11/25/08 - Back from the Baja 1000
We headed down to Ensenada, Mexico for this years Baja 1000 with Team FiberwerX to capture all the moments of this years race as well as hand out stickers and posters to all the local race fans at contingency. With all the talk on all the bad news in mexico we had no problems of any kind going down to Baja/during the race/returning which is a relief to see. I pitted with Team FiberwerX Trophy Truck #50 so was only able to get shots of the TT's mainly. I would of loved to see the other classes but was not around long enough to see them. It was a grueling race with many ups and downs for our team and we were ecstatic to finsih 11th in class and 18th overall of 371 starters. We want to give a big congratulations to Heidi Steele for winning the championship and Marc Burnett for winning Class 6 IRON MAN style. Here are a few photos!
10/25/08 - Bink Designs Prerunner Testing
The time has finally come to go out and test the Bink Designs Prerunner Ranger. It has been a few long years in the process to finish this build. With the help of FiberwerX / FX-Fabrication and many other sponsors involved I was able to finish up my dream prerunner.
Bink Designs and the FiberwerX crew headed out Saturday morning to Plaster City to test the Bink Designs Prerunner & the newly built Ford F-150 Class 8 of San Vicente Racing. It was a beautiful morning and the temperature was a pleasant 90 degrees. We started out with getting some profile shots of San Vicente Race Team and the bd prerunner while the trucks were still clean. We proceeded to start on Evan Hughes Rd around the Plaster City West race course to see how the truck would handle at speed.
Everything seemed to be working flawless right out of the box then boom the truck completely looses power! We took the hood off to see what the problem was and we found that we lost the hose and breather filter as well as the radiator over flowing severely. We got a tow back to camp by San Vicente’s F150 Super Crew Prerunner to further investigate the problem. We find that there’s a loose relay in the fuse box. Problem fixed! With that being said we loaded up the prerunner and headed off to the Imperial Sand Dunes to meet up with some family friends to give some rides out!
Overall we are extremely pleased with how the weekend went. We were able to indentify several problematic issues that could be a problem and have determined the best course of action to create a dependable vehicle. The Ranger Prerunner platform crafted by FX-Fabrication is perfect for the bd objectives to scout out likely photo opportunities and transportation to remote trackside locations. I feel like my new Prerunner is a safe reliable truck that is capable of running a good amount of hard offroad miles. Bink Designs is anticipating many future trips full of great times and good people.
10/13/08 - bd Prerunner @ Off-Road Expo
Last weekend Bink Designs took a drive up to Pomona Fairplex, CA for the Off-Road Expo. This is the largest Off-Road show of its kind and attracts a large number of vendors and visitors each year. Bink Designs & FiberwerX teamed up to have a huge booth outside which consisted of Bink Designs Prerunner, FiberwerX TT#50, FiberwerX Trophy Kart, San Vicente’s Class 8, BullyDog 2004 F150 and FiberwerX’s previous championship winning Class 7. The booth was jammed packed with people all day checking out the ever so hot FiberwerX Girls that were throwing out posters, stickers, FiberwerX/Bink Designs Brochures and having people fill out free raffle tickets to win a ride in the TT#50 or win a pair of fiberglass bedsides & fiberglass fenders.
Bink Designs hooked up with the editors of Off-Road Magazine to find out they wanted to do a feature of the new prerunner in an upcoming issue of their magazine. Which will be out sometime in March/April of 2009. So look forward to grabbing one off the mag stands when released.
Thanks to Toyo Tires, Fox Shox, Light Force, FiberwerX, FX-Fabrication, JBA Headers, DJ Safety AEM, SPY Optics, JuanCO Performance, Rockstar Energy Drinks. I could not have done it without your help! Okay I could have but it would have taken me a year or two more :)
Take a look at a few pictures from the show!
09/21/08 - Bink Designs in Video Game!
Recently THQ/2XL game studios completed it’s new off-road game BAJA : Edge Of Control. The game will available Monday, September 22nd and will be playable on Xbox 360 & PS3 game consoles. There is over 150 authentic race vehicles including FiberwerX’s Class 7 Open which Bink Designs supports. Check out a few screen shots (1,2,3) and you can see the bd on the hood in it’s usual spot. Get this game! It will not disappoint..
See IGN.com or BajaGame.com for more info.
09/21/08 - What has bd been up to?
Bink Designs is not MIA by any means.. We have been working on long-term projects for GHA Racing & FiberwerX Racing campaigning for the 2009 off-road season. Bink Designs has been assigned to create Sponsorship Proposal Packages, Website Development, Vehicle Layouts, Expo Displays, Race Attire, Collateral, Promo, and Vinyl Graphics with the use of stunning graphics and images to create unity within the race program.
As of last week we acquired a new client Propellers of San Diego. Our objective is to redesign their current website with a fresh new look that is functional and will grab the customers attention. There will be a shopping cart system put in place to easily attract new & existing customers to purchase online with ease.
Our next event we will be shooting trackside at is the SCORE Primm 300 race in Primm Valley, NV (Stateline) As of our current date there are 113 trucks & cars entered and growing. We will be in for some exciting action with our friend Jason McNeil, driver of the FiberwerX #50 Trophy Truck. This will be Jason’s first start in his new Trophy Truck in the SCORE series. Jason will be starting 4th off the line with Mark Post (2008 SCORE Champion) right on his tail. Look for Bink Designs to post pictures from this event on Race-Dezert.com a few days after the race.
06/23/08 - FreestyleMX.com 7275 Photo Shoot
Bink Designs was called up by FreestyleMX.com’s Marc Burnett operator of the world's largest motocross website and new owner of Camburg’s BITD 7200 Truck to obtain hi-end shots of the new beast. Recently the truck has gone through a serious overhaul with the addition of a new FiberwerX Ranger TT Body, OEM Carbon Fiber Dash, Dirt-Tech Rear-End Housing & Trail Ready Wheels wrapped with the new aggressive “Grabber” General Tire.
A new vehicle wrap on the race truck sported FreestyleMX.com / Boost Mobile / Monster Energy Drinks colors, logos and graphics. Burnett’s new team and the fleet of support vehicles were all decked out in complementing graphics and themed vehicle wraps creating a seamless team identity.
Marc and the convoy of team vehicles arrived late Thursday night to Plaster City West. The area provides a variety of dessert terrain and is highly popular with many race teams that use Plaster City to test and fine-tune their racecars for any upcoming races. By 12:30 a.m. Friday morning it was already 100 degrees out! I knew we had a long day of shooting ahead of us. There was a full moon out so the team setup up quickly to hammer out some night shots of the car, before getting to bed at 3AM.
We awoke at sunrise to re-arrange the race truck, chase vehicles, and trailers to achieve the necessary shots for the team and sponsors. We shot most of the day with the heat scorching around 118+ degrees going through at least 10 cases of water between all of us! The day ended with us getting some action shots of the car and some ride time in before we started having a vapor lock issue that pretty much ended the day.
All and all it was a successful test session and photo shoot. We captured a ton of great shots that will be used in upcoming PR/Marketing materials for many of FreestyleMX.com partners.
Check out Race-Dezert or DezertRangers for Photos..
05/20/08 - FiberwerX.com Makeover
As the new in-house technology officer for the FiberwerX Organization, Bink Designs has been tasked with several high priority assignments. The most imperative being a complete restructuring of FiberwerX.com. Instead of modifying the existing website, Bink Designs created the new website from the ground up.
The new site systematically displays a product list organized by make, model, and type of product. A Bink Designs custom Product ID Numbering system, and specified information will assist in helping the user make their selection process as easy as possible. A state of the art Image gallery seamlessly lets the customer navigate from product to product without getting lost in the site.
A distribution page features a list of the company’s retailers as well as their contact info and location. The Customer Showcase presents several high profile vehicles & unique products. FiberwerX News archives any articles, headlines, press releases, and race reports that will keep their users updated on what the organization is up to.
This Website Project will surely keep FiberwerX on the forefront and leading the offroad industry for years to come.
02/22/08 - Dirt Sports Photo of the Year
Bink Designs attends many offroad events a year. Every weekend at the races is action packed and allows professional photographers like Bink to capture hundreds of the most stunning images and the racers in action! Bink always on his A-Game, captured one of most insane crashes of the year, which was published and Nominated in this month's Dirt Sports Magazine for Photo of the Year. Bink Designs would like to thank everyone at Dirt Sports for their hard work and dedication to put out the highest of quality offroad magazine in the market today. Look for Adrian Cenni at this years CORR races for these awesome posters of his big wreck! Bink is looking forward to capture more stunning images this 2008 season.
01/07/08 - Kleanwerx.com Website Up
Happy New Years everyone! It has been a couple months since we last updated the site. Today we completed our latest web site Kleanwerx.com. Kleanwerx came to Bink Designs in need of a complete Identity package including logo, business cards, website and other marketing materials we are still in the works on. Kleanwerx specializes in any of your detail needs such as Auto Reconditioning, Commercial Services, Fleet Services and offroad services. If your in need of any of their services make sure to check them out!
10/31/07 - Happy Halloween Everyone!
Take a look at this bitchin pumpkin my friend Jimmy Gilmore carved for me! - CLICK HERE - On a side note San Vicente Racing teamed up with Bink Designs to create a new website for their upcoming 2008 season in their Class 8 Truck.
10/21/07 - Julian Racing Logo
Julian Racing came to Bink Designs in search of a logo for their race team. Julian Racing competes in class 1450 in our local MDR series. The team is excited to get their Ford F-150 back on the race course with their new look! Look for upcoming graphics on their race truck at their next race on October 27th in Plaster City.
10/11/07 - FX Fabrication.com Completed
Today Bink Designs launched our friends over at FX-Fabrication.com FX Fabrication is the performance division of FiberwerX. They offer off-road fabricated parts to the most tricked out race trucks / prerunners offered today. Bink Designs used the most up to date XHTML, CSS and Search Engine Optimization techniques to drive in traffic to FX Fabrication website. There will be many updates in the next week on FX-Fabrication.com so stay tuned..
10/09/07 - Bink Designs on DezertTV.com!
Two days before the Off-Road Expo, DezertTV.com decides to come by and film the process of our vinyl application. They were in a hurry to release the video during expo so the segment was cut short to make room for there final install. Click here to check it!
10/07/07 - BinkDesign.com Site Launched
It's been over a year since any major overhauls at Bink Designs. I decided to get rid of the rough look and go with a more edgy streamline design for the new site. Take a look at the services page to see all the new services we offer. Spend some time to navigate through the site and shoot us a comment.
Stay tuned for the latest updates at Bink Designs..