More gold from the archives, don’t miss this short and sweet edit featuring Steve Bisseker & James White at the legendary Southbank riding spot in London. This was filmed by Lincoln Blacksley in 1993! Steve Bisseker is a name many of you should be getting to know, incredible spinning circle k variations, and Whiteski is as smooth as ever working on back wheel lines at SB.
Throwback Thursday – Props 2 Shimerville Contest 1994
For this weeks Throwback Thursday, we go back to Props 2 and especially Shimersville Contest in Pennsylvania with a ton of great riding from the likes of Jesse Puente, Edgar Plascencia, Richard Zadzdyr (RIP), Paul Palmer (RIP), Leif Valin, Sean Peters, Val Naso, Bobby Fisher, plus a Brian Vowell Interview to follow.
Far East Cycles & IGI Team At Yokohama
On November 5th, a few days after the Flatark contest in Kobe, the Far East Cycles and IGI team headed to Yohohama and hosted a flatland jam over there with all the local scene. Hit play for an amazing edit by Yuki Itoh aka yukipkoproject, which combines awesome riding and communicates the dreamlike vibe of the jam.
Some of the standout clips for me:
Gonzalo Bellanti: Bar grab one handed whiplash to bar grab one handed turbine whiplash around the 00:49 mark. I know he’s done it before but it’s still a banger!
Jean William Prevost: Back wheel fury with two massive combos at the 1:44, power and flow for days.
Yuki Itoh: His spinning xft crack to pumping one handed hang ten line is one of the lines of the edit, already watched this line several times. Skills and style galore.
Mateus Beckmann vs Fagner Richter – Game of Bike
Really enjoyed this Mateus Beckmann vs Fagner Richter game of bike, that goes right down to the wire. Good stuff from these two brazilian shredders!
DownUnderGround Round 3 Photogallery + Recap
Nice recap on the DUG Round 3 contest in Melbourne, Australia with photo gallery and full results over on the BMX flatland Australia site:
http://bmxflatlandaustralia.com/2016/12/downunderground-round-3-the-finals/
Stylish Cats – Yu Shoji & Takumi Isogai
Yu Shoji and Takumi Isogai have been out in the Philippines with Viki Gomez doing shows in Manilla. In between shows Viki put together this sweet edit of Yu and Takumi sessioning, enjoy watching these two young bucks do their thing!. Skills!
M Haris Effendi wins iiusf in Jakarta, Indonesia
This year there seems to have been more contests than ever, and results are still flying in from all across the globe still as we approach December. Congratulations to M Haris Effendi who won the iiusf contest over Jakarta, Indonesia this past weekend.
1st – M Haris Effendi – Indonesia
2nd – Nurhazme – Malaysia
3rd – Kamal Mal – Malaysia
4th – Ian Sopian – Indonesia
5th – Yunfian – Indonesia
Aaron Wright – 2016
I remember seeing Aaron Wright’s riding every year on video for a long time from the Toronto contest. Stoked to today to see this fresh edit documenting his riding during 2016, plenty of front wheel and back wheel skills on show right here! Hell yeah Aaron, great to see you still going at it!
Pete Brandt joins Quest BMX!
Big news to start the week, Nor Cal flatland legend Pete Brandt just joined the Quest BMX crew! I caught up with Pete, and the owner/manager Danny Sirkin and Steve Lapsley to get their reaction to the news.
Effraim: Hey Pete just heard the big news about you getting on Quest bmx. Firstly congratulations, how do you feel about the hook up?
Pete: Thank you man!! I really appreciate the hook up and I was in fact really looking at this frame before the hook up and was really interested in riding it. I set the frame up in 15 minutes everything went smooth and no warm up time at all.
Effraim: What are your ambitions for the 2017 season? Can we expect to see you at any contests?
Pete: Main ambition is too ride hard, progress, have fun and flow. I hope to go to contest this coming year, I always love seeing everyone and competing.
Effraim: Any signature parts planned Pete?
Pete: Signature parts would be awesome I always love doing signature parts because there is a lot of parts out there that aren’t flat specific, it would be nice to keep things coming out with specific geometry, reach, sizes and reactive.
Danny, and Steve! What a great addition to your team, what’s your initial reactions to this great scoop?
“Pete is a worldwide flatland icon. He has been an amazing ambassador of the sport for over 20 years. We are excited to not only add another great rider to the QuestBMX team, but a great person as well.” Steve Lapsley, Quest team manager.
“We are super stoked to have Pete join the Quest team! He is a staple of the flatland community and always brings such high energy to everything he does! “ Danny Sirkin, owner of Quest BMX.
Paul Chamberlain wins Downunderground Round 3
Paul Chamberlain won the Downunderground round 3 this weekend, that took place at the Melbourne Museum. Congratulations to Paul!
Pro:
1- Paul Chamberlain
2- Mohamad Aristyo Rahadiyan
3- Grant Cruise