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Matt LeViege doing that Matt LeViege thing.

HAHAHA, SEZ 14- The 14th dvd by : Matt LeViege – “PLEASE let video load first” sez from matt leviege on Vimeo.

I just saw this DVD (Hoffman’s Testimony) in a stack the other day.  This was also a bonus video in Mat Hoffman Pro BMX 2.  If I told you that this is an entire video part comprised of a single trick you’d think I was crazy, but when you watch it it all makes perfect sense.

About every 5 years a new generation of BMX starts.

About every 5 years the nac-nac comes back en vogue.

It’s just funny to me that every generation of BMX declares the nac “the worst trick ever,” but it seems to be the first trick to regain popularity during the next new rider cycle.

I don’t know John Lee from Adam, but….

1. He offered some advice when I was over riding my bike
2. He has manly man dreads like I wish I could grow if not for being the first man on either side of my family to have thinning hair
3. He can do a cherry picker

If I’m not going to link to an interview from a guy with those qualifications, who will I link to?

The Shorty’s Pizza Shop Van

I’ve become a fan of the show Wheeler Dealers on HDTV.  It’s a British show where a kind of annoying car salesman buys up old cars for not that much money, gives them to his friend – a surfer who apparently suffers from giantism – to fix up, and then sells them for not that much money plus not that much money.  A couple of weeks ago they did a VW Micro Bus, which they converted into the perfect surf vehicle and which the giant surfer promptly bought for himself.

All the things that make the Bus a perfect surf vehicle make it a perfect BMX vehicle.  It’s cheap, big enough to carry a bunch of your friends inside and a bunch of your gear on the roof.  It has possibly the single most insane aftermarket of any vehicle, ever, ranging from hot rod to camper transformations and it is from an era where “Volkswagen” wasn’t German for “electrical problems.”

The only real downsides have to do with the driving experience.  The VW Microbus in full tune makes about the same horsepower as a Suzuki SV (the motorcycle everyone suggest for those who’ve never ridden a motorcycle) and handles about as well as your couch on casters.  But the fact is, you don’t buy one of these for driving excitement.  You buy one for vibe, which it has in spades.

If you’ve got five grand burning a hole in your pocket, you could do a lot worse than a pristine, restored example of one of these for your bike hauling duties.

Rob Nolli rides flatland on the same bike he rides vert on, which is the same bike he rides trails on, which is the same bike he rides street on, which is the same bike he rides parks on.  It does not have a freecoaster, it does have four pegs and two brakes.  He’s 37 years old, but can still pull double trucks across a box.

I kind of hate him.

Rob Nolli Interview – More BMX Videos

Dave Dillewaard, A few days in Salt Lake. from Charles Fallon on Vimeo.

Friday’s a good day for Meshuggah.

Someone leaked pictures of the new Olympus Digital Pen micro 4/3 camera.  Basically what we’re looking at here is an interchangeable lens compact, much in the style of the PenF.  Depending on price, this may have just beat out the Panasonic LX3 as my next camera.  Oh yes, do want.

Given that I spent the last week hanging out in the Harrisburg metro area, I figured I may as well post video from one of its favorite sons…