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Hey everyone and welcome back to vm x news
This is a weekly
BMX news show where I talk about everything that happen in the previous week within the world of BMX that I think you guys might
Care about with that being said last week's video did absolutely amazing. And I think it might have had something to do with
Calling you guys out or at least 80% of you out who leave the video before it's over
So let's try it again. If you're part of the 20% that makes it to the end of the video
Let me know in the comments down below
And with that being said, let's start talking about the news
The first thing here is that ride BMX is back kind of it's not actually ride BMX
it's the guys who ran ride BMX got Jeff Z and Ryan Fletcher who are working towards something called our
BMX which you can see on the screen right here
They've got an Instagram page the website is up, but there's no content on it yet. Just an email link
So at this point it's kind of just hope for the future because there's really not that much content out there from these guys
other than a few posts on Instagram
so I guess all we can really do is hope that things progress from here and I guess I should mention that I'm doing the
Same thing I did last week in talking about the few stories that I think are the biggest
So that the 80% of you who are going to check out of this video early
Get what I think might be important to you
So I'm recording this way later on in the video
but this needs to be one of the first things that I talked about and this is the
2019 Toyota triple challenge highlights this video
Absolutely is BMX and I feel like this is where contests need to go in the future
They literally just took a bunch of different Street and park
ramps
The room in a parking lot and then let all of these pros loose on the course and I mean if you think about it
This is how contests back in the day used to be
I feel like this is where BMX contests need to move towards in the future where it's just people
Freestyling it with what they have kinda similar to like swamp fest where they have all these crazy
DIY ramps which Trey Jones builds swamp fest and Trey Jones built the course for this
but it's kind of along the same lines where it's just people
Freestyling it with what you give them rather than making this rail ledge rail
ledge rail course or just box jumps
It's everything all together and letting people just unleash whatever they feel like doing and I think that's why
Garrett Reynolds one because Garrett is an amazing all-around rider
then you have drew boos Anson in Matt ray both on the podium for the same contest and you've got three of these riders with
distinctly different
styles
Riding in one contest on the same podium and you got Dan Lacey on the best-trick podium
I think it is and Mike Grey on a best line podium
This contest is a perfect representation of how BMX contests can be made great again
2020 BMX contests make them great again 2019 screw wait until 2020 do it right now because this contest was
amazing
It's evident by the video and it's evident by everyone having a blast and I'm pretty sure that it wasn't like closed
Invitation-only either make more contests like this or make more
Backyard, Jam style contests like this one count for more within the world of BMX
but also this is why freestyle is so awesome because
They can ride in this contest and then they can go and write in fiefs and UCI
Contests and it's all just based on what you want to do and the fact that all of it exists right now
we think BMX is
Awesome, so I definitely had to talk about this a little bit earlier in the video and I feel like it's one of those things
That this is what BMX is all about
And with that the next thing I want to talk about is the atom 22 interview over on to come ups YouTube page
there's a whole lot of stuff in here that you're probably not going to care about so I'm gonna give you the
timestamps for what I think is important to listen to because
Adam has a perspective on BMX that a lot of people can't have because they didn't run a
BMX media site at 30 minutes in he talks about
BMX media and a lot of the stuff that's going on and kind of where things are and then at
49 minutes 30 seconds in they start talking about what the future of
BMX media kind of needs and
maybe some things that could help things along and there's some really good information in there and some stuff that I think people could at
Least consider I know a lot of people have opinions about Adam 22
but those opinions don't make some of the things that he says less factual or
Relevant to what's going on in BMX, right?
Now then after that we had something that is a big deal and it also doesn't really fit into any of the other categories
And that is the go-fast pull up
Jimmie levan story flyer for the world premiere that is going down at swamp fest
Chris ray of props along with the help of jared glasgow have been working hard on this
Jimmy, levan documentary for years now, literally
So it's awesome that it's finally done and going to be premiered at the time of swamp fest
And I've got to read the address off of the page here because it's not actually happening at swamp fest
It's going down, March 29th
Which is a Friday at the Mount Dora community building
Which is 510 North Baker Street in Mount Dora, Florida, March 29th
The Mount Dora community building it's going down
Make sure if you're in the area you check it out because it's definitely going to be worth it to see all of these guys
hard work and
Learn about Jimmie levan and all of the craziness that has been his life
And before we get into the rest of the news for this week
Let me know what you guys think of the new format talking about what I think are the biggest
things to talk about at the very beginning of the video and
Stick around because there's a lot more good stuff to talk about and that brings us into the sponsorship news for this week
We had several things to talk about here, which have been very years in the past few weeks
The first thing is a Sam Chamberlain. Welcome to a class or Eclat video
This one's filmed entirely in the streets and is completely full with new school tech type riding
Which if that's something that you're interested in?
There's a link in the description below as well as links to
Everything else that I'm going to talk about today in the order that it's talked about also
There is a nollie full cab drop at the end of this video
Which could make it worth checking out for you then after that
we've got a video welcoming Daisuke Shiraishi to a live industry and the only two words that I have to say about this video are
spot
Usage if you care about spot usage and you want to see some amazing spot usage check this video out
Because that's the entire video from there
We've got a video from monster army welcoming a few Australian dudes to the new Australian team
Which they started up the riders that they're welcoming with this video are Sam Gibson Alec Donal, Eddy
Jacob Doug Dell and Jack
Borthwick with it being monster army, you know exactly the type of riding that you're getting into with this video
So if that's what you're into, you know where to find it
We also had the news that Kevin kalkhoff has left Sabrosa & shadow and now is riding for federal bikes
There's really nothing to go with this news. But I'm sure that some sort of content will be coming soon
And then after that the final sponsorship news is a video welcoming Trent
Let's go to Sunday bikes. This one is full of Street hammers
So if you're interested in street
Berlina sand grinding on big rails and crazy ledges and drops and all kinds of insanity
This is definitely a video worth checking out this week
So when it comes to the videos from this week
There's only two that I really want to talk super in-depth about and the first one of those is the know where BMX ride inside
Clip contest compilation that's up on their YouTube channel. I ride for nowhere
This is a nowhere shirt
But that doesn't mean I'm gonna be biased about this because nowhere held a ride inside
Contest where you had to sub Mette clips of yourself riding inside in a confined space not just like in an open garage
And they had tons of submissions and then they picked the favorite ten clips and then let people vote on Instagram
It's a super awesome format for a online
Contest there's a ton of amazing riding in here
the person who won is Matt behringer with riding inside his cramped garage using rollers and rail and just
You have to check it out. The clip compilation is over 11 minutes long and it features
Crazy ideas because when you're limited by space you have to get creative
And that's why I wanted to talk about this one first within the videos and there really wasn't that much other
Contest news this week other than the Toyota triple challenge
Which I talked about at the beginning of the video after that is a video from Dave Crone and it's called
IPhone clips this video was amazing
I've never watched this dudes riding before and I'm kind of mad that I haven't because he is so
versatile doing so many different styles of tricks in
Every single aspect of riding almost within this video. It was very entertaining
There was some creative
Editing and filming within here as well and it's definitely a video that if you're going to check out one from this week
You haven't already picked one from before. This is the video to check out
But of course there were other videos that are worth checking out this week that I want to mention
The first one is a day in lyon france with kevin Peraza from vital BMX
There's another video from kevin Peraza and vital also
But I will link with this one in the description then we've got a video from volume featuring Daniel little D Martinez
And then we have two longer full-length videos that went online this week. The first one is primo and strangers
1998 project this one is like 30 minutes long
So if you want a longer video, you can check that one out and then we have daily grinds
Rerouting full video being uploaded this week as well and that one is an hour long
So if 30 minutes isn't enough for you, you can check this one out
There's also two bike checks to talk about this week
The first one is Aaron Ross's spring 2019 bike check from Odyssey
followed by you, Mesa, Cudas
Video bike check from thick and that brings in to the products from this week the first one or the first three our sneak peeks
The first one is from shadow and it's of matte Ray's signature
VVS
Stem it's a front load stem. I'm pulling it up right now comes in a copper color
That's like matte as you can see on the screen right here. There's no details that are released about it
I think that they've figured out that if they just release pictures of things it'll get people talking a lot more than if they just
Put out all of the details either way, though
It's kind of interesting to see front load stems being popular again
Kevin, Peraza, just build up a new bike and he put a front load stem on it
curious to see if this front load thing takes off again and see if it becomes a trend and
Everyone buys new stems or it goes back to their old stems from before top-load was a thing after that
We've got a sneak peak on the fly bikes manual
cnc'd lever and
Brakes, this is an update on their previous manual brake design where they now allow you to use a conventional spring
Setup as well as the setup for their spring
Table hanger and just like the brakes the lever is an updated version of their previous manual brake lever
Except this one has a few tweaks to give it a cleaner look and it uses some new bushings called
IG u.s. Bushings and it says that it's supposed to completely eliminate
Wobble, which is something that I would definitely be interested in checking out and then we had two videos come out this week to promote
two new colorways in United's incarnate frame
the first one is for Harry Mills Wakely lilac colorway and it's a 4 minute long video that features a ton of
Riding and the second one is like a 30-something second long promo with just b-roll of a bike featuring Corey
Martinez's new flat
Mint color away and then another purple colorway on a frame came out this week this time
It was with we the people's message frame and it's coming in a galactic purple color
there's a theme in BMX right now where every
certain amount of time
frames come out in new colors and my opinion on this is literally just
why not if it's putting money into bike companies pockets while giving the people
More choice in the colors of their frames. I don't see anything wrong with it and it helps everyone out
I think and then after that we had a real quick video from Odyssey featuring Jakob cable talking about the r-25 Forks
It's got some nice motion graphics in there and he's explaining how the steeper offset on these are 25 Forks
Versus the r32 will help you with nose manuals, and if you guys are at all familiar with Jakob cables riding
You know that he is a nose manual master and he knows what he's talking about when it comes to nose manuals
so it's only a minute long and I've
Probably already went over that and how long I've talked about the video. We had kinks spring in summer 2019
apparel release this week as well as a quick promo video for
animal for Ben Lewis's Benny pegs
The video is literally only a minute long and features tons of peg usage
Obviously, so if you want to see some burly grinds and some super technical
impossible looking grinds
This is one that you're gonna want to check out and the last thing that I want to talk about this week related to products
Is a video from powers bike shop highlighting the history of SNM bikes race frames?
This one is definitely something that is needed in the BMX world
I feel like there needs to be more videos teaching kids and people in general about the past and the things that came before us
because if you went to any random skate park and asked a kid about
Someone from 20 years ago or a video from 20 years ago
They're probably not going to have any idea and I think that the more that they're educated the more
inspiration they can have from older videos or just a wider gamut of
Places for inspiration and that is never a bad thing from there
We can move into the interview section for this week
The first one is a space brothers podcast this time with Steve Crandall. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet
But it's Crandall
So, you know
It's going to be good and then I want to introduce Chris Doyle's new podcast called the palaver podcast
I hope I said that right. If not, I'm sorry, but his introductory episode features Chris and Bennett
I haven't had a chance to listen to this one either. I definitely plan on it
But in the four days that it's been released. I just haven't had time yet
So if that's something that you're interested in or anything else that I've talked about today in this video
There's links to all of it that you can check out in the description down below
And that's gonna do it for this week's BMX news video
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that makes it to the end of the video and if you might be interested in a
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Conglomerate shirt idea that I could throw up into the shirt store
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