Steve Crandall

Coffee sipping pilot of a red FBM frame and a Nikon camera.

Posts from Steve:

30 minute Zac Costa Gallery

I shot all these photos, with two different Nikon Cameras of Solid Bikes’ Zac Costa on sunday afternoon, in passing, within roughly 30 minutes. Zac is an ape. Check out his ESPN write up that was published today as well… Zac Costa media party. re up on His Web Vid from last fall as well.
Unsolicited, unintentional snapshot gallery.

This is a committed individual!


First Attempt, no run ups.


First result, no worries.


Full pull.


Tom Blyth, and one stoked Costa.


Death or Glory!


second go...


White knuckles... white lines...


King Cobra versus Natty Ice.


Sunday session...

Zac Costa from Least Most on Vimeo.

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Sexy Crimes-ROAD SODAS TOUR 2011

Joel Control, and Cassady Fernandez-Law and Order SVU

Sexy Crimes and Sports Bar, out of this world tour, starting tomorrow!

APR 14th – Cous Cous – Richmond VA
APR 15th – Rivermont Pizza – Lynchburg VA
APR 16th – Chapman St. House w/ Nondenoms, The Leeves, Dumpster – Greensboro NC
APR 17th – Anarchtica w/ Rag Rage, more TBA – Chattanooga TN
APR 18th – 529 BAR w/ Bad Mammals, Baby Dinosaurs vs Extinction – Atlanta GA
APR 19th – The Junkyard w/ Grabass Charlestons, Army of Ponch, Post Teens – Gainesville FL
APR 20th – Sluggos w/ Boneless Rats – Pensacola FL
APR 21st – Koenji House w/ Doombox, Firebrand – New Orleans LA
APR 22nd – The Stash House – Memphis TN
APR 23rd – Southgate House w/ Sexy Crimes – Cincinnati OH
APR 24th – Pancho’s w/ Velocicopter, more TBA – Chicago IL
APR 25th – Monster House – Columbus OH
APR 26th – TBA – Pittsburg PA
APR 27th – Loft House – New Brunswick NJ
APR 28th – TBA – Philadelphia, PA
APR 29th – DAY OFF – going to future virgins/landlord show
APR 30th – Acheron w/ Crazy and the Brains, Nuclear Santa Claust – Brooklyn NY

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Zac Costa

Costa, with an Absurd Gap.


Zach Costa, the un-official King Cobra, doing it for Solid Bikes
More pics soon!

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Getting Sick in Duck N.C.

On a whim, and in a moment or two’s notice, I accepted a midweek invite to ride motorcycles, from Richmond Va. nearly 200 miles, to Duck North Carolina, on the Outer Banks, just a few miles north of Kitty Hawk.

Cycles, Ferries, rivers, good times roll.

The invite included a barely offseason night or two at a beach house. Sounded fun, why not?

Wednesday morning, I changed the oil on my semi trusty 30 some-odd year old Suzuki and followed My friend Sean, and two new friends, Joey, and Shaina, down route 5, heading east on the John Tyler memorial highway. It’s early spring, and this windey, semi rural route, made for a nice cruise.

The ride was nice, although my cycle hadn’t left city limits in over a year, was having some trouble in the carbs at about 4000 rpm’s and was spewing oil out of the leaky spot near my shifter, since I had added just a little too much while changing the oil… This made for a soaked, suede sneaker, with a nice oil sheen, and a slippery shifter- foot peg scenario. All in all, it was no trouble really, because it was a good time…

We crossed the Chickahominy river, rolled along the James River, and finally crossed it via ferry, near historical Jamestown, and Cobham bay. Ferry rides are cool, even in choppy brown river water. Cruising South and East, we managed our way just on the outskirts of the Va. Beach/ Norfolk congestion, crossing the high rise bridge in traffic, to a mixed smell of tidal river water, spring time, and exhaust.

The next part of the ride was an easy cruise into North Carolina, passing through Curritck, more waterways, the sound to the left, good times ahead.

The lone gull.

Did I mention fun?

Upon arrival, I was greeted by an empty swimming pool, and a full hot tub, beers, friendly faces and pizza. Fucking WOW!

The crew responsible for this mess, were the Hell Satan’s moped club, manned by Pat Lowery, and fellow good time bandits, all packed in the house, a block away from the beach. Antics include,but were not limited to, and almost immediately, heavy drinking, heavy shredding in the pool, A stick and poke tattoo party and one killer RZA impersonation.

Sharon, and Christian, Stick and Poke madness.

Christian Hewwitt, the Result, Vacation. Enough said..

yours truly, borrowed bike,no brakes, pool carve.

Christian Hewett shot this pic for me! Thanks.

More Good Times, Surprise sausage, and Tatt- Toes.

Barf, Birds eye view from up near the Crow's nest!

Jim Callahan, same shit, different angle.

Life's a beach!

Justin Owen, real estate research and development.

Time Bearse, calling in sick for work.

Justin Owen again.... Rad.

A big Thanks to Pat, and the crew, Sean McCormick for the invite, and all folks for a great time, new friends, old friends, it was an awesome, hospitable beach house party, I loved it.

For the ride home, Evan Venditti and I cruised out early Friday morning, trying to beat a potential rainstorm. We managed to cruise pretty quickly through small town Virginia along rt 460, , splitting lanes, and beating the rain. Stoked!

Titan, The Butterscotch gentleman.

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On the grip


Defgrip has an awesome bit with BF, in the usual line up of great content over there… check it out!

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Fantastic photo


Amazing fullpipe shot, seen on Good Problem. Jeesh!

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Mouse traps to Athens…

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It was early spring 2006, and some friends and I were in a rented RV, leaving cold NY, heading south…. The first part of the drive it was cold, and everyone was cooped up from winter, classic cabin fever, and we were all excited to get on the road, have some fun, and let loose. The first part of the drive was to Athens Ohio, to go to a skatepark, and it was a good 8-10 hour chug, as long as there were no complications. A handful of wound up kooks with a couple of cases of Busch beer, and some mousetraps, and what do you get? An RV in a ditch in western NY, and some good laughs….

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Footloose

Footwork DVD Teaser (NSFW) from Orchid Footwear on Vimeo.

Derek and the crew at Orchid have some goodness poppin off. 2 words.VAN HOMAN!

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Build your own fun

Tibbs and a big step up... Evan V. pic


Rob Tibbs, and Evan Venditti, slinging dirt in the woods…Hell ya!

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Joel Barnett- Black And White Mega Tour Gallery

An amazing gallery of black and Whites by FBM professional BMX rider, Joel Barnett, from Props’ Mega Tour 10, last month is Texas.

“In the early days of March, I had the chance to elude the upstate New York winter and venture to Texas with FBM on Prop’s Mega Tour 10. I was really excited for this trip, but really had no idea who was on it, where we were going or anything of that nature up until the day I met up with the dudes. We set up camp in Stew Johnson’s back yard in Austin and took day trips here and there to maximize the fun output. We ate tacos, slid ziplines, played ping-pong, snapped mouse traps, rode some incredible spots, and ate more tacos. I could literally write a small book about how awesome this trip was and some of the crazy things that happened, but I won’t. I will simply say this: I am not a photographer by any means, but I love shooting photos. I tried to document life as I saw it and let the subjects do the talking. A HUGE thanks to everyone that made this trip so rad: Steve and all my brothers on FBM, Darryl, Keith, Grant and the BSD dudes, Corrigan, Clint, Joe @ T-1,Terrell Gordy, San Antonio Nick, Stew (extra thanks for everything), and of course CHIEF!”

Adam Guilliams, table, Private bowl outside of Austin.


Bikes...


Chief.


Dudes... Chillin.


Eric Hennessey, Terrell Gordy, and Evan Venditti, Central Texas.


Evan, Eric, and Clint Reynolds.


Garrett Guilliams.


Kenny Horton, a burrito and the fun bus.


Kenny Horton.


Matty Aquizap. Credence. Eastside.


Tom Blyth. Life preserver.


Steadfast. Kenny Horton.


Watering the jumps, Treehouse split.


Stew johnson's yard.


Clint Reynolds at Eastside.

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From the web

Mickey Finn, Tracer Finn, 1000 words multiplied...

Seen on Kim Boyle’s Site. Stunning!

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Fixed Freestyle


The Above Pic of Rob Tibbs, just looks cool, its kind of off the topic of this post… The Title of the news update is a play on words, In an attempt to raise money to re-ply his ramp, Tibbs Bet Brian Rainsford $100 he could Nosepick on a 700c bike with a front brake, first try. Maybe Not really fixie freestyle, but he is using the money to fix the ramp, to do Freestyle BMX ariel stunts on, like in the picture below, of Rob, in a Drug Rug, blasting another big mini!

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