Matt Ray scorching the hot streets of Arizona

As an old, mediocre street rider, from way back in the Dark Ages of BMX, I have the urge to just fill this blog with one amazing street, park, and trails BMX clip after another.  But the whole point of the Block Bikes Blog is to show a wide variety of bike riding adventures.  Yeah, I know, I'm lagging on road bike videos here, but that's because of my old school BMX, anti-spandex prejudice.  I'll work on that. 

In any case, I looked through the last several posts, and decided it's a good time for a solid BMX street video.  As luck would have it, this Shadow Conspiracy edit of Matt Ray popped right up when I went looking for one.  This clip is only 4 days old, it still has that new video smell.  This is a smokin' good street part, too, so enjoy it.  And you know we can hook you up with all your Shadow Conspiracy goods online, right?   I thought so...

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Trey Jones from Shadow Conspiracy's "What could go wrong?"

So here's the deal.  I'm an old guy.  52 in fact.  Ancient.  I was all about BMX freestyle (as we called it then) from about 1982 to about 2003.  I wound up working in the industry, made videos, and stuff like that.  But I've been out of the scene for over 15 years, and out of the industry for over 20.  I watch videos now and then, but there are a whole bunch of riders who've come up that I just don't know about. 

Talking about who to start looking at to get this blog off the ground with Rich (from Block Bikes Online Store), Trey Jones was one of the names he said to check out.  So I found that clip in the last post of Scotty Cranmer and posse goofin' around on Trey's new ramp set-up.  Yeah, that was cool.  But not earth shattering riding.  So I decided to go back and check out Trey's video sections. 

Holy crap!  Trey Jones is NUTS.  And he can ride.  It's not just like, "Hey, how 'bout I try to jump off this four story building, that'll look cool."  This guy's got some skills.  As an old geezer from 80's flatland, I dig the nosewheelies and front wheel G-turn to bank drop.  Oh yeah, AND there's like 43 huge drops, many with gnarly bunnyhops over rails or chains.  High risk stuff.  You young guys know all this.  But here in this section is a reminder of why Trey Jones is one of your favorite riders.  And now one of mine, too.  I'll stop rambling, you watch this clip.  And you guys (and gals) know where to get your Shadow Conspiracy and Subrosa stuff, right? 

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