For the past few years, the Bikes Over Baghdad crew have been making trips over to the Middle East to spend some time hanging out with the troops, doing BMX demos and just getting a look at what it’s like over there. With a heavy crew of guys like Chad DeGroot, Drew Bezanson, Rob Darden, Anthony Napolitan, Mykel Larrin, Nate Wessel, Keith Mulligan, Morgan Wade and a few others, things are bound to get pretty wild. Chad dropped a full report from his trip over on the DECO BMX website, with 4 videos (like the one above) and a bunch of words from the day to day journal he kept. This appears to have been one hell of a trip… Check it!
Dig Trails – Freedom 40
Plenty of BMX videos from the trails popping up lately and we’re more than stoked on that. DIG just released this new video featuring the crew at the Freedom 40 trails in Santa Cruz getting some laps in on their year round dirt paradise. Plenty of dialed riding and good times to take in on this one. Hit that play button and check it out!
“Santa Cruz, California has some of the highest property values in the US, making land to build trails pretty rare. The Freedom 40 crew has been fortunate to use this private land for many years, and have taken advantage of what they’ve been given. The conditions may not be ideal with the jumps baking in the sun a lot of the day, but the dirt works and there is a semi-reliable water source, another rarity in California. Most importantly, the lines are really fun and sessions can be had almost any time of year. I moved out west from the east coast a year and half ago and the crew out here has welcomed me as one of their own. Together we’ve been dialing in the the lines and having fun sessions on the regular.” – Brian Barnhart
Goolash BMX
Now THIS is what we call a BMX video! Check out this new mix video featuring Frank Labudzik, Kyle Emery-Peck, John Bennett, Jeff Bennett, Jake Honesto, Sal, Wolfman (WHERE THE HELL HAS HE BEEN!?), Anthony Malvasio and a few others cruising street spots, trails, pools, DIY spots, full pipes and skateparks. This is super well rounded and it’s not your typical grind and freecoaster video. This has style, tricks you don’t see all too often and a really good vibe. If this doesn’t make you want to fly out to San Francisco to ride with these guys, you are crazy. We’re loving every second of this from start to finish and wish more BMX videos were like this! Hit play and enjoy!
Julien Betancourt 2015
Here’s a fresh one from Julien Betancourt, who has been busy stacking some clips at his local skatepark and a DIY ditch spot over in France. If you like grinds, barspins and freecoasters… You’ll be all about this BMX video because each clip puts at least one of those things to good use.
Filmed by Diego Caudoux, Yann Burtier Pierrelatte and Bourg Saint Andeol
Onwies Knallen BMX – Locoseeum
What happens when you give a bunch of BMX riders the keys to a skatepark for the night? Well, chaos ensues. Here’s a BMX video featuring Kadeem Eiland, Jorn Tuijnman, Daan van Wezel and a few others getting loose at their local park once night. There was fire, stuff flying, drinks and quite a bit of riding all going down at the same time. Looks like a good time to us though!
Montana Parks
We don’t seen a ton of BMX videos from Montana, but when we do, we’re usually always pretty blown away by how good their skateparks look. Check out this edit Greg Moliterno put together featuring John Campbell, Dimitri James, Ricky Lopez, Julian Jamerson, Logan Ostrom, Bryan Baker and Ben Smith riding a box jump setup in someones yard, then some super fun looking cement parks!
Red Bull – Behind the Scenes of Kaleidoscope – Part 4: Music
Curious how the song behind Kriss Kyle‘s new video from Red Bull, Kaleidoscope was picked? Well, here’s your answer. Kriss tells us a little bit about the song and why he chose it, along with a little Q&A face time action with one of the band members!
“Portugal. The Man’s Zach Carothers talks to Kriss about his band’s song All Your Light (Times Like These), used for the Kaleidoscope soundtrack.”
Watch the other behind the scenes videos here:
Matt Puorro – “Salvation”
Shad over at Snakebite keeping the sections from the “Salvation” BMX video that was released nearly 14 years ago already. This time around we get Matt Puorro’s section which is filled with a ton of pegless street and park riding. Matt put his big bag of tricks to good use for this video and came through with a handful of clips of stuff we just don’t see all too often. That ender is wild, too! Check it!
“Matt’s part from the 2002 Salvation video. Most of this is filmed in the Portland Or. area. Matt definitely helped push pegless riding in this section. His banger of a pegless tooth in a pool is still so gnarly on today’s standards.” – Snakebite BMX
