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End of Season Catch Up Podcast with Dr. J.

We talk about Summer Camps, Dr. J's new job, Pro racing at the Grands, Alec Bob winning the UCI Pump Track World Championships, Sam Willoughby parting ways with the Australian National Team, Barry Nobles' Social Media, and has Harry Leary been canceled? A little scoop for 2024, and more.

Photo Credit: Fifteen BMX

This podcast has been in the works for a few years now with Crit Plate's Mike Rodrigues.

Mike literally flew into town to do this, and not only did we record a podcast but he also hung out for the day and started to put some ideas together to work together for our teams and grassroots programs for 2024. Mike also donated custom plates for our upcoming 2nd Annual British BMX Hall of Fame with 01 plates for next weekend's event over in the UK.

We talk all things Crit plates on this Pod from starting in 1980, growing Crit and sponsoring some of the biggest Pros and Teams of the 80s and 90s including Murray, Blue Max, Charles Townsend, Todd Slavik, Eric Rupe, Shelby James and Todd Lyons just to name a few.

Mike talks about Crit's rivalry with Zeronine, paying riders $2500 for getting a Magazine cover and UGP coming into the plate game.

We talk about Crit plate sponsoring the 1992 NBL Grands until Mike got to the track and saw GT banners everywhere and chasing down Bob Tedesco to find out what was going on.

We talked about his hiatus from BMX to coming back in 2009 and so much more. Check it out.

A couple of weeks ago Kenny Hunter and I headed up to Temecula to meet up with Maris Strombergs to shoot some photos at the pump track then headed over to his house to film an interview.

We talk about Maris getting back into BMX a little more lately, coaching and potentially working with China on their BMX program alongside thoughts on today's racing, some of the guys on top at the moment in the Elite class going into Paris in 2024.

We turn back the clock a bit and talk about Maris moving to the US after winning the 08 Olympic Games, battling with Kyle Bennett and Randy Stumpfhauser for the ABA Title, the London Games, not worried about having guys like Sam Willoughby and Mike Day behind him on a 3rd straight on any Supercross track, playing golf, having kids and much more.

Photos, filmed and edited by: Kenny Hunter

On this Podcast we catch up with Clive Gosling, who was out in California last week visiting from the UK.

Clive has just taken on a full time position at GT working with the brand directly in California and gives us a little insight on the job and his own history with GT that goes back to the 80s and 90s, in BMX and MTB, right up to current times, working with the likes of GT's Olympic Silver medalist Kye Whyte in the UK.

Clive also joined photographer Kenny Hunter and I last weekend as we road tripped to Frogtown. We touched on the weekend and perhaps ideas for a Frogtown UK in the future.

Paul Roberts joins us during the Podcast and talks about his own history with Clive that goes back to racing in London together in the 80s, the rivalry and both Paul and Clive being two of the guys that were part of the UK King of Dirt early days series during the Nationals, and some of the names that emerged from that series, including X-Games Gold Medalist Stephen Murray.

It's always comedy having Clive and Paul together. Check it out.

Photo: Kenny Hunter

New Podcast posted and this time with a good friend of mine and lead singer of the Guana Batz, Pip Hancox.

Pip talks about getting into BMX in the UK and racing at Eastway, Earls Court when the sport was in its infancy and riding with guys like Marcus Rich and Tim O’Shea. Pip tells us about leaving school in the early 80s, the start of the Guana Batz, touring, making records and traveling the World with the band.

We talk about Pip meeting Guana Batz fan Neal Wood and his brother, moving to the US, his love for riding bikes alongside witnessing the Harry Leary and Chris Moeller fight in Reno.

We touch on living in Temecula, training Motocross/SX riders, Coffee Club, touring Europe with the band this year, Van life and so much more.

The UCI Worlds from Glasgow, Scotland are done and dusted. Lots to talk about and while everything is fresh, I met up with Tyler Brown bright and early Monday morning to record a Podcast and get straight into it.

Check it out.

Just completed a Podcast and catch up with Tyler Brown over at San Diego BMX.

We talk all the latest with our summer camps, State Championships at San Diego BMX coming up in October and what Tyler has planned with the Holeshot Challenge.

As the UCI World Championships are about to get underway in Glasgow, Scotland - we talk about who's looking good going in, how the Elite and Masters classes are stacking up and a little throwback to when both Tyler and I were racing the Masters World Championships ourselves in the past.

Check it out.

Continuing Podcasts with former teammates - this time I dive into the career of In-Hee Lee.

In-Hee chats about getting into BMX riding for Canyon Bikes before getting picked up on CW with teammates Jason Donnell, Justin Green, George Seevers, Robert MacPherson, Eric Carter, Charles Townsend and Todd Lyons.

We talk titles and In-Hee tells us about some of the National Age Group and Cruiser titles he's won. Racing the World Championships and winning 7 of them and some of the battles he had overseas from Holland's Robert de Wilde, Chile's Jaquin Ramolfo, and France's Florent Poussin. Worlds battles, alongside In-Hee being one of the youngest riders to jump the huge doubles at the 90 World Championships in France.

In-Hee shares about getting picked up by GT, his relationship with Rich Long, going shopping at the GT Factory and traveling the World with the likes of Gary Ellis, Danny Nelson, Anthony Reyes, and Alexis Vergara just to name a few.

In-Hee talks about taking his education seriously, injuries, family, rivals racing for Free Agent towards the end of his career and more.

New Podcast and this episode is with Mr. Barry Nilson.

Barry discovered BMX in Southern California in the Summer of 76 and talks about the early days racing all over SoCal in the late 70s right up to still riding today and his BMX journey along the way.

We talk about what it was like living and racing in the Hot Bed of BMX, being an Orange Y local, right up to being on the gate for the last ever race on the track and its closing in 2016.

Barry talks about some of the teams he rode for from RP Racing, S&M, 3-D Racing, Shimano/GT, GT, Haro, Answer, Fullerton Bike alongside some other teams right up to these days with his own company, EKG Bikes.

We talk about Barry not only being an Orange Y Local but also a Sheep Hills regular and all of the riding spots that were around at the time.

Barry talks about some of the ABA Cups he has won, riding and being tech service at the races for Shimano with his good friend Chad Roberts, clips coming into BMX, photos he's had in BMX Action, Racing Vet Pro and just missing out on the title at the Grands.

We talk about what Barry is up to these days, riding at Dirty Fest, the new 56 and over class and much more.

Thanks, Barry. I thoroughly enjoyed hanging out and talking.

Catch-up with BMX pioneer and Hall of Famer, Byron Friday.

Byron was truly at the start of BMX in the early 70s, rode and worked for iconic brands over the decades and even went to school with motocross legend Johnny O’Mara.

Byron talks aboutbtraveling to Holland in the 80s to stay with Gerrit Does (the Godfather of European BMX), going to England to ride and conduct training schools at Iswich, hanging out with Craig Schofield, partying at the Hippodrome, drinking pints of Lager and Lime in London’s King Road.

I share about my time staying with Byron in LA when I first moved to the US full time in the 90s, doing gates with Byron, Greg Hill and Harry Leary at Greg’s house and riding in Greg’s backyard and the local LA trails.

Byron touches on the early days in mountain bikes, riding with John Tomac, racing Norba’s and working for Mountain Bike Action as mountain biking was blowing up.

Byron also chats about a lot of the early day photographers and behind-the-scenes in both BMX and mountain bikes, Cherie Currie lead vocalist of The Runaways, Dirty Fest and more.