The legend Ricardo Lino is officially out of FGFS retirement! In about 2015 Lino put down the FGFS bike to refocus on his blade career (if you weren’t aware, Lino is a legend in the blade community). 10 years later, Master sent him over a new build and he’s back to shredding on two wheels and looking better than ever!
Ricardo reached out and sent over this bike check out of his hometown of Lisbon running down his brand new build.
While in Texas I got a chance to corner Corey and force him to be in front of my camera so I could capture some pics of him and his one of a kind Ruff 29er build. This is one of the most talked about bikes in the scene, so I know I needed to get this one to the people. Full rundown after the jump!
Lucas (aka Poney) just dropped this awesome build + ride video for a bike that I’m extremely familiar with, the Bombtrack Divide. Although the whole video is in French, I was still extremely entertained the whole way through. He got the Divide after breaking his Thrasher frame (a difficult thing to do) and builds it up in his chaotic mad scientist looking apartment, which I really enjoy seeing.
As far as Lucas’ riding goes, this is the best form of his riding so far, by far. This frame must have unlocked something in him because his riding looks 10x cleaner on this than it did with his Thrasher. Hope the frame doesn’t break on him too quickly because it’s definitely helping him progress.
The Ruff team recently took a trip to Austin to film for an upcoming full length. Here are the in betweens / warm ups on the bread cam!
First of all, today is Deacon’s birthday. Go give him some bday love on his IG.
Second of all, Deacon’s Courttek build has changed a bunch throughout his time having it. Although we’ve shot pics of it already, it’s basically a completely different build now. So we got out to a good ol’ basketball court with our buddy Josh and snapped some pics! (Full set and details after the jump)
Some of the worst things I’ve ever read. Today we respond to the community’s Fixie hot takes. Enjoy!
Ruff recently announced that a new Ruff bar shape is currently out in the wild being tested by the team! While still keeping a 4-piece design, they take bend inspiration from the 2012 FGFS classic Machete Slayer bars but stepping them up with modern rise. Here’s what Jacob had to say about the forthcoming bars:
“We’ve received samples of some new 4 piece bars that the team is testing. After toiling over dimensions, we settled on two shapes. The lower offering maintains the GC bar box section with a nod to the classic Machete Slayers and their mellow bends. For the taller size, we took the inspiration direct from the Bob bars and refined to our preferred back sweep, up sweep, and width.
We’ll have both sizes available in chrome finish and ED black once they get the stamp of approval from our quality assurance department.
Go catch a session with a Ruff Rider and make sure to check them out! They are rolling in LA, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Bordeaux, and Tucson.”
I’ll report that I’ve received mine and am extremely excited to put them on my bike. Pics of my setup to come!
Chase is a beast. He’s comfortable on all obstacles, which includes boosting big quarter pipes. We were riding Stanton recently (as seen in our new park shmixtape) and he was boosting this hip. I had to get a pic of it cause he was getting up there.
One of the pioneers of our sport, Tom Mosher, is officially posting videos again!! The weather in Canada is finally getting to not freezing temperatures so Tom got out one night to get some tricks and a bike check in on his new camera. This is amazing to see in the year 2025. His bike is a living piece of history (and super janky lol someone get this man a bike) and his tricks seem like they haven’t lost a step. I hope Tom keeps putting more stuff out cause this was an unexpected treat!
2025 park shmix with a real camera featuring most of the local squad casually filmed over the last few years!
Squad includes: Marco Marquez, Johnathan Ball, Corey San Agustin, Matt Spencer, Chase Henley, Max Vargas, Kareem Shehab, Deacon Wong, Lucas Petruzzelli, Jonathan Thompson, Jacob Santos, and Kris Sundet!
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