Hey everyone, 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
I think you guys might care about that being said the first thing I want to talk about this week title and thumbnail of the
video and the clickbait of the week
this is something that I think a lot of people are gonna care about but only a few people are going to
actually care enough about to buy these are new titanium cranks that when you factor in the
Combination of weight and strength put together could be the lightest and strongest cranks ever made for freestyle BMX
these are new titanium cranks made by RNC BMX and the difference between these cranks and
Previous titanium cranks is that previous titanium cranks used tubing that was welded together
Just like most cranks that you see are these cranks are milled out from a solid piece of titanium
So there's no welds with them whatsoever
And there's actually a video up on their YouTube channel that I've got linked in the description below
That shows these cranks being put under a stress test and withstanding
1,750 pounds without even bending so with all of that being said
milled out solid titanium cranks
They're twenty point four ounces and I scoured the internet trying to find the weight on the other types of titanium cranks
Couldn't find anything
So I hit up my buddy who did have a set shout out to Bobby authorizer
And he said that his set was 14 ounces and they felt like you were riding on sheet metal
Sorry
If you don't want me to say that but with that being said for only six ounces more you can get a set of cranks
that withstood
1,750 pounds. There's no weight limit on the cranks whatsoever. I'm gonna read directly from the description on the site
Just so you guys can get a little bit more insight on the cranks
It says one of the lightest and strongest crank sets ever made
We went over that crank arms are machined from a solid bar of six al 4e titanium
No welds and heat treated to make them unbelievably strong and stiff
He treated titanium spindle is 35 percent stronger than a normal 6 al 4v
Titanium spindle flush mount bolts and sprocket bolt are titanium right and left hand drive
20 point 4 ounces arms spindle flush mount bolts and sprocket bolt
This is the 175 millimeters and 22 millimeter spindle
This is also a good place to bring up the weight difference between these and the cranks that we're used to seeing all the time
41:30 cranks that are welded and made of tubing most of the crank sets that I pulled up weighed between 28 and 33 ounces
so basically you're at about a half pound to 3/4 of a pound weight difference for a
Little over double the price. These cranks are 420 dollars
They're available at 160 165 170 175 and 180
If you want a custom sized you can contact them and they will make it for you
So it literally says under this is a part that thing's pretty cool
These cranks are made for whatever abuse you can throw at them
There is no weight limit on them and they don't flex due to the triangle design then below
That is the video that I already talked about. So, I'm really curious. What do you guys think about these cranks?
solid titanium cranks
I'm not sure if there have been solid BMX cranks with no welds whatsoever before the Primeau power bites come to mind
They don't look like they were welded at all. But I have no idea how they're made either way, though
These are solid titanium instead of chromoly
They're a little bit more expensive
But just the fact that these are made from a solid piece of metal makes me wonder how much more a chromoly version of them
might weigh or if there's any strength differences that you might get between chromoly and
titanium and if it even matters because of the fact that it's completely
one solid piece of metal
this is the kind of stuff that makes me wish I had the
Capabilities of some of those science channels on youtube so that I can just straight-up test it myself and bring you guys the results
But I can't do that
maybe someone else out there can and can bring us some results and let us know if this is the future because it's
Possible that it is. It's possible that this design is what we'll see moving forward
so potentially we can eliminate the welding that's done on cranks these days or at least have a
segment that maybe is like a little bit more expensive because I'm sure that it costs more to do this and have this segment above
welded tubing cranks
they maybe are stronger that people can go for if they want to but I'm kind of just rambling ideas off the top of my
Head at this point, maybe some of it makes sense. Maybe none of it makes sense
But either way, I do want to hear you guys's thoughts in the comments down below
I'm really curious to see how these perform and just what happens in the future because it's totally possible
That no weld cranks could become a thing and I'm sure that there's at least a few of you that know what you're talking about
And can chime in in the comments down below moving on from there
There's a whole bunch of videos that I wanted to talk about this week to hopefully keep you guys entertained with everything going on
I hope that you're staying sane and finding ways throughout your bike and your driveway your garage your basement your living room. Whatever
Sorry that I brought it up. I know that for some of you this is kind of an escape from everything
but either way
I just wanted to say I hope you guys are all staying safe and let's talk about the videos from this week
the first one that I want to talk about actually isn't out yet at the time of recording this but I know
That it's gonna be my favorite video of the week
and I know that it's about to come out any time that is Erick else trans pro part from our
BMX can't really say anything about it beyond what Eric posted on its Instagram yesterday is a little bit of a preview and from what?
You can see in that preview. It looks like it's gonna be really good and it's Eric gales trip
We all know that it's gonna be something that we all want to watch
I'm excited to see it and I'm really excited that I remember to talk about it even though it's not online yet
Now let's talk about videos that are actually out at the time of recording this one
I'm gonna start with a long one and it's one that you probably have already seen because it's got
60,000 views at the time we're recording this and it's a video from cult called knock them down 28 days in Arizona
This one is actually
34 minutes long. I've gotten a little bit over halfway into it. It's enough to let you guys know that is definitely
Worth watching if you haven't seen it yet and there's a really good
juxtaposition of styles and this one where it goes from like
street style to a
Different type of street style and we got chase Hawk thrown in there and there's just about everyone you can think of from the cult
Team in this one. I saw Jason Watts in there. Cory Walsh was in there chase Hawkes in there so far
We've got precedent Oh Kurtz in there Brandon begin. Dan Foley ancient Marino had a clip in there
So if you guys have some downtime
Which I think all of us do at this point and you want to watch a longer BMX video
This is the one to check out from there
Let's talk about something that I completely skipped over and it is the fact that the BMX bandits a full
Movie is online for you guys to watch. This is old news
Probably for some of you because it looks like it's been online for quite a while now
But the MX union posted it and made me aware of it with their post
So I'm talking about it for you guys if you want to watch the full BMX bandits movie its online for you to check out
And linked in the description down below. So then after that I've got a request for you guys
I don't normally just ask you to watch videos with this
interrupting me with this BMX news video
I normally just put it all out there and let you guys watch what you want to watch
But this time I want you two guys to watch this video and let me know what you think of it
genuinely
Because believe it or not
I can pretty much guarantee that
ninety five or a hundred percent of the clips in this video were posted on
Instagram before they were ever put into this video and they're all literally every single one of them is video where the clips that
Definitely don't need to go on Instagram
And if you're watching this right now gauge you already know I'm talking about you and I'm talking about the gauge sharp phone dump video
That he uploaded on his Vimeo page
You guys really got to check this out gauge might literally be the most underrated rider in Ohio and this video just proves it
So yeah
Check this one out leave your thoughts in the comments down below and I'll give you a little bit of a preview
Hang five towbar seven
Hang ten to varbin nose manual 180 bar spent to fakie off of a Ledge
three whip over a box jump Flair's bar in and out of ice pick grind and so much more and that's why I think you
Guys should check this one out
Next up is one that I wanted to talk about because I recognize this dude's name from an Instagram video
I saw a little while back where he did out of a quarter pipe and on a wall
He did 362 nose, press to 180 back in. I hope I pronounced your name, right?
It's Pat Rico Billy Coe and the video is called 23 for 23 and it's from colony
I knew that I wanted to talk about it
As soon as I saw his name and the fact that he's riding Clint Miller's ramps, and this video doesn't disappoint
Whatsoever and I'll just give you an example of how good this dude has to be number 19 in the video
He's doing a truck driver 2 foot sham
Whip back into a quarter and the guy in the background who looks like he's just sitting there
Drinking a beer whenever he lands the trick. The guy isn't even fazed
Whatsoever. He's directly watching him and he just keeps on drinking and the fact that that was so casual that he's just not even acknowledging
The fact that he landed it and just continuing to take a drink just shows how good this dude has to be it's pretty short
Just under a minute and a half long. And I think that you lipped trick guys out. There will definitely enjoy it after that
I wanted to talk about one to make sure that you guys were aware of what's going on in case you wanted to try and
Get involved in enter for your chance to win
if you didn't know source BMX is doing a video contest for an
All-expenses-paid trip to the Battle of Hastings and to be on the wire card team
This video that I'm talking about is the first submission in that contest
It's from Evans medley edited by Darrell taco and it says that this is the first one
How is this the first one in this guy's get on it film a street video part
submitted to source BMX where the Battle of Hastings
judges for 2020 are going to judge these videos and pick a winner and
Somebody is gonna get an all-expense-paid trip to the Battle of Hastings and get to be on the wild-card team. That is awesome
And it's an awesome opportunity for anyone to enter
So with that if you guys didn't know about this and you're working on a street part
You're probably a little bit more motivated to get on it and get it done
So you can enter this contest when you were gonna finish your video and put it out anyways
So why not after that is a whole bunch of videos that I thought were worth mentioning
But I didn't want to talk super in-depth about the first is a behind-the-scenes video on the SMM winds video that we talked about in
a previous news video then they also
Uploaded the entire hot dogs who can't read DVD that came out a couple years ago
And then after that I wanted to put some shine time on a video that came out from someone local here
He used to make videos on youtubes named Matt Poteet
His channel is matt protein films and he's been working on this full-length video called never grow old for years now
And it's just now recently been released on youtube and i'm super psyched to see that it came out and I wanted to make sure
that I highlighted it for anyone local who watches these and didn't know that it was out and anyone might be interested in general or
wanting to watch a longer video
This one's over 22 minutes long
And I just wanted to make sure that I talked about it then we've got a couple different how to's that I wanted to throw
In here the first one in case you guys missed it
I uploaded a video on how to build a three foot Street spine this past Tuesday if you guys are bored stuck at home you
Have some extra wood laying around or a little bit of money that you want to put into a ramp and you like streets Pines
Check out the video and learn how to build a three foot streets buying or if you just want to build a ramp in general
You can use that video as the instructions for building a ramp and just apply your own
Dimensions and geometry for the ramp that you want to build then we've got a video
Alex hime about how to splatter paint a BMX bike
I don't know if it was completely obvious or not how to do this
But Alex gives you his input
if you guys want to
Learn how to do it and that brings us to the product section from this weak product because there's only one other thing to talk
About beyond the titanium cranks that I talked about earlier
This is a video from fit talking about their new mixtape frame and it's actually a really good overview of this frame
it talks about the reasoning behind the choices that they made and the changes that they made they talked about a new head - a
new material for the downtube
Dropouts and all of these different aspects of this frame and the reasoning behind them and it's really insightful and I think it's really good
for people to see things like this and just be
informed and know why the bike that they're buying is
Made the way that it is and know why it helps them and how it can help them if they get it another really cool
Aspect of this frame is that there's two different?
Options for rear-end lengths and there's also a few different colorways for it and with the different colorways, Matt
Nordstrom and Justin Street both hand sign these stickers that come on their specific colorway
so every single mixtape frame that you buy in these two different colorways has the
Actual personal signature of the person whose colorway it is and I think that's really awesome
and it's a great personal touch and I just love the direction that fit is going with this one very
Professional and it's just really cool to see something so insightful and professional within the BMX world that we live in right now
Oh, and I totally lied about there only being one other product thing to talk about
There is also a weave the people Dan crook Network frame promo video that came out this week
I'm gonna leave it because I don't feel like recording that again now, let's talk about some sponsor news
There's one thing to talk about here and actually only one thing this week and that is that mattias
Dan, hua is now riding for Levi's. So it looks like Levi's is getting back into BMX again
maybe we'll even see Morgan Wade get back on Levi's but either way they'll let's talk about some interview stuff from this week the first
thing I want to talk about in the interview section is a video with Mickey Fleck and it's called perception and it's from
United and this is a video
Purely just to get to know Mickey fleck as a rider and I love the fact that this exists
I don't know if these guys are watching me talk about the fact that we need more stuff
Just teaching people about the personalities of riders and getting people to know them more than just for their riding
But I love the fact that more stuff like this keeps popping up and I'm gonna keep talking about it and keep praised
Until there's stuff like this everywhere and every single kid has a way to get to know their favorite writer
Beyond just seeing video parts of them riding after that
We've got a video bike check with Matt ray and then we've got another P's and Q's interview over on our BMX this time
It's called setting sail with Erik Holliday
Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but the past few have been good
So I know that this one's not gonna be any different next up
We've got something that we wouldn't actually
normally be able to talk about after the fact because Instagram live videos go away after a certain period of time but this time
Kyle Carlson over at vital BMX took the live. I'm assuming he did a screen-recording
He split it into two different
sections put them apart and made it into an interview and made it live on after the Instagram live was done on YouTube and this
Is with Kevin Peraza, and it's just a conversation
With him, and I'll read the description to give you guys a synopsis of the things that they talked about
So we've got dealing with being quarantined moving to San Diego staying positive Olympic plans his upcoming signature frame from Mongoose
Which I didn't know about and much more. So for all you kevin Peraza fans out there
Well, if you're Kevin browser fans, you might have already seen it
but if you haven't a link is in the description down below and then we've got an interview from vital BMX with Chris Doyle this
is a written interview and it says that they caught up with Chris to see how
Retirement was treating him and to get some insight on what he has going on now both in BMX and outside of BMX
I haven't had a chance to read through this one yet
So I'm gonna read it real quick and I'll get back to you with how it is
Just as I suspected anything with oil is a good read and this is absolutely no exception
So there's links to everything that I've talked about today in the order that I've talked about it in the description down below
Let me know what you guys think of the titanium cranks and if you think that a solid
milled out piece of metal for cranks is going to be something that people try moving forward or if you think that it's gonna be
Absolutely way too heavy for chromoly to do that. I'm curious to hear what you guys think
Can you even get chromoly in a solid piece of metal?
I don't even know but let me know you guys think in the comments down below
Thank you for watching subscribe if you're new here or you haven't yet? So hopefully we can see you tomorrow for another video. Goodbye