Posts tagged BMX

Spotted on Facebook this week. Whether you hate or love the Cybertruck, they are pretty hilarious. For sale soon on Al's Rapid Transit

Charlie Kelly was on the Cycle Jerks podcast recently. There are lots of great stories in that interview, but one of my favorites was about the review of the first MountainBike in the February 1980 issue of BMX Plus, where they managed to misspell Tom Ritchey's name! Charlie has it nicely documented on fattireflyer.com

Gary Fisher and I started “MountainBikes” in the fall of 1979, with nine Tom Ritchey frames. One of the bikes we built went to Monte Ward, whose friend Dean Bradley was the editor of BMX Plus! magazine. Dean was blown away.

We ran our first ad in that issue. This brought us to the attention of Southern California off road riders., where we found kindred souls.

Dean didn’t even know how to spell Tom Ritchey’s name. We didn’t even have decals yet, so it didn’t appear anywhere on the frame, but he made the most profound assessment of the new bike…ever.

“This month’s 26-inch test bike is called a Mountain Bike. Chances are you have never heard of it before, but believe me, you will be hearing a lot about this revolutionary bike in the future.”

Read the full BMX Plus! review at fattireflyer.com

The 1971 motorcycle racing documentary On Any Sunday is often credited with introducing BMX to a wider audience. The opening credits shows kids riding wheelies and jumping their Schwinn Sting-Rays in the dirt. In just a few years this So Cal sport would go international and create a whole new industry. Watch the movie in its entirety below!

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Last week this image popped into my mind--a pro rider bunny hopping a high hurdle. I'd cut it out of a magazine as a kid and put it on my wall. I just couldn't remember who the rider was or which magazine, though I knew it had to be BMX Action or BMX Plus.

A google search turned up the pic right away--I knew the second I saw it. Legendary BMX racer Brent Patterson from Hayward, California.

Back then there was no internet, no Instagram. This stuff wasn't on TV, either. We only had magazines. The magazines were literally everything to us, and they delivered month after month.

A little internet sleuthing and I found it: the September 1980 issues of BMX Action. If you didn't know, you can check out full PDFs of tons of great old magazines at oldschoolmags.com

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