courtesy of Ride BMX

So yeah, the annual BMX pilgrimage to hell Las Vegas (otherwise known as Interbike) just went down in case you hadn’t noticed elsewhere. For me, the best part of it all is always seeing friends, meeting new people and talking with everyone. So cheers to that!

Here are the Nora Cup results:
#1 Ramp Rider – Dennis Enarson
#1 Dirt Jumper – Chris Doyle (2nd year in a row)
#1 Flatlander – Moto Sasaki
#1 Street Rider – Garrett Reynolds (58,776 year in a row)
#1 Racer – Marc Willers
Best Video Part – Dennis Enarson in Demolition’s “Last Chance”
Video of the Year – Anthem II (Stew Johnson)

If you wanna OD on bike parts, visit The Union and Ride BMX. For all kinds of Nora Cup stuff (like the photo seen above featuring that handsome devil in the Defgrip shirt), visit Ride BMX. And again, shout out to the Ride BMX crew for organizing Nora year after year.

Til next year!

Here’s a Disposed feature from the recent Seth Kimbrough edits that dropped.

Ben, Seth, and I have been on a lot of trips together since I took this job back in November of last year. Through those trips, we’ve all become great friends. So when I asked Seth if he’d like to come with me to Portland to ride and finish up his and Ben’s edits, the answer was immediately yes. Throw in my best friend Loofa to shoot photos, and it was the makings of a great trip. Here is a small glimpse of that same great trip, through the eye of Walgreens disposable camera.

-Chadwick

Click below to check out the pics.

Continue reading Disposed: Shadow PHX to PDX Trip →

Sunday just dropped some new hats made by the folks over at Quintin, along with some new shirts which you can check out below.

Continue reading Sunday / Quintin Hats →

A trailer for a book? You bet, it’s 2011!!!!! Here’s one for Dean’s 100 Pools book. This has been a long time in the making, can’t wait to see it.

Dean Dickinson has broken his body, his bike, his bank account, and various laws in a quest to reach his personal goal of riding 100 pools. The title of his book—YOU WON’T—is a challenge laid down by some of Dean’s doubters. The reality is—Dean did it, and this project documents it all.

10 years of poached and permission pools are captured with hundreds of amazing images from iconic BMX photographers—Jared Souney, Justin Kosman, Jeff Zielinski, Ryan Fudger, Shad Johnson, and more. The stories pack 20 chapters and 200 pages. Eyewitness accounts with riders include such as Dakota Roche, Mike Tokumoto, Sean “Fish” Hoskins, Spencer and Austin McCabe, Chester Blacksmith, Brian Martyn, Kurt Rasmussen and countless others. Dean’s journey culminates with an epic session with all his friends at the iconic Pink Motel pool. The editorial team on the project includes Dickinson, Jared Souney, Mike Daily, and Mark Lewman. Presented by TEAM SHRALP. Dedicated to James Schiefelbein. Book coming soon!

-Dean Dickinson

Here’s a promo for the YAWN video, which will be premiering at Ryan Fudger’s house Nora Cup. Lots of good young shredders up in here!

Shout out to Veesh.

A few months back the MacNeil team headed out to NYC to kick off a two week long tour. It had been years since the MacNeil team hit the East Coast and we decided to break up the trip into two cites. Boston and New York. Everyone flew into NYC and since the weather showed rain for the next week, we drove up to Boston to spend the first half of the trip. Boston was amazing and we rode so many dope spots. One of which was a random High School that ended up being about 20 yards from our hotel that some kid in a grocery store told us about… Huge thanks to Chris and Matty Long for all the other spot tips! After roaming around the city and suburbs for a week, chilling with Lino and the 90 East crew, and riding non-stop, we took a drive back down to New York.

We ended up stoping in Rhode Island for bit on the way back to NYC. We rode Brown University and got kicked out for hanging out in the grass, messed around at the capitol building (or what looked like some sort of capitol building), and watched Chris Silva drive himself to insanity trying some stuff on a flat rail.

Once we got back to NYC we returned the rental van and spend the rest of the trip pedaling around. Most of the guys on the team hadn’t been to New York before, so we spent our first day pedaling everywhere… From Brooklyn to Battery Park up to Time Square and back to Brooklyn. The week in NY feels like a bit of a blur, probably due to the fat that I live here and it’s always weird to be on a road trip in your own city. Big thanks to Torey Kish, Scott Marceau and Brandon Galosi as well as Edwin and Hoder for having out and riding with us.

Terrell Gordy was on the trip with us from Props and put together great edits from the trip. The whole thing turned into a three part series, the first two are online now and the third should be up soon. You can check them on the Props site here – Part 1 & Part 2.

The following photos are a mix of riding photos, snap shots and some iPhone stuff. There’s more pics from the Boston leg due to the fact that I was filming more when we were in NY. All in all, the trip was amazing and I had a great time with everyone on the MacNeil team -Dillon Lloyd, Greg Flag, Chris Silva, Chris Martindale and Taylor Elvy, who was new to the team and survived through his first trip! Hope you enjoy the photos and keep a look out for the third video on Props!

Continue reading Photogallery: MacNeil North East Tour →

Fiend site & promo up now. Go HERE!!!

You already know.

***SITES DOWN. SEE THE PROMO ON VIMEO***

If you enjoy watching a dude who looks like he is visibly having fun on his bike, than you will enjoy this edit of Mike Jonas. You may have seen Mike’s article in the latest DIG, and now you can see what he is all about.

Shout out to Chris McMahon for putting this together for us.

Continue reading Mike Jonas / Defgrip Edit →

The Fiend crew hit up Boston to film for their first promo and came through with a Disposed for us. The Fiend promo and website will drop this friday, so check back for that.

Thanks to Kevin Conners and everyone involved. Click below to check out the pics and an intro from Garrett.

Continue reading Disposed: Fiend →

Taj Mihelich took the plunge and came up with 50 of the greatest BMX logos for Complex.

Check it out HERE.

We were able to add two bonus awards to The Hunt this year and this Best Line compilation is worth a watch. The evolution of street has been pointing towards lines, lines lines for a couple years now, but linking tricks in parks in mini ramps has been around forever. Featuring Dylan Stark, Chad Kerley, Kyle Baldock, Dillon Lloyd, Russell Wadlin, Anthony Pearson, Chris Gille, Chris Russell, Marcus Tooker, Paul Horan, Zack Gerber, Tony Neyer, and Grant Castelluzzo. Who has the best line? Next week they will have and extra $1000 burning a hole in their pocket. Presented by Monster Energy Drink.

Tweet your picks to @defgripcrew @thehuntbmx

Continue reading The HUNT “Best Line” Bonus Edit →

We finally have our new t-shirts in stock on our online store.

CLICK HERE TO PICK SOME UP!

OMFGco is a group of creative/talented “thing makers” out of Portland, Oregon. Their design agency runs the gamut from print to signage to interiors, all of which looks and feels great. Mathew Foster, Fritz Mesenbrink, and Jeremy Pelley are guys behind OMFGco and I shot them some questions about what they do.

Be sure to click around their site.

Continue reading Q&A: OMFGco →

Here’s some good Sunday morning viewing. Haro in Australia.

At the end of 2010 a few of the Haro team riders headed to Australia to go down under for an adventure of a lifetime. Sun, sand, skateparks and all the fun you could fit into one trip. Landing in Sydney the guys headed off south through Canberra and Melbourne with a quick stop in Brisbane before checking in and heading home. Thanks to all the shops we were able to stop and visit and everyone we had the chance to ride and hangout with.

Enjoy!

Thanks to Terrell for sending this through!

Eric Lichtenberger gets crafty with some assorted disassembled ramp pieces. Enjoy!

Also, check out Eric on the new Ride BMX cover below as well.

Continue reading ODSY-VISION: Eric Lichtenberger →

After launching The Hunt back in the spring, Pro-Tec came to us an wanted to kick down an extra grand for the rider who really took riding to the next level. We came up with The Pro-Tec Progression Impression Best Trick Bonus for $1000.

While the judges are making their final decisions on the top-ten riders who will be featured in the final DVD, we used their input to cut this best-trick reel and we want you to give us your best picks. This footage is made of up stand-out tricks nominated by the judges and the filmers, and Will Stroud will be looking at your tweets when he makes the final call on who get the cheddar. This is going to be a tough one.

Tweet at @defgripcrew and/or @thehuntbmx with your picks.

Continue reading The HUNT “Best Trick” Bonus Edit →

Corey Martinez, Nathan Williams, Seth Kimbrough, Bruno Hoffman, Will Stroud, Walter Pieringer and John Povah recently hit up Colorado in the form of a Cinema/Etnies trip. A Disposable camera was passed around to capture the good times, so click below to check out the pics.

—> Click HERE to check out the edit from this trip.

Continue reading Disposed: Cinema X Etnies in Colorado →

Joel Barnett
Bronica SQ-A / 150 f4 / Portra 160NC

via Korey Kryder