MICK BAYZAND - sIgNAture teDDY frAMe - full CrMo frAMe - HeAt treAteD INtegrAteD HeADtuBe, MID BB AND 5MM CNC MACHINeD Dropouts - tApereD top tuBe, DowN tuBe & reAr stAYs - exterNAl gussets oN tt & Dt tuBINg - BuIlt-IN seAt ClAMp wItH replACABle Nut & Bolt - uNIque seAt stAY & CHAIN stAY gussetts for ADDeD streNgtH - reMovABle BrAKe MouNts & HArDwAre - uNIque & exClusIve INvest CAst - reMovABle ColoNY BrAKe tABs - sIZes: 20.85” AND 21” tt - 13.5” reAr, 75.0” HA, 71” st - 11.5” BB HeIgHt - stAND over HeIgHt 8.75” - weIgHt: 20.85” versIoN 5.22 lBs (2,370 grAMs) - pHoto sHot BY DANIel JoHNsoN - ColoNYBMx.CoM.Au
News & Stuff SKYLINES Denis Enarson. Photo Rutger Pauw
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News & Stuff SKYLINES
PalatialSkylines
Everything was big at the Grand Palais in Paris, with over five thousand spectators showing up to watch massive riding on a course that was nothing less than palatial. The course build was wild and impressed everyone who stepped inside the Grand Palais building, rider or spectator. With its blingin’ glass roof, the monumental palace was a perfect, yet surreal venue for the event. The intricately built course had been put together to form one of the biggest and most original BMX park courses ever seen, a true Nate Wessel original. Only made possible with the help of the cream of German carpenters doing the precision work. The original design that surfaced a month or two before the event had the riders buzzing and they showed that in their riding on the night. BMX legend Ryan Nyquist beat the pain to step it up once again in the final in front of a roaring crowd. In the process eliminating many a rider ten years his junior and won the Best Trick award with a cannonball double barspin at the same time.
Dennis Enarson shredded his way to second place and also got voted by his fellow riders as Skylines rider of the week. Red Bull rider Daniel Dhers turned it on and finished third. “When I heard about this contest I just had to be there. Having a BMX contest inside an amazing venue like this is incredible. With the gigantic ramps, and the group of riders who were here, you could expect things to go nuts” said Nyquist after the win before continuing, “Things were done the right way in every way and that reflects in the riding. I’m so stoked I pulled the tricks I wanted to do and getting the win feels awesome.” The event was one of the biggest BMX events France has ever seen, and makes me wonder how to make this kind of event happen in Australia....
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Dirt and Nothing Else
IN MEMORY OF DANE SEARLS
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Dirt and Nothing Else IN MEMORY OF DANE SEARLS
I never thought when I first started riding that it would lead me into a world that meant so much more to me than just the simple act of riding. These years with BMX have given me more than just exhilaration. I’ve experienced great happiness, accomplishment, friendship, love, a sense of belonging; a career. It has also taken me to the other end of the spectrum. Great pain, sadness and depression are no strangers on my path in BMX. These feelings I have never felt so acutely as the days surrounding my friend and team mate Dane Searls’ death. I cannot even describe or begin to wonder the pain felt by those closest to him, all I know is that ‘devastating’ isn’t really a word that does justice to a mother that had lost her son, a brother a brother, a friend a friend.
Words by Tyson Jones-Peni Photos by Raine Turnbull & Pete Conway
Photo Raine Turnbull
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Daniel Johnson INTERvIEwED PHOTOS & INTERVIEW BY COOPER BROWNLEE, INTRO BY DEAN JOHNSON When I first met DJ he was an unemployed 17 year old high school drop out, loved to party and wasn’t afraid to yell an obnoxious random compliment in the way of an attractive girl. Actually.. I suppose not a lot has changed. At the age of 17, it would still be a few years before DJ got his first full time job (I think it was lifting bullbars or something? ) I never really understood, anyway his lack of money never stopped him from being on his bike and in fact it was quite entertaining for us to offer DJ money to do tricks “do that rail and I’ll buy you lunch”. He also partook in some “cash in hand” work for Cooper Brownlee, usually just a simple task of lining up at Hungry Jacks to buy Coop’s lunch... Somehow DJ would manage to stuff this up. We all knew Cooper doesn’t eat chicken or drink Coke, we all knew his order was a veggie baguette and large Fanta. I can still vividly see the look of rage on Coops face after taking a bite as DJ had come back with a chicken baguette and large coke. It is hard to make Cooper angry, but DJ made it look easy; like the time he filled Coops sleeping bag full of plates, cups and various kitchen utensils from the motel room during a Canberra road trip. It wasn’t always immature pranks.. DJ looked up to Coop for some fatherly advice from time to time. During the ‘06 Canberra road trip DJ got a text from his girlfriend at the time who had put forward her intentions to consummate the relationship.. “Hey Coop, Mez said she wants to have sex... What should I say back? ” to which Coop said “just say something sensitive, girls love that shit”. After some great advice from Coop and a lot of sex related jokes, DJ forgot to write back to the text and he spent the rest of the trip trying to get himself out of the dog house. These days, DJ is quite the ladies man. Rumour has it he has a little black book of women he has charmed. This may or may not be true, if you see him at your local park perhaps you should ask him. One thing for sure though, he owes Coop a veggie baguette and a large Fanta.
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Daniel Johnson INTERvIEwED
DJ tends to do way more over oppo grinds then normal, he tells me it’s because if he bitches out he can land on normal pegs. It works whatever he thinks in his head. (Eric Cuiper pressed this button on this one for me)
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Feature HOUSE OF HAMMERS Putting an event on is a big job. No matter how big or small it may seem when you start out. And it don’t matter none if you’ve done them before or not, each event is it’s own beast. So when the whole idea to run a rail style event at the Factory Theatre in Sydney’s inner west sprung up, I knew I was getting into deep water from the get go. Of course, ain’t nothing gained without putting yourself out there right? Anyway, the whole idea came about off the back of Slay the Rail which we’ve been doing for three years now. And aside from some minor hassles here and there, it’s been an event that’s been fun to organize and fun to run. Mainly thanks to an amazing venue and amazing crew who help make it happen. Maybe Melbourne has something to do with it’s success too? Anyway, of course it made sense to think that running a similar event in Sydney would blow up just as much, and being that there’s a bigger population, why not?
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Feature HOUSE OF HAMMERS
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Sam Waters
Interview
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Sam Waters
DJ with a steep opposite hang tooth Photo Morison
INTERvIEw
Sam, when do you go to Canada? February 2nd... [LIAM] Dude these are already the dumbest questions. Let me do it. Sam, why are you going to Canada.. [LIAM] Nah Ben…like you can’t just start off like that… Name, Age, nobody cares where you live etc. How old are you? I just turned nineteen. Where do you live? In Nairne. (Near Adelaide) Who are you sponsored by? Stowaway. Who is Stowaway? A distro here in Adelaide. They bring most of the rider owned brands into the country. S&M, Animal, United etc. I get along well with the guys there, Jamie (Moore) is a good dude, takes care of all his riders, and Hayden is a rad guy to film with, Animal is a good fit. How long have you been riding for them for? Maybe nine months or so? How long have you been riding for? Probably around five or six years. Do you like riding for Animal? Yeah, obviously! It’s sick. I’m hopefully gonna go see them (Animal crew) when I head over, halfway through the trip. When I hit the states. Where you going? And what are you doing while over there? I’m going to Canada and New York, hopefully I’ll do some snowboarding, visit my uncle, touristy stuff. …and ride bikes? Yeah maybe in Hamilton, mostly in New York though, I’m hyped. [LIAM] It’ll be winter in New York… You don’t they’ve think they’ve got indoor parks? Anyway hopefully I’ll get to go to the warehouse and hang out and meet everyone. What was it like taking photos the past 6 months for this. Pretty easy, we didn’t push too hard seeing as we took things kinda slow. Didn’t need to rush it. What did you want to get done? A lot more than what I did… Were you at least happy with what you did? Nah probably could’ve done better. [LIAM] Ben’s fault. Liam’s fault. My fault. Why’s that? For not taking it very seriously, it didn’t feel like we were shooting for an interview, just went riding.
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Fit Bondi A LESSON IN GOOD TIMES
STORY A N D PHOTOS BY M ITCH MORISON
It’s 2AM on a Thursday morning and I’m barley awake watching Dre, who’s sat on my lounge room floor cutting out a lifesize plastic picture of Dullah Djawas. In my head I’m trying to go through the stages of how my life has elevated to situations like this. Dre’s rattling off all the actives that he’s going to take Dullah on. “It’s waterproof too! I can’t wait to take him for a surf.” Dre mentions with excitement. It gives me a feeling that on this trip I’m going to find myself in more situations that I normally wouldn’t find myself. I mean, most other TM’s would probably just cut their loses when they find out one of their riders can’t make a trip. But in typical Dre fashion, a life size cut out to represent Dullah’s spirit was in order. Thinking back now though, Dullah never did go surfing or swimming. He came riding a couple of times, got thrown out a second story window and hung out with some cute foreign birds. Other then that he sort of disappeared after a couple of days. Maybe he went back to S.A.? Or maybe he did go swimming and Bondi rescue didn’t give a shit about him? But none of these are true, they are far to silly right? Well you would be dead wrong, because I have now just been informed that Dullah’s life size cutout is now residing at a sex lube factory. Seriously, it’s at a sex lube factory. The situations BMX puts you in sometimes is hilarious. I mean from Dullah’s cutout starting life on my cow skin rug, to now chilling in the corner of a factory somewhere in Sydney amongst a lot of lube. Who said BMX couldn’t take you places? “Where is he? Try ringing him again” Tenna demands of Dre. We’re sitting in an airport waiting for the golden child to get of his plane, I mean jet, I mean private helicopter, or whatever that rumor I started was. Anyway he’s nowhere to be seen. Tenna and I didn’t know whether to watch Dre frantically run around the airport searching for Jack, or gaze in awe at this one guy who was well punching above his weight. Then before we can rack our brains anymore at how this guy was pulling that girl, Dre comes over and says. “Yeah he missed his flight... He thought it was tomorrow.” I just laughed, I couldn’t believe that said golden child failed to read his ticket properly. Come on Jack, while you were missing flights Chris and Fitty were already at the pub somewhere in Newtown sinking beers. They were ready as ever to get at some riding, but we had to all wait around. The golden child? I think not. What was even better is Tenna then replied, “Hey, he really is from America, he’s day late!” Witty old Tenna, he never ceases to amaze me. We then decided to take a leaf out of the Chris and Fitty book and go wait for Luke at the Fly bar. Which began the first of many sessions at a bar, appreciating the taste of alcohol and the fine women that would cross our paths. Day one, what a brilliant start.
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Dre-Fit Australia TM
Fit Bondi
“t he trip is about us all hanging out, relaxing a bit and a lit t le riding”
A LESSON IN GOOD TIMES
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Jono Hopping INTERvIEw
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f some one asked me to sum up who Jono Hopping is as a person in three words they would be; Fast, Loose and Motivated. I think those three words would be a fair assessment of who he is as a person not just how he rides a bike. We first met when he was 14, he had just started riding BMX. Give or take 4 months and Jono was doing tire grabs off of small banks out the back of the school car park. Next came hop threes. With in 6 months he was on track to be one of the top riders in Hamilton. I have always marveled at his tenacity to just keep trying something, once he gets it in his head and wants to do it; it shortly happens. His theory is if it doesn’t work just pedal faster at it. Jono never sits still there’s always something in the planning. Getting shit done is right up there on his checklist!
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Jono Hopping INTERvIEw
High speed whip rail hop
First up are the basics; Who are you, how old are you and where are you from? I’m Jono Hopping, 19 years old and live in Hamilton, New Zealand. Who is Jono hopping and what drives you to ride the way you do? I’d say the rush (laughs). That crazy rush you get from pulling something that you know you could eat shit on, and being able to look back on the clip and think to yourself ‘holly fuck, I actually did that’. Watching people like Garret and Lacey definitely gets me stoked for sure, and riding with a good crew. What’s your favorite type of riding? Street…I really can’t believe you asked me that. How would you describe your riding style? Loose, at times scary; to watch hahaha. I don’t know. How often do you ride? I try to ride everyday even if it’s just rolling the skate park or mucking around the rail in the yard. A few years ago you had a split interview in 2020, when you were 17. What are the biggest changes since then? Hmmm not a lot really, I’ve taken my brakes off and moved out of home. Tell me about your current bike set up? I’m running the Subrosa Balum frame with all Shadow parts. The frame has a crazy 76-degree head angle and I love it. It’s as dialed as any bike of mine will ever be. How did you get into riding? I use to be hard out into moto then I moved to boarding school and couldn’t bring my motorbike with me. So I bought a BMX to cruise round town on then one day I decided to go to the skatepark to see what it was like, then from there I just found myself going there every day. Even if it meant waging the hostel. They weren’t too stoked about this I take it? Hell no, they looked at skate parks as a place where ‘the lower life’ go and get stoned or wag school. Which plenty of that did go on but I just wanted to go ride my damn bike (laughs)
How long have you been riding for? Coming up 5 years now I think since I got my first BMX. Any hook ups? Currently repping Shadow and Subrosa through Triplesix distro. Then also Fox, Etnies, Wrong indoor skatepark and recently Skinny Mobile… which is epic ! What’s your local riding scene like? It’s okay, starting to get a little bit of a street crew together now so that’s dope! But it’s pretty chill all and all. What does your average day consist of? Get up about 6.30, get to work some time between 7 and 7.30, boost around Hamilton all day delivering stuff until about 5.30. Then go home, get my bike and go to Fairfield then depending if I’m going to out filming with Ryan or not, I’ll stay at the park until dark pretty much or go out street riding. What sort of music do you like? A lot of Drake, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar and Dre. Not many people may know but shortly after we begun filming for your latest Shadow edit, “No work, No worries”. You got a more time consuming job that your previous job, care to shed some light on this? I’d always been stoked on driving and thought it would be sweet to be a courier driver, then after I quit my first job, couldn’t find anything part time and didn’t really want another full time job that involved standing in a shop all day. So I ticked up a station wagon and did it. Plus we’d already thought of the name for the edit so we just stuck with it even though it wasn’t very true (laughs) How much of an impact has your new job had on your riding? At the start it was real bad, every day I’d get home at like 5.30-6ish and be way too tired to ride. But I got use to it and its sweet now, probably been more beneficial than anything. Perfect for finding new street spots.
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