BMX Weekly

New podcast with Tyler Brown! Today, we talked about the State Finals at San Diego BMX last month and the Holeshot Challenge, as well as the Pro results from this weekend in Rock Hill. We also discussed the Wood-Larsen-Kennedy battle going into the Grands, electric bikes, whether racing is on the decline, Team USA, training, coaching, and whether riders prefer to train more than race these days—and so more. Check it out!

Paul Roberts and I check in with the Wildman, Todd Lyons, and catch up on everything SE has been up to this year. He shares his thoughts on the industry, his newly dialed-in garage, the Olympics, and more.

New episode podcast with Mr. John Salami. We go back to when John got into BMX in 1979 in New Jersey, making his way out to California in 1988, hooking up with Chris Moeller, becoming a POW, working at Rightway, and then GT, getting fired two times, and then making his way into the mountain bike industry as a soigneur in the mid-90s, working with Schwinn, Specialized, Shaun Palmer, traveling the world, getting into jiu-jitsu, becoming a black belt, what he is up to these days as a cinema photographer, and of course we talk about the Northeast Vintage BMX Festival at New Jersey BMX Hall, a famed banquet which is set for October the 5th. John tells us all about this new event, the sponsors, who's going to be there, and everything you need to know about it and so much more. Check it out

With the sad passing of BMX icon Harry Leary, it only made sense to jump on and do a quick podcast with Dr. J and share some Harry stories. We also touch on the Olympics, Frogtown, the GT Malvens Classic and the British Championships at Derby and a few other topics. Check it out.

Tyler Brown, fresh off of the plane from Paris, and I catch up at San Diego BMX and talk about the French dominating the Men's podium, and we also cover the Women’s from the weekend's Olympic Games.

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2024 UCI World Championship wrap-up with Tyler Brown.

Tyler gives us his take on the World Championships in Rock Hill and his thoughts on the Challenge and Masters Class cancellations during Worlds week, how it went down, the vibe, and how the UCI handled the situation.

Of course, with the last chance for the Elite Men and Women to gain Olympics points and qualification in Rock Hill, it was a high pressure weekend for a lot of riders and countries to make it to Paris for the Games.

We talk about both Elite Men and Women classes from the weekend who made the main, who didn't, and thoughts on both Alise Post and Joris Daudet at 33 years old winning their 3rd Elite Rainbow Jerseys and being the oldest to do it in World Championships history.

Lot's more discussed, check it out.

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It’s been a long time coming, this podcast featuring my good friend Martin Murray, who had spent a few weeks in the US for DIRTYFEST and the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey.

We recorded this episode at Robbie Miranda’s house in Huntington Beach while Robbie was hosting a BBQ, so expect a few guests chiming in with questions for Martin during the podcast.

We delved into Martin’s early days in the UK, including his 4th place finish at the Brighton World Championships in 1996 in the Junior category, which kickstarted his pro career alongside his brother Stephen.

Martin shared insights from his time in the US, including his battle with Dylan Clayton for the UK Pro/Elite title, winning the 4x National Series, and landing a Dirt Magazine cover with Steve Peat, who he now works with at Peaty’s.

We also discussed some of the UK teams Martin and Stephen’s family managed over the years, his time at 6th form college with Scott Beaumont, Martin’s win at King of Dirt at the age of 13, trail riding, participation in Red Bull’s Empire of Dirt, retirement from racing, and more about his current role at Peaty’s.

And, of course, we touched on how Martin’s brother Stephen is doing these days since moving back to the UK after his injury almost 20 years ago, and more.

Alan Foster Podcast up next.

Alan talks about moving to California, working at a bike shop, living at the POW house, riding Twin Palms, riding for Elf, TNT, Airwalk, Schwinn and Free Agent.

We talk about Alan winning his first AA race at the ABA Del Mar Nationals in San Diego, being in the mid 90s when sponsorships and the industry caught a good wave, with magazines, company cars and plenty of opportunities as a pro rider.

We also talk about training in the 90s, being race-smart and reading the race. Alan talks about transitioning into the business side of the industry with Airwalk while still racing, buying houses and schools and really setting himself up for his post-racing career and being wise with his money.

We talk about current times, riding bikes, traveling, Dirty Fest and much more.

Good to sit down with Clive Gosling over the weekend while he is in California for the week and catch up on everything GT since he took the new role 6 months ago as the global head of marketing for the brand.

Clive talks about his history with GT that goes back to 1984 through the 90s and onto today and plans moving forward.

I'm also happy to announce and stoked that I will be working once again with Clive, Steve Spencer and GT with my Grass Roots and Team programs with some really cool things in the works on the race front in North America over the next few years which we talk about on the Podcast.

We talk about GT's Kye Whyte after his World Cup win going into this summer's Paris Olympics, GT's presence in the UK and France, some of the riders, programs and teams GT supports in racing.

Clive also gives us his thoughts on marketing, branding, sponsorship, social media, MTB, Wyn Masters, Tyler McCaul and more.

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Kiyomi has been on the short list for a few years now to do a podcast and last week we finally sat down and recorded one which was Kiyomi's first ever podcast.

Kiyomi tells us about growing up at Camp Pendleton (San Diego) with his mom and brother, discovering BMX in 77 and first racing in 79 in El Cajon.

Racing in the SD area at Rancho, Lakeside, and Kearny - meeting Johnny Johnson, progressing through the local ranks to expert, racing every day of the week including trips to the Orange Y and seeing all the factory riders that were winning Nationals at the time.

We talk about sponsorship, riding for local teams like Hidden Valley Bicycles with Shawn Texas, moving onto the Torker Support team, looking up to guys like Eddy King (Factory Torker at the time.)

Kiyomi talks about his first National win, still struggling to get support and the frustrations that came with it and quitting for awhile, going to school, working and coming back to riding and racing in the late 80s in the 17 and over x class and getting on Peddle Power, Tech and later Redline and Haro.

We talk about Kiyomi being up for Am titles, turning Pro, riding for Parkpre, racing mountain bikes, winning the ABA Pro Cruiser title before catching the mid 90s wave of BMX on the up, getting on Trek and being one of the highest paid AAs at the time. We talk about Kiyomi's other Pro Cruiser titles, World Championships Mains and his first AA Win alongside being the rider/team support for Oakley.

We talk about being let go mid-season on Trek, going back to Haro, racing the Vans Triple Crown, retiring, coming back to race Vet/Masters in 05 and winning the NBL Masters title, riding MX these days and working at Magnaflow in San Diego for over 25 years now and counting.

We also talk about some of the magazine covers Kiyomi has had, riders he looked up to, his riding style, training and so much more.

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