Had a little bit of a slow start to the trip with some real shitty weather the first three days we were here. Pretty much rained non stop. Tried to make the most of it though. Had a fun pretty fun session at an indoor park and drank our faces off. The weather has been better the last little bit though. Did a day trip up the Gold Coast, another to the Sunshine Coast and been riding around the city a bunch.

Samson Ross with a one handed can can.

Night time at the Gold Coast.

A quick afternoon edit in the back alley with Greg Flag and Taylor Elvy. Filmed by Jereme Deme and edited by Harrison… Check it!

The newest issue of The Albion is in shops in the UK now and should be making it’s way to subscribers around the world shortly. This issue features on article with our product designer Darcy Saccucci about everyone’s favourite seat and post setup, the Pivotal. Check out the content list and get your hands on a copy as soon as possible.

Cory Martinez On Plastic Pegs
Darcy Saccucci And His Pivotal Moment
Rise Of The Tin Man – Clint Reynolds Breaks His Femur
Adam Wasylenko – Working In A Coalmine
Paper Trail – UK Magazines, A Retrospective
Tom Dugan – I Hate ‘The Duganator’
Tom Sanders – The Jack Of All Trades Is The Master Of None
Matthew Roe – In The Clouds
Derek Nelson – People Are Strange, Kill Yourself
Max Wood – A Proper Love Story
Section Songs – Soundtrack To Our Lives
Stewart Johnson – Under The Mask

We caught up with Jaumell last night while he was at the Oilers vs, Avalanche hockey game to see what he’s been up to this winter in Edmonton.

What you been up to this winter?
I’ve been working on a VW and playing shinny, but mostly I’ve been playing a lot of Xbox.

Big win for the Oilers tonight. How many beers were consumed at the game?
Yeah, tonight’s game was awesome. I managed to squeeze in a few while watching the Oilers win a game coming off of the All-Star break.

How do you think the Oilers will end their season?
I think it might be another rough year but I’m hoping for the best.

What’s your plans for the rest of winter?
I’ll probably chill all winter. There aren’t any indoor parks so riding time is spaced out. Hang out in the garage, hang out with my girl.

Stoked for Macneil Cali house?
Ride time.

We just updated all of our products on Vital‘s Product Guide, go here to check everything out and leave a review!

Ryan Fudger hooked up with Kevin and shot a great bike check and did a little interview for Ride BMX with him about how he ended up hooking up with us. Kevin’s currently running a new sample Borato frame in bright orange, this bike check was done a bit before he got his hands on that. Check it all out here and expect to see some news from Kevin while he’s in Australia real soon!

Happy birthday today to the one and only Greg Flag! Have a good one bud, hope there’s at least one bag of Doritos with your name on it!

MacNeil Bikes would officially like to welcome Kevin Kiraly to the team. We couldn’t be happier to bring Kevin’s focus on progression and documentation of technical street riding to our team. As a resident of California, he has been able to enjoy great weather this winter while filming a ‘welcome to MacNeil’ edit that is in the works. Along with that, he is about to leave on a trip to Australia, so you can expect to see and hear a lot more from Kevin and MacNeil in the near future.

We are super excited to have Kevin as a part of the team and have a lot of great things lined up with him as well as the rest of the team in 2012!

Justin Kosman recently started a new video based site called The Crooked World and Andrew Lazaruk has some clips in one of the first features. Check out Lazer getting down at Heath Pinter’s trails with some of the crew and hit up Defgrip for an interview with Kosman about The Crooked World here.

Here’s a little edit with Dillon, Greg, and Lazerdick from the drive from Vancouver to Interbike in September (basically a couple skateparks and a clip in Heath’s backyard). haha!