All of our 2012 goods have landed in Germany and are available through Traffic Distribution. If you’re in Germany, hit up your local shop that deals with Traffic and get your hands on it!

Here’s a random photo (shot by Peter Dai) and a quick edit from Chris Silva from some sessions before the snow started to fly.

On top of the final Red Bull Backyard Digger video we posted last week, George sent us an update with some photos and let us know that he recently sprained his ankle and is off of his bike for 2 weeks during New Year break. He also sent us this video he put together of his road trip from Vancouver to LA with Paul Langlands, Fraser Booth, Luke Hodges, and himself. Check it all out below and wish him a speedy recovery!

Queenstown.

Trail scooter.

Fire pit.

Vancouver to LA.

We just got our hands on a few stacks of the new Union Press zine that features an ad/poster we ran of Greg Flag doing a crazy grind to fakie wallride shot by our boy Mike Cardin. Union Press is a collaboration between Brad Hill (BMXFU) and Prashant Gopal (Yo Sick) and is full of awesome photos, interviews, stories and more from the Canadian BMX scene. You’ll be able to get your hands on a copy for free (and trust us you’ll wanna get one) from finer bike shops worldwide soon enough, keep an eye open for it!

How fucking crazy is that??

Chris Silva has a really cool, in depth interview that he did with Repset a while back that has finally seen the light of day. Check it out here for a cool retrospective of video parts and more from a modern day Canadian BMX legend.

Ride BMX posted up a dope wallpaper of Dill shot by Ryan Fudger from our Vegas/Phoenix trip a while back. Go here to grab it for whatever monitor size you need!

Our distributor in Canada, Ten Pack, have been doing some great giveaways and this week they’re doing a MacNeil Week! Hit up their Facebook page and check out all the details for your chance to win some free shit!

Our distributor in Ukraine, Velotrade, hooked up this dope edit of Sergei Gal shredding for us over there. Dude seriously kills that indoor spot! Watch out for more from him soon!

Photo by Mike Davies.

George Bolter hit us up with some news about the Red Bull Backyard Digger event that he was a part of recently in New Zealand. This is what he had to say:

About a month ago me and my brother Louis got together with Red Bull and a few mates for the Red Bull Backyard Digger. Basically to do up a backyard spot, build a heap of jumps and make it a whole lot better! We camped out on a farm down south in the Waikato and dug all weekend and got a nice six pack going with a few hips and rollers. Red Bull supplied a digger and a Bobcat to help get the job done faster.

Check out George digging and speaking in part one of the video, and check back soon for part two.

Dillon has had a pretty busy year so far. Between contests, traveling, and moving, we caught up with him to get a quick update.

You’ve been pretty busy. In the middle on filming for The Hunt you moved from the Montreal area to Vancouver. How has the change been?

Ya, filming for The Hunt was fun just finding and riding new spots is the best so it made filming and riding alot more fun, and the change has been amazing. Just riding in the city or anywhere and being able to see the moutains all the time makes everything you do and think so much sicker, and also all the amazing street spots and skateparks.

What’s become of your cars in Quebec, how many do you have now and what are/were you driving before you left?

Right now I’m driving my 1989 BMX 325i stripped cagged and race ready everyday now. Since I have been down in Montreal it’s hard to drive normal when all you want to do is drift and speed everywhere. Just got myself out of a $1000 ticket and losing my lisence with my charm for doing donuts. Thank god for female cops. Before I left I also had anther BMW. A 1991 325i and a beater Civic that I sold to travel and bike.

You obviously put a ton of work in filming for your part in The Hunt with Jeremy Deme. What was the experience like?

Ya I just had lots of fun riding and on the sidelines watching Jeremy do all his magic on the camera and editing and also joking around and just having the funnest time.

How psyched were you when you heard you got second place amongst some pretty heavy hitters?

Ya for sure. I would have been super stoked just making it in the top ten and was just a hundred times more stoked finding out I got second.

How was the Taz contest? Second place two years in a row is definitely not something to complain about. How hard did that truck to flat over the quarter pipe hurt?

Can’t complain. The truck hurt my back a bit only because it was fucked from landing on it earlier from a pegs to hard 180, but besides that I was fine.

You’ve got a big European trip coming up soon. What are your plans there?

Just to have fun, party, meet Euro chicks and bang shit out on the bike.

Any other plans for the rest of the winter?

Just ride as much as possible besides that not really.