Warranty Junkies!

I used to be any brands worst nightmare, practically had a team of lawyers behind me scrutinizing all warranty programs for a loop hole. All I wanted was to get riding again and hey, they posted their warranty up so I just have to watch my words when I approach them. Now that I am inside the industry, circles deep if you will, I know have to handle the odd “mini me’s” who just want to get back on the bike and ride. 

We are blessed with very low warranty and respect every client and their issues but on the same hand we know what we make and back it up with reality. If you push it and abuse it things happen, frames will break it is a fact that material has calculated fatigue points. The bike brand is not a piece of crap just because it broke, half the people understand so little about the energy explosion related to a crash on the bike. No one in their right mind goes back to ford and asks for a new bumper because the one they bought is now crushed!

Then I saw this video on Dirts random Fridays post and laughed. When you have fun, things are open for damage but then again sitting at home is boring and riding a bike is not!  This video is an example of what really happened and definitely not what they explain to the Maytag repair man when he asks what happened. Honesty is best and thanks a lot to all of you out there who just bluntly tell us what happened… hats are off to you!

 

This is a email from “Mr Smith”, a refreshing view on the realities of our sport, it was to the point so I can post it up since it relates to the above.

“For what it’s worth, I know it’s been working well for me and it is truly quiet. As far as “falling off”, “bashed” & “bent”, that sounds like Dbag mentality. Worked at a shop for 10 yrs and know that it’s hard to convince people to own their own shit & that it’s actually their fault and the product does not contain common sense as a material. You can engineer around materials and empirical data ALL day long but you will NEVER have enough to engineer around a dumbass.”

Here is your treat for putting up with my mini rant, have a great weekend.

 

Cutom Painthouse Kali helmets

Behold the work of Stacey Glaser from Painthouse!

Stacey painting up the God Fathers lid and now look at what he is up to with Dirt magazine in the UK!

 

Stacey painted my helmet last year and I was so impressed at his level of skill I introduced him around to a few Magazines knowing they’d be just as stoked. First he did the Decline helmet for Scott Hart and now he has Blessed Dirt readers with a chance to win big!

I personally picked these up myself at Sombrio on the shore where his GF worked, It was way sicker in hand with all the chameleon paint. Very very in your face, I am somebody type of helmet, Stacey turns some heads with his style.

 

So DIRT decided to run a contest to win these one off custom helmets and the contest  to win this is pretty frickin simple… in just a few words tell them why you deserve the full face or the xc lid!!

 

http://dirt.mpora.com/news/win-an-exclusive-custom-dirt-helmet.html

 

Take a long read at the reasons, some guys are funny as hell and others are almost in tears begging.

 

Of course the helmet has a small Straitline logo on it and if you have yet to see a KALI in person they can back up their hype! Best of luck and go enter this is the easiest contest to date.

Adam Brayton… “smashing into shit”

“Dunno what happened to the days of just smashing into shit” –Adam Brayton commenting on the over cautious crash pads at Maribor!

Press release just popped up on PINKBIKE announcing Banshee’s Mythic Team, I could retype it all out or just hot link it and thats more my style..

Team Mythic/ Banhee on Pinkbike rad article with lots of shiny pictures and a video!!






Adam bringing drifting back on his Banshee Legend MK11

DIRT top 100 Edition!

It pretty much explains itself… DIRT selected our Ultra 50 and it is truly a honor!

“Straitline Components Direct Mount Stem

A few years ago we had little to no choice when it came to direct mount stems. Now most companies offer a direct mount option, which is the best set-up for Serious downhill riding, further stiffening the control and preventing stem twist in those little spills. We chose the Straitline stem for a few simple reasons; it is clean, simple, light and aesthetically pleasing, with a range of colours options.

Note too that this stem is also available is super short 28mm (BoXXer mount only) as well as the standard 50mm.”

 

  Go out and get this magazine they are very blunt about some of the issues we face in this industry, refreshing to hear a magazine make a firm stand on advertising and proper reviews!

You can buy your love or earn it!

DIRT magazine Surprise

Our UK distributors Hotlines arranged for a more fun way of introducing new colors into their Market. Bribery!

 

5 sets of custom pedals!

Dirt Crew keeps two sets and win and three lucky readers will fight to the near death for the other three!

Everyone wins, it is more fun, and we feel the love.

Check it out over at the DIRT site here:

And if you get into the habit of going to their site every Friday is Fridays Randoms! This is basically an excuse to scour the net for important and pointless material to keep content running smoothly!

DIRT Magazine Straitline caps!

Dirt Magazine has requested some custom caps to hand out to the loyal subscribers so if you want a pair get out and subscribe now.... or soon, unsure of when this promotion kicks in but these caps are pretty sick!

I will never get sick of making Laser videos, and yes sticking a thumb under it hurts!


And I didn't know how to tie this into any relevant post so I'll just throw these in!

After playing around on a friends new Mac I am sold! It does what? who cares, how do you set it on stretch mode?

There's the flavor!

PaintHouse Helmet!

Not much to say on this... pretty stoked.


Too cocky? Good!

Thanks to Stacy at PaintHouse Customs for squeezing me ahead of the shady characters over at Decline Magazine!

I let Stacy do what ever the hell he wanted on my helmet, I gave him just a few likes and dislikes but this is his creation, here's what I guessed he would do!

Check out this link to Pinkbike and see his other helmets just released

Dirt Magazine throws some love our way.

The best thing about this article is that it was unsolicited and from the heart.

Check it out!