pathetic new age

I love that video. I always say that it isnt the bike, it is the rider. He obviouslt puts in a ridiculous amount of work to achieve such skill. I am a big fan.

Pretty much everyone here is new and shit so this went down when the video first came out, then I brought it up again a while later and the homie nightlight brought it up again trying to actually make it happen but it didn't
I saw him recently on a ridebmx magazine with that same bike but I'm guessing he's taken care of now

http://www.vitalbmx.com/forums/General-BMX-Talk,2/Wow,1250471?page=4

This is what a true BMXer is like, they still ride even if there bike isn't dialled because they know they will still enjoy it just the same.

There is a correlation between forums, marketing and yes even the internet when it comes to the reasons why freestyle, yes I'm still calling it freestyle - has ended up where it is.

There was a time when you rode with the boys (or girls) that were into it for the reasons that ose guys in the video are into it.

You would trade parts amongst your group, and only end up at the bike shop when you broke something you couldn't fix, or get from one of your mates.

Shit was good, progression came from effort and encouragement within your circle.

No part was bad, nothing was trendy, and your mates would have cut your testicles off with a blunt spoon if you sat around after a session and asked if purple hubs would suit your bike better than what was currently on it.

Now we buy what we're told to, through aggressive marketing, through an anonymous member on the other side of the world, on a forum who heard once that 'those cranks magically turn into spaghetti on a four foot drop' or 'ABC company thermonuclear heat treats their frames in a cryogenic test tube so they are the best'

Yeah, we put our bikes through hell (if we actually ride instead of treat it as a hipster fashion contest) and stuff will break...no matter which company makes it, but the sooner we return back to the roots of what we do - the better we'll become as riders, and dare I say - the better we will treat each other on the forums.

This is my bike:


I don't complain.

The schwinn logo is backwards, I call BS.

dave lawrence wrote:

The schwinn logo is backwards, I call BS.

I'm using a laptop camera.

dave lawrence wrote:

The schwinn logo is backwards, I call BS.

Garnished wrote:

I'm using a laptop camera.

i think its stupid that webcams mirror the image

Garnished wrote:

This is my bike:


I don't complain.

I'm gonna be brutally honest.

That's the biggest piece of shit on here.

Do you have another bike?

dave lawrence wrote:

The schwinn logo is backwards, I call BS.

LOL

dave lawrence wrote:

The schwinn logo is backwards, I call BS.

Brayden_Buckingham wrote:

LOL

i noticed this as well

K_A_N_E_ wrote:

I'm gonna be brutally honest.

That's the biggest piece of shit on here.

Do you have another bike?

Yeah, but the back hub bearings are destroyed.