Mike Spinner Talks BMX Ideals in Business 8

I say good for him for pursuing something he likes. Riders need quit tearing each other down. No point in that.

I just dont understand why he had to rat.&expose alot of behind closed door transactions.I had mad respect for him the way he handled being the young gun&killing it.with full on reckless abondonment in the style department but making it look easy.but why the debriefing.

What do you mean by " rat.&expose alot of behind closed door transactions?" I don't follow...

He's still a douche

THANKS Keith!

I knew Mike when he was just a young kid who came to Woodward. This kid could be fun as hell and irritating as hell all in the course of 5 minutes, just like any young kid. But he rode. And rode. And rode. He put the time in and pushed the boundaries of what was possible on a bike. You can say all you want about style/etc but Mike did his thing and that is what BMX is about. Your opinion of what bmx is your opinion. It isn't a fact. If bmx becomes like traditional sports where you have to have a certain look and have to ride a certain way it will kill the essence of it.

It sucks the way that Mike left the sport. I thought he had more to do. Most of the people on this site have no idea the amount of pressure it takes to be a top competitor, what toll injuries take on you, or the level of day to day commitment it takes. It is easy to look at 12 minutes worth of contest runs a year and say that their life must be a dream and that it is easy.

Mike took his commitment and applied it to a very successful business. This is pretty cool. It shows what I have been saying for years: BMXers learn more about self reliance and dedication than most people learn in their lifetime.

I take it to be a description of him. Instead of being decent at all aspects of riding (park, street, vert, dirt etc) he aimed PURELY at park to be really good at what he did. And back when he came onto the scene he WAS ahead of his time with the amount of bars and whips and spins he did. Now you have riders who are doing the same kinds of tricks and it's "groundbreaking" and "never been done"? Ridiculous doesn't even begin to explain the hypocrisy that is your average BMX rider. They whine and complain that everyone rides the same, then someone comes out and does something NO ONE ELSE is really doing, and somehow that's bad?

Like him or not he had a pretty big impact in BMX (first 1080 for example), and was a DAMN good rider. Good to see he has moved onto something he can be proud of. Maybe some of the younger shitty kids in BMX will grow up and realize their unnecessary hatred was incredibly unfounded and makes BMX as a whole look bad.

THANKS FOR THE PROPS!!!!!!! DAVE!!