Forgive me for the over-the-top sales guy headline…but in these tough economic times, it’s important to save a few bucks whenever you can.
And if you can do that while still scoring something cool, so much the better.
So just in case you missed it on the Facebook page, there’s a couple of coupon codes to save on Cruiser Revolution t-shirts and other assorted CR merch.
The catch is thecoupon codes are only good till 8/30/12.
Doesn’t seem like a day goes by that there isn’t a news story talking about the state of kids today.
How they’re not active and more concerned with video games and texting than getting outside and doing something active.
While there’s a grain of truth to all this, it’s also painting a picture of today’s kids with a broad brush.
Case in point, I was cruising around the neighborhood this past weekend and stopped for a drink near a parking lot that a young kid was riding at.
I stopped to watch him ride for a minute.
He was bunnyhopping on to, and off of, a concrete median.
He just kept at it…experimenting with what he and his bike could do. Going a little further or a little higher with each approach at the median.
No one was there to push him. It was just him and bike.
This kid had more self-motivation than some adults that I know.
And don’t you think he’s going to be messaging his friends later that day and bragging about how far or how high he could bunnyhop?
I wouldn’t doubt it in the least.
Sure, his friends might be at home playing video games but this kid on the bike is probably going to be the reason at least one or two of them picks up a bike or skateboard.
It makes me think, that despite what the media says, kids today are going to be all right after all.
Postscript: Further to the point above, check out Ryan Slusher, age 9, uncorking his first backflip at the Battle of the Bay competition in San Francisco, CA. ..We might have the next Mat Hoffman here.
And to think that much of modern-day racing has its roots with a guy in a vacant lot that wanted to hold some bike races. That guy being Scot Breithaupt.
He didn’t just put BMX racing on the map…the “map” of BMX was basically set on its current course by much of what he learned holding those first few races in the vacant lot.
You could say that Scot Breithaupt, figuratively and literally, wrote the book on BMX racing.
He also founded what could be called BMX’s first sanctioning body of any kind, the Bicycle United Motocross Society (B.U.M.S). Breithaupt…set up organizational features around his races very much as…the sanctioning bodies would base theirs; rulebooks, a point system, a skill level structure, a racing season, trophies and promotions of special races that were the prototype for Nationals. (Wikipedia)
Scot played a role in almost every aspect of BMX: as a promoter, manufacturer, sponsor, team manager and last, but certainly not least, as a racer.
Scot is also widely credited with bringing Cruiser classes to the various sanctioning bodies which also brought more adults to the sport in its early days.
So as we await those first few minutes of the Olympic BMX event, let’s take a minute to thank Scott “OM” Breithaupt for getting the ball rolling in those early days.
Little did he know that it would go from BUMS right up prime time coverage on the boob tube in so short of a time frame.
Throwing the bikes in the car — whether it’s in the trunk, backseat or on the bike rack — and hitting the road is just one of those summertime essentials like beers and barbecues.
Getting out of Dodge and seeing what the next city, state or (if you’re really ambitious) country, has to offer is usually just the thing to shake things up, give you some fresh perspective and open the door to some good times.
Love this pic. (Cribbed from the Skyway Facebook page.)
Back in March, we talked about the comeback that chromoly race forks were experiencing in the race community. Now with more and more people switching to chromoly forks, it seems like the a trend is starting to develop towards chromoly race frames.
Sure, chromoly frames have always been available from the industry stalwarts, S&M and Standard. But beyond those two companies the choices for “steel is real” advocates was noticeably slim.
Now that they made this first cromo frame for me; I think it has reenergized their desire to do a full cromo run.
Which is pretty compelling when you consider that SSquared is one of the more popular race companies at the moment…they obviously think there is a market for these frames.
Other big names in the race community, like Supercross and MCS have also had cromo frames in their lineups for some time now (the Bolt and Speedfreak respectively) despite the widespread use of aluminum frames in the race community.
And as further evidence of the chromoly trend, there are rumblings that GT and Mongoose are also testing out Chromoly race bikes.
Looks like we might have a cro-mo resurgence on our hands in the next few years. I for one am kinda looking forward to it.
Straight out of Florida and the creative mind of Wayne Keller, we’ve got a brand new edit that Wayne describes as “random footage of same old stuff in a new year.”
I think you’ll agree that description doesn’t quite do it justice. In fact, I can pretty much guarantee that you’ll have a smile on your face and ready to go ride after watching this.
This has got to be one of the most spectacular race finishes I have ever seen.
At the Kingston BMX Provincial Qualifier this past weekend, Michael Morris crashed hard over the last jump (watching it from the sidelines it looked like he would be down for the count) but in a split second he bounced back up, grabbed his bike (that is now spinning in front of him) and ran across the finish line…for the win!
As you can imagine the place went bananas!
Check it out.
Kudos to Debbie Meighen Albrough for the great camera work!
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