News

NEW 4×4 Pat Lennen 59mm/91a Wheels

The new Pat Lennen 4×4 Wheels are now in stock and shipping. These high quality wheels are perfect for shredding through your city while skating from spot to spot. Enjoy a smooth ride at your favorite skatepark just like Pat does. Get a set of the long awaited Pat Lennen 4×4 Wheels right away at rattail.bigcartel.com.

Tours

Nimh Europe Riders @ SlammJamm

Last month the legendary SlammJamm contest was held again. This year Oli Short organized getting the whole UK Nimh Team there as well as Marc Moreno from Spain and our newest Nimh Rider from Salzburg, Austria Gabriel Hyden. Download the PDF to see the photos of what went down and read about this event.

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Events

Bitter Cold Showdown 2010

This year’s Bitter Cold Showdown was yet again another amazing year of skating, fun, debauchery and drama. It was great seeing so many skaters year after year converging on one spot, killing it and having a blast. Congratulations to 4×4 and Ground Control’s Chris Haffey for taking first place! Also Congrats to the rest of our riders who placed in the top 10. John Bolino (Nimh / Vicious) placed 2nd. Brian Aragon (Ground Control) placed 3rd. Alex Broskow (4×4) placed 4th. Brian Shima (Nimh / 4×4 / Vicious / Ground Control) placed 8th. Jeff Stockwell (Vicious) placed 9th.

The Rat Tail Booth

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Video

The Rat Tail Vimeo Channel Feed

Below are the constantly updated selection of videos featured on our vimeo channel. Here you will find official and exclusive Rat Tail release videos from Nimh, 4×4 and Vicious. We also present edits made by supporters and riders from around the world. Please visit vimeo.com/rattail to subscribe to our feed and be informed when new videos are posted.

Nimh

10 Seconds with Oli Short

Be-Mag did a quick 10 seconds story with Nimh’s Oli Short during the Winterclash. Read up on his plans for the year and what he had to say about the Winterclash. Go here to read the story.

4x4

NEW 4×4 SD Crossbones Flexfit Hats

This is the newest hat from 4×4. It was designed by Jeremy Beightol. The hat features a high quality puff embroidery of the San Diego Crossbones Logo on the front and a 4×4 embroidery on the back. Available in two sizes on flexfit hats. There are six variations of these hats which are limited to 55 pieces total. This is a very short run limited edition hat. Available exclusively at the Rat Tail Store. [Read more...]

Vicious

Vicious Red Backpack & Promo Edit

Anthony Finocchiaro and Greg Mirzoyan worked together on a promo edit for the red Vicious backpack. This was recently released for the European market. This is a special edition for the European market and will only be available in a limited number. The backpack is ideal for your every day life and also fits your skates. This is the new version of the last Vicious backpack with an improved zipper area, extra padded for a good carrying comfort. Be sure to cop yourself a vicious backpack for the holiday season.

Vicious bag from Greg Mirzoyan on Vimeo.

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From the Interweb

Well I woke up this morning to this amazing email from Jon Elliott with accompanying video: Dude! Mischka decided to pull a nug of shit out of her litter box this morning and hoist it into the bathtub. Then proceeded to play with it (sounded like an old rattle alarm) until it dissolved into a mud mixture at the base of the tub. I thought cats were clean. I’m going to stick her in one of these.

Music

Bad Brains – Attitude live 1979

This is a rad live video recording of Bad Brains performing Attitude in 1979. Audio isn’t perfect but rad clip none the less. The following excerpt is from wikipedia:

Bad Brains is an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1977. They are widely regarded as among the pioneers of the genre, though the band’s members objected to the term “hardcore” to describe their music.

Originally formed as a jazz fusion ensemble under the name Mind Power, Bad Brains developed a very fast and intense punk rock sound known as hardcore punk and was often played faster and more emphatically than the music of many of their peers. The unique factor of the band’s music was the fact that they played more complex rhythms than that of other hardcore punk bands, also adapting non-punk style riffs/solos into their songs. They were also an adept reggae band, in a sort of Jekyll-and-Hyde arrangement, while later recordings featured elements of other genres. Bad Brains are also notable as religious followers of the Rastafari movement.

Art / Design

Huge Lego Tower Construction Project

I have always been a huge fan of Legos. I can not even imagine the hours I have spent in my life building amazing buildings and castles just to destroy them in an epic war. I always dreamed to work for a company building huge structures made from Legos. These people actually are living the dream. Bjarke Ingels Group’s LEGO Towers project built over five weeks using 250,000 pieces of LEGO bricks.

Cory's Closet

Love Marriage: Wilbur Sargunaraj

The official ramble pages of our very own online gossip guru and finder of everything awesome Cory Casey. This is the first installment of Cory’s Closet: This is were The cry of Wilbur’s heart….this is the highly anticipated music video from the debut album of Tamil Nadu vocal chanting superstar Wilbur Sargunaraj. All I have to say about this all is WTF.