We The People are starting a weekly video series of rider parts.
To kick it off they have a part from Luc Legrand which you can watch here.
Future riders to be featured are:
Pictures by Devon Hutchins
Aaron Ross has had a great year no doubt about it. When the Empire video dropped everybody was talking about his part in it. Then the Etnies Grounded video came out... another monster. Follow that up with a NORA Cup #1 Street Rider of the Year award and a medal at the X-Games in Mexico and life is good for gorilla Ross. As the year comes to an end we caught up with Aaron to ask him a few questions and peep his new whip.
Q - You are going on the road for a month, tell us a little about that trip.
Aaron - I’m going on a filming trip for a few weeks for the new Odyssey video, Electronical. We’re heading out to New Jersey then from there to LA for a few days then I will be back in Austin.
frame - 2008 FBM Master Blaster
forks - Odyssey Director Fork
bars - Odyssey prototype Aaron Ross spacebars
stem - Odyssey Elementary Stem
cranks - Wombolt cranks
pedals - Odyssey Jim C. trailmix
sprocket - Odyssey Vermont
chain- 410
rims - Odyssey Lite
hubs - Odyssey back - front Gsport
tires - Odyssey Path - back Aitken
seat - Odyssey Veteran Saddle
post - Odyssey intac
brakes - Odyssey
brake lever - Odyssey small
bar ends - Odyssey Par Ends
pegs - Odyssey Jpegs
grips - Prototype Aaron Ross keyboard grips
Q - Any Mods?
Aaron - Nope just ride it.
Q - Can you tell us a little about your new FBM frame?
Aaron - It’s just cleaned up more from the last one, lighter, and gyro tabs you can take on and off and it looks sweet....
Q - Is there a new part that you're really stoked on?
Aaron - My new bars and grips are both sweet. The grips are super soft and the bars are big but still good for barspins.
Q - Can you tell us anything about the new Odyssey video - or is there anything you want to say about it?
Aaron - It’s going to be sweet and I can’t wait to see it all put together at the end. You need to check it out in a few months it’s definitely going to be good. I can’t wait.
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Odyssey
Etnies
Empire BMX
Devon Hutchins
A big thanks go out to Aaron Ross and Devon Hutchins!
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Get over to Defgrip to check out the new Shook trailer. It looks like it's going to be the best one in a while. Wait, they haven't had one in a while... well, that's a good thing because it looks like it has given all the riders time to get a lot of footy together.
It's got full length parts from:
Dave Thompson
Dan Romeo
Charlie Crumlish
Andrew Hossleton
Greg Tyloski
Troy Merkle
and Garrett Reynolds
Click Here for a direct link to the Trailer.
Note -- the trailer is 33megs so slower connections be patient.
Head over to the Merit Blog to check out Mike Ardelean's Top Items.
He definitely likes the German engineered cars...
Merit Blog
Saturday Dec. 15th - Man I totally forgot to post this. If you are anywhere within 300 miles of Austin you should definitely be at this. It's a huge jam being held at the T-1 ramp with all proceeds going to Jimmy Levan's medical bills. There will be bands, a high air contest, art to buy, and good times to be had.
Click the flyer on the left to see a fullsize version and you can check out more details about what's going on.
A big thanks go out to:
Empire BMX
T-1
Odyssey
Dan's Comp
4Down
and Profile
Sputnic has a new flow rider named Ryan Flesch and they posted a new video of him on the site. The video is pretty sweet and he's rockin' a freecoaster which you can talk smack about but the fact is that he can bust 540 bunnyhops and you probably cannot.
Sputnic site
Sputnic MySpace
Ryan Flesch Video
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Cool Kids bring back BMX? Ya think? Well, don't let that keep you from listening to these guys.
Everybody has already seen the Black Mags video and you might not have liked that song or maybe you did but if you haven't heard this EP... check it. It's damn good.
They got big beats that sound old school and still manage to sound fresh at the same time, Cool Kids got that Pharrell swagger and for good reason. These guys are tight.
Download it from
Rapidshare
If you want a better idea of their sound, listen to this.
And here's the Black Mags video.
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