Former Answer/Drive BMX employee Erik Engstrom has been quietly working on a new brand, and they just got their first product in—a sub-five pound frame called EYE Q. Here are the specs and photos… Be on the lookout for more products and promotions from Eye Bikes coming soon.
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February 16 2010
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Contributing photographer and New Jersey resident Tommy Verrochi sent over an interview with one of the guys behind a new company called Protobmx. If you are into the tech side of BMX parts, you’ll want to give this one a read.
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January 27 2010
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Martti Kuoppa has been all over the place lately—tons of wildly progressive Web videos, closing KGB bikes, getting disqualified from the BMX Flatland World Classic for not taking it seriously enough, and now launching a new company.
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January 11 2010
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In issue 155 of our magazine we did an interview with two well-known DJs that have an unusual love for sidehack riding. Well now the two have teamed up with a few other partners and have started a whole sidehack company. Since the bikes will be available through Walmart on December 8th we hit them up for some scoop on the company, some photos of them shredding the bikes, and for an in depth look at their custom hack with a complete bike check. Read on…
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November 24 2009
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I saw a handful of Nitrous products at Eastern’s booth at Interbike in Las Vegas a few months ago and was briefly told that Nitrous was going to be somewhat of an entry-level brand from the same people that do Eastern. Then this past week Eastern posted a quick teaser for Nitrous on their site along with some of the Nitrous products. Curiosity got the best of me and I hit them up to get the 411. Eastern’s national sales rep and staff rider Bryan Byrd filled us in…
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November 11 2009
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That’s right, Chad DeGroot just started his own BMX company called Deco BMX. Decobmx.com has been a place for Chad to post the stuff other sites wouldn’t let him for a while now, which helped people get familiar with the name. Now after posting more boobs than I can count, there are actually BMX frames and product on the site.
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September 18 2009
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Considering the fact that there’s been mentions online and a news blurb about it in the current issue of Ride, it’s not all that much of a rumor about a new company by the name of Cardinal Bikes. What there does seem to be a serious lack of, are details about it. To remedy this and squash any misinformation, I hit up Cardinal’s brand manager, Nate Moroshan about the new venture…
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April 17 2009
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