Scotty Cranmer pits Trey Jones and Big Boy against 80's Tricks

Old school freestyler, Pipeline local who never rode vert, and punk rock encyclopedia (look that word up on Wikipedia kids), Mike Sarrail just shared this one on Facebook.  Yeah, I blog about old school BMX freestyle from the 80's and 90's, and do a bunch of social media stuff these days, but I don't catch many episodes of Scotty Cranmer's YouTube channel.  Mostly cause I'm lazy, but also because I'm jealous.  The guy's got 1.4 million subscribers.  He could be president.  Wait.. there's an idea.  The White House could use some trails...

Anyhow, I just watched this one, and it's pretty damn funny.  I lived and rode through the 1980's, and I there's only two of these tricks I could have done in my prime.  But those of us geezers from the old days remember that there were hundreds of tricks, variations, and moves that got lost along the wayside as time rolled on.  Today's riders are more about a taking a smaller, standard set of moves to bigger, badder, and crazier proportions and new terrain.  And a lot of us old farts make fun of these young guys... because we can't do that big ass shit.  Sure, our bikes back then were made of chrome-moly potato chips welded together, and a four foot loading dock drop could snap a frame, but few of us could hang today.  (List exceptions in the Facebook comments).

The reality is, the young guys rip.  But the drive for originality and inventing completely new stuff can only happen once, and we got that time period.  While it's easy to make fun of full leathers and helmets in flatland contests, neon bikes, and old school goofiness, there were a lot of 80's tricks that were pretty dang hard.  So props to Scotty for getting Trey and Big Boy to give this a shot.  It was really fun to watch and entertaining... especially because the book won.

If you're into BMX, young or old, this one's worth at watch, particularly if you see this on a Monday and you're at work. 

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