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Van Doren Invitational 2016 – More Practice Highlights

July 29, 2016

Things are really starting to heat up at the Van Doren Invitational with things officially kicking off today. Here’s a video Ride BMX dropped giving you a look at some of the action that has been going down so far. You know when some of the most stylish riders and most dialed ramp riders in the world all get together for a big session, things are going to get crazy. We can’t wait to see what goes down in the actual contest!

“The Van Doren Invitational is a contest unlike any other.. Seldom are the worlds best bowl/transition riders summoned to compete in a contest that stresses the importance of general “course flow” and style, as equally or even more important than tricks. They switched up the bowl design for this year, but everyone seems to be adjusting well. Peep these highlights from the last two days on practice on the course. Riding from (in order of appearance) Larry Edgar, Dennis Enarsson, Dylan Stark, Matty Cranmer, Jason Watts, Gary Young, Matt Cordova, Alex Hiam, Corey Walsh, Daniel Sandoval, Scotty Cranmer, Kevin Peraza, Kevin Kalkoff, Chad Kerley, Tom Dugan, Dakota Roche, Dan Foley, Sergio Layos, Pat Casey, Clint Reynolds, Greg Illingworth, Kris Fox, Chris Doyle, and more.” – Ride BMX
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SoCal Weekends with Matt Cordova and Nathan Sykes

July 29, 2016

When you see Matt Cordova and Nathan Sykes name in the title of a BMX video, you should know that it’s always a video you cannot pass up. Once again, these two have teamed up for a fresh mix of footage from a few sessions at a couple of Southern California’s finest trails spots. This is packed with style for miles, so hit play and soak it all up!

“For the latest in our DIG TRAILS series Matt Cordova and Nathan Sykes, two heavy hitters of the SoCal trails scene, spent a couple weekends ripping through the lines at F.O.D., Bundy, and Wetlands. There is no shortage of style between the pair, that effortless flow makes you wonder if they ride all these jumps every afternoon. Guess that’s how it goes when you have the sort of bike control Matt and Nathan possess. Must be nice!” – DIG
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Merritt BMX – Day Trips #2: Heat Wave

July 29, 2016

Merritt coming through with another round of Day Trips clips for your viewing pleasure. This time they loaded up a few of their flow guys for some skatepark and street action despite it being super hot. Not to take away from the other guys in the video, but definitely keep and eye on Casey Starling. After our trip out to New York, we quickly realized this kid is a serious savage. This is loaded up with some real solid riding from start to finish, so take a peek!

“Hotter than hell out but it was still a good day of cruising with some of the Am squad and friends. Casey Starling, Bryan Figueroa, Jersey Drew, Mike Brennan and Stephan Salley all put down some moves.”

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Grant Germain Video Bike Check

July 28, 2016

Grant Germain has been on the videos lately! Here’s a fresh new video Bike Check he dropped giving you a detailed look at his Cult AK setup that he’s running decked out from top to bottom in Cult parts, along with some riding clips for good measure! This murdered out rig looks real good. Take a peek!

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Colony BMX – Dean Anderson Video Bike Check

July 28, 2016

Colony sent through this fresh new video Bike Check giving us a closer look at Dean Anderson‘s current Sweet Tooth setup decked out with Colony parts from top to bottom, along with a bunch of real good riding clips from a skatepark session! Hit that play button and get a look at this dialed BMX bike!

“Dean Anderson sessions the new Leongatha park in Victoria, comes through with some great riding clips along with showing you guys what he is currently running.

Parts List:
Colony Sweet Tooth frame
Colony Guardian forks
Colony Squareback stem
Colony headset
Colony 24/7 bars
Colony 22’s cranks
Colony Mid BB
Colony Cadiz Sprocket
Colony Wasp front hub
Colony Wasp rear hub
Colony Contour rims
Colony Oneway pegs
Colony AH fat seat

Filmed and edited by Cooper Brownlee.”
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Scotty Cranmer – Vans US Open: Day 4

July 28, 2016

Scotty Cranmer dropped the 4th video from his trip out to California for the Van Doren Invitational. This video starts out with some practice on the course, followed up by a session at the Vans HB park for BMX Day, then Big Boy wraps things up with an explosion. Check it!

“Day 4 of our California trip once again starts at practice for the bowl event. but this time we are all starting to dial in our runs for friday’s qualifier. After flowing around the concrete bowl on the beach we drove over to the Vans Huntington Beach Skatepark! This park is amazing and today happened to be the BMX day of the week so we got the camera out ingot to work! Big Boy started out with a Flair Challenge and took a spill in the bowl and realized just how hot concrete in California gets! Matty did some technical tricks like 360 to foot jam and he tried to nose manual around the whole bowl! after 30 trys i finally landed the flair to tail tap then decided to get a little crazy and play around with the cement wall next to the bowl! First attempt i actually fell over the wall onto the train tracks.. then I learned my lesson and finally landed on the wall to tail whip in! Matty did a crazy suicide gap over the vans sign! Then I did a trick that i have been wanting to do since I first saw the park being built, I did a 360 tail tap to tail whip down it! Big Boy then filmed a little kid grind the biggest rail at the park so we decided to try and talk Big Boy into it! After 10 minutes Big Boy broke down and said he would do flair to oppo flair on the concrete bowl!! With pretty much the whole skatepark watching Big Boy dropped in and blew everyone’s mind! and we end off the night with a potential world record attempt that will go down tomorrow!”
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Jason Watts Mic’d Up at the Van Doren Invitational

July 28, 2016

Have you ever wondered what’s really going on during practice at a BMX contest? Ride BMX strapped a microphone on Jason Watts for a practice session at the Van Doren Invitational that gives you a look at what it’s like. This has a TON of laughs and riding, followed up with a not some fun crash that took Jason out for the day. Take a peek!

“If you remember the first ever Bullshittin’ video, Jason Watts simply stated “I don’t do interviews; I just ride my bike” when I stuck the camera in his face. Maybe he didn’t know what I was trying to make at the time or maybe he’s changed his mind, but Jason let me strap a mic to him on the second day of practice at the Van Doren Invitational. It was supposed to be a nice stroll around the park, but a night out with his best friend Jack Daniels had Jason giggling, talking shit, and ruining people’s lines all session long…until he had to be strapped on a backboard.”

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Brian Kachinsky 2017 GT Team Signature Bike Check

July 28, 2016

During the GT Bicycles 2017 Complete Bike Launch, Crazy Al Cayne was running around with his camera getting the whole scoop for SugarCayne.com. Here’s a video bike check he did with Brian Kachinsky and his signature BK Team Signature complete that looks pretty much identical other than frame color to his personal bike! Check out the video bike check we did with Brian and his personal bike below!

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