The guys have been going out on heaps of missions of late down in Melbourne getting clips & having a blast. Here is Cooper getting his boost on in a drain down there. Braaap !!

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Backbone BMX are proud to present The Uprising which is a massive dirt comp set to be ran at the Newton’s Nation event this weekend down in Bathurst, NSW. The guys at Backbone have had the jumps built some time before the event & will be totally dialled in for the comp. Should be a great weekend of dirt riding with a massive $10,000 in prize money up for grabs. Expect to see the who’s who of Australian BMX dirt riding there, so if you can get there do so without delay !!

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Pete Radivo has always been one of my favourite riders out there & he is still very much killing it doing his own thing. Pete scores our splash page for the next while now along with our Contour rims available now.

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Little photo below of Liam Zingbergs doing his thing. Liam rides for us with the help of Little Black Bike down in Adelaide. LBB are also in the process of moving to a nice new location closer to the city park down there. More on that soon. Check out David Rubinch’s website for more photos like shown here.

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Our flow rider from the USA Broc Raiford has the current advert for Colony in the new Ride US. Featuring the popular Bull Bars. This photo was shot about a month ago whilst we were over in the USA. Amazing spot!

On November 6th, episode 49 of Rush TV aired here in Australia which featured a little piece on Alex Hiam. You can watch it online by clicking here now. Just skip to 14.35 min to see Alex’s piece of you don’t have the time to watch the entire show. Be quick though as the episode expires online in 6 hours from now.

In other Alex news, he is still off the bike from his broken leg 3 months ago & has been told by the doctor he will have to wait another 3 months till he can ride again. Needless to say the little fella is going crazy with so much time off the bike. Rest assured though he will be back on the bike & shredding once again.

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Shane Badman has been a busy man… read on below on what he has been up too…

It’s been a pretty hectic past few months from me. First up I spent 17 days in Japan taking it all in. I’ve never heard anyone saying a bad thing about going & after spending a little time there I can totally see why – Japan rules!! Anyone who’s into BMX needs to get across, so much stuff to ride & the riders there are awesome!

After Japan I came back to Australia for a couple days, basically enough time to sort my bike & clothes, then get on another flight to London with a stopover in Kuala Lumpur.

I’d made some plans to spend time with my good friends there including Shintaro Misawa who also rides for Newcircle with me & Mat Dagu who rides for Colony in Malaysia. So after picking me up we all headed to the riding spot where there were about a dozen riders all sessioning really hard. It was about 10pm at night & after not sleeping for 2 days I crashed out by accident – oops haha!!

So after spending a day with everyone in KL, they were kind enough to take me back to the airport where I hopped the plane for London.

London was basically me spending a bit of time riding at the work famous The Green Mile spot at West Norwood in South London. If you ride flatland, this spot is basically one of the best in the world & the crew that rides here are dope!!

My plan was to spend the next couple weeks here riding & hanging out with everyone. But this is the UK in November & with all the rain that was had not as much riding got done but it was still an awesome time for sure.

After leaving London I had another stopover in Kuala Lumpur where the guys met me at the airport again. This time I had been sleeping so I was proper down to ride haha! They got me at 9pm & after stopping off for some food we got to the riding spot just after midnight. As always a tonne of riders were throwing down & it was 6am before we closed the session & all headed home. Damn.

So back in Australia about to enjoy a summer full of riding. Will be going to Melbourne in the beginning of December for shows & then Beijing, China for more shows on their National TV station & talking about the 2 Guinness World Records I broke earlier this year.

And super stoked on the Colony Apprentice complete flatland bike coming out. I heard those cool cats over at Newcircle are getting a stack in so if you’re down with the Ground Work you need to head over there & get yours already!!

Keep an eye for more updates from the road….

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Team rider Paddy Gross sent me over this photo he came across of Clint Millar from what must be a lifetime ago (year 2000 actually) riding the very ramp Paddy grew up riding and learning tricks on in Trier, Germany. It really is a small world when it comes to BMX!

Random fact I found out when working out where Trier was is that it is the oldest city in Germany.

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Bruno Faucon collected some footage over in France in recent months & put this video together with JB from Maniable. Enjoy !!

MA'Tv #10, Bruno Faucon, late 2010 from JB on Vimeo.