Aug. 30th, 2010 Must be baby month, yesterday our ABA #1 Vet Pro and trainer to the stars, Kenth and his wife Laura had their little baby boy, and now today we hear that Bubba and Kasey Harris have had thier Baby Girl. Congratulations to all.
So this weekend we have the ABA Reno Pro National and the NBL Grands going on at the same time again. Guessing that the Pro attendance will be split. We will be taking the trailer and the Pits up to Reno to show off some of the new product and have a bit of fun with the team, and back east, J&R Bicycles is setting up a nice display of the new BLUR's and Jeff Upshaw will be riding around on his new custom ENVY frame. Wherever you are stop on by and take a look at what is new.
Aug. 29th, 2010 What a great weekend for the Supercross BMX Family, first a huge congratulations to Kenth and LauraFallen on the birth this morning of their first son Tristan. Everyone here at Supercross wishes them well and wish we could be there to celebrate their joy. I am guessing that in about 18 or 19 years there will be a new #1 Pro in the Fallen household.
Next up, the Canadian National Championships went down yesterday and Samantha reclaimed her Canadian National #1 Title and Jimmy Brown repeated his title as Elite Men. Kaila Sweeney followed Samantha in to take National #2 this year and in the Juniors Class, Simon Meili and Paige Zazuran both took a second's as well. Congratulations to all of them!! We will post more details and photos as we get them.
And back down here in the States, Nate headed on out to the OTC to get a little bit fo training in and turned in a time of 36.73 in the mock time trials in the wind yesterday. That time would of placed him in the top twenty last year in Chula Vista's Time Trials. The kid is putting in work and is ready to show it off.
Aug. 27th, 2010 So, up in the great white North of Canada where Samantha has been back home visiting they are starting thier second Canadian Championships of the year. It sound wierd to have 2, but they did one early in the year before Worlds to determine who they were sending to Worlds and now the true one this weekend. The time trials were held today on the famous Airdrie BMX track and Jimmy Brown with a broken elbow none the less took the top Mens Elite Time and Samantha took the top Womens Elite time. We will try to keep you updated with how the rest of the weekend goes at the Canadian National Championships.
Aug. 25th, 2010 Busy busy week again, all the end of year races are coming up, Interbike, 2011 Team Planning, last minute changes to the catalog, wow, seems like there is never enough time in the day. So we are finishing up the first run of the new 2011 Little Blur's and the Pink looks so nice on the Little BLUR Junior, and the Matte Black just looks so tough on the new Expert XL. What do you think?
Aug. 22nd, 2010 Congratulations to Kevin Peraza for taking the win this weekend at the San Diego Gatorade FreeFlow contest. Kevin and Larry are headed to Salt Lake City to compete with the seasoned riders at the Dew Tour. Can't wait to see what Lar Bear and Peraza have up thier sleeves to show off thier talent!! Trust me remember these names as they are going to be HUGE.
Aug. 20th, 2010 Busy week in the shop again, think our UPS man is looking for a new vacation again after this week. The new SLT forks came back in from paint and the RED and Neon Yellow look so good!!
Now this weekend if you are in So.Cal, make sure you stop by the Lake Perris BMX track Sunday Morning to sign up for Courtney's clinic. She made up some pretty cool goodie bags for the first 25 kids to sign up and has some pretty cool prizes for the most improved riders as well. Perfect timing to get prepped for the ABA Black Jacks in Reno in a few weeks. We highly recomend that you attend if you can. You will be stoked. And if you are north of the border, Samantha is holding a clinic at her home track Airdrie BMX on Sunday as well. Perfect timing to get prepped for the Canadian Champs the following weekend. If you are serious about your BMX, you will want to be there.
Aug. 15th, 2010 Seems like we have only been getting in 1 update to the site a week as it has been so busy lately. AJ was up on Friday and we are still working on getting the new site up but we want to make sure it is completely dialed before we go live with it. The new BMX Plus! came in this week, and it is pretty cool with 3 Bike checks in it with Afton, Courtney and Samantha all getting bike checks on their Supercross ENVY's. Be sure to pick up a copy today. It is pretty Nifty!
This week we also have more of the BLUR's in stock and shipping out the door. The long awaited Pro XL 24" Cruisers and more of the Pro Pluses in this batch. If you have been waiting on a 22" Top Tube Cruiser or a Pro Plus 20" check with your favorite local Supercross BMX Dealer or J&R today. And yes the Matte Blue does look as siick in person as it does in pictures. Add a Supercross SLT Fork and a pair of Straight 8 or Fox Yeah! Bars and you have a chassis that is light, strong and won't break the bank.
And on the Freestyle side of things, the 2011 Passion Frames are in stock and the new NEON Yellow is blinding!
We also have the SLT Forks in stock in Neon Yellow now to match. Can't wait to see a few of these built up. We have the Neon Yellow in all sizes including the little 18" Passion and the Aaron Johnson sized Big Man Passion with the 21.5" TT. Pick one up at your favorite Supercross BMX Authorized Dealer or visit our SHOP page today.
Aug. 7th, 2010 Been a super busy week in the shop again, so we have been slacking on the web updates, sorry. We have been working on a new website that will hopefully make it easier for everyone in the shop to update so you will have more Supercross BMX updates than you can handle. But in the mean time you just have to wait for us to post it all up.
So this week we got the first of the new 2011 ENVY colors in from paint, and they are siick. The first one is a basic color, Kris and Samantha have been riding it for the last 5 months, basic Matte Black.
The second color is a little more loud, and matches up more with what Courtney and Jimmy have been riding, this is the new Blurple color. It is more of a solid Purple but has a Blue Tinge to it and it shines like crazy in the sun.
The first runs of these have already sold out so check with your favorite Local Authorized Supercross Dealer today to try to pick one up and be the first to be rocking the new colors.
Another project we got in this week are the new Speedline Clipless pedals. Kenth and Courtney along with Corey Reid are testing these new pedals and so far the response has been sooo sooo good!
They are lighter than the main competition, clip in easier, have more adjustability if you like Float, or want a tight grip you can set it how you want it and go.
And while we are talking about the SPEEDLINE brand, they just finished up a special run of CNC Finish with Black Laser, and they are siick. There was only 100 sets of these made and they may not do them again as the Black Laser was super expensive. So if you want to grab a set be sure you do it quick. Check with your favorite Speedline Dealer or J&R Bicycles.
Now this weekend we have the ABA Southwest Nationals in BMX's loudest city, Tucson, Arizona! We were planning on bringing out the trailer and doing a full pit set up, but with the tight space in the arena, and with most of the team not going, Courtney decided to just head out with a few banners and a bunch of stickers to hand out and to help with the team from the air conditioned bleachers while it is 119ยบ F outside. we have heard that today there were 204 motos and that Tyler Schaffer won 16 girls, and Little Allie took a 3rd in 14 girls, and that the Support Riders of Josh Balder and Kyliegh Kalapaca took a 5th and a 6th in their respective classes. The Padilla's decided to sit this weekend out with Nate just getting back from South Africa on Tuesday, and with Lauren's big birthday bash today. Jeremy is still out with his Staff Infection, that thing has been nasty and has really kept him down, but hopefully the whole team will be back up and running for Reno at the end of the month.
More updates later, but in the meantime here are a few shots from the 2010 UCI Worlds last weekend.
July 30th, 2010 I don't know what you were doing about 3:00 a.m. California Time last night, but we were screaming at the Twitter screen of our computer after hearing that Nate took home the W1 plate from South Africa!!! Congratulations Nate! So proud of you!!!!
And from what we heard, not only was it a win for the 16 Boys Class but also the fastest Challenge lap of the week!
Tomorrow be sure to watch Freecaster.tv for live coverage of the Elite classes at the 2010 UCI Worlds. And later in the day, be sure to head on out to the Apple Valley BMX Moto Park if you are around for a clinic taught by Samantha and Anders Gronsund. For only $30 you will get alot of training!!
July 29th, 2010 13 and Under Challenge Racing at the UCI Worlds is over, Elite Practice has ran and starting tonight at about 1:00 a.m. California the 14 and over Challenge racing will start. Heard the racing has been great, people are stoked on the track and the anticipation continues to build. Tune in tomorrow for results or head on over to BMXmania.com where Jerry has been posting photos and updates live from South Africa.
July 28th, 2010
Borrowed the above photo from Jerry at BMXmania.com for today's update, and we are hoping that this is the way the rest of the 16 Boys Class sees Nate this week. Names to watch this week at the UCI Worlds, Ramiro Marino, Ramiro is going in w3 and is hoping to come out higher. Ramiro has been going fast lately and made all 4 out of 4 mains while visiting the states last month, Nate, as pictured above has been flying, he has been training with Kenth for a good 7 months now and is ready to bring the title home, and he say's his new ENVY is helping give him the extra edge he needs. Another rider who put together a new ENVY for this weekend is Supercamp's Dani George, keep an eye on her in 16 girls as she leaps her new ENVY to new heights while she is trying to bring home the title. We also have a few other Elite Riders there, from Canada, Jimmy Brown and Steven Creighton are hoping to be on the gate come main time, keep an eye out for them as well. We will keep updating as much as we can.
On the Freestyle side, Larry Edgar was featured on Allisports for winning the Gatorade FreeFlow jam, we have the video up on our VIDEO page now, go check it and take a look at a bunch of the other cool videos we have up there of our riders and products. You might be surprised by what you see.
July 24th, 2010 Got to love big BMX weekends like this. Dew Tour is going off in Chicago, ABA is having an Amatuer National in Wisconsin ( be sure to stop by Mikes Bikes to buy some Supercross stuff while you are there ) , The NBL is having an Elite race in CT, Nate just landed in Dubai for his layover on his way to South Africa for the 2010 UCI Worlds, and if you are here in our backyard in the Inland Empire, tomorrow you get a special chance for a Clinic with our own Courtney Tomei at the Lake Perris BMX track. so where are you??
July 23rd, 2010 Big day for Nate Padilla as he takes off today to head down to South Africa for the 2010 UCI Worlds. This is Nate's first Worlds on Factory Supercross so we had to do something a little special for him so we re-anodized up an ENVY for him in USA colors.
The colors should match up perfectly with his USA Uniform, and No Fear was kind enough to send him down some new USA colored Pants and Gloves and a few fresh pair of thier new RUSH goggles so Nate will be looking as stylish as he is as he is showing off his steeze on the track in front of the World. Be sure to keep checking back on the Supercross BMX twitter along with the site for updates from the Worlds and be sure to tune in to freecaster.tv to watch it live.
Now yesterday in Chicago, they had Open Qualifiers for Dirt for the 2010 Dew Tour and Matty C pulled off 18th and Joey took 20th in the qualifying. It was tough competition for sure with TJ Lavin taking the final spot of 13th and when TJ is at #13 you know the comp was ridiculous.
The day before everyone left for Dew Tour, Fuel TV came out and did a little bit of filming at Stephen Murray's place. and Jon Jennings turned it into a BBQ and Jam Session, so Aaron was on hand for all the festivities, Aaron sent over this group photo and also a cheesy shot of him riding the hip.
July 14th, 2010 So the first of the 2011 BLUR's are shipping. These things are sweet. Only a half pound more than the ENVY for $200 less. If you are wanting to get on a Supercross but couldn't afford the ENVY, the BLUR is for you. And they are going fast, the first batch is already sold out, and the second batch looks to be going just as fast. Check with your favorite local Authorized Supercross BMX dealer, or give us a call to get your BLUR on order.
And today officially starts a new era of Supercross with Kris and Matty taking the Bus out on it's first run to Woodward West. Larry and Joey are already there and rumor is that Aaron Johnson might be in the vicinity. Updates will be posted, but for the true stories from the road catch up with one of them for the real happenings.
July 13th, 2010 Thanks to Randy Roberts, the Bulldozer, the Supercross BMX Freestyle Team has a new Road Trip Vehicle.
The Battle Bus has yet to be named, but has already done a run to powdercoat and a Chipotle run today getting it ready for sme amazing roadtrips. Paint and Graphics are on the to do list, but right now, Kris and Matty are just stoked it has a bumping stereo system and a huge V-8! Courtney and Samantha have already claimed this one for the Reno Roadtrip later this year too. The BMX world should be very afraid.
July 9th, 2010 Sorry for the lag on the updates, had to get a new cord to download the pics to the camera and it was a busy week in the shop coming back from Salt Lake. So you already know Salt Lake was a great race, so here are a few more shots from the weekend.
Kenth got on the top of the box 2 more times in Salt Lake. Both days the podium was the same, Kenth, Street and newly turned Vet Pro Nick Tuttle. It was great racing all weekend long.
Here is a shot of Kenth winning the main, Kenth was airing every jump in Rad Canyon
Courtney was looking great all weekend, If not for a crash in the first turn.....
Jimmy had some stacked motos this weekend
Nate was flying all weekend and was having so much fun over every jump. Think he wants to build up a new Passion to go to the skateparks.
Hmmm. whats everyone looking at? Seem pretty deep in thought.
Ahh, Coach Kenth giving his morning speech on Sunday. If you are lucky enough to have him as a coach, it is smart to listen.
Now for those of you who scroll down to actually read the news, here are a couple of quick cell phone shots of the 2011 Supercross BLUR, we will be posting up proper photos on Monday but these things are moving as fast as thier name. All details and better photos will be posted then, but until then enjoy these quick sneak shots.
July 5th, 2010 Roadtrips are always fun, especially when you have a good group, and we had a great group!! We need to go get a new Battery and cord for the Camera so I can't load up all the photos yet, but this shot that Barney Brown sent us is a good summing up of the racing this weekend.
This shot is of Nate picking up his 6th win of the season in 15x. And a win with 30 riders none the less. It was a great weekend with Kenth taking home 2 more wins in Vet Pro, Courtney made both mains with a 6th on Saturday and a crash diving for second in the first turn she had someone underneath take her down, she was flying. Lauren brought home a pair of seconds, Nate brough home a win and a 3rd on Sunday, And Little Ash was running double duty Class and Cruiser and came home with a first, 3 seconds and a third. More details and pics tomorrow!
July 1st, 2010 Two A.M. and meeting everyone at the shop to load up for a ROADTRIP!! Time to head on out to Salt Lake for the Great Salt Lake ABA Nationals. The new 36 ft Project is looking good and road worthy, Courtney has been working hard on the living quarters, Kris and Matty working on the outside, Shawn and the Shraders revamped the Man Cave as Courtney likes to call it, and MJT put a fresh new graphic wrap on it so she is road worthy. Updates over the weekend on the Supercross BMX Twitter and Photos will be loaded up Monday!!
June 27th, 2010 Full Coverage of the Warriors Of Wood is up on BMXonline.com, but Fat was cool enough to send us over a few shots of Joey getting Siick and Twisted and Up Side down to grab a 4th up there yesterday. Congrats Joey, looks good.
Joey ended up with a 4th over all for the day. But you would of never guessed by the pcs and the Video you can tell that Joey is stoked on his new White Passion and is getting ready for the Dew Tour.
Now out in South Park, Ramiro was leading the Saturday Night Pro Spectacular until the last turn when Barry Nobles put the move on and passed him for the win. Ramiro had to settle for the second and said he is not going to let that happen on Sunday.
Back here in Cali, Nate was running the last of the Jr. DEVO camps for him and they had the Time Trials yesterday, Nate took a strong third in the Boy's Time Trials and Sumpercamp's Dani George took her Yellow EVO iS in for the win for the Girls.
June 26th, 2010 Ton's of BMX going on all over this weekend. Samantha is in Norway teaching clinics, Nate and Kenth are in Chula Vista for the last day of the Jr. Devo camp at the OTC, Joey is in San Jose for the Warriors of Wood contest, and Ramiro Marino is in Pittsburg for the South Park National.
We will be tring to keep everyone updated from all the events so keep checking back, or subscribe to our Twitter feed and get the updates sent to you on your phone so you can stay updated wherever you are.
Next, we have been so busy in the shop that I am sure you have noticed, we have been slacking on updating the website. Sorry about that, but one of the projects going on are the new Anodized Racerhead FL stems in the June Limited Edition Colors. The new colors for June are the Black w/ Red Splatter and the Platnum with Black Splatter. They are already selling fast so if you want to grab one you might want to do it quick as when they are gone, they are gone.
Also new in the shop is a full run of the 2011 Passion Frames, including the 18" Passions. The 18" Passions with the 18" SLT Forks are a killer little combo for the little shredders out there. And now all sizes are available in 4 colors. Matte Black, Matte White, Clear Raw and the new Yellow.
We also had a big batch of Little ENVY's get finished up and shipped out this last week, so if you had been looking for a Junior, Junior Plus, Expert, or Expert XL ENVY, they have all been shipped out to the Shops and Distributors so you should be able to have it now.
More updates later, the weather is beautiful and it is time to go ride!
June 18th, 2010 The sun was out and what a great day it was at the ROCK for the ABA Midwest Nationals. I don't know if you were lucky enough to watch it on g0211.com, but we had a great day with Courtney flat out pulling the class most of the day!! Courtney ended up the day with a 3rd!
And Ramiro Marino flew on out this week, drove to the ROCK with Jerry Landrum from BMXmania.com and pulled off a solid 5th in Elite Men.
Not bad for a guy who has not done an ABA race since Phoenix at the ABA Winter Nationals where he had to race in the mud! Be sure to tune in tomorrow to watch live on go211.com or follow our Twitter. And check BMXmania.com for more rad photos from the ROCK like the 2 borrowed above.
June 18th, 2010 The ROCK is this weekend!! One of the few events that you instantly know by 1 name. It was going to be a big team set up this year, but this last week things changed and only Courtney and Ramiro are there representing on the Supercross side and Afton is there for Speedline/Supercross. Rockford is a fast flowy track that is always good racing, the soiltac they put down and the asphalt turns make it fast. This is Courtney's first time going to Rockford and with the way she has been riding, if the rain stays away, I expect it will be a great weekend for her. Now as I mention the rain, earlier today there were tornado's blasting through Rockford along with a huge rain and lightning storm.
Weather forecast for tomorrow is 84 degrees with no rain and then a 20% chance on Sunday, so hopefully racing will go smooth. Be sure to follow our Twitter or watch go211.com for live racing direct from the ROCK! Also going on at Rockford thsi weekend is the Vintagebmx.comVintage BMX show which we are a proud sponsor of for the 7th year in a row, so there are some very cool prizes from both Supercross and Speedline that will be being handed out this weekend. If you are there, check it out, there are always some amazing bikes on hand.
A few new products showed up in the shop this week, most notably a few new colors in the Supercross Pivotal Seatposts. In the 27.2mm size we added a new Mirror Polish finish and a new White Finish. Which both look so siick,
and in the 25.4 size we added a cool Burnt Orange and Purple.
All of these posts are available from your Favorite Supercross BMX Dealer or you can always check out our shop page if you don't have a Supercross Dealer near you.
Standing on the box was Supercross Team Mate Kevin Peraza, Kevin not only took a Third in Dirt, but a Second in Park.
And for you Fuel TV watchers, you may of seen Kevin Featured on New Pollution this week.
June 11th, 2010 A few new Bike Check Video's got posted on the site this week. Click around a bit and see which riders did a little filming while up at Roseville for the ABA Summer Nationals last weekend.
June 7th, 2010 Fun trip to Roseville for the ABA Summer Nationals! It was hot, it was humid, and it was a blast! Kenth picked up his 10th win of the season, CourtneyKILLED her Motos going 1, 1, 1 on Sunday and despite the heat, everyone was smiling and laughing all weekend.
June 4th, 2010 Pits in Roseville are already set up and ready for the second of back to back weekends of ABA/UCI Pro Racing. Thanks to Ashley for conning her parents Amanda and Big Joe into getting ther early to set up the pits and then take a tour of the State Capitol. Ashley is dying to race and bummed she missed the Springs last weekend.
Kenth arrives today at noon, Courtney drove up yesterday with Samantha, Mikey Williams and the New Zealand Hi Performance Squad drove up yesterday, Jimmy Brown and Steven Creighton are on the road as I type this, and the Padilla'sNate and Lauren are driving up today. As is Kyliegh Kalapaca. Unfortunately we still have 2 of the Amateur riders out on the Injured Reserves list Jeremy ended up with a Staff Infection from his Elbow Surgery so he is out for a bit still and Little Allie is still haing leg and knee problems after her crash in Bakersfield, hopefully they will both heal up soon and be back on the road with the team for the summer.And while we are talking about being on the road hopefully this will be the last weekend with the little trailer as we have our new 36ft one getting prepped for the road.
June 1st, 2010 Whirlwind trip to Albuquerque for the ABA Spring Nationals is over. 12 hour drive there, great racing and a 12 hour drive back. And it was all worth it. I am sure most of you saw the race on go211.com or followed along with our Twitter, but here is a quick recap. We got to New Mexico Friday just in time for Pro Practice. John and his 505 Crew had already staked out a Pit Area for us in a great area next to the start hill so we had a great view of the racing all weekend right from the pits. By the time we got there, everyone was already there and gettign some practice going. Kenth with this beng his home track was sharing a few tips on the Pro Set and how to take the first turn with it's new Soil Tac coating. So after a bit of practice we tied down the EZ-UPS to keep them from blowing away and headed out to Outback for a team dinner. So at Dinner it was decided that for Saturday they would wear the RETRO Gear. The Retro Gear always draws huge attention and it was Kenth and Courtney's first time getting to wear it at a National as it was the first Pro Race since we had them made up.
And the RETRO gear is real easy to see on the track. Crazy to think that this is what we did for Uniforms 20 years ago and they are still looking great today. Also in New Mexico we started handing out a new set of Posters. Everyone thought they were pretty cool and we had the riders autographing them all weekend.
And when the riders got bored, lets just say a few people got some creative handiwork. No one is telling who did it, but it is pretty easy to spot the NIFTY artwork. :)
Now, if you were following the Twitter or watching on go211.com you know how the day went, Courtney kept getting crashed, Kenth kept winning, Nate kept taking the Pro set, all in all it was a great day. Official finishes were: Kenth took his 7th win in Vet Pro. Courtney took a 5th after getting crashed again in the main, Nate took a 5th in the Jr. DEVO, and took a huge win in 15x.
Then on Sunday, Kenth picked up his 8th win of the season in Vet Pro, Courtney got crashed again in her main. Seems like a new rivalry may be stiring up, in the last Jr. Devo race of the year Nate was looking strong all day winning lap after lap but got squeezed in the main and had to settle for a 5th. In Junior Elite, Steven Creighton and Kalvin Davis both made the main, and Kalvin and Nate both made thier respective 17/18x and 15x mains as well.
Next week we have Roseville, so barely time to unpack before we are on the road again. Look for updates later in the week on that.
Now on the Freestyle side, Round 2 of the King of Cali comp went down up in Fresno this last weekend and our shredder from Touscon, AZ Kevin Peraza killed it and took his Passion to a second in Pro. Congrats Kevin
May 23rd, 2010 Just got word from the Canandian Champs that Jimmy and his custom Purple ENVY took the win today and is the new 2010 Mens Elite Canandain Champion! Congrats Jimmy. Other results from the day are Kaila taking a second, Steven Creighton taking a second, Simon grabbed another 5th on his bad ankle, Paige had to race the boys again and took a 6th and Erin grabbed another second for the weekend.
May 22nd, 2010 Been so busy during the week that we have not had time for the regular web updates, sorry about that, we are going to work on that and try to make it more regular again. So this weekend we have all kinds of BMX going on. First in our own backyard at our Apple Valley BMX Moto Park we had our ABA Race For Life and our State Qualifier. It was a great turnout with 51 Motos on Saturday wth the JDP being won by our own Nathan Padilla. Lots of great racing, Samantha was playing hostess and even picked up the Burritos and Chips that Chipotle donated for all the voulenteers.
Now up north in Abbotsford, they are having the UCI race today and CCA Championships tomorrow. Blaine Sawatzki, kindly sent us this pic of Jimmy hitting the Pro set on his way to the Pro Win for the day.
We don't have the full results, but Blaine said that he thought it went this way. Elite Men winner, Jimmy Brown, Elite Women, Kaila took second, in Junior Men, Steven Creighton took a third with Simon Meili in 5th with a busted up ankle, Paige Zazuran didn't have a class so she raced the Expert boys taking a 5th and Erin Sawatzki took a second for the day. More updates tomorrow from the CCA Championships.
On the Freestyle side of things, Kris, Matty and Joey headed on up to Woodward west to get some shooting done with Benny from BMX Plus! so be on the look out for some hot shots!! Little Larry didn't go, he was up at our Apple Valley BMX State Qualifier and took the win in 16 novice. Telling ya Larry, even though it was only your 4th race, time to jump to expert kid!!
And if you are in So.Cal this weekend, please remember the Erin Schaffer benefit race going on May 23rd at Perris.
May 16th, 2010 Just heard that Logan took a pair of Seconds this weekend in Dothan on his custom Mid BB ENVY Frame. Congrats Logan. Be sure to check BMXnow.com for the full story and photos from the weekend.
Wierd thng was that in the 5 years ago in BMX Plus! they did a Bike Check on Samantha and did a test of our Freestyle frame back then the MXP. This time around, Kris got a full page shot doing a Rad Grizz air, Matty C got a good 1/3 page shot, Kenth got a good shot and then the full check on the Passion. Pick up a copy today you won't be disapointed.
Then on Friday, we had the Kiwi's drop by, it was our first time to get to meet Mikey Williams face to face,
so that was real cool. And of course Willers was the designated Driver, it is always good to see Mark, and now it looks like he is all healed up from his surgery with taking that 4th last weekend in Copenhagen. After a quick tour of the shop, and a bunch of good times, they decided to head on over to our Apple Valley BMX Moto Park,
where they got to play around a bit on the Pro set. Think they enjoyed it as they hung out late and said they will be back. Maybe for our Race For Life and State Qualifier next weekend, if you are near the area you will want to come on by and enjoy the racing on one of So.Cal's best and oldest tracks. On the racing front thsi weekend, the ABA is holding thier first National in Dothan, Alabama, Logan is the solo Supercross Factory rider going, so watch the twitter feed for updates.
Every Month or two we are going to do a new Limited Edition Colorway. They are a limited run, like 25 pcs of each color, so they are going to be rare, and when they are gone, they are gone and you will have to wait until the next Limited Edition color comes out. So head on over to the shop page or your favorite Authorized Supercross BMX Dealer today to grab one.
Now while we are on the Limited Edition kick, we also did a short run of Limited Edition CHROME Plated Pro Bars! It has been a long time since we have done CHROME Pro Bars and after the headaches of doing these we know why we stopped, but the demand has been high so we figured we would try it again. So if you have been one of the hundreds of people calling screaming for CHROME Pro Bars, or the CHROME Pro Cruiser Bars, here is the chance to get them with no special upcharge. Check out the shop page or your favorite Authorized Supercross BMX Dealer to grab a set before they are gone.
May 7th, 2010 Lots of updates missed this week, so lets back up a bit and do a quick recap. Last weekend we had the ABA US Nationals in Bakersfield. In Bakersfield, we did not plan on it, but Nate, Lauren, and Jeremy all showed up with thier Supercross RETRO Jerseys. So Ash had hers with her and wore it as well on Saturday, but Allie and Tyler didn't have them with because we forgot to take them out of the trailer when the trailer didn't go, but they looked pretty good on the track in the Retro kit, so much they are asking if they can get more and wear them all the time.
And while we were up in Bakersfield Joey and Matty were out in Colorado for the Road 34 Jam where they tied for second. And right after the contest they visited a local school to talk BMX to the kids and hand out some posters.
Now this weekend we have the UCI Supercross Race in Copenhagen going on. Time Trails were today and Ramiro qualified out first round of Time Trials.
Be sure to watch it live on Freecaster.tv this weekend. And see how everyone does in Copenhagen. Will it Rain? Will the wind blow? tune in and find out.
And then this morning, we had Little Larry and AJ show up bright and early to pick up AJ's new 21.75" Passion, some new DVS shoes and some new No Fear RUSH Goggles getting ready for the Trails is Shouting BMX Dirt Contest that Steven Murray is putting on at DaCompound. So we took a quick minute to grab a small family photo.
May 5th, 2010 I have been working on putting this update up all week, and I just have not been able to put into words the sadness and the loss that the BMX community suffered this week.
April 30th, 2010 Wow the month has flown by. So much stuff going on in the shop, and it is only going to get busier. So much good stuff planned for 2011 and all the good stuff that is moving forward still with the 2010 stuff. The Race team is dialed and doing so good, the Freestyle team is growing, the offices keep getting re-arranged too to keep it all dialed while the staff around here keeps growing. it's pretty funny, we all have bigger offices than Bill now!
So on Thursday, Joey and Matty flew back home to Colorado for a contest, we will keep you updated as we hear how it goes, and they took home some cool posters to hand out as well, so if you are there be sure to grab one. Thanks to Rory Bauman for the rad shots.
Also yesterday we were going to have the trailer head on up to Bakersfield for the ABA US Nationals, but the winds blew so hard it blew the Gate off the block wall here and there were 70mph gusts going through the pass, so we decied we like to keep the trailer and the truck upright, so we just took out the EZ-ups and will have a makeshift team pit in Bakersfield. Camp out style like the good old days. But even without the trailer there, it is going to be a great race, Corey Reid of the Speedline/Supercross team is coming out to give the team a little bit of support even though it is not a Pro Race. Jeremy Rommel is ready to race after his double elbow surgery just a few weeks ago. Jeremy has already been over shredding the Shop Ramp and has a few new tricks up his sleeve for a little extra steeze on the track, When Jeremy is on the track you know it is going to be a show, Lauren Padilla is taking a quick break from school to come on out and have a fun race with her friends, and her little brother Nate is coming off of his win at the OTC Jr. DEVO camp and through together his new Custom Anodized ENVY and is ready to have a bit of fun and throw down his speed and style that makes The Bull a one of a kind. Little Allie has been trying to get her wrists to heal and may have to go in for something to be done in the near future, but in the mean time she has wrapped them up and is ready to run this weekend and let's not forget about Little Haulin' Ash, who had been training with Courtney but has now doubled up her training and is now training with Courtney and Samantha. And even the Freestylers are going to be getting into the action this weekend as Little Larry is going to race the 16 Novice class. Be preparred for a few Double Whips on the track and for Bone to call out a few bagger alerts! And while we did not get all the posters finished up for this weekend, you will be able to pick 4 new Supercross BMX Posters this weekend from some of your favorite Supercross Am's. Just stop on by the makeshift pits and grab a poster or two this weekend.
April 27th, 2010 Wow, time flies, been almost a week since the last update, been a busy last month or so, and the last 2 weeks have been insane. And speaking of Insane, I would like to introduce the newest member of the Supercross Family to everyone, none other than Little Larry Edgar.
Larry is a regular at DaCompound, and shreds. Not only does he shred he fits in with the whole Supercross persona of having a great time and riding with friends, so it was a perfect fit for the team. If you have never seen Larry ride, be prepared, it will blow your mind. and two weekends ago at King of Cali he took a second in Pro, so be prepared to see some sick edits from the whole Supercross Team with 2 new Young Guns like Larry and Kevin Peraza added on to the program. Welcome to the team Larry!!
We have been getting a ton of calls on our new SLT Forks. The new SLT forks came in and out and back in again last week and we blew through the second batch of the 20" White ones in less than 4 days. So if you were looking for SLT's in White, check with your local Authorized Supercross Dealer. We are trying to increase production on these as it seems like this is going to be the fork of the year. It uses the Custom Forged Cro-mo Internal Spiral Fluted Steertube, the Custom Butted and tapered Legs, and the new Micro Dropouts, and have no weight limit. All the Freestyle guys are running them, the racers are running them and at a 27 ounce weight, it is as light as the Carbons. Check out a set for yourself today and you will see just how rad they are.
April 21st, 2010 Got the new BMXer in the mail yesterday and Kenth got the cover and the interview for his second ABA Vet Pro Title!
This is Kenth's, 3rd cover while riding for us over the last 5 years. And only our 8th cover in our 21 year history. Kenth has had 2 BMXer covers and one BMX World Cover, Samantha has had 2 BMXer Covers and 2 BMX Today Covers, and good old Ray Luscombe from back in our early years got a BMXer cover. So Covers are a pretty cool thing. Congrats Kenth!
April 18th, 2010 No word from Courtney on how she did in Korea, but the lack of Internet access and no cell signal makes it easy to understand. Here is a quick shot of her that we saw floating around of her in Korea though.
Looks like she was having a good time no matter what. There is also a video of her on Kim Hyashi's Facebook page of her and some of the other pro's trying out a few different bikes, looks like they had fun.
From up north at the ABA Canadian Season Kickoff, we don't know full results from Saturday, but Randy Little called in to let us know that Kaila took the win for the day in Womens Pro, Steven Creighton took a second with Jimmy Brown taking a 4th in Mens Pro, He said that Simon Meili took a 3rd, and that Erin Sawatzki took a 3rd, but wasn't sure of the rest of the results. Said it was a great day and that he would get us pics and video to share soon.
April 16th, 2010
Randy Little just called and had Brandon shoot down a quick photo of the ABA's sticker from the start of the season in Chilliwack and none other than Simon Meili is gracing the decal! Thats always a big boost when you show up at the race and you are on the sticker.
And David Peraza shot over a pic of his Brother Kevin's Slashed Arm from the Flair gone bad at the King of Cali contest last week and a new shot of his new Passion.
Kevin had to get 14 stitches in his arm and is still ready to go ride. Notice the Racing poster on Kevin's wall, even though he is a skatepark and trail shredder, he still has roots in racing. The Peraza's know whats up!
Kevin couldn't wait for the rest of the parts to show up, he threw his Passion together and is ready to ride.
April 15th, 2010
Happy Tax Day Everyone, seems like April 15th sneaks up on everyone, luckily it didn't sneak up on us this year, but it has been a busy busy couple of weeks which is rad! Let's start with what is going on this week and then we will back up and go over what we missed the last week. First off Courtney boarded a plane yesterday to fly off to Seoul, Korea for thier first ever UCI BMX race. She will be meeting up with Steven Wong over there and they will both be putting thier Supercross' out in front of a huge crowd of Korean BMX fans! The track looks pretty wild and long. A few people have said that it is concrete, but Steven said it is not, that it does have a Wood or Wood type covering. Should be pretty interesting as you can see below.
We will keep posting updates as we hear what is going on over in Korea. Also this weekend we have the kick off of the ABA Canadian Season up in Chilliwack. The Canadian Faction of the Supercross Team looks to be out in Force up there this weekend!! Jimmy Brown who broke his ankle right after Phoenix is going to be giving it a shot in the Pro Class on his custom Purple ENVY to see how his Ankle is before he heads to Copenhagen, Kaila Sweeney is going to race her first race of the year and be starting the year off to defend her Back to Back ABA #1 Canadian Women Pro Plates. Steven Creighton is coming on out to race before Copenhagen, Simon Meili just got back from his trip down here in Apple Valley, hanging out at the shop and riding the Apple Valley BMX Moto Park with Jeremy Rommel and Samantha Cools and is ready to rip this weekend, The Littles, Brandon and Amanda, just got done doing a Supercamp last week and they are ready to use thier skills to get into the mains this weekend. And Paige Zazuran and Erin Sawatzki are ready to make thier Canadian ABA Debut, so it is going to be a great weekend. We have even heard that Ken Pliska may sneak up from Oregon to get a bit of racing in this weekend. We will post updates as we hear.
So that is for the future, now what about the past, this week has been busy and last weekend was rocking. Down in Tampa at the Easter Classic Part 2, Logan and Upshaw put on the Supercross Show. On Saturday night at the NBL Pro Spectacular both, Logan and Jeff got on the box with a second for each of them.
On the Freestyle front, there was the King of Cali competition last week, and while Kris, Aaron, Matty and Joey did not compete, they hung out and rode and had a great type repping and shredding, well while they were repping and shredding they were hanging out with a cool shreder from Touscon, AZ, Kevin Peraza, and it was decided that we add Kevin to the Supercross Flow Team, so Kevin has already gotten his Passion and as soon as his Busted up arm from a flair gone wrong heals up, he will be repping Supercross for us out in the AZ. So Kevin Welcome to the team. Be looking for Vids and Photos of Kevin on his new Supercross soon!
April 11th, 2010 As we were typing this update we got word that Nate just won the OTC Jr. DEVO Mock Race! Congrats Nate! Here is a pic from yesterday of Nate and Kenth from the OTC where Nate took a second in the time trials by .003 of a second.
April 10th, 2010 Busy weekend for BMX again, love spring when you can feel BMX in the air! Starting out East, Logan is ready to race and the Tampa stop of the NBL Easter Classic is underway. You can watch it live on go211.com, they are running the Pro's and SuperX tonite after the am's run during the day. Be sure to check it out. Then back west here at the OTC they are finishing up the Jr. DEVO camp and today is time trail day, Kenth said Nate is absolutely flying, can't wait to hear how the Time Trails go and then tomorrow they are holding a Mock race. Then as we head back up north and closer to home, Lake Perris BMX is holding thier state qualifier today and then tomorrow at Da' Compound in Perris they are holding the King of Cali contest. You will see quite a few of the Supercross Family running around in Perris this weekend, Matt and Joey will be riding in the King of Cali contest , I bet we may see a rare appearance of Aaron Johnson and Samantha, Kris and Courtney will be there hanging out. And lastly as you get back up to the top of the pass, out in Lucerne X-Roads BMX will be hosting their Regional National today, and are going to run both Saturday and Sunday's National all in one day. So as you can see a ton of BMX going on this weekend!! Keep watching the Supercross BMX Twitter account for updates and be sure to sign up to get the twitters sent straight to your phone for BMX news on the go.
April 9th, 2010 Long week, but it has been a great one. Kenth Flew down here and is at the OTC as an official Coach with the Jr. Devo crew, so he is down there with Nate and the rest of the Jr. Devo crew.
Kenth said it is going great at the camp and Nate is ripping around the track like an old Pro.
Now while Kenth and Nate have been down at the OTC shredding the track, here in the shop, Kris and Matty have been getting tricky getting product out the door. We got in the new Racerhead TL stems and they have been shipping as fast as Matty can assemble them.
The UPS Truck has been getting filled every day , our drivers are loving us as the trucks go back in full every day.
The Fox Yeah! Bars came in stock in the following colors: Gloss Black, Gloss White, Clear Raw and Flat Black. We have had a ton of interest in these bars and the first set went out the door to none other then Haro/Rockstar's Khalen Young. He took a pair of Gloss Black ones. Expect to see these bars in the hans of uite a few top riders this year. Along with the Stems and Bars We we had ENVY's come back from paint, ENVY's come back from anodize. The Anodizer keeps getting trickier, here are a few of the custom ones that shipped out this week.
Along with the Anodize we got a few special frames from paint. Like this ENVY we just shipped out to Logan Collins. This is the new Gun Metal Grey paint color we are going to be introducing on the 2011 BLUR Frames.
A few of you eagle eyes might notice the BB shell on this ENVY is a little larger than the regular EURO, and no it is not a BB30 or an American, but it is a MID BB shell.
This is not a stock BB set up, but rather a custom. Kris wanted to use a larger Bearing on his bike and loved the simplicity of the Mid BB shell on his Passion, so we built a few custom ENVY frames with the MID BB shell. And you know you things are cool when you have your name stamped into the BB shell on your frame.
April 4th, 2010 Happy Easter Everyone. Hope everyone is having a Happy Easter with Family and Friends. The NBL is holding the first weekend of thier NBL Easter Classic this weekend at West Palm Beach, if you have never been there, it is a must see and ride for all serious BMXers. What a wonderful facility. Not a lot of Supercross Factory Riders there this weeken, but Logan Collins checked in to let us know he took a 3rd in the Super-X class yesterday and today.
April 1st, 2010 We had thought about doing some kind of April Fools joke today, but when you have Kris and Matty running around the shop, everyday is April Fools as you can see by what they did to Mikey B'sENVY after he had left it in the shop for the last month since Phoenix.
They started with raising and flattening the seat, Chicago styling the bars, but the new topper is having Mikey's Bike hanging 20 ft above the shop floor in the rafters.
Now while we have had a little bit of a slow week in the shop while we are in between production runs from the machine shop and waiting for product back from paint, and anodize, Sammy has been bugging Kris and Matty for months to build her up a new Park bike, but we have been so busy we just didn't have the time, so we finally had time and built her up this beauty.
So now you will see Sammy starting to rock the Skateparks on her Passion Park bike as well as shred the tracks on her ENVY. And Courtney has her Passion built and ready to go, so you don't know what you will see out of these two next time you see them. The race is on for the first Womens Elite to Flip.
March 30th, 2010
Roy popped up a new little video on the Video Page today, take a quick look for a little after hours jam session. More Videos will be popping up this week so keep an eye out for them.
March 28th, 2010 Sorry for the little web outage yesterday, woke up ready for a great day of BMX and found out that our website was overloaded and it killed the server. Nothing like a stressful upgrade on a Saturday morning.
Well enough of that, what a Rad day yesterday was! Ramiro made the Elite Main Final in Madrid and took a 6th!
Nate doubled up in Redmond taking the JDP and the 15x wins and Joey took 8th in Pro Dirt at the Extreme Thing in Vegas. Pretty well rounded day for BMX. Congrats to everyone!
Now for the bad news, Danielle Brisson ended up breaking her ankle on the first jump in Madrid and Steven Wong ended up flipping the gate and not making the cut in time trials. You can watch the replay of the racing on Freecaster.tv and see all the action as it happened.
March 27th, 2010 Freecaster.tv starts live in 1 hour from Madrid.
Samantha is joining Pete D in the Commentary booth for this one while the riders attack the track. Have not heard much from over there yet as everyone says the Internet connections are not good, but there are reports that are going up on BMXmania.com, and BMXnews.com along with photos. Here are a few we borrowed from BMXmania.com.
We will try to post as many updates from Madrid, Redmond, OR and the Extreme Thing in Vegas as we hear them.
March 26th, 2010 This weekend is a big BMX weekend, starting in the East, Madrid to be exact, the first round of UCI Supercross races are going down now. Practice is already underway, Time trials later today and racing tomorrow! Keep an eye on it on Freecaster.tv to see how it pans out. We have Ramiro Marino, Steven Wong, and Danielle Brisson all racing there representing the Supercross Family, and Samantha Cools is there watching and handling the business end of it for us for the weekend. She will be back racing at Copenhagen.
Back in the states the ABA Great Northwest Nationals is going on up in Redmond, OR. Pliska is driving the T2 Trailer on over to set up pits for the weekend and Nate drove on up yesterday so it should be a great race weekend. No go211 up there this weekend so we are going to be posting updates on Twitter as we hear how things are going.
And closer to home, Joey and Matty just left the shop and are headed out to the Extreme Thing in Vegas, Joey has been working on a few new tricks and if the wind dies down out there is ready to blast out a few new tricks and take home the crown. Keep checking back fro Updates.
And a few pics from last weekend where Kalvin went out with the 505 Crew to do a little 4Xing, well Kalvin brought his BOLT LT and rocked the place.
March 25th, 2010 Man, slammed week so much good stuff going on! First we got the first small shipment of the new No Fear RUSH Goggles and they are so sick!
If you liked Spy goggles you will LOVE these. We got some White, Black and Blue ones to check out for the team. As soon as Jeremy heard we had these he ran right over to grab a pair.
Jeremy just had double Elbow Surgery 2 weeks ago and is already riding around and getting ready for Bakersfield. It is crazy, the kid is super human, less than 2 weeks after surgery he is riding, and not only just riding, but clearing the triples at the track! The ink still hasn't worn off of his Elbows yet and he is already shredding!!
If you are up in the Apple Valley area this weekend be sure to stop by the Apple Valley BMX Moto Park on Saturday for a Clinic taught by Jeremy. It was originally going to be a Supercamp Clinic but due to unforeseen reasons, they had to cancel last night and Jeremy jumped at the chance to be a stand in to make sure the clinic went off without a hitch.
March 23rd, 2010 Sorry for not getting more photos posted up earlier but it has been a long week already. If you have been following the Twitter updates on the side bar, you already know that Kenth took a clean sweep this weekend winning both ABA days and the USAC Championships.
And I think Kenth was more stoked than taking a clean sweep all 3 days was that when he got home he found out he is going to be a Dad to a new little boy! The 5 year old and Under class better watch out in a few years! Huge Congrats to Kenth and Laura Fallen.
In Elite Men, Speedline/Supercross'Corey Reid made the Main on Saturday in the USAC Championship and then turned around and made the Main on Sunday in AA Pro.
And the Girls did great making the Elite Women as well, with Courtney and Afton making all 3 mains this weekend. Everyone did great, proud of everyone.
Now while we are speaking of Courtney one of her fans decided to make some "Haul Ass" shirts for her.
They are selling them on BMXnews.com for $20 and they are giving Courtney a portion of the procedes. And Courtney will need the procedes as she had to go to Jury Duty today!!
Nothing like sitting in a small room for a few days and not being able to go to work or school. So be sure to go over there and buy one today!
March 21st, 2010 The USAC Championships are over and what a weird great day it was. It was tough for everyone to stay warm, because it had snowed a bit and was raining, luckily the arena was covered, but it was reported that people were stealing the blankets from their hotels to stay warm. Luckily Kenth was able to keep warm and brought home another USAC Championship in Elite Masters!! Congrats Kenth!!
And in Elite Men, huge congratulations go out to Speedline/Supercross' Corey Reid who stepped up on the box for a 3rd in Elite Men.
In Elite Women, Afton and Courtney kept the finishes close again taking a 4th and 5th in thier main
March 20th, 2010 First day of racing in DeSoto at the ABA Supernationals is over and Kenth pulled off the big win for the day!
Courtney was on fire in Desoto as well and was winning motos and was in third in the main passing for second when Jamie Lily went down right in front of her.
March 19th, 2010 A few new Bike Checks were posted up on the site today, go click on Courtney's Page and Matty's Page to see how they like thier bikes to be set up. We are working on getting Bike Checks fro all of the Supercross BMX riders, so keep checking back to see more and more.
Today the ABA Supernationals start up in Desoto, be sure to watch Go211.com and see live how the Supercross Team does. Should be a great race with the USAC Championships tomorrow as well! Keep checking the twitter feed for up to the minute updates. More info posted soon!
March 17th, 2010 Happy St. Patty's Day everyone. Looks like it is going to be a great day! The sun is shining, Roy of Where's Roy fame is on his way up to do a few Video Bike Checks and maybe a how to or two, so keep checking back for a few new things, and while talking about Video's, George of On The Gate Films, put together a real cool little clip from the ABA Winternationals a few weeks back. Give you a bit of a racey feel to put you in the mood for the USAC Championships this weekend. Take a look at it by clicking the photo of Nate in the video below.
Now in other International Team news, we have been saving this one up a bit for today, with a Name like Mikey Williams it is perfect for a St. Patty's Day introduction. So without further ado we would like to welcome New Zealand's Mikey Williams to the Supercross BMX family.
Mikey has been a regular fixture on the New Zealand scene for a while as he started racing when he was 4. He has been a National Champ in New Zealand 3 times and is part of Big Rig's ( Ken Cools ) New Zealand National Team as well as a regular trainer in the Camp Cools Training Programs. And everyone in the USA will get to meet Mikey first hand at the Supercross BMX pits this summer when he comes over for 5 months to do some racing with Marc Willers and Sarah Walker his teamates on the New Zealand Hi Performance Squad. Look for a full Bio and Bike Inspection on Mikey coming up soon.
March 16th, 2010 Well it is just Tuesday morning and I already feel like we pu in a full week! Yesterday morning started off with the USADA Team showing up at the shop to Drug Test Kris, We had to have Matty run to the Valero and pick up 4 more cans of Arizona Ice Tea to help with the process. Once we got done with the fun process of a surprise visit from USADA, we got busy and started getting boxes out the door, finishing some catalog Chapters and then we found out that there was a little leak on BMXnews.com about our 2011 BLUR Race Frame. So we were not planning on releasing this information quite yet, but since there was the Distributor information leak that showed up, yes it is true that our best selling EVO iS frame is going to be replaced next year with the new Supercross BMX BLUR.
The Supercross BLUR uses the same Geometry and Low Profile of the Supercross ENVY but uses a less expensive 6061 T-4/T-6 Double Heat Treated Seamless Tubeset so it is all of Supercross BMX Performance packed into a more available price point. More Details and specs will be being posted as we get closer to the BLUR's release date. But we can let you know that the pre-orders on these already has been amazing.
While we were checking out the news leak on BMXnews.com, Courtney and Danielle showed up to head on over to the Apple Valley BMX Moto Park for a little bit of practice before the USAC Championships in DeSoto this weekend. Of course Courtney had to tease Kris about the Drug testing and wouldn't you know it, this morning Courtney was awoken to the sounds of USADA knocking on her door at 6:00 a.m. More updates later this week, or sign up for our twitter for up to the minute daily goings on.
March 11th, 2010 Busy week again in the shop. Between all of the famous BMX racers running around, fun stuff in the CNC shop, computer screens exploding, I almost forgot it was Thursday. First check out what is popping out of the CNC shop this week. We have a ton of new Racerhead FL's kicking out, a few hundred of the new Speedline SX cranks, and this new beauty, the new Top Load Racerhead!
The new Racerhead Top Load is only 9 ounces in the 65mm size as shown add another 2.4 ounces for the bolts and you are at 11.4 ounces or 319 grams for a 65mm stem! That is light and super strong, these will be shipping out to Dealers and Distributors next week so be sure to grab one if you are a Top Load Stem fan!
Steven was here to build up his new Supercross EVO iS to get ready for Madrid. Luckily we had Matty and Kris here to help him get it all dialed in and give him a tour of the growing ever cramped building and welcome him to the Supercross BMX team.
Then today, Sammy, Danielle and Steven showed up to take a few private laps on the Apple Valley BMX Moto Park Track and Steven was so comfortable on his new EVO iS he flowed the Pro Set on his first try.
Then in the afternoon, Afton came by to pick up parts to build a new front wheel after her's was blown out from the Mud Fest at the ABA Winters. So she picked up a special Alienation Deviant 28h front Rim and a new Supercross Pro LT Front hub to lace up a new wheel.
All of this fun stuff going on while I am rebuilding computers! More updates tomorrow!!
March 8th, 2010 Wow what a weekend!! You would think with the track looking like this
on Sunday it would of been a bummer of a weekend, but it couldn't be further from the truth. First lets congratulate everyone! What a weekend, Kenth won Vet on Saturday and took a second on Sunday in the mud.
Jimmy Brown stepped on to his first AA Pro Podium with a strong 3rd on Sunday in the Mud, Jimmy has been training and it shows. Expect to see Jimmy making mains on a more regular basis.
Ramiro Marino was winning motos while it was dry, threw on a pair of Blue Streaks and made it into the AA Main on sunday as well and took a solid 5th. We have new Jerseys with the Argentenian Flag for his shoulders coming.
In the Womens Elite Class, Sammy made her return to ABA Racing after a solid 2 year break.
Her Shoulder was still hurting from her crash a few weeks ago and every lap got faster and faster on Saturday and missed the main by just one slot taking a 5th in her Semi, then with the impending rain on Sunday, she pulled to keep her shoulder safe as she knew it was going to get slippery in the Mud.
Courtney on the other hand wasn't about to pull out and thought racing in the mud was going to be fun, well that was until the rain really started coming down hard and in the semi she was shivvering because her clothes were soaked all the way through and it was time to call it a day.
Nate and Jeremy had a killer day on Sunday in the mud as well with Nate taking the JDP win and the 15x win, the whole time railing the super slick turns on his seat with a style that was Nate's own.
Jeremy, came back to the pits after his Semi covered in mud, and we thought that he was out for the day , but when we asked waht heppened it was a simple "I won that" that came out of his mouth. Jeremy had gone down in a heap and got back up to win his Semi, then with a set of Fresh Blue Streaks he put on a Clean Jersey and a fresh pair of White No Fear Elektron pants and won his 17/18x main all while jumping everything on the track!!
Jeremy is a beast and seemed to have a ton of fun in the rain! We wish Jeremy a speedy recovery from his elbow surgery coming up tomorrow as well, it was nice for him to go out with a win before surgery, he is going to be coming back strong.
Not to be outdone by the boys, the Girls puttin on a bit of a show themselves, Lauren Padilla took the big win in the mud, in 17/27 girls,
Tyler Schaffer had a bad crash in her Main on Saturday night and came back with a third in class and a second in cruiser on Sunday, Little Allie was having a tough time in the mud but fought through and made both mains on Sunday and took a third behind Tyler in cruiser, and Little Ashley Shrader, was having fun in the mud! She was loving it, she went out there on Sunday and falt Hauled Ash! and Doubled taking the win in Class and Cruiser on her Pink Anodized ENVY.
March 5th, 2010 Sorry for the lack of updates, but it has been slammed! Ton's of great stuff going on. So this weekend we have the ABA Winternationals in Phoenix! First off when you are watching the videos on go211.com be looking for a new face in AA Pro in the Supercross Factory Uniform. That is none other than UCI World #3 Ramiro Marino.
In the shop we enlisted Noodles to build a new ramp in the shop for a little after hours stress releavement, and it came out real good, lots of vert and throws you real high, we have a 24 ft roof and this thing will toss you in the rafters.
We also had a few birthdays this week, Samantha on the 3rd, then Amanda Shrader and then Erin Sawatzki, so a full week of Birthdays! Happy Birthday to all.
We also had a bit of drama this week due to the TV show, got to love things like that, but lets leave the drama to the message boards and have a bit of fun racing this weekend. MJT did us some custom plates for the occassion as well to make sure that everyone looks good for TV and for the Catalog photo shoot. Here is a quick shot of Allie's Plate.
Feb. 26th, 2010 Seems that Kenth and Sammy are finally putting together new bikes for the ABA Winters in Phoenix next weekend. Kenth put together his new Black/Gold Anodized ENVY Pro Frame and Sam her new Matte Black ENVY Pro.
Sam came up today and we swapped over her pedals and seat so she is up and running. Looks good to have the new Wheels on there and the Sinner Cranks.
Feb. 21st, 2010 The second Day of the Gator Nationals went a little bit better, but we have had better weekends. First, Congrats to Kenth coming back from that bad crash in the main yesterday to take the win today!
Courtney also bounced back from a bad day on Saturday to make the Elite Women main today!
But that is where the good luck for the weekend ended. First when Kalvin crashed in his 17/18 x main on Saturday they are thinking he re-broke his collar bone. Not good, this would be the third Collarbone break in a year and a half. Then we have Steven Creighton, who was sitting in the front seat of his rental car and watched a truck back into his bike that was leaning against his rental car, knock it down and then back up again and back over it!! His trusty Navy Blue Custom ENVY Pro XXL is no more. Luckily he had the pressence of mind after watching his prized bike get run over to grab his iPhone and take a picture of the truck as it drove away anf the Florida State Troopers were able to catch the guy and bring him back for a Hit and Run on Steven's Bike. After a bit of talking and the troopers marching him over to J&R, they estimated the damage at $1400.00 and we now have to build Steven up a new bike for The ABA Winternationals in Phoenix. How was your weekend??
Feb. 20th, 2010 On the East Coast, Day 1 of Oldsmar ABA/UCI Gator Nationals are over. And the motto of the day is wear your safety gear.
This picture really sums up the way the day went. Kenth made it to the main but had a bad crash in the second turn and ended up 8th, Courtney and Afton only made Semi's in Womens Elite, Corey didn't make it to the main in Elite Men, Steven didn't make it in Junior Men, and Kalvin made the main in 17/18x but didn't have the best lap. Tomorrow has to be a better day. More updates tomorrow.
Back here on the West Coast, the RCQ at our Apple Valley BMX Moto Park went off without a hitch. 50 motos of BMX fun in the Sun! Well mostly sun, a few clouds, but no rain. And today if the rain continues to stay away, the fun will continue with the trail session and BBQ at Aaron's. Roy will be on hand to capture it all on film.
Feb. 19th, 2010 Be sure to watch go211.com this weekend for the Oldsmar ABA/UCI race. Kenth, Courtney, Steven and Kalvin are there from the Supercross Team and Corey and Afton from the Speedline/Supercross team. Out here in Apple Valley we have the ABA RCQ race on Saturday at Apple Valley BMX Moto Park, we will have Samantha showing up along with some of the rest of the team not traveling. Roy is going to be doing some new HOW TO Videos at the Apple Valley Track this weekend so keep your eyes peeled for a few good ones from some of your favorite Supercross BMX riders. And we are hoping that Kris, Joey and Matt come back from Woodward Early to make it over for the BBQ and Trail session at Aaron's new trails. Going to be a great weekend!
Feb. 18th, 2010 Yesterday was a Roadtrip Day, nothing like going down to No Fear to handle things! Got some new Casual clothes for the riders doing the photo shoots for the Supercross BMX 2010 Summer Catalog. The new Casual gear is so sick!
And on top of the goodies from No Fear, today got his first sample pair of the new DVS Cadence shoes in.
These shoes are so cool and the ultimate if you are running flats! Nice Waffle sole, super stiff pedal area, Kris is the lucky rider to be the "SAMPLE" size, everyone else is patiently awaiting to get thier own. Check out DVS Shoes for all kinds of coolness.
Feb. 16th, 2010 This week has been a crazy week, and we have a visitor from Germany in town with Markus Huber coming over for a quick visit.
Markus made a quick trip out to Whittier to meet up with Sammy and Courtney and is making the full round of the So.Cal tracks and will end up here at the shop in Apple Valley and will get to race the Apple Valley BMX track before heading home to Germany on Saturday.
Yesterday we also got the first of the new Spiders for the new 2010 Sinner 2 Cranks and they are dialed! We have already shipped out the first dozen cranks to fill backorders and we will have the rest of the first 200 in about 14 days.
Feb. 14th, 2010 By now you probably have heard that the NBL Southern Charm National was almost snowed out. Yeah, Snow in Atlanta, who would of thought. Anyways we only had 2 riders going anyway, Logan Collins pulled out after he saw the Snow on the track and Bakari Hassan stuck around for it to run, and pulled a quick perfect.
Down under in New Zealand, Kurt checked in saying that he ran the UCI race yesterday and picked up the win in Elite men so that nasty wrist break from last year seems to be healing up well.
And here in Apple Valley, we actually had a nice weekend for once. The Shraders were out getting the Apple Valley BMX Track back in shape for next weekends ABA RCQ at our Apple Valley BMX Moto Park, if you are on the west coast and not going to the ABA Oldsmar race, this is where you will want to be. Feb. 20th, sign ups are from 9-11 with racing as soon as possible. Samantha and Courtney headed out to Whittier for a bit of practice and caught up with Markus Huber who is here from Germany, Nate and Lauren Padilla were out there as well getting dialed in for the ABA Winternationals and Kris was hitting up all the skateparks, if you are near Jarupa or Real Ride, you will find Kris there more often than not, Aaron is dialing in his Trails for a Supercross BBQ Jam in a few weeks , and Jeremy Rommel got his Backyard up and running again after the rains.
Feb. 13th, 2010 Wheels are closer to being back in stock, and we will have them in an assortment of colors. Start checking with your local Supercross Dealer or visit our shop page. The Gold ones are so so sick!
But the Red, Blue, White and Black are pretty cool too.
Feb. 12th, 2010 Had a birthday in the shop today, Kris turned 21 so Samantha, Courtney and Danielle decided to do something special and brought him a Birthday Cake! Other Birthday's this week, Randy Little had his yesterday, Speedline/Supercross Pro Afton Schrimpf is Sunday and our friend out in Florida Bill Madden had his today as well. More Birthday's coming up.
Feb. 11th, 2010 We have been meaning to put this photo up for a while, but it has been a busy week. Here are the new Speedline SX Mini Cranks we licensed and built for Speedline.
Part of this weeks Bubble wrapping fun has been bubble wrapping a few hundred of these to ship out. The new Speedline SX mini cranks can use either a 5 bolt Spider, the old Answer 1pc Chainwheel or The New 4 bolt 104mm Spider shown here. Pick up a set at your Favorite Speedline Parts Dealer as these are already shipping all around the World.
Feb. 10th, 2010 It has been a busy week here in the shop. Today we had Samantha and Courtney come on up to have a meeting with Kris for the 2010 Spring/Summer Catalog planning. From the idea's being tossed around it is going to be good! Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for it.
And since they were here, Kris put them to work, a lot of people were surprised when Samantha and Courtney kept taking turns answering the phones and then Sammy tried to keep up with Kris's Bubble Wrapping Skills. How did your day go?
Feb. 8th, 2010 Chula Vista was a great race this weekend! Danny and his crew did a wonderful job keeping the track in great shape considering how much rain came down. I wish his crew had been working the parking lot as well so we didn't all get stuck. It was a fun 2 hours Saturday night helping others get out and then having the Dodge get stuck, so we ended up doing our best tractor pull routine after the part of the lot we were in was empty, and I have to say it was pretty rad shooting the huge roost out and sliding around and spinning in the mud, just wish it wasn't after we were soaked to the bone and covered in mud from getting everyone else out.
As far as the racing went, once it started it went off without a hitch. Ashley raced Class and Cruiser and took a Pair of Seconds on Sunday and a First and fifth on Sunday, Allie ran Class and Cruiser on Saturday with a pair of 3rds and a a Second in Class on Sunday, Jeremy Rommel won his Semi both days and then had clip issues in the main , Saturday out of the gate and Sunday in the first turn. so he had to settle for a pair of 4ths for the weekend.
We had a blast from the past this weekend as well when Troy from Troy's Bikes in Nor.Cal showed up on his 1995 Supercross SX500, he even had Pro Forx on it.
Feb. 5th, 2010 The ABA Chula Vista race is this weekend and it is starting to rain. Why does it always seem that the rain hits the So.Cal races? Well regardless we are planning on having a great time. The Shraders have already started getting the pits set up and we are up on High Ground so that will be good.
This weekend it is a Non Pro Weekend, so the Am's will be out in force. A few notables will be Nate and Lauren Padilla, Nate's back is still bugging him a little from the crash at Grands and is taking some time to get it healed up for Phoenix. We also will have a few of the Supercross Pro's coming down to support the Am team, so you will most likely see Samantha Cools, Courtney Tomei and Aaron Johnson hanging out as well.
Now we got a few more frames back in from Anodize today, and this one is a cool one that they have been experimenting with for a while.
We are still working with them to get the system dialed in but, this frame is for Kenth Fallen our 2 time ABA #1 Vet Pro and it has the "Supercross" logo anodized right into the frame. The Frame was polished, Anodized a Bright gold, then had the Supercross Logo masked off, was stripped down and had the Glue Speedline treatment done to it with a different shade of Copper Gold and the Black base. Definately a show stopper. It even has a #1 anodized on to the Seatmast for him. Kris was stoked to sticker it up and ship it out to him. More updates this weekend after the Chula Vista race.
Feb. 1st, 2010 Wow, January is already over. 2010 is flying by. This last weekend in New Zealand, they had the Auckland Champs and Kurt is finally back up and racing at full speed and took the win in Elite Men both days.
And while Kurt was racing down under, Nate was out at the Day Ranch helping get the new Turn Jump built, and then spent a bit of time out at the Orange Y getting his gates dialed in for Chula this weekend.
And while this was going on Aaron kept digging for treasure and luck is on his side right now as everywhere he dug, he was finding some rad Jumps! Man some people have all the luck.
Check out how tall these jumps are compared to Aaron's BOLT LT leaning up against the small one of the 4 pack.
Jan. 30th, 2010 A non rainy Saturday in So.Cal is a great thing. Courtney got to head down to the OTC for a little bit of track time, Kris, Joey and Mikey all went skatepark riding with a stop at Farmer Boys, Samantha got her apartment all taken care of along with a little bit of track time in Perris, Nate got to spend a day out at the Day Ranch getting his flow on and Aaron keeps finding more trails where ever he digs.
How ever you look at it, today was a good day. Friends, your bike a little bit of sunshine. It is all about living the BMX dream.
Jan. 29th, 2010 With all the rain going on in So.Cal last week tons of trails are popping up. Here is a view of a set that Aaron dug up this week.
Today we got a few more frames back from anodize, and when I don't think that it can get any better, along comes something like this. We are definately getting the anodize system pretty dialed.
Jan. 28th, 2010 Samantha is driving down here today and should be here by the weekend. Everyone is excited that she is going to be back in the states, hitting up some ABA Races, and helping around the shop while enjoying the California lifestyle.
The e-mail server seems to be finally working again after the host changeover, what a nightmare, I was up until 3:30 getting caught up as much as I could, but still have about 30 or so from this week than have not been answered. So if you sent an e-mail the last 2 weeks and have not gotten a response, please resend it.
Jan. 26th, 2010 Well Sam asked us not to let the cat out of the bag, but for those of you following her on Twitter, you now know what the plans are. Samantha is going to be a California Resident this week. After being a world traveler the last 2 years for the Olympics and the UCI International series, Samantha has decided to set up camp here in Cali for a while.
This will be a great thing as she is planning on doing a bit more racing along with helping out with the company while she is here. With Kris, Joey, Aaron, Samantha, and Courtney all local I see big things on the horizon.
A few of you may of noticed that we Twittered that we have added a new official Videographer to the Supercross Family, and Roy has been busy. On the BMX Videos page we have a new Bike Inspection on Kris and his Passion. And on the new HOW TO BMX Videos Page we have a How To from our resident Pro Dirt Jumper Joey Cordova teaching you how to do a 360 and Kris is teaching how to do a Foot Jam. Check them out and let us know what you think. Many many more to come.
Jan. 25th, 2010 Today was a Monday of Monday's last week when the laptop died, I had over 3,000 e-mails to get caught up on, now this morning when we thought we were going to get things rocking, our Web Host decided to give us an upgrade on our e-mail, so guess what that means?? A full day of no e-mail while the name server has to propagate Fun. Oh well, regardless the day was put to great use. So this was the start of the second week of Kris and Joey working here, and they have been getting us caught up quickly. Today they got to take the tour of the machine shop and see how the stems, and cranks and such are made. Yes we said cranks, we have taken back the license on our Supercross Mini SX Cranks from Answer and Licesed it to SPEEDLINE and have them back in production again. Answer still stocks the Chainwheels for these cranks, but with thier concentration on the Carbon products they wanted to see the cranks get moving again so we have them back in production and the first 200 sets will start shipping next week. All of the first ones will be Black, but we have a few colors planned for the next runs.
We also have the next run of Racerhead FL and Racerhead TL stems running and Kris came up with a few special colorways we are going to be doing for some limited edition anodize. Keep checking back for what colors and stuff will be being done as they will be limited edition and will go fast.
And while ont he subject of anodize, we got this Rootbeer Brown ENVY frame back from anodize last week and forgot to put it up on the website. So here ya go. It looks so so cool in the sunlight. This one was done jsut to show off the color so it is on the shelf and ready for sale if anyone wants a custom 1 off Root Beer Brown Jr. ENVY
Jan. 24th, 2010 Steven had a bad crash in Motos today in Guthrie but still made it into the Jr. Mens main today and grabbed a 4th, which is 1 better than yesterday so that is great. And John from 505 checked in and said that the 505/Supercross Team had a great weekend with Amy MacIntyre tripling both days and the team took a 3rd on Saturday and a 2nd on Sunday! Congrats to everyone.
Jan. 23rd, 2010 Just heard in from Steven Creighton and he made the UCI Jr. Mens Main again out in Guthrie at the ABA Sooner Nationals. He took another 5th today and is feeling good for tomorrow.
Last week we got Allie's new ENVY back from anodize to get ready for Chula Vista. She seems to like the color alot. The Anodize is a custom Turquoise/Neon Green fade. Can't wait to see it built up with her Neon Green Forks and Neon Green bars.
Also this week, we got an update from a new recruit that Nate is training. Nate has been keeping an eye out for new talent and has been spending a lot of time training this little development rider. We just think he needs to grow a little bit before he fits his uniform.
Give Aiden a few years and he will be one of the killers in the 5 and under class. Nice to have an Uncle as fast as "The Bull" and an Aunt as fast as"The Cheetah"
Jan. 22nd, 2010 The second stop of the ABA / UCI pro series is this weekend in Guthrie, OK, a few of our riders that were planning on going have been side tracked by this crazy storm that has been hitting the west coast the last week. But luckily a few of the Canadian's are braving the storm, it is nothing for them compared to what they are normally used to and they are going to be there. We will keep you posted as we hear updates from the weekend.
Earlier this week, we had some real cool stuff go down, but I think the thing that tops it is Jimmy Brown's brother Daniel carrying the torch for the 2010 Winter Olympics! I cannot imagine how great of a feeling that was and I am glad that Samantha was there to cheer him on for us. We are proud of you Daniel!
Jan. 20th, 2010 New 28 hole Pro LT hubs are back in from Anodize. The 28 Hole fron hubs are a wee bit slimmed down to make it the raddest little 140 gram hub out there. Currently available in Red, Blue and Gold Anodize. All with Black Cones, Axle Bolts and Axle Bolt Cones.
Jan. 19th, 2010 Been a long week so I apologize for lack of updates. If you check the BMX Video's Page you will see a few new video's that go loaded up this week. We have been trying to get more of the product pages and the team and rider pages updated but it has been a slow process as we have been working on product and getting the 2010 Spring product ready as well as the 2011 planning already. Let's see, how did last week go. Well first on Monday we took a custom jersey over to our friend Bill Allen ( you may know him better as Cru Jones from the Movie Rad ) who was filming a skit for the show TOSH.0 on Comedy Central which will be airing tomorrow Jan. 20th, at 10:30 PST. Hope it is good whatever they came up with, but the important thing is that it will put BMX in front of 2 million viewers. So be sure to tune in.
Then on Tuesday Aaron had a photo shoot with Dyseone.com for thier new catalog and website. Aaron is still hurt with his Boxers fracture on his hand, but he can still sure ride. Aaron wants to stay on his race bike to keep getting ready for his return to AA Pro, so he did all the park and street riding on his trusty BOLT LT race Bike! Love seeing the big front gear and his UCI numbers in the skatepark.
Then as the week progressed, Kris, Logan, Joey and Mikey B all came back from Woodward with Kobe
and put together a little edit for the site ( Check out the BMX Videos page ) and got busy here at the shop. We had a few more ENVY's come back in from polish and ran them down to anodize and we also got the new BMX Plus! that has the ABA Grands coverage and Joey got a rad full page shot doing a Superman Flip!
Be sure to check the Parting Shot for another shot of Joey and his shin he gashed up at that contest.
Then on Thursday we had the big meeting with No Fear, they had some management changes and we thought that we might of been looking for a new Gear company, but Factory Phil and Brent pulled out all the stops to get us hooked up as the only Full Factory No Fear BMX Team! We are so stoked to be back in the No Fear gear again. No Fear is huge company with roots deep in the Moto scene and it fits our riders well, so be on the lookout for the Supercross BMX factory team to continue repping the full No Fear Kits. And No Fear has tons of ideas for the BMX scene so be sure to bug your local shop for some of the No Fear Gear and pick up a No Fear Energy Drink at your local store, you will not be disapointed.
Then on Friday, Logan came by to say goodbye as he headed back home while, he was here he picked up one of the new Supercross 4x Cro-mo Hardtail frames. He seemed pretty stoked. Logan is not only a fast A Pro but also a shredder on the 4x track and he actually gets School Credit at College for his racing!
And after we got done with msot of the day we got a visit from The Butcher Rich Bartlett from Block Shop. Seems Rich is back on the BMX track again after doing all the Extreme Jungle Races and the Road Bike Racing, the BMX Bug has bitten the Butcher and he came by to pick up his new BOLT LT Pro XXL, All I can say is the older expert classes are going to be stacked this year!
Jan. 10th, 2010
ABA Reno 1 is in the record books! Kenth pulled off another win in the Vet Pro Class, and Nate took the win in the USAC Junior DEVO program.
Other big finishes were from Courtney taking a 4th in Elite Women, Steven Creighton taking a 5th in Junior Men, Lauren Padilla took a 3rd in 17/27g, Brandon Macleod took a 5th in 16x, Nate backed up the win in JDP with a 3rd in 15x, Allison took a 3rd in 14g, Ashley took a second in 10g Cruiser while making all 4 mains this weekend as did Allison who took another 3rd in 14/16g cruiser with Erin Sawatzki taking a second.
We also saw great finishes from 505/Supercross who won Bike shop team trophy on Saturday, the OTGF/Supercross team was flying with Korban Corbitt, and CJ Calaug killing the 19/27 expert class with CJ taking the win on Sunday andand thier 14x Sutter Choiser was in the hunt all weekend as well. And we cannot forget about RRC/Supercross and Mikes Bikes/Supercross who also pulled in thier share of wins and top 3's for the weekend. Nor can we forget about Dani George from Supercamp/Answer who dominated all weekend on her bright yellow EVO iS. All in all a ton of great racing from everyone. Congrats to everyone.
Jan. 9th, 2010 Reno Day 1 is in the record books and Kenth started it off with a bang taking the first Vet Pro win of the year!! Full results will be posted up later, but until then here are a few great shots borrowed from Jerry at BMXmania.com.
Results from Day 1 is as follows:
Kenth Fallen - Vet Pro - 1st Place
Courtney Tomei - Women Pro - 5th Place
Logan Collins - A Pro - 3rd place
Nate Padilla - Junior Devo. - 2nd Place
Kyliegh Kalapaca - 17/27 g - 7th Place
Lauren Padilla - 17/27 g - 8th Place
Simon Meili - 16x - 5th Place
Nate Padilla - 15x - 7th Place
Allison Sennett - 14g - 3rd Place
Ashley Shrader - 10g - 3rd place
Allison Sennet - 14/16 g Cruiser - 3rd Place
Erin Sawatzki - 14/16 g Cruiser - 4th Place
Ashley Shrader - 10 under g Cruiser - 1st Place
Jan. 8th, 2010 Practice at RENO 1 has started, Courtney called and said she liked the track and that it should be a good weekend. Kris , Logan and Jeremy pulled in a little late this afternoon, Kenth was in bright and early, and it seems like it is going to be a great weekend!! Coverage is already starting on BMXmania.com and BMXnews.com, be sure to check them all weekend as well as here for updates. In the meantime here are a few shots borrowed from Jerry at BMXmania.com a few of the guys are breaking out the new 2010 Factory Jerseys for Practice, the rest are saving them for race time!!
Jan. 7th, 2010 The first week of the year is flying by! Long days and tons of new projects to life is good. The Shraders are already in RENO for the ABA Season opener of Reno 1, and just sent some pics of the pits, should be a great race and a huge team turn out.
I am stoked we get to have the debut of a few new team members in the new Supercross BMX Factory Colors, and we will see a new rider show up in the new Speedline/Supercross colors as well. And we hear a few new riders on the 505/Supercross Team, the RRC/Supercross Team, the On the Gate Films/Supercross Team and possibly the Mikes Bikes/Supercross roster as well. Reno 1 is always exciting.
In the shop, it has been busy as well, alot of the bins went empty over the Holidays, so we are having to start building more stems, more cranks, more frames, more forks, well more of everything.
We updated the logo on the hubs for the new year, the MTB Hub Samples have the new logo on them now,
while our new Pro LT Cassette Race Hubs still are using the old logo,
but the new colors are so sick and everyone loves the fully blacked out Axle kits on them. The Teal Green is real green, the Purple is real bright and poppy, and the new Cro-mo Race cogs are sick as well.
All of these are available at your favorite local Supercross Dealer now.
We also got a few ENVY's back from paint, and the new NEON RED color we are playing with to replace the NEON GREEN looks so good, but HIGHLIGHTER YELLOW is still a posibility as well. So far the riders are saying they like the Neon Red as it reminds them of a CRF450 Honda, and they want us to keep the Neon Kawasaki Green, and to do a Neon Yamaha blue, as well as the Highlighter Yellow and maybe a KTM orange to be all moto, but that might be a bit much. What do you think of the Neon Red??
Jan. 4th, 2010 First day back after the New Years and it was crazy busy today. Logan flew in Thursday and is hanging with Kris and getting ready for the ABA Season Opener in Reno this weekend. Matt Cordova has to fly back to Colorado tomorrow so Matt and Joey showed up here today and Kris hooked it up for all of them to go ride the local Skatepark before Matt left. And on the BMX Video page we posted up a new Video of Kris, Joey and matt on New Years day. While some people were dealing with the pains of the night before, they were up riding and filming. BMX for Life.
Dec. 31st, 2009 Happy New Years Everyone!! Have fun, Be Safe and see you next year!!!!
Dec. 30th, 2009 Hope everyone had a great Holiday season and enjoyed the time with friends and Family. Looks like Logan made a new friend or two at the Christmas Classic in Louisville this weekend.
You can find more photos from the Christmas Classic at BMXmania.com and BMXnow.com. Logan took a pair of thirds at the Christmas Classic in Super-x and is headed out west to stay at "The Cabin" for a few weeks, ride some park on his Passion and hit up Reno 1 for the ABA Season opener. We are sure he will meet more friends here out west. And maybe might end up in a few web edits as there has been a ton of filming going on.
Dec. 24th, 2009 Merry Christmas Eve everyone!! It has been a long long couple of weeks, hopefully everyone gets what they want for Christmas and they get to spend the time with family and friends and enjoy what Christmas is about. We updated the BMX video page this week, so now there will be one central page on the website for the collection of BMX Video's of the team. We are also planning on a few oher updates to the website so keep checking back the team and product pages for a few cool updates. Merry Christmas!!!
Dec. 18th, 2009 Wow, what a week it has been. If you are reading this news update then I am sure you are starting to see a few changes to the website. Kris has been here learning how to do web work and getting the site ready for it's full overhaul for 2010. It should load faster, have more pics and videos and more fun and information. The First pages getting updated are the team pages. If you start clicking through the team pages you will notice that there are alot of coming soon spots. Some we are just waiting on new face shots to load up and a few others we are waiting to do some new reveals. The first reveal you will see is the addition of local friend and rider Jeremy Rommell. Jeremy has been a friend for a long time a local at our track and is a Sick Trails Rider and has really stepped his racing up this year. So with that we would like to officially welcom Jeremy to the Supercross Team. Other stuff going on this week was the last week to ship out UPS for Christmas so it has been a mad house getting everything out the door. Down in New Zealand Samantha had to be rushed to the hospital to have her Appendix removed we put up a new MySpace account for all you MySpacers and it has been a generally crazy week working 16 hour days average. Anyways keep checking around the site to see what pops up new.
Dec. 15th, 2009 The week has really been getting away from us, been so busy, but that is a great thing! Well part of the plan for next year is to keep the website updated with more photos, more videos and more fun. Well to start the fun off, Kris Fox and Joey Cordova took a little break today and put together a little Christmas Edit for everyone. So take a look at a Merry Christmas, Supercross Style. Kris Fox a Pro Racer, and Joey Cordova a Pro Dirt Jumper having a little park fun at Woodward West!
Kris Fox and Joey Cordova riding a weekend at Woodward West.
Dec. 13th, 2009 Long week here at the shop, you can tell that it is the Holiday season for sure. And also team season as well. I know we are late in getting finished up but it surprises me every day with how many teams and riders call looking for something for next year. Guess we are not the only ones finishing up the programs late. So while we are working on getting the teams dialed, keep checking the team page to see how the Rosters will fill up.
Ths weekend, Kris and Joey headed out to Woodward West for a little fun, Samantha is teaching some clinics down under in New Zealand and in Indiana they ran the Young Guns race at the Steel Wheels indoor where Deanna came out of hibernation for a little bit of Winter Racing along with Johnny Mac. Johnny won class and took second in the Young Guns Challenge.
Dec. 4th, 2009 It has been a long week after the grands and luckily looks to get busier next week and the week after. Good thing I must had ADD as I am constantly jumping from one computer and project to another keeping things rolling. One thing that was doen today was adding the new Eline Saddles to the Shop page. These things have been flying out the door, and it was only today when I had soemone call wanting to order one that we realized it was not on the shop page yet but they were still shipping out by the box load.
Black has been the most popular color so far,but the Trans Red and the Trans Blue look 10 times better in person. And personally I am partial to the Yellow. And at only 6 ounces they are crazy light. Oh well time to get fired up for the weekend!
Dec. 3rd, 2009 Sorry for the lack of updates, it has been a crazy week after Grands and the Thanksgiving weekend. We got this picture of Tyler at the Grands,
he wanted to say thank you to Kris Fox for putting up his Jersey for the Erin Schaeffer Auction benefit. His Mom said that since he put on the jersey he can't get the girls to stay away. Tyler was stoked as the only way to get a Supercross Jersey is to be a part of the Factory team, unless you ge one from one of the Pro's on the Team like Kenth, Sammy, Kris, Courtney etc... And while we are mentioning the Factory team it is that time of year where we are working on the team planning, always love hearing the rumors about things and seeing resume's come in across the desk. We will be announcing the full 2010 Supercross Factory Team and all of the returning co-sponsrs shortly.
Nov. 30th, 2009
Congrats Kenth!!! You deserve it! For those of you who did not get to watch the ABA Grands live on go211.com this last weekend, we would like to inform you that Kenth Fallen our Vet Pro kept his ABA #1 Vet Pro Plate for the second year in a row!
The Grands are always exciting, they bill it as the "Greatest Race of the Year" and this year it did not let anyone down. The track was completely different, the gap jump on the Pro set was awesome as you can see by the photo of Kris below. Kris was having a lot of fun with the track and made it to Semi's in AA, and if you saw the Semi's they were stacked!! It was like running your main, but that is how all the races were at the Grands. Kenth obviously won Vet Pro and took the title home for another year! Courtney rode like a women possesd in her third round of Motos, took a second and made the Grands Main for the second year in a row.
On the Amatuer side of things, Nate Padilla was on a tear, his Semi in 15x was amazing, check go211.com to see and you willl see what we mean. In the Main he had lane 7 and rode a great race, and pulled off a fourth. The riding skills in 15x right now is sick. This class is full of the real deals that can all pull off a win at the drop of the gate. The riding in thsi class is only going to get better each race as they are all so determined. Kyliegh Kalapaca was doing great until her quarter where she decided to shave a bit of weight and take out a handfull of spokes. That ended her day abruptly. Time to build a new set of wheels. In 12x Johnny MacIntyre made both open and the class main. In Open he pulled off a clean 3rd to get up on the podium and in class he got stuck in traffic but was still in the mix. And not to be forgotten, the youngest rider on the team at the 2009 ABA Grands, Ashley Shrader made both Class and Cruiser mains and took home a pair of 6ths after her big crash in the first turn in class. Luckily she was O.K. got back upand raced to the line, only to go right back up and race her cruiser!! More updates later.
Nov. 27th, 2009
Good Morning Tulsa!!!
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! the Pro set in Tulsa is looking to be insane. Kris is seeming to have a lot of fun with it as you can see in the photo above taken by Mike Caruth of BMXnow.com. We will be posting updates all weekend long and you can watch live coverage all weekend long on go211.com and BMXnow.com and BMXmania.com will have all the inside scoops from the Greatest Race On Earth!
Nov. 26th, 2009 Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope everyone has a great day with friends and family. Practice at the ABA Grands is underway! Updates all weekend long.
Nov. 24th, 2009 Everyone is on the way to the ABA Grands, the Greatest Race on Earth! Heard that the track is going to be way different and rad this year! Kris is stoked as he heard that there may be a berm jump or two, Kenth and Courtney are stoked as it is a LONG first straight to let them get thier full pull going, and Nate, well he is just stoked to go racing! The Bull doesn't care what kind of track it is as long as he gets to ride his bike.
Should be a great weekend, the Shraders are already there and are getting the pits set up tonite.
Ashley is stoked because she has her new one of a kind Pink anodized ENVY Expert XXL, Kyliegh left a few hours ago for the drive, Nate and Courtney left this morning and Courtney has her new two tone anodized ENVY built and ready to shred,
and I think that Kenth drives out tomorrow as does Kalvin and Johnny Mac. Kris is lucky and gets to fly out first thing in the morning.
Notables missing from this years ABA Grands are of course Samantha Cools, who is now residing in New Zealand for the Winter so that she can get some good training in during the cold months as it is thier Summer down there now and she gets to train with her Brother Ken Cools and the World #1 Sarah Walker. But it also seems that all the Canadians are taking the Grands off.
Jimmy Brown still has not gotten his new Passport from when he lost it right before Disney Cup, so he will be getting ready for the ABA/UCI Season opener in Reno. And Kaila Sweeney has taken a break since taking her second back to back ABA Canadian #1 Women Pro Title and has a ton of School work to finish up and is getting ready for the ABA/UCI season opener in Reno to make her BMX comeback along with the rest of the Canadian's so we will be short, Steven Creighton, Brandon Little, Brandon MacLeod, Simon Meili, Paige Zazuran, Amanda Little and Erin Sawatzki this weekend in Tulsa.
Nov. 21st, 2009 Yesterday Joey Cordova came up to pick up a few goodies, check out the shop and go riding with Kris at the local parks. Whie he was here we got talking about his brother Matt Cordova and how rad he rips at the parks as well, so we went ahead and got him hooked up on the Flow Team with a 21" Passion frame in the Blurple color. Here is a quick webedit of Matt and why he rips. Matt welcome to the team.
Here are a few shots of Kris and Joey at the compound getting ready to go ride. It was Friday and Thursday was a long day so Shawn showed up to help and brought Pizza for everyone... Nice.
Nov. 20th, 2009 So yesterday started out as a pretty normal day, up at 5:00 and getting ready to head to the shop, but instead of going into the shop first thing, Kris and I needed to road trip down to No Fear to pick up some last minute gear and check out the new 2010 Helmets and such. So we head on down and get to the No Fear Empire, and Craig, Phil and Brent are cool as always, we load up our gear and head on out for a quick sidetrip to pick up Sam Willoughby before we head back up to the shop. Simple enough right? So we get to UC San Diego, pick up Sam, jump back on the freeway and we are cruising toward the shop looking for a quick bit of lunch. Well that is when the adventure begins. Noting like doing 80 on the 15 North and all of a sudden the check guages light dings on, the Alt level is zero, the temerature is climbing and the steering goes out. Thats when you know it is about to get fun as we blew a fan belt.
So we pull off the freeway and call a tow truck. Luckily we only had to wait a half hour or so on the side of the road.
When our Tow Truck driver pulled up he told us that he only had room for 2 in the front of his truck so one of us would have to ride in the truck up on the flat bed. I opted to take the ride and it was the craziest video game action ride. Glad I like rollercoasters as it was crazy watching the driver take out all the cones on the side of the road.
So we got towed into a town called Fallbrook. You may remember Fallbrook as the home of the Front Yard Trails and the "Fallbrook Fatty" himself, Matt Ortwien. So we get pulled into this little repair shop in the middle of nothingness and they say it is going to be a few hours. We haven't had lunch yet so we asked if there was anywhere around and they said there wa a Denney's a little bit down the road and over the bridge. So we took off for a little walk and over the bridge, and saw this little sign.
Not only did I not want to swim in this guck, but I didn't want to walk over it. Sam was trying to talk us into drinking a sip of it. I think that would of been a bad idea. So we waled down the street a bit and found a completely empty Denney's. Sam walked up to the waitress and asked if she thought she could fit in 3 for Lunch and Kris asked if she could see it fit to get us a window seat. The look on the waitress's face was priceless, she didn't know what she was in for. So after the usual indecision on the menu, I mean how can you fins soemthing too healthy at a Denney's for lunch, we ordered, and we ate.
Then we decided that a Paper Airplane contest is the perfect thing for an empty Denney's when you have a few hours to kill. I am going on record now that if you decide to have a Paper Airplane contest, do not go up against the mad scientist of Paper Airplane construction Mr. Kris Fox. The guy is crazy with his Paper Airplane Construction. Wetting parts of the paper, special pieces folded and inserted into the plane. Obviously his ened up going the furthest with it flying across the room and down 5 booths, Sam's made it 3 booths and mine, well, lets just say Paper Airplanes are not my strong suit and it only went 2 booths down. So about then, the repair shop called and said the truck was ready. So we walked back over the sewage contaminated river and the barking dogs in the Church's yard and picked up the truck. This here was the culprit of the whole problem.
A simple Idler pulley bearing that welded itself together. The guys at the shop said we were lucky that normally the pulley will go straight through the radiator, luckily ours didn't and we were back on the road.
Today we are back to a regular work day. Sam caught a flight out to head East to go to Grands today, Kris came up and hung out at the shop for a little bit and then left to go riding with Joey Cordova at the local skatepark and all is well. More updates later.
Nov. 19th, 2009 The Anodize colors on the new Supercross ENVY's are crazy. It always looks like Easter when the frames come back from anodize. Here are a few shots of the most recent ones.
Currently the most popular Anodize colors have been the Green and the Greys, the Blue one above is very cool as is the one and only Pink anodize frame we have done so far. We also had a real cool 2 tone one done that we will do a full shot of when Bill comes back in the office later today or tomorrow as it is being built up for a rider to take to the ABA Grands.
Nov. 18th, 2009 You can tell you live in the desert when it is 27 degrees out when you wake up and then it is 73 degrees at lunch time and then you catch a scorpion in the machine shop. Crazy day. Today has been busy as the stems that came back from Anodize a few days ago have all been engraved and are being assembled and shipped out the door.
Here is a custom Green one we did for Kurt Pickard down under in Kiwi land.
And speaking of down under riders, we hear that Sammy is giving all the boys down under hell while she is staying there with her brother. While it is Winter here in California and probably snowing at Sammy's home in Canada she is now enjoying Summer weather down in New Zealand. Must be nice to be homeless.
In other team news, Bill had a meeting with Supercross' first Pro MTB rider today Jake Kinney.
Bill hates it when we refer to it as Mountain Bikes, he likes to call it big BMX, and if you have seen a 4x race, it really is a BMX race on bikes with gears and suspension. Jake will be a part of the 4 person Big BMX team that Supercross will be running next year with the new 4x frames we are doing. And anyone who knows Jake will atest that he will fit in with the Supercross camp pretty good, he is a former BMXer that still rides at Kearny Moto Park and the new OTC BMX track on a weekly basis and loves to shred it up on his park bike, his BMX bike and his MTB. Look for Jake to be on his new Supercross 4x as he starts the year by hitting up the Fontana series this year along with Kris Fox and Courtney Tomei as 2 more BMXers jump to the MTB side to show some BMX dominance.
Nov. 16th, 2009 Usually when the mail comes it is the usual stuff, a few bills a few checks, some flyers for insurance or something, you know the boring stuff. Well today was a good day to check the mail as we got the new BMX World and the new BMX Plus! both on the same day!!
BMX World is always rad to get as it is 100% BMX Racing Action! And BMX Plus! what can you say, the longest running BMX Publication and Benny and Jeremy are always trying to sneak in more and more race action. If you have subscriptions, be sure to chek your mailbox as they should be there soon.
Nov. 11th, 2009
Happy Veterans Day Everyone. We have many friends in the service past and present that we would like to thank for their service. We got an e-mail today from Butch over at DVS about thier Pedal to Podium ride this weekend. Winston who was the founder of DVS used to own the famous Devonshire Downs BMX track in the San Fernando Valley.
And the ride this weekend is to raise money for the Alzheimers Foundation in Winston's memory and honor. Bring out your bike and go for a fun ride with the DVS crew.
Nov. 10th, 2009 Kris, Mikey and the crew of Nomad BMXers Sam Willoughby and Barry Nobles came by tonite. Always love it when they come by, the amount of BMX talent in one room is amazing and the stories and fun is always non stop. We were going to do a full Bike Inspection on Kris and his ENVY to post up, but we were having too much fun to get that done, but here is a shot of the new Supercross SLT forks on the front of Kris's bike. We have not finalized the graphics, but these things are sick.
What you can see is the new smaller dropout. What you can see is the new custom spiral fluted steertube which makes the fork a lot stronger without adding hardly any weight. And the new tapered fork legs are sick as well. Here is a shot of Kris and his entire ENVY for you to check out until we get his full Bike Inspection done.
You can tell Kris wasn't ready for the photo to be taken, he must of just hung up with one of the zillions of sponsorship calls coming through the office on a daily basis. You can tell the race season is almost over.
Nov. 6th, 2009 Today is the last day to vote for the ABA Golden Crank Awards. Did you get your vote in?
Well we finally got the Camera back so here are a few shots of some of the new anodized colors on the Supercross ENVY's.
The Purple one above is one of the new Short Pro 24" ENVY frames, it is a 20.5" Top Tube and 14.75" Rear Chainstay. The bottom Gunmetal Grey one is our favorite anodize color right now and this frame is a very special one as it is a custom XXXXL ENVY. Even with the over 22" long top tube it still tipped the scales at a scant 3lbs. This custom one of a kind frame will be seen ripping around the tracks back east in New York. I hope more people choose this color in the future as it is rad!
Nov. 1st, 2009 Lots to celebrate today! Samantha looks like she did very well in Hong Kong at the Asian Championships and we came back from Disney with 2 more Disney Cups this year courtesy of Kenth and Nate.
Kenth won Vet Pro again today giving him his 12th win and the Disney Cup and Nate won 15x again today securing his spot at the Nag 5 challenge and taking home his first Disney Cup.
In other news from the Disney Cup, Kris has been going to visit Nic in the hospital every night and going back to the track racing. Today he had a great lap in his motos right behind Kyle Bennett but it was not enough for him to move on, Courtney is still racing on her hurt leg from Friday's crash and had a few good laps but just missed the mains. She will be healed up and more determined for Grands so watch out then. Logan had a great day yesterday in Mens Elite making it to Semi's and today made it into the A Pro Main again but the outside gates were hurting everyone and he took another 6th for the day. And Steven Creighton was right in the right spot at every time in the qualifiers and always seemed to miss moving on by 1 place. We knw he will be training for the Grands.
On the Amatuer side, Johnny Mac made his main in 12x again taking a 6th and Kalvin had a rough Semi and just missed the main today. Now it is time for everyone to get thier last minute training on and get ready for the ABA Grands. We will try to post more updates tomorrow but until then, please enjoy the photos below courtesy of Mike Caruth of BMXnews.com
Oct. 31st, 2009
Happy Halloween Everyone! The First 2 days of the ABA Disney Cup are done. Lot's of action and crashes out in Orlando, well wishes and a quick recovery go out to Nic Long who took the crash of the day yesterday and was airlifted to the trauma center after the diagnosis of a Punctured Lung and Broken Ribs. Kris headed straight over and stayed the night at the hospital with Nic and then tried to race today with no sleep. Yesterday Courtney also went down in a big crash with Afton Schrimpff and Jamie Lilly. Courtney said her leg was fine, except for walking, pedaling, moving, you know the basics to ride your bike. So last night it was alot of ice and she tried to race today and looked good, but didn't quite make the main. And while everyone was going down in crashes, Logan Collins was fighting off the flu. He made the main yesterday taking a 6th in A Pro. Today in Elite Men he made it to the Semi.
Now for the Great news, Kenth Picked up his 11th win of the season yesterday in Vet Pro with 22 riders so that will move him closer in points to take over the lead and Nate picked up another win in 15x today after he had rebuilt his hub this morning before second round. Kalvin Davis also made his main today in 17/18x as did Johnny Mac in 12x. We will post more updates tomorrow after the final day of the ABA Disney Cup. Until then, please enjoy these pics courtesey of Mike Caruth of BMXnews.com and BMXnow.com
Oct. 30th, 2009 The ABA Golden Crank voting is almost over. If you have not voted yet, please grab your ABA Serial number and click the below link to vote for your favorite, Bike , Pro and Team.
Be sure to vote to get your chance to win the Fly Uniform package the ABA is giving away.
Now at the Disney Cup in Orlando, Nate texted in and said the track is basic but fun and that he is going to shred it with style. He also said that Kris, Courtney and Kenth were looking amazingly fast on it and that he is putting money on the fact that Kenth will win all 3 days in Vet Pro. Funny thing is that Kenth is betting Nate will win 15x all 3 days. Now we also just heard that Kalvin Davis decided last minute to jump on a red eye from Southwest and show up at Disney this weekend so we have one more of the team there. Looks like it is going to be a great weekend of racing. Here are a few photos sent over by BMXnow.com for you to enjoy until racing starts.
Oct. 29th, 2009 Here is a quick shot of Logan killing time in the airport. Laptop, Starbucks, yeah Logan knows how to make the trips easy.
Luckily Logan had a simple trip, Kris, Courtney, Nate and everyone from the West Coast had the huge storm over Denver to contend with and made the trip rather bumpy! But everyone made it in safe so now it is time for some rest and then getting ready for tomorrow's racing. Go211.com starts broadcasting live at 3:00p.m. Eastern Time.
Now we have had a ton o people e-mailing asking to see the Anodize color samples for the ENVY Frames. Since we have nt done one of every color yet, we can't post them up on the website easily and the Anodize chip book costs us $60 so we can't just buy a bunch and send them out to everyone who asks, so until we have a better way, here is a shot of the Anodize chip book so you can see some of the colors. Now it is going to look a little different on everyones computers, but I think you can get the idea.
And there are more colors not shown that the Anodizer can do. They are also doing wild custom patterns and fades and splatters and all kinds of wild stuff. The favorite so far has got to be the Gun Metal Grey custom we did for a guy in New York. We will post pics when we get the camera back.
Oct. 27th, 2009 The ABA race season is just winding down and the new 2010 UCI North American Season is just starting up, and the NBL season is already into thier fourth national of the season, kind of a wierd cross over right now. Last weekend we had two of the littlest riders on the team head out to Las Vegas for the NBL 2009 Western Regional Championships and the 2010 Nellis National ( i know confussing ) So little Ashley Shrader went out there and won the Championship taking home her #1 plate again and then won her class for the National as well. Then on Sunday she celebrated her Birthday! Happy Birthday Ash! Also out in Vegas for his hometown National was Tucker Norman who took home his Regional #1 plate and took a second at the National. His Dad said that he had a bad crash and thank goodness for the Leatt Brace he was wearing.
Now this weekend is the ABA Disney Cup! Last year Kenth won the prestigous Disney Cup for Vet Pro and Jimmy Brown won it for A Pro. Now this year Kenth is going back to try to retake that title and close up the points gap on the chase for the year end ABA Vet Pro Title, and Jimmy is coming back as an AA Pro with his freshly won Canadian ABA #1 Pro Title. Joining Kenth and Jimmy this weekend down at Disney is AA Pro Kris Fox, Women Pro Courtney Tomei, A Pro Steven Creighton, new Supercross Factory Rider, A Pro Logan Collins, 15x Nate Padilla and 12x Johnny MacIntyre. We will be posting updates as we hear them from the race, but it will also be being broadcast live on go211.com as weill as being filmed for the ABA's new BMX Show on Versus as it is a UCI Pro Stop on Saturday. Should be some great racing out in Florida this weekend.
Oct. 22nd, 2009 Had a ton of phone calls and e-mails today asking for photos of the Polished ENVY frames. Thats when we we realized that Bill had not taken any photos of the Polished ones before. So here is a quick shot of the Polished ENVY Expert XL. As you can see with decals it tips the scales at a SUPERLIGHT 2 lbs 3.6 ounces or 1008 grams for the gram people. Be sure to rush in to your local Supercross BMX Dealer to grab one or call J&R today.
Oct. 21st, 2009 For all of you ABA members out there. Remember that the ABA Golden Crank Voting has started and you can win a real cool FLY uniform package for just submiting your vote. So be sure to log on to the ABA's website and vote for your favorite, Bike, Team and Pro.
Oct. 19th, 2009 The ABA Golden State Nationalsin Lancaster are over and it was a great race. As most everyone I am sure now knows, Nate Padilla is the newest Supercross BMX Factory Rider!
So all the speculation that has surrounded Nate and Supercross for the last year was true, Nate, welcome to the Supercross Family!!
Another surprise this last weekend was The BullDozer Randy Roberts showing back up after a broken knee cap suffered on his YZ450. Once Randy heard that Kenth was skipping the weekend to hold out for Disney, Randy decided to jump into the Vet Pro class. And Jump he did, not only did Randy jump every jump on the track, he took a solid 4th in Vet Pro on saturday and on Flats! Not bad for a guy who rides just to have fun.
Lots of good stories from Lancaster, but until we get a chance to post them, please enjoy a few of the photos from around the pits.
Oct. 16th, 2009 - Got to love BMX, there is always so much cool stuff going on. We recently added a new Dirt Jumper to the team, Joey Cordova is out of Riverside and rides with Aaron and Kris on occasion, seeemed like a cool dude, so we got him hooked up. Well yesterday he rode his new Supercross Passion at the Dew Tour Stop 5 in Orlando and placed 18th in qualifying. Congrats Joey! Nice first outing on your new ride. Here are a few pics weborrowed from Fat Tony at BMXonline of Joey in the qualifying runs.
Look for a web edit and a Bike Inspection with Joey and his Supercross Passion soon.
On the BMX Racing front, be sure to watch the ABA Golden State Nationals on go211.com if you can't make it out. It looks like it is going to be a great race. And if you are there, be sure to stop on by and pick up a catalog or poster from the pits, and check out the Supercross ENVY's in person and see who the new Factory Team member is.
Oct. 11th, 2009 - Afternoon Update Jimmy Brown took the ABA Canadian #1 Pro Title and Kaila Sweeney repeated to keep her Canadian ABA #1 Womens Pro Title!! Congrats to both of them. Full update with photos later!
Oct. 11th, 2009 The first day of the ABA Canadian Grands are over. Jimmy killed the Pro class yesterday winning every lap as did Kaila taking the big win in the Womens Pro class. Both are hoping to repeat that today and bring home the #1 Pro Plates. Kaila has a lock on the #1 Pro Plate to repeat the title for the second year in a row, and Jimmy is now 40 points behind the leader after his win yesterday, so the pressure will be on him today. On the Amatuer side, Brandon Little pulled off a 3rd in 17/18x, Amanda Little pulled off a 2nd in 16 girl, Simon Meili took a 3rd in 16x, Paige Zazuran took a 2nd, and Erin took a 4th in class and a 3rd in Cruiser. More updates after races today!
Oct. 10th, 2009 The final UCI Supercross BMX race of 2009 is done, congrats to Sam Willoughby for taking the win and the overall. Lots of action in the turns in Frejus, Kris fell victim of a crash in the first turn in his second round where Yvan Lapraz and Tyler brown both went down, and Kris footplanted his bad ankle. Samantha also had to watch for carnage in the turns in her rounds. Kris, Samantha and Amelie all put on a good show for the fans, but failed to make it to the mains this round. We are proud of them all and we are already gearing up plans for next season. Congratulations to all of our riders who surrvived the full year of the UCI Supercross BMX season. Please check BMXmania.com for all the updates and photos from the UCI Supercross Finals by clicking here.
Now back in North America, the ABA Canadian Grands are going on up in Chilliwack. Randy Little will be sending down updates and photos from the race. More updates later.
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