The skate zine show There Is Xerox On The Insides Of Your Eyelids is headed to Southern California at the Torrance Art Museum. The show opens July 24th and runs until September 4th.

I need to get in on this…
With thanks to Andy Jenkins and The Skateboard Mag.

Bob Osborn, owner of Wizard Publications, which published iconic magazines BMX Action (née Bicycle Motocross Action), FREESTYLIN’, and briefly Homeboy, as well as the book The Complete Book of BMX (1984), is a the kind of person the world could do to have a few more of. His free spirit and eye for talent indirectly influenced the course of my life. By hiring younger, kindred spirits on little more than a hunch (e.g., Andy Jenkins, Spike Jonze, and Mark Lewman), he changed the …

Well, the second giant Old School BMX gathering of the year hath gone down. From Nuno Oliveira and Defgrip:
I hit up the Old School BMX show in Bellflower, CA today. As you can image, there was Old School BMX all over the place, and I was on hand to shoot some photos of it. There was a great turnout, and a bunch of rad stuff being displayed.
Click through to check out the pics, and click HERE to check out more on Ride.
-Nuno

Many thanks to Nuno for …

BMX Society has a new interview up with Andy Jenkins. Here’s their introduction:
For our first interview since evolving into the BMX Society, it is my distinct pleasure to present the profile of a very important BMX personage and an all around good guy. A man who should require no introduction, but since as kids we often just tore into new issues of our favorite BMX magazines, focusing only on the content and sometimes not even noticing the creators of what we were taking …

When Kip Williamson started posting pictures of sick, sick custom-built bikes on Facebook, I remembered his name from the old UGP videos that got me through hours of bike maintenance at the shop in Seattle when I worked as a bike mechanic. His style as a video editor, flatland rider, and bike-builder are undeniable. The more I saw of his bikes, the more I knew we needed to get a closer look.

Roy Christopher: First up: Where are you from? How long have you been riding? What got you into BMX?
Kip …

I got this 1985 Haro Master Freestyler in the summer of 1986. It was my first “real” freestyle bike, and I rode it hard for two years.

I didn’t know it at the time, but apparently the pink ones are super rare. Most verions of this bike were white, chrome, or green, with the latter being ubiquitous in freestyle BMX from the bike’s release in 1985 until the sport’s initial downturn in the early 90s.
I held up the pink Haro contingent for those two years, competing in every contest my parents …

Here’s a guest post by my man Jason Childers. Enjoy!
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On Friday afternoon, A.J. and I took a little trip eastward to the decidedly rural towns of Bastrop and Smithville, Texas. Neither of these places is actually worth stopping for — unless you happen to enjoy skateboarding or riding the freestyle bikes. We happen to dig both, so we totally went there!

I kept eating shit on my left side for some reason. We even got one of ‘em on tape. Maybe my right brain hemisphere was outta wack.

There is a certain …

Yep, only a few more tweaks and my Dyno will be one-hundred percent dialed. It’s a tasteful mix of schools old and new.

This Tech 3 lever will have to go, but I thought I’d run it for old time’s sake until the new one comes in.

The Terrible One bars, stock Dyno stem, the 1″ threaded forks with 990 mounts I raved about earlier, and the one Hoffman Day Smith peg I always run (for fire hydrants, steamrollers, and hang-fives).

The classic Dyno Compe frame with its flipped GT downtube-as-toptube design.

It’s driven …

In the early 90s, AT&T ran a series of commercials that posed some futuristic, technologically enabled task (e.g., “Have you ever borrowed a book from thousands of miles away?”), and then answered it emphatically (”You will.”), claiming they’d be the company to technologically enable such a task. I believe they’ve all come to pass except one. As Stewart Brand once said, “Technology marches on, over you or through you, take your pick.”

I can’t help but think that many of the technological advances we debate and marvel about were downright inevitable. …