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Leandro Video and Bike Pics
It seems that almost everyone here in Europe is super busy with the Eurobike this week. Brazil is slightly different and defiantly way more chilled. Leandro sent me a few pics, a bunch of bike pics and a new edit. Killer stuff as usual. Make sure not to miss that...
3 Minutes with Nathan Williams
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- Top three places to eat:
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- Macaroni Grill
- Taco Mamacita
- Home
- Your top three worse habits:
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- Spending too much time on my phone
- Junk food
- Nose picking
- Top three pet peeves:
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- People chewing in a silent room
- Dumb drivers
- Nosy “expert” good Samaritans that try and kick you out of spots
- Top three reasons to not leave your town:
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- My lady
- My friends
- My spots
- Top three reasons to leave your town:
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- New people
- New places
- New spots
- Top three things to do when it rains/snows:
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- Go to the indoor park
- Hang out with the lady
- Chill at my house
- Top three local unknown rippers:
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- Tyler Fredrick
- Tyler Rickman
- Brandon Mcgregor
- Top three old-school riders:
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- Ian Morris
- John Povah
- Matt Hoffman
- Top three favorite riders of all time:
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- Van Homan
- Matt Hoffman
- Chase Hawk
- Top three reasons to visit California:
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- Homies
- Spots
- Weather
- Top three other cities to ride:
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- Atlanta
- Austin
- Philly
- Top three cities to visit but not ride:
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- I don't want to go anywhere without my bike. I'm always looking around for stuff to ride and it’s nice to have the bike.
- Top three tour roomies:
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- John Povah
- Corey Martinez
- James Cox
- Top three bike brand graphics:
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- United
- etnies
- Cinema
- Top three Videos:
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- End Search
- Fallen "Ride the Sky"
- Alien Workshop "Mind Field"
- Top three video parts of all time:
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- Van Homan's Criminal Mischief
- Corey Martinez Federal
- Steven Hamilton Federal
- Top three etnies shoes:
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- RVM
- RSS
- Portland
- Top three favorite tricks to do:
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- At the moment crank arm
- 360
- Switch Whip
- Top three riders with style:
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- Chase Hawk
- Tom Dugan
- Mike Aitken
- Top three bands:
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- Eastern Block
- Beatles
- Led Zeppelin
- Top three movies
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- Don't care
- Top three favorite non-BMX pastimes:
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- Pool
- Poker
- Chillin' with the homies
- Top three things you are afraid of:
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- Not being able to ride
- Needles
- Flairs
- Top three books:
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- Blue like Jazz
- Sex God
- Shack
- Top three websites
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- Defgrip
- YouTube
- The Come Up
- Top three things you could be doing instead of this:
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- Riding
- Filming
- Paying bills.... which is what I was intending to do instead of this...
OVER THE HILL
Today's marks the 40th anniversary when the Pabst parted and the seed of everything that is acrimony and anarchy was born into this world. We all want to give a big Happy Birthday to ol' man Moeller!
-MC
Josh E Down………

Josh went down super hard on Roadfools and is currently in hospital getting his jaw and face fixed up. Our thoughts are with him and hope he’s feeling better soon.
Space Cobra
I’m mainly posting this because of the rad graphic, but I guess it doesn’t hurt that Hucke is awesome too, haha…
Peep a quick Q&A HERE as well.
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Dugan on Empire
Tom @ Empire just sent us an e-mail letting us know that Tom Dugan is now officially on the Empire stunter crew. Considering they don’t add new riders to their team very often, this is pretty big news. Plus, it also means that Dugan’s going to have lots of clips in their upcoming video as well! Here’s what Tom had to say about Dugan:
ahhhh, Mr Dugan. we only met this wildman in the last few years, but he has proven to be an interesting dude, and we dig him. plus, anyone that comes highly recommended by Joe Rich automatically gets the seal of approval from us. easy as, as they say. yeah yeah, you have heard all about the water thing, Dr Pepper, etc. the only liquid we require that he bathe in is the sweat that comes from filming with Diamond Dave, and Dugan has been taking care of business on that front, 100%. Tom gets support from Terrible One, Odyssey, and Etnies. holler at Cody Nutter for the sequence.
Aside from the news of Dugan getting added to the team, Tom also sent over some discount codes that you can use on EmpireBMX.com!
ups12 = free Ground shipping on orders between $100.00 and $199.99 (excludes TX residents, who already receive free shipping)
ups16 = free Ground shipping on orders over $200.00 (excludes TX residents, who already receive free shipping; excludes complete bikes)
tenner = 10% off (excludes S&M and Fit products and any items already discounted from their regular price [indicated by "SALE"]; if you have any of these items on the order, we will adjust the price and email you to confirm the final total prior to processing)
Space Cobra Frame Q&A
BEN ANSWERS A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SPACE COBRA…
- What’s up with the name of your frame?
I honestly had a difficult time with this one, after a few weeks of trying to come up with names and asking people for ideas it just popped into my head one day. I texted Ronnie and Sher asking if I could name it the Space Cobra, they both just replied “YES”. From there on it was set in stone. - The graphics are pretty bad ass, who was the artist and what was the concept behind it all?
Chris Spann came up with the actual design after talking back and forth about what I wanted it to be. It came out better than I imagined when describing the design to him through emails. I wanted an 80’s feel to it, like a black light poster or something your Uncle would have on the wall in his garage next to his bikini calender. - Why did you pick the geometry you chose?
I just took my favorite parts of a few different frames I’ve ridden in the past and incorporated them all into one frame, riding this geometry for the first time was like a breath of fresh air. - Your frame has a pretty classic design with a higher bottom bracket and standover height,
what was the thought behind that?
I wanted my bike to look like the bikes I always wanted growing up, small tubes, classic triangles. Before I was always stuck with low bottom brackets and big tubes. I like being on top of my bike rather then feel like I’m sitting over my back wheel. - You’ve been riding a sample frame for most of this year, what has the testing process been like?
I thought it was going to be a long drawn out process of testing a bunch of different frames. Fortunately we got it right the first go, we made some minor tubing changes but we got it dialed in first try! - Frames are evolving every year, what’s going to make your frame stand out from all the rest?
My frame is really simple, clean and affordable, we didn’t try to do anything ground breaking or anything like that. It’s the perfect bike for riding anything and it will take a serious beating. - You kind of have a never surrender policy when it comes to pulling stuff, did that mindset come
into play when you were designing your frame?
Ha, I have destroyed frames in the past just trying one trick over and over for hours on end. I had to take a look back and figure out what I’ve always broke, bent, smashed or whatever and make sure that we covered those areas when we designed the Space Cobra. So far so good, it’s held up great. I still haven’t thought of anyways to make it any better than it already is. - As a kid did you ever dream of having your own frame and if so what kind of crazy things did you want it to have? Also, did any of that make the cut to the Space Cobra?
I always had some funny bikes back in the day, I still get made fun of for how goofy my set ups were and I never even had 3 piece cranks until I was sponsored. The bikes I wanted growing up always seemed to be just out of my reach money wise, “Standards, S&M’s, Hoffmans” and I’d settle for another GT, Dyno or whatever I could get my hands on. They were always the craziest looking bikes so I always wanted something simple and
strong is all.
FRAME SPECS:
- Material: 4130 Sanko chromoly, double butted down tube
- Top Tube: 20.6″, 20.8″, 21.1″
- Chain Stay: 13.75″ with room to remove wheel
- Head Tube: 75 degrees, heat treated, CNC machined, drilled for gyro tabs
- Seat Tube: 71°, single butted, 9″ standover height with integrated seat clamp
- BB Type: mid, CNC machined, heat treated grindable design
- BB Height: 11.75″
- Dropouts: 5mm thick heat treated
- Extras: Externally butted and tapered seat stays, low profile removable brake mounts
- Weight: 4.9 lbs for 20.6″ top tube
- Colors: matte black, matte red, gloss purple
Red Bikes!

Yesterday, I decided to hit up some dirt bumps for some get rads in the afternoon, it was 95 degrees, which is warm, and sweat was pouring down my face. While mid run, I felt something on my eyebrow, figuring it was just sweat, but when I hit the first jump, I soon realized it was a bee, or a wasp, or some woodland creature that stings. I came to that conclusion, because mid air, whatever it was, was trapped between my glasses and my face, and started stinging the shit out of me! I quickly dumped it, and shook my head frantically, swatting at my face like a kook, and it finally buzzed away. Sting Ray Bans! Any rate, regardless of the distractions, and ballups, riding bikes is still super fun, I love it!
If you haven't seen the new Flip Book, for the V3 completes, and FBM goodies, check it out, really good looking stuff in there.
Check out the new Catalog from Stowaway as well, great photos, product and overall design, it awesome...
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