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Ok, most of you won’t know Alex Magallan, but you might have seen his part in the video Nobody Special which covers the Nashville scene. From street to ramps, Alex has a handle on all of it. I can guarantee you will want to see more of Alex in the future. Alex just got on the Sunday flow team and here is his introduction…

Name Alex A. Magallan
Age 20
Hometown Cashville, TN.

Click here to read the interview

Click the photo for Alex’s mini video filmed by Chad Moore

Okay, so you are new to a lot of people, tell us something funny about your hometown?
Every kid in the Nashville area jocks Nathan Williams steez.

What’s Nashville like? Is the stereotype that you own cowboy boots and listen to country music all the time?
Its pretty chill, southern town. Yet it really has been growing alot over the past couple of years.Pretty much you can find me every thursday night at Silverados, square dancing and mackin on the ratty cow girls! Jk

I only ask that because the last time I was there I was in a serious discussion about country music. Does that happen all the time? (joking)
Theres some die hard country music loving people around these parts. I guess it just depends on where you hang out at.

Back to riding, how did you get into riding? And when was that?
My pops got me in to racing when I was about 7. Thats about 13 years ago, 1994.

Do you have a preference to type of riding?
I prefer street, parks are fun on certain days. Trails are good times too,but there scarces around this area.

What’s your highest air on a vert ramp?
Not sure

So you have a wild video part in Chris’s Mahafee’s video Nobody Special, how long did you film for that and do you like filming?
Chris and I filmed off and on for a few years. Alot of that footage was really old, long hair skin tight jeans.I like filming ,cause it pushes me to step up and get something done.
Was there any trick in there that you were especially excited about pulling or took you awhile that when you pulled it you were more stoked?Probably the first clip, it took a million tries and was siked in the end.There was actually quite of few clips excited about.

I’m really a fan of the feeble up the rail to hard 180 and the overgrind back over down a rail. How long did those take?
Thanks, the up rail hard 180 probaly took the longest to film, but it was well worth it. Over grind back over took about 5or6 attempts.
I actually had to do it multiple times.

You qualified for the Dew Tour for the Orlando stop. How did that work and did you have fun down there?
It was an expierence, the competition was not to fun. I ended up wrecking right off the bat. The highlight was raging with C Moore through the downtown streets of Orlando. I’m pretty sure Chad bought a drink for Ryan Sheklers mom.

Did you drink many Mountain Dews?
Not really

Okay let’s get away from riding and go in to the myspace interests

Favorite movie
Home Alone 1and 2, Trainspotting

Favorite bands/music
Tom Petty, WEBBIE

People you’d like to meet
Justin Carroll and Ben Williams

Favorite spot you’ve ever ridden
Athens, GA good street

Favorite riding experience
Corpus Christi Freedom expierience Demos

Favorite non riding experience
Meg and I on are NYC journey.

Now let’s say thanks to anyone you want to and anyone who has helped you?
Mom for being supportive of my riding and taking care of me through the years. Chris M. for always ready to shred and clock some footy. My dad for getting me in the game. Also my big brother Nathan Magallan that keeps me in line when im stuntin to hard.The hole T.S. crew, Brian Osborne and Jim C. at Sunday bikes.

All riding photos by Andrew White and the others by Nathan Williams!

And this video just in from Cody York’s EXPN blog!!!!

A bunch of us recently went over to Estonia for the Simpel Session. Go over to Twenty‘s site and see the trailer for the Props section filmed at the contest. Aaron Ross will be easy to spot in the footage, but you can also see Karl and myself.

Speaking of Aaron Ross, he is currently on his way to Ray’s MTB to ride in a game of B.I.K.E. This is a team event so he is teaming up with BMX legend Taj Mihelich. Oh did I mention this is on mountain bikes also? I guess some of the other competitors are pretty nervous about them entering. Talk to Aaron yesterday, he was at a bike shop “getting his suspension forks pumped up or something.”

Karl Poynter has an interview over at FatBMX, so go check that out. Also, Karl has a pretty good idea for his frame colorway that will be coming out later in the spring or early summer. You’ll just have to wait and see!

Joe Cox’s follow up to Voices entitled Tomorrow We Work is set to come out soon. Go here and pre-order a copy today, but only if you are in the UK. Otherwise you’ll just have to wait for it to show up in the US or wherever you live.

Okay, so near the closing of the last Interbike Ian Schwartz was building up a new frame. People are all around him, watching him put his new frame together. The question comes up about what to do with the old frame when along comes Joey whose bike was recently run over and is left riding a Specialized. Upon hearing this Ian promptly hands over his old frame. Here’s some photos of Joey with the original Ian frame and the only other one being ridden in the world!

Click here to read Joey’s words!

So exactly how did you end up with Ian Schwartz’s prototype frame?
I was lucky enough to go to interbike and I saw that Ian was taking his bike apart and I was just jokeing with him when I said “You should give me that frame cause mine just got run over.” I thought he was kidding when he handed it to me. I made sure that he signed it to me.

Were you really shocked when he gave it to you?
I was extremely shocked when he gave it to me. I thought he was kidding at first. Then I realized he wasn’t.

Do you know that at that point there was only 4 of those frames in existence and only that one has been ridden?
I didn’t know this. Now that I know this it makes me even happier that I got the only frame.

How’s the frame treating you now?
The frame is treating me very good. I haven’t ridden a better frame in my life. It makes me proud that I can call it mine. One of the things I like about the frame is that it has a welded piviotal seat mount on it.

Has anyone offered to buy it from you?
There has been a couple of offers for it. I always say no. I try to be nice about it but some people are really dertimined to get it. Sometimes I am scared that I will get jumped for it, but most of the time it dosen’t attract that much attention.

So now that people know all about this frame are you even more worried about being jumped for it?
No not really not alot of people know who has it or where it is. Even if they do see it they don’t reconize it at first. I don’t just go arround bragging that I have the frame.

So once again winter is in full swing, so why not head over to Estonia in the Baltic States for the Simpel Session contest. That is exactly what some of us here at Sunday did. Ian Schwartz, Aaron Ross, Karl Poynter, Chad Shackelford and myself all went to Tallinn a few weeks ago. I’ve said it before, but if you’ve never been to Tallinn then you are missing out.

The first photo was from the Barcelona airport right before we left for Tallinn. We flew over the Alps on the way to our first Cophenhagen, I was so stoked. Our first day we had so much extra time that I made it to the Kumu Art Museum and there was this room with all these talking statue-less heads. It was really strange hearing all these voices speaking in another language . It was like a giant argument going on, but between statues. The other photos is from a random artistic moment I had on the way to the museum.

We made it to the contest, the next day. I think Ian was the only person I’ve ever known to wear shorts in a contest without full pads. The practice was fully chaotic which shut down a lot of unique lines that could’ve been done. I don’t think it really stopped anyone on the team. Ian rode super relaxed, Karl rode tech, I crankslid things and Aaron did everything almost first try.

This was the first time Aaron’s Sunday frame was seen in public and by the time the contest was over the word about Aaron on Sunday was out. He still holds the title for the brightest bike in BMX, this time combining his neon red with neon yellow. It definitely stood out.

After all the qualifying was done, Karl and Aaron both made it to the finals. I managed to break my chain and Ian got hurt colliding with some one. This is one of the best contests to go to, I have the best time and you can ride the contest without wearing a helmet. Actually the only time you had to where a helmet is during the 180 distance contest. This was actually really crazy and scary. The guys were getting bucked and taking it so hard that I swore I was at a Ghetto Street contest. I think the winning distance by Garret Reynolds was over 8 meters which is about 27 feet. Crazy!

The finals came and went on Sunday. Karl and Aaron both did tricks that no one else duplicated and for that they got 15th and 16th. Aaron was riding with a swelled knee which he is getting drained real soon. Karl had a hurt chest from yesterday’s attempt at the trick below. If you can do it, come to Estonia for the next Simpel Session. You won’t regret it!

The first time I heard about Aaron Ross was from an Empire BMX ad with him doing a barspin bunnyhop over a tennis court net. This blew me away because I remembered doing lines using the tennis nets down the street from my house. I knew how tall they were. Could this guy actually be barspinning a tennis court net? I had to see more.

At the time, Aaron was in the middle of filming for his first Empire video. When his part came out it confirmed how good he was on a bike to me. Not too long after that, I got to meet him at the Vancouver Metro Jam. I remember him doing tricks that were leaning in the direction that I thought riding would eventually be headed. In addition to that, one of the most interesting things that I noticed was how nice he was as a person. That really stuck out in my head. Was it possible to be a totally amazing bike rider while actually being an incredibly humble and nice guy at the same time? Here was the proof.

I’ve been fortunate enough to go on a few trips with Aaron. I’ve watched him do tailwhip bunnyhops in front of Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, double whips off a ledge, and pretty much anything else he sets his mind to. Through all the time that’s passed, one thing has stayed the same; Aaron is still the super nice guy that I met back at that Vancouver Metro Jam. He can tear it up on a bike, but the kind of person he is has always been important in my mind too. When Aaron and FBM mutually decided to part ways, there was a long list of companies trying to add him to their teams. It would be an understatement to say that I was interested in having him join us at Sunday also.

So, here we are, and after all the offers and deliberation, Aaron has finally made his decision. Without further ado, I want to finally confirm the rumors and welcome Aaron to the Sunday family! We’re honored to have him here…just when you thought Sunday colors couldn’t get any brighter!

enjoy,
jim

PS: If you’re wondering, we’ve already started to work on Aaron’s signature frame. Check back soon for more news.

Most of the Sunday team is heading off to Europe today. Ian Schwartz, Karl Poynter, Kurt Rasmusson, Joe Cox and myself are heading off to Barcelona for a week to film for the upcoming Sunday video. Then some are heading to Tallinn Estonia for the Simpel Session contest. Jeff Zielinski, Chad Shackelford and Bill Bottriell are coming along to film, so you know the coverage will look great. Look for updates throughout the trip and some big news while we are away!

Vinnie Sammon’s gotten a bunch of coverage lately. Check out issue 48 of Mass Appeal, the one with Jim Jones on the cover. Vinnie’s got a nice Zoo York ad in that. Then head over to Dig issue 62, so you can read his BackChat. And you can check out my words about the Big O in Montreal in the Homage article.

Well, after going through a bunch of my older footage, I realized most of it was from a Sony TRV-950 and VX-1000. And since the new Sunday video is using DVX and HVX footage mostly, I realized all this other stuff wasn’t as useful. So I turned it into a web video, enjoy! Click the photo for the video!

Someone send this to me and it made me laugh, enjoy!

Well this is one strange way of getting a bike check photo! The story goes like this, I’ve been trying to get a photo of Vinnie Sammon’s bike for sometime now because he is testing out the shaved headtube. Which incidentally works just fine, but that’s another topic. Ok, so we weren’t able to get the photo until Vinnie’s bike got stolen. It was basically stolen right in front of his eyes, but it happened so quick that he couldn’t do anything about it.

Now you’re wondering how do you get a photo of a bike that’s stolen? Well, when a bike gets stolen, it usually gets sold relatively quickly or completely disassembled in order to hide the parts origin. Well luckily the first scenario happend and it was sold completely intact without the ghetto primer grey paint job either.

If it wasn’t for the guys in the photo I would never have these photos, the bike check out or this great story. So thanks to Juni on the left for buying the bike, Courtney on the right for realizing what’s going on and Ed from Ed’s Bike Shop in the middle for running a kick ass shop in Vineland, NJ! The funny thing is that Ed and I go back a few years, so it was quite the coincidence that it ended up there.

Bob Scerbo and Tom White accompanied Vinnie for the drive down to Ed’s shop to retrieve his bike. Maybe Sunday locks will be in the future just as soon as I can figure out how to make them hollow or put waves on them. Just kidding!

Over the past month I’ve collected a few funny random photos. Todd Johnson from QBP stars in the first one with coffee cup he found in the office. The second one stars me trying to get rid of the winter layer of fat I created over the holidays.

The third shot is a close up of my shoe from Beloe. And lastly a number of my friends have gotten IPhones and this is what we come up with. It just goes on and on doesn’t it!