Carnival in Brasil with BMXers in the parade. By Paulo Charaba

Mar 09, 2009

Written by Bart de Jong

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8 Brasilian BMXers were invited to show BMX in Carnival, 2 flatlanders and 5 street riders. Our parade car with a lot of brightening glitter and very colours and the swingest and loud samba, we participated in the most traditional " Escola de Samba " called Gaviões de Fiel linked with the futebol Ronaldo´s team, Corinthians.
It was amazing the spot we got, a mini ramp built on 10 meter height, where we danced, sang and rode about an hour through the Samba arena way.

The DreamBMX team were the lucky guys to have fun there; Andre Ribeiro, Marcelo Ribeiro, Luis Indio, Andre Jesus, Eduardo Villar, Gilson Souza, Francisco Pekeno and me Paulo Charaba was the crew with the mission.

The title of our alegoric car was Radical Wheels, wit

h 300 rims and tires and decorated with about 60 kids riding hanging bikes and us at the top tricking, the BMX had a part in the song, which was talking about radical tricks on wheels. It was shown on TV live and a sports channel covered the situation.

All of us were very proud to be charged to represent BMX in this big cultural party, and I can not forget a lot of naked women shinning and dancing. So if you don´t know Brasilian Carnival, be invited for next year!