Irony meets Klagenfurt

This is IronyBMX's team trip to Klagenfurt. It's mostly foam pit riding. I'm impressed with the flip whip. It looks dialed.

VAGRANT: Part Four - Pistino

A few Italian riders in this one. Also, this is some kind of anticipation for the Pistino Photocontest.

P.S. Sorry for the delay.

Riders:
Simone Barraco
Fabio D'Alessandro
Alessandro Tisoni
Marco Todeschini
Alessandro Froio
Iacopo Labano
Thomas Di Feo

Rok Simšič - R.O.G. edit

Quick evening edit for Rok Simšič aka Punx at the R.O.G. indoor park in Ljubljana. Filmed and edited by Jan Šraml.

VAGRANT - Part Four

. . . or not.



Errr, don't be angry. Life gave me lemons, I made lemonade. Or something. Uh, it's late.

This was shot at Fat Boy Slim's concert yesterday in Umag. Now I'm leaving for Trzic or Klagenfurt. The real Part Four will be online this evening or tomorrow or on monday. Or. Err. Eh. Good night.

Novigrad skatepark

Novigrad (Istra) has 200.000kn for this project. IT'll be located on the roof of the new sports hall. Hopefully, they'll have enough money for the whole thing.

More pictures after the jump.

Milan Bogdan - Welcome to the Mankind team

Milan is on the Mankind team. The wunderkind from Pecs really deserves it. Check the vid.

IronyBMX Street Jam in Rijeka - 05.06.2010.

AKA Cudesni BMX Dzem. Here's the flyer and the Facebook event page.

New IronyBmx team rider

Bruno Muska is now on the Irony team. Great rider if you ask me. Here's his latest webvid for you to check.

Poki interview

One more interview on OnlySteeze. Filip interviewed the newest addition to the Zion family, Igor "Poki" Vukadinovic. Read it here.

All of this sounds amazing:

- My favorite trick is double whip, just love it, and trick I want to learn is triple whip!

- I hope that my bmx video will be finished by late summer.

- Uh, this year should be a real show, it is Pannonian Challenge 11, and I expect it will be the best ever! This year should come BMX stars such as Daniel Dhers, Michael Beran, Brad Simms and many other good riders.

Ugh.

You might remember this fail. Well, there's more. And it's totally funny in a disturbing kind of way.

Urban Roof BMX Session - Video report

Another amazing video. This time it's about Urban Roof's BMX session in Ljubljana. I really like it.

Joe Simon!

International news of the day: Joe Simon is fucking awesome! Watch this video. Watch it again and again. Way too good.

By the way, it's some of the riders of the Mutiny team riding in a toytown-ish Austin, TX.

Federal in Italy

A few photos from Mark Love's and Dan Lacey's trip to Italy. Photos seen of Federico Vezzoli's blog. Check them out on NoSoccer.

Zion BMX Camp - Report

Check the report from Zion's school of BMX here. Apparently, it was a success and it might be held in some other cities as well. Great job.

Nike 6.0 Ride it! by Docks video

I'm a huge fan of Alberto Accettulli and his production studio Docks Video (aka DV)

This is a little demo reel of his best BMX clips he put together for Nike6.0. Most of the clips in this are from Nike's Boat Trip video, which you should totally check out.

Screw you! I'm doing a photo update.

Haven't posted one in a long time. Here you go.

Photo 1 (Rider: Filip Strbad, Photographer: Samir Kurtagic, Location: Osijek)
Photo 2 (Rider: Rok Krivec, Photographer: Tim Pipp, Location: Ljubljana)
Photo 3 (Rider: Jaka Magister, Photographer: Jost Skofic, Location: Barcelona)
Photo 4 (Rider: Rok Krivec, Photographer: Jost Skofic, Location: Barcelona)
Photo 5 (Rider: Rok Lah, Photographer: Rok Lah, Location: Maribor)

Nikon Photo Contest Slovenia

Give some help to a fellow rider. Aljaz Bezjak and his riding buddy Miha Fistravec submitted this photo for the contest. The photo is amazing and you should totally vote for it by clicking here.

While you're at it, you might want to check Aljaz's album on Facebook.

Spotcheck: Grapa trails #2

I've mentioned these trails about a month ago. Well, here are some rules you have to follow to actually be allowed to ride there:

1) The trails are on a private property and every kicker is covered with polyvinyl (only the locals are allowed to remove it). Therefore, it is best for you to let the guys know you're coming (everyone respectful of the rules is welcome).

2) Riding while the trails are wet is forbidden.

3) Do not litter.

You can contact Nejc (one of the locals) on this telephone number: 00386-(0)40-867-376. He'll also give you the exact location.

Souce: BMX Slovenia - Forum.

Madness TV - How to Tailwhip pedal stop

...with Mario Markotic.

Urban Roof BMX Session

First few pictures of the Urban Roof BMX Session in Ljubljana. Check them out on the Urbanroof homepage.

Rok Simsic aka Punx took the "Trick of the day" award with a look back to x-up lander to 180 out (on the bank). He also did a few nice manuals to rocket manual barspins on one of the ledges in the park.

VAGRANT: Part Three - Mixed Segment #1

One week, one part. Also, thanks for the 1000+ views in this week. Hope you'll enjoy this one.

It is basically a mixed segment from Klagenfurt, Ljubljana, Osijek, Vienna and Vescica.
Riders featured in this (in order of appearance):
Marko Juznic
Chris Tatschl
Miha Glavic
Milan Bogdan
Tadej Paravan
Mario from Slovakia (unfortunately, I don't know his surname)
Blas Pavsic
Damien Banko
Primoz Habat
Jaka Magister

Thanks to Alldayanonymous for the media support.



I'm off to Ljubljana now. This post will be updated as soon as I come back.

Tim Knoll

If this isn't creative, I don't know what is. Impressive.

Tomislav Lorber edit

Nice edit from Koprivnica. Rider is Tomislav Lorber. Very nice.

Xstatic 2010 - Video flyer

Everything you need to know is in the video.

New Dropbike shirt

If you've grown up with Dropbike like I did, you'll sure want a t-shirt with their logo on it (and a broken collar bone as well). But be fast, it's a limited edition (for now)!

Dropbike merch.

5-0 TV - How to 360?

One more tricktip from Slovenia. This time it's Domen Fekonja's turn to teach you how to do a bunnyhop 360. The editing of this is amazing.

Madness TV - How to Barspin?

Mario Markotic shows you how to bunnyhop barspin. Too bad that they didn't film during a less windy day (or with a better mic).

Also, check the already famous spot in Ljubljana.

FISE Bmx Park Finals video

Bruno Hoffman's 540's to fakie are sooo clean. Also, Ale Barbero and Gary Young (and all the others) killed it in this. Awesome!


MPORA Action Sports >>

Local blog goes international!

Wow! A Chase Dehart interview on Onlysteeze? Seriously? Yes sir! Clickity!

Daniel Juritsch Bike Check!

Daniel has a bikecheck up on the Evolution team blog. Here's a small video of him. Unfortunately, it is poorly filmed, but the riding is good. Check it!



Bikecheck:
Frame: United Squad Alex Valentino Signature
Fork: Salt
Bar: Federal Dan Lacey
Grips: Eclat Team Grips
Seat: Parano-Garage Mid Seat
Seatpost: Salt Pivotal
Tires: Animal G.L.H 2.25
Wheelset: Salt
Cranks: Salt Expert/175
Pedals: Eclat Surge Pc
Chain: Salt pro
Hubguard: FBM

Doing it for EvolutionBMX and Moreboards.

Attila Godi - Welcome to the team

Attila is now repping DUB BMX in Hungary. I love his way of riding. Get your grinds on!

2010 FISE Results

For all of those who didn't know, Montpellier hosted the FISE contest once again this year. I haven't watched the whole thing live, but I managed to see the last few tricks in the park: a cashroll, a 360 downside whip to whip back, a double peg uprail to cannonball, some really low frontlips here and there and so forth. I'm pretty sure you know who I'm talking about.

Park
1. Alessandro Barbero
2. Gary Young
3. Brett "Maddog" Banasiewicz
4. Bruno Hoffmann
5. Michael Beran
6. Daniel Dhers
7. Mark Webb
8. Jason Phelan
9. JB Peytavit
10. Chris Hughes

Mini Ramp
1. Mark Webb
2. Ben Wallace
3. Michael Beran
4. Ondra Slez
5. Daniel Dhers

Dirt
1. Tristan Musso
2. Jack Merchant
3. Ricardo Laguna
4. Brett "Maddog" Banasiewicz

Flatland
1. Matthias Dandois
2. Moto Sasaki
3. Viki Gomez

Oh, and in case you didn't notice: Alex Coleborn is nuts.



And his master doesn't disappoint either:

Umag Dirt Jump Jam T-Shirt Design Contest

So, here's a chance for all you Photoshop freaks to show off your skills.

We're looking for a shirt design for our Jam Session in Umag and we thought some of you might be interested in helping us.

Front: do pretty much anything you want bike or non-bike related. We accept anything: from silhouttes to abstract logos. Just be creative.

Two little rules: don't exaggerate with the colors (more colors means more money to spend for printing them) and try to keep the design inside the boundaries of the shirt (out of bounds printing is also more expensive). Last year's design was a one color design.

Back: be sure to write Umag Dirt Jump Jam on the back since it's the name of the event and it has to be mentioned. Try to keep it discreet (maybe at neck's height would be alright).

Copies of already known designs will be disqualified.

Prize: the prize is a t-shirt with your own design (even girl fit, if needed), some free cevapi at the event and a truckload of respect from us.

Deadline is 12.06.2010. (we changed the deadline due to the event being postponed to sometime in July - More info in a few days)
Submissions must be sent to this e-mail address: 401vs401@gmail.com

It would be great if the background of the design was transparent and if the winner could provide a .PSD (photoshop project file) format of the design (or another lossless format).

Good luck!

VAGRANT: Part Two - Fabio D'Alessandro / Axel Jurgens / Senad Grosic

Here's part two of Vagrant. Honestly, I'm not satisfied with the titles in this, but haven't really had time to re-render it.

Hope you guys like it. I'll update this post tomorrow, since I'm tired as hell right now.

EDIT: After a delay of one week due to Windows being a bitch, here's the second segment for Vagrant. I wanted to re-edit the titles in this because the ones I put here are way too simple, but I didn't have enough time. Hope you don't mind.

Music: Cage The Elephant - James Brown

Filmed with: Canon Hv30
Edited with: Sony Vegas 8.0Pro

New Zion team rider

Igor Vukadinovic "Poky" is the new member of the Zion family. He finally has a decent bike sponsor.

I kind of investigated before the announcement and you could've found the answer by just seeing these little clues:
- Poky liked a lot of Zion stuff on Facebook lately
- He's one of the instructors at the ZION camp in Osijek
- He had some arrangement with Boris Perkovic (the photographer who took the photos)
- Poky was very excited today according to his Facebook statuses

I'm a very good detective.

Urban Roof BMX Session - 22.05.2010.

22.05.2010. is the official date for the BMX session in Ljubljana. Hopefully I'll be able to attend. What about you?

Photo credit: Tim Pipp

Dirt Bike Show - Brunico

Nice video from the Brunico Dirt Bike Show. Riders in this: Fabio D'Alessandro, Michele Virdis, Alessandro Froio and Alessandro Tisoni.

Video made by pierfrancescomacchi.com for Size Matters.

Bobó Újvári DC Shoes welcome edit

A really nice video from one of our Hungarian neighbours. This time it's Bobó Újvári and this is his welcome edit to the DC Shoes team. I'm speechless.

The rain strikes again - Urban Roof BMX Session POSTPONED!

The massive amounts of rain made another victim: the Urban Roof BMX Session in Ljubljana is going to be postponed to the next weekend. I'm awaiting to hear more information about it though.

More news here.

Jura Barac - Bike days report

Actually, this is more of a photo update than a report. Anyway, check them pictures here.

Speaking of Zion, there is a new team member waiting to be announced. I have two names in mind, but I don't really feel like guessing. Expect an update during the weekend.

Rokin'

Rok Krivec aka "Riko" has a few pictures up on the S&M site. All photos by Pepos. Congratulations!

Also, the new spot I've been blogging about is already covered with graffiti. Nice.

Cudesni BMX Session - POSTPONED!

This makes me sad. The rain has ruined this week for me and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with my computer freezing. DAMN RAIN!

The Street Jam in Rijeka is going to be postponed to the 5th of June 2010. Unfortunately, there is another contest I wouldn't want to miss on the same day: this one. I don't want to choose where to go. It's like sacrificing one of your kids. I need help. Or therapy.

Kilaskute Foampit Session

You might remember that I posted about this place earlier. Here's the grand opening of the foampit. The riding is pretty weak, except for Jugy trying double whips, flips and cannonballs. Also, that footjam whip on the radius made my day. Foampit looks nice. Seen on Mtb.si.

The Shredbox?

Speaking of MTB and downhill, I remembered this teaser I saw about 7 months ago. What happened? Anyone has any news about this project?

Enjoy the teaser while you're at it.

The Porson Show 2009

Just saw this edit on Mtb.si. It's about Jan Poric aka Porson, a Slovenian all-around rider. I kinda like it. What do you think? It's a bit different than the usual stuff I post on here.

Jurica Barac @ Bike Days

Jura earned a great 5th place at the Bike Days in Switzerland this weekend. Here's a little teaser-pic for you: a 360 double tailwhip. According to Zion, there's going to be more news about this, so stay tuned.

Voranc Kumar - Spring edit

Voranc just sent me an edit of himself riding in Koper. Doing it for EvolutionBMX, Dok7 and OBC.

Spring short edit from Voranc Kumar on Vimeo.

Cudesni BMX Dzem - Promo Video

Here's the promo video for the street jam in Rijeka. I'm currently trying to scare the rain away from our region, so that it doesn't ruin the event.

Mislav Streicher interview

Mislav, the owner of Zion bikes, has an interview on OnlySteeze.

Bad News

Windows Vista won't start and I can't retrieve the second part of Vagrant. It won't even start in Safe mode. What do I do?

Urban Roof BMX Session

Organized by the guys at Urban Roof. It'll take place in Ljubljana on the 15.05.2010. Too bad that in the same time there is also the Rijeka Street Jam and most BMXers plan to attend the latter.

Zion BMX Camp - Osijek 22.05

BMX School? In Croatia? No way!

This is no joke. Pannonian, Zion, Red Bull, Nokia and ShoeBeDo got together to deliver this great project to every BMX rider in our country.

Click on "Read more" if you want more info.






































Basically, this is going to be some sort of skatepark, street and flatland school. They'll teach you how to do the stretching before riding, how to try to improve your style and tricklist, stretching after riding and so forth.

The instructors are going to be:

- Skatepark: Jurica Barać, Aleksandar Manojlović and Igor Vukadinović "Poki"
- Street: Filip Strbad
- Flatland: Ivan Žilić

Don't forget to check the event page on Facebook.

Denes Katona Spring edit

Whether you are or you are not a fan of flatland, this is a must-see. This guy is from Hungary and does pretty much anything you can imagine on his front wheel. Amazing. Also, I'm a fan of Danzig and this is edited to one of his songs. Check it!

Waaay Up! official trailer

Marin Loncar sent me the trailer of his full-length project "Waaay Up!". It's a movie that plans to showcase the scene in Osijek and the surroundings. Looks pretty good to me. What do you think?

ČUDESNI BMX DŽEM - Sv. Kuzam (Rijeka)

Here's the official flyer of the Street jam in Rijeka. The riding will take place on one spot. The surface of the spot seems to be pretty big, therefore they will add some kickers, quarters, wallrides and so forth to make it become some kind of ghetto spot.

Check the event page on Facebook.

Norco 2010 factory team

Norco just released a video of its 2010 Factory team. Check out some clips of Mislav Mironovic riding his own dirt park on the island of Rab, the trails in Trzic and the "Limenka" park in Zagreb.

Jakob Kač - May 2010 Edit

Jakob is crazy good. Really a great edit for such a young rider. Halfcab whip is nuts!
Only thing I didn't like is the choice of songs: Phoenix got used and abused in the BMX world lately.

Camera & edit: Miha Matavž | matavz.si ©

Jakob Kač - BMX edit MAJ 2010 from Miha Matavz on Vimeo.

Urban Roof - Extreme sports school

This is definitely what the sport needs: more kids on the skatepark, less kids on the soccer field. The guys at Urban Roof know this and started an Extreme sports school in Ljubljana. Unfortunately, there were no BMXers involved this time. Hopefully, someone will decide to attend this special school during the summer.

I wish someone tried to do the same thing in Zagreb or Osijek. BMXers, do you hear me?

Click here for the pictures.

Šola urbanih športov from Urban Roof on Vimeo.

Irina Sadovnik on Zion

More sponsor-related news. Irina Sadovnik from Vienna is now part of the Zion family. Check out some nice flatland action in her welcome video. The cross-handed hang5 to whiplash is really nice. Seen on OnlySteeze.

iriNa Sadovnik for ZION bikes from Irina Sadovnik on Vimeo.

Filip Strbad on Evolution

Filip is the new member of the Evolution international team. Check out a little interview he has on their blog.

Miha Glavic - Obsession edit

Short edit of Miha for Obsession. Seen on Shajba.

Miha Glavic obsession 2010 from luximiljan on Vimeo.

The making of Cudesni BMX Jam

What's happening on the 15th of May? This! And you better not miss it. "Cudesni BMX Jam" in Rijeka. Organized by IronyBMX dot com. Check a little gallery over here.

If you aren't excited, you're doing it wrong!

VAGRANT: Part One - Intro

10,000 views and counting. Thanks to everyone. Here's the intro to Vagrant. Hope you guys like it.

Vagrant: Part one - Intro from Luka Urbac on Vimeo.

Next segment will be up in one week. Hopefully, we will reach 11,000 views by that time. Keep on advertising the site (don't spam!) on other messageboards, forums, bike portals, etc.

Music: Modus Operandi - Sonata Rabidus
Filmed w/: Canon Hv30 + Raynox HD3032 Semi Fisheye
Edited w/: Sony Vegas 8.0Pro

OBC - Crashes

Some weird crashes from the Obala Bmx Crew. I am not really feeling the music, but some the things in here seem very interesting (especially the walltap thing Vori's trying). More edits soon on the OBC blog.

obc- heroes from cvijo on Vimeo.

Check out one more video after the jump.

EDIT: Blogspot is being bitchy and won't let me have embedded videos and the "Read more" tags in the same post. Which means, you'll need to click on "Read more" to see both videos. Sorry for the inconvenience.

miki mona - longest rail from cvijo on Vimeo.

Tržič Divjina park

Some photos from the Tržič trails by Rok Lah (both riding and pictures). I know some of the guys I rode with lately will love them. Can't wait to go there and see this beauty in person.

Ten thousand . . .

Well hello guys,

I know you're patiently waiting for Vagrant to be ready and I really appreciate that. Unfortunately, I had some problems with my computer that made editing a bit slower. On top of that, I'm still a student at University and it is quite a busy lifestyle for me currently.

Therefore, I decided to give up the idea of my video exclusively premiering throughout Croatia/Slovenia/NE Italy and thought it'd be the best for me and the blog to try to post one segment every week - starting on the day I get the 10,000th view on the blog (eventually, I'll try to set up some premieres at a few bigger contests after all the web premiering is done).

Which means that you should advertise my blog a little bit. Tell all your friends. Let them know that there is something going on. Don't fake the views, please. I'll be able to tell from my StatCounter. I want more people to know about the site, not just more views (they mean nothing if the visitors are always the same).

This blog has to be the #1 info point for every local and foreign rider about our bike scene. This is my goal and I need your help.

I'm also trying to keep a "Spotcheck" section as a database of every good spot in our region.

Hopefully, the site will be redisgned soon, but I'll be still going for a simpler look, rather than anything complicated.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Luka

Filip Strbad bikecheck

Filip has a bikecheck up on Onlysteeze. Check it out.

EDIT: Apparently, Filip is on the Evolution International team. This would explain the sticker and the trip to Ljubljana he mentions on the blog. Congrats on that.

Featured photographer: Nejc Puš

Nejc sent me a few photos he has taken at the jumps in Sentvid pri Sticni. The photos look really nice and the trails seem to be great. They also have a foampit there.
Riders in this: Andrej Mikelj, Jost Hribernik "Jozy" and Mario Markotic.

Also, don't forget to check Nejc's blog.

Danny Josa - Florida edit

Hungarian Louisiana-based shredder Danny Josa has an edit of himself riding some of the best parks in Florida. Some of you might know him from last year's Pannonian Challenge. Seen on VitalBMX.

Danny Josa from Brett Rohlfing on Vimeo.