Some big news from our boy Andy Roode! After making a few decisions and changes a bit ago Andy is now riding for Verde and Éclat! Congrats man! Check out this welcome to Verde edit filmed and edited by Surrey Steve and expect a bike check and interview in the near future.

Grabbed this one from The Embassy, shot by Jason Vawter. Rooder’s been shredding a bunch lately and there’s gonna be some more Rooder goodness dropping really soon, watch out!

Birthday shout outs going out to our dude Andy Roode today, the maddest dude in BMX. Happy birthday man! Hit up The Embassy for some of Roode’s ‘Stay Mad Mondays’, there’s some gold there!

Our tour of the east coast of Canada was probably the best/wildest trip we’ve ever done. Greg Flag (MacNeil/Almond), Sam Lowe (Wethepeople), Andy Roode (Volume/Demolition), Phil Bartlett (Wethepeople), Sean Cooke and myself hit up Halifax, Nova Scotia, Charlottetown, PEI and St. John’s, Newfoundland over two weeks and rode some amazing spots and met some great people. Thanks a ton to Dave Scott and Ryan Kuryluk for letting us crash at their place in Halifax, the crew at MacQueen’s in Charlottetown for hooking us up with a place to stay, Rob Yetman at Turndown in St. John’s for helping us out a ton, Carl Scott (Dave Scott’s dad) for the BBQ, the Cooke family and everyone else we met, rode with and partied with for the east coast hospitality. Filmed and edited by Sean Cooke.

Check out another video after the jump that Dave Scott put together of some party footage and look below this post for some new updates, this is gonna be stickied to the top of the blog for a bit.

Today was our last full day of the trip and we had a time here in St. John’s. We met up with the locals at Turndown and had an awesome visit and session, thanks so much to Rob for hooking things up for us. If you ever need anything at all, be sure to swing by Turndown and Rob will hook you up. After the shop visit we hit up a rail spot and the crew completely destroyed it. Andy Roode laced an icepick across and down the entire thing, so wild. Check out some more pics after the jump, thanks to everyone here in St. John’s and to everyone else who helped us out during this trip!

Greg Flag, pegs to over bars. Greg shut down this spot, wait ’til you see the video.

The setup at Turndown is so good, we had a blast riding there.

Andy Roode, doin’ it for the kids.

Straight flexin’ with the kids.

Here’s Rob killing it at the shop. The scene in St. John’s is so good and it’s almost all thanks to this guy. Thanks Rob!

We’ve been having some good times out here on the east coast even though the weather’s been less than perfect. It’s been a lot colder than we thought and raining off and on but we’ve still been getting things done. Today we hit up Sportwheels in Sackville, NS and hung out for a bit then had a great session with everyone back at the Commons park. Greg Flag handplants in the bowl above, check out some more shots after the jump. We’re heading to PEI tomorrow and will be at MacQueen’s around 3PM, see you there!

Andy Roode, crooked stall.

Sean Cooke, workin’ it.

Greg Flag with a sick stovepipe that he just learned 5 minutes before this photo.

Sportswheels employee, shredder and super nice guy Ryan Kuryluk. We’ve been staying with him and Dave Scott in Halifax and we can’t thank them enough.

Andy Roode, barspin gap at the start of a line.

Sportwheels in Sackville, Nova Scotia is the spot for everything you need. Hit them up next time you need anything.

Ryan hard at work.

The elastic ball at Sportwheels has been going for a while now and it’s massive.

Today was the first full day of our east coast trip and a lot of shit went down. We all got into Halifax yesterday and sat around and watched it rain so we were all stoked to get out. Everyone was in kill mode, especially Sam Lowe in the above photo with an overgrind. Check out a bunch more photos after the jump and expect more updates soon.

Phil Bartlett, pegs with a shit run-up.

Greg Flag and Sean Slade.

There’s more to this than just a double peg. Greg Flag gettin’ down on a long ass rail.

Andy Roode with a wild ass rail hop.

Sam Lowe with an ice straight through the kink at the end.

Greg Flag, kinker to bars.

Phil Bartlett, tooth-hanger with another shitty run-up.

Greg Flag, curved kinker.

Andy Roode (Volume/Demolition), with a casual down-whip in Vancouver…mad. (via Volume Bikes)

Andy Roode (Volume/Demolition) built up a Volume Drifter recently and it looks dope. Check out a couple more pics after the jump.

According to Rooder, its the best ride he’s ever built up; Rolls hub in the back with rolls guard and Phantom in the front with guard as well. He’s also got the new Momentum tires, f-1 spline drive sproket, d-slim seat, Keystone stem (Chris Doyle), and Open Bars (Dennis Enarson).

You Mad?

This is pretty wild. Andy Roode getting shit done and ice picking the stage rail in Long Beach, can’t wait to see the edit! (via Volume Bikes)