Insight – Chad Shackleford
Posted by Prashant - 30/03/09 at 10:03:13 am
photo by Nuno Olivera
Chad Shackleford is a name that is synonymous with video production in BMX. He’s worked on his own creative projects with the Shine and Shook video series, and done video work for numerous other companies and brands in BMX such as Odyssey, Hoffman, Micreation, System Cycle, Local Exposure Tour, and many others. By a strange twist of fate, we got in touch with Chad, and Rich Redmond asked him some questions to get some insight to what he’s been up to lately. Click below to read the Chad Shackleford interview.
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Jomopro Training
Posted by Prashant - 29/03/09 at 09:03:33 pmThe Jomopro contest in Joplin, MO is coming up this weekend and Ottawa’s Prasheel Gopal and Alex Poirier (Pralex) are heading down to compete in the flatland category. They’ve been riding and training hard for the event, and sent over these two videos to show for it.
Pralex Training for JoMoPro from Pralex Gorier on Vimeo.
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Jeff Bedard Chronicles – Volume 1
Posted by Prashant - 27/03/09 at 11:03:23 am
Jeff Bedard is a hard person to characterize. No matter how much I try to explain him to other people, no one story can do him justice. A few weeks ago I was in Toronto and Leland Nightingale, Jamie Lawlor, and I were trying to describe the type of person Jeff is to Leland’s roommate, and kept trading and sharing stories, each more bizarre then the next, but it still couldn’t accurately describe him. Along with being an incredibly talented and creative rider, he is one of the most interesting people I have ever met in my life, and can simultaneously make you laugh and cringe in disgust with one sentence without even trying. I asked a bunch of different people to share some Jeff stories with me, in hopes that people that don’t know him could get a glimpse in to his character. Some may be short, some may be long, but they will all surely be entertaining. Hopefully as more stories come in, I will continue with further volumes. If you have a Jeff story or photo you’d like to share, don’t hesitate to contact me. Click below to read the first installment of the Jeff Bedard Chronicles.
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Presence BMX
Posted by Prashant - 26/03/09 at 05:03:55 pm
This isn’t exactly NEW news, but Jeremy Deme, from Montreal, got a new site rolling for his ongoing project Presence. They have finally entered the .com age and registered an official domain name. Check out the site for Montreal related news, upcoming web videos, and photos. There are some photos posted of recent street sessions as it seems Montreal is dry and rid of winter. Corey Dewey says “streets is always talkin’” in Montreal.
Toronto Bike Show 2009 Recap
Posted by Prashant - 17/03/09 at 05:03:23 pm
Driving down in Jeff’s car. Wheel at 45 degrees to drive straight.
Another year, another bike show. I’m glad it only happens once a year, because it takes a full year to recover. The normal stuff happened. Bikes were ridden, people cheered, people heckled. Click below to read about the events that occurred throughout the weekend, and check out some photos before my camera died on me.
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Bike Check – Ben Kauffman
Posted by Prashant - 12/03/09 at 10:03:57 pmThe Ben Kauffman coverage doesn’t stop. Ben recently got hooked up with Haro/Premium and they got him on two of their top end bikes with all the high end Premium parts. He sent through some photos of both his bikes. We’re still working out the paper work for his lifetime contract to ride for Capital BMX, but for now Ben will be riding for Haro/Premium, and Joe Mamma. Click below to check out the rest of the photos and a list of the parts he’s on.
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Ben Kauffman – Saudia Arabia photos
Posted by Prashant - 11/03/09 at 09:03:06 pmBen Kauffman dropped me a line to let me know that back in December he went to Saudi Arabia to do shows with Paul Berger, Will Fisher, and Max Vincent. This probably makes it almost half a dozen times that Ben has gone to Saudi. They did demos in a small town in north Saudi Arabia called Al Jouf, and Ben snapped a bunch of great photos. Click below to check them out, and you can visit Ben’s photo blog to see more of his work.
Will Fisher with a footjam whip on a Sunday, I mean on a cliff
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International Media
Posted by Prashant - 09/03/09 at 08:03:19 pmOttawa (via Petrolia) flatlander, Alex Porier recently discovered that he had a full page photo in the September 2008 issue of the french BMX magazine CREAM. He got his hands on a copy and here it is brought to you for your viewing pleasure.
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Toronto Bike Show 2009
Posted by Prashant - 05/03/09 at 09:03:02 am
The Toronto International Bike Show is quickly coming up from March 13th to the 15th, and with it comes the first BMX contest of the year, the Toronto BMX Jam. If you’ve been to the show before, you know what to expect, and if you have never gone, then do yourself a favour and make it out. Ottawa riders will be competing in the amateur portion of the street contest as well as the flatland contest on the other side of the building. Rich Redmond is also doing a Toronto screening of Hate This that weekend. Click below for full info on the show, contests, and events that weekend.
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Trent Barker Photography – Favorite Five
Posted by Prashant - 03/03/09 at 02:03:36 am
Trent Barker likes to fly under the radar. He’s been living, riding, and going to school in Ottawa for some time now, but you probably wouldn’t know it. You likely won’t find him at a big street jam, but instead you would more likely find him cruising around solo, with a couple cameras in his backpack, getting rad and shooting photos of interesting found scenarios. He’s been taking photos for a short while now, and his style has quickly progressed along with his preference to medium format film over the more common digital formats. I’m a fan of his bleak and empty looking scenery photos, and asked Trent to send over five of his favorite recent photos, with a bit of background on them. Check them out after the link below, and you can view more work of his on his flickr.