hey everyone and welcome back to BMX news this is a weekly BMX news show
where I talk about everything to happen in the previous week within the world of
BMX that I think you guys might care about that being said we've got an
update on the game-changing BMX pegs that I talked about almost exactly a
year ago I talked about this on the news video that came out February 15th of
last year it's February 28th today and we've got the next kind of bit of
information about this peg not really it's just a couple pictures but what you
can see in the first picture what you're seeing right now is that there's
something that is in the peg so in the other pictures we've seen it looks like
a 3/8 ratchet driver at the end of this piece in the peg well now in this
picture we can see that it's actually some kind of piece that looks like it
screws into the peg I have no idea they're being super mysterious about
this and I would too because they're literally claiming that this is the next
evolution in BMX grinding technology so it's understandable that they're being
very deliberate with the information and pictures that they're putting out there
from the pictures it kind of looks like it might be a different type of plastic
just because it looks kind of smooth and a little bit different than the plastic
that we've seen in other pegs and pegs sleeves what we've seen previously looks
more like a matte finish than this and I think that has something to do with the
type of plastic that it's being made out of and I feel like in a couple of these
pictures that we've seen you can almost like see through this plastic and I
can't recall anything that I've seen that's a translucent plastic peg which
leads me to believe that it's a different type of plastic because the
difference between a matte finish and the material that we've seen previously
and a smooth glossy looking finish that's translucent definitely appears to
be something but once again let's reignite this conversation do we think
it's a screw-on peg and we think it's some sort of screw in insert do we think
it's just a normal peg that rolls on bearings anything like that I'm curious
to hear what you guys think I'm showing all of the pictures that we've ever seen
about this peg on the screen so if you guys have any thoughts let me know in
the comments down below this was just in an Instagram post and they literally
didn't put any information about it in the post it's just the pictures and it
literally just says the next true evolution in pegs the plasmatic peg is
being put through heavy team rider and manufacturer testing this is
the next step in PEG tech more info soon so hopefully we get that information
soon and hopefully it actually lives up to this next generation impact
technology statement and my final thoughts on this after these new
pictures have come out is that maybe it is a different type of plastic and maybe
it goes on there just like any other peg but because it's a different type of
plastic it needs a different type of support and maybe it's just a solid
plastic peg but they need that piece in the end of it for strength and what
we're looking at is really just no different than any other peg out there
other than the fact that it's the material that it's made of and I'm
assuming that no matter what it is they wouldn't be claiming what they have if
it wasn't something completely different and completely game-changing in their
eyes and somehow I got all of that and jumped to all of those conclusions just
from two new pictures being released but after that I want to talk about Rob
bridges new video called strong-arm tactics if you don't know who Rob ridges
you need to watch this video you owe it to yourself to watch it because Rob
Ridge I'm making the claim right now saying it is without a doubt the best
technical lift trick rider that has ever lived this guy does stuff just in this
video alone not to mention all of his past videos that people only dream of
doing and he makes it look literally easy every single thing he does in this
video it doesn't look like he struggles whatsoever it looks fluid and easy and
it's like he just went out riding and happened to do this I really don't have
much else to say about it because Rob Ridge is literally on a league of his
own when it comes to lip tricks and the riding that he does and one thing that I
will say before we move on is that if plans don't change Monday at 1:00 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time I'm going to be doing one of my live streams with Rob
Ridge talking to him about BMX and anything else that comes to our minds so
tune into that on Monday if you want to after that we've got one from vital BMX
which is a written interview with Rob Darden about BMX in the coronavirus over
in China because Rob is over in China basically it's a bunch of questions for
Rob about his current situation over in Shenzhen and China right now because
that's where he's staying as the Chinese Olympic team coach to
some of the important points Rob in the team are staying in three different
apartments no.1 Rob knows contracted the coronavirus he feels safe
everyone's okay they just haven't ridden in over a month
and going a little bit stir-crazy there's some more information in here he
asks about the feast contests that are coming up they've understandably
cancelled an upcoming feast event that was supposed to be in China but they
haven't cancelled or postponed the Japan feast event yet and he doesn't know if
they will they kind of talked about that but if you guys want more information
you want to read this interview there's a link in the description below as well
as links to everything that I've already talked about and will talk about in the
order that I talked about it and moving on from there we've got one piece of
sponsorship news to talk about this week and that is a bike check from colony for
their new AM recruit Jay lakeman I'd never heard of this guy before this
never seen anything from him but what I can gather from his bike
check is that he rides four plastic pegs and doesn't have brakes so I'm assuming
he's some sort of street rider and we'll probably be seeing more from him very
soon you guys have heard of him or seen his riding before let me know in the
comments down below what you think of it after that we've got some contests and
jam stuff to talk about the first thing is a Florida swamp fest 2020 trailer
that's up on the Florida YouTube channel and then after that we've got some
highlights from the Monster Energy street-style contest which I think also
doubles as the stop of the Toyota triple challenge at least I think from what I
remember last year that's the way that it worked but they don't brand it that
way I don't know it's kind of confusing but we've got some stuff to talk about
with it so I want to start off by saying that
the two videos that we have for this event for you guys to watch are one the
qualifying highlights and to the finals highlights
I put the qualifying in there because there's a lot of different people who
didn't make the finals you guys might want to see then there's the finals
highlights as well the finals highlights is 31 minutes long and I want to thank
our BMX for milking the content on this one
because that gives us an opportunity to see every single person in the finals
full runs and with this contest they had three runs and those runs were judged
based on overall impressions throughout all of those runs so each person got a
long time to ride it kind of made this a consistency contest that's why you saw
the people at the top that you did but what I loved so much about this is that
even the winner Matt Ray had some mess ups in his runs and put his feet down a
couple times but he's still won he was still probably the most consist
person I'm gonna be honest I didn't watch the entire 30 minutes of this but
I did watch most of the top five places and it felt very fair and everyone
without a doubt had their opportunity to prove that they deserved the win and I
think that they got it right and the concept of this contest if you guys
haven't heard of it or seen it or heard me talk about it last year is that they
literally just throw a whole bunch of ramps in a parking lot with shipping
containers quarter pipes wedges they had some flatbed trailers in their wall
rides and just so much different stuff for everyone to use so it makes it a
contest where you can have people like Matt ray get first Larry Edgar gets
second Eli Kravitz get third Alex LeBrock get fifth I can't remember the
guy who got fourth but I do remember that he was blasting huge T blog airs
over the channel gap and doing a lot of other park stuff but at the same time he
was doing stuff too flat so in all honesty and in my personal opinion I
think that this is 1,000% the best contest for BMX and there needs to be
more of it because it gives everyone the opportunity to be on the same playing
field using the exact same course but how they use it and how well they ride
it is what earns them a spot on the podium and in watching Matt ray and
Larry Edgar's riding they're both mixing Park and Street elements in here and I
think that that can only be a good thing because it forces all the people who
compete in this contest to ride everything you can't really get from one
side of the course to the other without turning around on the wall ride on one
side or the quarter pipe channel gap set up on the other so I know I've rambled
on about this for a while now and you're probably like Jesus get on it here but
this is just a great thing for BMX and if you guys watch this highlights video
you're gonna understand why and if you're gonna be skipping over this one
understandably because it's over 30 minutes long at least watch the last
like 10 minutes of it or check our BMX is YouTube channel and a couple days for
the inevitable podium finishers highlights video that's going to be
coming from this contest after that we've got another Finals highlights
video from a contest that I'm not even gonna try to pronounce the name of this
happened in Brazil and these dirt jumps look absolutely massive so if you guys
want to check out a dirt jumping contest instead of the one I just talked about
that one's in the description below and then last we had a highlights video from
the ink yet jam that went down at Four Seasons
skate park this past weekend this one was filmed by Midwest BMX
legend himself Dave Freimuth so if you guys want to check that one out there's
some tech riding there's some bull riding Jamie sprite sirs in there riding
pretty awesome and then we had something that I don't really have a category for
so I figured I would just toss it in right now and that is Brock Rayford
versus Mardi Gras from Red Bull and this is exactly what it sounds like
Brock Rayford versus Mardi Gras he's riding on setups that are in the
warehouse I think where they hold the Mardi Gras floats in the last picture in
this is a gnarly one it's brought great for doing a pegs to hard 360 down a
giant gap off the top of one of these floats and all I can hope from this is
that a video is coming because Red Bull does it big and there's no way that they
build all these ramps and all these setups in this place with all of these
floats to not make a video of it and that brings us into the videos from this
week the first one I want to talk about is Felix pranking burg first a Clive
video since being added to the team this one is called the first cut and if you
guys know Felix prank number you know what this video has in it the most
technical street riding that you've ever seen in your life done by one of the
most dialed technical street riders that you've ever seen in your life so you
guys can check that one out if you want to it's mostly that technical street
riding stuff at the beginning or he's doing all the crazy grinds and spins and
bar spins into grinds and out of grinds and all that stuff then the last few
clips and this one are pretty burly but after that we've got Brett Silva's on a
tear video from Sunday that just came out and I thoroughly enjoyed that video
mostly because of the fact that Brett Silva has so much emotion after he lands
his tricks he's got the biggest smile on his face super hyped up and pumped and
it's just really enjoyable to watch someone be that excited about the riding
and he's probably got something to do with the fact that every single clip and
trick in this video is something burly huge in insane and I'd be smiling like
that too if I rolled away from those especially after some of the crashes
that he had and there was one in there that I did not think we were gonna see
the landed version of because he gets up for a minute he starts like trying to
run away but he's limping cuz it can't and then there was another one which was
the first clip where he's trying this 540 and just completely eats it after
his tire explodes he comes back and pulls that for the first landed trick in
the video just I think that's the best video of
this week especially just because of the fact that it all comes together with the
hype the excitement showing his personality the song went to it and one
thing I do want to add here is that I think we're finally out of the trap
music phase of BMX every single video that I have to talk about this week
doesn't have trap music in it I'm very excited with that realization but after
that we've got two other videos that I didn't want to talk in depth about what
I thought were worth mentioning just kidding we only have one other one we've
kept Boyd Hill ders a turn up Aeterna something turn a section from Lux BMX
this came out before Boyd blew up in the BMX world so take a look at that one if
you want to after that we've got a couple product related things to talk
about the first one is a new colorway from cinema called the iceberg blue
colorway and this is coming on let me go through the list here real quick cuz
there's a lot the cinema FX - free coaster the VX 3 cassette the FX - front
hub the ck pedals the beta guard sprocket the lift kit headset the rewind
sprocket the real sprocket the rock sprocket the stealth sea post and the
Martinez stem so I think this colorway looks sick in cinema has really made an
upturn since blackout BMX bought them so check those out if you guys want to and
then the last product thing to talk about this week is some shoe related
stuff that doesn't have to do with vans this is something we haven't had in
quite a long time it's a chase Hawk has a colorway of the etnies score shoe you
guys can get right now that brings us into the interview section from this
week the first thing is a video from GQ Japan called the story of rim Nakamura
and then after that we've got words with Travis Hughes over on our BMX comm which
I looked at I don't have time to read it all but it is a very extensive interview
with a ton of questions in there from Jeff Z - Travis Hughes then after that
we've got another write-up this time it's from vital BMX kyle carlson is
interviewing Daniel Dhers about the Olympic redesigned to the Daniel Dhers
action sports complex I'm not gonna lie I'm pretty pumped that I remembered what
DD ASC stands for on the first try especially considering the fact that
just saying that just now took me like four tries to say after that we've got
the head angle podcast this time with Brandon loop hoes so there's a lot of
interviews stuff from this week view product really
some videos some sponsor news and some contests and jam stuff I'm really
curious to hear what you guys think about this plasmatic peg that's coming
out from shadow at some point we have no idea anything about this thing let me
know your thoughts on that and if you enjoyed this video and you're new here
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