After ten years of riding @tylerjmanning threw together all of @natecoleman825 BMX clips from over all the years of filming. These range from 2013 - 2023. I had a blast editing and filming these.
This video was created from what was left over from a few trips while filming over the last few years with Nate Komane, Stu Williams, Sam Burditt, and Tyler Manning. These were all filmed while shooting for bigger projects throughout Somerset in the Southwest of England.
I came up with the idea to shoot a continuous line last year, and when approaching Sam about it he was more than game to put the idea into motion.
After finishing "The Taunton Tape" four years ago, we stopped riding BMX as that the DvD seemed to be a good way of ending our time with our bikes. But then an idea came about back in 2020. That idea was that we should give it another go, that we should film something again, just to say that, "We've still got it!"
In the darkness of my garage, the outline of an old familiar friend brings a collection of memories to the forefront of my mind. “Four years,” I mutter, as the sight of its two flat tires instills an unexpected sadness over me. My finger draws a line through the dust on the cross bar until finding the pair of Shadow Conspiracy grips. “How has it been four years?” Freedom, the road, friendship, empty wallets, and moments of agony, all now collecting cobwebs under the cover of a bulbless light. Whether it was out of curiosity or the guilt of bad ownership, I lifted my bike from the pile of lawnmower bits, fishing rods, and gardening utensils and gave it some TLC. With its spokes tightened, tiers pumped up, cranks and stem bolts checked, I decided to ride up the street -
Four years worth of filming across the South-West of England came together for a project that was conceived from nothing more than a joke between two friends who were, at the time, taking a break from filming a suicide-no-hander clip at the bottom of a four stair. “We might as well make a DvD at this rate,” one of them laughed, as he picked the ends of his worn grips. “We’ve stacked enough clips for one, I tell you that!”
“Why don’t we then?” suggested the other..
“That's a mad idea, lad… What would we even call it?”
“Um, I don’t know. The Taunton ‘something’, I guess.”
After countless years of filming with over twenty rides from the Southwest of England, the Taunton Tape was born, as nothing more than a nostalgic look back to where BMX all started for us.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.