NEWS LINKS: The Riot Jam | Diggin in the Rayne | Whitey | Blunt "People/Music/Ride Day | New Fly Bikes Stock | SportEx | Seth Pics | Custom Ride

Finally, DK
26 September 2007

The much awaited DK shipment has arrived and we have some new bikes in stock. Here's the proof:

Product pics and prices are in the products pages so go check it out.

If you have been trying to call us lately we have been having troubles with our phones but Telkom is working on the problem, we are not ignoring you. In the meanwhile you can get in touch with Brad on 076.221.0606.

National Gum Day
26 September 2007

Cape Town has shit winters. So when a perfect spring day rears it's face you know guys are gonna take full advantage. That's exactly what happened this past long weekend at Gum Trails. Wayne let us know just how good the day was...

Hey Boys,

Yesterday was an absolute ripper in Cape Town. All the locals got together and just had a really awesome day of chilling, riding and climbing trees. Our new Quarter is running a hundred percent now, it is so much fun. We pretty much jumped the whole day and then celebrated national braai day in the evening. It was a full moon so we were basically jumping well into the dark. Here are some shots that Kenneth snapped

Later Yo!!

Here's "Boet" with his rocket pack making the jumps all systems go.

Wayne doing it just how we like it. It looks like Wayne has finally got over his ankle injury. Nice.

This is Jason, one of the locals at Gum and someone you don't hear or see too much of but as you can see he knows how to handle that bike. Dirt Fufanu.

Jason again with a lofty table.

Another Gum ripper.. Ian Whittaker

The O.G. himself, Tobie Groenewald looking back on what it means to still be shredding dirt in the over 30 club.

Wayne loves Iron Maiden but definitely has no fear of the dark.

Clearly.

The finer side of life.

Justin Lopes
21 September 2007

Mr Smooth himself, Justin Lopes sent us this pic of him busting a table at his local. No prizes for guessing where that is.

Along with his email he mentioned he's respraying his bike. Justin has some creative flair and we're amped to see what he comes up. We'll post some pics when it's done.

Custom Ride
18 September 2007

Arno Ferrero of Pretoria was lucky enough to leave our shop today with this beauty! Basically, it's a Fly Mosca 20.6" in Buddy Orange with a Mongoose mixed '08 parts package.

We often build semi-custom bikes this way for guys. It works out a lot more affordable (from around R4500 upwards) then building a complete custom setup. Obviously, if you choose this route you will not be getting the best of the best in terms of parts but you do get some very decent stuff... Odyssey cassette hub, sealed three piece cranks, full cro-mo bars and forks etc.

The best thing about these deals is that you get to choose the frame, which is the most important part of the bike. This new Mosca of Arno's is one of the best looking bikes that we've built in a while and we thought it deserved a bit of exposure on our site. Enjoy your new bike Arno.

If you like what you see here, give us a call and let's see what we can do for you.

Seth Pics
18 September 2007

Our resident England paparazzi photographer James Plumridge has once again sent us some great pics of Seth. This park is only a two minute crank from his house.

Footjam Nosepick.

The classic - Table. Thanks James for the pics.

SportEx
17 September 2007

This past weekend Greg and Tyrone were doing demos at the Coca Cola Dome for the SportEx show. Most of the old Kyalami ramps were up and everytime you get to session them it's a good day. Here are two shots of Greg that Tyrone snapped:

Above: Greg boosting a table. Below: Same trick different angle. These quarter's are the best!

New Fly Bikes Stock
13 September 2007

Today we received a buffet of Fly Bikes stock, including the much anticipated Kevin Porter signature "Tiera" line of frames, forks and bars. These parts are insane, so much technology and oh so light. We also have some limited edition colours on certain parts. The colours being turquoise and dark red.

We are still busy unpacking all the stuff but all goods should be available for the weekend. Full product descriptions, prices and weight will be added to the products page in the next few days but to wet your appetite here are some pics.

Tiera Frames in Earth Brown, Nature Green, Raw and Sky Blue.

Tiera Frames in Earth Brown, Nature Green, Raw and Sky Blue.

Tiera Forks in Earth Brown, Nature Green, Raw and Sky Blue.

Fly Brakes in Dark Red and Black

Ruben Pedals in Orange, Dark Red, Black and White

The new Fly seats

The popular Ruben Grips. These come in Dark Brown (which looks a lot like the charcoal ones), Turquoise, Black, Orange and Charcoal.

Fly Stems in Black and Dark Red

And last but not least more Ruben Tyres.

Blunt's People/Music/Ride Day
11 September 2007

Friday September 21 is PEOPLE•MUSIC•RIDE Day (soon to be a national holiday). Brought to you by blunt Magazine and Nokia, in association with 5fm DJ Kevin Fine’s “Bury me in Books” charity, it's gonna be one long day in the sun, at Wave House, in Umhlanga – so bring your party shoes and your rocking hats.

R30 gets you in, and gets you unlimited skating, bmxing and flowboarding. And in-between all the people and riding, there's plenty of room for some rocking too, in the form of Durbanites Sibling Rivalry, Go! Go! Bronco, The Living Alarm and Lowprofile, and Cape Town's reggae rudeboys, 7th Son.

There will also be a host of mini comps, from best trick contests to speed snake runs, with thousands of Rands worth of prizes to give away.

Blunt will be donating half the door money to the “Bury me in Books” Campaign. So come skate, ride and flowboard, and rock out for a noble cause.

Also Nokia are going to be launching a super slick state of the art and never been seen before N-series phone with insane gaming capabilities – but it’s very hush hush – if you’re a gamer you Have to bee there. Be the first to see the new Nokia N-series gaming phone and play it with your mates. It’s a long weekend, it’s going to be huge, Wavehouse is the place to be September 21, for blunt Magazine’s PEOPLE•MUSIC•RIDE Day. Gates open at 2pm.

For an extra R20 at the door blunt’s going to throw in this issues new blunt with a rad music CD with 20 radical tracks.For more details check out www.bluntmag.co.za or call 031 263 1603

Seth "Whitey" Petersen in Person

James Plumridge sent in this pic of Seth sessioning something, somewhere in England. If you don't know Seth, he's from Cape Town and is currently living in England, We can only imagine how "white " he must be looking these days.

Diggin in the Rayne

Rayne Younge sent us a few pics of a dirt jump he's been building.

He lives in Hermannsburg, which is somewhere in Natal and is the only BMXer in the area. It's not easy to stay motivated when you have no one else ride with let alone put a lot of effort and sweat into something only you will ride. Anyway, we felt inspired by his email and thought we would share it with you.

Thanks for the mail Rayne. Keep on shreddin.

Shook Video Premiere
04 September 2007

The Riot Jam #7
03 September 2007

If you weren't at the jam you missed out! This was seriously one of the best jams to date. Especially when you consider the registered turnout of 46 riders when hardly any of these riders even ride dirt.

There was also the full mix of entertainment, from riding, semi-naked girls, a naked guy, good music and fire, to the inflammable, car and wrist wrecking paramedic Moo-Poo.

Click on the thumbnails below for full size pics.

The whole idea behind the jams is in creating fun events for kids. That's why we only had a beginner and am class.

Beginners:

The beginner line was a basic yet fun 4 pack setup and we had 30 entries fighting it out for the product prizes on offer from Odyssey, Fly and DK. This class definitely had the hardest slams. (Ever seen a mid air scorpion? yeah, cringe!) But at the end of the day only 5 riders qualified for the finals and this is how they did:

1st - Steven Hodgson
2nd - Hendri Breedt
3rd - Emile Paulsen
4th - Shaun Van Appel
5th - Kondstandt de La Porte

Am's:

The Am contest was held over the main line. There were 16 riders entered and the riding level was a significant jump from the beginners. Once again the pack was cut down to 5 riders in the final. These guys really put in all they had as they battled for the R3000 in Riot vouchers and could have easily held it together in a Pro class. Their results:

1st Kyle Kiewet
2nd Ronald Stander
3rd Justin Lopes
4th Duncan Fox
5th Storm Guiranovitch

Blunt Bonus Tricks:

SA's allround best youth mag, Blunt made it to the Jam armed with a stash of 100 R10 notes. The Huckfest was anounced and riders that hucked a trick got a note. The bigger the trick the more notes. This is where things started get loose.

But best of all Jimmy Reynolds got it all on video...

Thanks to all that came out, you made the event the success it was.