2009

Here for you, on New Year's Day, is a list of 15 things I want to see much less of (and in some cases never, ever again) in BMX in this foul year of Their Lord, 2009.

- God
- Electro pop on videos
- Toboggans
- Headbands
- Sunglasses
- Girl's pants (can't be said enough really)
- Doing pointless tweaks when hopping over something
- 'Club Rap' in videos
- Slammed seat/massive bars/brakeless bikes that look like everyone got them from the same vending machine
- Park riders riding street for money + coverage
- Horrendous tshirt designs that look like they came out of Topman
- Whips to the pedals
- Freecoasters
- Fixing things that ain't broke. Or should that be fixing things until they ARE broke...(hi Odyssey)
- Brakeless 'street' riders who aren't legit


And here's 15 things I want to see more of in 2009. Get to it.

- Good, proper punk rock on videos
- Scerbo bars. So far pretty much everyone I've seen riding these is legit.
- Real street by real street riders.
- Grinds. Not Luc-E grinds in the skatepark, i mean double pegs on concrete ledges. Fannys.
- Good classic bikes parts, shit that worked for years and didn't need changing.
- People realising that Adam Snowdon is king
- More DUB BMX related events, them guys have it down good.
- Non-anorexic bikes. Fuck your paper plate bike and your breezewhips. Be a man and be prepared to lift some shit.
- Proper hiphop on videos. Wu Tang, Mobb Deep, Big L, Tribe Called Quest, all of that shit. Can't stand all the plastic rap on vids these days.
- Whips to the frame.
- Vic Ayala/Will Taubin/Gonz/Zach Sprinkle appreciation.
- More kids checking out the past classics like Albert Street, All Time Low, Turbulence, Animal 1, Base Brooklyn, Sombra vids, Criminal Mischeif, Seek + Destroy
- FOUR PEGS
- More Black Sabbath on videos
- More SUN AND HEAT.


To cap it off anyway here's Will Taubin's part from an old Ride video called IN THE LIFE. I think i swapped my copy with Adam Durkin for a Primo Hemmorroid seat years ago...anyway watch and learn coz this guy is well STREETER than you, and better than most of the drivel on 'Brighton Aint Ready' (exceptions noted).