Blisstape is the newest phone clip series in the Long Beach + L.A. FGFS scene. Loads of good stuff in here featuring sMc friends & fam. Dig it, stoked on this series.
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Afternoon Sesh With Joe Mckeag, Corey San Agustin, and Michael Penrose
Last week Joe Mckeag, Michael Penrose, Corey San Agustin, and Myself went cruising around Long Beach looking for something to hit. We settled at Long Beach City College, providing some ledges and things to practice hopping over, so I decided to take out my camera and shoot some flicks. The first one of Joe is my favorite, check out that top tube right underneath his knee cap. The hop was nothing short of huge. Corey also got some rail hop practice in, stepping out of his comfort zone and hopping some decent sized rails and caution tape. Penrose has also been killing it lately, progressing so much in the past few months and manning up to hit a rail.
I’d also like to take this post to announce that Joe Mckeag is now officially back on LDG, and they have plenty of new legit things in the works.
STAY STRAPPED OFFICIAL TRAILER | DVD’S AVAILABLE NOW
Matt Spencer just released the official trailer for the Stay Strapped DVD. This trailer gets me beyond hyped to buy and watch this DVD. Very professional appearance and the riding is gonna be insane. You don’t wanna sleep on this. Order one here.
FF Power Hour 11
The FF Power Hour series is back featuring Joe Mckeag, Antonyo Wothe, Michael Penrose, Corey San Agustin, and myself. Short and sweet! Joe’s inward footplant 180 was so wild.
RATPACK | 2K14 TRAILER
Ratpack’s Lucas Brockelmann is one of the best filmers involved with fixed gear. He’s been busy in Northern and Southern California stacking clips of everybody for a Ratpack 2K14 edit, and by the looks of it, it should be epic. New camera looking great. So much energy, can’t wait! (Rhyme not intended)
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Chop Em Down | Can’t Fool The Youth 3 Trailer
The Can’t Fool The Youth series is back for a third DVD featuring your favorite riders from all over the globe. The first premiere is in San Francisco at Panhandle Park this Friday and you don’t wanna miss it. It’s going to be a trick jam/premiere. More details coming later this week! Filmed and Edited by Zane Meyer.
BREAKING NEWS | STAY STRAPPED DVD WILL PREMIERE AT RED BULL RIDE + STYLE
THATS RIGHT FOLKS.
This year at Red Bull Ride + Style 2014 in San Francisco, the #STAYSTRAPPEDDVD will be premiering! Be there or miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime to be one of the first people to lay eyes on the extremely anticipated DVD.
Bombtrack Dash Complete | On Sale
The complete Bombtrack Dash builds are on sale through Royal HC for only $699! Here’s what he had to say:
“FGFS is Dead…
Dead tired of hearing you say you want to get into FGFS. Well here is your chance!
Special order your 2013 Bombtrack Bicycle Co. Purple Dash COMPLETE today for $699.95! Free to pick up at royal HC or have it delivered to your door for a little extra cash.
A super solid complete with a heat treated driver hub. Get yours today. Only a few left!”
Check it out HERE!
Joe Mckeag | Royal HC Quick Clip
Royal HC quick clips are always fire. This one features Joe Mckeag hitting a wall 180 on a new spot in Long Beach. Here’s what Royal had to say:
“One of the first pros to be on royal HC, Joe Mckeag hits a local Long Beach wall (filmed by JBall). I was so happy to have this guy on royal HC a while ago and am still to this day. His style has inspired many riders to the point where I see other riders handling a bike just like Joe. His skill on any bike, not just FGFS, is incredible. Keep an eye out for Joe in the upcoming FGFS video Stay Strapped. You know it’s going to be good.”
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.
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