Brian Tunney survived the Texas summer heat.

Here’s the latest from Brian Tunney who has released his quarterly video giving us a look at the flatland sessions he has been getting in the past summer. It might have been hot, but that didn’t stop Brian from putting in some time in his garage, coming up with a bunch of great flatland riding for your viewing pleasure. Take a look!

“July, August, September 2025, condensed into just under 8 minutes of footage. I didn’t filter out any goofiness. This is everything I did on my bike in that period of time, from circle k’s to the usual go-tos.

And this one is all for Jody Temple, 1975-2025.

I might come back and add timecode descriptions but I’m sick right now and don’t wanna be on a computer.” – Brian Tunney

Brian Tunney is back with a new one from his Spring sessions!

Here’s the latest from Brian Tunney giving us a look at what he has been getting into the past few months during his flatland sessions in his garage. As always, Brian puts together a bunch of great combos for you to enjoy with a laid back vibe. You can get a full break down of each clip down below. Check it!

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Brian Tunney has a new one from his winter garage sessions.

It’s been a few months, but Brian Tunney has released a fresh batch of clips from his garage flatland sessions that he has been getting in, in his garage this past winter. As always, this has a real laid back vibe, but plenty of great riding to check out. Take a peek!

“How it is 2025 and how the hell am I still here doing this stuff? Time is apparently an illusion and with that, I’ll just pretend it’s 1989 and keep on doing elbow glides.

I had no real goals in the new year past “keep riding” but I ended up surprising myself a few times over the past few months. I still stayed in the literal box (both the garage and the same old tricks I normally do) but I also experimented outside (and over) the box. Here, as always, is the rundown for all three of you that are curious.

00:00 Jan 1, I did the best undertaker to peg to peg decade of my life and I’m sticking to it.
00:13 Elbow glide to double juggler to invisible hand to hitch: It’s fast but I did cross hands on that go around. (Also yes, I figured out elbow glides in a circle to keep them in the garage….)
00:29 Then I went nuts with elbow glides, which you’ll see in this video. This is elbow glide to double juggler to around the world while listening to the National in a garage.
00:46 Because I’ve done a lot of ndertaker to peg to peg decades in the past year, I decided to reverse the order. This might look easy but it drove me nuts.
01:00 More elbow glides. This time with a brief backwards rolling elbow glide that is so brief that it’s more of an acknowledgment than glide.
01:17 Power mower to to peg to peg decade. Did I ever mention how bad I am at regular decades?
01:27 Inside circle switch elbow glide to peg to peg decade. Nothing crazy but it felt good.
01:40 Lung spin to rope-a-roni to peg to peg decade.
01:53 An appearance by the Captain’s hat and a left-handed elbow glide/hitch combo.
02:14 The neighbor’s landscaper was mowing the lawn and somehow I persevered.
02:34 Invisible hand to hitch to invisible hand to seat grab juggler to one-hand juggler.
02:54 Power mower to undertaker to rope-a-roni to peg to peg decade. I kinda went nuts with this combo the past few months.
03:05 Elbow glide to four seat grab jugglers to one-hand juggler. I should be more proud of this but I hate my yellow underwear band sticking out.
03:28 Inside circle switch elbow to half lash to rollback to whip to smith. This is a throwaway but it felt good so I’m running with it.
03:42 One of those supposed to be stylish non-bar turning lawnmowers to undertaker to smith.
03:53 Not gonna mention the president’s name here but I did this on the day when he must’ve done something bad cause I’m listening to a song called “Dead Eyed God.” It is the supposed to be stylish non-bar turning lawnmower to undertaker to rope-a-roni to peg to peg decade.
04:06 Double barspin undertaker to rope-a-roni to peg to peg decade. This took about two hours to get right.
04:15 Kerosene 454 re-released their second album and I listened to it a lot the past few months. This is more elbow glide to juggler nonsense.
04:32 I also brought it back to Botch a few times. This is a double juggler to left-hand elbow glide to around the world.
04:53 I don’t even know. Don’t judge me.
05:02 Again, I don’t even know but I must’ve been channeling 1995.
05:14 Brian’s white whale: I’ve never been able to do a backside walkaround. This is the closest substitution I’ll get to. I’ve been thinking about this position for literal years and it always baffled me. Finally, I decided to spend a few weeks trying to make it happen and this is the result. I slept well for about a week after finally landing this.

Thanks for watching!” – Brian Tunney

Brian Tunney is back with an edit from his fall 2024 sessions!

We’re always stoked when Brian Tunney has a new video to check out! Here’s his latest batch of footage from his garage flatland sessions he had over the past few months. As always, Brian delivers with the good stuff. Take a look!

“Holy crap, it’s the end of December and I’ve somehow struggled to cobble together 20 links from inside the garage over October, November, and December. But nothing came easy for the past three months. I had some specific trouble getting into “the zone” (sorry, I know that sounds cheesy) and instead of taking breaks, I doubled and tripled down on attempts and ended up flat out over-training myself for a few weeks in there. (That left me fatigued, moody, and unable to calm my heart rate.) I am hoping to avoid that pattern now and just need to remember that sometimes, fun, simple riding is easier than trying something over and over for hours and hours of time, only to film it once and never do it again. As much as I love that pursuit, sometimes it’s just not worth the battles. So next year might be a little more mellow. We’ll see what my doctor says….

00:00 – This shit took at least 3-4 different weekends to get right. It’s nothing crazy, just a double whip to undertaker to smith. BUT… you’ve gotta slow the double whip momentum way down to get the undertaker to smith to happen. So, after many tries and fails, I reduced the back wheel tire pressure to 60 and it happened. I am not smart but at least this is done.
00:18 – Triple juggler to invisible hand to steam to around the world. Even with the These Arms Are Snakes demos playing, this took a long time to get right and in frame. I initially did this on a Saturday and wasn’t happy with how it looked so this is the Sunday version.
00:45 – Peg wheelie to power mower to me taking my sweet ass time deciding whether or not I want to do a peg to peg decade. Ultimately, I went for it.
01:03 – Double barspin to peg to peg decade.
01:14 – Double juggler to smith decade.
01:34 – Pegs to gerator to backwards wheelie to peg to peg decade. Why did I waste my time doing this? Cause I never did it before. Did it make me a better bike rider? No.
01:48 – Juggler to steam to backwards hitch to push off the wall. I am not a huge fan of the push off object movement in flatland but sometimes riding in a two-car garage calls for it.
02:10 – Double juggler to infinity roll to backwards boomerang. Sometimes when I can’t land something, I wear this silly captain’s hat to coerce myself into doing it, and sometimes it actually works. This is one of those times.
02:38 – Power mower to undertaker to smith. I did this once in 2021 right before moving back to Austin. No notes.
02:47 – Juggler to steam to barflip to juggler. I’d like to experiment more with these but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
03:09 – Pedal undertaker to smith. I landed and immediately ran into the wall, did a haphazard endo and watched as the ladder leaning against the wall fell onto the camera. Hence, the quick cut off here to avoid the calamity that followed.
03:16 – This is a concession trick to something else that wasn’t happening that day, and watching it is tough for me cause I barely slept that night. The following day, I ended up going to urgent care with chest pain and the doctor said, “whatever you did yesterday was stressful, so don’t do it again.”
03:36 – This was my first feeler trick after going to urgent care and it was super fun but it’s also one of those keep it mellow links.
03:47 – I decided to try elbow glides again. Turning them in a slight circle to stay in the garage was a learning process, but this was a fun way to keep things mellow and not-stress filled. I tried to do a switch elbow glide at the end of this but it’s more of an elbow acknowledgement than glide.
04:04 – Half lash to barspin to undertaker, no notes.
04:17 – More elbow glides. This starts with an elbow glide then goes to invisible hand to juggler.
04:35 – The inside circle switch foot elbow glide also came back. This one went to infinity roll to barspin undertaker because everything I do is completely predictable at this point in my life.
04:58 – Elbow glide to four jugglers.
05:18 – Once I started with elbow glides, everything got put on the table. So they seem repetitive but there are a few nuances in here. This is elbow glide to invisible hand to hitch to regular juggler to one-handed juggler.
05:38 – And this is super scrappy but that’s what happens when you go into the garage without a plan and just let the freestyle happen. It’s an inside circle switch foot elbow glide to rope-a-roni scuff/sketch to undertaker that seriously almost did not happen. I literally had to push for the bike to go vertical, jump, and hold on. Not knowing something is gonna happen, but holding on and seeing what happens is a big part of why I’m still here.

Thanks for watching in 2024. I can’t promise much more in the new year but I’ll probably have a few videos to post.” – Brian Tunney

Brian Tunney gives us a look at what he’s been up to this summer!

We don’t get the monthly videos from Brian Tunney like we did for a few years there, but we’re still always stoked to see a new upload. Here’s his latest batch of riding giving us a look at what he got into during his flatland sessions in his garage over the course of the summer! Check out what he put together in the video above, along with full details below!

“I seem to have survived another Texas summer without taking the entire season off, but it didn’t come without some exceptions. Hey, how’s it going? It’s Brian, back with another aging BMX video, this one from July, August, and September of 2024.

It was hot, I was in a slump, and I had a few close calls on the brakes bike, so the majority of this is going to be hitchhiker jugglers. You’ve been warned. I did manage to extend my tenure with undertakers another few months, because frankly, the silly little variations that no one else will notice got me through some days and weekends. I have a few more to check off the list and then I swear I’m gonna try out some new ideas in the new year. Here’s the lowdown on everything I filmed the past three months, bearing in mind that I left out about ten tricks that I thought were junk.

00:00 Cancan lawnmower to undertaker: Nothing special at all, just a quick clip to get this video going.
00:08 Invisible hand to juggler to seat grab juggler to invisible hand to juggler to seat grab juggler: This took two hours to get right in 100-degree heat.
00:27 Around the world to smith decade out: Filmed it once but the humidity fogged up the camera so this is attempt two.
00:43 Power mower to undertaker to walkover: Filmed on BMX day (7/20), no notes.
00:53 Tailwhip to gerator to barspin to undertaker: I must have been bored that day.
01:08 Double seat grab juggler to one-hand juggler: Nothing special but it felt nice.
01:25 Double seat grab juggler to dave duster to fork wheelie to backwards hitch: Filmed at like 8 a.m., hence the weird lighting.
01:47 Triple seat grab hitch juggler to whiplash to around the world.
02:12 Barspin undertaker to rope-a-roni to walkover.
02:23 Double seat grab hitchhiker juggler to one-hand juggler to another double seat grab juggler equals five.
02:47 Power mower to double barspin to undertaker
03:01 Invisible hand to fork wheelie jump to steam to hitch.
03:15 Triple seat grab hitchhiker juggler to double one-handed hitchhiker juggler equals five again. (Just getting five regular in the garage used to be a struggle so mixing it up is progress for me…)
03:38 One hand to seat grab to one hand juggler to around the world
03:58 Brian scraping the bottom of the barrel for more undertaker variations: This is a power mower to double barspin to cancan undertaker.
04:08 Peg wheelie to rope-a-roni to undertaker to rope-a-roni: The one-hander was unintentional.
04:20 Cancan undertaker to rope-a-roni.
04:33 Peg wheelie to undertaker to walkover.
04:46 Six jugglers in the garage, a new record for me.

I realize I am mining two techniques as deeply as possible, but this is weekend riding circa age 50. Between work and responsibilities, I haven’t had a lot of time to experiment with new stuff. And that sucks, but I’m also just glad to still be riding at my age. Thanks to Deafheaven, Joan of Arc, Fucked Up Bitter Branches, and These Arms Are Snakes for helping me get through the summer days in one piece. On to fall now…”

We’re getting seasonal edits from Brian Tunney!

After about 4 years of new edits every month, Brian Tunney has opted for less frequent videos. Although we miss the monthly edits, we’re just stoked to see what he’s been up to when a new one pops up! Here’s his latest video from his sessions over the course of Spring 2024. Same garage, same great flatland riding! Take a look!

Brian Tunney is back with a fresh edit!

After his monthly videos these past few years, we were bummed when one didn’t come out in February, and then March rolled around and once again… No Brian Tunney video on the 1st that we had become so accustomed to seeing. Well, it looks like he’s going quarterly to make things better! Here’s a look at what he cooked up from his garage flatland sessions from January, February and March all in one!

“Hi, I’m back. I had grand plans for this final video of my 40s, but instead I just decided to showcase my somewhat daily riding in the garage. I realize it’s been a few months since I last uploaded a video, but I’ve also felt less pressure after moving away from the post one video per month schedule. And this is the result: 26 things from inside the garage, ranging from undertaker to juggler with some slight tweaks and odd cancans to keep the ball moving forward.

Since the last video, I’ve:
1) Built up a new bike (S&M Dagger)
2) Went deep on invisible hand stuff
3) Rode in 40 degree weather
4) Listened to a lot of Jeff Parker EVA IVtet ‘Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy’

Go buy it right here!

I used side B of that improvised album here, because a lot of my riding feels much the same, just trying things and seeing if they’ll work. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t. The important thing, as I depart my 40s and enter into, gulp, my 50s, is that it’s still fun.

Good luck getting through 6 minutes and 52 seconds of footage, and thanks for attempting to watch!

*Also, some of these clips are actually from December 2023, but I left that out of the title so it wasn’t too complicated.” – Brian Tunney

Check out Brian Tunney’s best footage from 2023!

Over the course of 2023, Brian Tunney has released his monthly edits giving us a look at what he’s been getting into during his garage flatland sessions. To wrap up the year, he’s gone through all of that footage and pulled out the best clips and put it together for this new edit! Plenty of dialed riding that’s well worth a look, plus he put in a song from a band you probably haven’t heard of before. Check it out!

“Here we are at the end of 2023, and altogether, I think I filmed over a half hour of footage the past year. When I add in a full-time job and the responsibilities of being well, responsible, it’s not too shabby of an amount of riding. In fact, it’s probably the most footage I’ve compiled in a year in all of my time riding since the mid ’80s.

Of course, most of it was fun to do, but not really ‘best of’ material. So I went through each month, made a list, and then whittled it down to almost 7 minutes of footage. Aside from three clips, it’s all garage-based. And the overarching theme is no longer undertakers (though there are a bunch). I’ve been in more of a rolling mood the past year, and this footage definitely reflects that.

Here’s why: Over a decade ago, I had really great, very long spot to ride at in Jersey City and my riding started to become long rolling combs in a straight line. When I first started riding at home in the garage, I hadn’t even really thought of trying to roll in there because I was hung up on rolling in straight lines. Stupid me eventually figured out I could roll in circles and that’s what most of this year became. What I lack in common sense, I make up for with this year’s selection of jugglers, one-handed jugglers, jugglers to invisible hand to juggler, and other assorted nonsense.

As the year comes to a close, I’m sunlighting the monthly riding video series and gonna focus on less is more in the new year. I’ve loved the challenge of making a video once a month, but it has veered into “obligation” territory lately and that was never the purpose of it. So with that, happy holidays, merry new year, and thanks for watching me get frustrated in a garage for another year.

Song is ‘Shapeshifter’ by Hum. Buy it here!” – Brian Tunney