Although the Gen-X youth centre has closed down the Gen-X park is still the place to be for some great riding. Click the link on the left panel for a map of where the park is. Come on down and get your grind on. R20.

Me (James Brawn) Underside Icepick - photo Scott Owen

Scott Owen - Switch handed peg grab - Photo James Brawn.

Don't forget the Son Skate nationals on the 11th, 12th and 13th Dec at The Shed in Stellenbosch. Click here for a map.

I told you!

Like I said the other day, The Riot has been filming and here is an edit of some riding they got done last week. I like it when edits get put together so fast. Keep it up guys. There's some great riding in this.

Giant Team cut.

As some of you know, I work for Dragons Sports, importers of Giant Bicycles and some of you might have seen a discussion on my FB status a couple weeks back about Giant cutting the bmx team and yep, it's true. I found out just over a week ago but couldn't talk till it was official.

Basically Giant doesn't make any money from their BMX programme but never intended too either. Giant makes BMX bikes because they are passionate about covering all the bases of all types of bikes and that's what makes Giant such a great company. They make top end, high quality BMX bikes and parts even though they don't make any money from it.

With that said, they were spending large amounts of money on a team that wasn't really getting any exposure. Not making any money from a BMX programme is one thing, needlessly pouring money down the drain, is another story all together.

The only rider who is going out of his way to promote his sponsor is Tony Cherry , who will be staying on and he will be joined by a new team of hungry riders.

Giant has some great parts dropping soon and they'll be in South Africa early Jan 2010. Quality high end parts at really good prices. Parts include: PC pedals, slim sealed alloy pedals, 11butted 8x27 bars, light butted full cromo forks w/built in race, Piv Saddles, Frontload stems, coloured grips and more. I've got photos but can't release them yet (stay tuned).

Change is good and with Chris Arriaga at the helm I think things are just going to get better. Check Chris's interview at EXPN.com

The Riot gets Savage!

Yep, Stephen Savage is riding for The Riot. There's some big things coming from The Riot with new stock coming in at great prices as well as some heavy filming sessions going down. Team DVD coming soon? Check Sunday! bikes for Savages 2 part interview.

From Giant BMX - Tony Cherry, Troy Merkle and a bunch of other locals put together a little jam at their local trails to take advantage of the good weather. Looks like it turned out to be a super fun time. Be sure to go on over to PERSPECTIVESBMX to check out some more pics from the jam

This is my type of trails.

Into The Woods - BMX Trails Montage from Brian Dickman on Vimeo.

If you want to see something good.......

goto TheRiot. They just got in a whole range of Odyssey and Sunday stock and the prices are really good. R3200 for Sunday Funday or Ian Schwarts frames. Free postage and a frame that can handle anything you can do.

Do you trust the frame you are on right now or are you checking welds after every session? Just get a Sunday! and stop messing around!

There's also a vid from their team rider and crowd pleaser, Wayne. Check it!

Giant BMX arriving soon.

These should be arriving before the end of the month (give or take a week), so I thought I'd just give you some info.

These bikes will be available from any quality bike shop that stocks Giant Bicycles across SA.

Giant is renowned for its quality, highend MTB and Road bikes and they put the same effort and attention to detail into the BMX range.


First is the awesome Method 00. (Retail around R3799.00)



Features:
— Complete 21" 4130 Cr-Mo frame w/CNC machined head
tube & spanish BB
— 3 piece tubular Cr-Mo cranks
— Cassette rear hub
— Sun Rhyno Lite rims
— Digital 2 Cr-Mo 8” rise bar




Next is the Method 01 - (Retail around R3100.00)

Features:

— 20.5" Cr-Mo main frame w/CNC machined head tube &spanish BB
— 3 piece tubular Cr-Mo cranks
— Digital 2 8” rise bar
— KENDA K-Rad / Kiniption tyres
— FSA integrated headset

Finaly we have the Method 02 - (retail around R2600.00)

Features:

— Full 20" Hi-Ten frame w/removeable rotor tabs

— 3 piece digital tubular Cr-Mo cranks

— Digital Jr. 6.6” rise bar

— KENDA K-Rad/Kiniption tyres

— SST Gyro

If you have any questions on these bikes or where to buy them, drop me an email and I'll fill you in.

We will also be introducing the Giant range of BMX parts before the new year incl, Stems, Bars, Forks, PC pedals, Grips and Piv seats. All at really awesome prices.

I've also got other parts in the works that should keep most mid-level riders happy but more info on that, later.

Halloween Jam edit!

Halloween Jam from The Riot on Vimeo.

The Riot has a great writeup and photos from the Halloween Jam. They also mentioned on FB that they'll be getting in the Odyssey and Sunday order soon. I know they are Getting Fundays and Ian Frames for sure. Get your hands on the strongest frames in BMX right now, RIGHT NOW.

Halloween Jam!!

Well the Halloween Dirt Jam has come and gone and if you weren't there, I hope you have nightmares.
Quite a few guys dressed to impress and a Malcolm Peters took the cake there. At least two people that I spoke to though this happened earlier in the day while he was riding.

Rupert is back from Scotland and is still wearing the same clothes he left SA in 2 years ago. Stephen Savage was seen hiding in the tall grass a couple of times during the day and jumping out at people.Buddy Chelan and Pieter Retief trying to deceide who's going to pull the knife out.

The Road Masters are a regular feature at Gum Trails and can do swipes and G-turns better than you.

This event had the biggest turn out of any event this year (the power of Facebook?). Here's half the crowd.

Check my new tent. It's Giant!

This kid is coming up. Werner Mathee. Look back over the hip.

Malcolm with a Turndown. Always clicked.

Wayne "shovel hands" Rieche is reponsable for 70% of the work put into building Gum Trials. Along with the Twins, Jason Hood. Boet and a few other locals, they got the place into perfect order for the day. Here Wayne celabrates the day and takes the win. Frontflip.

Judging was taken care of by having the top 7 riders all getting their names put on a cup each, then all the riders who took place in the event got given a smaller cup of dirt and got to put it into the cups of the finalists who they thought rode the best. The guy with the most dirt in this cup won. Simple and effective.

Top three were 3rd Colin Loudon, First Wayne Rieche and 2nd Greg Illingworth.

Thanks to Markus at OSP for the running and organizing the sponsors for this event. Great job.

Preview pics on TheRiot

Wayen sent TheRiot some preview pics of Gum Trails. This is the premier BMX jumps in Cape Town and this Sat is going to be awesome. Click for below for some older pics of Gums.

Halloween Jam!

CAPE TOWN RACE UPDATE. (Pic's won't load)

Race Report for Khaymandi on 17-10-09

The rains during the week caused some concern as to whether the track would be all dried up.. But the sun shone and we had an awesome event. We had 60 participants from Khayamandi, Strandfontein, Khayelitsha, Blouberg and Cape Town CBD!!!! A real broad spectrum of people and proved that is was missing. We had four women and the youngest person on the day was 9!!!!!
We start with timed runs to seed everyone and then raced like timed individuals and they had epic battles with all the top riders against each other until we had eventual winners in each category.



9-12 Age Category winners are:
1st:Yolanda Ngxgngane from Khayamandi
2nd: Zola Ngxakane from Khayamandi
3rd: Moshane Wanga from Velokhaya
4th: Zenane Anitha from Velokhaya






13-15 Age Category: all from Velokhaya
1st: Odwa Dlabantu
2nd: Mainie Mtutzeli
3rd: Jim Akhana
4th:Xulisa Maila Bald





16 + Age Category:
1st Daryn Stow
2nd: Tobie Groenwald
3rd Nils Hansen
4th: Luyolo Dunla from Khayamandi

The rest of the calendar is below. The aim is to promote racing and fun and selecting 20-30 kids to compete in Pietermaritzburg at the world Cup in July 2010.
Western Cape BMX Race Calendar

31 October – Vangate
14 November – Delft
28 November – Strandfontein
5 December –Delvera
16 December – Velokaya

The event would not have been a success without the many volunteers, “Daisyglug” crew for the timing, Gerrie for the start gate, Pedal Power Association, Mule Bar, JAG Foundation and Pronutro

See us on Facebook: BMX Western Cape

Vetically Insane Results and Am photos. (Updates)

Vertically Insane in a yearly comp put together by Life Light and is headed by local inline skater and rail distroyer, Chris van der Merwe. Due to me being lazy and also not using my head, I only got a few shots of the am riders. The am's are just getting better and better and new faces keep popping up. Here are some shots of the day.

Werner Mathee is a local at this park and it shows. This wall ride scared a few riders but was no problem for Werner. He also loves the spox jump and threw some moves over that too. He also did the big wallride out of the bowl, that most of last years pro's had trouble with, first go.




Killian of KillianBinTheTree was on form too. I'm biased and can't get enough of grinders. Killian pulled this febble up to 180 out after a coulpe of goes and banged his peg on loads of other things in the park. Good stuff.

Paul Busser isn't scared! Always going fast and always doing things others aren't. After doing this quick hangover on the flat rail he did the gap to hanger down the down side of the same rail. It isn't a high rail but it's a pretty big gap with a good lenght of down. This was great.

Other mentions go to Brandon who pulled an aweome hop 540 into a small bank and Carl for his multiple grinds to 360 out's and big no-footed cancan over the spox. I saw some great stuff fom the other riders too but I can't remember any names. I also don't know the top 3 places in Am. I know Werner Mathee won and got some great prizes.

I entered "advanced" which was a 15 min jam but after sitting there for 10 mins watching Malcolm, Stephen, Jason, Eddie and the others ride, I just wasn't feeling it. I did one grind and really should off just got the camera out again.

Eddie Botha is a quiet dude who has put on some weight over the last couple of months and isn't afraid to throw it around. This barspin into the bank was shot before the comp but he did it higher and smoother in his runs. It's always good to watch Eddie ride.

Stephen Savage ended up taking the win and deserves it. Smooth style and good lines. Big barspins and I think he was the first person to 360 the new spine.

Malcolm Peters is called "the robot" by some of his haters but the man (he isn't a kid anymore) has his tricks on lock. 360 whips, double whips, manual up the grindbox to barspin, 180 bars over the new spine and good stalls on the high sub box. Malcolm is dialed and amazing to watch.

Jason Hood is a lose cannon and showed it again today. More people will be talking about his flip out of the bowl than anything else. His single tyre mark is on the roof as proof that I'm telling the truth that he did it first time.

And that was top three.

We then all headed down the road to the "bottle bank" and had a good session there. I think I redeamed myself and we all got some great stuff done.

Check Killian's blog and Eric Palmers Facebook for them photos right now!

Thats it. Next up:

WAYNE'S HALLOWEEN JAM AT GUM TRAILS ON THE 31st OCT.

BE SCARED, BE VERY SCARED!

Greg Ill web edit and some future comp news.

Some of you know that Greg Illingworth form THERIOT was in the US with the Mongoos team for the latest Props Mega Tour. Here is a quick edit of some stuff that went down.

Mongoose Web 3 from mongoose bike co on Vimeo.

Oct looks like a good month for BMX in Cape Town

Wayne is back from his trip to Angola and is putting together a Dirt Jam for the 31st. Thats right it's Halloween so get the face paint and nail polish out because it's a DRESS UP JAM. OSP is getting involved with the logistics and this is going to be big. More Info closer to the time.

The BMXdirect team is coming down to Cape Town from the 22nd till the 27th and some of them will be staying on for Wayne jam.

Veg Down Under!

My boy, Ryan, is running BMX.co.nz down in New Zealand and doing a pretty good job with showcasing SA riding to the NZ riders. This might increase tourism and bring riders out here. Check out the site and see whats happening down there.

Don't forget..........

Vertically Insane comp at The Shed on the 10th. Should be good with the new setup. SEE YOU ALL THERE.

ALSO...... I'm thinking of calling quits on this blog. I'm only going to keep it going if the riders want it. I've been slacking and I would rahter do something proper or nothing at all. Let me know. I've been running the Dragons Sports blog at http://dragons.blogspot.com and it's taking most of my "online time".

In other news, I sent in a question to Sunday! bikes rider Kurt Rasmusson and he answered it in the new RideBMX mag.


Name dropper? hahaha.

Inaugural Velokhaya BMX Heritage Cup a great success! (UPDATED)

Khayelitsha, Cape Town, Monday 21 September 2009: More than 90 young South Africans of all races - and ages - decided to celebrate Heritage month by participating in the inaugural Velokhaya BMX Heritage Cup. Continue reading after the link.....

Local riders from the Mother City’s southern and northern suburbs, Mitchells Plain, Strandfontein, Khayamandi (near Stellenbosch) and Khayelitsha competed against those from Durban-based Team Jeep, one of South Africa’s top BMX teams (www.teamjeep.co.za).




The event, which was supported by the City of Cape Town, was held at the Velokhaya BMX Oval in Khayelitsha near Cape Town on Saturday, September 19, 2009.



More information on Velokhaya and the Velokhaya BMX Heritage Cup - Glyn Broomberg, 072 170 7547 (www.velokhaya.com)

More information on Team Jeep - Sydney Webster - cell 0761622110; email: sydneybmx@gmail.com. (http://www.teamjeep.co.za/).

Here's some Photos of Nathan and Club Genisis. Nathan is doing great things out in Strandfontein and it's goo to see his hard work getting some trophies.

Vertically Insane 2009

This years comp should be the best one yet, with Chris' new additions to the park like completing the bowl with a spine. Should make for some new lines. Click the link for the flyer and details. http://lifelightonline.org/verticallyinsane2009/ SEE YOU THERE

Velokhaya Heritage Cup - 19 Sept

This is the start that most riders and parents have been waiting for. Click more for info.


Enquiries contact: Glyn - 072 170 7547

Sorry for the random layout. I just copied and pasted from the entry form below.

Velokhaya Heritage Cup
in association with the
VELOKHAYA BMX OVAL - KHAYELITSHA

This is a fun event being presented with the objective of promoting BMX participation.
The competition will be run in the groups as indicated below which will conform to the rules of BMX racing as laid down by BMX SA.
Entries are limited to 150 with all participants receiving medals and the first three places in each category receiving trophies.
The Velokhaya Heritage Cup* is a floating trophy which will be presented to the winning team of 5 riders.
(*In the spirit of developing the sport this will be contested in the novice classes only. Teams may not have more than 3 riders per class)
DATE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2009
VENUE: VELOKHAYA BMX OVAL, KHAYELITSHA (Corner of Kusasa and Makabeni Roads)
TIME: REGISTRATION 07:00 - 08:30 (Entries will not be accepted after 08:30)
ONLY 150 ENTRIES

Enquiries: Glyn – 072 170 7547
Fax: 021 782 1353 (Entry Forms Only)
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES
Thursday 17 September
17h00

07:00 – 08:00 Rider Registration
07:00 – 07:25 Practice - Under 11 and Under Novice
07:30 – 07:55 Practice – 12 to 15 Years Novice
08:00 – 08:25 Practice – 16 and Over Novice
08:30 – 08:55 Practice – All Ages – Expert / Elite
09:00 – 09:10 Rider Briefing
09:10 – 09:20 Opening Ceremony
09:30 – 11:15 Moto’s 1, 2 and 3 – All Classes
11:30 – 12:00 Qualifiers – 1/8 ; ¼ ; ½ Finals – All Classes
12:15 – 12:30 Finals – All Classes
12:45 – 13:00 Prize Giving and Awards Ceremony
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REGISTRATION AND ENTRY FORM
FIRST NAME ____________________ SURNAME _________________________ DATE OF BIRTH _______________
Contact Number
Age
Female
Male
RACING CATEGORY (Please place cross in your category)
Race No
Novice 12 years to 15 years
Novice 16 years and older
Novice 11 years and younger
Expert 12 years to 15 years
Expert 11 years and younger
Expert 16 years and older
(Official Use)

I agree to abide by the Rules and Regulations as laid down by the UCI and the National BMX Commission of CSA as amended from time to time. I agree that neither of these bodies nor the Province, to which I am affiliated to, The Life Cycling Academy and Velokhaya, will be held responsible for any loss or damage to myself and/or my property in any way whatsoever. I hereby waive my right of action by law against representatives, agents or any other competitor in respect of the Commission or its affiliated clubs, the Life Cycling Academy and Velokhaya, activities or any other matter arising there from.
I also hereby declare that the above information is a true and fair representation of the rider’s details.

SIGNATURE & NAME: ……………………………………………………….…………… DATE …………………..……..
[Rider (or Guardian if under 18 years of age)]

Bike Fight and new DV8 colours.

Click here for more details about this crazy event. SEE YOU THERE!

And here are the new colours of ....... The Avalanche DV8 bikes that I came up with. This is obviously a totaly entry level bike for the kids just getting into BMX, but for R1359, you can't get anything better right now. Check your LBS for these bikes soon.