What is architectural cycling? Also known as street riding..

James Meliota coming through with a fresh video giving you a greater understanding of what architectural cycling is! Although you probably have never heard of architectural cycling, you already know it as street riding. We’re not sure what inspired James to pursue this new name, but it makes it sound like some sort of legitimate road bike thing that would probably get the spandex riders in your life excited. Hit play for a look at James and crew exploring the streets of cities all over the world to give you some perspective. Amazing riding, some rad drone shoes and more!

“A look into the world of architectural cycling and the journey of searching local and international for new urban structures, tasty cuisine, viewpoints and other context from the trek. This is the introductory feature for the A.C. channel.

Shot on location: Mongkok, China. Hong Kong, China. Macau, China. San Jose, Costa Rica. Limon, Costa Rica. Jaco, Costa Rica. Punta Arenas, Costa Rica. Montreal, Canada. Quebec, Canada. Toronto, Canada. Parc de la Jacques Cartier, Canada. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Burlington, Vermont. Harts Location, New Hampshire. Bar Harbor, Maine. Bristol, Maine. Bucksport, Maine.

“Discovery is the Engine.”

Edited by James Meliota”

We’re always pumped when James Meliota sends through a new BMX video. The 4th Collection video in the past twelve months features a ton of riding of James cruising and jibbing around Maine and the East coast, along with a few guest clips from riders all around the world, for your viewing pleasure. This one also has some music produced by James in it, which goes really well with this video. If you’re into cassette tapes, you can grab yourself a free tape by hitting James up! Details below! Hit play and let this one suck you in!

“Primarily filmed across the state of Maine, but also featuring spots from the East Coast and as far down as Washington, D.C. A big number of these spots were found during the exploration (via 300,000 miles driven, 1999 Tahoe) of Maine’s many small but rich gem towns speckled across the state from Sanford, to Skowhegan, and up the coastline to Bar Harbor. Upon visiting some of these places you can identify how the town was envisioned from its inception by discovering the mills, villages, reservoirs, dams, and street layout within its purposely chosen location. When your rolling through the towns there is feeling like your in a place that many have forgotten about or looked over a long time ago. To me, this is one of the gifts that comes naturally with riding bmx and looking for new spots to ride. Every little nook and cranny becomes important to explore and all of the sudden you realize how much bigger your world becomes.
Filming: Primarily Collin Mazet with additional filming from Kyle Connolly, Illes Estes, Thearon Svay, Josiah Webber, Punlieu Tang, Jordan Murphy.
Equipment: Iphone 6 for almost all long lense and moving lines as well as a handful of Canon T3i + Opteka fisheye shots.
Movements: 90EAST and ACCENT
Friends section in order of appearance: Illes Estes, Llord Leopold (Croatia), Webster Jake, Kyle Connolly, Tim Packard, Josiah Webber (Taiwan), Allen Toun, Dombai Andras (Hungary), Sebastien Babineau (Canada), Thearon Svay, Lino Gonzalez, Umi Asano (Tokyo), Byron Dill, Aaron Zwaal (Netherlands), Justin Dickinson, Jeff B.
Self produced “Breakwater” track (3:48) and 4th Collection Mixtape: Please send an email to accentcollaboration@gmail.com for your free tape with featured tracks from the video as well as bonus beats on side B. I will be working on an LP to release a handful of music in the future to soundcloud, band camp, etc so stay tuned in and thanks for listening/watching.”

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It’s a well known fact that you can’t pass up some footage of James Meliota regardless if it’s not or old footage. Today, he dropped a new BMX video with footage from 2010 that was sitting in the archives just waiting to be seen. This is more jibs and some quick lines than anything else, but it’s a real good watch. Take a look!

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