Hard to believe that Labor Day weekend is already here.
Time to make the most of it.
Hope you can find some free time this weekend to do what you want to do.
To ride.
And have a good time.
(This clip always makes me think of Kevin Jones in the classic Wheelies video.)
Ouch!
Clipping in not only makes you faster but it also makes your crashes more spectacular too.
Check it out…there’s even slow-mo so you can cringe (or chuckle) a few more times.
Looks like there might be more kids traveling in style.
Check out Matt Shelley on a classic Redline cruiser with his daughter riding co-pilot.
Can’t help but wonder if all these kids riding co-pilot with their Dads are going to graduate to sidehacks when they get a little older. This might be a bigger comeback for sidehacks than previously imagined…
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes….a tricked-out Sunday Model-C towing a baby carriage?
Yes, apparently in this case it does.
Ron Plumlee shows us how a modern dad travels with his kid.
I have been checking out Edward Koenning‘s blog, When are you going to get a real bike? for a little while now and I have to say I’m getting pretty hooked.
A big part of his blog is digging up vintage BMX magazine pictures/spreads and commenting on them. I often find myself tripping down memory lane when I read one of his posts. I start remembering where I was when I saw or read it, how I devoured every word of the mag (keep in mind this was before the Internet) and how much it had an influence on me.
I was pretty stoked to see him pull out this gem recently. An awesome berm slide by RL Osborn from BMX Action‘s “24 Wars” cruiser shootout article.
I was pretty stoked on this spread too. Eddie Fiola with a perfect table top air (on vert!) and “The Culligan Man” doing a big jump on a race cruiser to see how it would hold up.
If you’ve been into BMX for a while, When are you going to get a real bike? is definitely worth checking out.
I get pretty stoked after a good riding session but it appears certain people are taking things too far. Some believe it has the makings of an epidemic.
For more on this, click on the image below for a report from theonion.com.
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This seems like such a great idea that I’m kind of surprised that someone hadn’t come up with it sooner.
A beer for cruiser riders.
Sure, you can buy a number of craft beers with ties to mountain biking or even an S&M bikes beer koozie, but a beer just for BMX cruiser riders? Now that something that just warms my heart.
Greg Mundy of Fireman’s Texas Cruzers teamed with Brad Farbstein at Real Ale Brewing to create Fireman’s #4 Blonde. And as a form of cross-promotion, Greg and Fireman are offering the Brewery Bike inspired by the beer.
Will this inspire more cruiser companies to pair up with breweries?
Hard to say…but if a “Liquid Courage brew” comes out any time soon, I’ll be contacting Liquid Bikes for royalties.
I guess it’s time to get out there, shake hands and kiss babies.
No, I’m not running for office….but…
Crank – The World Cycling Blog Rankings are asking for nominations for the top cycling blog in a number of different categories. While there’s not really a category for BMX, I think a case could be made for cruiserrevolution.com fitting into the “Lifestyle” category.
Whatta ya say?
It only takes a few seconds.
Support the revolution. Make your nomination here.
Although he isn’t the editor anymore, I will probably always think of John Ker as the face of BMX Plus! magazine. And now because of his magazine’s seemingly hot and cold treatment of cruisers in recent months I feel compelled to write him this (admittedly tongue-in-cheek) “Dear John” letter.
John Ker: no love for the 24?
Dear John,
I thought we really had something. After not reading your magazine in what seemed like forever, I picked up your magazine at the local store and noticed you had changed over the years. No longer were you associating with Radical Rick or doing “who’s radder” features….you were actually showing some honest to goodness riding once in a while. More importantly, you showed some love for the cruiser with a couple of 24″ bike tests in 2009.
Your advertisers seemed to have noticed this too. One of them rewarded you with not one, but two 2-page ads for their cruisers.
But your self-destructive nature got the best of you, didn’t it? Out of nowhere in your April issue, you featured an article called Cruising into Oblivion: The Death of the 24.
How could you do this? Both to our fledgling relationship and to your advertisers? For the love of God, there’s a 2-page ad for Redline‘s top-of-the-line Flight 24 in the very same issue that you say 24s are cruising into oblivion!
It makes me so mad…and I imagine Redline isn’t any happier. I wrote a post about it, hoping to salvage things, to help you see the error of your ways and to let you know that 24s are not dead yet. After that I didn’t hear from you for a month.
Now all of sudden, in the June issue it seems that the ‘love’ is back with a 10-page race cruiser shootout. While it’s a grand gesture, after declaring our relationship essentially over, to try to win me back with a 10-page article, it seems just a little to late. I guess you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, right?
I know what you’re going to say, that you’ve changed.
But I’m not sure if I can bury the hatchet just yet. I think you’ll have to prove to me that you want this relationship to work.
How you ask?
A full-on 24″ freestyle cruiser shootout.
I think that’s what it will take to win me back.
So John, what do you say?
*Warning- Borderline hippy post*
I hit the trails after work today and had a good session with a couple of MTBers that were there. Between runs we were chatting and it struck me that despite all the media hype about caring for the planet, the green movement, etc. I couldn’t have been more aware of and in tune with nature then I was right then.
We were talking about which trees were leaning more than usual, which ones had fallen and how it felt good to be back out in the dirt after a long winter. We took a few more runs. Afterward we could hear someone aways off ripping through the trails on one of those obnoxiously loud motorized mini-bikes. One of the MTBers started yelling at him to get off the trails because he was wrecking them.
Looking around you could see why it bothered him so much…all around groomed jumps, pump lines…hours of collective sweat and effort…and this guy is chewing up trails that so many people rode and put in so much time to maintain.
In a roundabout way, what I’m trying to say is a day at the trails is perfect way to get in touch with what I think was the original intent of Earth Day. You can’t ride trails and not be aware of the environment.
Whether it’s keeping the place clear of garbage and debris, working together to fix a section, trimming tree branches or just yelling at guy for not being respectful of the trails…it’s all about showing love for the dirt (earth) and all it gives to us.
My friend Glen has been riding and building trails for as long as I’ve known him (which is a very long time). Nice tuck at the Glenridge trails in St. Catharines, Ontario.
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