Travis Collier Interview
Check out an interview with Travis Collier on the Ride site. Click here to see it!
Chris Martindale in Vancouver
Chris Martindale was in town for the weekend with his friends Brian Chace and Shay. They were up here hanging out and gathering some clips for Brian Chace’s new DVD Refresh. We rode some parks, the dirt jumps in Coquitlam and SFU. Check out a few photos after the jump.
Bibi’s a Dadi!
Bibi and his girl Julie had a baby girl on Sunday! Her name is Charlie. We don’t have much more info than that at the moment, but we’ll let you know more as soon as we know. Congratulations to Bibi and Julie from all of us here at MacNeil!
You’re A Man Now Son Contest!!!
MacNeil is working with Joe Mamma’s Bike Shop in Ottawa Canada to put together a pretty fun skatepark jam weekend. We’re going to be throwing a birthday party for one lucky American rider who’s 18th birthday happens to fall in the week leading up to the Jam. Why 18? Because you’re a man now son, and for some reason your country won’t let you drink yet. Did we mention that Ottawa is located on the Quebec border where the drinking age is 18? So if you’re an American rider and your birthday lands on or between June 7th and 12th, you’re eligible to win an all expenses paid trip to a jam in Ottawa as part of the Ten Pack Re-session tour, to chill and ride with the MacNeil Team and all the Ottawa locals. Go to tenpackbmx.com for more details and dates on the Re-session Tour.
Rules
1. You must be turning 18 on or between the dates of June 7th to 12th.
2. You must have a valid passport.
3. You must want to have a really fun birthday.
4. You must be a legit rider and not just some dude who just wants to party in Canada. This is a riding trip. The party comes second.
How do you get picked?
That’s up to you. The contest is wide open. Send us whatever you think will make us choose you. It can be bmx related or not, whatever you want. Some examples are, a simple email, a riding video, a party video, photos of your girlfriend, (or mom if she’s still hot,) arts and crafts, bribe money, a really nice present, photos of your bike, etc. Send as much or as little as you want. Basically we’re looking for someone who’s going to be fun to hang out with, and wants a birthday party that we’ll all remember for years. We’ll be posting entries on the site as they come in.
What don’t we want?
We don’t want to baby sit some idiot who’s so drunk he goes to jail or chokes on his own vomit. The last thing we want to do is have to call your parents and tell them that you’re dead. And by all expenses paid, we DO NOT MEAN BAIL!
What’s covered?
1. A return plane ticket from Where ever you live in the USA to Ottawa Canada. Fly in on June 12 and return on June 15.
2. $40 a day food money for four days. $160 total.
3. Hotel for three nights. You’ll be staying in a room with the team riders.
4. A free golf bag courtesy of Ogio to put your bike in when you fly.
Send all your entries to info@macneilbmx.com
Gary’s Surgeries
Gary recently had double knee surgery to fix some problems he’s been having in both his knees. We are bummed Gary is off his bike for a bit, but totally stoked for him to heal up and put his knee troubles in the past! Dig just asked Gary a few questions about his surgeries and his recovering process. Check it out here!
The MacNeil Team On Twitter
You can now follow the MacNeil team on Twitter! Rather than just one of us in the office running the Twitter account, we passed out the login to the whole team, so you can expect to find some good updates! We put a little box in the sidebar of the site, where you can see the team updates, but make sure to check out or Twitter page and FOLLOW US!!
Hoby Gumbler
We just got an email sent to Hoby Bumbler (whoever that is??) from Chris Smith and I was inspired to make the wonderful art you are looking at above.
“hello macneil. here be some photos that my girl lady pam took. are there still the big deuce frames? make the deuce graphics with a 22 pistol.”
Check out more (actual) photos after the jump – Read the rest of this entry »
Travis Collier in Ion Magazine
Travis Collier just sent over an email about some work he did for Vancouver based Ion magazine. Check out what Travis had to say about ION.
“Just picked up the new ION Mag. Got an illustration in the Trail of Dead article and MacNeil frame in the contributors section. Its in every clothing store in Canada. Thought it would be a cool update for the site and to tell everyone to pick one up.”
I also shot a few photos of Travis a couple of weeks back. Check them out after the jump as well as a some pages from ION Magazine – Read the rest of this entry »
An Update From Alistair
Ali just hit us with an update about some new stuff…
“NEW TRUCK OR TRICK???? that is the question, unlike that video i posted about the vans wheels of rock tour trick, this is not fake, by the way that was a joke nothing went down. i just thought it would be some thing funny to watch, but this day and age people are learning brand new crazy stuff, and you got let down when you didn’t see anything new, sorry… and by the way i wouldn’t waste the footage if i did have anything brand new on the internet. i am about dvds… well i got my truck painted black coz i was over silver… take it!”
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Travis Collier Team Page
Travis Colier’s team page is up with a new interview and all new photos! Check it out!
