BB Cycles Voucher Safari.
Thanks to Soilworld, X-Treme Fast Forward (anyone know what this is?) BB Cycles and Blake Schofield from racebmxwa.com I was awarded a $100 gift voucher to BB Cycles.
As you can see, it's pretty sweet ass.
P.s. Don't bother trying to print this out and use it at
BB Cycles because it needed the reciept
stapled to it.
The Journey
Orange Grips and I caught the train from Fremantle to Glendalough. A workmate of O.G.s sat near us with a friend of his, and they were chatting away, and rightly getting up the snozz of a old fella who was heard on several occasions mumbling something to the effect of "little bastards" under his breath. We thought it would have been in poor taste to take photographs of this senior citizen, but it's not stopped us so far.
At one point, he stood up and started walking off, I assume away from these young scallywags. This would have been fine, but the train was going about 90 km/h and he was losing his balance. Being the caring citizen I am, I shot an arm out to catch what I thought was a falling old man, only to be shot a glance like "whatever touches me, will be promptly snapped off and used for fishing offal". This was embarrasing moment numero uno.
Sooo. We arrived at Perth station. Got off, wheeled our superfresh rides up and down the
escalator
and started to board the next train... Enter numero ... duo?.. Du?... 2. Numero 2.
A girl was saying goodbye to her other girls, and backing away from the train a bit. She didn't see
my FRESH BMX in her way, and started to trip backwards. Again, as a pillar of society, I jutted my
hand out and attempted to stop the girl from falling backwards. Alas, women don't like to be
grabbed. After she recovered, and I removed my hand which was firmly placed on her back, over her bra
clasp (totally accidentally) we walk onto the train, past the friends who were giving her weird
"who the fuck is that guy, and why was he just attached to your back via his hand?". Meh... you can't
win them all. Or in Orange Grips' case. You can't win any of them.
SO! We're now at BB Cycles. We were greeted by Kylie (thinks....) Patroni, that's right. Kylie Patroni on the front counter. I saw Bunny in the backroom being a backroom Bunny with some papers and after the obligatory "You must be Bunny" and after annoucing "I'm the approud winner of the racebmxwa.com's $100 gift voucher." he looked up. I think he instantly tweaked that 'approud' isn't really a word, and promptly asked me "Are you a racer?". I honestly answered "No" and he went back to work ;)
The Shop
The shop is pretty sweet. It's got a shitcake load of BMX's and I fell in love with the GT bikes there. I think I'm gunna buy one when my frame snaps. They're real fresh. Bunny knows his shit. So does Kylie for that matter. A quick tour of the backrooms of the shop impressed the pants off us with the range of rims that would AND SHOULD (points angry shaking finger to Fleets Cycles in Fremantle.)
The Purchase
I'm now the approud owner of a Sun Witch Ditch rim, with a sex-a-licious sealed back hub. I put forward $30 and it was mine. If you see me, feel free to ask to touch the rim, or touch me, cos it spins smoother than greased mercury. I didn't know a wheel could get as trued as this also. It's smack on. To the millimeter. Balanced like an m16 too.
In Conclusion
BB Cycles is a sweet ass store. Bunny Lim is heavily involved in the BMX scene, hell, he runs the best track that we've been to so far. So you're not going to a cycle shop who have a token range of bmx with limited knowledge. You're going to a place that not only knows their shit, but support the bmx scene in almost every way. This gets the big thumbs up from the Safari.
Only real problem of the day was having to watch Orange Grips' drop a piece of chicken onto the pavement, pick it up, brush the grit off it and eat it.
