Random As Rhyme

So here is a quick update on my Selfless BMX project for those of you who have been following along.

On February 12th I sent the parts I mentioned before plus 3 of my “If Skateboarding is not a crime why is bmx?” T-shirts (that were produced in conjunction with the Action Sports Coalition), a bunch of stickers and one more Hoffman Bikes stem I found kicking around.

My parts box was pretty much empty aside form washers/cables etc I might need. But as luck would have it I snagged a pair of clear plastic Animal Steven Hamilton pedals in a product toss a few days ago, so I should have no problems getting a new box of goodies back together to ship out.

As far as cost goes, it was not cheap and it’s going to take about a month for the parts to get to Jamaica but I figure my karma points are threw the roof right now and that’s something that’s never bad.

I am probably going to start researching how to get some not for profit funding slowly so that the next box I send (I have people wanting to donate already) will not be at such a cost to me. Some funding would hopefully also allow me to send some new parts as well which would be awesome.

In other global BMX news it seems like someone else is doing some good stuff for BMX around the world. Chris San Augustin from North California organizes events in Thailand. Here is a video of the fourth one he has done.

I’m off to try and learn no handed airs.

When I first started riding I thought BMX was pretty much a North American specific sport. Naive I know but I was pretty young (14) and didn’t really have anyone to tell me any different, I assumed other countries had better things to worry about than riding kids bikes.

Over the years thanks to more media coverage I realized that BMX is pretty much world wide. Thanks to vimeo and youtube it’s much easier to find footage of ridiers all around the world.

So I compiled a list of videos in places that you would not immediately thing ‘BMX’ and posted them here. Enjoy.

New Czech Republic

Thailand

Russia

Germany

Shoe-G has been holding it down in Japan for some time

Hong Kong Rider “Milk Boy”

Jamaica

After posting all these videos, mainly the Jamaica one, I got to thinking how hard it must be to get good current parts in some countries.

I think I am going to look in the old parts bin and send some of my better condition stuff over. I can’t imagine what it would be like to get a straight set of bars for free from someone in another country with the same interests as you.