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Sparkys distro texas tour.

Hitcherbmx — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:36:44 +0000

Sparkys team including ben hucke and ricky bates hit up texas to film and came back with this.

Sparkys Distribution – Toasted in Texas from Sparkys Distribution on Vimeo.

Sputnic edit with Ben Hucke and Codie Larsen

Hitcherbmx — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:02:02 +0000

Ben Hucke tag teamed the St. Johns park with homie Codie Larsen for this #something edit.

Plans are being made for a uk sputnic trip soon with ben hucke and David grant on board, visiting bmx shops and riding street and park for a week. check back for more info soon.

Codie Larsen and Ben Hucke Pier Park from #something on Vimeo.

Sputnic: Ben Hucke Bike Check on FatBMX

Kevin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:18:43 +0000

Head over to FATBMX for a Bike Check with Sputnic’s Ben Hucke.

Sputnic space cobra, Ben Hucke sig frame here soon.

Hitcherbmx — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:12:23 +0000

Sputnic – Space Cobra Promo from Sputnic BMX on Vimeo.

BEN ANSWERS A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SPACE COBRA…

What’s up with the name of your frame?
I honestly had a difficult time with this one, after a few weeks of trying to come up with names and asking people for ideas it just popped into my head one day. I texted Ronnie and Sher asking if I could name it the Space Cobra, they both just replied “YES”. From there on it was set in stone.
The graphics are pretty bad ass, who was the artist and what was the concept behind it all?
Chris Spann came up with the actual design after talking back and forth about what I wanted it to be. It came out better than I imagined when describing the design to him through emails. I wanted an 80’s feel to it, like a black light poster or something your Uncle would have on the wall in his garage next to his bikini calender.
Why did you pick the geometry you chose?
I just took my favorite parts of a few different frames I’ve ridden in the past and incorporated them all into one frame, riding this geometry for the first time was like a breath of fresh air.
Your frame has a pretty classic design with a higher bottom bracket and standover height,
what was the thought behind that?
I wanted my bike to look like the bikes I always wanted growing up, small tubes, classic triangles. Before I was always stuck with low bottom brackets and big tubes. I like being on top of my bike rather then feel like I’m sitting over my back wheel.
You’ve been riding a sample frame for most of this year, what has the testing process been like?
I thought it was going to be a long drawn out process of testing a bunch of different frames. Fortunately we got it right the first go, we made some minor tubing changes but we got it dialed in first try!
Frames are evolving every year, what’s going to make your frame stand out from all the rest?
My frame is really simple, clean and affordable, we didn’t try to do anything ground breaking or anything like that. It’s the perfect bike for riding anything and it will take a serious beating.
You kind of have a never surrender policy when it comes to pulling stuff, did that mindset come
into play when you were designing your frame?
Ha, I have destroyed frames in the past just trying one trick over and over for hours on end. I had to take a look back and figure out what I’ve always broke, bent, smashed or whatever and make sure that we covered those areas when we designed the Space Cobra. So far so good, it’s held up great. I still haven’t thought of anyways to make it any better than it already is.
As a kid did you ever dream of having your own frame and if so what kind of crazy things did you want it to have? Also, did any of that make the cut to the Space Cobra?
I always had some funny bikes back in the day, I still get made fun of for how goofy my set ups were and I never even had 3 piece cranks until I was sponsored. The bikes I wanted growing up always seemed to be just out of my reach money wise, “Standards, S&M’s, Hoffmans” and I’d settle for another GT, Dyno or whatever I could get my hands on. They were always the craziest looking bikes so I always wanted something simple and
strong is all.

FRAME SPECS:

Material: 4130 Sanko chromoly, double butted down tube
Top Tube: 20.6″, 20.8″, 21.1″
Chain Stay: 13.75″ with room to remove wheel
Head Tube: 75 degrees, heat treated, CNC machined, drilled for gyro tabs
Seat Tube: 71°, single butted, 9″ standover height with integrated seat clamp
BB Type: mid, CNC machined, heat treated grindable design
BB Height: 11.75″
Dropouts: 5mm thick heat treated
Extras: Externally butted and tapered seat stays, low profile removable brake mounts
Weight: 4.9 lbs for 20.6″ top tube
Colors: matte black, matte red, gloss purple

Sputnic’s Ben hucke and his florida vacation

Hitcherbmx — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:51:01 +0000

Yeah Ben! Here’s a new edit of Ben, the busiest man on the internet. This was all filmed in Florida

Ben Hucke’s Florida Vacation – More BMX Videos

Sputnic new boy… Ben Hucke

Bel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:37:35 +0000

Sputnic welcome Ben Hucke to the team. Don’t forget the all new Sputnic products are out now!!