Riders Lounge Podcast - Freeride / Freestyle Motocross and Action Sports

If you haven't heard about the The House of Dancing Water in Macau, then you've missed one of the longest running FMX shows in the world! And Josh Grindrod turned out to be one of the longest running riders there. With THOUSANDS of shows... not joking, thousands, the riders who went to the 'Special Administrative region of China' ended up riding shows every single day in a casino w...

I joined Clint Esposito to talk all about the Summer X Games for 2023 which is about to go down today! Find out who is in, who's out and what competitions will be going down and what tricks we think we might see! FMX Best Trick Luc Ackermann Rob Adelberg Jayo Archer Harry Bink Benny Richards David Rinaldo Josh Sheehan Jackson Strong Moto Best Whip Tyler Bereman Matej Cesak Patrick Evans Jarryd...

Let's see if Taka is running a super bling bike or is it a super stock bike? Also, how do you say Acerbis? Bike check was done in 2022 at the Supercross de Lyon show in France.

When one of the legends of FMX is talking about different disciplines at X Games, it probably pays to sit up and listen to what they have to say. This time, I was talking with Taka Higashino during a weekend at the French supercross event at Supercross de Lyon and we were talking about how there is no real style in FMX any more unless you see it in an Upright Trick. Of course, Taka is still one of...

With NIGHT of the JUMPs Rd 4 in the history books, Team Czech surprised everyone with their huge win over Team Spain with some legends of the sport and the World Team with some of the biggest names with all of the accolades. Sport can surprise everyone! The full wrap-up podcast is over on the NIGHT of the JUMPs podcast, but for this one I wanted to look closer at what the Riders had to deal with....

Another X Games, another year that everyone jumps up and down about the judging! In 2023, Japan FMX Best Trick, there were 7 riders who were gunning for the Gold Medal and this time it was Jacko Strong who took home his 7th Gold Medal in Best Trick discipline, equalling Travis Pastrana's 7 in Freestyle and Ronnie Renner's 7 in Step-Up! Of course, there's always controversy around judgi...

Here it is! The montage of Munich Madness interviews from March 2023 with Maikel Melero, Marc Pinyol, Brice Izzo and Harry Bink. This competition was banana's and can't believe we witnessed some huge crashes but also massive tricks! What is Maikel Melero's favourite bike? Which trick/s did Brice Izzo invent? What is Marc Pinyol's new favourite ramp? Where did Harry Bink get his bik...

This quick interview with Harry Bink directly after his crash in Munich has it all! From what went wrong in the crash, with the bike spluttering up the ramp, coming up short and having one of the most spectacular crashes we've seen. To walking away from it somehow unscathed and having words of wisdom at total positivity at the end. This is the mindset of champions and so glad to see Harry walk...

What is it with Munich, Germany? Has all the beer flowed into the river and everything goes a bit haywire? Harry Bink unfortunately didn't get the bike he hoped for when it cut out on him on the ramp, just before he was about to show the world what the Next Gen ramp is all about! And with that, the World Team were unable to do well at all in the points chase, which led to a Team Spain win with...

A quick update to let you know NIGHT of the JUMPs will be returning to Munich this weekend and it got me thinking about the FMX Community and how it feels like it's building again in recent times! We just saw the return from retirement of Dany Torres in Berlin. In Munich, Libor Podmol will be coming out of retirement. Harry Bink will be coming to NIGHT of the JUMPs for the first time ever. And...

On a lazy Sunday afternoon drive home from NIGHT of the JUMPs, I decided it was the best time to recap what happened over 2 rounds of crazy competition in Berlin with some wild FMX, BMX, MTB and Scooter riding and even wilder crashes!   Luckily, everyone survived in one piece and we saw some big upsets with Team Czech winning on Friday after Germany's Luc Ackermann crashed in Best Trick and A...

This is a podcast from the all new NIGHT of the JUMPs Podcast and thought you want to hear it over here on the Riders Lounge. And we've got some pretty huge news!  Dany Torres, the legend of Red Bull X-Fighters with the most ever head to head wins and taking a World Tour series win, will return to FMX for the first time since his retirement after having a full knee replacement. And he'll be making...

Ryan Adler was told to stop whipping when he's racing Motocross.   It turns out he found his calling at KING of the WHIP!     With not many years racing, Ryan has really twisted the throttle to become one of the fastest guys on a motocross bike but also throwing some of the coolest looking whips from a 125cc 2stroke and then jumping onto a 250 4 banger.     And h...

Tune in to see if you can pronounce Afrikaan's names better than Riders Lounge Podcast and King of the Whip host, Steve Sommerfeld. To be honest, I was tongue-tied.  Trying to get a name like Dirco van der Westerhuizen out in one go was impossible. I was struggling hard with the South African names and Jacques decided to help out with the pronounciation! If you have ever listened to the 12th Man s...

Dalton Venter, the 4 time African Motocross champion and 2 time South African champion managed to somehow convince the team manager from Monster Energy Yamaha Racing team to let him and his team mates go and whip the hell out of a steel FMX ramp at King of the Whip and there was a fair chance he could win it! When I watched Dalton for the first time training at the Jungle Rush FMX compound, he was...

After finally meeting Dallan after so many years, it was great to grab a quick 5 minute chat with him before he was about to throw down at King of the Whip and see if he could stand on top of the box at the end of the night. During our chat though, I was surprised when he dropped the bombshell that he was considering quitting FMX because of the backflip monkey on his back.  And this is no jok...

Normally a Best Whip competition is just a small side act, of a bigger Freestyle Motocross competition or Motocross / Supercross race.   How did Ryan van der Spuy manage to bring the best riders in South Africa and now international riders like Julien Vanstippen (X Games gold medallist) to try out this crazy new event idea from the best FMX riders, MX, SX and even Enduro racers!?   The e...

Less than one hour before the King of the Whip was about to go down, I grabbed a few quick chats with the riders to see how they were dealing with the pressure.   And no one had more pressure than the reigning King of the Whip, Scotty Billet.    It had been 3 years since the previous round of competition, and with X Games Gold Medallist Julien Vanstippen flying in, he knew he had so...

We have been so used to watching the same old riders being shuffled out to a Best Whip competition at X Games since about 2010.  It has been so hard for any young guys to get a foot in the door to try prove themselves against so many medal winners and contenders from Jeremy 'Twitch' Stenberg, Ricky Carmichael, Jarryd McNeil, Tom Parsons, Edgar Torronteras, Josh Sheehan, Genki 'Wanky' Watanabe...

Nitro World Games 2022 produced the craziest Best Trick event we have seen since Travis Pastrana landed the Double Flip in 2006 X Games. This time around, it would be not one, but two riders who would create FMX Competition history with Jayo Archer and Harry Bink going head to head to land the Triple Backflip for the first time in a comp. Not to mention, we had the mystery surrounding Clinton Moor...

As I was on the road driving through France, Belgium and into Germany I joined Clint Esposito on his show to talk more in-depth about Nitro World Games 2022 which could be one of the most defining FMX competitions EVER. I already covered this in the short 15 minute Riders List a few days ago, but we go into wayyyyy more details and Clint thought of things I didn't cover as well! So sit back, enjoy...

With Nitro World Games just a few days away, I wanted to give you the rider list before we are about to possibly witness history being made! Will it be Jayo and Bink going at it for the Triple Backflip - first to be landed in Competition?  A trick only landed once by Sheeny? Or will it be Clinton Moore on the 720?  Also only landed once by Travis Pastrana?  Only a guess, but hey......

The 2022 Red Bull Imagination competition went even bigger compared to the previous years!  Tyler Bereman and co built upon the past 2 years courses to produce something special and the crowning glory was Tyler sacking up and sending this huge 180 feet transfer jump which blew everyone's minds! This episode is taken from the Companion video which I joined on for the Two Wheels to Freedom chan...

All I could see in my mind, was a newspaper headline saying "Idiot Australian lost in Indonesia Jungle" What started as a disaster on my first ever FMX Tour of Indonesia, turned into a really cool opportunity to go riding in the jungle to the top of a volcano with Sheeny and Clinton Moore.  And then almost back to disaster again! This is a short clip from when I joined Clint Esposito's new se...

This week we’ve got one of the top 110 riders in the world with us right now, but don’t go sticking him in that box. This dude is talented on anything with 2 or 4 wheels and has an engine. Keeping it old school and preferring it to be a 2 stroke! From Motocross to Supercross, Rally, Side by Sides, 110s, BMX or whatever he can get his hands on, Banks Hovey appears to be part of the next generation...