(Photo: Fred Murray)

I wrote up a post on Chicken & Rice about Nearly 2 and it’s creator, Alex Donnachie.

I caught word of this last week when our roommate, Tony Neyer went to Austin with Stevie Churchill and Raul Ruiz up there to film for it, but now it’s official; Dans Comp are doing a full length DVD and Stew Johnson will be in charge of filming it. Here’s a Stew quote:

“It’s an honor for me to be given this opportunity to work with one of the largest and most talented teams in BMX. I look forward to spending time on the road with some old friends as well as getting to know some of the younger guys on the Dan’s Comp team, this should be a pretty wild project.”

The Dans team page currently lists 24 riders (not including their race team) so it’ll be interesting to see who gets full parts. Much, much more info coming soon I’m sure.

“Justin Fouque is one of our riders from France. I asked him if he had any footage laying around and he has his friend Louis Thomas send me this. Justin is a fun guy to be around and likes to go high. So here is a video of Justin riding some local spots and just having fun.“- Leigh Ramsdell/Eastern Bikes

Riding a vert ramp by yourself is a scary proposal. Here Simon ignores his better judgement and kills the vert ramp, then matches it to a pretty funny song choice.

Lotek uploaded 3 raw clips of Mike Hoder, all filmed in the SF area. Check the other 2 after the jump.

Charlie has an interview on Ride where he answers the question of if his freecoaster changed his life:

“Dude, yes! It made riding 1000x more fun and opened up so many possibilities. Old spots became new spots—it’s like you get to have the fun of starting riding for the first time all over again. All of the sudden there is an unlimited amount of new tricks to mess with. Maybe someday I’ll go back to cassette, but the freecoaster is way too much fun. Any time I put my bike down to grab the camera and film something, it’s snatched up quickly by one of the crew who wants to play around on it. I’ve been on the same Coastersaurus since last April and I haven’t touched it and it’s still perfect. I’m probably more surprised than anyone because I’m really hard on hubs—a lot of the stuff involves back pegs and a lot of force. The testing stage is a big deal to Rich and myself so I’ve really tried to be as hard on it as possible to make sure we’re putting something solid out there.”

And why he made the switch from his VX to a DSLR:

“The decision to go to the DSLR was because my VX shit the bed. The CCDs got misaligned from too many camera flips and the footage started coming out as a blue and purple blob. My friend Brad Hill, FU co-filmer, had a Canon 5d mkII that I loved using. The footage just looked insane, I’d never seen anything like it the way he used it. At that point, I’d done four full-length DVDs and hundreds of web edits with my VX and I felt like I was getting burnt out on it and I wanted something new to experiment with. I saved up and bought a Canon T3i setup right before a NYC visit earlier this year and that became the first Guy Stuff trip. I got accustomed to the camera over that week and Craig Passero shot a good portion of his section while we were there. I will probably go back to the VX for an edit here or there once I get mine repaired—just to mix it up. I have ADD so I need to switch it up often to keep from getting bored. With the next video I really want to push it a little further, as far as different cameras are concerned. I’d like to shoot a good bit of film—Super 8 and 16mm (just to give it a different look from the last DVD).”

This was supposed to be out like a month ago but late is better than never. Jared is obviously riding good but Dominic, who you might not recognize by name, really kills it in this edit and Navaz handled the editing. Go like Jared and Federal’s fan pages.

The riding, filming and production are all super on point in here. However this is an instance where an outlandish song jack ruins what would otherwise be a pretty memorable web video. Actually I guess it’s more memorable now.

Ben Lewis is back with another top notch edit, this one for his new sponsor, Source BMX. Here’s the word from them:

“Source BMX are proud to announce their new pro team of Kriss Kyle, Ben Lewis and Matt Priest. As well as our existing local team, we’re stoked to have three of the most progressive riders in the UK on board. To start things off, Benny L spent a week in Valencia filming a banging welcome edit with Matty Lambert. Kriss and Matt will be working on welcome edits soon with some fun trips being planned for the summer.“

Joss Fenn and Alex Kennedy leave their mark on Seventies Distribution’s ramp set up. As usual, AK makes everything look far too easy.