Gav Shortalls BSH
Tuesday 9 March 2010 | by jamie
While in Bilbao I managed to grab a photo of Gav's BSH prototype all built up. Looking pretty sweet as Gav's bikes always do.

While in Bilbao I managed to grab a photo of Gav's BSH prototype all built up. Looking pretty sweet as Gav's bikes always do.


Oh man Bilbao is good. Benson was on hand to capture the shenanigans for Ride UK so don't expect too much detail here. This is the view from half way up Bilbao.....we were nosey and explored the city pretty thoroughly. If you get anywhere towards the outside of the city (always up a steep hill) you will be treated....there are whole zones with rails in every shape and form + a million set ups, a hint at which you can find below.
Alex Platt and Mike Mastroni are riding for Proper and OSS now. OSS is a new parts parts company headed up by Adam22. Alex and Mike have been been pretty hard at it filming for the video and the trailer just dropped. There's a brief clip of Alex's gap to pegs in Montpellier...just in case you were wondering what I garbling on about in Ride UK last year.
This is the final Proper x Nike 6.0 teaser with Joris Coulomb and Berry. The full edit comes out in the next couple of days on the Soul website. Good work from Dave Sowerby as well!!
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Joris has been on fire with the edits of late. Here's another one from Stephane Karle. 180 bars into quarter to fakie whip???
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Mike Miller was in Portugal last month with Carhartt, check the really nice video here and flick through Vince Perraud pictures on Carhartt website. Are there rumours about a Proper X Carhartt project that will happened some day?
Joris and Berry PIC is about to drop next Tuesday on Soul magazine website.
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Lluis Angel who is hooked up with Proper through Rapit in Spain has some cool clips in this edit from La Costa Norte.
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Our distributor in Brazil Paco bikes got a Proper delivery and put together several complete bikes made of Proper new colorway parts ... pretty dope! If you want to purchase our parts in Brazil, email Fred at info@pacobikes.com

Joris made this little edit for his friend's clothing company. First evidence of BSH in action. We're headed to Bilbao next week and Gav is also running a prototype so we'll have more soon.
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The Mike's (Miller and Mastroni) both make an appearance in the new issue of Cream magazine from France. This is Mastroni. He may as well get to see it - the chances of that magazine making it to the OSS house are pretty slim. There's some lady friend of Ben Snowden in there that's fit and definitely makes it a a worthwhile purchase. 
Francisco Zurita has a bike check up on Fat BMX. That's a tall bar and low frame combo right there.

It's back to normal in Pagham today.......sunny. Here's a better picture of the electric blue TTL.

Mastroni has a bike check up on the Garden blog. Mike likes tie dye and a 20.6" TTL with big bars!

We've a ton of people asking what are the new colourways on TTL's are going to be. Hopefully these pictures go some way to answering that.

Our german distribution G and S, forward us that flyer about the Beat City Jam where Proper is involved. Expect Dennis Kicza over!

Janis getting his wooden street on....Janis also scored our latest ad which will be in a forthcoming issue of Dig.
If you see a grumpy looking Shane Rieder wandering around ASU this week. Buy him a Dr Pepper. Shane re-tore his ACL while filming clips only a few months after recovering from the last tear (at Sheet trails). Mastroni's had a torn ACL and bone fracture the whole way through filming his OSS part......Platt just got back on his bike after a bad ankle break.


Micheal Beran ended up 7th at Simpel Sesion finals, not bad! He also got several really good looking pictures from Dan Vojtech in Lovebmx online mag last issue . Looking forward to his (and Joris) Partners in Crime 6.0 video section that'll be up on Soul website on the 10th of March.
Steven Ortega sent through this photo of a table three somewhere in Spain. We're headed to the North (Bilbao) next month. It looks as if there's a ton of concrete bowls and some decent street to explore.


We're not giving much away here but....Joris is headed to Simpel Session on a prototype street frame that he helped design while on work experience at Proper a year ago. Simpel Session is media overload so I guess there's no point trying to keep it under wraps now. We've dubbed the frame the B.S.H. 'cos it's built like a brick sh.....you get the idea. Although apparently this is a compliment paid to women in the US? so I guess the frame is un-named for now.
Our Scandinavian distributor Childstore got a fresh new website, so clean that you will probably notice that hes got better looking Proper parts pictures than us. Might be the reason why Proper was biggest demand on the first day of the his website. Proper = Popular? YES.

It's that time again....actually it's past that time this year. Simpel Session is back and Joris, Miller, Berry, and Janis are headed to Estonia. Click here to watch the action this weekend. Here's Janis;


Proper has decided to move in an exciting new direction for 2010. The good news is that Proper will now be available through Full Factory Distribution in the US. Full Factory will carry Sunday, Proper, Odyssey, GSport, and Flatware. We couldn't be happier about working with Jim Cielencki's team and alongside some of the best brands in BMX. Proper product may be hard to find in the US right now but that's likely to change for the better over the coming months.