//Thursday,
December 28 02:11 AM - Posted by Schogn
The
Ghetto Jam was a huge success. A massive thank you to everyone who helped
out and showed up to ride and spectate on Sunday. We had a great
turnout of riders from all over the country.The weather was a little shitty
over the 2 days but we managed to have an kick ass time. I had a easy
schedule for the day and fired off Am and Pro runs as they happened. The judging
was loose but fair I think, Amateur riders judged the Pro's and Pro's decided
on the winners for the Am's.
The Props
High Hop attempt
was rained and prize giving was a washout too but everyone who was there said
they had a great time.
I
am busy with the spans of photo`s and footage of the Sundays riding and should
have some more online soon. In the meantime if you havent seen the photo's
from the Saturday, check
them out. Here are the results from the '06 BMX Direct
Ghetto Jam.
Pro:
1. Chris Barnes
2. Roscoe Siebers
3. Stuart Loudon
Amateurs:
1. Zack Mthembu
2. Darren van
Wyk
3. Eddie- from Cape Town.
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Zack
Mthembu winner Am class -Ghetto Jam |
//Saturday, December 23 01:03 AM - Posted by Schogn
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Who's
the man. |
The
first of the ghetto photo gallery is now online. Saturdays photo's
are up and running....get
to the ghetto news.
//Saturday,
December 23 01:113 AM - Posted by Schogn
Fit Bike Co. Chase
Hawk frames arrived on Friday, flat black and flat clear, 20.5" - 20.75" and
21" Photo's and details to follow.
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The
Hawk |
//Wednesday,
December 20 21:23 AM - Posted by Schogn
Saturday was a cracker of a morning, the sun
was blazin as we began building at the park for the Jam. We got lost
looking for BPO (Bidfreight Port Operations) down at the docks but
managed to find them just in time before
they closed for the weekend. BPO supplied us with enough pallets to
erect a solid spine and a couple of curved wallrides. It rained heavily
in the afternoon but we missioned on through it to get as much done
as possible.We were pretty much ready for Sunday except for a few
minor preparations that needed to be done.
Roscoe took the boys out to see the Finkelsteins at a very wet Wavehouse
that evening and things got loose. A good few tequilas were passed
around and not much sleep was had as the crew crawled home in the wee hours
of the morning.
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Many
hands = light work. |
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Darryn
always muckin about. |
Saturday,
December 16 07:01 AM - Posted by Schogn
Yesterday we spent the day preparing for the jam. The
pick up truck arrived bright and early loaded up the scrap wood and pallets and
moved on down to the concrete park. A whole crew of riders helped with the unloading
and repacking so it went down pretty fast. Things are looking pretty good and
it looks like the weather is going to hold. Check the Ghetto page
for more splurb.....
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Thats
a biiig truck yo. |
3
more out of town riders also pitched up, team rider Phil from Somerset
West, Danny Flax from up in Joburg and xWaterfall resident Wesley Combrink
all in town for the Jam and the buildoff happening tomorrow..
3 P.E cats were
stranded in Durbs today and needed a spot to crash for the night, ofcourse
a bondi (bonfire an beer) session went down and everone kicked back
and chilled. The Jam kicks off at 1 on Sunday.
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Not
a tour tshirt insight! |
//Thursday,
December 14 21:11 PM - Posted by Schogn
Darryn and Jeff took a couple of photo`s
of the session at the Indigo ramp in the Valley of a 1000 Hills in
KZN. Here`s
an overview
of the ramp.
Darryn, Jeff, 'The Yeti', Warrick, Travis, Cape Town Eddie and Jaque
all spent the afternoon filming and having a good time. I missed out on the
session- had to finalise a few things for the Ghetto
Jam happening on Sunday...
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Jacques
looking back. |
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15
year old Dstar. |
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Eddie,
manual on the deck. |
//Wednesday,
December 13 22:45 PM - Posted by Schogn
Maritzburg session went down yesterday and we
hit 2 spots in the blazing sun, boy it was hot. We rode the titty
bowls and then hooked up with Brett Hancock and Greg Minaar at the
biggest 5 pack speed jumps i have ever seen. Whips, flips, Xups and some
big ass jumps. Scroll
down for some photo's.
I have not heard from Stuart, Chris Barnes or Dale yet...they must be having
a good time up in Joburg on that tour. Will try reach em tomorrow.
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Rocking
downside tables. |
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Rudi
putting it down. |
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Jacques
doing what he does best.. |
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Stuart
Lang MX style tuck-table thing. Too good. |
Roscoe,
Darryn, Jacques, Jeff, JMC, Eddie, Travis and Warrick rode the Indigo
ramp. I stayed behind at the office to catch up on some work but they
had a blast and took a bunch of nice photo's. Photo`s soon.
//Tuesday,
December 12 23:03 PM - Posted by Schogn
Friends and Team riders have been having a blast
in Durban the last couple o' days, we been hitting up all the spots
around town and stopped by Petermaritzburg today. Everyone is very
excited about the Jam happening this Sunday I cant believe the feedback.
Riders from all over S.A are going to be at this one, stoked! The
Props Hop-O-Meter is done but the big screen is taking longer than
expected...
Big news
for us is that we have a brand spanking new Team rider. Dstar has been
a good friend for longtime and it was about time that he got
sorted properly....Dstar cleaned up at the Fox Comp, he killed the
Am class and walked away with a well deserved 1st place. Darryn van Wyk
better known as Dstar is riding and representing Fit Bike Co. in
S.A Welcome aboard lad!
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High
5s and bear hugs. |
Here`s a few photos and details from the Fox comp that went down on Monday.
Stuart Loudon placed 6th in the Pro class, that was just behind Greg Illingworth, Malcolm Peters, Tyrone Bradley, Mat Mcloed, Paul Soderlund and his bro Colin. Pretty darn good for a young shredder with only a couple of years under the belt.
Roscoe came so close to pulling these front flips to flat.
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Roscoe
Siebers - front flipping the quarter to flat. |
Stuart Lang entered Pro and said he was gonna 'boost' the box...boost indeed.
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Stuart
Lang- boosting the box. 8ft?? |
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Mat
Mcloed flip-whipping the box on Rudi's bike! |
I`ll post some news later on a fun session we had at the Petermaritzburg trails and titty bowls today.
//Saturday,
December 09 18:45 PM - Posted by Schogn
Check these out!! Ghetto
News.
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Lack of 411 updates has been terrible, I know, Its been nutters here with so
much going on. Let me fill ya in a little...the Ghetto posters are out and around
S.A check the Ghetto news for the low down
on that. More wood, pallets and a huge wooden cable reel arrived at my place
yesterday for the Jam...plenty team news: Jeff and Jacques arrived
yesterday from Joburg/Sasolburg and we hit the beach today for a semi windy-semi
rainy session. I've uploaded Jeffs 2minute street run to his Team page so check
that out. Phil has confirmed that he`s down for the jam (well stoked about
that). MIA team rider Raju Patel phoned from the UK today; said he just got a
new bike and is back up and riding. Ross and Roscoe will be arriving in Durbs
too in the next few days. Good friend Jeff (aka JMC) is also in town for the
Ghetto Jam and has just pimped his bike. Pics to follow.
I will post some photo`s in the next day or too.
If you havernt been by the Fit Bike Co website recently it has been refreshed,
there's a spy photo of the new Fit seat up on there too...http://fitbikeco.com
//Friday,
December 08 08:32 AM - Posted by Schogn
KHE Geisha hubs are in! Get em while there here, supplies are VERY limited.
The Geisha hubs are standard 36hole right side drive only. I have 9t or 11t
options availble and a choice of 3/8"th for flatlanders and 14mm option for
you street cats.
Like i said stocks are limited and these hubs are darn fine. The mechanism inside
is very unique and very light. There are 3 'slack' options available, so you
may set the amount of play you would like to run in the hub, its as simple as
adding or removing a washer from inside the hub. R1300 with any of the above
options.
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The
full photo in here. |
The KHE Tanaka fork was my first choice of fork after my last fork retired after 4 years of hard service. Its fine oh so fine...zero rake, 3/8th axle slots, 800 grams, full japanese tubing, alloy stem cap and available with a choice of mounts or no mounts. Whats interesting is that the brake mounts are removable from the fork. We have both the brakeless and 990 mount forks availble. R1000 per fork, finest quality flatland fork out there in my opinion.
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Removable
brake mounts, zero rake. |
//Tuesday, December 05 03:25 AM - Posted by Schogn
The 1st box of KHE goods arrived late last week. Tanaka forks and How To DVD's. Flatlanders can now enjoy quality zero offset forks with or without mounts. More details and specs to be added as all the stock arrives. See KHE for more. http://khebikes.com
If your waiting on those Geisha hubs, I expect those sometime this week. I will keep you posted.
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Super
lite, super stiff. With or without brake mounts. |
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N-O-V-E-M-B-E-R -
- N-E-W-S
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//Friday,
November 24 02:12 AM - Posted by Schogn
Lets do this! Its Friday and its time for some good sessions to go
down, enough of the rain already!
Things have started to fall into place for the ghetto jam. I had not fully
realised the extrent of the preperations that has been going
on for this event up till today. I wont say too much here as Im about
to post an update on the Ghetto Jam news page. Here`s the poster. Its finished
and going to print tomorrow.
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Young
D*star aka Darryn buzzed me this morning and said that he had heard
of a concrete mini and spine near a friends
house in Kloof. I'm thinking yeah right- thats just down the road from
my place...we head out, pick up Stuart and Justin and a couple of minutes
later we come across this brand new concrete mini slash spine. Happy
indeed.
About 6 foot high and 10 foot wide and not even 2 days old. Click
here for 2 more photo's
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Stuart
and Justin. Stoked on the new Hillcrest spot. |
//Wednesday,
November 22 01:02 AM - Posted by Schogn
Nico @ Can Can Trails is putting on a Fun Jump comp on
the 2nd of Decemeber at the Can Can Trails in Pretoria. Nico has added 1
or 2 new features to his Can Can alotment. Details and contacts on the poster.
Get there if you can. More
here.
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//Saturday,
November 18 14:39 PM - Posted
by Schogn
Live in or around the Durban area? We could use your help...
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We still need a couple more pallets to feel that we have enough. There is a curved wallride planned and it is going to require alot more pallets than we can afford on 1 obsticle.You may see these posters and flyers around Durban. Help out where you can.
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