Unless you haven’t been on the old internets lately, there’s a good chance you have caught one of Scotty Cranmer‘s latest BMX videos that he has released on his personal Youtube channel featuring himself, Matty Cranmer, Big Boy and a bunch of other people he crosses paths with on a regular basis. The videos so far have been real good, and it caught ESPN’s attention. Here’s a video where Scotty talks about the motive behind starting his own Youtube channel, what he has been doing and what he plans on doing with it in the future. It’s interesting to see how much Youtube has become apart of the BMX industry and how it has given a lot of riders an outlet to really expose their riding and personalities. Where things will go in the future? We will just have to wait and see.
Chad Curtis In Arizona
Chad Curtis calls Grass Valley in Northern California home, but he has spent a bunch of time out in Phoenix, Arizona lately hanging out with the BLNTD crew. During his visits, Chad and Tammy McCarley have been busy going out on filming missions at the different skateparks and street spots around the area. Chad has unique style and knows how to properly lay down a crooked pedal grind! Check out this dialed BMX video filled with clips from those filming missions that they have been on as of late! Tons of heat to see in this one.
Filmed and edited by Tammy McCarley
Boom Riders – Erik Garza 2015
You know you can’t pass up a BMX video from Mexico’s Erik Garza! The crew over at Boom Riders dropped this fresh edit that features Erik cruising a handful of different skateparks over the course of the year. Erik keeps this one fresh from start to finish with his deep bag of street style inspired tricks, making for a great watch. Get on that play button and enjoy!
Shudder house – Schlie Mix
Jay Schlie might not be a household name in BMX, but believe it or not… He’s crushing it behind the scenes. When Jay isn’t busy bouncing around the U.S for QBMX (QBP Distributions’s BMX division) working with BMX shops to improve, he’s most likely out riding his bike. Here’s a short but sweet BMX video featuring Jay cruising some trails, street spots and a full pipe he got a session on in a construction zone before it was most likely buried in the ground. Hit play and enjoy this because it’s not your typical video filled with grinds and freecoaster action.
Music : Torche “Lay Low”
“Whatchudonow” Trailer by Carlo Hoffmann
Carlo Hoffmann is working on a new full-length BMX video called “Whatchudonow” featuring Bruno Hoffmann, Carlo and what appears to be the Ciao Crew over in Germany. Above is the first trailer giving us a look at just what this one will have in store for us when it’s ready. With a crew like this, there’s no doubt in our minds that this will be filled with some excellent riding. We’ll keep you posted as more information comes out!
Harry Main – Skatepark Soccer
When we first saw the title of the latest BMX video from the Harry Main webisode series, we expected to see a bunch of kids on bikes using their wheels to kick a soccer ball around to score, which is actually a pretty good time in all honesty. But, this takes bringing BMX and soccer together to a whole new level in more of a “calling the shots” style. So, the concept of this one is you draw a random trick (by “random” we mean a bunch of ridiculous tricks like 1080’s, tailwhip to barspins, tailwhip to whiplash, etc… ) out of a hat. Then you have to kick a ball from halfway across the skatepark into the net. If you miss, you have to do the trick, if you make it, you get to skip it. It’s a pretty interesting concept and it actually looks like a good time… and pretty stressful. Watch as Harry learns the hard way that this game is a little harder than he thought it might be, haha.
Leave it up to BMX riders to find a way to incorporate soccer into their session and make it a little more… risky.
Evolution of the Bicycle
No, this doesn’t have anything to do with BMX bikes, but in a way it does… We spotted this video over on the Subrosa website. It’s an animation timeline showing the evolution of the bicycle from 1790 up until 1890, years before Bicycle Motocross was ever even an idea. Either way, it’s still pretty cool to look back and see how this two wheeled contraption came to be. It will be interesting to see what the bicycle looks like in 50 years… We’ll probably be rocking hover bikes by then.
“300 years compressed to a 1 min animation telling the interesting history of the bicycle, all the way from the wooden horse to the modern racer.
The video was made in combination with an application to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2013.
Animation : Thallis Vestergaard
Music : Flying Home by The Benny Goodman Sextet
visualartwork.dk
Note: Video updated September 2014
“A bicycle is a two wheeled, human-powered vehicle, with one wheel behind the other.“
The first track of the bicycle goes back to 1493 where Leonardo da Vinci made a sketch of a very advanced bicycle. This is not proven to be true though. So is there many uncertainties on when and who invented the
bicycles improvements along it’s history.
Volume Bikes – “Volume 1” Photogallery
Volume Bikes have released a photogallery with a collection of photos that were shot while filming for the VOLUME ONE VIDEO that was released yesterday featuring Demarcus Paul, Josh Clemens and Billy Perry all crushing spots from California to New York, Oregon and more. You can check out more photos like the one above, most of which are by photographer Devin Feil, over on the Volume Bikes website. Check them out here: VOLUME ONE PHOTOGALLERY.
