Paved Paradise: Backlash BMX

Snakebite BMX have been upping their game lately, and this week dropped this great “Paved Paradise” video from the archives. Featuring sections from Cory Stratychuck, Simon O’Brien, Jeff Desroche, Steve Fong, & Travis Collier. Definitely Wirth a watch if you missed this first time round.

Flatland Manifesto #1 2001

The archive keep coming, another great blast from the past today that many of you might have seen but need to. Shane Neville did an amazing job with Flatland Manifesto, issue 1 has great coverage from the La Revolution contest in Toronto, Houston Texas scene repo, Art Thomason, How to pinky squeak with Cory Stratychuk, and a amazing Anaheim B3 contest edit: look out for the xft hitch backwards backpacker line from Martti Kuoppa at 32:34 mark that just keeps going. 16 years later this still rules!

Vibe5 2002

Another day, another great video from the archives. Jeff Desroche’s Vibe 5 video from 2002, featuring great contest footage from the Toronto contest, and Florida CFB. So much good riding from the likes of Viki Gomez, Aaron Frost, Jeff Desroche, Dane Beardsley, Terry Adams, Ed Nussbaum, Phil Dolan, Cory Stratychuk and many more. It’s well worth sitting down and enjoying this one! Thanks Claybom for the upload.

Throwback Thursdays – Braun Flatground 2004

It was great to see the Dutch flatland scene hosting events a few weeks back over in Amsterdam. For this weeks throwback thursdays lets go back to 2004, and one of the biggest flatland contests of perhaps all time, the Braun Flatground! Featuring amazing riding from Matti Rose, Alex Jumelin, Martti Kuoppa, Ryoji Yamamoto, Michael Sommer, Frank Lucas, Michael Steingraeber, Viki Gomez, Jeff Desroche and many more!

Metro Jam 2004

Jeff Desroche, Kotaro Tanaka, Jesse Puente, Pete Brandt, Ryoji Yamamoto, Aaron Behnke, Matt Wilhelm, and Seji Sekata feature in this great throwback edit Roosevelt Taylor just published. It’s not too long till the annual Toronto contest which widely regarded as the first BIG contest of the year! Enjoy this one!

Jesse Puente joins PegasusBMX!

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Jeff Desroche sent over this lil’ bit of sponsorship news, congratulations on the hook up Jesse! Here’s the press release:

“Pegasusbmx would like to welcome Jesse Puente to the team. One of the best ever flatland creators will now be joining Dez Maarsen, Bruno Zebu, Jeff DesRoche, Jero and Cory Strat. on our flatland parts design crew. We will be designing new parts and bringing them to the flatland community. Designed by flatlanders – Built by riders for Flatland riders- Yep!”

www.pegasusbmx.com/team

Dez Maarsen on Pegasus BMX!

A few weeks ago we broke the news, Jeff Desroche is back in the game and started his own company, Pegasus BMX! And today we just the official news Dez Maarsen just signed with Jeff’s company! Read the official press release plus Dez’s words.

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Official Press Release.
Pegasus BMX is proud to welcome the Dutch shredder Dez Maarsen to the team. Dez is one of the top flatland riders at this moment. He possess all round flatland skills, from technical front wheel switches to single bangers. With a big bag of signature tricks he’s been pushing his riding with smooth pivoting tricks combined with an amazing flow. His passion for flatland is big and he always wants to promote flatland in the best way he can. As we are both driven to push flatland we’re stoked to collaborate to develop new product! Starting with Dez’ first signature product, the .45 Bullet Peg. Stay tuned!

Dez Maarsen:
I’m stoked to announce my new sponsor Pegasus BMX by the legendary Jeff DesRoche. Jeff is a big influence in pushing flatland to a next level with insane brakeless tricks way behead of time. I’m honored to team up with Pegasus BMX to produce new parts and be part of this amazing team with Jeff, Bruno Zebu, Stephan Kornely, Jeronimo and Cory Stratychuk. Together we want to push BMX Flatland to the next level. We’re currently busy producing my signature pegs that will be available soon!

More info about Pegasus BMX on www.pegasusbmx.com and the Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pegasusbmx/789587697799349