Below is a complete wrap-up from the Local Exposure Tour. To check out nearly 200 photos from the trip, click the following links.
This years Local Exposure Tour was one for the books! With more participants than ever before and the largest group of pro riders, three RV's for transportation and three Harley's on the road "The Golden Ticket" was a huge success! If you are new to LET what we do is pile into three RV's with the best pro's in BMX and as much media as we can gather. We stop at six BMX parks and the local riders get a chance to be caught by our cameras as well as win a ton of product from our sponsors. The grand prize or this years "Golden Ticket" is a complete sponsorship package for one lucky rider that gets chosen by the pro's on tour! Go to www.localexposuretour.com for more details.
Congratulations to Marcos Torres who won the Escondido Sports Center stop and was hand selected as the top rider of the tour by all the pro's on the trip. Marcos has a busy year in front of him but with a ton of support! He now has a one-year flow sponsorship from DC Shoes, Bell Helmets, Fox Clothing, Specialized Bicycles, and a Boost Pre-Paid Mobile phone with free service for one year!!! He will be attending the open Qualifiers at the first two stops of the Action Sports Pro Tour (expenses paid by LET), shooting a video part in the next S9F Production and enjoying himself on next year’s LET with all the pro's! Keep an eye on this kid for 2007!
Bonus!!!
Because the competition was so close we used a little pull to offer a second rider an amazing opportunity through LET! The pro riders on the tour selected Johnny Stevens to receive a spot at the Free Flow Final in Orlando FL.!!! Johnny showed amazing riding skills in AZ and we just had to recognize. LET will be flying him to Orlando to compete against all the winners of the Free Flow Tour events throughout the year. The overall winner of the Free Flow Final will have a guest spot among the world’s best in the ASPT Finals! Last year Mike Spinner (who was a LET 3 competitor) won the guest spot and qualified first among all the riders in BMX park! Congratulations to Johnny and Marcos!
The word is definitely out that L.E.T. is the premier summer tour for BMX. We had BMX riders traveling from hundreds of miles away crossing state and even international lines just to get a chance to ride with their favorite pros and have a shot at winning some awesome prizes. We saw some amazing talent out there just waiting to be exposed. There was so much going on that we shot almost 100 hours of footage just for our DVD!
"The Golden Ticket" was all about taking it outdoors for 2007. We visited all outdoor parks a few concrete and even some dirt jumps where available for the riders on tour. The outdoor setting also allowed for the biggest turnouts in LET history! The Reed Park Wheels Court was one of the most packed locations and a couple of months ago bicycles where not even allowed to ride there! Every inch of space at the park was completely packed. Da Compound, in Perris CA, which is run by Shane Guillen was also a huge stop. There were trains of 50 plus riders on the dirt jumps all day long that included local talent mixed in with pros like Corey Bohan, Chase Hawk, Heath Pinter, and more! The two park sections where constantly packed as well. All together we visited thousands of local BMX riders and fans with our crew of photographers and cameramen. The coverage that comes out of this will show that there is a ton of riders out there pushing the sport and that BMX is a lifestyle for so many young people.
You'll have to wait until Brian Purdy captures and edits the ridiculous amount of all HD footage that was shot by our camera crew including Chad Shackelford, Will Stroud and Tony. Release for the DVD is set to be mid September '07. This year’s soundtrack will also feature beats from BMX dirt jumping legend TJ Lavin, so be sure to pick it up in stores once it releases. In the meantime there are still a few copies of LET 3 floating around out there so go pick one up.
We also had on the entire tour with us a three-man crew from Rush HD who where shooting for a one hour high definition show called, "Nomads" which should air by the end of the year exclusively on Dish Network. Keep an eye on Fuel TV over the next couple of weeks for "The Weekly Update with Boost Mobile". Dave Mavro caught some great shots from the road and they will have reports on three separate shows! We especially need to thank a few people for making this tour an awesome experience.
Every single kid that came out to ride at our stops!!!
Dwayne Ordonez - Albuquerque Parks and Rec.
Alison Johnson - Mesa Parks and Rec.
Steve Pattea and Jack - Yavapai Nation
Peter Richie - Escondido Sports Center
Shane Guillen - Da Compound
Lazlo Kelemen - Mission Valley
Karl and John - Skydive Elsinore www.skydiveelsinore.com
Gary Mulock - Lake Elsinore Motocross www.lakeelsinoremxpark.net
David Dimond - Apex Racing www.apexracing.com
Yamaha Motorcycles – www.yamaha-motor.com
Gary Laplant – www.motoventures.com
Crystal - Perris BMX
All the pro riders on the trip!
The drivers for the Boost and Fox RV's
Catfish
Micah
Jeff Neely
Gator
Brian Lee
Jayk
Ryan Fudger
A.S.P.T.
Free Flow Tour
All the guys from Wink Inc
Dave Mavro
Mark Losey
Matt from BNQT.com
Momma Cooke
Allan Cooke
DC Shoes
Boost Mobile
BNQT.com
Bell
Harley Davidson
Fox
Specialized
Kicker
Ogio
Ron Ayers Trailers
Ray Price Harley Davidson www.rayprice.com
Anyone else I missed we love you to...See you next year!
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