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Wizard of Aus – Willow Springs To Prague – Episode 7

July 28, 2012

I’ve yet to be disappointed by these Wizard of Aus videos that gives you a look into the life of Corey Bohan. This one is no different! Living the dream.

“In this episode, Corey Bohan gets a quick tutorial on the secrets of stunt driving from Jeremy Fry, Ryan Gosling’s double in the movie, Drive. Then it’s on a plane and off to Prague, Czech Republic, for the Dirt and Roll BMX dirt jumping contest.

First, Corey gets a tease of the Prague nightlife- then sessions with the locals at their private BMX trails.” – Red Bull

Mongoose Jam 2012 Final Results

July 28, 2012

The Mongoose Jam wrapped up last night and it looks like Ben Wallace continues his winning streak for contests. Find out more below!

“Three days of BMX competition wrapped up today at Woodward West in Tehachapi, CA, as Team Wallace, lead by Mongoose rider Ben Wallace won the first-ever Mongoose Jam, with overall wins in Dirt and Park. The entire event was streamed live on Mongoose.com and is available on-demand on the website.
“I’m pretty stoked about the win. It’s the first contest Mongoose has done, and I ended up winning it,” said team captain Ben Wallace. “I’m super happy with the way all the guys rode. They’ve done us proud, taking the win for Team Wallace!”
Thursday’s Dirt contest gave each team an opportunity to get a jump-start in the standings, with Team Wallace taking an early lead. Kevin Peraza of Team Ryan, came out on top in the 10-man contest, with a stylish run that started with a one-footed invert on the first set, a knack knack on the second hit, a huge superman seat grab and a truck driver to downside whip on the final hit. Wallace and teammate TJ Ellis finished 7th and 2nd, respectively to take the overall team win.

Friday featured a doubleheader of competition, starting with the Park contest. Kyle Baldock riding for Team White took the top spot, tearing apart the Woodward West indoor park. His run started with a flair drop-in, and included a 900, a 720 over the spine, a flip whip and a 540 flair. Team Wallace’s Andy Buckworth took second and amateur rider Brad Thomas took fifth to give the team the overall win in the BMX Park competition.

The action closed out with the Street event featuring three different zones for the riders totackle. Jeremiah Smith of Team McCann took the top spot with Team McCann taking the overall win in Street, putting together clean, stylish lines in each of the three sections. Jeremiah’s ride during the jam included a double peg up the rail to a 180 downside tail whip in the third zone, along with an opposite double peg, hop over double peg ride on the a-frame rail, to manual to switch toothpick hangover ride.

The action began on Wednesday with the Amateur Audition, a jam format park contest open to all Woodward campers. Brad Thomas, Mike Mendoza, Todd Cagel, Shea Doran and Ed Percival had the skills to win a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete against the pros and receive a yearlong flow sponsorship with Mongoose.

The BMX-only event featured competition among five teams, each headed by one of Mongoose’s pro riders – Greg Illingworth, Steve McCann, Paul Ryan Ben Wallace, and Cam White. The Mongoose team captains each chose a group of four pro BMX athletes, and drafted one amateur rider from the Woodward campers’ Amateur Audition to compete in Park, Dirt and Street contests.

For more information on Mongoose and their collection of BMX bikes, go to Mongoose.com. Keep up on the latest with the brand and its team riders at Facebook.com/MongooseBikes and @Mongoose on Twitter and Instagram.“

Sapiens

July 28, 2012

Alex Raban put together this fresh new edit featuring himself along with Victor Galindo, Camron Dehaas, Kyle Walker, Conor Caron and Andrew Savoie. Definitely want to see this. You can’t go wrong with a video by Alex.

Fiction – Leon Williams Edit

July 28, 2012

Leon Williams takes advantage of some of the sunny weather that the U.K is finally starting to see. He ended up filming this new edit for Fiction Bikes that is definitely worth a look!

Props Launches PropsBMX.com

July 28, 2012

It looks like Props have closed down their original site after 14 years and launched an all new website for you to get back issues. Here’s what Chris Rye had to say.

“I honestly can’t say exactly when, but sometime in the later months of 1998 we put up our first website PropsVisual.com, which for the last 14 years has served as our main location on the web.

Well, today it’s being retired. Permanently.

I’d like to introduce you to our new DVD shop and HQ on the web, PropsBMX.com, and sister site to our video blog PropsBMX.tv.

Over the years we’ve produced many videos numbering in the hundreds. That’s a lot of damn videos, and to be perfectly honest I don’t know how we did it. If the combined net of all those videos could tell a story about BMX, it would be one of the most complete existing documents charting the progression of the sport.

Many of those videos are still in stock but dwindling in supply. Many are already gone. This is your last chance to grab up the most complete history of the sport you love.

While browsing the different categories on the site, you’ll see a realtime number displaying the amount of copies that remain in stock on each product page. We have a lot of Owned DVDs, over 400 at the moment. However all the others vary from 10 copies down to only 1 left.

Once they’re gone they’re gone. Forever.

Do you really want to miss out on Fuzzy wearing a pink bunny suit in Road Fools 13? What about Garrett Reynolds’ mind-blowing Bio in Issue 75? Dave Thompson’s Bio in Issue 76?

While vert legend Mat Hoffman crowd surfed and Chase Hawk pounded beers with Crandall, BMX’s favorite band Lucero played killer live shows in Rock-n-Roll Tour 2 – one of my favorite videos we ever made. The latest Road Fools 18 still ranks as one of my favorite Road Fools productions.

Did you know Road Fools 1 was a bonus section on the Best of Road Fools Vol. 4 disc? Same with Road Fools 2 on Best of Megatour, and Road Fools 3 on Best of Road Fools Vol. 3.

And how can you miss the 5 killer sections in our newest release Owned?

All these videos are going out the door, fast.

We know cash it tight for everyone, so every DVD on the site has been discounted to make it less painful to stock up. With its clean design, I think you’ll find using the new store to be a pleasant experience.

Again, inventory on most of the DVDs is very limited, and many titles will sell out quickly at our new site PropsBMX.com. Get yours now before someone else does.” – Chris Rye Props co-founder

Steve Bancroft launches Elephant Distribution

July 28, 2012

It looks like Steve Bancroft has found himself another venture these days. Not only is he an associate editor of The Albion, but he’s now launching Elephant Distribution in the U.K that will carry a few brands like Volume and Demolition. You can check out a full interview over on the Bike Biz website to find out more!

A-Town Trash – Butcher – Random 3

July 28, 2012

Here’s Joe “Butcher” Kowalski’s section from the A-Town Trash video, Random 3. I shouldn’t have to tell you this one is definitely worth a look! Check it!

LUX BMX Trip 2012

July 28, 2012

LUX dropped this awesome new video featuring Keelan Troy, Mitch Brown, Mitch Wood, Tom Stretton, Troy Charlesworth, Mike Vockenson, Yonny Wakefield, Jack Elkins, Brock Olive, Dave Dillewaard, Evan Jaques, Dan Headon, Brock Olive, Justy Bumpstead, Nick Kajewski, Samson Ross and Nate Headon getting riding time in from Fortitude Valley up the coast to Gladstone in Australia. This is 17 minutes of pure goodness, so hit play already!

Filmed and edited by Troy Charlesworth and Mitch Wood