Honoured to be asked and able to supply the design for the South West regions Brits T shirts this year.
Going with the day of the dead theme, our logo was a great starting point. We decided to make it a little more theme appropriate by adding features like diamond’s, dots swirls and curls.
It’s going to be great to see a good spread of these in Derby later this month.
Like the look of this, check out our webstore SUB22 and see our full design range
So that’s it for another year, Zolder played a great host to the BMX world championships, with great racing from all ages and abilities. Next year qualified riders will be battling things out back over the Atlantic in the US, Texas.
Reading an Instagram post from BMX Compliments showing the medal table from the World’s they question why the US only had 7 podiums, a mere fifth of table topping Dutch with 35. They bring up a common theme which is track design/style. Having never been racing over in the USA, I can’t comment from own experience, however, it seems to be the word on the street that, US tracks tend to be more mellow, tailoring towards the more powerful athlete, whereas European tracks seem to be more technical, emphasising bike handling skill. Now I don’t consider either to be right or wrong however I think if I had a preference it would be the European technical style track. Why?? Well,bringing in the second point raised in the Inst post which was riding clips. As we all know here in UK racing for all ages under 13 is on flat pedals. Age groups 13 and over can then race clips. This year for the first time the same rule was applied at The Worlds, so in context where in the USA they ride clips from a much earlier age they were suddenly faced with having to ride flat pedals. Okay so they had fair warning and time to adapt to flats, but I wonder just how much riding clips at an early age takes away the technical ability that the perhaps learn here.
Consider the differences, riding clips with the correct ability will undoubtedly give a rider more power. The simple fact that the peddle stroke can now involve two elements, a pull on the pedal as well as the push is going to drive the rider with far more power than with just a flat pedal push. However does riding clips in early years hinder bike handling. Clips give you that extra ability to lift the bike in a whole new way, a whole new way which can get you out of trouble when your coming up short on a jump or getting a little out of shape. When you ride flats that get out of jail card isn’t there, you make the jump or you don’t simple as. So you perhaps hone in on that basic purity of handling the bike, being that little bit smoother. It’s just an opinion, obviously travelling over from USA to Europe to race is a big expense and without actually knowing rider numbers I’m sure they would have been lower, less riders less chance of winning. Like I said earlier I’m wouldn’t side with either but prefer the Euro style, please feel free to share your thoughts though and let us know where in the world you race.
One thing that I’m sure will happen, USA will feature much higher on the medal table next year when hosting the event in Texas, furthermore confirming the Euro/USA styles. Lastly you always get a curve ball, Elite Women winner USA rider Alise Willoughby!!!!!!!!
2019 World Champs in Zolder has been great viewing, a shining example of the extreme highs and lows the sport of BMX racing can bring. The track in Zolder is one of those where as a rider you have to keep your focus 100% of the time, a momentary lapse can see even the most experienced and talented rider made to look like a newbie and boy oh boy did it do that on many occasion. Riders slipping out in the berms seemed to be a frequent occurrence along with qualification placed riders letting the track chew them up and spit them out down the last straight, so long, farewell, Zolder says goodbye!!!!!
Obviously for every rider who raced, there will have certainly been own personal race hopes, for some, that will sure to have been taking home a W plate, while others will be thrilled at even qualifying and having the honour of being able to put on their countries race top. There are sure to be many a success story, but for me the one that has caught my attention is RADIO BIKES . Now don’t quote me one this one but I think I’m right in thinking that their ‘Raceline’ programme is relatively new, and that considered to come away with 6 W1 plates is pretty phenomenal. Now I’m not going to for one minute suggest that these World titles were achieved just because they were riding a Radio frame, there has to be real talent riding the thing, but what I am going to speculate is, there’s a good chance you are going to see a few more of their frames on tracks up and down the land in the near future. Their colours are vibrant, loud and bold, the new black/red fade Helium Frame is just stunning in all honesty and is currently being ridden by Kyle Evans!!!!
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Looking for a live feed to keep up to date with all the racing from Zolder, this one is tried and tested and up until now realiable. No card details required as some are asking for, just email to log on.
Proving to be one of our more popular designs, GREY MATTER takes our classic primitive logo, inverted and put on a grey venetian block to create a classic yet simple look
Only a few days now until the start of the 2019 world champs in Zolder.
Racing starts on Tuesday 23rd with the cruiser classes and ends Saturday 27 with the best of the best all competing for those coveted rainbow jerseys.
Entry lists are HUGE with some race categories having over 170 riders entered.
If you’ve not been fortunate to qualify, or just couldn’t make the journey over but want to keep up to date with all the action,there are sure to be some live feeds doing the rounds and I will endeavour to posts links as and when they become available, BMX live TV on Youtube are usually good for it, but haven’t seen any confirmation as yet.
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This is it, Primitive, the birth child of SUB22
Such a great feeling finally getting this to print and even better seeing the first few orders going out.
Clean cut design, super soft organic cotton, ethically sourced.
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After a few years of travelling North, South, East, West around the country with my son on the National BMX Race scene, it was one particular race we were at where we had a rare chance to actually visit the local towns and cities.I came across a stand alone clothing brand, selling great quality garments with stunning yet sometimes very simple designs. I was hooked, and have a few tops of theirs now and always look to buy more. Through a colleague in my 9-5 job I came across another brand, who had created a similar concept but with bits and pieces from their own specialty, a standalone piece, very intricate but just one model.My cogs started churning, wondering if I could somehow combine the two……….After some early set backs, fundamentally due to my lack of graphic design skills, I enlisted the help of a friend, a graphic designer who kindly said he would help. A few designs back and forth and the final product was there.My noodle is constantly working on designs to pull through and incorporate, everywhere I go I’m much more aware now of prints, patterns, styles, all ideas for future products.I am often asked “ SUB22, What does that mean?? Well, in thinking of a brand name, I discovered that the human skull contains 22 bones, and in my design they’ve been SUBstituted for bike components, and so it came to be SUB22
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