<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:52:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Hardcore Sportz</title><description></description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/content.html</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-4775656283086693112</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-17T16:52:12.230-08:00</atom:updated><title>A visit from Kevin Porter</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/shop_KevinPorter-766103.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 301px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/shop_KevinPorter-765052.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This past weekend &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Porter&lt;/strong&gt; and Chicago local rider &lt;strong&gt;Matt Meckley&lt;/strong&gt; drove down to New Castle to check out the shop, hang out, and ride. On Sunday we decided to head over to Columbus, Ohio for a BMX competion. It was a good time minus Kevin rolling his ankle. Heal up soon buddy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFYqWtxt8aA"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to view some riding from Kevin Porter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/karl-signiture.gif" /&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/visit-from-kevin-porter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-7214001724494355960</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-14T21:30:26.593-08:00</atom:updated><title>Jeff K's Mankind ad</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/JeffK_Mankindad-776076.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 301px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/JeffK_Mankindad-775463.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; HS team rider &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Klugiewicz&lt;/strong&gt; has a full page ad in the latest issue of Dig BMX Magazine issue #067. This ad is with Mankind advertising Jeff's signature frame titled, "Forward," which is available here at Hardcore Sportz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This issue of Dig also includes The Levi's Video, which has good riding and music, and is also filmed and edited very well. Feel free to stop by the shop and pop it into our DVD player to have a look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/hs-signiture.gif" /&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/jeff-k-mankind-ad.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-2093100042743282710</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-14T12:51:59.325-08:00</atom:updated><title>A Day at the UGP Studio.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/UGP_groupshot-746389.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/UGP_groupshot-746365.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Click &lt;a href="http://bmx.transworld.net/2008/11/14/a-day-at-the-ugp-design-offices-with-the-team/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;HERE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for a &lt;a href="http://www.ridebmx.com/"&gt;RideBMX.com&lt;/a&gt; feature on a day at the &lt;a href="http://www.undergroundproducts.com/"&gt;UGP&lt;/a&gt; studio with the UGP team including HS team riders &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Klugiewicz&lt;/strong&gt; and myself. This feature includes a write up with photos and captions by Fat Tony of the UGP riders, design crew, and upcoming product by UGP including my signature reversible tee. Look for the UGP Spring '09 line here at &lt;strong&gt;Hardcore Sportz&lt;/strong&gt; coming soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/karl-signiture.gif" /&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/day-at-ugp-studio.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-4622126951961752586</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-12T22:41:07.868-08:00</atom:updated><title>TLP/HS Sticker Placement</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/hs_downtube-709971.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/hs_downtube-709939.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Jason William from San Fernando Valley, CA sent over a photo of his new frame with &lt;a href="http://www.thelastpeople.com/"&gt;The Last People&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Hardcore Sportz&lt;/strong&gt; stickers freshly stuck on the downtube. Looking nice! Thanks for the support Jason!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To receive free HS and TLP stickers, send a self addressed stamped envelope to: &lt;strong&gt;1559 Broad Street New Castle, IN 47362&lt;/strong&gt;. Or, just make a purchase on our online store and we'll be sure to throw in some stickers to go along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/hs-signiture.gif" /&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/tlphs-sticker-placement.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-2248793007170393986</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-12T16:50:22.937-08:00</atom:updated><title>A Weekend in Cincinnati</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/slappingthestickers-786132.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 301px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/slappingthestickers-785611.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Last weekend &lt;strong&gt;Scott Steele&lt;/strong&gt; and myself, along with &lt;strong&gt;Chris Mahaffey&lt;/strong&gt; and Sunday flow rider &lt;strong&gt;Alex Magallan&lt;/strong&gt; decided to go to Cincinnati for a short filming trip. Alex and myself would be doing some last minute filming for the Sunday Bikes DVD and Scott would be filming for HS, while Chris handled all the filming. We started on Friday. Although it was rainy, we were able to ride some street and then headed to Ollie's Skatepark for a night session.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shown to the left is Ollie's Skatepark locals pumped on HS stickers!</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/weekend-in-cincinnati.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-456355856540134540</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-12T16:54:54.661-08:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/Cincinnati_filming-753745.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 301px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/Cincinnati_filming-753161.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; On Saturday we went out and headed to downtown and met up with HS team rider &lt;strong&gt;Doug Horton&lt;/strong&gt;. The weather being cold and windy made it a little hard to get motivated, but we were able to get some riding in. After a few hours of riding and hanging out it became dark and all of us jumped in the car and drove back to New Castle. Thanks to &lt;strong&gt;Tony Neyer&lt;/strong&gt; for having us at his house and being our tour guide. It was a short, but fun weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shown to the left is a photo I shot of HS videographer &lt;strong&gt;Chris Mahaffey&lt;/strong&gt; filming HS team rider &lt;strong&gt;Scott Steele&lt;/strong&gt; jumping a rail for an upcoming HS web video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/karl-signiture.gif" /&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/on-saturday-we-went-out-and-headed-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-4524705770653482970</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-12T22:38:56.879-08:00</atom:updated><title>Jeff Klugiewicz Bike Check</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/JeffK_RideBMXbikecheck-702309.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/JeffK_RideBMXbikecheck-702292.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Click&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bmx.transworld.net/2008/11/12/jeff-klugiewicz-bike-check/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;to view HS team rider &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Klugiewicz's &lt;/strong&gt;bike check on &lt;a href="http://www.ridebmx.com/"&gt;RideBMX.com&lt;/a&gt;. Find out the exact parts Jeff uses, the parts he goes through the most, his first real "BMX" bike, and more!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/hs-signiture.gif" /&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/jeff-klugiewicz-bike-check.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-1678626610365953840</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-11T13:15:20.794-08:00</atom:updated><title>A How To w/ Karl Poynter</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/HowTo_RideBMX-780045.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/HowTo_RideBMX-780019.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Click&lt;a href="http://bmx.transworld.net/2008/11/06/how-to-slider-with-karl-poynter/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to view a Ride BMX How To video with HS team rider &lt;strong&gt;Karl Poynter&lt;/strong&gt; explaining the tips and techniques to doing a slider.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo seen and taken from our friends over at &lt;a href="http://www.thelastpeople.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;The Last People&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/hs-signiture.gif"/&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/how-to-w-karl-poynter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-6277028486368129867</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-12T22:17:09.574-08:00</atom:updated><title>Jeff Klugiewicz Interview</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/JeffK_180barspin-711705.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/JeffK_180barspin-711683.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Click &lt;a href="http://bmxunion.blogspot.com/2008/10/jeff-klugiewicz-interview_29.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#33cc00;"&gt;HERE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to read a good interview by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bmxunion.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33cc00;"&gt;BMX Union&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with HS team rider &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Klugiewicz&lt;/strong&gt; where he talks about Hardcore Sportz, current sponsors, Midwest BMX, music interests, and more! Photos and videos are also included in the interview.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/hs-signiture.gif" /&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/jeff-klugiewicz-interview.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-8482572359856660964</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-12T10:25:41.894-08:00</atom:updated><title>HS/Shadow Premiere Coming Soon!</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/IntotheVoid_trailer-705447.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/IntotheVoid_trailer-705429.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Click&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theshadowconspiracy.com/indexmain.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="COLOR: rgb(51,204,0);font-size:130%;" &gt;HERE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to view the trailer for the long awaited Shadow video titled, "&lt;strong&gt;Into The Void&lt;/strong&gt;," featuring HS team riders &lt;strong&gt;Johnny Devlin&lt;/strong&gt; and myself. Look for the HS/Shadow video premiere party in December. More details to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/karl-signiture.gif" /&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/hsshadow-premiere-coming-soon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-5173697236447240233</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-11T13:17:15.065-08:00</atom:updated><title>Ride BMX Wallpaper</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/Ridebmxdesktop_Karl-783671.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 400px; height: 300px;" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/Ridebmxdesktop_Karl-783668.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.ridebmx.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;Ridebmx.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has a wallpaper that you can make your desktop featuring HS team rider &lt;strong&gt;Karl Poynter&lt;/strong&gt;. This photo was shot on a Shadow team trip in New Mexico by photographer Ryan Fudger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Right click the photo to save it to your computer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/hs-signiture.gif"/&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/ride-bmx-wallpaper.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-4039985818591010959</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-11T13:18:17.242-08:00</atom:updated><title>Attention Ladies...</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/UGP_Girls-792115.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/UGP_Girls-792097.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We now have a wide selection of &lt;strong&gt;UGP girl's clothing &lt;/strong&gt;instock&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;which include t-shirts, tank tops, long sleeve shirts, hoodies, zip-ups, and more!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/attention-ladies.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-393471652128441147</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-11T13:18:37.349-08:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/UGP_clothing-739633.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/UGP_clothing-739606.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; More &lt;strong&gt;UGP&lt;/strong&gt; product from the 2008 Fall/Winter collection including t-shirts, long sleeve shirts, zip-ups, hats, beanies, footwear, and back packs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All UGP products available here at &lt;strong&gt;Hardcore Sportz&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/hs-signiture.gif"/&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/more-ugp-product-from-2008-fallwinter.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601557261139280148.post-741710927128798404</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-11T13:18:56.429-08:00</atom:updated><title>2009 Bikes Instock!</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/bikes1-784701.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/uploaded_images/bikes1-784684.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;2009 Eastern complete bikes&lt;/strong&gt; are now instock including the Eastern Ramrodder at $359.99 and Traildigger at $395.99.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Verde&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;DK &lt;/strong&gt;complete bikes are instock as well. We carry all the rider owned companies. If we don't have a bike you're looking for instock, we can order the bike and have it in as quick as 1 day with FREE shipping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.hardcoresportz.com/images/hs-signiture.gif"/&gt;</description><link>http://www.hardcoresportz.com/2008/11/2009-bikes-instock.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Hardcore Sportz)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>