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Podcast interviews, insight, news and views for BMX Racing.

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Podcast interviews, insight, news and views for BMX Racing.

    Podcast – Kiyomi Waller

    Podcast – Kiyomi Waller

    Kiyomi has been on the short list for a few years now to do a podcast and last week we finally sat down and recorded one which was Kiyomi's first ever podcast.



    Kiyomi tells us about growing up at Camp Pendleton (San Diego) with his mom and brother, discovering BMX in 77 and first racing in 79 in El Cajon.



    Racing in the SD area at Rancho, Lakeside, and Kearny - meeting Johnny Johnson, progressing through the local ranks to expert, racing every day of the week including trips to the Orange Y and seeing all the factory riders that were winning Nationals at the time.



    We talk about sponsorship, riding for local teams like Hidden Valley Bicycles with Shawn Texas, moving onto the Torker Support team, looking up to guys like Eddy King (Factory Torker at the time.)



    Kiyomi talks about his first National win, still struggling to get support and the frustrations that came with it and quitting for awhile, going to school, working and coming back to riding and racing in the late 80s in the 17 and over x class and getting on Peddle Power, Tech and later Redline and Haro.



    We talk about Kiyomi being up for Am titles, turning Pro, riding for Parkpre, racing mountain bikes, winning the ABA Pro Cruiser title before catching the mid 90s wave of BMX on the up, getting on Trek and being one of the highest paid AAs at the time. We talk about Kiyomi's other Pro Cruiser titles, World Championships Mains and his first AA Win alongside being the rider/team support for Oakley.



    We talk about being let go mid-season on Trek, going back to Haro, racing the Vans Triple Crown, retiring, coming back to race Vet/Masters in 05 and winning the NBL Masters title, riding MX these days and working at Magnaflow in San Diego for over 25 years now and counting.



    We also talk about some of the magazine covers Kiyomi has had, riders he looked up to, his riding style, training and so much more.



    Photo: @usabmx 

    • 1 hr 46 min
    Podcast – Joey Albright

    Podcast – Joey Albright

    Great to catch up with my friend Joey Albright while he was out in California with his son TJ for the 250 West Coast Supercross Series.

    I became friends with Joey in the 2000s and we raced together in Vet Pro; since then I've always followed what he’s up to through social media.

    Joey talks about getting into BMX racing at the Jockey Hill and Kingston tracks (just outside New York) and racing both ABA and NBL.

    Joey talks about meeting the Henderson family, progressing to racing Nationals in the 90s while riding for Dans, battling with Colin Proctor, Timmy Sonner and Mike McGonigle in Am, getting suspended and eventually turning Pro.  

    We chat about him moving onto Felt, GT, Madera Profile, Haro, Fly Racing A Pro and later Vet Pro and some drama with John Purse - once in Rockford and an incident at the NBL Grands.

    We hit on some of Joey's highlights in racing including winning the NBL Vet Pro title the final year of NBL in Kentucky.

    We move into talking about Joey's son TJ's BMX career, winning at a young age, getting into dirt bikes and climbing the ranks, the cost and sacrifices of it all and how much some families plow into racing and training on the MX circuit; TJ making his way to Pro and signing this year with West Coast Supercross for the Rock River Yamaha team.

    Great to catch up with Joey, to talk BMX and moto, what BMX racing could maybe learn from moto in media, the depth of US Pro racing and so much more.

    Photo: @rockriveryamaharacing 

    • 1 hr 14 min
    New Year Podcast with Dr. J and Jorg de Louw

    New Year Podcast with Dr. J and Jorg de Louw

    New Year Podcast with Dr. J and Jorg de Louw in the back of the van. Just a quick one this time: Are we kooks for watching old races on YouTube? We talk about team changes and why some riders are let go as late as last week with not much time to put a new deal together.



    Jorg gives us a little history on the inception of the UCI World Cup in 1995 and some of the behind the scenes stuff he and Gerrit Does did to get the series up and running, working with the UCI. We discuss how the series evolved and changed over the years, including Downhill BMX events and some of the World Cup winners in the pre-Olympic era.



    Jorg talks about some of the stuff he's been up to while in California for the holidays and a little about which Dutch men and women are looking good for qualifying as we go into the Olympic Year. Cheers!

    • 27 min
    Podcast – ABA National Number 1 Am (1981) Jason Wharton

    Podcast – ABA National Number 1 Am (1981) Jason Wharton

    Next up on the Podcast, Eddy King and I sat down with the 3rd ever ABA National number 1 Amature, Jason Wharton. This was recorded last week while Eddy and Jason were in town for a mountainbike race.



    Jason talked about starting racing in Arizona, the local scene, progressing, riding for JMC and tripling at the 81 Grands, and in the process becoming the ABA Am number 1. Jason talked about getting on Diamond Back with the likes of Eddy, Harry Leary, Doug Davis, Pistol Pete, and Jason's dad becoming the Team Manager as well during the 80s.



    We also chatted about some of the riders Jason battled with from Monty Gray, Jeff Moten, Jason Jenson, Eddie Sigmund, Robert Swick just to name a few.



    We talked Jason about being on Diamond Back, traveling the country, winding down racing, life after BMX, becoming a barber, and family man and mountain biking.



    Check it out.



    Photo: USA BMX

    • 45 min
    End of Season Catch Up Podcast with Dr. J

    End of Season Catch Up Podcast with Dr. J

    End of Season Catch Up Podcast with Dr. J.



    We talk about Summer Camps, Dr. J's new job, Pro racing at the Grands, Alec Bob winning the UCI Pump Track World Championships, Sam Willoughby parting ways with the Australian National Team, Barry Nobles' Social Media, and has Harry Leary been canceled? A little scoop for 2024, and more.



    Photo Credit: Fifteen BMX

    • 41 min
    Podcast – Crit Plate’s Mike Rodrigues

    Podcast – Crit Plate’s Mike Rodrigues

    This podcast has been in the works for a few years now with Crit Plate's Mike Rodrigues.



    Mike literally flew into town to do this, and not only did we record a podcast but he also hung out for the day and started to put some ideas together to work together for our teams and grassroots programs for 2024. Mike also donated custom plates for our upcoming 2nd Annual British BMX Hall of Fame with 01 plates for next weekend's event over in the UK.



    We talk all things Crit plates on this Pod from starting in 1980, growing Crit and sponsoring some of the biggest Pros and Teams of the 80s and 90s including Murray, Blue Max, Charles Townsend, Todd Slavik, Eric Rupe, Shelby James and Todd Lyons just to name a few.



    Mike talks about Crit's rivalry with Zeronine, paying riders $2500 for getting a Magazine cover and UGP coming into the plate game.



    We talk about Crit plate sponsoring the 1992 NBL Grands until Mike got to the track and saw GT banners everywhere and chasing down Bob Tedesco to find out what was going on.



    We talked about his hiatus from BMX to coming back in 2009 and so much more. Check it out.

    • 1 hr 19 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
52 Ratings

52 Ratings

Joe Baumert ,

Great content!

Excellent job and interviews. Well done Dale.

Ordep22 ,

Great pod.

A good listen for sure.

Jobert297 ,

Covers bmx from 80’s to present

Im from the 90’s era and they cover a lot from that time and present 🤘🏻

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