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In this video a kid who three years ago had a trick bag that consisted of back flips and weird one handed x-up/toboggan things does every foot jam variation. I thought he had flair to tail taps, but not in this video, apparently
Russel Summerville from LucaBMX on Vimeo.
Decibel Magazine’s Deciblog has a new(ish) section up called “Justify Your Shitty Taste,” where their writers have to justify their love for an unlovable album such as Judas Priest’s Turbo or Metallica’s St. Anger or anything that Varg has ever done.. As far as ideas go it’s a fairly awesome one and one worthy of thievery, by someone else obviously, I’m way too lazy to follow up on this. However, I offer out into the universe the following idea:
Justify the shitty music in your video part.
It’s no secret that BMX videos are often set to some of the shittiest music known to man. It can be argued, in fact, that the only videos ever released in BMX that didn’t have shit music are, the handful of videos that use Refused “New Noise,” the original Macneil video which used Suicidal Tendencie’s “Thee Feeling’s Back” and Standard’s “Stronger Than All” which used Prong’s “Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck” (although in that last case the song was edited so terribly that it almost loses points. How did the Macneil folks manage to extend that ST track seamlessly and Standard couldn’t do the same to such an obviously re-mix ready track? Is it because they’re in Iowa?).
Of course there are obvious problems with this idea. Granted all I know about modern BMX “culture” I’ve learned from the comments on The Come Up, but there’s a good chance that asking a BMXer why their musical taste sucks will result in a poorly spelled, grammatically atrocious homophobic rant. And, of course, the obvious answer is either “money” (good music isn’t cheap to license) or “youth” (hey, fuck you, I got Look What The Cat Dragged In for CHRISTMAS when I was 14, I know youth based bad musical taste).
Still, I think someone should get on this. Stat. Defgrip guys, are you listening?
Non-shitty music follows
Jackson Goldstone don’t need pedals…
[From Plus Size BMX]
Kent’s the nicest guy in BMX, bar none. He may, in fact, be the nicest guy on the planet. As always, solid riding from the old man, 25 years in and still going strong.
Kent Pearson Profile Edit from Ryan Davis on Vimeo.
So, news broke this week that Edwin Delarosa and Tom White quit Fit to go ride for Skavenger. Skavenger (correct me if I’m wrong) started as Edwin and Vinnie Sammon’s crew, then a sticker company, then a clothing company, now it looks to be an Animal affiliated frame and parts brand. If you haven’t read it already, Vinnie has an interview about the whole thing up on ESPN.
Two questions immediately come to mind about this situation. The first is the obvious, does BMX need another frame/parts company? I mean, let’s be 100% honest here, BMX frames are now differentiated almost entirely on image. 30 years ago you could tell the difference between a GT Performer and a Haro Freestyler (but not necessarily between a Freestyler and a Torker). 15 years ago you could tell the difference between GT Show and a Huffy Full Ton. Today every bike has more or less the exact same frame design and more or less the exact same geometry. So, a company’s image is the thing.
Kind of like skateboarding.
But the thing is, the slightly grimy, NYC centric, street only, brakeless X amount of pegs image that Animal has went from being Animal’s image in BMX to being the image of BMX (well, except, maybe, the NYC centric part). In an odd way, by launching Skavenger as a frame brand now, Edwin, Vinnie and Ralph are showing up late to their own party. I wonder how that’s going to work out.
The second question is where does this leave Fit? While Edwin’s departure seemed like it was a lot more professional/on better terms than when Robbie grabbed everyone who gives the teenage boys hard-ons, without Ed and Tom Fit’s pro team looks like this:
Now, the cynical part of me likes to point out that Fit almost certainly exists so that Moeller could move into the lower/entry level market with imported bikes without abandoning S&M’s “buy American made or you’re a loser!!!!” image. To whit, Fit has always had a team comprised of hot, young riders. Kind of like Menudo there was always some hot new rider waiting in the wings to get a push from Fit. When part of your deal is selling bikes at a $200 price point this is just good business.
But now the fit Pro team is almost old school. Meanwhile, with two exceptions every single pro on S&M is between 24 and 26. Which is to say the old man brand is now young and the youngster brand is now old.
Hmmmm
Not that this’ll last forever. I’m guessing Fit’s still ridiculously profitable and they’re going to make the moves necessary to stay that way. Still, as it sits right now everything’s upside down. Again I say hmmmmm.
The Mrs. got me a pocket HD cam for Christmas. Haven’t used it that much, but I took it out to Settles yesterday when Steve and Todd were riding to play around with it. My current PCs don’t necessarily have 1080P editing capabilities, so long for videos may be out, but we’ll see…
It’d probably be better if my blog were wide enough to show the whole video. Hmmmm
Two BMX posts in a row..lookit me.
Look, there are constants in the world. Gravity (more or less), the speed of light (more or less,) time (more or less) and that Catfish’s bike will be an abomination against good taster and/or eyesight.
However, in an attempt to pick up on a little of the local flavor while riding for the troops in Bagdad Catfish done painted up his bike.
Can’t says I’m diggin’ the gold brakes, but the flat sand w/digital camo green highlights is aces.
Somehow, some way I’m stealing this idea, yeas, yes I am.
I’ve waxed nostalgic about my love for my first gen GT Pro Performer and my man-love of Eddie Fiola for a long long time. Sean Reid went so far as to even build up a 2nd Gen Pro Freestyle Tour and rock a classic GT uniform. At one point I was completely addicted to Guav’s Flickr because of all of the pretty, old BMX bikes on it.
So, I had smiled a bit when I saw this on the website of The Best Vert Rider of All Time
I have always wanted to own this bike. Ever since I was a kid i loved the Bike that Eddie Fiola rode at the Kellogs BMX event in England. Its not fully finished, but its looking good!
The details may not be completely right, but you can’t hate on the bike.
One of the things I dig about the idea of MTB Street riding is that there’s the possibility for for a different mindset to look at familiar terrain. Danny Macaskill’s April 2009 video is still pretty awe inspiring to me for just that reason.
This, however, is just kind of a guy who put some pegs and a rigid for on his 26″ and proceeded to shoot another BMX street video. That’s kinda disappointing, really (the above bar height double peg at ~:50 was kinda impressive). I don’t want mountain biking to be just BMX with bigger wheels, but it seems to be going that way.
Wiosna 2010 from Kolor on Vimeo.
/Found on Plussize BMX/