Lighting Bolts Show

by taj | Dec 12, 2008 |

Jim Bauer’s Plate
I had a fun last day out in LA. Went out to the Santa Ana Civic center and rode the banks there for a bit. The young guys were filming, but us old guys were just chilling and rolling around. Nice and mellow.

Mike Suftin’s Plate.
After that I went to the Nike Lighting Bolts Art show. That was pretty fun. We watched the Nike BMX video on the big screen and mostly just pinballed around from person to person saying hello and catching up with old friends. I mostly just carried my camera around looking stupid all night, but I took a few…

Brian Blyther.
So honored to meet and know this guy! LEGEND!!!! And one of the all time best BMX riders ever!
I don’t know if this is true, but someone told me that while on duty as a police officer Brian Blyther had to shoot someone in the leg because they were trying to rob a train with a bow and arrow? WTF?

Jay Miron and Dave Mavro

I haven’t seen Jay Miron in years! Do you know that when I was 17 Jay invited me on a GT tour to fill in for Dave Voelker? GT gave me a bike to ride in the shows which I promptly broke in less then 2 hours. Albe’s warrantied it for me and got me an S&M Holmes. At a show inside 12 Oaks mall near my home town in Michigan Miron did the first ever back flip over a spine. It was crazy. The day before at Scrap Skatepark Jay did the first ever tailwhip 360. Wild times.

Dave Mavro is a film maker working on this: