Friends of NYC Freeride

NYC Freeride has made a lot of friends. Hit up their websites!

Clothing/Soft Goods

Bern Helmets - Bern Helmets - Head Protection For Any Action Sport The totally integrated Bern helmet system adapts to all conditions, for all riding sports (Skate, BMX, Snow, Wake, etc.). The line consists of eight new designs: 4 for women and girls, and 4 for men a

Black Flys - Fly Industries, home of Black Flys, and Flygirls Eyewearis where the magic begins. Located in Irvine, CA, Flys is one of the few still independently owned sunglass manufacturers still out there. Let's face it, who wants to answer to someone else? NOT US..

Dirty Devil Apparel - From the stage to the street never has one man stood so strong by his convictions. At the beginning of the New York Hardcore Scene, he was there. As the lead vocalist of the legendary Agnostic Front, Roger Miret not only lived it, he wrote the pages of th

Felon Clothing -

Lucky13 - Lucky 13 is an American hot rod clothing company proudly servicing pinup, rockabilly, psychobilly, rock n

Motor Brands USA -

Oakley -

Pimpit - The Pimpit Empire has a legacy of trendsetting throughout many industries. With the development of the Empire in 1998, a couple of college students transcended the apparel industry from the racks of retail boutiques to a multi-million dollar online conglo

Renegade Apparel -

Rogue MTB - ROGUE Mountain Bike Apparel is just that... clothes, riding gear, and everything else you wear... specifically for the new breed of mountain biker. Downhill, freeride, dirt jump, urban, whatever, if you`re shredding on big wheels, we support it. ROGUE w

Sombrio Clothing - It goes something like this... It all started on a whim, and it still feels that way around here: out of the blue, everyday. Watching Sombrio materialize from concept to reality over these past few seasons has been enlightening. Today, what stands

Spy - SPY Optic, Inc. (SPY) is based in north county San Diego, just minutes from perfect surf, legendary skate parks, and a short drive to the mountains. Taking advantage of our location, SPY employees regularly surf, skate, wakeboard, motocross, mountain bike

SteelMX - SteelMX was born to take the industry by storm!

White Devil Syndicate - For years the White Devil Syndicate has kept a low-profile among the underworld. They would hit cities with little or no warning, leaving barely any trace of their existence behind. Only recently law enforcement has begun to recognize the WDS as a known c

Components

e.13 Components - The Best Chain Guides Bar None!

Frame Builders

EWR Bikes - We are a rider owned and driven bike company committed to producing exceptional frames and complete bicycles. We are currently in the process of building a limited production run of Original Woods Bike frames with updated geometry, a butted tube set, dis

Intense Cycles - In Every Frame Blood, Sweat And Tears A Family To Be Proud Of!

SIC Kustoms -

Sinister Bikes - Hand-crafted frames made in New Hampshire by Frank "The Welder" and his small crew.

SuperCo - In 1992 I met a Grundig World Cup champion Trials rider in NYC's Central Park by the name of Chris Boudreaux.He was finishing up medical school, trialsin' in between shifts at the hospital. I became a big fan and spent hours on end and countless rolls of

Magazines/Publications

Decline Magazine -

Dice Magazine -

Distilled Magazine -

Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine -

Litter'Mega'zine -

MatchVideoZine -

Ol' Skool Rodz -

Punk Rock Confidential - Punk Rock Confidential is a quarterly full color fanzine. Punk Rock Confidential is more eye candy than ideology. Punk Rock Confidential shows punk rock as a lifestyle. The births, deaths, weddings, homes and the beauty of self-destructive behavior.

Rockabilly Magazine -

The Horse Backstreet Choppers -

Transcend Magazine - Transcend Magazine is a print magazine specializing in industry news from the gravity fed side fo the sport (downhill, mountain cross, freeriding etc). With dwindling advertising dollars, we have decided to put any further print issues on hold and to conc

Misc. Friends

Kusack Architectural Metal INC. -

Monster Garage -

Music/Bands We Like

(Hed)P.E. - For over a decade, Huntington Beach, CA's (Hed) p.e have taken the lead of the punk-rock forefathers and empowered themselves to take control of their music. With the July 8, 2008 release of (Hed) p.e's new live CD/DVD 2-disc set "The D.I.Y Guys", the ban

69 Eyes - Helsinki Vampires are ready to take over the world with a sleazy blend of post- apocalyptic rock‘n’roll ... and they’re out for YOUR blood, baby. Formed in Helsinki’s rock clubs back in the early 90s, the five-piece take their influences from far and w

AC/DC - More than three decades into a career that shows no signs of slowing down or letting up, AC/DC, like electricity itself, provides the world with an essential source of power and energy. Since forming in 1973, AC/DC's high voltage rock 'n' roll has flowe

Agent Orange - The Original Southern California Punk/Surf Power Trio, Agent Orange has been around since forever. Never bought in, never sold out. Blazed a musical trail so wide that imitators had no trouble driving right up the middle of it in an armored truck full of

Alice In Chains - ALICE IN CHAINS released their debut EP WE DIE YOUNG (July 1990) and the title track went on to be their first of many rock radio hits. The platinum-certified FACELIFT followed in August of 1990 and the video for the grinding hit "Man in the Box" went int

Alien Sex Fiend - Throughout this eerie ouvre, Alien Sex Fiend built a fanatical following for their enthrallingly garish gigs, enticing the likes of Iggy Pop and David Bowie into fervent Fiend fandom, and opening for Alice Cooper on his Nightmare Returns jaunt. Live, the

Astro Zombies - NOT A MISFITS COVER BAND, THANK YOU. Started in 1996, the French psychobilly band, The Astro Zombies, crawled out of the vineyards of the Burgundy area to conquer the psychobilly scene. Years later, like good wine, the band aged with a more mature sound b

Batmobile - Batmobile was founded 1983. After several months of covering Elvis Presley, Johnny Burnette and Gene Vincent, Jeroen Haamers (vocals/guitar), Johnny Zuidhof (drums) and Eric Haamers (double bass) decided to start to write their own material and all of a s

Big F*cking Skull - In the beginning, there was the Big Fuckin Skull. When or where It came from is unknowable and doesn't matter, but it was no doubt a really mean and shitty time and place. You know; the kind of time and place capable of producing a killer skull the size o

Bloody Hollies - In the Fall of 2004, the Bloody Hollies set off for their first European tour. It was a pretty exciting time for the band. Not only were we still touring on our Sympathy for the Record Industry debut "Fire at Will," we were fresh off of a successfull U.S.

BrassKnuckle Boys -

Buzzcocks -

Coal Chamber -

Deadbolt - The Scariest Band In The World!

Deftones -

Demented Are Go -

Fu Manchu -

hdr - Sit down and listen to the story of three friends who have come from three totally different backgrounds, geographical locations and styles of music to create the power trio, HDR... joe mora: HDR’s main singer and only guitar player is a so cal nat

Iggy Pop And The Stooges - Slammin’ backbeats to the midsection, punishing and relentless guitar riffs that fry the eardrums to a crisp, and lyrics that call for revolution of mind and soul even as they forever extol rock’s eternal truths – summertime, cars, women, pain – are colle

Incubus - "(Art)... rescues us from our self chosen triviality, to which we are so prone. It is like a deep organ note that makes my hair stir and a shiver run through me. I 'pull back' from life, like a camera taking a long shot with a wide angle lens. I quite sim

Ministry - Everything Ministry has created since its inception has been an evolution. Al Jourgensen, the architect of Ministry, succeeded by remaking the mainstream in his own image and forging a new style of music. Jourgensen morphed Ministry from a lightweight

Motley Crue -

Reverend Horton Heat - Undeniably, The Reverend Horton Heat, aka Jim Heath, is the biggest, baddest, grittiest, greasiest, greatest rocker that ever piled his hair up and pounded the drinks down. Without question, for all of his outlandish antics, blistering stage performances

Revolting Cocks -

Sex Pistols - Q: Can you tell me a bit about how you and Steve started the group? Paul Cook: It wasn't our doing really. It was this bloke called Wally. Like he used to go to our school. He was in the same year as us. And we didn't used to play anything when we was

Social Distortion - A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOCIAL DISTORTION In the late 1970s the first raw, sloppy, speeding guitar chords began to blare from the garages and backrooms of a Southern California suburb called Orange County. They echoed a sound forged in the preceding years i

SOil -

The Bouncing Souls - Asbury Park, NJ is Bruce Springsteen’s town. There’s no two ways about it. So when The Bouncing Souls moved there to write what would become The Gold Record, Bruce’s old ghosts, spirits which permeate the area, were almost sure to appear. It happens to an

The Clash - The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers. Where the Pistols were nihilistic, the Clash were fiery and idealistic, charged with righteousness and a leftist political ideology. Fr

The Cramps - In the spring of 1976, The CRAMPS began to fester in a NYC apartment. Without fresh air or natural light, the group developed its uniquely mutant strain of rock’n’roll aided only by the sickly blue rays of late night TV. While the jackhammer rhythms of p

The Crystal Method -

The Damned - The curtain fell quickly soon after the band took to the small stage at The Nashville club that night back in 1976, following an offensive burst of something that could hardly be described as popular music - intensely loud guitars, screeching vocals, th

The Dead Kennedys - DEAD KENNEDYS were one of the most popular and important American hardcore punk bands of the late '70s/early '80s. They formed in San Francisco in 1978 when EAST BAY RAY placed an ad in a music paper that vocalist JELLO BIAFRA responded to. They were soon

The Dead Milkmen -

The Dickies - Well, you've come to the right place if your a fan of LA's finest... You'll find everything you ever wanted to know about the band, 'especially trivial info, paraphanalia, badges and regalia'! Welcome one and all, enjoy your stay and tell your friends.

The Exploited - Riot starting, bouncer bashing, cop baiting, hotel trashing, foul talking, noise making, chaos causing, venue wrecking, government hating, rule breaking, piss taking, unrelenting, punk rocking. Clearly we're not talking about Pepsi adverts here, or indeed

The Groovie Ghoulies -

The Hangmen -

The Horror Pops - From virtual unknowns to stars of the Warped Tour and stadiums across Europe, HorrorPops have thrived on the strength of great songwriting, remarkable intuition, a jaw-dropping live experience and a willingness to explore an array of styles. Be it new wav

The Meteors - The Meteors are a highly influential psychobilly band. Originally from the United Kingdom, they are often credited with giving the genre its distinctive sound. The Meteors consider themselves the first and only "pure" psychobilly band.

The Misfits - "It started as a twisted dream"... 30 years ago in a small town in New Jersey called Lodi. It was there in April of 1977, at the dawn of the punk movement, that the Misfits were born. Taking the title of Marilyn Monroe's last movie as their name in a move

The Pixies - For more than ten years, since the Pixies ended their run with a meltdown that left pretty much everyone pissed off, the chances of this group ever getting back together were basically nil. All four members scattered: Frank Black embarked on a solo career

The Ramones - The Ramones were loud and fast - Everyone knows that, even the poor, blind saps who never loved the band. But the Ramones were many things, and gloriously so, from the moment of their inception in Forest Hills, New York, in 1974, until their final

The Replacements - For anyone who spends too much time reading books and magazines about rock and roll, it can be difficult to hear the Replacements beyond the myth. Whether it was cultivated by the band or foisted upon them by journalists, the "Beautiful Loser" archetype w

The Stray Cats - - Brian Setzer dissolves his previous band "The Bloodless Pharaohs" to concentrate on playing rockabilly music. "Rockabilly" is a hybrid sound that fuses "hillbilly", "jump blues" and "western swing" music. The move was considered a gamble as the "Pharaoh

The Teen Idles - The Teen Idles founded Dischord Records in 1980 with the release of the "Minor Disturbance" 8-song 7" Dischord #1, so it seemed appropriate to celebrate Dischord's 100th release with a second single from the band 16 years later. This record consists of so

The Turbo A.C.'s - Forged in chrome, steel and iron and fueled by only the purest high-test gasoline, the International Rock N Roll Machine known as the Turbo A.C.´s first spewed its charcoal black exhaust in 1996 with Damnation Overdrive (Blackout! Records). Guitarist/Voca

Type O Negative - It’s hard to believe that brooding dark-rock outfit Type O Negative—bassist/singer/control freak Peter Steele, glass-is-half-empty keyboardist Josh Silver, reality-check cashing guitarist Kenny Hickey and guarded-optimist drummer Johnny Kelly—are celebrat

Online Community

A Silver Touch -

Ace1Mail - The Downhill & Freeride Mountain Bike Arena

Brooklyn Bike Riders - To spread the passion of the riders who frequent this site on a daily basis. And to show the world you don't have to be a "Big Willy" to be evolved in the sport of bike riding.

ECMTB - East Coast Mountain Biking was founded to provide a high quality web site for mountain bikers, whether they are just getting started or have been riding for decades. This community-based web site contains leading edge content such as: trail reviews, how t

Grind State -

Hcor.net - Hcor is short for Hardcore. It happens to be very fitting for most of what we do around here whether it be on Bikes, Snowboards, Ski's, Skateboards, Gaming, Porn, or when wielding knives and bats.

Irie FM Jamaica - The link to all good things in Jamaica!

MTBR - ConsumerREVIEW.com is the leading source of user-generated buying advice for outdoor sporting goods and consumer electronics. Consumers visit to learn, interact, and buy or sell the products showcased within our network of web communities, including sites

NJ Dirt -

NSMB - The #1 North Shore "community" website.

NYCMTB -

Perpetualmocean - Skye Nacel is the founder of Perpetualmocean which began in 1997 and is always up for adventure or mischief. He focuses on placing emphasis on daily pursuit of core sports such as surfing, free ride mountain biking, snow boarding, all the while thinking

Pinkbike -

Ride Central - For all things wheel based.

Ride Monkey - Online Community

SponsorHouse a place for athletes - connect with athletes, sponsors, friends, fans, media, events, places...

Thrash Bike -

Online Dealers

Gretna Bikes - We Are ... Gretna Bikes, an organization of riders, racers, and outdoor enthusiasts ... striving to provide the highest quality and most innovative products for your next adventure ... we use what we sell, and we have first hand experience in putting our

Monk A Moo Inc. -

Phat Moose Cycles - We just dig riding. Simple as that. Doesn

Pricepoint - Pricepoint.com is the premier internet bicycle retailer for mountain and road bike parts, accessories, frames and complete bikes at up to 80% discount from retail prices. We also proudly carry an extensive range of cycling clothing including mountain and

Rabbit Street Japan - The RabbitStreet Ube store is the cycle shop of Yamaguchi prefecture Ube city. Doing also mail order, because it increases, consultation with ease.

Photography

KLM Photography - I picked up the camera at a young age. Making my Grandpop hold up his gifts at holidays so I could cut off his head and show half of his gift and using the family Australian Shepard, Spark, as my main model. And I never stopped shooting. In high school I

Rob Rebholz -

Pin Ups/Burlesque

Go Go Amy - I got my start in New York City as a cigarette girl and I quickly found my way onto a go-go platform at some of the hottest rock and roll clubs in town. Go-go dancing quickly led me into modeling. I appeared on flyers and ads for almost every band, club a

Lttle Darlings Pinups For Pitbulls -

Masuimi Max - There's something wonderfully fantastical about her site; all the different costumes, characters, and visual styles make for an adventurous outing. Max skips easily from a cutesy Barbie doll to the dark and mysterious secret agent with sexy and confident

Sabina Kelley - Welcome to Switchblade Stilettos, my modeling portfolio website. My name is Sabina and I'm a professional Model available for paid jobs. I specialize in Pinup, Fashion, Glamour, Fetish, Swimsuit, and Lingerie style shoots. I've been modeling professi

Suicide Girls - "We've kidnapped your girlfriend and gave her a tattoo.........."

Racing Camp/Coaching

Mad March Racing - Mad March Racing Camps and Coaching were founded a few years back by Shaums March with the simple goal of providing the best hands-on mountain biking instruction available. Camps feature detailed instruction by certified and personable professional riders

Riders Sites

Sports Nutrition

RedBull Energy Drink - Nuf Said!

Suspension

Marzocchi - It

RockShox - Incremental enhancements. Perpetual improvements. Revolutionary Innovation. When advancements are continuously made to every attribute of every component, the result is overall performance that is simply second to none. And to real cycling enthusiasts, th

Tattoo/Art

Colin Christian - Colin Christian was born in London on March 30th 1964 to a loving and outgoing mother. He hated school and apart from art classes found the whole thing rather frustrating and useless. At the age of 15 he left school and lived for a year in Morocco with hi

Coop -

Corey Miller - Ask premier tattoo artist Corey Miller how he got into the tattoo business, and he will probably tell you it was “by hanging around the wrong people.” And if you have a sense of humor and you get it, he may tell you the real story. In 1982, a fiftee

Derek Hess - From concert posters to politically charged fine art pieces, Cleveland-based artist Derek Hess has tested the waters of both the music and art world for over 15 years. “I’m lucky to have had the sense to take responsibility for the artistic ability I w

Hcor - I am a guy in his thirties...thirty what? Dont worry about it, I feel and act about 22 anyway. I was born and raised in Jersey not far from NYC, and I've done my share of dirt. Maybe that is why I play in it so much. In any case...I'm not wanted in any st

James Owens - James Owens was born with gasoline in his veins. Born and raised in Detroit MI, America’s rich history of the automobile runs deep in his family. “Half my family worked in the auto industry. Both my grandfathers worked in the industry. On my mother’

Jeral Tidwell - The 30-Second Story From the start I was on the run, given freedom of expression from my first breath. I was born in 1969 in sunny Southern California of two rebellious teenagers running from the restricted small town atmosphere of Northern Louisiana.

Michael Hussar -

Monarch Tattoo -

Robert Williams -

RobotsWillKill - Robots Will Kill is an arts site dedicated to community and exposure for artists/media often disregarded by the mainstream art world. Set in motion in 2001, RWK is the brain-child of Chris Chillemi. Rather than featuring his own work exclusively, he opene

Sas Christian - The first time I met my future husband Colin he asked me what I wanted to do for a living, I said "to be a painter" " so you paint?" he asked, "no" I replied, and it remained that way for another ten years. I was born in London in 1968, the eldest of f

Sparrow Tattoo -

The Pizz -

Theo Jak -

Vaughan Art - Take a trip through the mind of "Von Poot" and experience some of the bizarre thoughts put into painting. Greg's art can best be described as surrealistic Lowbrow with a touch of Kustom Kulture. We invite you to look at all of the people Greg has m