Sick shot of young gun Calvin Gunt doing what he does best. Photos by Tyler Park.
SMC Crew
Robert Rice | Ice Pick
A quick shot I got of Robert while filming for Young Guns.
Half Assed | Vol. 7
The Half-Assed Series is back, in HD, and with the Altar boys! Which also happens to include two sMc members, Robert Rice and myself. Phil did a real good job at cutting this one together, and for being half-assed, the clips are way killer. But with a lineup like this, it’s hard not to make a sick video. It’s been a while since footage of Gus has surfaced, but he’s still at it and killing it harder than ever. Don’t forget to swoop some Burial Bars!
Johnathan Ball | Wallride Barspin
Phil came down to my area and wanted to shoot some photos. So I took him my go-to spot, the Santa Ana Riverbed. A five minute ride from my house and perfect banks make it an ideal spot to practice tricks. After brushing glass out of the way and hauling Phil’s camera equipment down the steep banks, Phil got this sick shot. But when aren’t his shots sick?
ALTAR TRIBE | BURIAL BARS AVAILABLE NOW.
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. 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
ROYAL HC | Team Edit 5 Promo
Get stoked on this one, cause it’s gonna be fire. Miguel Zendejas and Marco Marquez are two of the most low key killers in the game. It’s time for them to shine, and it’s gonna happen here.
X-MAS Break Edit Catchup.
As the holidays started and attention has been slightly turned away from the computer, everybody decided to drop rad videos! The past week has been great for FGFS.
To start, the Turf Bikes official “Word is Bond” promo dropped, and it looks killer. Slum editing always top notch. Got me real stoked to see the full thing.
Then, sMc’s own Robert Rice and the rest of the Road Kill Crew dropped their XXX-mas video. Solid riding and great to see some up and coming names. Robert’s suicide’s are unparalleled. Miguel’s feeble hard 180’s on lock.
Next is a little 5ONIT one day edit featuring dynamic duo Valentin Racho and Jimmy Watcha. Such good riding from both of them, as expected.
Lastly, here’s Emico’s first edit out of Japan. This chick can shred.
CSK Family Values Mixtape.
CSK gave us an early Christmas present: new jackets, and a new family/friends video, and it’s the best Christmas present ever. The video is packed with technical wizardry by tons of different riders. CSK does it right, get a jacket here. If I were Thieth, I’d say this gets a “Fucking Killing It”. So stoked off this. The FOAD clips were my personal favorite. Jackson’s creativity is unrivaled.
FGFS Porn | Iconic & Awesome Builds Throughout the Years.
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 SKYLMT 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 Leader Pharaoh 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’s 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 Unknown 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.
Jacob Santos | Concept Bikes Scraps
Some real solid scrap clips from Jacob. Always reppin’ Concept Bikes.
Suck My Cog 