Jake Seeley has an awesome wallpaper of him doing a 180 lookback out of a rail available over at Ride BMX, so follow this LINK to get it! In other Jake news, he’s been filming for his Props bio which is tenatively scheduled to come out at the end of summer or early fall. Right now, he’s taking it easy awaiting a trip to Memphis before returning home towards the end of the month.
That’s right you can put Ian Schwartz up as your wallpaper by simply going over to the Ride site or just following this link right HERE! In other news, he’s been riding a bunch in Ohio when the weather permits or when he’s not working on his family’s farm. He’s anticipating Up, Up and Away‘s release later this month! I think you’ll like Ian’s part!
So we’ve had great response to the Up, Up and Away trailer! If you’d like to watch it again, but don’t feel like searching through the site then just click on the Sunday Hot Air Balloon on the upper left of the page! Or you can watch it over on youtube right here. In more news, the video is having the finishing touches done to it over the next few days then off for duplication. Look for it to be out in mid to late April!
Ride BMX has two Aaron Ross wallpapers up on their site. Go HERE to pick them up! In other Aaron news, he’s almost recovered from his ankle injury and to celebrate he is going to Thailand with Walter Peringer to film a Props trip story. Hopefully he’ll be updating the Sunday Twitter page from there!
Check out Karl Poynter and Shane Weston in this fun video filmed and edited by Chris Mahaffey. Visit Karl’s shop’s site, Hardcore Sportz, to get this video on your IPod.
BMXonline has a little interview with me about making video sections. The photo was shot by Jeff Z about a year and a half ago. I had been really interested in doing whips, barspins and 360 fakies on the steepest banks possible. I had already did a barspin on it awhile back, but I wanted to whip it. This whip in LA ended up being the steepest I’ve done.
A behind the scenes story from this night include the sprinklers turning on right as we finished setting up. It was disappointing because I had worked myself up to see if it was possible and now with the water in the way it was going to be very difficult to do. Mike Hoder ended up using his hoodie to clean up the water and try and make a dam, but it only worked for so long. You can the watermarks on the lower part of the bank and Mike’s hoodie in the background to the right. This is one of my favorite spots in LA even though the banks are really slippery.
Well I was on my way to the Rebel Jam when my plane to Berlin decided to leave without me. Stuck in NYC, I called my old roommate, Dave for a place to stay. This was on Wednesday and I changed my flight to Berlin for Sunday. I’ve forgotten how New York can be so much fun from riding the subways, walking 40 blocks and seeing some of the craziest people ever.
First, all my friends from Buffalo are coming to town for the Back to the Banks Jam on Saturday, so it is like a reunion especially with all the ex patriots from Buffalo already here. I met them at the airport when I went back to pick up my bags. Check out who was waiting for their bags. One even left something behind!
To make a long story short, in one day I saw a skate video premiere, listened to the Beastie Boys play an outdoor live show in Green Point, meet Dustin Dollin, went to the Double Down NYC and saw so many good spots that I am definitely coming back. Hopefully the rain will stop today so I can meet up with Vinnie Sammon and do some riding!
BMX Online put up some new Desktop Wallpapers and Karl just happens to have one of them. That is one cool rail hop. Click the image to check it out.
There have been quite a few rider siting around the web this week and here is some of them.
There is a really cool photo of Kurt in the Staff Photo Section of BMX Online. Click the image to check it out.
BMX Online also made a bunch of Desktop Wallpapers out of some of the images from the Photo Issue. The photo we shot on the ledges that matched our bikes was one of them. Click the image to check them out.
If you stop by the Empire Cycle Supply site and visit their Gallery section you will see that Stephen Savage has a pretty cool Desktop Wallpaper. Click the image to check it out.
