Some of you might wonder what's up with David these days.

As you might know, David is no longer the editor of french bmx, fashion and lifestyle magazing, Cream. But leaving Cream does not mean that David has left the life with bmx.

David had some problems with his knee, but it's all strong and good for riding again, and he spends a lot of time riding again now.

Workwise, he is taking an education as a landscaper, so we can only hope that french landscapes will have loads of transitions and good stuff to ride in the future. David will also be responsible for adverts on a french bmx website.

David just emailed in to let us know that he is building a "natural pool" as part of his landscaping. Good job David.

Thanks to J. Morlan for the picture.

Pim has a bike check up on FATBMX shot in the shower at the hotel room in Tallinn... Good stuff.

Pim rides for Pauls Boutique as well, and Paul has a sandblaster, which they put to use on the System stem. Quite a nice result. The bike is definately dialled and blinged out with gold bolts and all.

To the right is a photo I shot of Pim during practice in Estonia. Front flips are easy for this guy.

To see the bike check, click here.

Jeremy sent in a link to a small video edit he did of him and his friends having a good time at a skatepark.
Laid back and chilled...

Jeremy is on the white bike called "chauv'allemand" and "ant" is Anthony Lille who did the nice graphics on Jeremys bike a little while ago.

Enjoy.

Click here to see the edit.

Mitch put has new prototype Weaver together just before he went to Estonia for the Simpel Session.

Robin Fenlon put together a little sneak peak on the Ride website with a few detail shots.

We still might do a few minor changes to the final model, but all in all, it's pretty much as Mitch wanted it.
(please note that the website states that it comes with a Mid BB, it comes with a Spanish).

Click here to see the article.

We are very happy to announce that Mark Vos has become a part of the Simple team.

Mark is a long time good friend, a nice and chill guy, and a really good bikerider.

Mark is from Amsterdam, Holland, but have been travelling the World lately.
He recently went to the Xgames in Dubai, and missed the finals by just one place.
Now he is heading to California to go ride and hang out with our graphical design wizzard Mike DeWit.

To get to know Mark a little better, go read his interview on Fatbmx (click here).

The picture shown here is shot by Rutger Pauw, and is shot at those amazing brick quarterpipes in Holland. I got to ride those once, and they are unbelieveable!

Welcome to the team Mark!

Dan spent a few weeks off his bike due to an injury, but is now back on his bike again.

Dan recently a contest in New Jersey and made it to the finals. Good stuff.

There is a new edit out with Dan's riding, which has some really nice stuff in there.
Click here to see the video.

The picture to the right is shot by Ben Hittle. Thanks a lot for sending in the photo Ben!

Our long time project, the Wheel Slammer, is finally out and available.

The idea for these has been started out a long time ago, coming from balls from looseballbearings and what not stuffed in the gap between the axle and the dropout to keep the wheel from sliding forward.

Once you have worked out how much of a gap you have between your axle and your dropout you just get that size and plug it in there.
On the picture shown to the right you see the 4.5 * 5.0mm. The slammers come with two sizes in one to leave a little option with play to you, they start at the 0.5*1.0mm and go all the way up to 7.5*8.0mm.

Thecomeup posted a block about the slammers too, and it seems that it has been hard for some people to understand how they work. They don't actually slam your wheel in the sense of making your wheelbase as short as possible, but once you have them in your wheel can no longer move forward, which is what we mean by calling the wheel slammers.
Click here to see the Comeup block.

They are done in Aluminum and the weight is next to nothing. We did them as small as possible, and if you want to run them with pegs you just get an adaptor ring to fit around it.

To see more pictures of the wheel slammers, click here.

Oba just spent 2 weeks in Austin, TX riding, filming and hanging out.
While being on the trip, Matt Brown shot some pictures for a bike check with Oba. So here's what Obas bike looks like:

Frame: Simple Debut, 21''
Fork: Primo Kamikaze
Headset: SMPL
Bottom Bracket: SMPL
Handlebars: SMPL Jetset, 8'' rise
Grips: Animal
Barends: Animal
Seat: Animal
Seat Post: Macneil
Seat Post Clamp: SMPL
Stem: Animal
Cranks: Odyssey Wombolt, 175mm
Sprocket: Animal Sprocky Balbaoa, 23-tooth
Chain: Shadow Interlock V2
Pedals: Animal
Pegs: Animal Lites
Rims: Primo Balance, 36- hole
Front Hub: SMPL E-Ject, 36- hole
Rear Hub: Primo pro, 36- hole with a 8-tooth driver
Spokes: Primo
Tires: Animal GLH, Front and Rear
Brakes: Size 12 Loteks, haha
Hub Guards: 2 SMPL in the front and a FBM in the rear

Thanks to Matt Brown for the pictures.
Click here to see more.

Simpel session went down last weekend, and was a lot of fun.

Eduards, Pim, Shoji, Kert, Mitch and myself (niels) was there to hang out and ride.

Ed was doing some really nice 360 inverts like the one shown to the right here, Shoji had some really nice lines, Mitch was flowing and styling around the entire course with his own lines (and on his new signature frame too), and Pim was set for the comp doing frontflips and was sooo close to pulling a double backflip during his run. Some really good stuff went down from all the riders there.

As you probably already know, Garrett Reynolds won, Gary Young placed 2nd and Daniel Dhers came in 3rd.

Scotty Cramner was riding one of our Eject front hubs, which was nice to see. (click here to see his bike check on Fatbmx).

Thanks to Risto and Mario for putting up yet another really nice event.

The first samples of the new Mitch Yeates signature frame are ready.

Mitch has been shooting some ideas over for a frame, and after a lot of sketching and designing we are now ready to test the first samples.

The frame will be called The Weaver, and will be available in Toptube 20.6", 20.8", 21" and 21.2".

We still have to finetune the frame with some minor details, so you will have to stay tuned for the specs a little longer. The main features of the frame is that it will be really slim and light, a short rear end and small dropouts.

Graphics has been done by Mike DeWit, and has recieved some very positive feedback. The frame will be available in a Teal combo, and in a Green combo.
Click here to see the graphics.

The Ride UK website has a little Q&A up about the frame as well. click here to see that.

After returning from his eastcoast trip, Oba took some time to do a small interview with the good people at Grindstate.com.

It took me a while to figure out how the flip through the pages on the website, but I am sure you will work it out.

click here to read what Oba's been up to, and what he is planning on later on in life.

This is the latest Ride UK advert, featuring David Lombard, and the new seatpostclamps.

As you might know, David quit his job as the editor of Cream magazine to get more time on his bike, and to pursue a new a different career as a landscaper. Sounds nice indeed. I am sure that rideable landscapes will start popping up all over France...

To see the advert in colour, click here.

Shoji has been pushing some buttons on the computer in Japan, and has put up a small blog called "Simple Life".

Being a Simple mind can be quite interesting according to the pictures and text Shoji put up on the blog.

Shoji Just recently went to Okinawa, a small island we also visited on our latest Japan tour. That place is truely amazing.

If you are interested and would like to see more of what Shoji has been up to, you can go to the blog by clicking here.

Here is the latest Ride UK magazine advert.

It's Rutgers work again. Good stuff.

The advert features Oba sessioning the small banks at Islands Brygge in Copenhagen while he was in Denmark last summer.

Oba just recently came back from his 6 week roadtrip around the US Eastcoast, which sounds like it was a lot of fun.

To see the advert in colour, click here.

Woozy has a really nice bikecheck up on Davids bike.

Loads of nice photos and a spec list as well.

Go to woozybmx.com by clicking here.

There's also a different bikecheck on Davids teampage.
Click here to see that.

Was just flipping through some websites, and came across this video from our Japan trip some time ago.

This is filmed and edited by Dominic Wrobel and put out as a teaser for the full length video.

Step a little back in time and see the video here.

Props issue 67 is out now, and features our new advert with Kert.

Kert has been busy at work getting some clips done. He was slowed down by a smaller injury, but still managed to come up with some really impressive clips.

Roman Neiman filmed and edited the advert.

Click here to see the street moves, or put the props DVD in the player and watch it on TV.

(And here is the Youtube version).

This is the October Ride UK advert.

The random facts are as follows:

Photo shot in a ditch near Copenhagen in Denmark.
Rutger Pauw shot the photo.
Oba Stanley did the riding.
Jimmy Röstlund designed the hub in the advert.
Niels did the layout.
Travis and Niels were the tourguides the day the photo was shot.

Perhaps there are even more facts to link to this particular advert, but let's leave it at that.
Thanks for the photo Rutger!

A lot of new, nice photos are up on the teamsite of Eduards.

I should say that Latvia would be pretty cold these days, but it seems that Ed still finds a warm and dry place to ride.

Eduards qualified to this years Simpel Session in Estonia, and will be joining Mitch, Shoji, Travis and myself (Niels) over there in January.

A big thank you goes out to the photographers. - Thank you!

To see the new photos, click here.

Jeremy sent in these photos of his bike.

The graphics on Jeremys bike is made by his good friend Anthony Lille and is definately a good job. Very interesting indeed. Something else.

And you would have to agree to "Make trails, not bombs"...

Jeremy just came back from the Urban Vibrations of Pessac. He made the finals, but crashed and got a concussion. Nothing serious though. I am sure it was still a good time.

Thank you very much Anthony for the nice graphics. Good Job!

To see all the drawings, go to Jeremy's teamsite, and have a look at the bikecheck.

Dan just got the box with his new parts and set up his new bike.

He sent in a few photos of the new ride, and a couple of pictures of him riding it on the first day. Very nice photos indeed.

Click here to see Dans bike.

And click here to see the riding photos.

Kert sent in some pictures of his bike.

It's fresh with a new paintjob, System stem, Eject hub and the new seatpostclamp too.

Really nice setup.

click here to see Kert's bike.

Matt Brown sent in some really nice photos of Oba.

Matt is from the Bronx in NY and does some really good work with a camera.
Thank you very much for the photos Matt!

To see the photos, go to Oba's teamsite by clicking here.

Oba is on a roadtrip around the US right now, riding his bike, seeing new places and new people. Stay tuned for photos soon.

Jeremy just build up a new bike on the Enigma frame, and took the new thing for a ride at his local trails, LaSource.

Jeremy sent in 4 photos from the session, 3 taken by P. Blondel and one taken by Little Chicken. Thanks a lot for the pictures guys.

Hope you like the pictures.

Click here to view them.

Strictly bmx shop out of Australia emailed in some news about a modified Simple Eject hub.

Liam Fahy-Hampton is running the Eject hubs, he runs two front wheels ie. no drive chain. Liam is really amazing to watch ride and does some very original stuff on the bike.

He had the hubs machined out to take 12mm axle studs for added strength.
Very interesting.

I thought I should take the chance to show you this really nice video of Liam while I am at it. Good stuff indeed.

Click here to watch it.

We have a new addition to the team, and we are very happy to welcome Dan Foley to the team.

Dan lives in Maryland, USA, is 17 years old, and seem to be spending a lot of time riding his bike.

Dan is to be found on the team pages with a nice video edit, good pictures and a small interview.

Thanks so much to Ben Hittle, Andrew Fowler, Alex Topper and Jake Dyke for the nice pictures.

Once again; Welcome to the team Dan!

Click here to go to Dans teamsite.

Here is another random photo.

This time it's a picture of Peter taken on our Japan trip about 2 years ago now. Peter is grinding a ledge in a Tokyo park on the first or the second day.
The Japan trip was super. Good memories, nice people, and plenty of Asahi, the japanese beer.

Ed docherty shot the photo, good work.

Click here to see the picture in japanese colours.

Here is a random photo I shot of Mitch last time he was in Denmark.

Photo is shot in Xhall, which is a skatepark build under a bridge in Copenhagen. The skatepark has 3 different sized bowls, all linked together.
It actually just expanded as of last week. Travis and Frank have been busy at work, and opened up the end of the park with another mini and a vert quarter. Now there is a ton of new lines to flow around on. Good stuff.

On a sidenote, Mitch is curreltly awaiting a prototype of his upcoming signature frame. Stay tuned.

To see a few more angles of the Kicker airs, click here.

Our Estonian distributor and good friend Alan Silmann sent over this video of Kert riding some street in Tallinn.
Alan was worried that people would think that the axle Kert breaks in the opening clip is an Eject hub axle. So I just wanted to let you know that it isn't.

Thanks a lot to Roman Neiman for the good edit.
If you want to see more of Romans work, go to his website by clicking here.

Enjoy the video.

Click on the picture to view the footage.

Seems as if Dominik Wrobel (aka Woozy) and Rutger Pauw has secretly been following me (Niels) around sniping pictures of me without my knowing it.

They have been busy at it, and definately get around.
Woozy came to Japan with us for the roadtrip there a while back, and Rutger was just in Copenhagen for a few weeks of summerfun. But I honestly had no idea they were all the rest of the places.

Woozy just posted the pavarazzi photos on the woozy website.

Click here to see them.

 

Came across this advert from the July issue of Ride UK, and realized that I never posted it on the website.

Better late than never..

It's Kert riding the Boob spot in Copenhagen just before the Roskilde Festival. I could come up with a lot of lame captions based on the name of this spot, but I will spare you my bad sense of humor.


To see the advert in colours, click here.

Kert just recently entered a street jam in Tallinn, Estonia called "MeTal".
He ended up taking 5 prizes at the contest including;

King Of Street
Craziest crash
Craziest trick
Most original trick
Craziest attitude

Congrats Kert!

Some other catagories that he did not win were:

Worst shit-talker ever
Crazy ass sportsman
Crazy ass paintjob
Grindmaster
Craziest line
Best young gun

Sounds like a good time to me.

to see pictures of Kert riding the contest, click here. (all pics taken by Joosep Nilk)

Just spent 5 days in NYC pedalling around with Oba and other really good friends.

Rode some nice stuff, did the sightseeing and had a nice time. Now it's time to go to Vegas to the Interbike tradeshow.

On the right you see Oba with an icepick to fakie at the banks. Fueled on cold drinks in brown paper bags.

There's also a bunch of other pictures from the visit.
Click here (or on the picture) to see them.

Here's our new advert in 2020 magazine out of Australia.

It's Wallis riding some ghetto ramp setup somewhere downunda', fully equipped with with Axl Rose bandanna and all.. Good stuff.

The Advert also features the new products, which are now available in stores throughout the world. For more info on the products, please go to the products section of the website here.

Thanks to Nick Gascoine for the picture.

To see the actual coloured advert, click here (or on the picture).

Here's the Ride UK # 108 advert.

It's Mitch, riding that metal quarter nobody ever uses in Copenhagen.

Many many thanks to Rutger Pauw for the nice snapshot.

To see the actual coloured advert, click here (or on the picture).

Ride UK issue 108 is on the streets now, and features none other than Mitch on the cover.
It's Steve Bancrofts first issue as an editor, and based on that I'd have to say that things look good for the magazine.

Issue # 108 is a roadtrip issue, and among other trips, it features the Simple Copenhagen to Roskilde trip with 4 pages worth of photos from Rutger Pauw and a nonsense text and captions from Travis and partly myself.

Mitch has a spot in the contents pages as well.
And last but not least, he's featured in the Simple advert in the magazine as well. This lad's all over the place...


If you haven't got yourself a copy of # 108, go get it now. Go, Go, Go!

Mitch has been travelling quite a bit this summer, after digging and riding whenever it was dry at the Empire of Dirt he started out with the Fise contest in France, then the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and after that a roadtrip ending at the Rebel Jam in Berlin, Germany.

On the picture to the right Mitch is giving an interview to the TV at the Fise contest.
Steve Bancroft sent in the picture to let us know how much of a pro attitude Mitch puts up at events.
Actually, Mitch is living up to the small print in the contract on the picture here (click here or on the picture to the right).

Thanks to Steve Bancroft for sending in the pictures.