I am a video nerd, straight up.  My wife is out of town and the boys and I have watched the latest Props, Road Fools 3 and parts of Grounded since yesterday.   I'm old enough to say "back when I was a kid, we didn't have..." lots of things, but we for sure didn't have videos.  Home video machines weren't even around yet.  I remember when they came out.  My dad bought a video disc player instead of a VCR.  It played these giant discs that were bigger than record albums and they skipped and were just ridiculous (I think I've posted about this before, sorry if I'm repeating myself.  I'm old!).  I remember the first time I saw myself racing BMX on video.  It was wild!  My friend Larry's parents had a Super 8 movie camera and we filmed some BMX stuff with that, but it was such a huge production to even watch it. You had to set up a screen, the projector, turn out the lights, etc., then the damn movie was only four minutes long!  After it was done, you had to run the film back through the machine and onto the spool.  You always wanted to watch it backward, but it would get sucked into the projector and wreck the film.   I know all about this because the Deliverance "film", Fresh Air Cure, was shot mostly on this archaic type of equipment.  It's quite novel and looks cool, but it's super expensive and a total nightmare to deal with.  For one, you have no idea if the film you are shooting is even coming out...

    Anyway, I remember the first real video that I saw.  It was the Bones Brigade Video Show skateboard video.  It was so good and watching it got us so fired up to go skate that when it was over we were out the door before the credits even finished.  That was 1985.  Fast forward to today and you can watch the latest BMX video while you're supposed to be learning in school--even in college (right Sean?).  Here's a link to the much anticipated HD Mutiny video.  It looks incredible....

After I typed this up, I went to YouTube and did a search for the Bones Brigade video.  It took three seconds to find it and five seconds to edit the link (it's kind of corny, but it stands the test of time, for sure).  The future is now.  One point of interest if you watch this, is the first song "Skate and Destroy" by the Faction.  There is a line early on that says "Kick that bike, skate and destroy" and later on, another says "The cops are coming after me, their sons are BMXers, they always try to stop me but urethane is faster than boots".  Roots of the holy wars.

Around these parts, bikes and skateboards are all on the same page...

   One more thing.  Jason Burton posted a comment on the previous post about the sidepull brakes on my "trail" bike.  I don't know why I was so hell bent on using a caliper brake on that thing. The frame has V-brake mounts and v-brakes work well, but they're kind of fruity.  It was so much work to get that damn sidepull brake to work on there!  And of course, it works horribly.  Jokes on me.