…or does he? Travis Collier performs ‘bicycle ballet’ for the YTV children’s panel television show Zoink’d. That kid Caden seems like a jerk.
Tattoos and BMX are nothing new. Many riders are covered head to toe in them, and professional names like John ‘Luc-E’ Englebert, Mike ‘Big Island’ Castillo, and even Canada’s Greg Nicholson have turned their professional career from BMX to the craft of tattooing. I’ve been seeing Lee Dennis, who counts himself on the pro teams of Sunday Bikes and Primo Products, tattoo his friends and himself for a while now, and recently make the jump from garages and his living room to a professional studio. My interactions with Lee in the past had been slim, and I had simply known him as a soft spoken rider that let his riding do most of the talking. One Saturday I took the trip down to St. Catharine’s to meet up with him and speak openly about tattooing, being self taught, balancing it with his responsibilities as a pro rider, and more. Click below to read the interview as we get tattooed with Lee Dennis.
Montreal’s Justin Hughes has had some rough luck with injuries over the past couple years but shows here what he can do between downtime. Keep an eye on this kid! Filmed and edited by Vlad Poloukhine.
A few weeks back we posted Mike Gray‘s section from the 2012 Hunt contest, here is the other Canadian Hunt section featuring Montreal’s Joel Marchand.
This old footage of Richard Gallant went online last week and it’s awesome.
Jon-Rae Fletcher has had a roller coaster ride of a music career – he’s probably one of the best live acts most people have never seen, and he has now disappeared from the Canadian music scene twice.
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With the speed that the internet moves it’s here today and gone tomorrow with most BMX videos. This was one of my favourite videos that we posted from all of last year and I think it deserves another watch. Check out the Big Baby Carl Arnett, filmed and edited by Riley McMaster.
This is a few months old now but John kills it and this edit deserves some shine time. Not to mention it was filmed by Andrew Schubert and it ends with something you don’t see enough of in web edits these days.
Just in case you weren’t bummed to have missed the Gorilla Jam, Kerr makes you wish you we’re there even more with this edit. That looks like a time!!