Sunday!

Cruiser blast!

2008-11-14T12:23:00.009-05:00

A few days ago, I was riding back from watching the Sabres game when I happened upon this random construction pile of mess. These spots are the best because they only last for a short period so you have to make use of them right away. It was cold as hell outside, not sure how that works cause hell is generally thought of as hot. Either way the cold alleviated my tendinitis long enough for my friend Jay to shoot a couple of random shots. The pile might be there tonight, I've got my fingers crossed.

New Sunday Shirts Available Now!

2008-11-13T18:10:00.003-05:00

Just as the title says, all of our latest Sunday T-shirts are in stock and completely available. If your shop doesn't have any then make them call Blackout, QBP or SBS! Be on the lookout for more unique softgoods from us coming soon!

Chris Hilbrich's Model D

2008-11-10T09:12:00.006-05:00

Chris H ilbrich has been riding the Model D for a few weeks now. He says if feels really good on trails which is exactly what we intended this frame for. The Model D is designed for the trails with its longer rear end, higher bottom bracket and mellower headtube. We didn't attach the trail name so we could disguise a light weight frame. We designed the frame around specific users. This is for trails where a Second Wave would be for street. Simple!

Model D Dimensions
TT 20.75, 21 and 21.25 RE 14
HT 74 ST 71
BB Height 11.8 Weight 4.65 lbs

Crusier rail photos!

2008-11-06T09:22:00.006-05:00

Here are a few photos of me riding the Model-C right after Interbike. I couldn't run them without getting into trouble, but now I don't have to worry about that anymore! Look for an update release date for all the new 2009 frames.

Photos Jon Capozzi

Aaron Ross Funday!!!!!

2008-10-30T12:29:00.007-04:00

Here's the check out of the new Aaron Ross Funday frame. The frame drawings have been finalized so its off to production now with an arrival date of after the first of the year.

TT 20, 20.5, 20.75 and 21 HT 74.5 ST 71
RE 13.5 based on a 30-10 or 27-9 gearing
BB Mid 11.5 Weight 4.8lbs
Colors Blue, Black Magic
Features All Second Wave features, removable gyro tabs on frames w/mounts, extra cable guide, Aaron's name embossed on stay caps and completely customizable sticker kit.

Off to Trick or Treat Jam!

2008-10-25T11:36:00.002-04:00

Yep, we are leaving for Rochester in a little bit to go to the Red Bull Trick or Treat Jam at the old armory on Main St. Karl Poynter, Kevin Porter, Lil' Anthony and myself are heading out to meet back up with Jeff Z and Aaron Ross. None of us have jumped a coffin or rode a Hearse before so this should be fun. Oh and Reez set up a fog machine too! Not sure if its a legal fog though! Haha! See you there!

Karl Poynter Second Wave!

2008-10-20T00:12:00.007-04:00

Check out Karl Poynter's new colorway. We took a Sunday Second Wave frame with all the super good features and let Karl come up with his own paint job. What he did was use a coral red just around the top tube/seat tube junction and have the rest of the frame be Black Magic. Then we played off his name sort of by using arrows for the decals. Look for this early next year. Check out more photos of the frame below.

Eric L Bike Check and New Ian Color!

2008-10-17T14:22:00.004-04:00

Eric Lichtenberger stop by the office for a pair of pedals and ended up leaving with a new bike. We showed this 2009 Ian Schwartz which is the first frame to have a built in Pivotal Post as our display bike at Interbike and it looked so good that Eric decided he'd like to ride it as his own. To be honest this is my favorite color that Sunday has ever done. The color is basically Post-It Note yellow and we were suppose to do a color similar to this for the original Wave frames that came out 2 years ago. I know it says 2009 colorway, but it should be available at shops by the first week of November so be on the look out. More frame info coming soon!
Jim

More Model-C pics!

2008-10-08T12:35:00.005-04:00

Here's a few more photos of the Model-C's built up. Nothing too detailed, but you should be able to see the frame, fork and bars a little more. At the bottom are a few photos taken by Ron Plumlee.

Sunday Model-C

2008-10-07T02:00:00.009-04:00

So, Interbike has come and go for another year. Thankfully it will be another year before we do it all again and unfortunately its only a year before we have to do it again. Either way I wanted to take this week and talk about some of the products we showed at our booth.

New this year is Sunday's version of a cruiser called the Model-C, but luckily it doesn't come anywhere close to riding like a traditional racing cruiser rather if feels more like a larger version of a normal 20" BMX bike. Along with this frame, we made 24umph bars(7.25" rise) and Morning 24.1 forks which are just Morning 2.1 forks built into cruiser forks.

To be honest it was an experiment to see if we could make a cruiser more freestyle. So, immediately after Interbike, we put the frames together and discovered that our intuitions were correct. You could do basically every trick on it that you could do on a normal BMX bike. It was even possible to loop out with a rear end at 15.25". Rolling fakie was way more stable due to the longer wheelbase and the headtube at 74.5 degrees. Jumping was made easier by the larger wheel size and the longer wheelbase. We took it to varied terrain including 7ft minis, cement parks, wooden skateparks and my local college campus. Did slides, whips, jumped hips, manualed, picked, grinded, fuf-ed, spun, spun more, hangovered, hang-5ed, nose wheelied, crankslide, doubles runs, but alas no flairs or flips yet. It's been a lot of fun and it's more fun seeing the smiles on people's faces after they would take it for a test ride.

DIMENSIONS:
Top Tube 21 Rear End 15.25
HT 74.5 ST 71
BB Height 13.75"

FEATURES: Mid BB, post-weld machining of the BB and HT, angled brake mounts, traditional laser cut dropouts, Non-Waved downtube, Director fork styled wishbone, Black Magic rustproof coating and 41Thermal heat treating,

We are still in the testing stages, so these options and dimensions might change. The frames, forks and bars will be available sometime in the spring. There isn't any release date set yet. Any input then leave it in the comments section!

Sunday stickers put to good use!

2008-09-30T02:45:00.002-04:00

This the best, I love seeing this stuff! Skier J sent me the one on the left and the right one was right at the front door of Interbike! More updates later this week when I'm not riding the Bruiser!

Aaron Ross gets Bronze!

2008-09-22T12:32:00.004-04:00

Congratulations to Aaron Ross for getting the bronze in street at last weekends X-Games in Mexico. Check out the video to see the highlights and Aaron's excitement when he does the smith to whip. I guess he battled a bunch of flat tires during the contest, but I couldn't really tell it from the video. More when I talk with him later!

Introducing: Chris Hilbrich

2008-09-19T12:11:00.006-04:00

Aaron Ross is a big fan of Chris, enough so that he wanted Sunday to start hooking him up. So here is a little interview, a bike check and a whole bunch of photos

Name: Lil' Chris
Age: 15
Where from? Austin TX
Your first memory of riding? At a BMX track
How'd you get into riding? When I started racing
Favorite thing to ride or do you have a favorite? Trails, park, and street. I pretty muck like all of them
What inspires you in riding? Friends and myself
Favorite riders? Brian Foster
Favorite tricks? 360 turndowns
Favorite video? Building the Underground
Favorite place you've ridden? Catty Woods in PA
Anywhere in particular you want to ride? The black pearl skate park in the Caribbean

Quick Bike Check

Frame Sunday Wave 2
Fork Sunday Morning 2.1
Bars Sunday Triumph
Cranks Odyssey Wombolt
Pedals Odyssey Twisted PC
Hubs Chris King
Rims Odyssey 7ka
Tires Odyssey Aitken
Seat Odyssey Aitken

I'm really excited to have Chris a part of Sunday. Great style, good tricks and just great enthusiasm for riding! That's a lot of trail photos for Sunday! Hmm?
*All photos Rick Crossman

Jim Cielencki Top 5

2008-09-15T13:08:00.003-04:00

Go over to Defgrip and check out my Top 5's! In my opinion, its almost 'unpossible' to have only 5 Top 5 Simpson quotes! There's just way too many to only have 5!

Few videos!

2008-09-10T13:18:00.003-04:00

Here's a few videos for you. First is Kurt Rasmusson's home video. If you don't know Kurt then you don't know that he works his ass off making kitchen cabinets with his dad. He does this full time and I'm not exactly sure how he is able to be so dialed on a bike while working that much. Most people as dialed don't work nearly as much or at all. The second video is of Mike Taylor and his buddy Nails who we give parts too. Its actually from a BSD trip they went on. You'll have to make it through a bunch of skatepark footage to see the guys riding, so hold tight.

Rasmusson Ranch from Lotek on Vimeo.

BSD summer roadtrip 08 from BSD on Vimeo.

Karl Poynter new bike photos!

2008-09-04T09:56:00.002-04:00

Sunday has gone black! Here is a photo of Karl Poynter's new set up. He's been riding the same blue prototype set up for quite awhile, so we got him one of the Black Magic frames to try something different.

The funny thing is Sunday went from all wild colors to now all black. On the UK trip we just finished up, everyone was riding a black frame except for Aaron Ross's Funday frame. Thought it was ironic, but its real good to know that we can change it up and the product is still the same. Look for Karl Poynter colorway soon!

Sunday UK trip! Update

2008-09-02T05:36:00.004-04:00

Well, we are on the final leg of the trip and we ended up in Portsmouth. After a night of playing pool against Nottingham's finest ladies, we woke up to the raindrops as seen in the photo. Which leaves me time to bring you this update of our trip. As you know it is raining, but you don't know is we are right across the street from the Law Court tranny walls. Damn! Oh well, there is a chance that it will stop raining by 1pm. Either way we have a back up plan which involves riding in tunnels or under a bridge.

Yesterday we spent the day riding the two spots shown here. I'd show you more photos, but I left the cord for my camera at the previous hotel. The photo to the right is just a small fraction of what is at this building. We only rode this part of the spot because here we wouldn't get kicked out so quick. What made this spot even better was eating at the Whole Foods supermarket which made Aaron feel like he was at home.

Next, this photo is of Mike Taylor grinding up a rail at this estate somewhere near the other spot. I have no idea where it is because London is really overwhelming. Either way Mike had to be really creative just to get the speed for this rail. I rode down a bunch of corners and Ian did one of the funniest cruising lines ever. It wasn't really a cruising line per say because it was actually scary. More updates later and see more photos over at Ride UK.

Sunday UK Trip!

2008-09-01T04:57:00.005-04:00

Aaron Ross, Ian Schwartz, Joe Cox, Chris Russell and Mike Taylor along with myself are over in the UK right now doing a trip for IMG and filming for the Sunday video while dodging rain drops. Look for video clips from Filmer Bill in the video and photos in an upcoming RideUK article. Here are a collection of photos from the trip so far. We end it tomorrow and I'll post some more then!

Kurt Rasmusson Firsts!

2008-08-25T10:12:00.005-04:00

Kurt Rasmusson has a Firsts over on BMXonline, so go there and check it out. The main photo shot during a trip to Barcelona, isn't just a Ruben wallride, its like a 270 to Ruben off the wedge on the right. It didn't seem like you could make it far enough to do the trick safely, but if you know Kurt then you know he did it first try. And this photo was taken just moments after trying chocolate cake mixed in salsa. Good times! On a side note, there was a nude beach right behind us as Jeff Z shot the photo.

Aaron Ross Bikes?

2008-08-20T14:29:00.003-04:00

The first photo is from Alex Magallan's bike check on BMXonline. Alex has been helping test out the Funday frame. The next photo is from Odyssey's Dailyword, this is Aaron Ross's race bike all built up and ready to take people out in a corner. Is there a Sunday Race frame coming? A trail frame atleast? Anyone as excited as I am to watch BMX in the Olympics tonight? Look for the Funday frame coming late fall!

Jim Cielencki update!

2008-08-18T09:40:00.005-04:00

Not sure if everyone remembers, but I had my ankle scoped back in early April. The surgery went fine, the crutches were toleratable, but the physical therapy took way too long. My doctor said it could be 6 months and I didn't believe him, but he was right. So, after 4.5 months of not really being able to ride, my ankles are feeling healthy enough to start riding at a normal level. So to celebrate I jumped my car for my street's block party! Went too fast and landed flat way past the car. This was just a few moments before the rain began to pour down on the party.

Its perfect timing being healthy again, the Sunday video is going strong. Ian Schwartz, Alex Magallan and Jake Seeley are in and around Ohio and Pennsylvania right now filming. Aaron Ross, Ian Schwartz and myself are meeting up with Mike Taylor and Joe Cox in the UK next week. And even cooler is that my shoe is officially out from Beloe Footwear. Check the photo and their website for more info. Its going to be a busy fall from new frames, new riders to videos and hockey season. I can't wait!

Aaron Ross Bike Check!!!!!

2008-08-05T14:51:00.003-04:00

The site has been screwy for the past few days, so I haven't been able to update you. The latest news is Aaron Ross has a bike check and a mini interview about it over on BMXonline. There's a ton of photos and you get to see the his actually setup with fluorescent yellow Odyssey Director forks and without the front brakes. Can you guess what trick he was trying to learn with front brakes?

Mike Taylor's good, huh?

2008-07-30T10:46:00.005-04:00

I believe Mike Taylor is fully recovered from his knee surgery last year especially after watching this web video! I'm pretty sure this was edited by Joe Cox, too.

Sunday! making kids fat!

2008-07-23T08:35:00.003-04:00

A few weeks ago, we had a contest on the site where we gave away an ice cream sundae similar to the one in Aaron Ross's first Sunday ad. Here is what our winner Kyle Ruschell had to say about eating all that ice cream.

"Heres some pictures. We had to go to Target to buy the big bowl for $5. It was 4 Everybody sizes, and it ended up being just over $30 haha. I got a 3 friends to help me with it, and we barely put a dent in it. It was 1/4 chocolate, 1/4 cookie batter, 1/4 cheesecake, and 1/4 mint ice creams. It was covered in chocolate sauce, m&ms, rainbow sprinkles, grahm cracker crumbs, and whipped cream. Its in my freezer right now, Ill finish it off someday. Thanks again Jim!
Kyle"