2020 was a weird year for everyone but there were plenty of good times riding bikes.
Vans & Cult reunite for the new mild-melting film, Trying Times, which chronicles the experience of a shared crew of BMX riders road tripping from Southern California to Las Vegas. Managing to keep things light and easy despite the currently challenging landscape, the film captures the camaraderie, core tenets of each brand and the iconic riding that backs it up.
Name: Chijioke Okafo
Age: 32
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Merritt, Kink, Vans, Bikesonwheels, BMXFU
The FAT favorite list:
-Spot to ride: One with the homies
-BMX video: Champagne
-Web video: 6IXTAPE2
Marseille resident and BMX Avenue / Stress BMX representative Valentin Cotot tackles the French streets in his latest video. Buttery lines and some extra awesome clips like that rail ride gap.
Taj Mihelich just finished a book of cartoons called Back Before They Invented Open Face Helmets. It is a collection of work from the last few years and a handful of new things. There is a lot of bicycle humor and he wrote a few essays. The book is 164 pages which you can order from Taj directly.
From the back cover:
This book is 164 pages of my cartoons and doodles. There is a bunch of bicycle comics (including a number from Sunday Comics with Taj series on Pinkbike), lots of low-brow humor, dad jokes, questionable puns, and some things that are probably only funny to me. There's a few things I'm actually serious about, but hopefully you can't tell, and even a few essays. I call it a collection of not-too-artsy-fartsy work I've done over the last few years (though, there are a few fart jokes).
7 years worth of random clips. It's pretty much all icepicks.
A little project shot with homies through out the last two years. Started as a solo project with my dawg eddy but as usual the homies always gotta get a clip! Shoutout to everyone who was willing to go hit up spots and get things done (once we decided to stop chilling around and film lol) couldn't have done it without y'all & now its on too the next video.
This is a trailer for the upcoming release of Welcome To Pittsburgh 6.9 which is a precursor to the video Welcome To Pittsburgh 69 which will be released in the Fall of 2021.
Little edit with some Buffalo NY homies
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After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.