A huge apology in advance to anybody who was planning on coming to the store tomorrow, we will be closed all day as I am racing by bicycle motocross bike in a large bicycle motocross race.

We will be re open as normal on Tuesday bright and early at 11am.

Of course if it is absolutely bucketing down with rain all day then there is a good chance that I will be opening the shop instead of riding around in a horrible mud pit.

Until we meet again, keep getting rad. This man pictured above knows how to do just that. Sweet table with an even sweeter mo! Peace out gangsters.

Lukey B popped in to get himself a sweet new custom built front wheel and to lace a fresh G Sport rim onto his old faithful 48 hole Profile SS hub. Get on! Rainy days dont seem so bad when I get to play with classy toys like these.

A couple from inside the emporium which is currently home to Matt’s 1953 BSA Bantam.

When I was 16 back in the year 2000, a set of Primo Powerbite cranks with a T1 Gower Power sprocket and Primo Meat Tenderizer pedals was the ultimate fantasy drive train , now 12 years on I have this set up on my ex Pete Majoinen FBM night train. To say that i am so very excited to own this set up today would be a severe understatement.

The FBM is a very special bike and it needed a special wheel build. I aways wanted to try the 3 leading 3 trailing spoke pattern out on a BMX wheel, and to my suprise it ended up working out quite well. The big heavy Sun Ringle’ hubs suit the overweight theme on this bike superbly.

And now let us all listen to the rain drops on our windows as well as a bit of Led Zep.

Finally, if you are not yet sick of looking at the computer screen here is 40 odd minutes of amazing action from 1988. Entertainment is a worthy way to describe this, there is was much amazing stuff getting done back then. Hell I even spotted a couple of legitimate mullets in there, great viewing indeed.

That is right ………. Wolves!

Oh yes indeed, the most popular railed seat in BMX is back in town. Mike Aitken is a living legend and his style will forever be the envy of riders the world over. Somewhere down the line Mike developed some kind of strange fascination with wolves. This fascination eventually filtered down into his signature line of parts, shoes ect, of which many have wolves printed on them. Wolves are pretty rad I reckon and Mike Aitken is definitely rad so how can you lose. The Mike Aitken Signature seat with rails made by Odyssey ………. awesome and only $39!
Buying one of these my just make you want to do some of this………….

Dancing wolves are maybe radder than a seat, Mike Aitken or anything else in the universe combined . Oh those crazy boys of the Boosh are classic!

Our good pal Will Herrmann, pictured here enjoying a pint at The Hero Of Waterloo with James Piccalou, has been over in New Zealand for the past couple of months. I recently got word from him that he is having a jolly good time indeed. He has been hanging out in Queenstown riding the amazing wonderland that is the Gorge trails as well as hiking partying and basically living the dream. To say I am not jealous would be a bald faced lie. He sent through a couple of pics just to rub it in a little harder ……….. Damn you Herrmann, damn you!

That place looks like some kind of wild fantasy land. I am just green with jealous rage right about now, sitting here indoors on the computer whilst it is pouring with rain outside. Will assures us he will be back at some stage but I dont think i could blame him if he decided to stay over there in paradise for ever.
In other un- related Will Herrmann trivia, he shares the Surname ( but not the spelling ) of professional American BMX racer David Herman. To celebrate this not so amazing fact here is a pic of David in action. Forgive me for using a BMX Plus photo. Smash it David!

Now that your appetite for trail action has been wet by Willies snap shots here are a couple of web clips courtesy of Deluxe to get you stoked this soggy afternoon.

WELCOME TO DELUXE- Ted Van Orman (2012) from Elliot Van Orman Productions on Vimeo.

Mark Potoczny Deluxe Trail Video from Vinylbmx on Vimeo.

………….. The one and only Olletanod!!

Olletanod is the reverse spelling of Donatello. If you know your stuff then you know that Donatello was the Teenage mutant Ninja Turtle whose colour was purple. Donatello was predominantly green with purple highlights, the Olletanod is the reverse of this and is mainly purple with green highlights. Reverse! Wow!

Donatello was a badass. Shown here getting things done with master splinter. Olletanod is also a bit badass and has an impressive spec list to back up its wild looks. Using a Mankind Justice frame, forks bars and cranks and mated together with Proper Bike Co’s finest of wheel sets, stem and sprocket, this is one serious turtle. Fly Ruben tyres and graphite pedals, Animal Edwin and a United pivotal seat round off what is set to be one of the most talked about bikes in this room! The pictures really do not do any kind of justice to this bike so that just means you will have to get yourself down here to inspect Olletanod in the flesh and for a cool $1449 you may be left think that it is so amazingly S.H.I.A that you may just end up purchasing it for yourself!

Stay Fit – Brian Foster from FITBIKECO. on Vimeo.

Did you enjoy that? Yes indeed I did sir!

You will have to wait until tomorrow for the unveiling of the yet to be named bike, some will love some will hate. For me Iam going to say it is so bad that it is awesome! My reaction after getting about halfway through the build looked a little like this………

……….Stunned!
On the topic of stunning things,( see what i did there, ey…… ey! ) I stumbled across some more vintage BMX gold today, this time in the form of some amazing advertisements.

I dont know about you but I now have this burning urge to buy a Huffy , some Skyways and a pink Hutch. Those advertising executives back in the day knew what they were doing! See you all tomorrie for the unveiling of project ” So horrible its awesome” , I cant wait to hear some reactions to this thing.

Legendary!!!!!

Unlike these old wooden chairs, although colourful, the United slim microfibre pivotal seats are a great place to sit, and dont they just look fantastic! Colours, lovely colourful colours!!!!!

I believe Leo Forte was one of the pioneers of the brown corduroy seat, and now you can have one all for your self. Wow……….. brown corduroy………… what a revelation! A brown cord pivotal seat may seem like a crazy notion, but I will have you know that brown corduroy is a very versatile material. Please see some fine example of brown corduroy being put to fantastic and fashionable use.

Sofa bed anyone?

Or how about some brown cord shoes?

Or this fashionable cap, actually I dont mind that at all, I reckon that would suit me pretty well.

Brown cord aside these seats are amazing and you sould see them in the flesh, the word stunning comes to mind. Aside from splendid saddles we also have some new versions of the ever rad Nathan Williams grips in various colours to satisfy even the harshest of colour co-ordinated bicycle stylists out there, and they are pretty damn comfy too.

There you have it folks ooks like United have kicked themselves another goal. Legendary!

Tomorrow is Australia day and to celebrate this great day, I am having the day off. Every one else seems to doing the same so why not! I will see you all on Friday and try not to do your self any kind of injury from excessive flag waving or vegemite eating. Get On!