The Solarena hotel in Newport Beach was going to be our home base for the next 12 days. With a fridge, wifi, coffee machine, bed and shower, it had all we needed. After the long travel and LA shopping spree the light went out early the first day. As usual getting up the next day is easy as the time difference of 9 hours makes you wake up in the middle of the night a few times before you had enough of it and simply get out of bed. California doesn't always provide sunny days of 25 degrees but getting outside without a winter jacket in January still felt good. We had spotted a coffee shop around the corner of the hotel and decided to get breakfast there. It was right next door of the Deus shop. The capucino at Vacancy Coffee was amazing. Without giving my email address I received the receipt in my inbox a few seconds after paying with the Mastercard. That was a first for me. Mastercard apparently doesn't take privacy too seriously when they provide my email to coffee shops like that. Oh well.
10:30hr. That's the time we had set to meet Niek Kimmann over at Troy Lee Designs in Corona. Niek's mom had dropped off a camera for Niek at our place in The Netherlands and brought the camera for him as his old one had some focusing issues. We made good timing as the roads were rather empty (surprisingly) and stopped by Pro Circuit first to walk their shop with all the championship bikes on display. TLD was new to us at their current location.
Last year Philip and I made a trip to California together. It was such a good time that it had to happen again. This year's traineeship at HGS Exhaust company allowed him to make the Cali trip to visit two Monster Energy Supercross races, MX dealerships and companies left and right. Of course while in SoCal lots of BMX companies could be visited as well as friends, spots and whatever came up basically. Through a couple of episodes we'll take you through our trip starting at the beginning.
Traveling is an advanture. Every time. It's anticipating to the situation and it started off shaky when the alarm clock went off. Next to the railways being under construction, an other message showed
I'm now riding for ODI grips!! So me and Blake made a special Friday video to celebrate rocking the best grips in the world from here on out.
This is not one of my video parts or anything, but I'm really stoked on how this came out. It was so damn fun cruising all the Haro whips the last couple days and having Blake capture it in the vlog cam which also can make pretty cool little edits we're finding out, haha!
Demarcus Paul is back with another how-to brought to you by ODI. This time around Demarcus helps you unlock half cabs! If you’ve been struggling to get your cabs dialed in or just want to get some knowledge on the fundamentals of the trick then this video is for you.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.