Thanks to Corey Bohan, we get yet another behind the scenes perspective of the gnarliest dirt jump contest of the year (and maybe ever), Red Bull Dream Line. This is the first look at some of the harsh crashes that went down, but also we get to see plenty of new successful tricks too.
Volume Bikes – Chijioke Okafo Summer Edit
Volume Bikes: Chijioke Okafo Summer Edit from 180 Distribution on Vimeo.
Chijioke Okafo is just back on his bike after being out for a long time due to knee surgery. I bet if I hadn’t mentioned it, you would have never known. It hasn’t slowed him down in the slightest if this Volume Bikes edit is any indication. Great to see!
Osiris – Sean Burns 2013 Edit
Sean Burns – #Osiris2013 from Osiris BMX on Vimeo.
Osiris has to be stoked on getting their name on this gem! Some guys wouldn’t send such gnarly stuff for a web edit, but clearly Sean Burns has no such mentality. You get all the frightening drops you expect, and he puts his pegs to use a good bit as well. The banger is huge, even by Burns standards…
The Shadow Conspiracy X The Hundreds – Cruising The City
We’ve seen the making of The Shadow Conspiracy X The Hundreds bike, and heard from the people involved, but in this video we get to see the bike in action rolling around the city.
Chad Curtis “Chard eat spinach” Edit
Chard eat spinach from Chad Curtis on Vimeo.
Chad Curtis is starting on a new (DVD?) project called “#Workingforthecherry”, so he decided to clear out all of his older footage right now. Chad has a super defined, different style that includes a lot of snappy cab tricks, and anybody that does 180 x-ups is good with me.
Spring System Sessions
As soon as I saw a crankflip to can-can lander, I knew I had to post this. Some of the filming is a little rough around the edges, but there is a good variety of riding and a good vibe all around.
Premier BMX Store – Mixtape 13
The Premier BMX Store crew are back with another mixtape that’s loaded with heat from the streets of the U.K! Hit that play button to check it out!
Insight – The Tripod Seat System
BMX is pretty unique in the sense that it’s always evolving and re-inventing itself. The bikes from 10 years ago are pretty much polar opposite of what they are today. Complicated things have been re-designed and made to be lighter, stronger and easier to install and maintain. Everything on a bike has been tweaked and changed to make it better, sometimes multiple times.
In the past decade, we’ve seen seats go from railed to the very popular pivotal style. I remember thinking how simple the design was and that there probably wouldn’t be much you could do to make a seat more simplistic and cleaner…
Well, I was wrong. A little over a year ago, David from Fly Bikes introduced the tripod seat system and like a Colorado wild fire in the middle of a drought, we’ve seen this new concept take off with more and more brands starting to offer their own version of the seat and post design with no signs of slowing down any time soon.
We were really curious to know what the story was behind this system, so we caught up with the brains of the operation, David Quesada, to talk a little bit about how this all came about. Let’s see what he had to say…