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Brian Tunney – December 2022 Clips

January 2, 2023

Brian Tunney has completed another year of monthly videos!

There aren’t always a lot of things you can count on, but one thing we always know is that Brian Tunney will deliver a fresh video on the first day of two of every new month! Here’s a look at what he got into during his December 2022 flatland sessions in his garage, marking another full year of monthly edits! Take a look at what he cooked up for clips!

“No brakes, no undertakers, no youthful vigor to close out 2022! A lot of these are pre-undertaker Brian’s go-to no brakes techniques (meaning you’ve probably seen them already) but regardless, they’re still fun to do and a break from a heavy year of 80s and early 90s influence of the past year. Here’s to a new year!” – Brian Tunney

Brian Tunney – Best of 2022

December 28, 2022

Brian Tunney takes a look back at 2022!

With the year coming to close, Brian Tunney decided to go through all his clips he filmed for his monthly recap videos and put together his best clips in one video. Hit play to check out all the gems Brian pulled out during his garage sessions!

“I compiled all of my favorite clips from the past year. Most of these, especially the undertakers, were tough combos that sometimes took hours or days to land. Starting on January 1, the double barspin undertaker to smith was something that I honestly tried for days between Christmas and New Year’s 2021. And then it just magically happened when I least expected.

I don’t usually feel too accomplished with my riding but looking back, it’s nice to know I was able to learn some new things, combine old things and still enjoy riding flatland at the age of 48. Here’s to a new year, thanks for watching!

And if you like the song, please purchase the album (and new EP) here: https://davidknudson.bandcamp.com/” – Brian Tunney



Brian Tunney – November 2022 Clips

December 1, 2022

New month, new Brian Tunney video!

The end of the year is near, and with November wrapping up we get a look at Brian Tunney‘s monthly edit! Check out what he got into during his flatland sessions between the garage and a spot outside! As always, Brian delivers with real solid riding!

“1. I escaped the garage for a day. The basketball courts near my house aren’t that great, and I mistakenly did a trick I already did just over two years ago. So I found it, did that picture in a picture thing and it looks pretty much the same on a different bike with a different setup.
2. I went pretty hard on windshield wipers this month (actually only a few days…) This is a cancan undertaker windshield wiper. They are not as satisfying as doing the full undertaker.
3. I also did some rolling this month. This is nothing new. I think I can safely say I’ve been doing rolling around the worlds for 25 years now. That hurts my brain to say.
4. Another windshield wiper undertaker version.
5. Another pretty standard front wheel rolling link for me. This was on a Heresy tire and to be honest, I’m not sure if the shape works best for compact garage riding or my tendency to want to roll forward, then turn, then go straight again.
6. There’s a very famous scene in Dorkin in York 1 where Kevin Jones does a standup backwards infinity roll in his garage while his mom takes out the trash. I used that as inspiration for this infinity roll to undertaker.
7. This one was in my notes for a while. Undertaker, stall underneath into upside down wheelie, then rebate back to the original side. It doesn’t look great, but it felt nice to cross it off the list.
8. I switched to a 1.75 Odyssey Super Circuit tire and everything started rolling easier in the garage. This was the result.
9. And then I started messing around with front wheel tricks on the bike that has become the undertaker bike. A few minutes before landing this, I took a supplement called Brain Boost in my coffee and then this happened, pretty easily (for me). I can’t say for sure if a silly coffee enhancer helped me land this but it did make me wonder.
10. And because I was fooling around with infinity rolls, this had to happen: Infinity roll to backwards flail boomerang.
” – Brian Tunney

Brian Tunney October 2022 Clips

November 1, 2022

It’s already November?

October has flown by and once again we’re wondering where the month went. As always, Brian Tunney has a fresh video giving us a look at what he got into during his flatland sessions over the course of the past month. Once again, Brian delivers with some great riding, a few laughs and a proper break down below! Take a look.

“1. Started with the latest low-impact crash I had. I lived. The bike just needs to remind me who’s in charge every now and again.
2. What I was trying in number one: a tailwhip to switch foot gerator to junkyard to undertaker. Nothing too crazy but fun.
3. I had never done a backwards rolling ankledeath before, for good reason. You’re basically blind aiming to get your foot back on the pedal.
4. Improvising: I didn’t even know what was going to happen here and just let it happen, then naturally went to undertaker. The landing of the undertaker here makes me laugh cause it looks like I’m having a brain fart and holding on for dear life.
5. Try to do this once a year cause I used to really enjoy them. Now it’s just kinda work.
6. Just a barspin-barspin back undertaker.
7. And then my brain went here: do that but add a cancan at the end….
8. My normal rolling combo ended badly.
9. My normal rolling combo with a hitch at the end.
10. Just a stalled undertaker to rope-a-roni.
11. The behemoth that almost did me in this month: An undertaker to rope-a-roni to undertaker. This thing took two hours and 40 minutes of attempts to land and finally came together right before my brain and body were ready to give up. Here’s the kicker: I tried it casually one morning and came really close to landing it within 5 minutes. Then a few days later, after committing time to land it, it became impossible. Once I got it, I was very happy to never have to do it again, so enjoy it here.
” – Brian Tunney



Brian Tunney – September 2022 Clips

October 2, 2022

New month, new Brian Tunney video!

It’s October! With every new month, we get a new Brian Tunney to start things off right! As always, Brian delivers with a ton of solid flatland riding and music selection to enjoy. Check out what Brian cooked up for clips during his garage sessions, then check out more details about each clip below!

“A few weeks ago, following the proliferation of undertakers I post on Instagram, Canadian flatland legend Shane Neville (of Flatland Manifesto and Ronin) suggested I try to add a cancan to the end of undertakers.

Thirty days later, this is the result. It’s a hodge podge of undertakers, randomness, one wall bounce and some old school BMX things I hadn’t done in a few years. And, instead of stressing over next to impossible tricks, I had fun with the oldies.

Here’s a quick rundown if you’re curious:

1. The first barspin undertaker to cancan I landed.
2. The first double barspin undertaker to cancan I landed. (while it was raining outside, hence the weird angle)
3. The same stupid rolling combo I usually do, but this time, I grab the frame on the invisible hand part.
4. Tailwhip to undertaker to one-foot long rope-a-roni. (I need more space to roll this further.)
5. Tailwhip to undertaker to cancan.
6. Cancan to undertaker to cancan. (Kinda stupid but oh well.)
7. Peg wheelie to undertaker. (Super old but still fun.)
8. Peg wheelie to undertaker to cancan in a really stupid hat. (I was having trouble getting this right and then thought, if you wear the dumb hat, you’ll land it first try. That was unfortunately a correct assumption.)
9. Half-hiker to dave duster to fire hydrant to backward hitchhiker to wall bounce inspired by Mark Lewman’s sequence from Freestylin’ over 30 years ago.
10. Footjam to smoothie boomerang smith decade thing.
11. Squeaker to undertaker.
12. Shane’s original trick request: Throw a cancan in between the undertaker and smith decade. I thought this would take a few months to get right but it only took an hour and five minutes.

Until October, keep your feet on the pegs but keep reaching for the stars…” – Brian Tunney

Brian Tunney – August 2022 Clips

September 1, 2022

Brian Tunney has a new one to check out!

There aren’t too many things as consistent as Brian Tunney releasing a new video on the first of every month. Today is September 1st, and that means we get a look at what Brian got into during his garage flatland sessions over the course of August! As always, Brian delivers with the riding and song selection, along with a full break down of the tricks in the description below. Take a look!

“We’ll skip straight to the song: As I was filming the last trick in this, the song “Nightswimming” from REM came on and it weirdly came together in sync with the song, so much so that I decided to use it as this month’s song. It’s a pretty soothing song and I’d recommend that everyone go listen to the entire album, which came out almost thirty years ago (right as I was entering my third week of classes at Rutgers.) So we’re both old. Now onto the riding.

I really wanted to keep August mellow because July was a serious trial, and too many serious trials makes riding unfun. It worked for a time.

First trick is a half-hiker to one-handed hitch, something I’ve done before and just had a natural inclination to try again. The whip to grab feels really nice. The ride out, not so much. The shorts, they are my dog’s favorite thing to lay on.

Second trick is a brakeless gerator to backyard to rolling overtaker exit. I didn’t think these were possible in the garage (cause I usually roll them straight) but it worked out. I’ve also depended way too much on back brakes going from peg wheelie to gerator so it’s nice to know that it’s not really an issue anymore.

Third trick is a silly half-hiker/invisible hand/hitch link. Just something I had written down that only took a few minutes to do, as opposed to the three hour marathon sessions from July…

Fourth trick is a one-handed (very briefly) double tailwhip to undertaker. It’s stupid.

Fifth trick is a straight up footjam to backwards hitch to complicated ride out of a corner. No notes.

Sixth trick is dave duster to backwards hitch. This seems like something I’ve done in the past but I couldn’t remember when or where.

Seventh trick is a stalled undertaker. No notes.

Eighth trick is where I started to want complication again: barspin undertaker to gerator to rolling overtaker. I wanted to do this last month but it took a few hours to land and my mental fortitude wasn’t having it. This month though, it happened in 15 minutes. It’s sketchy, but I’ll take it.

Ninth trick is I don’t know why, a power mower to step-over decade boomerankle. I am terrible at decades, this feels a weird void from time to time.

Tenth trick is a barspin undertaker windshield wiper. I couldn’t do these a few months ago (kept bashing my privates.) Scott Powell assured me that I could, and an hour later, it happened. The ride out here is stinky. I would like to get to a point where I can stall it on both sides and just hop back and forth but we shall see.

Eleventh trick is why you’re hearing this song. I was trying this barspin forward rope-a-roni to rolling overtaker for an hour and coming close. Then this song came on and it happened. It’s basically inspiration from Nick Watts and me liking rolling overtakers this month.

And with that, August is done. It started out mellow, got hectic by the end, and kept me balanced between riding with brakes and riding without. No witty ending, thanks for watching and reading.” – Brian Tunney



Brian Tunney – July 2022 Clips

August 1, 2022

Brian Tunney is back with a fresh one!

It’s the first day of August, and with every new month, that means that we get a look at Brian Tunney‘s latest video from the sessions he got in the previous month! Here’s just shy of 3 minutes of footage from Brian’s flatland sessions over the course of July! As always, Brian delivers with great riding and a song selection we’ve never heard. Take a look!

“To begin with, every single thing filmed in this month was done at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit, which is a first for me. (It also made July a little more productive than I thought it despite the weather.) I broke this video up into a few different sections that basically isolate the trick/combination and how I either expanded on it or made it look more sucky.

Beginning with the barspin to undertaker to gerator: I went for the smith out on the first day, tried it for two hours and failed. The next morning, it happened within 15 minutes of starting to ride. And I’m sure this isn’t limited to me, but here’s the scenario I return to often: I start trying something, I get pretty close, then as I continue to try it, my attempts become worse and worse. Unfortunately, it’s always better for me to walk away and come back, even though that choice is something I never want to do. Because basically, it means that I sit around for an entire night agonizing over the scenario I’m going to re-create the next day in the garage… As Foreigner once said, “Head Games!”

(In case you don’t want to walk away, try this Andrew Huberman trick: Put the bike down, pick something in your line of sight that is far away from you, and focus on that for 10-30 seconds. It’s supposed to widen your focus, let your mind drift and accelerate learning. And I’ve actually seen some small benefit to it.)

Then I went for the double barspin and the barspin to gliding backyard, but I didn’t want to drive myself nuts going for the smith again, so I didn’t.

Then I fooled around with two tailwhip to backwards hitchhiker things, which are kinda no-brain, feel good tricks for me. (I don’t make the rules of when my brain decides to get involved.)

Then came the double tailwhip to undertaker. I was going for more of a traditional old school double tailwhip but veered into pinky squeak territory, then came back the next day to add in that silly cancan on the next one. If you have a front brake and are bored, try a stationary double tailwhip. It’s super hard!

Next up was a random rolling trick that involved a switch elbow glide dropped down to steamroller, pulled back up to hitch. Nothing to write home about but it felt good. And then I did a frame change….

Put together my old S&M Intrikat as a brakeless bike and did a steamroller to feel it out, then popped into invisible hand before throwing to hitch. Again, it felt nice so I’m sticking with it.

And here is where I bookend the month with a repeat of the beginning of the month. The no brakes double barspin to undertaker took three days to land, over 5 hours of attempts, in 102 degree temps. I was finally coming to the conclusion that it wasn’t going to happen, and then it actually happened. That was Saturday, July 30. It’s now the next day and I’m still exhausted and sore, but it’s on video and I never have to do it again. Again, as Foreigner once said, “Head Games!”

Song is from David Knudson’s first solo album. Buy it here.” – Brian Tunney

Brian Tunney June 2022 Clips

July 1, 2022

Another month has gone blazing by, and that means that it’s time for Brian Tunney to give us a look at what he got into during his garage flatland sessions over the course of June! As always, Brian delivers with a ton of real solid riding and a song selection from a band you probably haven’t heard of before, but will be stoked on! Hit play to check it all out!

“Quick rundown of June riding. And also, this is official notice that summer has reached Austin.

The undertaker to backwards wheelie to barspin undertaker: It took four days to land. I’ve seen Scott Powell and Rob Ridge pull out straight up double undertakers, no backwards wheelie. And I’ve tried to no avail. It can, probably happen, but for now, I remain an undertaker to short backwards wheelie to undertaker fool. Initially, I came really close to landing one of these on the first day of trying it, and then three more days had to pass before it just clicked. Brain got out of the way and everything just happened. I have other plans for this but because this took four days, I need a break.

The reverse cancan undertaker was a by-product of trying the reverse cancan undertaker to rope-a-roni. And that also took a while to get right. I swear, it just wasn’t my month for landing things in one session.

The two tailwhips to backwards hitchhiker were my way of saying, “okay, I need a few easy things to do that are fun and won’t break my will.” I’m kinda over looking at that Heresy frame but also too lazy to switch it out.

The half-hiker to invisible hand to g-turn to backwards hitchhiker happened after two hours of attempts on a 95 degree night. This, I will blame on the garage floor. There are some small bumps I’m still acclimating to. And even though I ground bars, I was too tired to redo it. So if you can’t find em, grind em.

The pull up to caboose thing is kinda difficult. It’s half brakeless lawnmower, half dump truck and not consistent. Combined with a pivot to upside down wheelie and then revert out the same side, I spent a good three hours trying to land this. And the final result is not hugely impressive.

The backwards elbow glide to undertaker was another trial: It took close to two hours to land. And I started trying it, thinking that it would be 15 minutes of attempts. Also, the camera adds a huge gut apparently. I will keep my shirt on from now on.

The last two smith decade clips are less than spectacular, but on 105 degree days, it’s just nice to ride for a few minutes.

The song is by ISIS, off the 2004 record “Panopticon.” You can (and should) buy it on bandcamp here!” – Brian Tunney



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