Freestyle-Spaghetti Legs!!

All around bicycle guru Kyle Orico came down from Bean Town this past weekend to build up a new FBM Steadfast(shredfast) and wasted no time getting to the trails and blasting out some kickers.. Kyle is a street dog so it feels good knowing we had a part converting him to the trail side of things.. Kyle will be rolling with us on Gypsy this year too.. Things should get wild in the next few weeks..

We have some Steadfast Frames here so get on one and feel the difference. Berzerkers and Gypsy frames will be rolling through the door in the next day or two also..

Kyle O roasting Bernicky..

FBM Steadfast Frames.. This thing likes getting dirty, make its dreams come true..


Here is last years Gypsy Tour. We have the first part , check it out.. We might be rolling through your neighborhood this year.. Circuit part starts at 5:20.

Gypsy Caravan 2our from FBM BMX on Vimeo.

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The sidehack from hell

I saw this on the Odyssey site yesterday while doing those links for the last post. A sidehack on a mega-ramp is just wrong on so many levels. How do you not do a dead sailor on something so off balance? But then, this is the Nitro Circus crew we're talking about.

Nitro Circus Sidehack

BMX sidehacks came out in the late 70's or early '80's I think, and quickly faded. The only published BMX sidehack freestyle I know of was Dale Perez and Frank Garrido riding the 15 Bowl at Pipline Skatepark on a sidehack. Dale was pedaling, and Frank was the monkey. They'd carve near the top of the huge bowl, sidehack side up, and Frank would jump off the hack and out of the bowl.
When I worked at Wizard Publications in 1986, Gork was trying to bring sidehacks back in BMX racing. He got his 'hack out of the warehouse one day to take it to a race, and Gork, me, Andy, and Lew all rode it around the parking lot a bit. Gork and I started doing some freestyle on it, just goofing around. Brake endos didn't work very well, but we were able to get some decent backwards wheelies, with me as the monkey.
That's it for the history of BMX sidehack freestyle. Once again, the Nitro Circus crew is going to break new ground... and probably some bones as well.

In totally unrelated news, I now have over 800 blog posts up. Thanks for reading, everyone.

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