JOEY GOUGH - BMX Girl

I've been thinking about changing my frame for a while. I love my Standard 125R but I've been liking frames with a lower BB recently, it just feels nice and stable. It's a challenge to find the perfect frame though, after riding for so long I have very specific ideas of what I want in a frame. I was looking for a chromo frame with v brake mounts, a BB height of 11.5" and a chainstay length no longer than the standard. Add to that, I didn't want to go too light and I wanted the brake cable to go all the way through in the housing. Hmmm, that narrows it down slightly! I thought there was nothing out there without going custom, until I found the Deluxe frame in a ltd edition v brake version. It has a slightly steeper head angle than I am used to and a shorter chainstay length, but now that I am all about the trails, the lazier geometry suits me!

I built it up a gave it a ride at the weekend on our new line at the trails and loved it. It felt fast but stable and really flickable, the short back end took me by surprise to begin with! The detail on the frame is really cool, the way the seat stay and chain stay tubes have been finished off is so neat, and the brake cable guides are spot on....you can run the cable all the way through in the housing (like I wanted), under the top tube out of the way and the guides are central so running my brake lever on the left sets up just as good as a right hand lever. The frame has a spanish BB which looks a lot slicker than a euro with my profiles, loving that, plus with it being a new frame it's got an integrated headset which is so much easier and simple.


With it being a new frame I topped it off with a few new parts, I got a full aqua profile set up, the 40 stem was an accident but I'm loving it now, looks great! I added a girly touch with the pink cable and grips, so it looks like a 90's racer colour scheme now! I switched back to the DTH race tires front and back in preparation for the french roadtrip which is less than 2 weeks away now (woohoo!) but they ride a treat at the trails too, light and smooth, couldn't ask for more. So my bikes pretty much ended up as some sort of trails/race cross breed of a machine which just about sums me up I guess.


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Just needed a bit of a sweep that's all! Thanks to Becca for the clip and the cool sequence shot she put together.

I also went to the track at the weekend for the first time in months. My god it was wet, all the snow had just thawed out... the first straight was the worst so I avoided that, but Jay and Ade are commited to training and had a full on gate session.

I thought i wouldn't bother riding, I swept some water of the 3rd straight which wasn't so wet. When I was done it rode pretty good, with a bit of a tail wind the whole straight was on and me and Jessop had some fun sessioning that. I had a test ride on a new frame at the track too... could be a new frame on the way for france, keep your eyes peeled!

French road trip is less than 3 weeks away, can't wait!





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Yep, after weeks of digging we finally finished the backline on saturday. By sunday Scoob and me were riding the whole line and it was damn good if I do say so myself!! A lot of fun. Success. Now for the mains...


Above is a video of Scoob flowing through the fresh new backline, then a pic of me of the new 3rd set, follwed by a cool overview pic that Becca took.


Really looking forward to summer now, the french road trip is only 4 weeks away and then when we get back it's the count down to spring!!



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Hardcore Hobbies have a new vid in the works and yours truly stars in the first web teaser... smashing myself up! This was the crash that knocked me out last summer. I'll be hooking Jay up with some of my footage from last year to feature in the vid too. Keep your eyes on www.hardcorehobbiesHQ.com for more web teasers and news.

In the height of winter, I've been going through my old footage from last summer. Here's a little video of some sunny days...mmmm. Roll on summer.At least I have the French Roadtrip coming up in just over a month though, can't wait.

Summer 2009 from joeybmx on Vimeo.

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Well not much riding or digging going on with all this snow... what is going on?? I didn't know what to do with myself. That is until I remembered how fun sledging was! Well... I say sledging... I mean that in the loosest of terms. We had a couple of broken bits of sledges and a toys r us carrier bag. They worked better than anyones proper sledge though! You could get youself wrapped right up in the bags and you were flyiing. We did some trains that ended in carnage, rode the bumpiest parts of the hill and took off ramps we didn't even know were there! So much laughing... I don't hate the snow quite so much anymore!! I think it's disappearing now anyway, the hill was getting a bit bare today. Still damn fast though, especially in the lid of a bbq some kid nicked off his parents! Stiffler was the only one brave enough to try it!

Here's a video of some of the fun that I captured on my mobile phone today, and below a few clips becca took on saturday. Click here for more sledging photos!

Snow fun from joeybmx on Vimeo.

Sledging from joeybmx on Vimeo.

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The weather here has been pretty mental recently, hence the lack of udates... however somehow the trails are still dry now and we have got in plenty more digging and even some more riding in the snow! Just a bunch of photo from the last few weeks....

Bit of a new years jam with friends tomorrow should be good.







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Rollers were the order of the day. Scoob and me continued the re-vamp...






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