Author: JBall

Fixed Gear Historian

Jacob Ruff – In Case I Didn’t Text You: This is 38

Jacob Ruff goes on a solo mission and comes out with some smooth lines, creative tricks, and a barspin that makes you say THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT!

Eurotrip 35mm – Bridge Session

I realized that I still have unreleased pics from our Ruff Netherlands trip in 2023 (saving a lot of it for when the Ruff full length releases), but I have some stuff safe for release in the vaults still. Here’s a few off my 35mm during our bridge session.

Chris Alzona – Table For 1 Vol 6

Someone learned X-Up rides!! Shoutout to Chris for continuously putting in work. More people need to follow suit with content like this, fuck an IG clip! Doing it for Volume and Resist

S&M – Get to Movin’

Ruff man Jacob Ruff has been making moves in the BMX world and has become the S&M phone filmer / editor. Here’s a new one he cooked up featuring the whole Seattle gang. He even gave himself a cameo clip at the :53 mark! All part of big fixie’s plan to infiltrate BMX. Thanks for doing your part Jacob.

Jackson Bradshaw – Throwback Edit

Don’t let Jackson’s false title fool you, this 2015 throwback edit from FOAD and Jackson originally titled “Technique Fleek” was a super impactful edit when it originally dropped in 2015. 2015 was a weird year because the entire scene seemed to drop off a cliff. Web edits became few and far between (although more were still dropping than the present day) and riding started to go in a more techy direction. Jackson dropped this one and there were a lot of progressive clips in here.

Jackson was one of the first to really dial in feeble hard 180s (and would later go on to be one of the first to do pegs hard 180). His ability to link tricks was also on another level, and then that ender was and still is an NBD, although I think this might be a standard trick for a bikelife kid now minus the bunnyhop into it.

Anyways, this edit also got me into Black Marble and has extraordinary vibes. Jackson, you rule.

Skream – The Long Way To No Where

Although I think that saying “The rider who redefines what skidding means” is an exaggeration, Kirby is definitely one of the few track riders I enjoy watching these days. He’s aggressive, fast, chooses good moments to skid, and looks good on a track bike. He’s paired up with Skream now so naturally they had to make him a cool aesthetic video of him ripping up paris.

700c Trick Track Game of BIKE – JBall vs Max Corcoran

A first of its kind, we listened to the people and made a 700c Trick Track Courttek V2 game of BIKE happen between myself and Max Corcoran while he was in town!

SMAW – Bishkek Summer Ride

Send 2 – 3 years Kyrgyzstan and forget

I’m personally mind blown that Leader TRKs and Thrashers found their way to Bishkek, but I’m glad they did cause SMAW Gang is going hard.

Mongoose Maurice Build

Daniel O’Callaghan aka Documeant out of Australia builds up what seems like his first FGFS build and even learns a fish and chips afterwards! If you’re in Australia, hit our boy up to ride.