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The city bike challenge takes place in London and me and Tom Cardy decided to get some Santander city bikes and see what tricks were possible on these beastly bicycles. We rode around central london looking for cool features and street spots to try and perform tricks on, it was super fun. The bikes are insanely heavy and even just hopping them was quite a task! We visited Southbank skatepark and showed the skateboarders some moves we then moved to some iconic spots along the way. The whole session was a challenge but it was fun and definitely worth trying! – Sam Pilgrim
How the Queens native became one of the sport’s most captivating (and fashionable) stars.
Over the past three months, professional BMX rider Nigel Sylvester has released the latest installment of his wildly-popular video series, GO, sat front row at Ermenegildo Zenga’s couture show in Milan, and teased the drop of his forthcoming Air Jordan 1.
This isn’t the type of success his Grenadian immigrant mother, Ann, had in mind for her son (she was thinking more along the lines of college and a traditional nine-to-five) but earlier this summer, among a crowd that filled Manhattan’s Samsung 837 space to capacity—everyone there for the aforementioned GO premiere—“Mama Sylvester,” as the evening’s host, Mark Anthony Green, introduced her, was beaming with pride. A tearful hug between mother and son conveyed the obvious that she was his first love. When we first met Sylvester a few weeks prior that event, we discussed his second: BMX … More