Theme Tuesdays: Rider Owned

Aug 20, 2013

I’m not exactly sure how or when it happened but BMX riders have managed to successfully infiltrate nearly every area of the car scene.

From pro level riders with awesome cars, to pro level drivers with a bikes they tinker with during the off season, the BMX/car crossover is simply impossible to ignore.

Today’s Theme Tuesday is a small sampling of the connections I’ve worked out so far and since it doesn’t include most of the people I know locally expect a part two to come along at some point.

I’ve tried to include a photo or video of all the riders mentioned beneath each of their cars.

bmx_car_ets_1 — You all obviously know that Nigel From Engineered to Slide is building this sick drift ute

bmx_car_ets_2 — But did you know he rides too?

bmx_car_ryan_t_2 — Ryan Tuerck has become pretty via his Tuerck’d web series…

bmx_car_ryan_t — …but he’s also been known to on occasion shred a BMX

bmx_car_pat_cyr — Pat Cyr also used to ride, in fact he still has a Standard Trailboss he refuses to sell… sadly I couldn’t find a pic of him on it

rob_nolli — Rob Nolli was one of the first pro riders I ever read who was interested in cars. This is (reportedly his) Monte Carlo SS I seem to recall him having a badass ‘vette too

As some of you might remember I ran into Andrew Farris at SEMA this year. He retired from BMX to build cool cars like this

bmx_car_1_tj_lavin — TJ Lavin was one of the forerunners of the dirtjumping game from about 2000-2005 he ended up taking a gnarly crash a few years back but pushed through and owns a bunch of cool cars including this one

tjlavin — TJ can also table like a son of a bitch

bmx_car_heath_pinter — Heath Pinter is a well known car guy and builder in the scene as well as a trail shredder

Heath actually built this car for motocross rider Cary Heart and Pink footed the bill

heatpinter — Heath is also quite good at tables

bmx_car_dominic_biro_1 — Dominic Biro is a rider/fabricator out of Jersey who actually built a lot of the suspension components on my car and drives this TI

bmx_car_dominic_biro_2 — Most creative sticker bomb I have seen in awhile

bmx_car_jared_washington_1 — Dom is also friends with fellow shredder and pro rider Jared Washington who drives this

bmx_car_jared_washington_2 — Jared’s car was actually featured on Hella Flush a few years back

bmx_car_jim_bauer — Jim Bauer is the creative director at Odyssey BMX and happens to own not one…

bmx_car_jim_bauer_2 — …but two amazing Porsches

Jim is also the furthest thing from scared

bmx_car_scotty_1 — Scotty Cranmer is living large, in addition to a few Evos he owned these

drift_bmx — Lastly I’ve got to end with this. Jack Hartje jumping Matt Knapp to flat. Sure it is two people but it is also awesome

If anyone could find photos of Ralph Sininsi’s old VW’s or John Purse’s 454 SS that would be sweet!

7 COMMENTS

Reggae33 Aug 20, 2013 At 10:33 pm

Or Mike Dominguez’s pink convertible nissan 720???

- DaveT Aug 21, 2013 At 11:44 am
  
  @Reggae33 I could probably do a pre 80s version of this!
  
Blackout313 Aug 21, 2013 At 3:34 pm

What about all of the skaters that have been into cars like daiwong song, tony hawk and Clyde singleton?

- DaveT Aug 21, 2013 At 4:35 pm
  
  I could do that, might take me longer having not skated in…. 9 years?
  
ekka Aug 22, 2013 At 8:09 pm

What about luke fink? that bloke still shreds a bmx

- DaveT Aug 22, 2013 At 10:13 pm
  
  Good catch, part 2 perhaps!
  
evasques Aug 23, 2013 At 1:11 am

Skater Steve Caballero is a huge fan of hot rods, owns a couple I believe. If you guys remember him.