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Movers, Shakers, Frame Makers

It’s bike riding season boys and girls. The dudes out back are wackin’ and tackin’ away at metal, forming them into rideable machines. If you want cuckoo brain geometry and odd tubing combos, we must be the men to do it. We got some weirdo frame orders coming through, and…

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Fossil fuel for the fun machine.

In the early nineties when Gilly and I were cut and pasting xeroxed graphics, and hand printing t-shirts at my parent’s house, of the few album’s on rotation were Dinosaur Jr.’s ‘whatever’s cool with me’ and ‘Green Mind’. So… the irony and awesomeness of last week’s music video filming adventure…

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Another work week almost down here at the FBM Head Quarters Johnson City, New York. What a beautiful day out, Dave and myself ended our lunch break with a nice sunshine slumber. Oddly enough there’s a Critical Mass ride in Binghamton at 6PM today, if you have the unfortunate luck…

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Start Choppin….

Team Rider Joel Barnett is flying the FBM flag on Location in Florida, riding a custom hand built frame, built start to finish, by none other than his good friend Johnny Corts, ( you can see his work in the previous web update).
We are on the set with Dinosaur…

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Here’s Johnny

FBM’s resident genius John Corts has been busy this week modding bikes left, right and center. The customer interaction to get the custom frame they want mixed with so many options and interfacing non-production junctions coupled with pretty wacky geometry and bizarre tubing combos is labor intensive to say the…

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Freak Scene.

Dinosaur Jr. has been in bike and skate videos for nearly 2 decades, so when we got the call that they were looking for some stunt doubles for Lou Barlow and Murph in the band for a video shoot, shot bike Mike Manzoori, we were stoked.
Joel Barnett, and Kenny…

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FBM Makes Bikes – Standard Makes Things Up

What a total bummer this is. From a recent Standard blog post (original post HERE):
“To keep this series of posts going, we bring you the in and outs of ordering a custom BMX or freestyle frame. “Custom” or “hand-built” are the latest in an ever present series of
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A golden breed.

Some people may have noticed a resurgence of sorts, in the popularity of trails, but to the people building and riding jumps, it’s not a recycled trend in the fishbowl of bmx culture, it’s a way of life, unwavered by popular opinion, and though not always in the limelight, its…

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Trail Blaizin 2

Lots and lots of shovel fulls… Heres a few pics from Australia, Long Island, Upstate NY, out west and even Michigan. Lone wolves, keeping the dream alive. Originally Posted by steve Crandalls…

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