http://capitalbmx.net bmx bike riding in Ottawa, ON Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:46:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once again the best weekend in Canadian BMX has come and gone. This year wasn't all that different from past years, although there were quite a few Ottawa faces missing from the mix. For those of you who didn't make it down for the awesomeness, I've got a couple of ... http://capitalbmx.net/not-so-metro-2010/ Tommy Hains has crafted up some Capital BMX t-shirts in effort to continue to raise money for the proposed Orleans Box Jump. I've been saying for more years than I can remember that I want to get some shirts made, but Tommy finally made it happen. They run $20 a ... http://capitalbmx.net/capital-bmx-t-shirts/ Prashant threw a decent art party the other week. Not as nice as his cardigan, but really sweet none the less.  Even Sketchy Kid (Byron Carrol) showed up, so if you didn't, you suck. http://capitalbmx.net/1689/ Chris Silva - LandoZine '05 from iccsilva on Vimeo. A drastic jump of about 20 years from last week's Throwback Thursday, but this is the ender part from Landozine's 2005 release Illusion of Man, of our friend Chris Silva. Footage from back in his days of Hyper Bikes and backyard ... http://capitalbmx.net/throwback-thursday-21/ We went to Taz on family day, and I took a couple of photos with my camera. Here are the results. Big Ben, no hands on the 6 foot quarter. Rich minutes after learning how to do no footed cans on a quarter. Gordy layin' it down on his new frame. This photo was ... http://capitalbmx.net/couple-o-photos-from-taz/ Ugly Ass Bikes - Orleans Box Jump Fundraiser from Broderick Horne on Vimeo. This video from yesterday's jam is already up on Facebook courtesy of Broderick Horne. I was poking around his Vimeo account, and also found a video from 3 months ago with himself, Nick Stupich, and Colin Smith ... http://capitalbmx.net/uab-jam-video/ Kyle Lafleur sent through a random photo and said this: The last two days were super nice, we put in a bit of work and got the little mini ramps running. Spring is almost here. http://capitalbmx.net/random-photo-kyle-lafleur/ Just another post to act as a reminder to everyone to do everything they can to make it to UAB this Sunday the 21st for the Orleans FUNdraiser Jam Tommy Hains is throwing. Should be lots of fun and prizes for everyone. There's been tons of notice for ... http://capitalbmx.net/reminder-orleans-fundraiser-jam-uab/ I haven't posted a Throwback Thursday piece in a while, but this should more than make up for it. Frank Krul is an Ottawa rider from way back in the day. About 8 or 9 years ago Frank got back in to riding (after getting his hands on Jay Miron's ... http://capitalbmx.net/throwback-thursday-20/ The newest issue of Yo Sick Zine is almost done and being duplicated. To celebrate I'm having a party and art show in my apartment. It's got some BMX and lots of other random stuff in it. Come by throughout the night, or stay and party the ... http://capitalbmx.net/yo-sick-zine-5-release-partyart-show/