Elliott is well known for his obsession with interesting footwear. An early adopter of the movement to wear plastic “reptile branded” clogs, he’s some boy when it comes to footwear fashion. But away from the said “reptile brand”, he has a love for a world renown skate brand. This was casually mentioned on a photoshoot for the new Nukeproof Solum. Like any dream makers, the Nukeproof design team set about putting this idea to a reality. Huge thanks to Jonny and his paint gun, the result is stunning with some exquisite details. To finish the look its paired with red anodised Nukeproof Horizon components.
Kelan Grant, Team Ireland
Quite simply one of Irelands greatest products and no finer product to inspire our Irish ace Kelan Grant. Kelan’s Large Nukeproof Giga 297 is again hand painted by the talents at Elite Refinish to reflect the 119.53 seconds of making a perfect pint. The Giga is finished with Nukeproof Horizon Copper components to match the frame details.
Dan Booker, Team Australia
A proud Tasmanian, Dan is a literally one of the finest tourist advisors for the Island. 5 minutes with him and you will be booking a flight to visit some of nature’s incredible wonders that the Australian island holds. Dan’s spent years working in the National Park at Maydena Bike Park. Whilst building in the woodland he developed a passion to preserving the incredible and unique forests Tasmania enjoys. This Giga 297 is his aim to use his platform to raise awareness for the logging going down on some of Tasmania’s oldest trees. You can read more here.
@JamesR2026: The "checkerboard" you referrer to is the checkered flag, the universal flag for finishing / winning a race.,.This was the inspiration for the Vans design in the first place.
@Nandus: Yeah, but the bike has a Vans waffle sole pattern on the down tube and "Elliot - Off the Trail" is a reference to "Vans - Off the Wall". It's very clearly a Vans paint job. Also, checkered flag for finishing a race is black and white. Red and white is Croatian!
@blowmyfuse: you called me pedantic and then backed up everything I posted with a link. Thanks I guess. I would have said correct rather than pedantic, but whatever.
Nigel, is that you? Never mind the spelling, what’s with the Croatian football shirt and American footwear? Surely the sprayers who did the Guinness job could manage to spray a Wigan kebab from Galloways and a flat pint of watered down pony piss from the Bees Knees on a bike? I sprayed my last one all over Wallgate and I’m not even artistic.
Frame dependent. If the frame has a single slit, then you line the clamp bolt up with the frame slit, if the frame has multiple slits, then you put the clamp bolt 180' from which ever slit lines up with frame center line.
winning a race.,.This was the inspiration for the Vans design in the first place.
It's very clearly a Vans paint job.
Also, checkered flag for finishing a race is black and white. Red and white is Croatian!
It's just this pair of shoes.
www.vans.com/en-us/customs/customs-wides-c4002/customs-checkerboard-slip-on-wide-pvn0a3cst963
I can't believe you jumped online to explain checkered flags
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Thanks I guess. I would have said correct rather than pedantic, but whatever.
It’s much safer to finish your beer first before you ride.
Besides you might spill it