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
I think you guys might care about that being said let's get right on into everything
I want to talk about this week that I think you might care about the first thing that I want to talk about and give
Kind of a shout out to is all of the women riders in BMX who are killing it lately
The reason that I'm bringing this up is because kink brought on anahi, Arevalo
I hope I said that right - there am team this week and it kind of got me thinking and if you pay attention
There is a women rider for most of the big brands and companies within
BMX just to name off a few we've got
Charlotte Worthington who rides for tall order she's on the British Cycling team Hannah Roberts who obviously
Wins most of the feast stops and all these things Angie Moreno who's riding for cult
She's on the US a cycling team
Elizabeth lizard BMX over a hundred thousand followers on
Instagram she rides for total kg and vans Russia not to mention that all of these people are from all over the world
Charlotte is from England. Obviously being on the British Cycling Team Hannah Roberts is from here in the United States
anahi, she's from Ecuador then we've got
Angie obviously from the United States but the west coast whereas hannah roberts is from indiana
which is in the midwest and we've got nikita de carros who lives in the US but she rides for mongoose and is on the
Swiss cycling team. All of these country related teams have to do with the olympics
So all of these women obviously are trying to go for the Olympics and why wouldn't you before we talk about anyone else?
I feel like maybe the Olympics is even a bigger deal for women BMX riders because it's going to be the biggest
Stage that they could possibly get to reach the most people and get more women into BMX
I don't want to speak out of turn but I feel like maybe women BMX riders care more about getting
other women and
into writing DMX then dude BMX riders
Do I think maybe the guy BMX riders kind of let the ego get in the way rather than just
The good of BMX and getting as many people into it as possible
So I really think that the Olympics are going to be huge for women riders and hopefully it gets them some more of the exposure
That they absolutely deserve and kind of really aren't getting from mainstream
BMX at least not up until this point, it seems like more and more every day though
They're getting the recognition that they deserve
we've also got people like Teresa Williams who ride for vans Europe TSG and fly bikes and
Nena Otago who's been in the MX since before I was even riding. She rides 41. There's a huge list Empire
Fox women's Pro tech coffee company Oakley vans all of this craziness
I forgot to say that Teresa is obviously from Europe
So all of these people all around the world are getting recognition within BMX
so I really just wanted to give the entire beginning of this news show to women BMX riders everywhere and just
let you know that I see you at least and
Maybe more of BMX should see you hopefully this video can help out with that
I've linked all of the women's instagrams in the description below as well as links to everything else that I'm going to talk about today
below for you guys to find if you're interested in any of that and I just want to point out real quick that these were
Just the first people that came to mind whenever I was getting ready for the news video
There are legitimately a ton of other women shredders out there. Who are
Killing it that aren't being recognized by BMX literally at all that you can check out all over the Internet
These were just the first ones that popped into my head that wrote for big-name companies currently right now
So from there, I want to move from something
Extremely awesome to something not awesome at all
honestly
It's awesome that we're helping these people but the situations that arose to make them need this help is not awesome whatsoever
The first is Phil Jones needing our help with some medical bills. He had a crash at his local pump track and had some like
seriously serious injuries he
He fractured his skull in sinus and suffered a brain bleed
So he also actually lost his hearing in his right ear
Which is a huge deal because he had a previous accident that made him lose his hearing his left ear
So this one has left him completely deaf
So someone made a GoFundMe for him and for his support, so if you want to check that out
There is a link in the description below and then after that BMX legend
Joe rich also had an unfortunate situation where he had a motocross crash and
Empire BMX printed some shirts with a picture of him on it to sell in support of his medical bills
There is a pre-order going on right now through March 31st, and then this shirt will be available through mid-april
With all support going towards Joe rich they're printed on
American Apparel, so, you know it's going to be a good shirt and they're only
$20, so you guys want to support a BMX legend or Phil Jones who really could use it?
Like I said before, you know where to find the links this brings us into the juicy sponsorship news for this week
There's some huge stuff going on. The first thing is that Stevie Churchill is off federal bikes and on Stranger
So we already wrote for primo. He was already close with rich Hirsch because of that. So now he's off federal
Instantly on stranger and I mean whatever floats his boat
I think a lot of people have very strong
Opinions on this and stranger seems to be scooping up stranger and premotor scooping up every single
Big-name rider who gets off of a sponsorship and it kind of feels like they're putting themselves in a position
to have a super team if it keeps going because
Hobie Doane is also off of his sponsor SNM and it looks like he might go to stranger as well
He was recently added to primo and this situation with S&M is like very much a surprise to him
there was an Instagram post that has now deleted where made it very obvious that it was a surprise and now
SNM is selling what was going to be his at your frame with a different name. So I don't know what's going on
I'm not going to make any assumptions
I'm just gonna say it seems very unexpected. And I don't know if any information is going to come out about it
I think we're just gonna move on and see what happens in the future with this and then after that we had a video welcoming
This guy whose name?
I'm not about to butcher to par BMX and that wraps up sponsor news and brings us into
Contests and jam news. The first thing here is pretty exciting
it's that the
2019 Vans BMX Pro Cup tour dates and locations were announced and they are
April 12th and 13th in Sydney, Australia
June 14th through 16th in
Stuttgart, Germany
Then we've got August 16th through 18th in Mexico City, Mexico
followed by September 13th through 15th in Huntington Beach, California
This is another thing that has a women's class and the women are absolutely killing it in here and representing themselves
Within BMX, which is another thing that I should point out. It is very awesome. These have been amazing events in BMX
So I'm excited to see everything that goes on and I actually have a few friends who are going to be
Competing in a few of these. So I'm excited to see that as well. After that. We've got the fils battle of the champions
Highlights from Saudi Arabia. This one had Brandon Lou post taking the win with logan martin taking second and local
ohio
dude
nick bruce taking third and that's pretty awesome because this is all of the best of
The best in the feast contest all together competing against each other on level. That's like way up here
It's totally insane. After that. We have the first piece of bowel of hastings news that think I have to talk about
Maybe there's just some other small stuff. But this is the first piece of content
There's a quick video with isaac lesser where they told him that he was going to be a team
Captain for the battle of hastings this year. You can tell how genuinely excited he was for it
And if you don't remember he was on the winning team from last year
So it's pretty awesome to see him as a captain for this year and seeing his reaction to them telling him
It's pretty cool as well
Look you have to watch this video
The history lesson last week went so well that I texted Montana Ricky and asked him what video I should talk about this week
He said a metro jam contest video. So I picked the
2004 props issue 52 Toronto metro jam video
Basically, all I'm gonna say is that you have to watch this video
I would I still have chills on my arm from how insane this video is
the one that I freaked out about the most just now was Doyle doing a gigantic hurricane on a sub and then
Corey Martinez, I believe it is doing yep doing a tuck. No-hander to ice pick grind gap this like
Absolutely. Insane you think BMX is crazy today. Look at this video and watch how insane things were
15 years ago when all these dudes got together so many big names in this video
You got Gary Young van Holman Brian Foster Corey Martinez Tobias Wicky Jim Solinsky Brian foul
Adam Banton so many people Dave asado. There's a dude in there Dustin in thir. I'm not sure he did
gigantic gigantic stuff basically
If you haven't gotten hyped enough yet
Watch this video learn a little bit about BMX history and see the insanity. That went down at the Metro gym
We need more of this and stuff like the Toyota
triple challenge where Trey Jones has built a bunch of random ramps and put them together is
What is going to make things like Toronto Jam happen again?
And that brings us into the videos from this week. The only reason I talked about that one in contest in Jam
It's cuz it was a contest in a gym
But for the first video it came out last Friday right after I got done with the news video
So you've probably already seen it and that is jacob cables technically speaking video from odyssey. Technically speaking
he did every single technical trick that you can speak of it's basically one of the most
technical
insane videos that you'll ever
Watch and the backwards ice at the end of it
If you haven't seen it yet is just a reason to watch this video
And since I've talked in depth about so many other things already this week
I'm just gonna give you guys a list of videos that you might want to watch
the first one is Mike stalls 20 19 video from SNM then we had a nearly
Vacation from dig this one features a ton of riders. It's got Anthony Perrin Joris column. I
Can't talk Alex Kennedy and a bunch of other people in this video and tons of awesome clips
We've got one from some of the merit and BMX foo guys riding on the ramp so that they have in that little warehouse space
in Buffalo followed by a how to
Feeble hard 180 from Anthony pANSA and a video called fbm travel advisory 17 south where they drive down
17 south and get into whatever they get into and ride whatever they want to ride along the way and before we get into the
product news this week
We've got one bike check to talk about this one comes from Castilla and Reve and it's his 2019 video bike check
He uploaded it to his YouTube channel, and it's all in Russian
So it might be a little bit hard to follow if you speak English either way, though
It's there if you want to check it out
And that brings us into the product news from this week
the first thing I want to talk about is a Kareem's world video where he talks about the evolution of
BMX bikes he goes through and talks about how a lot of different bike parts have changed
There's not a ton of detail in here
But there's personality and it's entertaining so I thought maybe you'd want to check it out after that
Nathan Williams signature kink frame and bars are now available
I can check out the link in the description for the specs of the frame, but there's a few standout things
I want to mention first of all it fits
2.5 tires. Basically, it could be a monster truck second. Its got anti-slip
Knurling on the drop out which is kind of a cool idea
And third it's got this kink logo badge inlay on the seat Staybridge, which looks pretty cool
it comes in edie black colorado yellow and
translucent blue and
It's available right now aside from the geometry
The bars really don't have any features to them that stand out like the ones that are on the frame
So you check those out in the description below they come in black chrome and gold and it's kind of interesting
That they don't have colors that match the frame exactly after that is the Holy Diver frame from SNM
This was supposed to be Hobie downs signature frame
But obviously he's not riding for SNM anymore and the frames were already made
So now they are the Holy Diver frame
This frame has a little bit more of an aggressive street geometry compared to SMS other frames
So if that's what you're into and you wanted an S&M frame there is an option available now and it comes in a pretty cool-looking
Translucent turquoise color. I don't really know how to tell you to find this frame other than following
What's in the caption on this photo and to hit up your local bike shop to see one firsthand after that
We've got Odyssey bringing back their Mexican blanket seat where there is no color choice for this one in no two
Seats are exactly alike because they're all made from fragments and pieces of a Mexican blanket
Pattern then we've got a sneak peak on the relic flat out tire
There's really no details about this one as far as size
price and weight goes all we know is that it's going to be available in August and that it looks
very very similar to the primo V monster tire
So if you like the Primo tire, and you can't find it anymore in August
You'll have a new option
And the last thing I want to talk about this week is the new double bubble colorway from shadow
this will be available on all of their grips and on the surface in Ravager plastic petals and
Obviously, it looks like double bubble bubble gum. And that's gonna do it for this week's BMX news video
I hope that you enjoyed it
Hope you learned something new and if you have any thoughts comments or opinions on anything that I talked about today
Mainly, let's talk about the fact that women riders and BMX are absolutely killing it
leave your thoughts in the comments down below and I will see you next time for another video because I do these every
Friday as well as a tips and tricks video on Tuesday and other types of riding videos and streams throughout the week
I also just started a trail series which you can check out as my previous video
I want to thank you guys for choosing to spend your time to watch this video and hang out with me and
We'll see you tomorrow for another video. Thanks again, and goodbye