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The Twelve Pack: Blaine Mazzetti

Name: Blaine Mazzetti
Age: 25
Local Trails: My backyard setup and Shawn Shimkets yard (North County San Diego)
Hook Ups: None, other than my wife's family for letting us use their land for the trails and run up their water bill outrageously high every month.

1. Who would you want to have digging with you if you had to start a new set of trails?

Obviously my local crew: Shawn Shimkets, Braden Banfer, and Adam Watkins, these guys all bust ass and move some dirt! If I had to start fresh with a new spot and crew, well I'd have to go with the Hazelwood crew or the Eastside guys, if you've been to either spot you'll know why. These guys move some serious dirt and build some rad jumps. (more...)

The Twelve Pack: Alex Boyd

Name: Alexander William Boyd
Age: 22
Local Trails: Vinewood
Hook Ups: Deluxe, Crucial BMX Shop, Duo, DIG FOUR VICTORY

1. What were the first trails you ever went to?

I guess the first legit trails I went to were Shipham, but before that it was this wild place called Kingswood. It was essentially a big ass hill into this 15ft lip, 3ft long table top. You HAULED ASS down this hill and somehow got about 2ft tops out of the mega booter hahah. (more...)

Introducing: Shape Bicycles

I don't remember how I came upon it but last spring I stumbled across a stem that I had never seen before from a company that I had never heard of. I eventually found my way to their site and to my surprise there was a whole line of products that were geared towards the trails. That company was Shape Bicycles, and over the past few months I've had the pleasure of chatting back and forth with its creator Sylvain Taro. Sylvain is an awesome dude with a passion for design and a strong belief in French manufacturing. All of the parts made by Shape Bicycles are both designed and manufactured in France. While so many companies these days have gone the Taiwan route for production Sylvain has chosen to keep his manufacturing as close to home as possible. The result is a line of parts that give a nod to the old school with beautiful machining and simpler designs. I really wanted to find out more about both Sylvain and Shape so I went ahead and bounced some questions back and forth with him. Over the course of the last few weeks not only did the following interview come about but also the decision to bring Shape Bicycles to the US via the new Can You Dig It Web Store. Check out the interview below and then go have a look at some of Shape's offerings in the store.  (more...)

Interview: Jäunt’s Mike Potoczny

A couple of months ago I started to see something called Jäunt popping up in my feeds. I was immediately drawn in by the clean logo and wanted to find out who or what exactly Jäunt was. To my surprise it was a new clothing brand headed up by none other than Mike Potoczny. For those not familiar with Mike, he's quite the radical dude! He's one of the nicest people you will ever meet and he kills it on a bike. The first time I ever met him was at one of the Welcome Jams a few years back. I was walking around checking out the lines and he came up to introduce himself and thank me for coming out. I'm not sure why that stood out so much to me, but it did and it left a resounding first impression. Over the years I've gotten to know Mike, and he's become one of my favorite people to ride and hang with. He just graduated college and has dove head first into creating this new brand. I was pretty curious about Jäunt so I shot a few questions over to him to find out more and to get some insight into his new venture. On a side note I couldn't remember what his degree was in so I sent him a text. His response, "History Pimping. Pimping all the hot historical chicks. Give me Cleopatra." Mike rules! Check out the interview after the jump. (more...)

Interview: Sunday’s Jim Cielencki

Pretty much as soon as I started Can You Dig It I knew that I wanted to do an with interview Jim Cielencki. I've known Jim for quite some time now and watching him grow Sunday from an idea into what it is today has been almost as interesting as his riding. I used to always bug him about making a trails frame never really thinking it would actually happen. It did happen though, along with a complete bike geared towards the trails, the addition of quite a few guys who spend most of their time in the woods to Sunday's team, and two killer trails edits. I shot some questions over to Jim hoping to gain a little insight into the dirtier side of Sunday and the following is what I got back. (more...)