43 Edit
Art Thomason 43 Edit from art thomason on Vimeo.
Starting the week off with a nice treat from Hoffman Bikes lifer, Art Thomason. The control Art has only comes from years of hard graft in the parking lot, or nowadays in his own backyard riding spot. From the get go, I loved the control on the opening double xft mega spin turbine into peg wheelie set up for double turbine death truck that begins at 00:15, not to mention the whiplash pedal 5 line at 1:26. Go watch this!
George Kikos – at my spot 2018
George Kikos enjoys a session in the winter sunshine at his picturesque riding spot over in Greece. Digging the two footed ice cream one handed on the pedal grabbing the tyre that he’s working on at the 00:50 mark.
Old School Sundays – BMX Plus! / Rad TV / The Sequel
The guys at Snakebite just uploaded this old school gem from the archives, put together by the BMX Plus crew the sequel to RAD is full of your typical 80’s cheese, nevertheless worth watching this one and seeing how far we have progressed and where we came from. Featuring the likes of Woody Itson, Martin Aparijo and many more.
Kevin Nikulski Autum Signature “PIVN” Frame
The first signature frame news of 2018, and a well deserved signature frame for Kevin Nikulski. Heres what the guys over at Autum had to say about it:
“PIVN stands for “Paradise Is Very Nice” – that´s the ting our teamrider Kevin Nikulski likes and the reason why he named his first signature frame after it! The frame is designed on his daily needs – having a hardcore Flat session but also being ready all time of the day to join the Berlin Street sessions of his friends he hangs out with. If you are into Flat/Street Whatevery this is definitly your weapon of choice…
Here are some short specs for the tech nerds:
weight 2,4kg/ 21″&20,5″toptube/12.6″slammed Chainstays/75,5°headtubeangle/72,5°seattubeangle/standover 220mm/integrated chaintensioners/14mm dropouts/removable breakhardware/ Mid BB- BB height 40mm/integrated campagnolo style headbearing/finest 4130 CrMo Japanese sanko tubing
Very very soon available in matte translucent black and matte translucent hazegreen…”
Giannis Caternellis – Balance Brakes
Giannis Caternellis continues where he left brakeless, don’t let the title fool you. And this episode is insured by Valance Drakes and is one of the best edits I have seen out of Giannis for a while. Focussed on stationary tricks, Giannis brings a few surprises to the table, stationary forward karl hitch 360 flip karl out is insane! Really enjoyed this one, go watch this!
Throwback Thursdays – Ring the Gack 1994
The first throwback of 2018, we go back to 1994 and a flatland classic by Ells Bells. Ring the Gack features amazing riding from the likes of Chase Gouin, Jesse Puente, Richard Zabzdyr (R.I.P), Paul Osicka, Trevor Meyer, Chad Degroot and many more. Worth sitting down with a cuppa and enjoying this one!
Keelan Phillips – Creatives – Petirii / Keelan / Marius
Something a little different to start our thursday posts here on Flatmattersonline, Keelan Phillips just dropped this three edits in one featuring singer, Keelan shredding at the 3:00 mark, and b boy Marius. Enjoy!
The 2017 Flatmattersonline Year End Award Nominees are…..
Happy New Year everyone! It’s time to announce the nominees for the editorial and reader choice 2017 Flatmattersonline Year end awards, thank you to everyone who took the time to vote. As always it is interesting to see what you the reader of Flatmattersonline thinks compared to my editorial votes. And last not certainly not least congratulations to all the nominees.
Flatmatters!
Effraim Catlow