REVOLUTION RENOVATIONS Friday, January 30, 2009 The guys at Revolution have just done a bunch of Renovations on the shop including finally putting in a work shop area.., check the photos, the shops looking dialed.
     If your in Christchurch or heading down there make sure you stop by and check the shop out. UPLAND ROAD PHOTOS Here is a few more photos from last weeks ride at Upland Rd. If you haven't ridden Upland Road park in Auckland make sure you check it out sometime, its not amazing, but its definitely fun!
     SOME HISTORY Wednesday, January 28, 2009 I was talking to some riders the other day and was finding it hard to explain this, so I thought I would just post some photos instead.....
    Before there was Rainbows End there was Coca Cola's Skateopia, the biggest skate park in southern hemisphere! I cant believe the demolished the whole thing to build a shitty amusement park... Its such as shame and so sad that most of us never got to ride it.. or even lay eyes on it for that matter! CARVE Tuesday, January 27, 2009 This is a bit of a random photos but here is some photos of Paul Moffat carving upland bowl at high speed.......
   BIKE CHECK There is a new bike check up, Stephens Simple Enigma with a pretty crazy custom paint job.. check it out.
In other news if you didn't read below Paul Langands came third at the BMX Games in Melbourne... rad news for the Cambridge Shredder! Congratulations! LANGLANDS Jamie Fohey (Melbourne) left a message on my phone last night letting me know that Paul Langlands had taken 3rd at the BMX Games dirt over in Aussie!! Awesome news for the Cambridge shredder. Paul apparently unleashed his deep bag of tricks on the Aussies and a few American riders to take the podium.... mean.... OG AKL Monday, January 26, 2009 Here is a couple of photos I took recently of two original Auckland Shredders.. Simon Palmer with a high two peg and Mr Dave Manconi ice-picking the Lynn Field bowl.
  LOUIS BOLTER VID Check this rad little video the guys at Revolution made of Louis Bolter while they where up in AKcity a few months ago.
Louis Bolter from Revolutionnz on Vimeo. FUTURE OF BMX?????? Saturday, January 24, 2009 F@#king hope not! SHIT HAPPENS Thursday, January 22, 2009 You might remember a did a post a few weeks back about a new park getting built in Mt Albert, check it here, well I'm not sure how true this is but apparently there not going through with the original design but instead building this... so I guess shit does happen! Even though allot of people didn't like the last park at least it was better than what there building now!! but I guess we cant complain to much, a tiny new park is better than no park at all!
This new design still looks like a bit of fun though... especially when you look at the scale of the skater in comparison to the ledges and wedges.  Like I said last time... one day ill get to air a 7 foot hip in my own city!... or maybe I should give up that dream and learn some grinds? MANUKAU PHOTOS Wednesday, January 21, 2009 Last Wednesday night a few of us went out and had a ride at Manukau skate park for the first time in a while.. I had forgotten how awesome the park is, in my opinion once you get used to the lumpy transitions its easly one of the best parks in Auckland City. Here is a bunch of photos from the evening.
       Photos in order are: An overview of the park, 3 photos of Bevan clicking turnsdowns, Bruce Thomson turndown over the pyramid, Wazman with a perfectly executed table and last of all a t-shirt some of you may appreciate. EDH FRAMES! Tuesday, January 20, 2009 This is some pretty f@#king sweet news... EDH are going to be making frames! and they look amazing too.. clean, simple, perfect!
Here is what Travis from EDH has to say: Yes you read it right EDH is finally bringing out our debut frame which we have called the "Render" frame. The project has been in the works for near on a year now, countless drawings, hours behind the PC doing solid models, research and correspondence with our agent as well as manufacturers so it hasn't been an easy road but it will be sooooo worth it! Being NZ's only BMX parts company we have tried to bring bits of the NZ scene into the frame like the beer bottle silhouette seat stay bracket, the "Babes and booze" decals done by NZ's own Mark Skulls, it's gonna be great. Removable brake system, double butted tubes, integrated seat clamp, cnc'd drop outs and completely heat treated are just some of the features, so guaranteed the EDH Render frame will have it all! Below are a few model renders of what the frame is to look like. The production samples are in the works now and should be here mid Feb, with some of our team riders shredding them soon after..... Stoked and hope you are too! I will post specs up soon so keep an eye out..    Keep and eye out in for more news on these frames as Ill try and keep people up to date with whats going on, hopefully in February we will be able to see some photos of a prototype. Thanks for sending the info through Travis.. its rad to see the progression of a NZ owned, rider owned company! MOFFATS BACK Sunday, January 18, 2009 Long time friend and bmx shredder Paul Moffat is back in NZ for a while after living in Canada for the last 2 years. It was rad to catch up with him and get some good rides in.. check the photos of him blasting the big transition at Manukau park, hopefully we will get some good street riding in over the next month and get some good shots.
    UP AND COMING EVENTS Check the flyers below for a bunch of Jams coming up soon.
The Jed is going to be fun as hell, its going to be similar to last years park comp only this time bigger and better. There is also going to be a Six Pack next to the skate park that there going to run the the dirt nationals on. There is also a few rumors of some Australian riders heading over.. should be a big comp and a fun time.. so if you can make it, be there!    MORE PMP PHOTOS Saturday, January 17, 2009 Here is a bunch more photos of the PMP trails sent in by Mark.
       EAMON AND TOM WEB EDIT Check out this rad little video from Eamon and Tom.. south island shredders!
Eamon&Tom Web Edit yo from Tom FT on Vimeo. DIRT 1/4 Thursday, January 15, 2009 Check out these photos Mark from PMP trails sent in of Alan blasting the hell out of the freshly shaped dirt quarter.
   Thanks for the photos Mark! EDH NEWS Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2009 looks like its going to be a pretty busy year for EDH.. they have a bunch new parts due to come out which include there new stem and 8.3" bars, how rad does the stem look with the knife cut out! EDH has few more things in the works so keep an eye out.
   edhbmx.com NEW FP SITE There is a new Focal point webpage which looks super clean and packed with loads of content from Melbourne and around Australia, so make sure you check it out.. focalpointbmx.com
 NEW PARK Monday, January 12, 2009 A while back I did a post about a new park getting built Owairaka Reserve, Mt Albert. The park has had the go ahead by the council and should be finished and ready to ride in March.
Check this little you tube video to see what the parks going to look like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyxbuD9XVIM I know the park isn't what allot of BMXers would like but I'm just happy that new parks are getting built, plus this park is built by Jason Parks who did Devonport so you know its going to be pretty smooth to ride.. its looks like it should have some creative lines too. The only thing I dont get is that its about 5 minutes ride away from May Road park, I dont see why the council just didnt put the two projects together and build a nice big park? One day ill get to jump a 7foot hip in my own city! COUPLE-A-PICS Here is a few photos from over the last week.
   Steven, fakie table over the hip. Steven, fakie over the hip. English guy (sorry cant remeber his name), whip over the hip. FARM JAM VID Sunday, January 11, 2009 Sam from Revolution sent in this nice little clip he filmed and edited of the Frew Farm Jam, be sure to check it out. The guys from Revolution invested in a pretty amazing video camera so I'm pretty sure there going to become the king of web clips in NZ, so expect to see more from them.
Revolutionnz BMX Dirt - Frew Farm Jam from Revolutionnz on Vimeo. INTRODUCING RYAN McCRAE Thursday, January 8, 2009 Introducing the newest member to the Zombie team.. Ryan McCrae.
I have known Ryan for a while now and I have always been impressed with his motivation and photography skills, he always seems to be out there riding, getting photos and generally juts been involved with the BMX scene which is rad.. In my opinion he has to be one of the best BMX photographer's in NZ and his photos continue to get better and better all the time... which makes Ryan the perfect edition to Zombie helping keep the site continually updated with NZ content. Thanks Ryan!  That makes the official contributors to Zombiebmx.com: Mike Davies Lester Perry Ryan McCrae Here is some previous posts from Ryan. http://www.zombiebmx.com/blog/2008/11/cambridge-jam.html http://www.zombiebmx.com/blog/2008/11/butchers-bash.html P.s Ryan goes by the user name Cruch JONO HOPPINGS NEW RIDE Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Heres a quick check of Jonos new ride
   On the 30th of December the Pauanui bmx comp was held. 1st- Jono Hopping 2nd- Kenny Papara 3rd- Tom worthington. QUICK POST Monday, January 5, 2009 Just thought I would do a quick post with some photos I had kicking around on my desktop.. the first three are of Dave Manconi doing Bars to Disaster at Lynnfield bowl, the next one was shot by Manconi and is of myself also at Lynnfield.
On the 24th of this month there is going to be a Jam at PMP for local rider Alan... Check the flyer for full details, should be allot of fun! Choice!     SUMMER X DEMO Jed and some of the Taupo crew along with Paul Langlands did a bit of a demo at the Summer Cross moto race last week in Whakatane, check out what went down:
WHATS HAPPENING TO VICTORIA Most of you have probably heard the rumors that Victoria Skatepark is going... well its true, Basically the council is putting a new motorway through and the skatepark is going to get in the way of construction. Whether the get rid of the park completely or more it to a new location I don't know... but construction of the new motorway starts 2009 and ends 2014.. and apparently in 2014 Auckland City is a getting a massive brand new park?? but that's a long time away! Anyway lets hope for the best and ill keep you posted as I find more information about whats going on.
    HISTORY OF BMX IN NEW ZEALAND Saturday, January 3, 2009JORDAN TWEEDIE CLIP Seth Leeming sent in this rad little clip of Jordan Tweedie from Milford shredding his twenty.
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