The Rise: November 2008

11.30.2008

Rocco Quintiliani piss house

Quick video of Rocco throwing down some sick stuff with a funny little story, check it out.

rocco quintiliani piss house from Clinton McMahon on Vimeo.
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11.28.2008

Heres a little story that Vincent Allard sent me. Its about a trip he went on few weeks ago, pretty interesting.

"I got an invitation from Andrew Bigelow and Kent Woods a couple weeks ago to film them at Rays MTB park in Cleveland, Ohio. I was lucky enough to go, half of my luck coming from Alain @ dobermann for helping me get the bus tickets to go to Toronto where Andrew’s mom, Karen, would pick me up. From then, we rolled to their house in Ingersoll, slept, and the next morning we were on our way with Andrew and Mark Gee to pick up Kent Woods and his buddy Ryan Grigg. Then we drove all the way to Cleveland. The drive was pretty fun and funny even if we got a speeding ticket. Heres what my trip looked like

In Cleveland, we went straight to our hotel room to unpack our stuff and chill a bit. Later on the same day we went to ride the park. Kent and I got some pretty cool travelling shots in the subaru park of a 720 tailtap on the pyramid then bars to 360 on the way back. We've got some other stuff too but you’ll have to wait till the movie (everywhere) comes out to see all the footage. Andrew did a super sick tailwhip on a quater pipe in another section. He also wanted to tuck no hander the channel gap in the subaru park, but only managed to straight air it. I knew it would be business for Saturday, knowing him. Mark Gee also did his first flip to resi wich was clean! After the session, we went back to the hotel to check out the footage of the night and chill before going to sleep.

We woke up the next morning, went to Dennys for breakfast and then to the park. There was at least a hundred people in the park, It was packed! I did a bit of editing on the movie while the boys were warming up. Kent and I went straigt to business in the subaru park again. He fired up a manual 180 out on the pyramid first try as clean as it could be. He also did it another time with a barspin in the bank right after. I also got a good shot of it. We filmed a couple other tricks in that part of the park. Then, Andrew told me he’d flip and tuck the redbull box jump wich he did as smooth as butter. Kent got rowdy on the resi and got his first tuck no hander. We filmed a couple more clips and by the time the session was over, Andrew tucked the channel gap transfer 3 times giving me 3 good angles of the transfer. Kent also 3’d the spine and did a really good run out of it. We went back to our room and got a bit rowdy knowing that the weekend was almost over.

Sunday, we went to the ghetto part of Cleveland to get scenic shots for the intro and they drove me up to Toronto where i’d get on the bus toward Montreal. Thanks to Alain@Dobermann, Karen & Andrew Bigelow, Kent, Mark, Ryan, and Bobby@Rays for that trip."
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11.25.2008

Snickers urbania part 1 and 2

Cool video of some dirtjump demo. That truckdriver drop was great! A bit repetitive but still fun to watch!

Writing on the wall

All the parts of the nike video are available on the internet since yerterday or so, but now you can watch the whole video on nike6.0's website and it sould be downloadable soon. I am personally not a big fan of the shoes, but the video is amazing. I still hope Enarson was well-padded on that crackhead stunt he did as a banger..
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11.20.2008

Taz plans, again

In addition to the plans for the new Taz, here is a picture of the second floor:

MOBLIFE

Andrew Pike from Alberta sent me this video featuring him and a bunch of his friends I guess. The video is pretty cool, Andrew said its some old footage that "Kyle" put together, so the video credit goes to Kyle McKinnon according to his vimeo account name. I am really jealous of this millenium skatepark they can ride everyday and these dirtjump trails they've got! Anyways, keep up shredding Albertians (wow, that a cool word).

MOBLIFE from Kyle McKinnon on Vimeo.
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11.19.2008

Geoff Costigan

Nothing to post today, so heres a nice photo I found while surfing the internet. Its a downside tailwhip by Geoff Costigan, hes from Alberta. Pretty sick photo! Photo cred goes to Luc Wilson.

Taz construction site visit

This is just to inform everybody that there will be a visit of the construction site for ''le Taz'' new skatepark. The visit will be on November 30th at 2:00 PM, and the address of the park is 8931 Papineau, on the corner of Émile Journault (right next to Claude Robillard center). You will have the opportunity to see how fast it's growing and to talk to the people in charge of it for information suggestions or comments.

It is better that you confirm your presence if you want to visit, so you can just send an email saying what your name is at the following email address: taz@taz.ca

See you there!

What you've all been waiting for...

So like everybody from the bmx, mtb, skateboard and rollerblade scene in montreal, i couldn't wait to take a look at the plans of the new mega park in montreal, the rebirth of the famous old park ''Le Taz'' that was replaced by the national library. The park design was made by Dan Vezina, the same guy that designed the ''South Parc''.

No more blabla, here are the pics

11.15.2008

Harry Main

Sick video of Harry Main! I dont know whats going on in this guys head, this shit is seriously ridiculous!

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Tommy Lajoie edit

Tommy (ta mere mais stait po) Lajoie got some footage together and heres the result. Enjoy!

edit from tommy lajoie on Vimeo.
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Jimmy Levan sickness

I was just randomly looking for nice pics on Jeff Allen's Photography website and I came across this shot of Jimmy Levan at the Olympic stadium... As the Olympic stadium is a usual spot for me, I cant really believe someone did that!

VSB summer edit part 2

VSB Summer Edit Part 2 from Nic Chagnon on Vimeo.
Sick video from some kids that live really close to my neiborhood. Its pretty cool to see their fast progression, I remember seeing these kids when they just started riding, they imporved so much! Oh and thats part 2, you can watch the first part Right here.
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11.12.2008

Ken Block's driving skillz

Okay I know this is supposed to be about bicycles, but this video is so amazing. This is Ken Block, the DC shoes co. owner, and fuck, that guy can drive a car! For the record, this picture aint no photoshop, click it to get the proof... Anyways, this first video is good, but the second one is even better. Hit this link to see what Im talking about !

Kent Woods

Some new footage from Kent Woods, check it out.

Kent Woods Fresh Clips from Kent Woods on Vimeo.
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SAGBMX pictures

I found a couple sick shots on sagbmx's website. I have to tell you that this miniramp is amazingly slippery! Props to both of these guys, Max Compartino for blasting sick tricks and Julien Grimard for the pictures. And oh, Saguenay is such an awesome place.

South Parc edit

Stéphane Bélanger sent me a cool video edited by Louis Lhomel, its pretty sweet! And fuck I wanna see Louis land that nose thing on the quarterpipe, awesome!

southparc edit from woach on Vimeo.
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A little surprise for you guys

This is a sneak peek of the prototype for the new dobermann bars. I don't know the specs in detail, but i know it's around 2.5'' of rise, it has a 22mm clamping and it's made of 1.6mm thick 4130 true temper tubing. I can't wait to try it.

Whatever, here is a pic of the prototype.

Sick photos

Richard Desaulniers jr. just uploaded some new pics, and daamn they look good! You can either see them by clicking on rich's picture on the media section or hit this link . Thrust me, its worth it!

New Website!

Welcome to the new Allaboutbikes website! It was about time to get rid of that old ulgy one! So I am pretty stoked on this one, its simple and clean, just the way I like it! I might be adding a few features to it in the next weeks but I dont really know yet, I dont want to add useless stuff. I also asked Xavier to post updates so it should be way more updated than the old one. Hope you like it, and let me know what you think in the comments! You can say its shit, but be constructive!

Another Kid Savlem video

Cool short video of Kid Savlem shredding his (well, our) local skatepark. His brother Phil always does a great job with quick little video like this, it always motivates me to go out and ride. Oh and if you want to know a bit more about Pulses clothing co, just click the link on the right, its a small new clothing company that my friends started, it should get pretty interesting!

Everywhere - teaser 2

Friday night was montreal's NWD 9 premiere at la cage au sport, and Vincent Allard came up with this thing, that is another teaser for his next movie Everywhere. Its pretty sick. Its already got some 15000 views and 650 faves on pinkbike, all this in 2 days.. I wont say anything about NWD 9 for the simple reason that I dont remember much of it. Oh and it seems that some people havent really enjoyed the fact that I was on the Mic friday night, so I am sorry, at least I had fun..

Anyways, heres the incredible teaser! You can also watch the first one by clicking here