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Green Oil UK Limited is a family run company based in Bromley in Kent. From product ingredients, to the bottle deposit scheme, to the recycled boxes used for wholesale orders, being green is central to all we do.

Green Oil has won awards for performance from the cycling world. Green Oil UK Limited, the company behind Green Oil won a Bromley Environment Award and was recently short listed for innovation in the BikeBiz Awards 2008.

Our cheesy slogan used to be ‘destroy limits, not nature!’. The slogan referred to destroying your limits of skill, stamina and speed, yet without damaging the environment with nasty toxic chain lube. However, this wasn’t inclusive of people who just wanted to ride to the shops.

Our new slogan isn’t calling for a military coup, so don’t worry. The revolution we all need to join, is one of making the world environmentally sustainable. Within this, we need to use bicycles more, and embrace the ‘revolution’ of all those cogs.

If people continue to use toxic chain lube indefinitely, future generations will have more pollution to clear up, aquatic life will suffer and cancer will spread. PFOA, a byproduct of Teflon, the ingredient used in many chain lubricants was classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a ‘likely human carcinogen’ in 2005.

If companies continue to use deforestation paper, and generally operate for short-term profit at the expense of the environment, the future will not be good for us, or for future generations.

We at Green Oil UK buy back our bottles, use sustainably sourced ingredients, and use recycled paper in the office. Our packaging is easily recyclable. For example, the plastic labels now used are the same type of plastic as the bottle, making recycling more efficient and reducing label contamination in the recycling stream.

End dependence on pollution join the revolution!

Simon Nash the founder of Green Oil, will be joining us on Tuesday 23rd March from 7:15pm onwards to give a talk on the company, how it all began and where it is going. He will also be giving demonstrations and a workshop on how to get the best from all the Green Oil products.

If you would like to come down and have a listen, a free beer or innocent smoothie and maybe get your hands a bit dirty, then email us at carnabyst@howies.co.uk or ring us on 0207 287 2345 and reserve your ticket!

I really like this.

Fixed on the road. BMX off the road. Perfect.

vclub bmx – For The Sake of the Video – Trailer from Vclub Clothing on Vimeo.

we just received our first delivery of the new epic denim water resistant jeans and have been busy all morning installing our new window display, here’s a little sneeky peek of how it’s looking so far, more pics to follow!

me and jeff are getting a pair each tomorrow, so we’ll keep you all updated on how we get on, now all we’ve got to do is pray for a bit of rain!

i just found out about this, anyone seen it yet?

Made in Queens is a short film that lifts the lid on an underground scene emerging in the outskirts of New York’s Queens borough. Directed by Nicolas Randall and Joe Stevens, the film looks at a small crew of Trinida­dian teenagers, led by Nick Ragbir, who are obsessed with customising their bmx bikes with the fattest soundsystems they can possibly hook them up with.

here’s a review of 2009 as seen through the hawk eyes and lens of Ricky Adam, it’s well worth 5 minutes and 25 seconds of your time!

Four great episodes of the skate legend Natas Kaupas, with a nice appearance by Natas Mom. I’ve included his mind blowing wheels of fire section at the end of the four episodes.

Wheels of fire

My man Benson has some great overspill shots up on the ride site here.

Here’s something tasty  from Toby Forte.

I have three pairs of these Sweekskinz 20″ BMX tyres on my desk. One pair red, one pair blue and one pair camo (non matching tread)

They have reflective bits on the side walls and look pretty sweet at night  (though not my thing I must admit!)

Anyway, they are taking up a lot of room on my otherwise very neat desk, so I was wondering if anyone would find them useful?

If you want a pair, email me. ruben at howies.co.uk

They’re free to a good home and I’ll blog a photo of your bike with them on.

One pair per-person and first come first served.

Our good friend Fredrik Götesson who we spent much of our time with in Sweden last spring just released this sweet edit of his summer.

Super Nice.