Sponsor Me: Shun Byrd

EYE BMX, Vimeo pages.

Go to www.eyebmx.com, and then proceed to the team rider pages. Click on the little "v" (vimeo) buttons, and watch these dudes shred. Over your head. Over some dreads. Shred up your bed, While getting head. Do it or you're dead. Enough said.

-Erik E

Where You Put Your Grips

Need a new set of bars and pretty much everything is blurring together? Start with the rise of the handlebars, which is the imaginary line drawn straight down from the center of your bar end, to the center of your stem. Now what does a taller bar really do for you? A taller bar will increase your leverage and power over your bike however if the bar is too big it will not have the same effect. Also think about the stem that you have on your bike. A front load stem will generally drop your bars while a top load will raise them slightly. A taller bar will also give you the option of taking a few spacers out from under your stem if you prefer the no spacers look. The next measuremnet you want to look at is up sweep. Up sweep is bascially the radius that the handlebars are bent at. Meaning how much of the grip area goes up from where the handlebar is bent. If you want your bars to feel a little taller then they are go for more up sweep. I myself prefer one degree of up sweep because anymore then that hurts my wrist. Back sweep is how much the grip area bends back toward the rider. I have found that this measurement is all preference depending on rider and style so basically you have to try a few bars for yourself. The measurement that means the least to me is width cause if you buy a super wide bar and you don't like it just break out the hacksaw and cut them down. Before you go crazy with that saw in your hands remember most bars can only be cut an inch or two on both sides due to the butting process which means if you cut to much some bar ends might not fit. Heat treated and butted bars soak the market so construction of bars is fairly the same but if you have a problem bending bars go for a bar that weighs a little more and is backed by a warranty to ensure it holds up to your burliness.

Submit questions to qtbmx23@gmail.com or stop by Richardson Bike Mart


Quentin

Reed Stark Interview

Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 12:56pm
What's your full name, age and where do you live?


How long have you been riding?


Sponsors?



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 12:56pm
i'll meet up for sure man... when is it again?



Reed Stark March 8 at 12:59pm
its all next week. im flying in friday.

My name is Reed Plummer Stark, 17 years old and I live in Maplewood Minnesota which is a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 1:00pm
word... i'll meet up.



Reed Stark March 8 at 1:00pm
sponsors are Sunday bikes flow, Sun Ringle flow, Team Dilly and Underline Clothing.



Reed Stark March 8 at 1:01pm
dope!



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 1:02pm
How long have you been riding?



Reed Stark March 8 at 1:03pm
Ever since I was 9, so 8 years.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 1:09pm
How has your style Changed from then and now?



Reed Stark March 8 at 1:17pm
I always used to run two pegs with brakes and ride skateparks all day. I got bored of the same skateparks and started riding more street. I broke my brake cable at some point and thought I'd try brakeless. I thought it was fun to try and manage my speed without the aid of brakes. Also you never had to worry about your brakes being shitty if your wheel moved, which is sweet. I started riding four pegs because I got bored and thought it would be fun to learn tricks opposite. Now I still ride parks and trails every once in a while, but I mostly ride street.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 2:29pm
Who got you into riding? What was the first crew you rolled around with and who do you roll around with now?



Reed Stark March 8 at 7:42pm
My brother and I used to rollerblade when we were really young. He quit that, started riding, and around a year later I got a bike also. The first crew I rode with was my brother Kyle and our neighbor Kevin Delaney. We built a quarterpipe in my front yard and we always rode it after school. Nowadays I ride mostly with Kyle, Matt Thompson, Seth Peterson and Cody Smiglewski.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 10:36pm
What kind of car are you rollin' in?



Reed Stark March 8 at 10:37pm
honda crv!



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 10:37pm
What else are you into besides BMX?



Reed Stark March 8 at 10:42pm
I bowl, party, golf, and play basketball and baseball. For money I umpire little league baseball games which fucking rules!



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 10:51pm
Do you smoke weed?



Reed Stark March 8 at 10:52pm
I tried it once, I felt funny.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 10:53pm
I know you travel a little bit, but how much do you travel?



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:03pm
I generally take one trip a year to somewhere far away and a few little weekend road trips to border states. I really enjoy seeing new places and riding new spots. It always keeps life interesting.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:04pm
What are some of your favorite tricks to do?



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:07pm
flip double whips, quadruple tailwhips, 1080's and barspins.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:07pm
Have you invented any tricks?



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:10pm
I think I might be one of the only people to ever do a 360 half barspin to fakie on a bank. hahaha



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:11pm
HAHA! I've never seen that before. What PSI do you run in your tires?



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:13pm
Strictly 69 PSI. It's a smooth ride for sure.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:15pm
Send me some photos.



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:17pm












Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:20pm
Where's one place you'd like to go ride that you haven't ridden yet?... and you know that you'll go there for sure.



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:21pm




Reed Stark March 8 at 11:23pm
the first 3 are by Ben Austin. I dont know who took the crooked photo. Sorry for the lack of street photos, I usually just film shit! haha



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:25pm
I've always wanted to ride New York City, but never have. I'm pretty sure I'll make it there eventually.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:28pm
When are you coming to Texas again?



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:32pm
Friday!



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:33pm
My nigga. Will you be signing autographs anywhere?



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:35pm
If by signing autographs you mean drawing dicks on people passed out, then yes. I'll be signing those autographs pretty much everywhere.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:36pm
How many stairs can you 360?



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:38pm
Well how big are the stairs?



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:39pm
Normal stair size...



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:41pm
I guess I've never really maxed it out. Maybe 20? I feel like my legs would blow out if it was bigger than that.



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:41pm
That's what she said.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:42pm
Do you holler at bitches?



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:45pm
Soooooo many bitches.



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:48pm
Got any set plans for your life?



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:49pm
My set plan for my life is to not have a set plan in my life.



Reed Stark March 8 at 11:50pm
*goin to bed, continue answering tomorrow!*



Tazz Hernandez March 8 at 11:51pm
Okay. Goodnight cutie.



Reed Stark March 9 at 8:10pm
ready to rock



Tazz Hernandez March 9 at 11:06pm
If you could go anywhere with 5 people, where would you go and who would you take?



Reed Stark March 10 at 1:07pm
I would probably bring Kyle Stark, Seth Peterson, Riley McMaster, Ryan Guggenberger, and Florian Stecker. We would take a road trip from Minnesota to New York to party with the BMXFU guys, cruise down the coast to Texas to chill with the SOLIDSTEEL guys, drive from there all the way up to Vancouver to drop off Riley, and then make it back home to Minnesota. That trip would be the jam!



Tazz Hernandez March 11 at 12:06pm
Make it happen. Any Stark video parts coming out any time soon?



Reed Stark March 11 at 5:28pm
Kyle has recently been just making web videos, but he plans on putting out Team Dilly's third full length dvd "Team Dilly is the Man" haha. I've been filming a bunch for that and also I'll probably have a few clips or a split section in the double disc dvd package including "Fully Cocked" by Clint Zabodyn and "Rock Hard" by Chris Kowaleski. Shit should be good!



Tazz Hernandez March 11 at 5:29pm
Give us some websites to check out. Youtubes, vimeos... anything.



Reed Stark March 11 at 5:44pm
websites:
www.sundaybikes.com
www.teamdilly.blogspot.com

video links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rz7G66Geg
http://www.sundaybikes.com/v3/2009/10/19/reed-stark-edit/#top
http://espn.go.com/action/bmx/blog?post=4298145



Tazz Hernandez March 11 at 5:45pm
Got any more pictures to send?



Reed Stark March 11 at 6:01pm
hahahhaha












Reed Stark March 11 at 6:07pm
cal burgstahler



Tazz Hernandez March 11 at 6:51pm
Holy shit that's me. How often do you get to ride your bike?



Reed Stark March 12 at 1:28am
ahha yep! During the summer i can ride every day,



Reed Stark March 12 at 1:28am
during winter I usually ride once or twice a week at indoor parks. Snow is a serious bummer.



Tazz Hernandez March 12 at 5:21pm
How do you like your local indoor parks?



Reed Stark March 13 at 6:39pm
I usually go to 3rd lair. It's a pretty fun park but the owner and a lot of the people who work there are fucking douche bags. I wish I could support a different skatepark, but there aren't too many around.



Tazz Hernandez March 13 at 7:53pm
Move to Texas.



Reed Stark March 14 at 11:18pm
haha fuckin right! gonna check out UT pretty soon and see how that is. might go there.



Tazz Hernandez March 15 at 12:18am
Hell yeah. Do you want to end this thing or keep going?



Reed Stark March 20 at 4:09pm
haha its up to you man. where were you in austin!?



Tazz Hernandez March 20 at 4:09pm
Not in Austin. No ride.



Reed Stark March 20 at 4:18pm
ahhh weak. austin is allllllright.



Tazz Hernandez March 20 at 4:29pm
Tulsa is sooo much better.



Reed Stark March 20 at 4:59pm
haha yeah seems deece. party with miles



Tazz Hernandez March 20 at 5:06pm
I haven't seen him in a while. Are you out of Texas now?



Reed Stark March 20 at 7:17pm
yeah i flew back to the north today



Tazz Hernandez March 20 at 7:35pm
Do you miss Texas yet?



Reed Stark March 21 at 3:09pm
honestly, yeah. Already planning my next trip back haha



Tazz Hernandez March 21 at 4:56pm
Everyone does. =)

Juke

I don't know why I haven't posted about this yet. I've started Juke. We're selling Juke Tshirts to raise money to start a skatepark in downtown Dallas. Shirts will be $10 and the amazing Tree & Leaf guys are making them. Every shirt comes with a 2 free session pass. Get ready to Juke.

juke.com coming soon

JOIN THE JUKE GROUP ON FACEBOOK

Gates Produdos?

This Is How They Do It

Ride.

All the time.

Stricker Frame for sale, CHEAP.

The good buddy, Timothy Frankenstein is selling an S&M Stricker, dirt cheap.

Make an offer here:
http://www.myspace.com/wakeupbleeding

Ukraine Edit

I don't know these guys, but they sent me a link to there vid and it has bikes in it =) enjoy.

East Hollywood Art Cycle.

Oh yeah, aside from Bmx-stunting, I also zipped the 20" down to the East Hollywood Art Cycle on Saturday evening, just a couple of blocks from the pad.

The East Hollywood Art Cycle is a street fair about, well, Art and Cycles. Go figure?

I heard a cool 2piece band, called Whales (Whqles). They had a fun sound, and it's always fun to see bands play in the middle of Santa Monica Blvd, which is useually just packed with cars. Stupid cars.


(camera phone snap of Whqles)

http://www.myspace.com/whqles (Whaqles myspace to go listen)

I also ran in to the good buddy, Hernan. Hernan is a sweet bmx'er and fixy street racer, who's most recent edit caused a bit of stir on thecomeup, and various other bmx interweb chat rooms.


(camera phone Hernan. Bike valet, bitches)

Bridging the Gap Vol.1 from Joseph Lobato on Vimeo.

(Hern in Bridging the gap)

Too busy riding...

Me too... busy riding :)

The weather was seriously kick ass in LA this weekend. I did a photo shoot at the trails and Staples Center Saturday. The Staples Center shoot was interesting. It went a little something like this: Getting ready to do a trick, cops come walking by sketching on us, cops leave, Camera man lays down on the ground to shoot the flick, I do my trick, Camera man stands up, cops come back, we walk away. Cops are dumb.

And on Sunday, I decided to leave the car home and pedal to the trails. It's about 10 miles but mostly through Griffith Park, so it was a very enjoyable commute. Got to the trails an hour or so before anybody else, did some maintenance to the roll in, fixed some landings, had a PBR, kicked it in the shade and waited for the session.

Here is a flick... of me... being to busy to blog...

Erik E,

Hey

Someone else post. I'm busy... Riding.

Bikes Aren't Fun!

GO WATCH THIS.

http://vimeo.com/10046944

Nudnik's Trip to Ray's

"About a month ago, I took a roadtrip to Cleveland, OH with 2 friends to go ride a bike riders paradise. It involved 40 hours of driving for 20 hours of riding but it was totally worth it. Travis, Clayton and I had a blast at Ray's and are already making plans to go this summer if possible.

This is only my second ever video that I've been truly stoked on the outcome. I admit it's a little long for the average viewer but since I made this video for nobody but myself, I think it's perfect. The entire process had quite a few ups and downs but all in all, it was a great way to spend an ENTIRE Sunday.

I look forward to my next roadtrip and my next video documenting it all. Watch the video and let me know what you think. Be aware, there is some "foul" language."

Ryan Dickerson's Scooter Stolen

Ryan's scooter was stolen the other night in Garland. Everyone keep an eye out for it. Follow that bitch and find out where he lives... so we can kill him.

Did You Get That?

Aldo sent me this email...

"Hey man, i got a hold of a camera like a month ago and i can't seem to put it down. So a bunch of us decided to film like a 20 to 30 minute DVD of our dumb antics with some serious riding also. I don't care to make profit off it so I'm just gonna give a copy to anyone who wants one. It's coming together good so far, and we've been riding/filming with a bunch of garland locals."

Spring Time Means...

More Sun!!!

At 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, we set our clocks forward one hour ahead of standard time ("spring forward").

I can't wait.

Kevin Spanier Failure/Snafu Edit

We try to not let you down at CrankFaster

Everything about this is FUCKING retarded

Keep it Clean

Photo by Chris Korbey. Go check his stuff out at ChrisKorbey.com

Quickie with Mike Escamilla

What's your full name?
Mike Escamilla

Where were you born and where do you live now?
Born in La Mirada, Ca. but split my time in Encinitas and Hollywood

How did you start riding and when?
all the kids in the neighbor hood rode and there was alot of them so it was just what you did...i was about 11 when i first tried to bunnyhop

You usually run 4 pegs and brakes. Any setup changes in the future?
nope


What's a normal day for you?
well its always changes, if its a riding day, which is about 4 times a week or more, then its up early and head out to meet someone, somedays ill skydive in the mornings first, alot of my days are spent driving around though which sucks sometimes.

Favorite food spot?
mexican food..maybe Pinches Tacos or Hugos Tacos

What's are a couple of tricks that you'll never get tired of doing?
canadian nose pick and fast backward grinds on ramps

Where do you work?
i have a few i consult on but mainly if im working its doing stunts when i can

What PSI do you run in your tires?
80

How's Demolition doing?
Great, we are all filming for the new DVD, been riding and taking mini trip all the time been awesome.

Favorite people to ride with?
Brian Kachinsky and Dave Osato but lately ive been having a blast with Biz and Enns..

How much do you get to ride in a week?
Lately like 4 times a week or more

Name a couple of your favorite spots to ride and why.
Barcelona and New Zealand...the spts and people are awesome

Got any beef with BMX right now?
nah not really, to busy riding and having fun to worry about the made up drama..it all goes away in the end

What do you think of the CrankFasterBlog?
so far so good

Last words...
take one more crank

Tommy "Dang Dang" Dugan Interview on the come up.

CLICK HERE to go check that shit.

Brian Dodson

Zack Griffith's Standard 250 S

Frame: Standard 250S 21"

Fork: Odyssey Race

Bars: MacNeil XLT Silencer 8.25"rise 8"w

Stem: Profile Top load

Grips: Kink Alfa

Barends: Fit PC Plugs

Headset: Animal integrated

Seatpost: Kink Stump

Seat: MacNeil SL Pivotal

Cranks: Profile BMX-GDH 175mm

Sprocket: Animal Sprocky Balboa 29T

Chain: Shadow Interlock

Brakes: Diatech Fiesta

Lever: Odyssey Mono Lever(small)

Gyro: Snafu Mobeus Detangler

Cables: Snafu Astroglide

Front Tire: Premium Refuse Resist Folding 2.40

Front Rim: Gsport Rollcage

Front Hub: Simple Eject

Front Hub Guard: Simple Eject

Rear Tire: Revenge Industries 2.10

Rear Rim: Gsport Ribcage

Rear Hub: KHE Reverse Freecoster

Rear Hub Guard: FBM

Spokes: Shadow Triple Butted

Nipples: Gsport Hex Nipples

Pedals: Animal PC

Pedal Pins: DMR Pedal Pins

Pegs: Animal MK3

Crank Faster

REP

Mike Escamilla Edit

Mike Escamilla's new Demolition edit from the past few months of traveling... enjoy.

Demolition Parts: Mike "Rooftop" Escamilla's March Edit from VOLUME/DEMOLITION on Vimeo.

Steven Jensen Got Fixed

quick feb edit from steven jensen on Vimeo.

Larry Clack Getting Flow From Standard

Nigga's hooked up. =)

Standard

Dropout and get baked!!!

OK so hopefully you learned something from my last post about forks and you've just been waiting patiently for me to finish this thing out. Dropouts are fairly simple in regards to construction it is a simple plate that is laser cut out of a 4130 plate of chromoly and is welded onto the fork leg. Now depending on how you ride, dropout shape and thickness are the two main areas of concern. Street riders should opt for a dropout that is big enough that it will either sit flush with the peg or maybe hang just below to aid in protecting the hub. You will also find a dropout that is a little thicker will keep your dropouts nice and straight given the occasional missed grind. Dropouts that are super thin and have holes cut in them next to the weld should be avoided at all cost due to the fact that it creates an area of high stress when matched with pegs. The investment cast dropouts that are on We The People and Fly forks are made in a different process then laser cutting. Instead the dropout is molded with a section of the fork leg to make the dropout and the bottom of the fork leg one piece decreasing the chance of having a broken dropout. After all things on the fork have been welded it is time for the fork to be heat treated. Heat treating is a process that is usually done to tubing before welding but some companies have stepped things up with a post weld heat treatment. This post weld heat treating is designed to make the fork stronger by reducing the number of brittle areas around the weld. After the heat treating process has been completed the fork will now perform as one piece as opposed to tubes joined together. The only difference between each companies heat treating is the temperature at which they bake the forks at. Industry secret for you kids is that the optimum temperature for baking chromoly is anywhere between 500F to 800F thought I'd share that with you. Anything you want to know email me at QTBMX23@GMAIL.COM and I'll give you an answer.