The BB17 and Spike Parts online store is now up and running. To celebrate, they’re also having a sale on all their stuff. Click here to enter.
Here’s the details:
The BB17 and Spike Parts online store is now up and running. To celebrate, they’re also having a sale on all their stuff. Click here to enter.
Here’s the details:
The long awaited Altar Tribe Burial Bars are now available for purchase. After vigorously testing my pair for 6 months, taking them down stairs, drops, rails, and bails, the Burial bars held true to their shape without the slightest of bends or breaks. Altar has truly managed to make the toughest riser handlebars on the market.Β Here’s what they had to say:
“With over 8 months of testing by our pro team consisting of Johnathan Ball, Jonathan Davis, and Gus Molina, these are tried and true to be the most rugged and strongest 1 piece handlebar on the market.”
– 4 INCH RISE
-29.5 INCH WIDE
– 8 DEGREES BACK SWEEP
-4 DEGREES UP SWEEP
-KNURLED ANTI GRIP SLIP 5 INCHES IN
– Made in Southern California USA
– for riders by riders
(Recommended use of adjustable bar ends due to thickness of tubing)
PICK UP A PAIR HERE
Well 2013 is almost over, and I’ve been doing some digging through old and new pictures, and came up with a solid list (In my opinion) of really beautiful Fixed Gear Freestyle builds from the past to now, in no particular order whatsoever. Let us know which builds were left out and what you think should be on here!
Lets start with Tyler Johnson’s builds.
The Leader Shadow was one of the sickest and priciest builds in 2010-11. Tyler’s specifically was real sick with the white paint drip on the seat tube. Eero’s always looked wild with fat tires too.
His first SKYLMTΒ SL-1 with the first run of the SKYLMT bars was also a super clean build. His first 26′ build, and his legendary Skylmt Welcome part was filmed on it.
His other build was also gorgeous.
The almost murdered out Hold Fast build was also super sick.
The Gorilla Kilroy is one that needs to be featured in here for obvious reasons. One of the first true FGFS bikes, and it looked rad.
An appropriate follow-up would be the Grime Yo-Mang, the first 26′ specific FGFS frame. RIP Grime.
Gus’ Skylmt is also a sick build with Red + Chrome featuring the prototype ALTAR Burial Bars, coming soon.
Oscar’s 14 Bike Co proto 29er was no joke, and looked like it could handle anything. Too bad that one never came out.
His BB17 Serpent was a game changer also, with it’s holographic print on the frame, fork, and bars. Unfortunately there weren’t any real good pictures of just the bike, but it just had to be on here. Here’s the bike check with it.
While were on the topic of Serpents, Funny’s build is one of my favorite builds I’ve ever laid eyes on.
Kareem’s Signature LeaderΒ PharaohΒ was an iconic build for sure. Cheetah print errthang.
Speaking of Seattle residents, Jacob Ruff’s old BB17 was a looker also.
Anyone notice that almost every Destroy Bike that gets built looks amazing? (Pictured: Joshua Nieves, Devin Tolman, and Nelson Bell’s)
The 29er is no exception.
Slum’sΒ old thrashed P-Fix was a fan favorite.
Tom Lamarche’s Charge Scissor V2 looked burly as hell. There weren’t really any pictures of it that I could find.
His USA Color Scheme P-Fix was a historical build. It was his debut on 26’s and damn did it look good
Phil’s Charmer V2 builds constantly changed colors and he always managed to make them look sweet.
Here’s a random one I found on the FGFS Forum. No clue what it is but it looked pretty sick.
Antonyo’s builds were always some of my favorite.
His Proto Milwaukee always looked so sick in my opinion.
His gold Unknown build was also baller as fuck. Haha.
His current UnknownΒ proto is also very sick as well.
Packy’s All-City Airwolf is too clean.
Mike Schmitt’s old Ghost was a sick one too.
Matt Spencer‘s builds have always been my favorite for sure. He always knows how to make em’ look good.
He was the first to run hefty 29er tires on his first Mordecai back in 2010, and it looked sick as fuck.
Then for MWM2, he decided to do a blood red color scheme, which is still one of the most unique builds to date.
He later got on Volume, and built up the sickest thrasher. Chrome and tan wall tires look very clean in my opinion.
The slime green Thrasher build was another unique one. No real pictures of that one that I could find though.
When Mr. 700c switch to 26, he built up such a clean SKYLMT.
Don Dela Cruz’s Unknown 24/7 was definitely a clean 29er build.
Sam Hanson’s old Hold Fast 29er was also very sick.
Christian Ustarroz had a custom frame built up by Nem Pro and it looked very good. The raw Grime Medicine Man bars complimented the frame very well.
Congo originally built up his old LDG Hammer with the white/blue color way. There weren’t any pictures of it, but he put a throwback paint job on his new Unknown prototype. With the USA Destroy bars, it looked even sicker.
When Corey switched to 26′ for almost literally a minute, his All-City Airwolf was a real sick build.
To round it off, Joe Mckeag’s Unknown 24/7 Prototype is my favorite build of all time. purple, tanwall tires, and chrome parts is toooooooooo clean!
Well that, in my opinion, were some of my favorite builds (That I could find online at least) throughout mostly recent years. Maybe this provoked some future build ideas for some people, Christmas is coming up so why not help support FGFS companies right?! Hope you guys enjoyed the read, and please excuse me for the lack of photo credits for every picture, hope you guys don’t mind too much.
I rode over the the Royal HC headquarters a couple days ago and picked up the first ever Royal tool bag and some fresh V3 straps. The bag is awesome.
With the bag entirely made out of cordura and a seatbelt handle, this creates an ever-lasting tool bag that will never let you down.
Padding is inserted and stitched by hand, ensuring attention to detail and quality. With a padded bag, it can also make for a great on-the-go camera bag for any DSLR or smaller camera.
The Royal HC camera bag is the ultimate multi purpose tool bag for you, and it will be available at the store soon, or you can contact him at royalhandmadecustoms@gmail.comΒ for one today.
This skate part that Thrasher just released was probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. Creativity at it’s finest!
Some mess around slow shutter shots of the crew filming at the pike in Long Beach this weekend. Young Guns filming has been going strong the past three weeks. If it continues, the video should be done in no time.
Steven Jensen Signature Handlebar Giveaway: You have 6 days left to Instagram yourself doing the same line Steven did, 180 bar to half cab bar, and the best video will be chosen by him on 11/27, to win a set of his signature bars. Make sure your profile is public, and useΒ #stevenjensenbargiveawayΒ as well as @stevenjensen @skylmttm for your video to be considered. (Forgetting the hashtag will prevent your video from being seen and entered into the contest. Pros or anyone with a handlebar sponsor will not be counted.)
Any variation of the trick will count. Get at it people.
Click on the image to view the video.
A very interesting and accurate rant just got upped by Jmik on Bomb Hills Speed Kills. Some very good points were brought up about the support this sport isΒ receivingΒ and how little riders give back to the sport, along with the mentality that if you can do a 360 you deserve to have everything handed to you, but that isn’t how it works. In the comments section, Jackson Bradshaw had some extremely good points as well. I suggest you read it here. Thanks for the shoutout Jackoff.
In conclusion, if we don’t give back to this sport, and if we aren’t passionate about this sport we’ve contributed so hard to make a legitimate thing, it is going to die. Riders are dropping like flies. It’s up to us to keep this sport alive. This sport is important to a lot of people, including myself. If it dies, I know I’ll still be riding, it would just be nice to keep having people to ride with.
Altar just put out a limited run of these Witch Trial Stickers for Halloween. If you want some, shoot 2 dollars to cover shipping. Paypal it to altartribe666@gmail.com!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Matt with WOLF DRAWN just dropped 4 new tees with very limited quantity. Always crazy sick ideas and designs with his gear. Swoop some here before it’s all gone! π¦ π¦ π¦ π¦ π¦