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THE PEDAL SHOPPE
www.thepedalshoppe.com
James (old school BMX nut) and Julie (jet-setting triathlete) own and run the Pedal Shoppe, a great little indie bike shop at Runaway Bay on Queensland’s Gold Coast. They’re all about anything and everything bike. From stock bikes to custom builds to hard-to-find parts, the Pedal Shoppe team are passionate and dedicated to offering the finest quality bikes, accessories and workmanship that you know you can only be had at an independent owner-operated store.

LUX BMX
www.luxbmx.com
LuxBMX – Nothing’s ever too much trouble for Mitch and Evan at Lux. They deal in new school rides, but are always more than happy to get in old-school parts if they can (or lend a hex-key when you’re out and about and your stem comes loose!). Killer show room, even if you’re not into new school, the vibe is rad.

CROSSLEY CYCLES
www.crossleycycles.com
Crossley Cycles in Manly, QLD (25min from Brisbane city) are a local #BNEBMX institution and have been supporting local BMX riders since the 80s . They’re known for their great service and have a great workshop for the ultimate dial-in.

BMX WORKS
www.bmxworks.com.au
Australian online store with an incredible range of parts for BMX building and restoration. Diverse range, good quality, fantastic prices, user-friendly shopping cart, great service!

FLATLAND FUEL
www.flatlandfuel.com
Über cool flatland specialty store with international shipping. Rad stuff.

OXLEY CYCLES
www.oxleycycles.com
Don and the team at Oxley Cycles on Brisbane’s south side are Old School BMX experts. They have a great selection of old school bits and pieces as well as new school bikes and gear. If they haven’t got what you need in stock they’re happy to try and find it for you. Great service!

HELL ON WHEELS
www.hellonwheels.com.au
Tom and the crew at Hell On Wheels in Newtown, Sydney, are all about style and BMX madness. Parts, apparel, custom built BMX and single speed bikes, new tech and old school style – this is one cool indie Aussie bike store not to be missed if you’re in Sydney, and if you’re not their awesome online store will hook you up with a tonne of cools!

BMX MAFIA
www.bmxmafia.com.au
Old school friendly BMX store in Sydney.

THE SECRET BMX SHOP
www.thesecretbmx.com
The name says it all. California BMX cools.

EAST COUNTY BMX
www.facebook.com/ecbmx
San Diego freestyle BMX specialist store.

NATSUKASHI
www.natsukashi.jpn.com
A great Japanese store featuring contemporary re-issues of classic old school parts by Kashimax, Tange, Sugino, Izumi and Kuwahara. Natsukashi caters for both Japanese and English speaking customers with a well designed website and good international shipping rates.

PLANET BMX
www.planetBMX.com | www.coloredtuffs.com
Planet BMX/Colored Tuffs – The Retro BMX store with factory direct Skyway and SE Bikes products incl. Tuff Wheels, re-issue frames, parts and retro race clothing.

PORKCHOP BMX
www.porkchopbmx.com
Porkchop BMX – Based in the USA, Porkchop has parts for old school BMX bikes from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Run by Justin Earl who has instigated the reissue of a number of classic old school parts from the original moulds, as well as designing and fabricating his own ‘Chopsaw’ brand of chainrings.

DAN’S COMP
www.danscomp.com
New parts for new school, old school and mid school BMX.

SCREAMIN’ WHEELS
www.screaminwheels.com
Vintage BMX store in Meguro-ku, Tokyo.

BIKE PARTS PLUS MORE
www.bike-parts-plus-more.com.au
A really good selection of bike parts at great prices to suit modern and vintage road, mountain, BMX and cruiser bikes. Shipping is very reasonable Australia wide and Duane is great to deal with.

ROBERTO’S CUSTOM POWDER
www.robertoscustompowder.com.au
Roberto’s Custom Power – Australasia’s best Old School BMX specialty powder coaters.

BUSHELL ENGINEERING
www.bushellengineering.com.au
Bushell Engineering – Custom fabrication and specialised welding for aluminium, stainless steel, chromoly, mild steel, magnesium, titanium, copper and brass. ‘Factory’ quality tig welders, always willing to tackle a tricky old school frame repair with confidence.

ESEM DESIGN
www.esemdesign.co.uk
Esem Design – Old School BMX custom and repop padsets, the quality of Steve’s made-to-order nylon and vinyl padsets is second to none.

CARSON LEH CUSTOM SEATS
www.carsonleh.com
Carson Leh creates stunning, handmade, limited edition and custom brogue style leather bike seats for BMX, MTB, town, road and track bikes. Truly beautiful work and a creative way to top of any special build.

PATTERSON PERFORMANCE
Patterson Performance
Patterson Performance are performance car mechanics and machinists with great old school service. They have a machine shop in Alderly, Brisbane. If you need threads cut, changed, or cleaned up these guys are awesome. They changed the imperial threads on some Hutch Excel pegs to suit the metric bosses on my Healing Freestyler forks and did a great job. Nothing’s too much trouble and no job’s too small.

ULTRAHIVE
www.ultrahive.com
The place to go for licensed GT and Skyway decals. Some other cool bits and pieces too.

PONY BIKES
www.ponybikes.com
Pony Bikes – If you’re in Melbourne and want a custom build put together but don’t have the will or the no-how to go DIY, get on to Sasha. She’s a master at custom bike builds in any and every style – OS BMX, road, track, vintage, dragster, you name it… she can build it. Her attention to detail is second to none. Hit Pony Bikes up for frame repairs and custom chainrings too.

STANRIDGE SPEED
www.stanridgespeed.com
Stanridge Speed is the creation of Adam Elridge, madly talented bike designer and builder and all round awesome guy from Columbus, Ohio. His design and fabrication skills, creativity and attention to detail will blow you away.

JOSIE MORWAY
www.josiemorway.com
Josie is an artist, designer and bike lover from Rhode Island in the USA. She does beautiful painted detailing for bicycle frames, head tube badge design and typography.

OLD SCHOOL MAGS
www.oldschoolmags.com
Old School Mags – An incredible collection of scanned Old School BMX magazine articles and performance reviews from the 70s and 80s.

AGGRO RAG
www.aggrorag.com
The iconic Aggro Rag Freestyle Mag from the Plywood Hoods!

GLOBAL FLAT
www.global-flat.com
The largest resource for flatland BMX online. The Global Flat website features great articles, news and events, new product announcements, videos and photos, a great directory of tricks and a guide to the best flatland spots around the world.

YEAH ZINE
www.yeahzine.com
Site and Zine dedicated to supporting and showcasing the girls and women of BMX. Great zines, with good articles, videos, pics and more. Cool merch too! These guys do a lot to get behind female riders and bring us all together! Follow them on Instagram: @yeahzine and Twitter: @yeahzine

MAGNOLIA BMX
www.magnoliabmx.org
Another BMX blog dedicated to covering today’s kick ass female riders with articles, pics, videos, news and events. They have some great custom apparel and ltd edition jewellery too! Follow them on Instagram: @MagnoliaBMX and Twitter: @MagnoliaBMX

ART BMX MAG
www.artbmxmag.com
French flatland rider Alain Massabova is the mastermind behind this unique BMX web zine with a creative focus and global outlook. Articles in French and English, featuring both the contemporary scene and great pieces on the roots of BMX and its legends. Beautiful photography, filmography and creative content from around the world. Back issues can be viewed for free online at artbmxmag.com

20:20 BMX MAGAZINE
www.2020bmxmag.com.au
Awesome Australian BMX mag with tons of local and global content, videos, blogs, competitions and all round awesome content!

SHELDON BROWN’s BICYCLE TECHNICAL INFO
www.sheldonbrown.com
Sheldon Brown’s amazing Bicycle Technical Info website – If you’re new to bike building (or even if you’ve been doing it for years!), you’ll find just about everything to answer your questions and solve obscure problems here. Featuring the famous gear ratio calculator.

FAT BMX
www.fatbmx.com
FatBMX – Great BMX e-zine site with a global focus, heaps of new articles daily. Check out my feature article HERE.

CYCLE EXIF
www.cycleexif.com
Cycle EXIF – Run by photographer Adam Leddin of Sydney, this site offers a dose of the coolest bicycles with an emphasis on design and great photography. Featuring roadies, mountain bikes, BMX, track and fixed, handbuilt masterpieces and custom commuters. CycleEXIF recently featured an article on my Healing Freestyler build, click HERE to check it out!

FYXOMATOSIS
www.fyxomatosis.com
Fyxomatosis – Run by photographer Andy White of Melbourne, FYXO is an online urban cycling lifestyle brand and blog synonymous with good photography, custom bike builds, and cycling inspired events. Andy recently ranked my Healing Freestyler as ‘Silver’ on his podium of personal choice at the 2012 Pushies Galore bike show. Check out the Pushies article on Fyxo HERE (Andy’s photo of me with the Healing is about halfway down the page).

BLOGGING A DEAD HORSE
www.bloggingadeadhorse.com
If you’re into Australian old school BMX brands check out Simon’s Supermax and Hotfoot database – a great collection of Supermax and Hotfoot related information, photos, catalogue scans and timeline info.

BMX MUSEUM (USA)
www.bmxmuseum.com
BMXMuseum.com, the most comprehensive database of old school BMX models worldwide, along with the largest OS BMX forum and community of almost 60,000 members.

GLOBAL FLAT (FORUM)
www.global-flat.com
The largest resource for flatland BMX online also includes a forum section with almost 50,000 members. 

VINTAGE BMX
www.vintagebmx.com
Vintage BMX forum, USA/Worldwide.

BMX SOCIETY
www.bmxsociety.com
BMX Society forum and database, USA/Worldwide.

BURNER WORLD
www.burnerworldforum.co.uk
Burner World – UK forum for Raleigh Burner enthusiasts, and also extends to discussion on other old school BMX brands and builds.

RAD BMX
www.radbmx.co.uk
Rad BMX – UK old school BMX forum with 3000+ members encompassing old school, mid school and new school BMX.

COLONY BMX
www.colonybmx.com.au
Brisbane’s own! Keepin’ it real for the #frontbrakebrethren.

HARO BIKES
www.harobikes.com
BMX radness since 1978.

ODYSSEY BMX
 www.odysseybmx.com
The best parts and accessories, incl. their flatland specific ‘Flatware’ parts and frames.

ST MARTIN BMX
www.stmartinbmx.com
Specialist flatland bike company from France.

ARES BIKES
www.aresbikes.com
Flatland centric bike company from Japan. All the innovation and style that you’d expect from a boutique Japanese bike manufacturer. Ares believes the world is FLAT!

AUTUM BIKES
www.autumbikes.com
Specialist flatland company from Berlin, Germany.

TWO HIP BIKES
www.2hip.com
Ron Wilkerson’s brand – keepin’ it real. Everyone’s got a King of Vert shirt in their closet, right?

DARTMOOR BIKES
www.dartmoor-bikes.com
Awesome little boutique MTB and BMX company from Poland. Innovative, creative, high-performance parts and frames.

ETNIES BMX
www.etniesbmx.com
Super comfortable, tough, mad chic kicks.

VANS
www.vans.com
Iconic footwear. Made for BMX since the beginning of time.

LIX NORTH, ARTIST
www.lixnorth.com
My fine art portfolio.

LIX CREATIVE
www.lixcreative.com.com
My graphic art, illustration and photography portfolio.

MEDOLLIC (BAND)
www.medollic.com
Medollic – my rock band.

@THELIXLIFE ON INSTAGRAM
www.instagram.com/thelixlife
My personal Instagram account – BMX, travels, gaming and creative life.

@LIXNORTH ON INSTAGRAM
www.instagram.com/lixnorth
My professional fine art Instagram account. Art only (no BMX).

LIX ON TUMBLR
polly-jeanius.tumblr.com
My Tumblr site: a diary of my art, bmx, gaming, music and bull terrier life. A feed made up of photos from both my IG accounts.

@LIXNORTH ON TWITTER
www.twitter.com/lixnorth
My Twitter account.

JAMES NORTH PRODUCTIONS
www.jamesnorthproductions.com.au
James North Productions – My über-talented husband James’ Recording Studio.