Good weekend.

Well, even with the rain we still had a good session at Westridge, with about 10 guys coming through and hitting it hard. We didn't get any photos before the rain but we'll be going back again soon. Stay tuned for the details and don't miss out. This park rules!

There's also another park opening in CT soon (about 2 weeks) and I've got the inside info on that one. Once everything is sorted out I'll let you know about when and where. It's going to be good! Outdoor, concrete, middle of nowhere. Great for weekends away and not too far either. I'm amped and you should be too.

Map to Michells Plain Park.

As the FB guys will know I'm putting together a group ride at the Westridge park in Mitchells Plain this Sat and everyone should be there at 12ish.

The easiest way to get there is to go all the way down VANGUARD DRIVE until you get to the big shopping center on your left. Turn left into MORGENSTER rd and travel down till you hit DU DUIN Ave and turn right. The park is basically where the "N" of Mitchells Plain is.

This is a really fun concrete park and has ledges, rails, banks and quarters. If you have pegs, you should put them on because this place is awesome!

Giant's new cranks and tyres!

Follow the link to see the new cranks and tyres that are coming in in May. The stems and other parts like the pedals, grips, bars and forks have been going really well. We'll have bars and forks in Black in the May shipment too and grey grips. Also the barends will be availible on their own too. For quality parts at reasonable prices, Giant has you covered.

http://www.ridegiantbmx.com/2010/03/parts

Also check out some of the videos on that site. Troy and Tony have some awesome bike control and are very tech. GET SOME!

Random Shots from Taiwan

I'm not going to write much about these photo's because I know no-one is going to read it anyway. Enjoy.

these guys make all the KHE stuff.

If you look real close you can see Allan Cooke. I called him Chad Kagy and he said "yeah" and shook my hand. haha. I appologised for my star blinded fail but he must think I'm an ass. SMH!

KMC Knight Chain won some award.

Skavengers in Taiwan!

My hotel room.

The reason Robbo spells CVLT with a V!

Snafu's new colours. Check the rims in the background and the also had frames built up. Not sure if the frames were just for the show though.

Yes, I ate a shark!

The 101 building is pretty damn tall.

Random bike with full Affix parts.

Update!

Ok so I'm off to this tomorrow and I'll be trying to update the blog with some spy and insider photo's during week.

This is the biggest bike show in the world and will be showcasing bikes and parts from all the major players in the cycle industry. This is where you find out who makes what parts for who and what's really behind all the different brands. This should be really interesting. Thanks to Dragons Sports for the fully paid trip.

In other news, there are at least two video projects in the works and we got some good clips and crashes today at N1 City. A BIG thanks to everyone for a good ride today.

When I get back I'll be organizing a massive park ride at the Mitchells Plein park. Loads of rails, ledges, hips and quarters. Def gunna be fun. More info soon.

I've got a plane to catch. Laters!

Inside scoop!

It's not often that you get to see the inside of the factory that makes your bikes. This is one of Giant's 4 factorys.



Check http://www.ridegiantbmx.com/ for more.

I'll be over in Taiwan from the 15th till the 21st so check back for loads of spy photos when I get back.

News just in!

According to The Skilpads facebook update:

Malcolm Peters is designing my own frame?!?!?!?! with Salvo Bmx. Hells yeah!!! go to www.salvobmx.blogspot.com
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Check out Salvo for more info.

Pro-X

Malcolm Peters won! Stuart Loudon second, Greg Illingworth third and Wayne Rieche fourth.

Check out Salvo BMX for some photo's of the event.

http://salvobmx.blogspot.com/2010/03/pro-x-update.html

And go hunt around on FB too.

Snafu Sneak peak.

I saw the new Snafu add on Vitalbmx earlier today and it featured the name "Illingworth" which is pretty cool that Greg Illingworth is getting some international fame and support. Also on the site where these shots of stuff that will be coming into SA shortly. Some of these are already here but I don't remember seeing them long Hexigon pegs anyhwere. I've used the Shorty versions and thought they were great. I can't wait for these longer ones.

Big here

Big here!

Look for these in stores across SA or from The Riot.

BMXDirects "Goodtimes" DVD

BMX Direct 'Good Times' 2009 from BMX Direct - www.bmxdirect.net on Vimeo.

Here is the intro for the Goodtimes DVD. I got a copy from Hank yesterday while the guys where riding Gen-X park. They are down for the Pro-X comp(that I've heard s way behind schedule and nowhere finished for tomorrows comp).

Pretty good vid with some good riding. Barnes is always good to watch and D-star has more balls that control, which isn't a bad thing at all. Loudon has his barspins waxed. There;s some good clips of Blaze and Paul Brusser in there too as well as Eddie Botha. Theres loads of park and dirt riding in this too with a good mix of PE and CT clips.

All in all it's good vid with loads of good riding. It's free too so thats a bonus.

Now if I could only get a copy of the Font dvd's that I'm supposed to be in?

The Riot's Mother City street riot edit!

Mother City Street Riot from The Riot on Vimeo.

Here is the edit that Colin and Wayne put together of the Mother City Street Riot froma couple of weeks ago. Thanks to them and Ian and Jaun for the camera work. Thanks to Colin for only putting a clip of me falling in there (I didn't really do much else the whole day.) SMH!