Old guy (51) chiming in here. Grew up around the BMX scene back in the early-mid 80's. What I notice about this video is how incredibly smooth they are with the tricks. A lot of subtlety in their riding you just don't see (or maybe I don't) in the big air days of today. I just love seeing how smooth these guys are.

@zacharyjacobson4206

Жыл бұрын

Once you learn the trick you do it a thousand times not just move on to one more rotation. Style is King.

@joeg5400

Жыл бұрын

If you want to see real style from modern guys watch the S&M dirt stuff like Matty Aquizap and Clint Reynolds

@stevelampard

Жыл бұрын

Another old guy here that grew up on a BMX. I noticed the smoothness too. I'm not sure i was that smooth on my old Raleigh Burner 🤔

@PK-vd3vo

Жыл бұрын

@@stevelampard To this day I still have memories of the likes of Bart McDaniel, Harry Leary, etc. speed jumping like it was an art form. Loved that stuff.

@stevelampard

Жыл бұрын

@@PK-vd3vo my heroes were Bob Haro and Eddie Fiola etc. So smooth and refined. Our tricks and jumps were a bit more kamikaze.🤣

Shot with an old school camcorder too, love it! These truly were the GOOD old days!

Brian and Dave were and still are GREAT friends. Used to ride with them when Dave would come down to Brians parents house. Dave had amazing strength and always went burly. Always seemed kinda weird watching Blyther ride for GT. He was always the Haro brand in my childhood mind.

@beyondthegreysky9865

2 жыл бұрын

This was an awesome tour...Two legends...

@briandaniels8945

Жыл бұрын

Crazy dave from New york?

@Just_Another_Sunday

Жыл бұрын

@@briandaniels8945 Dave Voeklner

So amazing that events like this one were put in the local BMX shops back in the good old days.. 🤘

I miss my old days of bmx bike a skateboard riding was so fun.

From when the illusion and the desire invaded everything. A wonderful document that shows a world where things were more beautiful than now. Long live to continue riding a bicycle. Much peace and health for all.

those are the kings of bmx shows

My favourite era of bmx, the gt guys were always dialled in

Thank you, Dave The Lord Voelker was my hero when I was a kid, this brings back such great memories.

@NeilLB7

20 күн бұрын

Dave is probably the greatest bmx freestyle and ramp rider of all time. His street skills were off the chart for his time and even now by comparison. He makes big air tricks look simple.

This is so epic ....love from Germany

Brings back so many great memories of BMX in the 90’s. Thanks for the upload!

@beyondthegreysky9865

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, these shows were always the highlight of summer...

Thanks very much to share this footage with us. It's very precious to me. I rode BMX between 88-00 and Dave volker and Blyther are my favorite riders. Thanks from Brasil!

seen this same GT show in like 2000/2001. was the coolest thing ever even though I was a skateboarder kid.

So glad to see you this. A bmx team came to my elementary school back in the 90s. We also saw one at an RV and boat show. Good old days. Thanks.

Damn those guys are pretty good

I was a dirt jumper at the time in Las Vegas and a buddy of mine rode for GT. This was right around the time of the third X games at mission Beach in San Diego if I'm not mistaken. I remember Dave and the freestyle team.. they were old school even back then.

I raced as a pro in my class in the mid 80's. My GT pro was my ride, pride & joy, just loved that bike.. But damn! there was no way for me to get my bike to go that high in such a short distance and land that smooth, these guys take this thing to a new level.

what an awesome show !!!

This is the kind of riding that gets pumped to ride again. Crazy how they whip those heavy GT bikes like nothing.

This team( or similar) visited my school in elementary, around this time. I STILL love bicycle’s till this day…

Volker seriously rules and Blyther is rad as well. I honestly didn’t know he was still riding in 98. Thanks for posting I seriously enjoyed this

Thanks so much for posting! I was at these as well, i'm in that crowd somewhere! I was a HUGE flatland rider and these guys were my idols. I think I still have a signed shirt from these guys.

Always wanted a GT powerlite back then.....still do

This was awesome to see I was big into bmx early 2000s , just built up the same nos Haro frame I had as a teenager I don’t even ride it much but just brings back great memories

Their expert skill level make these tricks look so very easy. Even many of todays new school riders would really have to practice at some of these tricks that look effortless here. It was a different time and style but the difficulty is high.

I remember when they came to my school in 98, super dope

It's really amazing to see the evolution of BMX. 98 was my senior year of high school, and I had a blue GT Vertigo! Thanks for sharing this video!

This is just simply beautiful and to think where the sport is today. Goosebumps guarantied. Thankyou for filming this 24 years ago

I remember these days when I used to do this growing up in Fresno ! Fresno to sac 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻😬

Stunning footage ✌🏻 slick tricks miss these times ❤️

KILLER BMX SHOW

@beyondthegreysky9865

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this type of riding gets me stoked...

Great video... Thank you.

Excelente show

I saw one of these I think early 2000’s. Great show but one of the guys got so mad from failing a couple tricks. He went up the quarter pipe, threw his bike down, and went in his trailer for the rest of the show

We'd bike to this Eriks every weekend and eat at that Subway too! This was Eden Prairie & Glen Lake, lots of good memories from that store and the old workers.

Take me back to 98’ please.

Good ole days

Amazing !!!!

Damn these guys r fkn smooth with it ...

great video, well done and THX mate!

@beyondthegreysky9865

3 жыл бұрын

It is some awesome footage for sure..thanks

I want to see this type of riding again, I appreciate the new school, but man these guys were flawless

Good ol‘ days 🔥

woah having a flashback watching this wow

Thanks for this.

@beyondthegreysky9865

Жыл бұрын

Greatest video ever!!!

@beyondthegreysky9865

Жыл бұрын

It really is, even Dave said so himself!!!

Cool it stops after that first song, we wanna' hear 1998 and Gabe Weed .....where's the flatland ESPNNNNN... Beautiful ramp riding and all though. I am having a great day hope you are too

The best of music

@81eagle

3 жыл бұрын

I know it!

This was my era. Those plazas all still exist but that space that was a bike shop is now a Family Dollar.

Love BMX. Moisés Sergipe Brasil!

genio dave voelker "!!

Vintage 📼 🤙

Back in the 80’s, I seen the GT guys in Schaumburg IL, and the Haro guys outside a Bike Shop in Algonquin IL.

They are too much, they are too hot ! How can they master all these tricks ? They are masters 😎

Nostalgia !

Damn we had it good in the 80's and 90's!

You know when I was a kid, having a big crank up front was what we thought better. Because you could go faster, I remember having a small huffy bike with a small crank up front and no free coaster, while my friends had gts,dynos, mongoose,redlines, and haros. Now a days it's all small cranks, you don't see people on big crank old bmx bikes.

Bring them back

Yeah I rode in the 90s a lot Of dirt some street and park but my roots were definitely dirt jumping in trails we would build we would ride all day everyday I miss it a lot

Class

Met voelker in san diego in 98, he's so big! For a bmxer he's a big man. I was 20 years old 5'10" 180 lbs and he was probably 6'2" probably 230 lbs.

@beyondthegreysky9865

Жыл бұрын

What? You got the wrong guy..

Duuuude lol memories I seen this show when they rolled thru my hometown. My friends bike was stolen while we were watching it lol dammit

@beyondthegreysky9865

Жыл бұрын

Yeah dude, this was my life...love it..

Soo badass

Omg my gt zone is the same color as that yellow gold gt and the same rims

I've been trying to pinpoint the exact moment pro riders got to start wearing their own solid colored t-shirts. The search continues beyond 1998.

@beyondthegreysky9865

Жыл бұрын

Early 90's, but for shows like GT, You have to look professional, not a dirtbag..

@TheDwightMamba

Жыл бұрын

@@beyondthegreysky9865 , I was born in the middle of the 1970s. Those BMX suits were the mountain top for me as a kid.

Ahh the good days

How do they get so much air off that ramp, that they can jump over a person?

Nostalgy !

Minnesota 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Wahoooo! Who is the yellow intégral helmet, I have got the poster in four parts of him

We had the Haro team do a demonstration down town next day I had a Haro sport

Was that a Voelker signature 1998 pro performer frame that they were riding?

Badass

They riding Dyno gt I remember mine Chrome just like this one

BMX was always exciting, even though it seems tame by today's standards.

Anyone know what type GT this is? Performer? Freestyle tour?

06:12 I love how he chooses to go over the kids faces

Is this at Eric in vadnais height ?

What cities were these in? I was way into BMX and GT at the time, so I would have been all over this. I can't help but wonder if I was at one of these shows, and just can't remember...

@beyondthegreysky9865

5 жыл бұрын

I know one was in Burnsville, but not sure about the others. Such a great show with these legendary riders.

@ebutuoy141592

4 жыл бұрын

The 05/31/98 show is in Eden Prairie, strip mall at the NE corner of Hwy 5 and Eden Prairie Rd.

@Moondoggy1941

3 жыл бұрын

In the title it says Minnesota.

So they're doing the tricks gliding on bikes that same people today are doing a motorcycles the 80s are great I miss them

What in the world is this music?

999 to 1.000 Like!🥳

I seen a similar X-games must have been the same people 🤔, in 1999.

Отличное выступление. Как называется песни

There's prob someone there sitting with their blinker on waiting to turn into a parking spot in front of subway

@beyondthegreysky9865

Жыл бұрын

Then you see a bike flying and get stoked..

It's like RAD 2.0

I was 11 years old

Seeing the Nike logos in BMX

You know it's authentic because of the Saturn advertising.

I wish that seated rollbacks never existed.

that boneless ! 1:13

Brazil 👀

Perfert gaiss 👍

RAD

I was at one of these that I believe that redline bikes put together or it was a local bike shop anyways they lined up about 6 kids to bunny hop over and one of the kids dog ran towards the kid laying down just as the dude jumped the kids and it hit the dog right on the back of the neck with his front tire and eat shit so hard and everyone was worried about the dog and homie was unconscious on the ground with clearly a broken collarbone and bleeding.

What’s the song? Hook a brother up!

@beyondthegreysky9865

2 жыл бұрын

My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit.

98 or 88?

@beyondthegreysky9865

2 жыл бұрын

Could be either one, riding looked similar, but it's 1998.

not feeling the music, but the show looked awesome, miss the old days

I just came to praise the lord

A GT show without flatland riders????

@tylerjohnston4588

2 жыл бұрын

I saw flatland

Maybe skip the sensitive music.

The music doesn’t go well with video.