BMX Weekly

Continuing Podcasts with former teammates - this time I dive into the career of In-Hee Lee. In-Hee chats about getting into BMX riding for Canyon Bikes before getting picked up on CW with teammates Jason Donnell, Justin Green, George Seevers, Robert MacPherson, Eric Carter, Charles Townsend and Todd Lyons. We talk titles and In-Hee tells us about some of the National Age Group and Cruiser titles h...

New Podcast and this episode is with Mr. Barry Nilson. Barry discovered BMX in Southern California in the Summer of 76 and talks about the early days racing all over SoCal in the late 70s right up to still riding today and his BMX journey along the way. We talk about what it was like living and racing in the Hot Bed of BMX, being an Orange Y local, right up to being on the gate for the last ever r...

Catch-up with BMX pioneer and Hall of Famer, Byron Friday. Byron was truly at the start of BMX in the early 70s, rode and worked for iconic brands over the decades and even went to school with motocross legend Johnny O’Mara. Byron talks aboutbtraveling to Holland in the 80s to stay with Gerrit Does (the Godfather of European BMX), going to England to ride and conduct training schools at Iswich, ha...

Next up on the Pod, we've got George Costa from Rennen Design Group. George gives a little background on Rennen from its inception right up to current times with products, sponsorships, and winning team titles. We also talk about the current landscape on the team's front on the National circuit and that of the race industry, the R/T Podcast George hosts with Tangent's Rich Pelton, the future for R...

Dr. Jason Richardson and I sat down this week and recorded a Podcast with Erik Simmons (The AQUAMAN) out here in San Diego. We talk to Erik, now 54, about his BMX career from New Jersey in 1979 as a kid, moving out West and eventually making his home in San Diego and getting to ride with the likes of Eddy and Mike King, Shaun Texas, Doug Davis, Kiyomi Waller just to name a few during those early S...

This week we are catching-up with Toby Henderson at Box who gives us a little insight on everything Box, from its history to what's new and why he decided to introduce Oversized Technology to BMX Race and what Box has in the pipeline. Toby also talks about the state of the BMX industry due to the pandemic, the after effects, how the industry is looking now with everyone sitting on stock and the ou...

Next up, we're catching up with Robert de Wilde (Afro Bob), starting when Robert came onto the international scene - winning 16x at the 1993 UCI World Championships in Holland, beating top Americans In-Hee Lee and Alexis Vergara in the process. Robert talks about getting on GT Europe, racing Junior, then Elite in Europe, and easing into some racing in the US; winning the European, World Cup and UC...

Catching-up with Warwick Stevenson (Coming to America). Nice to catch-up with Warwick and talk about his journey to the US to race BMX at the young age of 18. Warwick talks about racing AA, riding for Standard, Diamond Back, before getting on Haro and later Kuwahara. We talk about Warwick's title runs and number 1 plates, winning the 04 UCI World in Holland, winning the Nora Cup, and getting the c...

New Podcast with both the Wildman Todd Lyons and Paul Roberts we just recorded this week. Lots covered in this hour from Wildman talking about his knee surgery, little SE and Big Bike talk. We ask, are Wildman's European and World Championships win in KOD legit titles to add to his resume? Thoughts on Pros and GoFund me pages, industry talk, and the saturation on bikes and excess warehouse storage...

After years of trying to get him to do one, Geth Shooter finally caved in and we just recorded a Podcast whilst I'm over in the UK. We cover a lot. Starting out riding for Two Wheel Service Bike Shop, Bunneys GT, Redline, GT, Titan and Free Agent (distributed by Raleigh) later on down the road in the Masters category while working at Raleigh in the mid 2000s. We talk about doubling at both the 84...

Great to catch up with Jorg de Louw during his vacation in California from Holland and record a Podcast, something we had on the cards for some time. Jorg talks about the early days of BMX in Holland, going to watch the 83 World Championships in Slagharen, Holland which inspired him to progress to one of the top Am riders in Holland and then into Superclass in 1989. We talk about the depth of the...

This postcast has been long in the making with Clive Gosling as we wanted to do it in person, as we prefer with all podcasts. With Clive living in the UK and really wanting Paul Roberts (living in the US) involved – I still managed a solo hour conversation with Clive on this trip to the UK this week but we also saved a little for maybe a Part 2 when we can get Paul and Clive together. I really enj...

New Podcast with Dr. J and lots covered on this one. Jason talks about getting on Canyon and attending the Gravity Festival at Big Bear last month. We hit on Cedric Cade’s rainbow jersey, Tyler Brown on Chase, my trip to Kentucky, Pro racing in Kentucky, Alec Bob going back to Am, and Rich Eames and Neil Stewart emceeing the British BMX Hall of Fame on the 5th of November in Birmingham. We then ta...

Just wrapped up our BMX Pro for a Week summer camp season and I thought it'd be a great chance to bring on the wife to help answer some of the questions we get on how we operate camp and all of the behind the scenes activities that go into making camp successful. And, as always shout-out to both Tyler and Kas Brown at San Diego BMX for a great partnership.

2022 World Championships wrap-up podcast with Tyler Brown. Check it out.

Quick catch up and Podcast with Tyler Brown early in the morning at San Diego BMX as summer camp season kicks off. Tyler gives us the scoop and info on the HOLESHOT CHALLENGE (Sept 10th) he's putting on at @sandiegobmxracing during the State Finals weekend. He's already got some great sponsors, they'll have live feed and it's looking like a great payday up for grabs and a cool concept of racing. T...

As we hit summer and there's so much going on in the racing World, I thought it would be a good chance to sit down with Tyler Brown over at San Diego BMX and catch up on everything. We talk USA BMX Nationals in Tulsa and Nashville, last week's World Cup in Scotland, who's looking good for Papendal and some of the thoughts on Team USA at the moment. We also talk about participation numbers in the U...

My friend and fellow British BMX Hall of Fame collaborator, Mike Wong, recently made the trip over to California, so we took the opportunity to drive up to Huntington Beach to catch up with Paul Roberts to record this podcast. Mike has been riding BMX bikes in some capacity since 1981 and running his own bike brands, Dialled Bikes and FTB BMX, for the best part of the last 20 years. We cover our r...

Headed to Huntington Beach to meet up with Paul Roberts and fellow UK transplant, John Povah to record a podcast. John is one of the early guys from the UK BMX World making the move to California back in 1989 and is still out here today. We start with John getting into BMX in the 80s born in Croydon starting out in the race World, Hillington Hawks Club then moving more into Freestyle getting on Ra...

Great to catch up with Rich and Marc Moore from SOURCEBMX who are out in the US and came over to the house for a catch-up and a Podcast. It's amazing to see what the boys have done with SOURCEBMX from their early race days to opening their first BMX shop and now to what they have grown SOURCEBMX into, which is a globally respected and successful company in the BMX World and they do it with the sam...

Back in Podcast mode and first up was a trip to Haro's HQ this week to catch up with longtime friend James Ayres, who is Haro's Sales Manager and a guy that always has so much passion and loves to talk all things BMX and bikes. James goes into full detail on the ups and downs of the bicycle industry over the last few years since the Coronavirus hit, including the scenario when everyone was canceli...

The second Podcast I recorded a few weeks ago while down in London was with another longtime friend, Keith Duly (Jump Club). We start out with all things Jump Club which is supported by both Source BMX and S&M Bikes. Jump Club is not just your normal traditional BMX race team but is also very community focused, infused with fun and includes road trips supporting the brands that support BMX while t...

While in the UK, I managed to record a couple of Podcasts. Last week while down in London, I met up and recorded the first one with Tom Lynch and the following week I will post the one I did with Keith Duly (Jump Club), both of which I really enjoyed doing. Tom Lynch is one of the riders in the UK that inspired both me coming through the amateur ranks in the 80s and many others in the UK during hi...

New Podcast posted with Anthony, Andrew and Clint, the guys from the book "We Were RAD" that pre-launched today on wewererad.com over in the UK. The guys talk about their history in BMX during the 80s golden days, the We Were RAD community and social media presence that continues to grow and build over the years. With the launch of the book, we dive into stories behind making British BMX history a...

Quick drive up to Huntington Beach to catch up with @grotbags32 to hang out, ride around town, eat Wahoos and record a quick podcast. Paul talks about British Olympic medalists this summer in both Race and Freestyle, the media around them and hopefully what their success will bring for BMX in the UK. We hit on a few thoughts on the @sourcebmx Battle Of Hastings that went on last weekend in the UK,...