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!
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
Thanks to everyone who submitted their ideas for the WTF Is That? contest. There were a ton of entries and after we all talked about it we decided on Matthew Dylan Christoper’s “The Brail Grind.” Honourable mentions include Dustin Moyer’s “The Bono from U2 wearing The Edge’s leather jacket grind,” and James Pittard’s “The Julie Andrews.” Matthew will be getting a new set of XLT bars for the win. Thanks again to everyone and watch out for more contests in the future.
Ride BMX just dropped the cover of issue #173 that features our Phoenix/Las Vegas trip article. Keep watching the newsstands and pick one up to check out what went down!
Our 2011 gear is landing in shops all over the globe and people are stoked on it. Steev Bee from the UK just built up a new 20.75″ Loden frame and he’s loving it. In his words, “YOOOOO, I got a new frame…I’m super picky with frames, but the dream has now landed.” Boom!
Send us in a photo of your new MacNeil build or post it on our Facebook page and we’ll get it up on the blog.
Hit up Ride BMX to check out their 2011 Handlebar Buyer’s Guide featuring our new 2011 XLT and GS bars (pictured above). All the new goods will be dropping soon, watch out!
