John Dye

The Union Tapes

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The Union tapes is a London based BMX podcast with people who's story we want to hear. We believe the UK needs BMX podcasts so we threw the hat in and interviewed the riders who were actually there. We'll aim for one a month and see where it takes us? Enjoy.

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John Dye

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Episode 2 - Zack Shaw 20.05.2022 2:33:56

Zach has done more in BMX than we could ever fit in to multiple 3 hour conversations. I first met Zach in 86 at Chingford halfpipe, we cover a history of his BMX riding from his start in the boom days of the early 80s to present day. We talk about early Harlow riding scene, meeting locals Eric Steel and Darren Robinson, breaking bikes, discovering Rom skatepark, seminal BMX shop Faze 7, the mythic...

Episode 1 - Fids 11.04.2022 2:04:34

Fids is one of the bigger UK names from 90s BMX to present day. He's pretty much done it all. We take it back to the start-the very start. We find out about the early BMX craze days at Gillingham skatepark, the transition to skateboarding, finding out about punk rock, being a sponsored vert skateboarder, London vert ramps, the death of vert skating. How he got back into BMX in the early 90s. Winin...