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Steven Hamilton
barcodebilly:
That cart hop is crazy.. love his bike
O.G. David:
Would be nice if someone uploaded scans from his latest "it's been a rough year" interview from dig...
SaltyMonkey:
Dig's subscription price has went down. May need to subscribe to a bmx magazine for the first time in many years.
Séance:
--- Quote from: Flossy;3605482 ---Yeah i guess he is! I guess that retrospective viewing of bmx doesnt happen for the younger riders (i only started riding three years ago having come from skateboarding, the respect for the pioneers of the sport and the interest in what they did to push the sport carried over from skateboarding's culture). But then bmx still seems 10 years behind skateboarding in terms of culture to me at least, so maybe it will just take some time.
Also, that bike check is awesome but it is slightly annoying they left off the stuff that wasnt animal.
--- End quote ---
Definitely true. BMX could still learn a great deal from skateboarding.
Hamilton is definitely sort of the Penny of BMX, though I wish he could be more the Gall of it.
Skateboarding culture definitely destroys BMX culture for the most part as well.
Definitely a lot more to it and I appreciate its attempts to maintain a less than squeaky clean image all the time.
I've definitely long wished for a Thrasher or Low Card for BMX, but there really isn't one.
In terms of the revering their pioneers and things of that nature, I do really appreciate how much respect the average skater still has for people like Cardiel and the like, but it's not there all the time.
I think Gareth Stehr's pretty much sponsor-less right now, due to Foundation deciding to try to become more mainstream and "relavant", getting rid of all their older lineup, minus Duffel.
I do think that if I went to the average skatepark, too, and asked a normal skater kid in high school who Stehr or Tosh Townend was, he probably wouldn't have a clue.
Sebastian:
It just depends on who you're talking to, I think. I just rode with a group of younger riders, and it was pretty predictable who knew about dudes like Hamilton. Hint: it was the kids with heavier, beat up bikes with more of a street style of riding-- the ones that clearly gave less of a fuck, to put it simply.
If you subscribe to that kind of riding, you're bound to eventually discover Hamilton, Edwin, Lino, Rat...all the dudes that we took cues from when we were younger. And while we might have the advantage of being a product of that particular generation of BMXers, I remember the people I rode with the first time around still knew about and appreciated riders even further back like DMC, Vic Murphy, Kelly Baker, etc. etc.
I don't think BMX has a history of disregarding its legends, necessarily, but I do think that for the new generation of riders (those that have been inundated with the rapid commercialization and internet coverage of the sport), there's just a huge blind spot that wasn't as obvious 10 years ago and hasn't yet been addressed by most media outlets in BMX.
I think Dig is probably the closest thing we have to Thrasher. Its a shame it remains one of the smaller publications, because if it were pervasive in the way that Thrasher has been-- and for decades, like Thrasher-- more kids would be exposed to that side of BMX and (to borrow a very tired phrase) 'know their roots' a little better.
Alright, I'm done now. Just a few thoughts.
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