for now it’s the blank or unpaint release. What inspired me to say unpaint I do not know but it is not painted aka blank rootbeer boris by popular demand.
comes in traditional bag and header with little print
og art for the header and print will also be up as well.
Getting ready for the painted rootbeer boris release this friday. This one will come with a little print. OG art will be up then too.
Randalls look sold out. look for sneeks soon on Rootbeer boris which will be released in to the wild this friday at noon.
Sorry for the slight delay today. got stuck on the bridge this morning. Kinda nice actually. made me slow down for a few (15) minutes and look at the world and how beautiful portland is.
here’s some shots of rootbeer randall in the works. Today i’m painting eyepatches.
here’s the header card
also- in other news. keep’em coming. seems like we get a few new peeple on the grass hut forums everyday. Really like how it’s developing. keep posting, sign up yourself and your brohams and get in on it while the GH forum is still just a little baby and watch it grow.
Sometimes this stuff just slips right past me. Found this on vinyl pulse. Wonder when i get mine. Want want want excited. Will see if i can sell some too on here yonder sitewad.
also last saturday there was a green trans glitter steven for sale on the S7 site. Not sure if he’s still available. I got two for walk ins at grass hut, and a small pile up for customs. I love this color.
a little while ago i got the best mail ever. a hand crocheted (did i spell that right?) Randall the bear. Thanks Blake! Randall has been going with me wherever i go, bike rides, mushroom hunting, and hanging out at grass hut with me. Here he is chilling wit ha couple of tokoji seijins.
Sleeping killer is back from a long summer sleep. I missed you sleeping killer. KROKUS two pak. lavender sleeping killer and pocket kaiju killer are coming this friday at noon. Public release eh.
these will be painted. More info soon, lots more pics up on me flickred
here’s a bit of ramblin’. Maybe there’s a few folks out there that might enjoy this bit of history. It’s two fold cause it’s about my new toy buddy Randall and my new bike. Some of you may now I’ve gone nuts again about bmx. I’ve ridden off and on thru out my getting longer life. Starting with mt first Huffy thunder out in death valley, riding the red clay hills in Central Valley (now swallowed up by Redding i do believe), racing and sucking at it in the east bay and other northern parts. Never once winning a trophy rarely even making it out of my first moto. i have distinct memories of never coming in last, painful fright of doubles, and doing things like running over another kids head. Never last cause somebody always crashed or there was one kid (maraculously (spell check please)) slower than me or even more odd, more scared. I moved into skateboarding around the early 80′s and never looked back til adulthood where i had a string of bmx’s in all shapes and sizes, thru bad luck and I think a lot of carelessness all stolen. Ending with my firemans 26 getting ripped off my front porch. turdball cut the iron railing it was locked up to instead of the lock since it was easier. Fart forward 6 years of no bmx to last summer. I got an old granny three speed in Pasadena to ride when I drove down to San Diego for Comic Con. Something felt really right. I had been riding a single speed, which had eventually turned into a fixie for the past 6 years and just wasn’t having fun and somehow the granny bike just brought it back out. i started hunting for another 26 bmx. Bought a vintage laguna 3 bar. great fun for cruising. i started actually trying some tricks on it going out for a late-night bunny hop session here and there after my family went to sleep. but that old laguna was way too stretched out for that. I was hooked and went nuts. I got another 26 firemans which i dubbed the beast. I love it and have the notion that this is made for a giant, scored a DC 26 quad, geometry is a little better in the front, not real happy with the quality. i bought a retro 26 GJS, but gotta be honest, that thing wasn’t made with care or for shredding, the back end is 10 feet long. Switched over to some 24 cruisers. Both of these I love, an L&S (my daily rider, or my once a week night time rider i should say), and an old S&M Challenger. Really dig both of these bikes.
my obsession with BMX and 26 continued on though, and I thought it was time to just get what i wanted. US made, and as local as possible. i wanted something that blended the new kid “Plus Size” bmx like a Black Market Mob with the vintage Bikes I love to actually ride. So here it is… Work in progress…A vintage 3 bar cruiser based specifically on an old Panda 26 Raider, with modern geometry and welds that can handle just about anything. the forks are modified S&M 26. there’s a few details to work out and welds to make, but she’s almost ready- the prototype Bearturds 26″
if i like it as much as i think I’m gonna and some of you guys out there like it too, we’ll make a short run of these fun bikes.
Now for some deeper nerding out. A big part of BMX for me is nostalga and style. Not quite sure how to explain this, but here’s how I came to Bearturds. i have a deep love for northern california, so i started looking (a lot) at the old northern cali BMX companies- Patterson, Skyway, Boss, and the magic hit, Panda. Panda was based originally in Concord California. this place was so close to many of my old homes. i sepnt countless hours ditching school and riding the bart bus to concord from my old shitehole Oakley to ride the bart banks, steal magazines from Tower records, look at toys at the Toys R US, and ride the backyard pools of concord, pleasant hill and walnut creek. Those were some fun days. Panda, thru my understanding was eventually bought out by Boss, based in Oakland. this made for the double found memories of my dad, RIP, a hillbilly from Kentucky would take me to raiders games when they were the og Oakland Raiders. Another moment of retarded brilliancy hits and this bear character i had been struggling with for two years gets his magic. ye olde raiders eyepatch and a hillbilly hat. So out of total nerdness i get two things that i absoluetly love now. my new randall the bear, and the bearturds 26. Wow that was a lot of wind.
Hello. I have a new mini release here at 11am this morning. BLUE BELLS STEVENS and a Lost killer Custom number 64. if anybody has killer custom number 64 and I just made a second number 64 just give me a hollar and send a pic. I also got an extra Arbito hamburger so that’s in the mix too. The bluebells are some handsome and energetic handpaints. blue and white painted eyes, pink noses and a grand melee of spray colors on minty blue vinyl. There are also two glow test shots. hope you enjoy.
more pics of killer and the gang up on my flickr. some things that killer ate- glitter, a feather, eaton arms, drumsticks, trans pink deathra head, what else?
