Ben Polaschek Archives

Strays BMX #8

April 6, 2020

Ben Austin sent through the latest round of his Strays photo series for everyone to enjoy! This 8th edition features photos from Ben, Taylor Stos and Chris Shellkopf, and features riding from Ben Polaschek, Jayden Lajeunesse, Lynden Chartrand, Zephyr Wadkins, Matty Millington, Josh Nendza, Hilario Olivos, Steve Tassone, Tucker Smith, Tony Resta, Brett Tocco, and Tristan Thomas! As always, although these photos didn’t have a home or a project they were dedicated to, they turned out rad. Hit the flipbook above to take in the photos! It’s rad to see some faces we haven’t seen in a while, along with a few familiar and a few we haven’t heard of!

“The Eighth installment of Strays is now available. Just like past “issues”, these are a grouping of photos that were shot over the past few months that didn’t find a home but we still wanted to share with the BMX community. This time around I’m excited to announce that we have photo contributions from both Taylor Stos and Chris Shellkopf.” – Ben Austin

A Couple Laps In Ben Polaschek’s Backyard

January 10, 2017

Since Minnesota is an arctic tundra right now, we’re assuming Ben Polaschek is having some serious withdrawals from riding his back yard. So, he pieced together this quick video with a few clips of the new roll-in that was built, along with a few laps that Ben, Glenn Dussl and Jeremy Ball got in last summer. This video does no justice to just how dialed and big these jumps are.

Ben Polaschek’s Backyard Trails

June 27, 2013

Here’s a pretty funny video Dustin Grice put together from Ben Polaschek’s backyard…or… I mean Carrie’s backyard (Benny’s fiancé). Take a tour of the yard, see some pranks, then check out some riding from Ben, QBP‘s Glenn Dussl and Jay Schlie, Haro‘s Colton Walker, a rare Nick Lucas sighting, and Jeff McClearen with his shirt off and riding his crotch rocket in sandals. This is pretty uncut stuff and 10 minutes of a lot of random stuff with riding mixed in, but worth a watch for sure! Minnesota has spots!

Spot Check: Ben Polaschek’s Yard

July 4, 2010

Photobucket

It’s not everyday that you can walk into the backyard in the middle of a suburb of Minneapolis to a 15 foot roll-in into a 10 pack of jumps with 7′ tall lips and landings. Unless you happen to walk into Benny Polaschek’s yard of awesome…
[Read more…]