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JBall Ruff Bike Check 2025

After over 2 months of being injured from a broken rib, we’re back today to show off my current Ruff Glimmer build plus a short session. Shoutout to the sponsors Ruff, Master, and Resist for keeping the build fresh.

Trying something different with no music on this one. Let me know if you like this or prefer with music.

Shoutout Pizza for filming. His bike check coming next!

Off Track Ep. 35 – JAKOB SANTOS

Today we’ve got Jakob Santos in the virtual studio! This took me 3 days to edit so please watch and appreciate the effort that went into this.

We discuss his long history of action sports, riding for SE twice, his massive amounts of Fixed Gear success, switching to Bike Life, and so much more in this hefty 2.5 hour long episode.

Crew Defender 26 Promo

A while ago Deacon and I headed out to Hawaiian Gardens skatepark to film this fun little promo for the new Crew Defender 26 complete! CG finally posted up the full size promo on their YT. We had a lot of fun on this one and the bikes are a great entry level complete bike.

Bianchi Pista Concept 2004 Build + Ride

I finally acquired my holy grail bike, the Bianchi Pista Concept 2004. After getting it built up in my garage, I met up with Pizza and Deacon to ride to the beach and get a little flat ground session in and break in the build. 2009 me would be proud! Full res photos of the build to come soon. Enjoy!

Farewell Courttek V1 Build

I’ve been riding this exact frame for nearly 3 years now. It’s technically the 2nd Master Courttek prototype and even has a special engraving on the bottom bracket with my name on it, which the production versions didn’t have. It’s time to say goodbye though.

My good friend Paul and I shot some final pics of the bike to commemorate it and put it to rest properly. I’m not usually that sentimental about my own bikes, but I’ve become really close with this one for probably obvious reasons. I never thought I’d have my name on a frame and I’m still blown away by the amount of people that wanted to buy a frame that had my name on it. Seriously big thank you to everyone who snagged one.

Why are we saying goodbye to it though? All that i’ll say for now is that it’s not because the frame is broken. RIP Courttek build, you served me very very well!

Full gallery and bike check after the jump.

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Volume Thrasher V1 Revamp + Ride

I recently revamped my Volume Thrasher V1. The old school style build was fun, but it was time to optimize it for better tricks and really deck it out to feel the best it can. After building it up I caught a session with the boys and got hurt pretty bad. Enjoy!

Side note, this is like the 3rd video involving a Thrasher V1 that we’ve thrown on the blog this week, wild coincidence.

Throwback: JBall 3:30 with Locked Cog

Posted up a fun 2013 throwback on the archive of myself! The 3:30 with Locked Cog series used to be one of my favorites. Pros would send in footage to Kris with LC and he’d pump out these fun minute long mini edits for the world to see. I remember being really stoked when he said he was willing to do one with me, since Locked Cog was such a big platform at the time. I’m actually still pretty proud of a lot of these clips. The ender was the first time I’d put the 180 bar to backlash into a proper clip, and I’m pretty sure it was the first that FGFS had seen at the time. Funny to think about how hard that clip felt when it’s a staple in my trick bag now. Fun times. Shoutout my boy Sam for the ender.