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

Welcome to Nimh Gabriel Hyden Ad & Promo

We are very happy to introduce Gabriel Hyden to the Nimh Family. We have always been huge fans of Gabriel as a skater and as a person. It is an honor to have him in our ranks. Look forward to more online edits of Gabriel in the future as well as clips in the upcoming Nimh Team Video.

Gabriel Hyden Welcome to Nimh from Rat Tail Army on Vimeo.

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

RAID French Anti-terrorist K-9 Unit

Insane video of French Anti-Terrorist police training the K-9 units in hostage situations. Would not want to be on the other end of that bite!

Music

Pogo – Expialidocious [Sample Count]

My friend Mike Leff posted this on his facebook wall and I thought it was pretty rad. Green numbers are new samples, white ones are samples that have already been triggered. Enjoy…

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.