Austin Texas Road Trip // Soul Video Mag // #16 // 2001 by Snakebite BMX
How did we get here? I had a brief conversation with Chris about potentially co-hosting a month or two ago and we landed on a single name: Harold McGruther. A true icon behind the scenes. Intelligent, polarizing, hilarious, and after 40 years of growing, building, and marketing brands, he's a true wealth of crazy stories, historical facts, and insight. Truly an honor to have McGoo sit down and run through his timeline and scratch the surface of his long history in the BMX industry....
Skyway T/A | Building a BMX icon by Rad BMX Builds
The Redline RL 20 II Prostyler tube set remains one of, if not THE, most innovative and complex of any BMX frame, fork, and handlebar combinations ever designed. The first (of many) steps in the manufacturing process is "swaging" or, in non-engineering language, "tapering" the USA made 4130 tubing to achieve the sleek aesthetic the Redline RL 20 II Prostyler is revered for. Our raw tubing begins its journey in San Diego before heading north on the 5 Freeway to south Los Angeles, to take its new form in our proprietary swaging dyes. The material is literally forced into its new dimensional profile in a rotary swager. And the complexity doesn't end there, as we create custom pressure and bending dyes to enable the tapered tubing to be adequately secured in the bending
Round 5: BMX Beat International Freestyle Competition, 1986, OLD SCHOOL BMX! by Splendid BMX
Round 5: BMX Beat International Freestyle Competition, 1986, OLD SCHOOL BMX! Riders in this round include: Neil Stevens, Andy Shohara, Terry Jenkins, and Nick Martin.
Woody Itson - September 1988 - BMX Freestyle - Columbus, Ohio
Welcome to the All Things BMX Show! We are bringing you episode 172 “The Flying Banana” with Eddie Fiola. Eddie is an American professional freestyle BMX rider, and a film stuntman. He's a 5 time American Freestyle Association Champion, along with 4 freestyle Nora (Number One Rider Award) cups including the first one ever to be awarded in 1985, and USA BMX Hall of Famer.
In the mid to late 80s in the UK the small town of Retford near Sheffield was one the main hubs of BMX riding in the UK. It got known as the Trumpton scene. And featured a long side London's Meanwhile and Chingford as the new hot spots of that era.
USA BMX has the ultimate weekend planned, with a wide array of BMX festivities going on over three days. October 6, 7 & 8th will be one incredibly fun, action-packed weekend you won't want to miss!
SKYWAY's 60th ANNIVERSARY
Skyway is celebrating their 60 year Anniversary - and wants everyone to join in on the celebration! Throughout the weekend, Skyway will be a featured sponsor of this year's festivities!
FRIDAY EVENING - Oct 6
HALL of FAME RECEPTION. Much like last year, the BMX Hall of Fame & Museum will host an 80's themed pre-Induction Reception at the National Hall of Fame & Museum. Check-in / Doors Open @ 6pm. Drinks and appetizers provided. This is a ticketed event. HoF Museum open to public 9am to 3pm.
SATURDAY DAY - Oct 7
Do you know Mike Miranda? You know the OTHER star of the movie Rad - The one who goes by "Hollywood" the original Dirty Knob? Well we got him to drop by the Supercross BMX Warehouse and sit down and talk a little bit of BMX Racing History, the Dirtyfest and his Dirty Knobs podcast.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.