BMX Weekly

Been working on this one for awhile now with Paul Roberts (finally sat down) in Huntington Beach with Robbie Miranda and I for a pod. Lots covered, early days riding for Cycle Craft, meeting Steve Buddendeck, getting on DK and moving to California in the 90s. Robbie talks being teammates with Neal Wood, Winning the X-Games, 3 Nora Cups, racing the Vans Triple Crown DH Series and some of the pay da...

This week on the Pod, Eddy King and I sat down with BMX Hall of Famer, former CW rider and Vegas local Tracer Finn, during the USA BMX Hall of Fame weekend in San Diego. Coming from an entertainment family and working and growing up in Vegas, Tracer shares some great stories outside of BMX as well as many in the sport. Tracer talks CW days, losing his finger in a crash, jumping his dad (Mickey Fin...

Podcast with Brits Ross Cullen (2x World Champion and current European Junior Champion) and old, mid and current-school rider/coach Julian Allen, who are both in California with 25 other Brits on the Zell Tour’s So-Cal BMX trip for a few weeks. We talk about both Ross' and Julian’s history and their careers in BMX and go more into detail on the current UK race scene, from the club and coaching str...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwLTqXhlL62/?igshid=f2bjawbvz3f1 Mike Franze (Fullerton Bikes) podcast started out with his deep BMX history in Orange County, Southern California, which was one of the meccas of the BMX industry. Mike talks about the early days, how big the OC scene was, to what's left of it now with the closing down of the Orange Y over 3 years ago now. Mike talks about test riding fo...

A day over in Huntington Beach with one of my best friends of nearly 40s years, Paul Roberts @grotbags32 drinking coffee, riding along the beach talking BMX and life and everything else in between. We also paused for an hour next to a life guard tower and recorded a quick Podcast for good measure. Paul talks about announcing for Vans last month at the US Open before moving onto some British BMX hi...

Back from a few months off of the Podcast front with a new one - Dr. J, Chris Powell, Esq. and I caught up at Better Buzz Coffee Roasters in Hillcrest, SD. We talk MTB Masters Worlds, Hall of Fame winners, BMX Worlds, Pam Am Games and Chris shares with us how Better Buzz started, the relationship which lead him to working for the company alongside what it took to get the Pacific Highlands Ranch Pu...

Long time coming but finally nailed down Hollywood, Mike Miranda and recorded a Podcast with the help of Mike’s long-time friend, Eric Carter who always brings great stories and perspective which all went down at Hyper Design Studios in Carlsbad last week. We breeze through Hollywood’s career from the early days racing in So-Cal riding for SE, CW, Torker and Hutch before finishing up on Free Agent...

Lunch and a quick Podcast with Eddy King. We talk about "Tools of Empowerment, the Eddy King Story" that Shimano put out a few weeks ago. We also touch on the BMX Society Weekend, Andy Ruffell, thoughts on the Greg Hill Podcast, Paris World Cup and we flip through an issue of Same Old (Skate Magazine). We questioned whether this would work in race in today's landscape? Check it out.

Greg Hill Podcast - We catch up with Greg and see what the latest is with him and Remix and see what he's got planned moving forward as he turns a new page in his life. We dive into current BMX affairs and, as most know, with Greg you get it straight and he shares his thoughts on the race landscape today. We hit on USA BMX, Nationals, the local scene, Pro racing and so much more.  Greg’s not holdi...

New Podcast posted with with Dr. J and this week's guest, CK Flash visiting over from London. We talk about the new Dvide Spring Line drop, Australian rider Matty Juster busted for Sauce, and we get the scoop with CK - talking old school BMX with Tyson Beckford, TV, all of the promoting and mentoring of kids that CK is involved in and getting them on the right path with an introduction to BMX. We...

(At La Costa Roasting in Carlsbad.) New Podcast posted with Director/Photographer Justin Kosman. We chat about Justin’s history, making his way from Illinois to California freelancing and working at Bike Magazine, ESPN, Ride, Transword, DC, Vans, Redbull, his time at Twenty BMX Magazine writing content and his various shoots with other brands and magazines he's worked with over the years. We also...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BuVEGWpFP-f/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=bi4932vsoox Today’s Podcast include myself and Dr. J sitting down with Hookit's Rich Houseman over at Leap Coffee in Carlsbad. We start catching up with what's been going on over in Dr. J’s world, a quick update on Dvide, thoughts on USA BMX’s GOAT article in the new Pull Magazine then our thoughts on Beth Shriever’s GoFundM...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BublyFJDv7o/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=155cxnj8848ej This week on the Podcast we got Tyler Brown, a man with many hats including racing, his own 316 team, running a track, coaching and his newer role at USA Cycling. We talk about his career moving from Colorado with his mom to California, racing AA Pro to turning Vet and already winning 2 World Titles and a Vet N...

Good to catch up with Sylvain André earlier this week for a coffee and Podcast and to see what the World Champion has been up to, as we move into the 2019 season. Sylvain talks about his big win in Baku, passing fellow Frenchmen Joris Daudet down the last-straight and all of the emotions of being crowned the World Champion. We then talk about his own history in the sport; coming through the ranks,...

We caught up with Bas de Bever combing through his career as a racer, competing and winning his first World Championship of many back in 1983, through the 80s and early 90s transitioning into a very notable mountain bike career before moving into setting up and coaching the Dutch National Team back when BMX first became an Olympic sport. A position he has held until recently when he called it a da...

Spent Friday afternoon down by the coast drinking coffee and podcasting with Dr. J and 2x Olympian and all-round good guy Tory Nyhaug. We talk about Tory's crash at the World's last year, resulting in a concussion and the frustrations he's having from still not being released to train or race. We then hop onto a bunch of subjects from the Olympics, to social media, World Cups, the current state of...

Dylan Clayton Podcast Part 2 - We talk the 90s, riding for Sunn, transitioning from AM into the Superclass ranks, racing in the UK, Europe to World's talk. We also touch on Dylan racing MTB, riding for Pashley's after Sunn and transitioning into real-life after his career wound down. We chat coaching, Dylan working for British Cycling along with some of the things his job entails and his thoughts...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Brk5j1FFrg8/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=fceduirv5qfu This week on the Podcast we have WD40’s Robin Baloochi. Robin talks about racing both BMX and mountain bikes, some of the teams he rode for and moving into the bike industry after retiring from racing. We talk about some of WD40’s history, Robin’s role now in the company along with some talk on the riders, teams...

Part 2 of the Eric Carter Podcast posted - This episode we talk about the current state of the race industry, the saturation of frame brands and if it's even possible to successfully move forward. We then dive into more of EC's career from dominating on Hutch, being mentally strong as a rider and how he would position himself in a race with strategies to win. EC talks winning the 93 NBL Pro title,...

Made the quick trip up the 15 to Murrieta to spend the afternoon and record a Podcast with Eric Carter, covering plenty in both BMX and MTB which we will split into two parts. Part 1 we talk about EC being one of the first guys to clip-in but somehow managing to stay in the shadows when the likes of Mike King and Brian Lopes are brought up as the guys that were the first-movers of clips coming int...