Over in the UK while the weather’s not cooperating Matt Jamieson took advantage of the downtime and repainted his Mob. His new set-up looks very clean and simple. Gotta love new paint!!!
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Happy New Year!!!
I’m stoked to say the Roam is now taking it’s final shape and testing has been going extremely well!!! Our only complaint’s been that we’re riding an XS with a super short 20.5″ TT… this problem was solved with a 70mm stem but it’s still to small. The benefit to this is now there will be a 6.3″ travel All-Mountain frame with a 26″ stand-over.
Here are a few of the renderings I just received from Pablo who has been putting in lots of clicks to make this happen for us… Thanks Pablo, nice work! Can’t wait to touch the new version… until then, I’m gonna keep banging out the miles on the current proto.
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The Roam’s new wider shock box with ISCG’05 mounts.
Another nice touch is our new improved sliding drop out system which uses a 3mm allen to dial in the chainstay length from a super flickable 16″/ 406mm to 16.45″/ 418mm
Moves are being made… the Roam is coming…
Just dug through some random photos of mine and came across this old one of myself. Table at the Da Compound trails in Perris, CA. Nothing like a good old flatty to keep trails alive!
Yeah… that’s what I said.
Woodward Wildlife…
The constant rain is taking it’s toll on the slope-style course creating some mini-crevasses.
I drove up to Woodward yesterday for the start of the 2010 Winter Camp where Jake Kinney is running his first trial camp for the MTB program. If all goes well, Woodward West will have it’s first vegan, straight-edge pro four-cross/ slope style/ camp director… I have confidence Jake will impress.
Anyway, Jake just repainted his Mob trail bike and it’s got some sample graphics from my buddy Louie Alvarez. Louie is a graffiti artist from SD with some sick styles. Here’s Jake’s Mob…
Jake’s ride…
I’m diggin’ it… you?
So, as a last minute decision, Carter, Kevin Sorichetti, and myself headed up to Woodward West to meet Jake Kinney for the opening day of Winter Camp. We met up with Chad from Index Ink and headed out bright and early. After an autograph session during registration with some BMX pros, we headed down to the ramps to get ready to shred. Unfortunately, this was the week that a record 142 kids, just on bikes, decided to visit camp. We got a few sessions in before the kids had to do their evaluations. After everyone was let loose on the property, we all rode as much of the facility as we could, meeting the kids and helping them with some lines. After dinner we decided to call it a day and head home, but not without some good memories from the day. I have photos from my phone, and the ones off the cameras will be up very shortly.
This is how we do it baby!
Pit stop for Monsters and candy, i was good all day!
Some people just aren’t cut out for life on the road hahahah
The boss, always working hard.
Wow… another Christmas come and gone… goodbye. But the memories will last a lifetime. Over the course of my life my parents have contributed to my long BMX career that eventually lead me to starting Black Market and doing what I do now…
Well, this Christmas I finally had a chance for the first time since I started this shindig to give my parents bikes. I was so stoked to see their reactions! My mom has been riding this pink and white thing to walk her dog for a couple of years that I wanted desperately to replace and destroy ( that will happen later… ) and I wasn’t sure if Vince even wanted to ride a bike… he’s all about horses. So, when I saw my mom stand and start to crank… I had a moment of panic… then she threw her right foot off and carved a turn around Vince laughing. Vince and my mom are both in leather soled cowboy-ish boots on plastic pedals… not very good riding shoes to say the least. Did that stop Vince from riding no handed while cruising around my block? Nope.
I have to say, seeing them riding around like the 200+ kids at Woodward this weekend was amazing and I’m glad i was finally able to do it.
Happy Holidays!!!