No Handers

Here’s my first blog rant. There may be more if I get annoyed enough but this one has me going for now.

I’ll start by setting things straight. There is no such thing as an ‘old school’ no-hander or a ‘tuck’ no-hander. Period.

There are no-handers and suicide no-handers, which have both been around for years now, but they have been joined by a horrible, disgusting and stinkin version of taking yer hands off – the Ditchburn (aka zombie) no-hander!

Before you get all heated with me, I think Ditchburn is rad and he’s a nice chap, but these have been named after him because Lewis from Glasgow (the one with the hot sister! Look for last years Miss Scotland!) always shouts “Scott Ditchburn” when doing one of these rotters and it’s just stuck from there. I’ll try to describe it as best as I can although I’m sure you know what I mean. The bars are still in the lap but that’s where all similarity ends. Instead of stalling it out for as long as you can, the hands are a blur. Instead of holding your head high, it’s down next to the tyre making you look like a zombie. Instead of looking good, it looks like shit!

I don’t know where they came from but it seems all the new school street riders are into doing them all over the shop. Into and out of rails, down stairs, out of wallrides etc etc which would be cool if they looked decent, but they are just foul. Do the riders not know this? Do they not see the magazines and videos? When I see a rider do one I recoil in horror every time. I bet they feel shit to do as well, not that I’m ever going to try one to find out. Please kids, let’s outlaw these like the nac-nac and candybar were outlawed on dirt*.

For evidence of a proper no-hander see Jamie Bestwick, Corey Martinez, Mat Hoffman, Dave Mirra or Bas Keep. They know the score.



*Many trails riders enforced a no nac-nac or candybars rule at their trails about 10 years ago due to their stinkyness. (And an article in Dig magazine)

What?

I was just on the Dig website and spotted these revolutionary new hubguards from Colony.


Correct me if i'm wrong but haven't Alone been making these for a good couple of years now?

Barcode face

sooooper stoked to see that my mug shot is gonna be on the cover of Ride UK this month! WOOP check out my big pimpin grilllzzzz tho! lolz!!!!1

Superstar team news with rob andrews video

Danny Clayton has had a broken thumb buts is back riding now and he is riding well, big thanks to Tom Bing fot the photos.





Guy Terry has had a operation on his ankle to remove some floating bits of bone, get well soon old bro!




Rob Andrews is getting help from the good shop Mode BMX from Derby, and our friend Gavin Repton has just finished editing Rob's part. Check it!

photo by Liam Tanner









Rob Andrews video part from superstarbmx on Vimeo.

mankind's bommel first vid of 09

Bommel first Part 2009 from Bommel on Vimeo.

John Rodgers Edit

See More BMX Videos at VitalBMX.com

Bling

Sputnic The Player Cranks 175mm
BSD Titanium 140mm Axile
Standard 28t Chain Ring

Rob ridge update.

I have not had the best start to the year. I took a bad "off" early Jan' (its the last clip on the vid' I will bring your attention to) then a week or so later I literally snapped a crank arm in two which resulted in either a fracture or sprained tendons in my left index finger. Curiously it was my trailing foot side (left foot back for me) and I actually thought my pedal spindle had snapped on the way out of a ramp to just do a wall tap. As always I am just glad it was not worse and am just getting back riding now.

Anyway I have done up a little vid' entitled "Greatest hits" which is a compilation of crashes over the years. I know crash sections divide opinion, but I have always been a fan of them so long as the victim walks away fairly Ok. Only On Youtube at the minute

people often question me about my taste of music, i really can listen to anything, if you wanna find out more i have a sound check on ride UK

http://rideukbmx.com/soundcheck/soundcheck-issac-lesser.html

Big Money Test Post

Testing to see if I've sorted this shit.

Snow Day 2

Run out of room and snow in my front garden, so I built a Igloo in next doors front garden.

It took ages to make it look like a boob!

Snow is fun!...

I went and played in the snow today! it was soo funny! here is some pics of what i got up to today WOOP!

Big snow man contest

This is what we have have been doing this mornig.









Things are getting Quite out of hand with this building of these snowmen.

Mike O Bike Check

Frame: SBC 250L 20.5 Euro, Internal, Gyro tabs

Forks: SBC Bash Forks

Stem: SBC Front Load

Bars: SBC Lil Deuce

Grips: Ody Team

Levers: Dia Compe Tech 77 (Ti Bolts)

Brakes: Dia Compe AD 990 (Ti Bolts)

Cables: Ody

Gyro: Snafu

Headset: Superstar

Front Hub: Ody Mamoset

Rear Hub: Ody cassette (Ti Axle)

Rims: Ody 7ka

Spokes: Ti

Tires: Khe Street

Axle: Profile (Ti)

Pegs: Ody Ti Pegs

BB: Profile

Cranks: 170mm Profile

Pedals: (Do you really need to ask?)

Sprocket: SBC M3

Chain: KMC

Seat: Alone

Post: Thompson

Clamp: SBC
Stickers: Salt Club

6.5 ft Snowman

Made by Mike & Leia

Big money brian has become an eskimo

This is what you can do if you dont have a job.

Lucky!

Baz Cam

My bike check feb 1st

Frame: Custom 250L 21" engraved headtube and drop outs, built in clamp
Forks: mankind asadi 2 with lugs
Bars: mankind archangel 8"
Grips: edwin
Levers: tech 77
Bar ends: alloy mankind
Stem: limited addition elect in green and black
Headset: Superstar
Gyro: Gyro
Brakes: Front st martin with bearing, rear superstar with bearing
Pads: clear Acor work on anything
Post: mankind white pivotal
Seat: mankind mid royal white
Cranks: sputnic 175mm, bsd 19mm ti axle
Chain ring: sbc M3 28t black
Pedals: animal
Rims: super star
f hub: st martin
R hub: sputnic rhd 10t
tires: light khe
Pegs: x2 ti pegs
Chain: kmc
Cables: Alone linear

Zeal boys in estonia

Here is another banger of a video from mikey king from the simple session in estonia,Now thats how to make a video, when you come away want to watch it again cos it looks fun and made me laugh so hard,that boy Isaac loves to sleep