Hey everyone and welcome back to BMX news
This is a weekly BMX news show where I talk about everything happened in the previous week within the world - BMX that I think
You guys might care about and that being said we all know that the world is kind of crazy right now things in the US
Are particularly crazy with all the protests and everything going on with that and normally with this BMX news show
I try not to get political but
something happened and came to light in the previous week that I feel like I have to talk about and I feel like I need
To approach it in a thoughtful way so that I say it in the best way possible
And with that I'm just gonna start at the beginning
Shawn Moore you guys might remember him from a couple years ago in BMX when he was a pretty huge name he posted on his
Instagram page about a story from
2012 where he was on a Madeira trip, and they were riding this spot and
Someone came out of their apartment and kicked them out of the spot or yelled at them to leave
so that they did and then on their way out the team manager for Madeira yelled out the window a
Racial slur at this person and up until now at least as far as I'm aware
Shawn hasn't talked about this publicly, but he talked about how it affected him and how not too long after this happened
He was let go from the Madeira team
Even though he felt at the time he was working much much harder than everyone else on the team and that he was more active
In videos and magazines. So now we're here in 2020 where he posts this at a pretty appropriate time
So several days go by and there was just nothing
Nacelles on this post mike Hinkins himself the team manager for Madeira and the person who allegedly did this
Commented on it and then he posted a video response which was him clearly reading a script as an apology
So that was not very well received all the while a lot of mainstream. BMX was on Shaun Moore's post in support of him
So what came next was?
Silence again for a couple days maybe a day or two and then last night almost all of the Madeira team
quit Madeira every single person except for Dylan McCauley
So that list is as follows Erik Elstree and Dan crook Jake Seeley Grant Castle uzo, Taylor Thompson, Jeff Gallen
Mike Stoll
Isaiah Johnson and
Jesse Romano all posted on Instagram last night within the same several our
Period that they would no longer be riding for Madeira
The only person who didn't was Dylan McCully who posted an Instagram story saying what you're seeing on the screen right now
He just basically didn't agree with it and that he's not leaving Madeira and according to the posting times on Instagram
I believe Jake Sealy was the first person to post this and then an hour later
like I said
according to the posting times on Instagram because all we get is something at the bottom of the post under the comments that says this
Many hours ago this was posted
So according to that timing an hour after Jake Sealy left the team
Madeira posted publicly on their Instagram that Mike Incans was no longer the team manager that they condemned everything they did and racism and all
Those things that are currently at the forefront of attention here in the US
So where does that put us?
Everyone except for Dylan McCauley is off of Madeira. Mike Hinkins is fired from Madeira
And with this there are a lot of people online calling for a profile to make a statement or just do something about this in
General because profile of Madeira our sister company's profile owns
Madeira and I feel like a big reason that so many people are so mad about this is because it's taken days for anyone to
Say anything about this or anyone to do anything about this
This should have been handled the day that it came out. But here is what the problem is with the BMX industry
I feel like this is exactly what happened and I could be completely wrong with this
but this is the general feel that I get from BMX because
Everyone in BMX is so scared to jeopardize their position in BMX that they are so scared to speak up about anything
that's why situations like this don't come out until eight years later because people like Shawn are scared to lose their
$500 a month paycheck for speaking out against something that the person who's in charge of his paychecks actually did himself
This is everywhere in BMX
This is why BMX doesn't get police for people and attitudes and mindsets the way that it does for tricks
people don't check people on the terrible things that they do and say
Because they're scared to lose their position in BMX
And I really hope that this whole situation and how it's been handled shows that you cannot do that
Everyone left the Madeira team last night and while it's impossible to say whether or not everyone left me
Of what Mike Hinkins did or because of the fact that he was fired
We can look at what these riders have said even
Dylan who's staying on Madeira and look at what he said and I feel like it kind of points in the direction that everyone left
Because of the fact that Mike Incans did this this was something that should have been handled back in
2012 when it happened and Shawn Moore should not have had to feel like he could not speak up about this one because he was
the only person of color
Involved in this situation and to because he's afraid that he was gonna lose his paycheck, which he ended up losing
anyways
Even though he felt like he was one of the most hard-working people on the team at the time
There is a general
accountability problem in
BMX and people make jokes and memes and have terrible mindsets and attitudes about things and no one ever gets checked on it because they're
Too scared to get blacklisted and kicked out of BMX
well
I'm here to say that you're $500 a month paycheck isn't worth letting
Things happen in BMX and letting these people who don't deserve to be in their positions be in their positions
everyone can think of someone off the top of their head right now who should not be where they are because of their
mindset their work ethic or things that they have done and that is rampant in BMX and it's terrible that things like this have to
Come out eight years later and it takes the entire us up roaring in protest for it to come out
And so while I normally try to keep the politics out of these things
this is
Something that could not be ignored and had to be talked about and while I'd really don't want to admit that I have some sort
Of platform with this. There's no hiding the fact that there is a
platform with this BMX news in this channel in general and I wanted to use it in a positive way with this message and I
Really really hope that it can change at least some mindsets out there at least get you guys to think about things
thinking about things is what is most important right now in considering your actions and thoughts and
Considering how you're going to change them or how you're going to act moving forward when things like this happen
In your around so with all of that being said, where are we at with this?
Well, Madeira basically doesn't have a BMX team anymore
They've got one rider and no team manager and the question has come up
Do we cancel Mike Hinkins in BMX? Do we kick him out of BMX?
And and I feel like the answer to that question
Lies in Mike Incans himself because people can change people do change. It's been eight years
It is entirely possible that Mike Incans is a completely not
Impossible Mike Incans is most likely a completely different person than he was eight years ago
Whether that's good or bad and we should judge him based on his character today
And I don't know whether or not we should cancel him entirely from BMX or something that happened eight years ago
Whenever he could be a completely different person today, and that's something that I feel like we should consider
But we should also consider the fact that some people might have known about this or known about these
Tendencies because we don't know it's possible that he's still the same person
And people have just been hiding it or making excuses for it or just covering it up in general and if that's the case
we should be canceling everyone who's doing this in hiding it in keeping someone like that in their position because it's just
Wrong, there is a huge difference between these two things someone who has done something in the past that they realized was terrible
They realized their bad tendencies
They've worked on them changed them and made themselves a better person and realize it was wrong and apologize
For it and tries to make it right
That is the redeemable part of this and this is what I would say would be one way that we shouldn't cancel someone like this
Because we have all made huge mistakes in the past and done things that we hugely
Regret and we don't want to be judged for things that happened eight years ago and keep completely out of what we love so much
For something even though we worked hard to change it and become better based on it
But the other side of that coin is what I just talked about and if he's still the same person with the same
Tendencies and does these things and he just hides it or people hide it for him?
Then that's the case where we should cancel someone for doing something like this because they're still the same person
They don't deserve to be where they're at
And that is how I try to approach things from both sides and I hope that I approach this in a thoughtful
Enough way to make you think about both sides so we can evaluate how to move forward with this
situation and how we can prevent situations like this from coming up again in the future and my final five on this is the
We cannot control everyone who rides BMX and make sure these happens but who we can control is ourselves
that means you
Watching this video and listening
Can control these things and not stay silent when you see something like this happen and with that I want that to be the main
focus of this week's BMX news video
But there are a lot of good things that happen this week
a lot of great videos that came out so I do want to talk about those videos and give you guys something to watch and
They all are listed in the description down below
I'm just not going to go super in-depth about anything today because like I said
I wanted that first part to be the main
Focus and with that the first thing I have to talk about Brad Sims did have his welcome to fit video come out last week
Right after the BMX news video and I missed talking about it then but he also had a comment on maderas post letting everyone know
That mike Incans was fired. That is so well thought out and well spoken and well stated that everyone needs to read it
So it's on the screen right now, you can pause it and read it if you want more time
You can go to the post itself and find it and read it
I think
everyone should
And everyone should check out his welcome to fit video because we all know Brad Sims is a beast and he's gonna be doing big
Things with fit then after that
We've got a few different contests and jam things to talk about
The first is that powers bike shop is doing a game of bike
Championship and they're doing this in a pretty cool way with eight riders from the East Coast a few of them are pretty recognizable
names Dan Conway Ryan Googlers
even on here and
Declan Murray just to name a couple of them and they're gonna have 11 games of bike total and each week
they're gonna upload another game of bike video from a randomly selected skate park along the east coast until
It's over and this is pretty cool
and it's sponsored by We the People a claw and radio and even cooler than this is that everyone can get involved with it because
They're gonna have March Madness style brackets online for people to fill out and get involved in where the winner gets a hundred fifty dollar
gift card to We the People Radio bikes in a claw
It's pretty awesome to get everyone involved as well as involve all these riders in places along the East Coast
Really awesome concept and I'm psyched to see the videos as they come out and then we had so many valve Hastings video
qualifiers that came out this week that I'm just gonna list through them real quick gate sharp, Jack Folger you mean
Mashimo, Chris Halas. Dylan, Ashlock, billy. Kennedy in rio doe me ie I hope I said that right
I'm sorry
if I didn't but this is pretty cool to see that there's actually some
Competition now because there were so few videos before this that there really wasn't that much competition
I'm excited to see who wins and I kinda hope that it's gage sharp now because he's local to me and it would just be
Awesome to see someone that I know win this and go to the Battle of Hastings
and then we had a bunch of different videos come out this week that are worth talking about the first one is an
amazing video from Ryan Nyquist called
4041 then we've got a street video from Ethan Corriere called sleeper and that comes from fit
obviously then we've got a Madeira video which is
Probably the last full Madeira team video that's gonna come out for quite a while now depending upon what happens but the team is in
Sacramento, so if you guys want to check out their last trip together
You can watch that one. Then. We've got a van Holman section from the family video in
2005 a lot of you gonna be psyched if you're even still here watching this and you're not watching it already
Then another one that's gonna get you psyched is Edwin and Tom white section from the FitLife DVD that came out in 2007
So you're probably watching that one now. I don't even know who I'm talking to anymore
And then we had a longer video come out from BSD called
Recording. This one's got an all-star lineup in it with Alex. Donna Keyes, Sam Jones
The Liam Xing Berg's guy screwy David Grant Noah huntzinger and crisp Kyle. It's a lot of good names
You're probably gonna want to check it out and it's just over 15 minutes long
So if you want a longer video this one's for you
And then we had X Games put out a pretty cool video of the best of Scottie Cramer
So that's it for the videos this week. We do have some product related things to talk about
There was a quick one-minute promo video from S&M with Mike Stahl promoting his Green Goblin colorway of the Holy Diver frame
Then we had another S&M video
This is a Hallahan bros bike check because if you guys didn't know the Hallahan bros are now riding for S&M
They all got new bikes and this video is their bike checks
And then after that we've got several different interviews to talk about
The first one is with Ryan Mills from five-o BMX, and it's called four years sober
this one asks a few related questions to the
Title at the beginning some riding stuff some quarantine stuffs and future plans stuff
And then after that there's another vital BMX interview this time with Nick Bruce
Talking about the contest that didn't count that we talked about in last week's video
but they go in-depth with it a little bit more talking about his
Feelings and just some more information about it in general that ones
honestly a bummer for me to hear one because Nick Bruce is an Ohio guy and two because I literally cannot imagine how bummed and
What I would feel like if I was in the position that he was in and then in the position that he's in now
He literally caught the us up to first place in points
So they would have two people qualified for the Olympics and he was one of them and then he was just told that that contest
Didn't count and now he's got to compete in another
Contest to try to do the same thing again to be put into the same position
And I just can't imagine that so if you guys want to check out this interview
It is linked in the description below and then we had a pro Q&A from our BMX with Austin Augie
This was over 17 minutes of questions and answers and I honestly really enjoyed this one
Austin seems like he's got his head on his shoulders and he hasn't been affected by all of the
Insane amounts of hate that have spewed his way in the past from the general BMX population
It's pretty good to see and there's so much good stuff in here that I would recommend anyone to listen to it
honestly
and with that
I'm sure you guys are gonna leave your thoughts in the comments down below on the madeira
situation that I talked about first in this video if you do
Try to be thoughtful about it because if you don't and you can't have constructive conversation, and you just want to spew hate
I'm not gonna delete your comments. I'm just gonna let you sit there and look bad
so with that said if you guys haven't yet hit the subscribe button down below and
Hopefully that'll mean we'll see you next time for another video. Thanks for watching. Goodbye