This session went down recently in Kobe, Japan and is further proof of how much flatland is thriving in Asia. Just check out the girl in the first clip—if there were girls that good in the U.S., it would be a big deal. But in Japan, she’s just part of the everyday crew. So rad…
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November 17 2009 |
495 views
A Bad Thing is about to release their first DVD featuring all their team riders. With a line up including Matthias Dandois, Alex Jumelin, Raphael Chiquet, and Ucchie, this thing is sure to be a good one.
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November 12 2009 |
433 views | 1 comment
The Japanese culture is very different from ours in the U.S. Their riders have a different style, and even their videos take on a slightly unique form. Here’s the second “Style” video from Ares Bykes featuring York Uno, Hiro Morizaki, and some of the other Ares riders.
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September 22 2009 |
426 views | 1 comment
This is a new video from Ares Bykes featuring a handful of new moves from Japanese riders that I’ve never seen before. I definitely did a few “OMGs” while watching this one.
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September 14 2009 |
262 views
It’s been just about two months since Hoang’s last bike check, but this bike is all-new. And after Hoang separated his good shoulder in Japan, it now belongs to a local shredder, so expect another bike check in a month or so…
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August 15 2009 |
19,892 views | 8 comments
The last few days of the trip were interesting. We had the best night of riding of the trip get abruptly shut down when Hoang separated his shoulder. We stayed up until 8am the same night. The demo got flipped…
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August 13 2009 |
1,103 views | 6 comments
The Portland Strangler shares what he rides when he’s not wrapping his hands around people’s necks…
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August 13 2009 |
12,193 views | 2 comments
It’s been nearly 90 degrees and severely humid everyday, a hefty drive pretty much every other day, and long nights, well, every night. Even still, the trip has been amazing all around. The highlight being day five in the city of Hiroshima on the 64th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. We spent…
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August 08 2009 |
2,561 views | 3 comments
You’d think Wifi would be blasting out of the sewers in Japan, but internet is hard to find. Living two days in one, every day. My brain is fried, both metaphorically and physically thanks to the heat.
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August 06 2009 |
3,498 views | 6 comments
We stopped at a ski/mtb/bmx resort Fujimi Panaorama in the mountain city of Nagano to stop over and do a very small demo at a pre-fab park, and then came to Nagoya to ride street with about 40 locals until 11 at night…
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August 03 2009 |
4,211 views | 9 comments