The Miguel

Brian Osborne wants you to know that Beloe has all there products up now. They will also be debuting there fall line next week, get stoked. Click that Beloe link to see the goods.

Dave Jacobs whose interview is below (I always type it beloe then have to go back and fix it now!) has been nice enough to give you lucky kids on BMXunion 10 free downloads, he did the same for some of the other websites but I am sure they were gone within a few seconds so if you wanted to see the Brad Simms and Eli Platt videos you can get a chance with:

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Brian Osborne had e-mailed me saying Beloe is going to be doing some e-postcards with their team, here is one of them.

I resized it a little bit but they look pretty cool to me. I need to get some interviews back so I can post something that isn’t already on all the other sites.

Brian Tunney had sent this over, and I posted up a photo video the other day from this trip, so here is the video.

Also Jared Chilko sent me over this video of him from a video part that fell through.. The kid is so damn good.

Full length Video Part from Jared on Vimeo.

Brian Tunney had shot me over an e-mail today talking about the recent trip the Eclat guys all took to Spain, there is a video also that is basically just photos from the trip, along with that you can see all their new products like the hubs, seats, and more. Here is the e-mail.

“This past April, the Éclat team, consisting of the UK’s Ashley Charles and the US’s Chester Blacksmith, embarked on their first team trip, from Germany to London, England, ultimately culminating in Spain. The purpose of the trip, aside from simply trying to enjoy what everyone expected would be warm spring weather, was to celebrate the launch of the Éclat brand. Both Chester and Ashley’s newly outfitted bikes featured Éclat’s Webster seats, Tibia cranks, Surge pedals, a new CNC sprocket and Éclat’s prototype hubs; and the trip served as Éclat’s first product trial by fire of sorts. Along with successful product testing, the Éclat team gathered photos and footage for an upcoming vid.

In the meantime, we’ve assembled a few photos from the trip into a slideshow. Feel free to repost on your respective Web site.

“The cool thing about this trip was that everything was new. I was glad to finaly meet everone behind the scenes at Éclat and WeThePeople. Seeing the daily operations was a real eye opener. It wasn’t just a bike company on the other side of the world that was hooking me up anymore. I got to know everyone on a personal level. Plus it got me real excited for all the stuff that’s happening this year and years to come… We spent the bulk of our trip in Spain. The weather was great. The spots were even better. And the night life topped it all. Out of the two months I was gone, there was no place like Spain. It’s cheaper than most of Europe and everyone seems laid back. After four crazy days and nights in Madrid, we headed to Barcolona for a couple days. By this time everyone was tired and ready for there own bed. But it really didn’t matter what we where doing or what the weather was like because I was having fun. Afterwards, we flew back to Cologne, and I spent four days working on new Éclat products. Altogether, the trip was amazing.” -Éclat team rider Chester Blacksmith

For more info on Éclat, check out www.eclatbmx.com“

The contest was held yesterday, yes the contest I have blabbing about for the last two months. It went off without a hitch, tons of people came, and from the general reaction I got from everyone it was a good time. A few things happened, a few things didn’t. The contest was basically winging it just because I had no idea how many people were coming, but in the end at one point there was over 100 people packed into the park.

So I packed up the S.U.V with my buddy Alex and got ready to hit the road about 10 a.m, it is an hour drive to get to the park.

So we got to the park and got some stickers and banners put up around the park, thanks to Tim, Chris, Dustin, and Mike for mopping and sweeping as we got there, made life a lot easier.

So after that the doors opened up at noon and there was 20 people there within the next 15 minutes so that was cool, I was really stoked on that. As time went on by 2:30 when the contest finally got underway after waiting out a bit for a few car loads of dudes who had called. I didn’t take a whole lot of pictures, and didn’t get any good riding shots. However, I will have a photo update from the Tristan Thiel and the other photographer guy who was there once I get those.
Also my buddy Seth had filmed the contest, and then Mike was also filming so there will be two videos.

Mike with the camera

A big thanks goes to Jay and Deljon for running the mic all day! Jay is amazing when it comes to doing announcing for stuff, and Deljon made it awesome too. I couldn’t have done it without those dudes.

I didn’t have any plans for judges when I got there, I mean obviously that was on my mind, we managed to talk Brandon Morcomb, Dustin Griess, and Bink into juding the beginner and intermediate class. Then I didn’t know the other 3 guys, I know one guy was from Wisconsin and I think the other two guys were on Team Iowa, I lost my sheet of names so I am sorry about that, but big thanks to you guys too!

Before the contest started I had got to tossing a few prizes, there was a pair of Beloe’s in a size 9 I had got from Brian Osborne, so I figured get all the size 9 people up in for a big game of Rock Paper Scissors, and it was pretty awesome, Little Caleb rocked dominated everyone and won some shoes for his dad Todd who rides and is a size 9 ironically. Father son team work! Will be video footage of this.

Beginner class kids, 1st- Colton (red) 2nd- Caleb (blue) 3rd- Tyler (grey)

After this I didn’t get much for group shots, I know Tristan did so don’t worry.

That was some of the Intermediate guys, then that was some of the prizes, I had 15 bags of prizes.

I don’t have the results for the intermediate class due to me losing the sheet somewhere. The results should turn up on Renegade’s website soon enough. At least top 3 that is.

We had a silent contest I came up with. I had recieved some Slam Bars from S&M and whoever took the biggest crash got the bars. Andy, I don’t have his last name but he came with Grant Castelluzzo ruben rode a wall out of a quarter and went flying into a ledge and took about a 6 foot drop to flat and got beefed, he was all right but I awarded him the Slam of the day award with those bars. He was stoked I think. I believe there will be video footage of that.

1st place expert got $100, $35 gift certificate to Albes, a 1 year Subscription to Ride BMX, and a gift card to To Die For’s Online store.
Dustin Griess got 1st

2nd place got $60, $35 gift certificate to Albes, a 1 year Subscription to Ride BMX, and a gift card to To Die For’s Online store.
Bink got 2nd

3rd place got $40, a 1 year Subscription to Ride BMX, and a gift card to To Die For’s Online store.
Aj Haines got 3rd

After that I still had a WHOLE crap load of stuff to give out, I was so pumped on the sponsors hooking it up big. I got a huge group of kids and dumped shirts, stickers, grips, a sprocket got thrown into the group, and just a whole bunch of stuff, the kids were stoked. I didn’t snap a picture because my hands were full throwing stuff.

Then Deljon got an idea, put some prizes on the box jump and play red light green light.. Ya know, go when I say, stop when I say, first one there wins. Well… it got rough..

I heard somebody got head butted, Tristan man aped and ran in with all his camera gear.. yeah over $1500 of camera gear around his neck and he jumped in, what a nutter.

After that there was footdown, I forgot to snap a photo, but I don’t remember who won, but I do recall it being halarious and people got jacked, I know Tyler (one of the kids in the beginner class) went head first into the padded pole and Wyatt (seein in the 2nd to last photos with the tattoos) rocked Dustin Griess haha. It was awesome. Winner got I don’t even remember.

There was also a “who can go the highest on the vert wall” contest, Tristan did a double hand plant slap on the very top, and tumbled down to his ass, he was okay but the video footage of it is wild. Wyatt actually won it by airing out, this vert wall is about 20 feet tall, and has about 3 feet of transition, think about that.
You will see it in the video I am sure.

So overall the contest was super fun, the turn out was GREAT, and everyone seemed to have a lot of fun, big shout out to Grant Castelluzzo and Andy coming out from Millwaukee, and that one dude from Chicago, dudes from Team Iowa, Mike Porter (I remember your name now haha)and just everyone else who made the trip I know the majority of us had to drive at least an hour to come to it.

Big thanks to all the sponsors!
Give D,The Take,Monster, Standard, Fit, DK, Alienation, Beloe Shoes, BMXinvasion, Interbmx.com, The Come Up, Ride BMX ,Hell On Earth,S&M,UGP,Albes, To Die For

CHECK BACK SOON FOR MORE PHOTOS! AND ANOTHER CONTEST WINTER 08′-09′ SOMETIME.

I have no idea what Nove Igre BMX is, but I heard it the other day and I want to know what it means! I tried language converters but couldn’t figure it out, so if somebody knows leave it in the comments.

That is beside the point, I am leaving in about an hour to drive up to Renegade
(Keep reading there is a video inside!)

for the contest. It will be pretty good, I had heard a lot of people are coming so if you can still go and see this, go!

*Click to make big!

There is the flyer, minus To Die For Clothing and ALBES logo since I was too lazy to get the other flyer instead I just copied and pasted from another post.

So be there kids!

Also here is Ben Polaschek’s part in Jonah Lidbergs old video Climate Control, Jonah’s part and Josh Nendza’s will be uploaded soon and I will for sure post it when I get it. This video is from 2000 just if you couldn’t tell.

Climate Control 2000 from Ben Polaschek on Vimeo.

Nove Igre BMX <<< WHAT IS IT!!! Comments if you know.

Nick Lucas is a super good rider and a way cool guy. I came across this on youtube and had to post it. It has a bunch of clips from Renegade where the contest I am throwing is this Sunday from noon to close. I got boxes ontop of boxes of goods to give out so be there!