Losers of the Year and Baggy Pants
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Going through some old New England BMX footage this week I came across an old video part of mine from Wire Zine’s “Losers of the Year video from 1995-ish. Kieran Chapman produced the video, as well as most of the important New England BMX coverage from the time. I was digitizing it for another purpose, but figured I’d post it here… hopefully Kieran doesn’t mind. Not that anyone would want to, but it’s not embeddable. This was definitely the “baggy pants era.” Standard Bikes had revolutionized previously flimsy products with unbreakable components, which resulted in a presumably 50 pound bike for most of this.
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[...] was allegedly a “pro” BMXer. He even has gone so far as to unearth old video parts, and has a plastic medal from an early 90s BMX contest hanging up in the office. Despite all of [...]
Brooke Geery | Extreme Journalist added this brilliant insight on Aug 29 10 at 3:58 pmBrooke added this brilliant insight on Jul 25 10 at 3:06 pmPretty sure you still owned those pants when I met you.
mattsaintg added this brilliant insight on Jul 26 10 at 11:05 pmI must have watched this video literally a thousand times.
Triboro plaza is where I learned almost every trick in the first few years of riding – that includes the backwards hitchhiker 360 barspin to the pedals that you shot at the FL CFB contest at Kona that ended up in Ride! Man, I was 17 I think then!
