Guy Coulon is Colin Edwards’ crew chief on the Tech3 Motogp team. When Guy isn’t directing the building and maintenance of exotic race bikes, he spends his time exercising his skills building exotic engines and bikes for himself like this tube frame, 300cc inline 6 cylinder racer, an extremely impressive engineering project. I hesitate to use the word “homebuilt” since he obviously has the shop resources of a race team at his disposal but it’s, nevertheless, his own design and work. Starting, I believe, with two CBR250 engines, he machined his own cylinders and crankcase, machined a crankshaft from solid alloy and even designed his own gearbox … Details & Pictures
Following the success of the Rip Curl Pro Search in 2009, Rip Curl is heading back to Portugal in 2010!
Teaser for Accelerate. This teaser was shot Labor Day weekend 2009 in Eastern PA. The feature film will be shot this August-September (2010) in Eastern PA and New York. It will feature many top BMX pros as well as Catty Woods locals. Featuring Joel Moody, Scotty Cranmer, Chris Doyle, Van Homan, the Animal Bikes team and many other pros – as well as a breakthrough performance for our lead actress, Vivienne VanHorn. Written, Produced and Directed by Eric Bugbee (whose been a dirt jumper himself for over 20 years), this film has a production crew of other BMXers – Dave King, Associate Produces, as well as Joel Ivory – our cinematographer. Check out the Accelerate Website (www.accelerate-themovie.com) for more details or Become a Fan on Facebook. (Accelerate: BMX Movie)
A building swell continues to deliver a smorgasbord of waves for the Oakley ASP World Pro Junior, event no.1 on the ASP World Junior Tour (WJT), with competition being run for the fourth day in a row at Canggu in Bali today.
In clean 4 ft (1-1.2m) waves, Contest Director, Beau Emerton, decided on completing Round 2 of the men’s, before sending out the first 8 heats of Round 3.
And, albeit the steamy conditions, the sophomores of the surfing world were … Detail