Hey everyone and welcome back to BMX news
This is a weekly BMX news show where I talk about
everything that happened in the previous week within the world of BMX that I think you guys might care about that being said we've got
A few highlights to talk about this week and a few things
I haven't really seen in other places to talk about. So the first thing here is the plastic bottom bracket
Here's a picture of it and I really wanted to talk about this to get everyone's thoughts on it because I'm not an engineer
I'm not a physicist and I don't make bike parts
So I have absolutely no idea if there's some sort of magical
plastic out there that can handle the force of
pushing down on the pedals with all of your weight in the force of landing also pushing down on the spindle putting a ton of
Force on the bearing that is between the spindle and the bottom bracket tube on the frame
so if
Anyone out there has some knowledge on this stuff
drop it in the comments because I am very curious and I feel like this is just not going to work the first time you
Land super hard or you jump something too flat. I feel like this is just going to break these definitely don't rotate
So it's going to break it just at the bottom point and if it doesn't
It's probably not going to last very long with a metal spindle spinning in it wearing away at the plastic
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it'll last forever and maybe it'll
Completely change the way that BMX bottom brackets work and that's where the clickbait title came from this week
And then after that we've got an update on the free night planetary free coaster
Which you guys might remember me talking about previously
This is the free coaster which uses the planetary clutch design
Which means and they say on their website that this thing feels like a cassette when pedaling forwards
But unlike every single other free coaster out there
This thing does not have to be disengaged in order to free coast
So this is going to be extremely exciting and the news here is that it's available outside of Israel now
So anyone can go and buy one of these and they're available on their website right now
And there's a link in the description to this hub on their website, which you can buy it left or right-hand-drive for
$240 and get it shipped to you right now
then after that the last highlight type thing that I wanted to talk about this week is
Women and the X Games. I don't want to go super into this
I just want to make sure that anyone who might be watching this that
Doesn't know what's going on has an opportunity to learn about it
so basically
here's the TLDR on this one Nina bar ago a woman BMX rider who has been in BMX for
literally ever made a post on Instagram asking if anyone else was disappointed that there is going to be women in the Olympics in
2020
Before they get a medal
event in X Games and then she went on to give a few quotes that I'm assuming are directly from X Games and these are
The quotes that have spread like wildfire through BMX that it's not X Games his job to grow their sport
Also that the women's BMX level is not where it needs to be and a whole bunch of other stuff
it's kind of just unsettling to read and feels like it's coming from someone who is
completely out of touch with
BMX and women's BMX and really the whole point of her post was to take a stand for change and oh my goodness
Did BMX have her back on this one?
It seems like every single woman BMX rider who has participated in the X Games women's BMX
Demos in the past has taken a stand and said they are not doing demos
Anymore and that they deserve a medal event and BMX in
General has had their back and it's been pretty awesome to see everyone come together
And I definitely wanted to make sure that I talked about this
I personally feel like the women absolutely deserve a medal event in X Games
Especially when you look at the history of all of the just stupid stupid stuff that X Games has tried in the past
I don't see why they wouldn't give women BMX a shot. At least. I mean they used to do air
Surfing do you even know what air surfing is I didn't until last night
So give the woman a shot and if you want more information on this check the link in the description below to Nina's
Instagram post and then surf Instagram to all of the different women BMX riders and you'll surely find their posts with more information
About it as well from there. We can move into some sponsorship news the first and only thing is cam kervins
Welcome to fit video and my goodness cam Gervin. You're a freaking psycho
I can remember a few years ago when you first started coming on to the scene with your insane
Barspin drops and now you're doing tailwhip drops down
Gigantic stair sets and because of all your hard work and absolutely sending it on your bike
You've got this welcome to fit video
Which is completely full of giant barspin
tailwhip 360 all kinds of crazy drops because if you haven't heard about cam Garvin yet everyone he is a
Sender and he is good at it. We had some highlights from contests and jams come out this week
The first is a highlights video from the butcher Jam 2019 after that
We had a quick video from our BMX highlighting Sean shim kits murki Jam, which was in his backyard trail setup
That looks absolutely amazing. By the way. It's a video filled with a bunch of feel-good trail riding
No music and then there's a few sections in there with Sean actually talking about his backyard and process that went into it
So if you guys are interested link is in the description below as well as links to
Everything else that I've talked about and I'm going to talk about in the order that I talk about it with that
I'm done mentioning the links, you know where to find them by now
after that
We have the highlights from the DIY BMX world's 2019 at whip snake followed by a video called streets of Brazil a mega
BMX Jam, this one is a half hour long
so for any of you who want a longer video to check out here's the first one of the week that you can check and
Then that brings us into the videos from this week
And first I want to talk about brain and vegans 20-19 video from fit. You haven't watched this video yet
Put it on your must watch list because it's at the top of my must watch list this week one
It's got a punk type song in it that went extremely well with the riding and two
The ender is what I think might be one of the first BMX tricks that we've seen on El Toro
Since it was redone and yes an update on El Toro is that there's no pillars
There's no flat in the middle or anything like that. It was all just rumors
they literally just
Rebuilt the stair set and put some grooves in the concrete at the top and the bottom which basically does nothing
When it comes to BMX tires and Brandon vegan did what I think is called an over crook ride
Downed it everything else in the video was amazing as well
So many super super technical grinds that I can't even begin to
Understand or explain to you guys and if you know is riding, I'm sure you do
You know what?
You're gonna see so check it out if you want to that's really the only video I want to talk in depth about this week
but as always there's a whole bunch more to talk about and for you to watch the first is welcome to Seattle from
SNM bikes it's a little bit longer
So if you need a longer video
This is one to check out then we've got Eastern bikes at camp Woodward
Followed by the secret to manuals with DeMarcus Paul from our BMX
This is a ten minute video to help you
Learn how to manual the last video I want to talk about is experience India with Joris Colombo
this is about a ten minute video of
George's experience in India and most of it was self filmed
So if you want to check that out I said I wasn't going to talk about it anymore
So I'm gonna move on to the products and the first product related thing that I want to talk about is more
Company related and focused than it is product focus
But it's a small business spotlight on kink BMX that a local news channel did on them and honestly, this is the best
mainstream news type thing focusing on BMX that I have ever
Seen the questions that the news reporter asked Zach Phillips
the owner of kink were honestly the best questions that he could have asked that gave the best and most descriptive answers they covered so
Much in three and a half minutes of video
They covered the riders the products the bikes and all of these different things the warehouse that they do
Everything in in the photo studio in it, and honestly
This is one of the only times that I feel like a real BMX rider could watch something that a mainstream
News source made about BMX and think yeah that represents us
That is a good representation of that company that we would want people to watch and be psyched on this was anime
Video and then after that we had a quick promo video for the release of the space braces new
Wrist brace that breezes into the interview section from this week
The first thing here is a new podcast from Bobbi connote called connote nose. And this one is with Ryan Chadwick
Haven't had a chance to watch or listen to this one yet, but Bobby knows BMX media
he knows what people want to see so I'm sure that it's worth the listen and then we had Nathan Williams on Dennis Anderson's
Unclipped podcast I did get a chance to listen to this one
But honestly, I can't remember anything from it other than a few times talking about his dog
I guess that's what I get for listening to this while I'm working on stuff either way
I know that this one's worth listening to because it's Nathan Williams
He's at the absolute top of BMX and there's never a time where I have regretted
Listening to a podcast with someone like him who is at the absolute top of their game in top of BMX right now
Let me know what you guys thought of anything that I talked about, especially the plastic bottom bracket
I'm really curious to hear people's thoughts on that as well as the new planetary free coaster and women and X Games
Curious to hear you guys thoughts. Thank you for watching subscribe if you're new, and we'll see you tomorrow for another video. Goodbye