RAD *ahem* Party Jamz for legendary BMX legend of legends, Gerry “THE WIZ” Smith’s birthday with me and a crew of rag tag ragamuffins on the decks.
Nita Nita
146 Wythe Ave (at N8th)
Brooklyn NY
FREE • 930pm
*it is with tongues firmly in cheek that we bring you this message.
A quick tour of Brian’s Garage/Shop. If you’re into vintage bmx stuff, this is pretty much heaven right here–an amazing collection of survivor bikes as well as a fully-stocked shop of NOS goodies. Enjoy.
Off to Summerslam 5 today out in Glenwood NJ, about an hour and a half outisde the city. Much fun was had last year and this year should be no exception with tons of sweet vintage bmx bikes, awesome bbq, some icy hot stuntin’, and of course, beer.
So, Ron Wilkerson, Dave Nourie, Brian Blyther, and Mike Dominguez (along with Bob Haro) show up and do a demo at the BMX Worlds in Germany wearing OG Haro jerseys and leathers (Blyther has grown to cop-size though and probably couldn’t find any in his size, god bless him). Watching this video just makes me think of just how shitty bmx geometry was back in the day. I thought it would be funny to try to ride one of my old Haro’s once and believe me, it was brutal.
So I’m watching this video and thinking “well, they’re doing alright for riding such shitty bikes”, especially having seen all those guys ride much better in person at Woodward on modern bikes, I wonder what the new school kids think, they have no idea how bad these bikes suck. Just as I was thinking that, the dude from the crowd airs to head. HA!
****EDIT****According to his facebook page that was none other than Craig Campbell airing to face. One of my favorite riders, ouch.
Mike Dominguez is sadly under represented in this video, just a couple of shots of him on the sideline. Wilkerson is still kicking old Wilkerson style, and Blyther is rocking old Blyther style, except much lower than you are expecting. Nourie is up to his old tricks, and Dominguez… well he’s nowhere to be seen unfortunately. Funny how that works out, as Dominguez was always the naturally talented guy who would just bust out without any practice or anything.
woozy has some really sweet hd footage from the demo, see it after the jump: (more…)
I’ve been talking about doing this for a long time, but I finally pulled the trigger today on a 2009 Giant Bowery. I’d been holding off for a while since I already had a fixie (remember the huf and smoovebert trick stars?) and a shadow conspiracy/invisible:man cruiser for gettin’ around town bikes. Well, I finally sold both of them and am replacing them with a 2009 Giant Bowery, whose black and chromeness just begs for the 1989 Haro Team Master/Sport graphics treatment, which as you can tell from the Photoshop mockup above, is going to be dope. Yes, the 700cmx is definitely and shamelessly derived from DQM Dave’s dqm x trackstar builds from a few years back.
Dave Ortiz’ bike can be found outside Epstein’s, if you want to see it up close.
