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!
Ian Schwartz has gotten bit by the traveling bug lately. From spending a month in Jersey with Vinnie Sammon, staying in Austin for most of January and then going to Barcelona and Estonia, he has been all over lately. This picture is from a London visit awhile back. Recently, he got invited to the X Games in Dubai, so I took this opportunity to do an interview with him about Dubai and being in the X Games.
Eric Lichtenberger sent me a photo of his Second Wave Sunday grey kit. Looks really good to me, so I decided to post it during the middle of the night cause I can’t sleep. You may remember Eric from the Ride US cover awhile back. Remember Toothpaste kit, 180 through the narrow opening? If not then follow this link here. Thanks to Epic BMX for sending over the photo!
Lee Dennis has an interview over at Niagara St, so go here and check it out! Lee and I have been trying to ride the warehouse together, but we just can’t meet on the same page. Hopefully neither of us will be bogged down with work this week.
Since Sunday started, I’ve wanted to do unique limited edition colors. I know everyone does limited edition stuff these days, but how limited is it really when you can get a seatpost clamp in 9 different colors already. This stuff will never make it to a catalog and it will be all sold before it reaches a magazine. This translucent purple Wave frame is only offered at Alans BMX in the UK. So go there and check it out and look for more like this coming soon.
The Sunday team went down to Atlanta awhile back to film for the much delayed video. So instead of filling a video with older tricks filmed with a VX-2000, we decided to show you some of the clips from back then in this little web video that you’ll find right here. And if your lucky you’ll see Lil’ Jon in the video!
Here is Jake Seeley’s latest Sunday. Jake’s out in California right now doing really hard tricks down handrails and building up Sunday Second Wave kits. Here he is sporting a grey 21 inch with blue Morning 2.1 and blue Triumph bars. Look for more of Jake in the upcoming year and you can start by seeing him in the latest Ride US.
Yeah X Games, Ian Schwartz made it into the finals in Dubai. He ended up in 9th place right behind Brian Kachinsky. Go over to this ESPN site and see some videos of a bunch of the guys killing it in the street course. There is even a handicap rail on the course, Simpel Session is having a handicap rail this year too. Are handicap rails the next street spine of 2008? We’ll see!
Joe Cox has been a busy man lately. After getting his internet up and running at his house, his computer crapped out on him. Luckily, he was able to get everything back and Tomorrow We Work is still on schedule. Looking like late January for a release. Go over to Defgrip and check out an interview with him about it. You can also check out the 15 minute trailer he did for the video.
