We just got Taylor Elvy’s team page online for everyone to check out. Taylor’s been getting things done out in Vancouver whenever it’s not raining, watch out for some stuff from him soon. Check out his team page here and check out his welcome to the team edit again, so good!
Mike Cardin photo
Congrats to Dillon Lloyd for taking second place and $1000 at the Pepsi Pro/Am contest that went down in Montreal this past weekend at Le Taz skatepark. You can check out Dill and Greg Flag going off in the edit below that Pierre Gauthier of W&B Daily put together. After the contest there was a premiere for The Hunt video and everyone lost their shit over Dill’s part, dude killed it!
Chris Silva just put together a new bike. Check out some photos below and a few questions we threw at him about what he’s been up to lately.
Frame – Macneil Borato 20.5
Fork – Macneil CKS
Bar – Macneil XLT
Wheels – Macneil
Cranks – Macneil Conjoined
Seat – Macneil Fat Capital
Pedals – Animal Plastic
Tires – Animal GLH 2.1
Grips – Animal Ed
Stem – Animal
Sprocket – Animal Balboa
You just built up a new bike. Your last bike had two pegs and a rear brake, and this one is set up with no pegs and no brakes. Why the change?
Just before reading this I was listening to Bob Dylan’s song Times are a Changin, It was just time for me to change things up with my bike setup. I’ve always done that over the years to stay interested and keep it fun. Trying and learning new tricks is a lot of fun.
What’s your favourite part on your bike?
Macneil bars are perfect. I’ve always hated the feel of bars growing up and it was always hard to fine bars that felt good. The Macneil XLT bars are perfect and they never bend.
What parts do you go through the quickest?
Pedals for sure, I love and hate grinding my pedals. I love pedal grind tricks but I hate riding with no pins on my pedals as well, haha. Besides that, I don’t go through parts that quick anymore.
What do you do with your old parts when you build up a new bike?
Pay bills.
You’ve been filming pretty steadily all summer before you built this new setup. Where and when can people see new footage from you?
I’m always filming for little fun web edits but this past year I’ve been saving and working on my Sour Fever video part. The video is premiering at CORE BMX & Boards (in Toronto) Saturday October 29th at 5pm, be there! I also have a ton of scrap footage, enough for a full video part that I’m going to send Animal and see what they do with it…
Any plans for the fall and upcoming winter months?
I just got a job so I’m going to try to hold onto that. Just chill over the winter and ride some indoor parks here and there. Hopefully go on a trip or to to some warmer weather.
Check out a couple of dope shots of Greg Flag and Andrew Lazaruk shredding at Woodyard here on the Muffin and Pedal blog. Photos by Paul Moffat.
We’re stoked to introduce our new UK team! Ben Green (UK TM), Vinnie Mayne, Billy Cooper and Mike King will be repping us over there and we’re pumped to have them as part of the family. Here’s the official release from Seventies, our distributor in the UK…
“MacNeil have appointed Ben Green as their new UK Team Manger, joining Ben to represent the brand will be Vinnie Mayne, Billy Cooper and Mike King. The team will be taking a trip to Madrid in November which will be covered in a future issue of Ride UK along with a web video. They will also be working closely with MacNeil in Canada to give input for future product developments. Expect to see a lot more from MacNeil in the coming months…” – Seventies
The world premiere of The Hunt video went down last night in Vegas and we’re stoked to say that Dillon Lloyd got second place!! So stoked, props to Dillon for killing it and to Jeremy Deme for putting together a great edit, you can check out some behind the scenes photos that Jeremy shot while they were filming the part here on The Embassy . Check out what Will Stroud had to say about Dillon’s second place part below.
Check out Chris Silva’s two page spread in the newest issue of The Albion of an insane over grind in Toronto. So fucking crazy!! Shout outs to Scott Barker for getting the photo. If you can get your hands on a copy of The Albion, do it, seriously an amazing magazine.
Leastmost has a rad feature up about a No Bikes/Fat Trax trip through Oregon that Lazer went on. Check out the article here!
We just got George Bolter’s team page up! George has been riding for us for a bit and we’re super happy to have him on the team! He’s been traveling all over the place and sending over tons of stuff. Check out a few edits from George below, and click here to see his team page!
Greg Flag, Dillon Lloyd and Andrew Lazaruk hit up the Wanna Give’r Jam in Campbell River, BC back in August and shredded. Jeremy Deme from The Embassy put together this dope edit, check it out!
