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Yo Sick! Issues 6 and 7 out now

Prashant Gopal hooked us up with a bunch of issues of Yo Sick zine a while back and now issues 6 and 7 have been printed up. Hit CapitalBMX for more info. Prashant is always up for zine trades. Check em out!

Posted June 23, 2010 by Jason Morris

Pissed Jeans

Pissed Jeans live at the Cake Shop in NYC. Filmed and edited by Joe Stakun of ILMB fame.

Posted June 23, 2010 by Derek Adams

Gak Attack

Burns & Ferbet released this glob of an edit right before leaving for FBM’s 3rd annual Gypsy Caravan tour. No clue where they’re at, but I know the Team Major Air guys are currently getting weird in Boston. Watch out for flying Four Loko cans & assorted smoke clouds at various Northeast spots throughout the week, and pick up Surfin’ For The Ugly Broads at your local shop.

Posted June 22, 2010 by Brien Kielb

From The Forum

More old school magazine scans thanks to Ed Koenning. Dave Vanderspek and the Curb Dogs were the shit in 1985.

Doing things on bikes that Wally and the Beav never dreamed of…? Uhm, okay.

Posted June 21, 2010 by Derek Adams

BMX-MEN: Osato and Rooftop

Our little trivia contest a while back asked what song Dave Osato rode to in BMX-MEN. I included that question knowing that it would be a tough track to find, not to mention his section is one of my all time favorites.

For those unfamiliar, BMX-MEN was released in 1996 as one of the Poorboy videos. We wanted to post the whole video, but my copy of the video has seen better days. Instead here’s a few of the sections I was able to salvage:

Mike Escamilla:

Dave Osato:

Posted June 20, 2010 by Jason Morris

Salt Lake City, Fool


Go to PropsBMX.tv for more videos.

What is it about Salt Lake City that makes people crazy? Whatever it is, keep doing it. It’s fun to watch. These 2 videos made the internet a radder place today…

Also, it’s funny that the Lizard King’s dad always encouraged him to be a bmxer, so he became a skater. These punk kids these days. Apparently he’s a pretty good rider, and can do handrails and stuff. Dave Thompson, on the other hand, there’s no questioning he’s good at bikes.

Posted June 18, 2010 by Derek Adams

6 Steps to Making Killer Web Edits

Eric Block serves up some tips for dialing your web videos:

In today’s media hungry BMX industry, people cannot get enough of the web edit. If you
arenʼt putting out an edit a week, it seems, you can forget about kids buying your new
whatever, made of post welded, heat treated molecular bonded beeʼs wax coated air
pressurized 4treated cro-mo steel, or getting that hook up from that new energy drink
manufacturer trying to market to the X-treme geners market.

That being said, you canʼt go at this half assed, buddy. With Woodward offering classes
on video and every kid on your street walking around with a three thousand dollar HD
Nikon 5472KR, you best be on your filming game. Just peruse the comments of The
Come Up; half of the disses are on the filming. Riding is secondary in this day of high
tech wizardry.

So, to help you attain Joe Simon like status, here are some basic rules to follow when
making your next edit of broʼs throwing their bars off that gnarly four set outside of your
school.

1. Select your song to edit to. Street should get some hip hop to show that you are
hood. It doesnʼt matter that you are from a small town in Wyoming. People need to
know you are tough. If itʼs a trails edit, pick a nice feel good song that expresses having
fun with friends. Stay away from angsty stuff, being in the woods should be all good
vibes.

2. Make an appropriate intro: Getting right to the riding is like skipping foreplay with your
lady. You gotta get your viewer worked up. Street edits should have multiple shots of
dudes missing tailwhips, falling off rails, etc. Show the viewer that the riders worked for
it. No-one likes robots. If you are shooting trails, make sure you show dudes watering
the lips and berms. You need to demonstrate etiquette. For extra points, a small grill
with some veggie friendly food is a good idea. If you want to be edgy, show em smoking
a bowl.

3. Now that the intro is in place, we can start showing some real riding. Street stuff
should start pretty basic. Maybe up a five rail to barspin. Nothing too tech or too big.
Trails should be some blurry artsy shots of unrecognizable dudeʼs flowing a set.

4. Now we can get into the real stuff. Street should get super tech. Link up two separate
ledges by tossing in a bunnyhop trick between them. If you ainʼt throwing the bars or
whipping the frame, why are you even here? Trails needs to be a little more subtle. Try
and stick to the four Tʼs (tables, turndowns, toboggans, and threeʼs). You want to make
sure it doesnʼt look like you are prepping for the Dewd Tour.

5. Time to end this sucker. select a good banger. Street dudes should be doing four
different tricks across a ledge. Trail dudes can just do a nice train transfer of some
stylish kick outs. Just look happy.

6. Remember, if you havenʼt figured it out yet, donʼt do a park edit. Those are for kids in
nice neighborhoods training to be the next X-games robot. Keep it real, son!

Posted June 16, 2010 by Least Most

New Devo

The first full length Devo album in 20 years, “Something For Everybody”, is available today. What I’ve heard so far sounds really good. From 11 a.m to 8 p.m. PST they will be streaming the entire album as the soundtrack to a live cat party. Tune in live to see 20 cats getting down to the new DEVO album for 9 whole hours. Cats + Devo = Mass Appeal. http://www.ustream.tv/devo

Posted June 15, 2010 by Derek Adams

2×4/Animal Grind Jam Video

Posted June 14, 2010 by Derek Adams

Flickr Find


Spotted by B Tarbell on John Allsopp’s photostream.

Posted June 14, 2010 by Jason Morris

Hessian Hobbies

It’s so damn hot in PA that chillin in the a.c. doesn’t seem like a bad choice, at least until the Cult premiere tonight. That means plenty of time to kill on the internets. Here’s something I found while surfin. I wish my dad was this cool…

Posted June 13, 2010 by Derek Adams

Wizard of odd


Check out Mcgoo’s outstanding article/ interview on legendary influence, Robert ‘Oz’ Osborn here! So rad on so many levels!

Posted June 11, 2010 by Steve Crandall