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The Street Series Liverpool – BMX Day 2016 – Facebook Live Videos

July 23, 2016

Today is the day! The Street Series annual BMX Day street rides are going down all over the world as we speak. If you follow us on Facebook, there’s a good chance your notifications were blowing up from us going Live throughout the Liverpool jam with Ben Lewis, Devon Smillie and Chase DeHart leading a massive pack through the city to different spots. We uploaded all the clips to Youtube for you to get a look at what we saw if you missed it! Big shout out to Will Stroud for filming! Big shout out to Monster Energy for making this one happen, too!

Above is a video giving you a look at what was going on at Spot 1 as everyone started warming up for the day.

Rolling to the second spot. This gives you and idea of just how big of a turn out this jam had!

A look at some of the action from Spot 2!

Had some technical difficulties at Spot 3, so here’s a look at what went down at Spot 4!

And finally, the awards for the guys that put in the most work out on the streets over the course of the day!

Expect to see more footage from The Street Series stop in Liverpool, along with Athens, Adelaide, Philadelphia and Los Angeles!

FISE Croatia – Semi-Finals Highlights

July 23, 2016

FISE Osijek 2016: Semi Finals Highlights – More BMX Videos

Yesterday the Semi-Finals for FISE Croatia went down in Osijek with some of the craziest ramp riders in the world all throwing down on the course to land themselves a spot in the finals! Hit play to check out all the highlights in two videos that have popped up online from the contest! Plenty of insane riding to see!

“Watch Daniel Dhers, Logan Martin, Nick Bruce, Alex Coleborn, Mike Varga, Daniel Sandoval, and more battle it out in semi finals at the second stop of FISE 2016 in Osijek, Croatia!

FISE Osijek Semi Finals Results
Top 12 Advance to Finals
1. Logan Martin
2. Daniel Dhers
3. Nick Bruce
4. Jack Clark
5. Josh Perry
6. Daniel Sandoval
7. Jake Leiva
8. Kenneth Tencio
9. Cam Peake
10. Mike Varga
11. Declan Brooks
12. Alex Coleborn
13. Erik Figar
14. Irek Rizaev
15. Daniel Wedemeijer
16. Chris Nicol
17. José Torres
18. Kostya Andreev
19. Paul Thölen
20. Senad Grosic
21. Jonathan Camacho
22. Istvan Caillet
23. Maxime Bringer
Credit: Vital BMX”

“Irek Rizaev, Kostya Andreev, Jonathan Camacho, Mike Varga, Daniel Dhers, Alex Coleborn, Logan Martin and other beasts in semi-finals at FISE in Croatia (Osijek).

Filmed/edited: Pavel Ivanov.” – BMXASHKA

Flybikes UK Shop Tour Flyer

July 23, 2016

It looks like Flybikes will be sending Devon Smillie and Larry Edgar to a couple shops over in the U.K starting August 2nd! If you’re in the Norwich, Crewe, Bristol and Letchworth areas… Check out the details below!

“If you’re in the UK, get ready! Larry Edgar and Devon Smillie will be visiting a few shops over the course of a few days starting on August 2nd through August 9th! Here’s where they will be!

Tuesday, August 2nd – Motion BMX in Norwich
Saturday August 6th – Foundation BMX – Crewe
Monday, August 8th – Crucial BMX – Bristol
Tuesday, August 9th – Custom Riders – Letchworth

Big thank you to our distributor in the UK, IMG Distribution, for helping to make this possible!
We hope to see you there!”
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Product: S&M Bikes – 22″ Mainline Tires

July 23, 2016

If you run a 22″ bike, you just got another option for BMX tires. The crew over at S&M Bikes have released their Mainline tire in two 22″ tire sizes; 2.10″ and 2.425″. The Mainline is geared toward trails riding with a wire bead, 110 PSI casing, directional knobby tread design with a V-notched edge for accelerating, a flat edge for braking and micro-knurling for extra traction while turning. The 2.21″ version has an inflated width of 2.24″ and weight of 27 oz., the 2.425″ version has an inflated width of 2.41″ and a weight of 29 oz. Both available in black only.

Hit up your favorite BMX shop or mail-order that carry S&M Bikes worldwide to get yourself a set ordered up today! If you’re looking for 20″, these tires also come in 2.10″ and 2.425″ for that size wheel as well!

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How BMX Tires Are Made

July 23, 2016

Curious how bicycle tires are made? Here’s a video that shows how it’s done!

Making a BMX tire is a complex process of combining a bunch of layers of rubber, wire and nylon together to make a single tire. The other day, Chris Moeller dropped some videos on Instagram giving us a look at some of those processes while a few of the S&M Bikes tires were being made over in Taiwan, which for some reason were deleted later. After we watched the videos, we decided to see if we could find more in-depth footage showing and explaining just how tires for bikes are made. Luckily, Schwalbe had a super good video to show just how the process is done from start to finish and how tubes for bicycles are made. It’s definitely interesting to see how much goes into a single tire. Above you can find the video that Schwalbe made giving you a look at the full process of how a bicycle tire and even how tubes are made. These aren’t BMX tires, but it’s a very similar process that is used to do a BMX tire, just a smaller diameter, thicker rubber and different tread patterns. Pretty cool, huh?

Watch: How BMX Bars Are Tested

Watch: How Logos Are Laser Etched

Watch: How Vans Shoes Are Made

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Billy Perry – Miami BMX Takeover Shut Down By Police

July 22, 2016

Billy Perry dropped his video from the big street jam he threw with Austin Augie during their stay in Miami. Based off the video it looks like they had a massive turn out, ran into the cops at every corner and still managed to have a good time. Check it out!

“Our first day in Miami myself and Austin Augie threw a jam with Ethik and my company FTL. Over 70 riders showed up to one of the biggest jams Miami has seen and the Cops tried to shut us down.”
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Coco Zurita – The Hawk Nest

July 22, 2016

Coco Zurita coming through with a short but sweet BMX video from a session he caught at Tony Hawk’s private vert ramp out in California! As always, Coco turns up the style to 11 and blasts to the ceiling! There’s plenty of slow-motion in this one so you can really take it all in properly. Get on that play button and enjoy!

Filmed and edited by Juani Zurita

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BSD – “Transmission” DVD Trailer

July 22, 2016

Here it is! BSD have just released the trailer for their upcoming “Transmission” DVD that will be landing worldwide starting July 25th! This video was kept pretty low key up until recently, so this is bound to be a super pleasant surprise for anyone that gives the video a watch! Above is the trailer that is packed full of some crazy clips and EXCELLENT film work. Needless to say, this is going to be an absolute MUST SEE! Get ready… Only 3 days to wait!

“TRANSMISSION. The first full length BSD team video. A crew of intrepid bike riders embark on a two year mission taking them to the ends of the earth and beyond. Featuring Dan Paley, Kriss Kyle, Alex Donnachie, Reed Stark, Mike ‘Jersey’ Taylor, David Grant, Liam Zingbergs, Sam Jones and Luc Legrand. Plus Jason Teet, Matt Allpress and a bonus world wide crew section…

Look out for the BSD TRANSMISSION DVD, available worldwide from 25th July 2016…”
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