Here is a compilation page of all the video from the first week of Ayr Academy! Everyone had a killer week. The campers were stoked and everyone progressed leaps and bounds from when they showed up! There is still room in the next three sessions for campers so If you are interested don’t hesitate to visit the Ayr Academy page at highlandcamps.com

Ayr Academy Session 1 Day #3 from Highland Mountain Bike Park on Vimeo.

Day#4! It was an action packed day. A group went up in the morning with Aaron Chase and Adam Hauck and learned how to dig and reshape a trick jump. Then they sessioned it and learned some new tricks. The other group went up the lift with Slim and Geoff Gullevich and raged some downhill runs! Then at the end of the day everyone met up at the HTC and had an editing lesson from Justin at Lucent Prod. After all that some bike rope-swinging and dodgeball was in order!

Ayr Academy Session 1 Day 4, A Day In The Life from Highland Mountain Bike Park on Vimeo.

Day #5 was an epic day for campers. Right after breakfast they got on the hill and lapped some early morning downhill runs. Then midday the campers and coaches began the hike up the slope style course. The rest is history! Check out the footage below!

Ayr Academy Day5, “Learning to freebird” from Highland Mountain Bike Park on Vimeo.

Day #6 marked the second to last day of camp for the campers. They were all rip roar’n ready to go bright and early. The majority of the day was spent on the lift. The kids had been slaying jumps all weeks with no problem and had even stepped it up to the freebird; but they wanted to get more drops in so they spent the majority of the day sessioning the bigger drops on the mountain. By mid day with the instruction of the coaches they were flowing off all the biggest drops on the mountain with style!

Check out the video of thursdays action below!-

Ayr Academy Thursday “A Day In The Life” (Drops and Rocks!) from Highland Mountain Bike Park on Vimeo.

There are still 3 Ayr Academy sessions left! Go to highlandcamps.com to find out how you can attend!


I just finished building a custom Mob for a local dad who wanted a dialed bike to keep up with his kids…
Kevin, here she is… pretty dope except the 183mm rear rotor but that’s what Hope says to use with this brake.
My patented overhead shot… you really don’t want to see this done, scary.
Hand carved by Robertti Customs
 No slippin’ here
Or here…
AND… here… definitely no slippin’…

Here’s a new web edit from Lisa Myklak and Jim Tharp’s recent road trip to the front range of Colorado.
Lots of great characters and riding. Specially love the section on Jared Fisher who suffered a broken leg that was broken so badly that after a year and half of surgeries and therapy Jared decided to have it amputated… 7 weeks later he’s shredding the opening of Valmont bike park. That’s gnarly but he’s finally able to ride again… Look for Jared to be shredding his own Killswitch in the near future.
Thanks to Lisa and Jim for putting this together… enjoy!!!



I can stand it no more!!! The container with all the new Black Market goodies is due to land on the 11th of July… so, with customs and delivery we should have the entire line in the warehouse and shipping by the end of next week.
Killswitch: Check
Malice: Check
Contraband: Check
NSF: Check
Tech 9’s: you get the idea…
Bada Booms:

Molly Hatchets:
Lock Down Grips:

Look for the entire Black Market line up to finally be available at your local shop or online in the next week… 



Hello everyone, 
PlusSizeBMX and Joe’s Bike Shop in Colorado are auctioning off a signed Protec helmet on Ebay with 100% of the proceeds to go to the Athlete Recovery Fund(http://www.athleterecoveryfund.com/ ). Here is the link to the auctionhttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250851953924 


Below is a brief description of what we are doing as well as the names
of everyone who signed it…

Two crews of Etnies riders came through Joe’s Bike Shop
(http://www.joesbikeshopco.com/ ) over the last couple of weeks. So we
had all of the guys sign this Protec helmet and we are now auctioning
it off for the Athlete Recovery Fund. (
http://www.athleterecoveryfund.com/ ) The riders who signed the helmet
are: Bobbie Altiser (Tree), Lloyd Wright ( Kink ), Tony Neyer (
Sputnic ), Corey Martinez ( United ), Sean Sexton ( Kink ), Tom Dugan
( Fit ), Aaron Ross ( Sunday ), Geoff Slattery ( United ), Nathan
Williams ( United), Bruno Hoffman ( Federal ) and Seth Kimbrough
(Hoffman).  100% of the proceeds of this Auction will go to the
Athlete Recovery Fund. Which is an amazing organization that has
helped a ton of riders. Special thanks to each of the riders, Cinema
Wheels, Blackout Distribution and Etnies for making this possible…
Chris – ( http://www.plussizebmx.com/ )

I have also attached a pic with a few of the riders posing with the helmet.

Please help us spread the word on this auction so we can raise as much
as possible for the ARF. The auction will end on Monday July 18th.

Thanks you all very much!!!

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. Cheers…


Chad and Index sponsor a few of the Black Market team riders including Adam Hauck, Jake Kinney and Vishneviy and they’re having a sale. Go get yourself the ultimate V neck and stay cool.



I just recently returned from a week trip to Woodward to council/instruct with the MTB campers, and it couldn’t have been more fun! As most of you know, our very own, Jake Kinney is the MTB director at camp, and the two of us teamed up to get these kids shredding. After only a few hours on the first day, these kids were tearing down the DH/slope course, and nothing could stop them. I managed to snag a couple shots when I wasn’t working, and look for more to come.

Jake is part Cherokee with this Indian Air

Night time, no shirt & a jump built by Nastazio? Ok, shoulder buzz it is!

The AMAZING week 4 campers!