TO Track Tricks

I've been in Toronto for about a month and a half now and have made some good friends here so far. Every Tuesday we get together and have a trick night at Trinity-Bellwoods park. I finally got some pics of what went down thanks to Ted Power, a local Toronto photographer and fixed gear rider. You should check out his blog at www.tedpowerisyourboss.blogspot.com.

Tyler Lepore of Super Champion

There is a fantastic video interview with Tyler Lepore, owner of Super Champion up now at http://cavedweller.com/all-scenes/snow. The video documents how Tyler got into cycling, how the shop came about and it's influence in the Vancouver cycling community. Go check it out, it's super interesting and the cinematography is great.

News

There have been some major changes here at Skitch. Half of our team has moved to Toronto while the other half has remained in Vancouver. Tom has made the move to the east while Evans will be holding it down with Ryan out on the west coast. Things will continue as normal but we will have new products available in the near future. It has been a super busy summer for all of us here and we've had to take a small step back from Skitch but with fall looming around the corner we will be back at work bringing you all some new goods and news from both coasts. For now here are a couple pictures by Eliot May (http://www.eliotmay.blogspot.com) of Tom riding bmx out at UBC shortly before his departure to Toronto. We hope you are all having a wonderful summer!

Barspins and Baby Jesus X Travis Jutson Photography

So it was Tom's final Barspins and Baby Jesus on Thursday due to him moving to Toronto. It was an awesome session at the Jesus Bank, Hastings Elementary and the Clark and Powell Step Up. Travis Jutson came along and shot photos, here's some of what went down that night.
Wayne absolutely destroying the step up. This was the highest air I've ever seen on a track bike. He's still going up in the picture!
Tom barspin to fakie on the steep part of the Jesus Bank.
Tom explaining how to do sliders to Ten Ten. He had them completely dialed an hour later.
Ten Ten air to fakie.
Ryan
Ten Ten one handed wheelie.
Ten Ten and friend from Japan.
The Crew!
Ten Ten one handed wheelie.
Ten Ten airing out of the step up!
Tom with some airtime!
Wayne somehow crashed on the step up and got his ankle trapped between the left crank arm and the left chain stay with his foot crammed into the spoke. It was a pretty scary experience and I think we all thought his ankle was broken but after removing his rear wheel and freeing him from his bike it looked like he got away with some ground up skin and a huge indent from the chainstay on his ankle. You can see the indent in this picture, it's the dark red mark on the inside of his leg. Wayne you are one lucky dude!

CMWC Video

Check out the Vancouver crew (aka Tender Moments Posse?) at 3:30!

Rat Cult Is Dead

The Rat Cult is Dead video trailer is up now and features the Skitch crew. Click on the title at the top to check it out in high quality or check out the You Tube version below.

Vancouver At The CMWC 2008

So the worlds were last week in Toronto and a few of Vancouver's finest made it out there for the event. Unfortunately none of us here at Skitch were able to go but it looks like are friends all had an awesome time. Here are some photos of the Vancouver Crew hanging out and gettin loose in TO.









Thanks to Nikcee and a couple other random flickr pages for the photos.

Rat Cult, June 21st Session

Today the Rat Cult met up for a little session at a new spot we found. Here are a bunch of photos of what went down. Keep tuned for info on the Rat Cult video which will be coming out in the next few months.
Ten Ten busting out a big old 180.

Tom footjam to fakie.

Duncan Foot Plant.

Adam shredding!

Meat before the crash.

Meat after the crash

Meat's hands looking a little worse for ware.

Hiro kicking it up here in Vancouver. It's good to see the Seattle kids up here north of the border.

Nic hanging out as Hooper test rides a new cargo bike in the background.

Ten Ten pulling an extremely long no handed wheelie.

Tom Barspin to Fakie.

Duncan flowing a smooth one handed wheelie.

Ten Ten and Duncan.

Adam doing some tweaked out pogo's.

Ten Ten layed down so many of these clean 180's.

Duncan rolling on the cargo bike.

Tom worried as hell while riding in the bucket of the cargo bike. Jamie rolling along in the background.

Some more of Ten Ten's wild 180 hops.