San Francisco street riding 1986 and 2017

I consider San Francisco the city where BMX street riding was born.  Dave Vanderspek and his Curb Dogs really pushed the skateboard idea that the whole urban world was a skatepark waiting to be sessioned.  Street skating pioneer Tommy Guerrero was one of the Curb Dogs, after all.  I know riders back to Bob Haro and the early BMX racers jumped curbs and did kick turns on banks.  But the Curb Dogs and the Golden Gate Park riders really pushed street riding to becoming its own genre.  The San Diego riders quickly joined the cause, pushing street knowledge even further.

In this clip above, about halfway through, you see Curb Dog Maurice Meyer doing what he did every day, riding the San Diego hills and jumping those curb cuts to big air down the hills.  Drob rode a coaster brake, too.  It amazed me seeing him, Vander and a few others blasting five foot high tabletops off curbs.

In this clip below, we see new school trials and street rider Danny MacCaskill doing the exact same thing on the crazy terrain of the city by the bay.  The progression continues.