Chris Hilbrich just built up a silver Model D with Black Magic Morning 2.1 forks and Black Magic Triumph bars. He went over to Peter Pan Mini Golf in Austin to shoot these photos for this bike check. In other Chris news, he was recently on the Gypsy Tour about a month or so ago. And if you’re at any ABA Nationals around the mid west then you might see Chris tearing up the track. In fact, you’d see a number of people racing on Sunday bars and forks if you look close enough.
A lot of people have been requesting this so we finally made it! The Aaron Ross Funday frame is now available in Fluorescent Yellow! If you want to put together a complete kit, you can get bars and forks in this color through his other sponsor, Odyssey.
Tom Arkus spends most of his time behind a computer or working on the trails, but he recently sent me some photos of his adventure in this abandoned and decrepit church they explored and rode recently. Here is what he had to say,
“We stumbled on this old abandoned Church in Gary, Indiana, the birth place of Michael Jackson and #2 murder capital of the U.S. 2 years ago. The original plan was to go shoot some profile shots for the new Vinyl website. However, we ended up filming for 3 hours riding the most random stuff you can imagine. This has to be one of the oddest places I have ever ridden my bike. Look forward to seeing some footage somewhere in the Sunday world soon!”
Photo Credit: David Leep. www.Davidleep.com
Have you ever heard the line in the Tupac song Old School where the chorus says “I wouldn’t be here today if the old school didn’t pave the way?” This is so fitting for this situation. John “Dizz” Hicks rode for CW back in the 80’s and had his own unique look and style. He’s been the subject of Ryan Humphrey‘s art show Fast Forward. From the wedge ramp mastering to the heavy metal hair, he easily stood out in the magazines and everyone’s memories today. I can’t imagine BMX in the 80’s without him and I can guarantee others feel the same way. So this is sort of my way of repaying one of the guys that paved my way into BMX and made me think of it in a completely different way. I am psyched to have Dizz riding a Funday. All photos by Brian Barnhart.
Tom Arkus sent me a whole bunch of photos from him riding some pools with Brian Yeagle, Moris and Jason Willis. Here is what he had to say:
There is probably no better way to spend 4th of July with your homies riding 3 different pools in one day. I’ve known about the pools for a while now but never got the chance to go check them out cause i had no idea where they were. 5 phone calls later we are riding them… The first pools were massive with some nice tranny’s to banks very fun to ride. One of the pools was 12ft deep, you are able to roast the crap out of that one but the water put a damper on that this time around. The pool at the foreclosed house was sick! It had the feeling that you were out in the woods and you just stumbled upon a tight tranny pool. The thing probably had 6 inch’s of tranny but it was laid back so it felt awesome carving it like a berm. Dropping in was a big deal but we got it done in the deep end. Look forward to seeing some footage very soon… Thanks to Moris for showing us around. Shout out to Yeagle for going on the mission. Thanks to Jason Willis for the sweet photographs.
Here’s our latest installment of Sunday Friends! If you own a Sunday, e-mail us pics of it or upload it to the Sunday Facebook Fan Photos or the Sunday Flickr Group. Thanks for all the support and keep the pics coming!
Now that Up, Up and Away is available in most of North America, I wanted to show some photos from our Guadalajara Mexico filming trip last June. Aaron Ross, Jake Seeley, Ian Schwartz, Kurt Rasmusson and myself all went down there to film! It was such a fun trip to Mexico, all the guys rode well and we met so many super nice people. I had no clue what this far south in Mexico would be like and it was amazing. Driving was a little rough, but once you realized you could basically just do whatever you wanted then everything was fine. Check out the gallery, it’s what I could get when my nerves weren’t frazzled from driving!
Check out Eben Krackau‘s new green Model C with green Plus 4 bars and forks. It’s weird having to explain who guys are, but for those that don’t know Eben was a G Banks local out of San Antonio. He rode for Homeless Bikes and Standard throughout the early to mid 90s and had parts in Dave Parrick‘s Homeless videos. He said one of the best things about the Model C, “I think this frame would make it a lot easier for most of us to be able to keep riding into our 40’s.” The Model C is intended to be a fun bike for all, but if it keeps guys riding as they get older then awesome!
Sunday started flowing Vinyl owner Tom Arkus and here is his silver Model D set up! His bike is 21.25 Model D with Black Magic Morning 2.1 forks and our 4 degree upsweep Forumph bars. Have you seen any of Tom’s recent video work? Go check his site or check out the one’s over at Dig! We are planning on shooting with Tom some more for an upcoming web video! Sunday trails web video?
