Our BMX/Unclicked podcast with Todd Lyons- aka "The Wildman"

Ryan Fudger of Our BMX/Unclicked and Mike "Rooftop" Escamilla interview Todd Lyons.  

I already put this on Facebook and shared it, and I want to go into some detail about the P.O.W. House days and the Bordello club that Todd talks about (and other clubs), in another post.  Here's 3 1/2 hours of funny and crazy stories from Todd Lyons, former pro racer, early  dirt jumper, Sheep Hills Local, two time amateur world champion, doer of big backflips (landings optional), and now long time brand manager at SE Bikes. I know Todd from the P.O.W. House days of the early and mid 90's, and some of these stories had me laughing so hard that my stomach hurt,  For real.  If you're into Old School/Mid School BMX racing and dirt jumping, check this podcast out.  Great stuff.

Fox Air Raid promo- 1996- Alan Foster, Brian Foster, and Todd Lyons are Sheep Hills (then other riders in other places)

Todd Lyons JNCO (jeans) commercial from about 1999-2000

SE Fat Ripper promo- about 2017: 40-something Todd still busting out on a big bike

Todd Lyons at Sheep Hills, 2019.  SHL.  #stevemigphotos

Todd at Sheep Hills, 2019.  SHL.  #steveemigphotos

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An idea for Todd Lyons and SE Bikes

Old school racer/jumper/street rider and shameless self-promoter Todd Lyons and I go back to the P.O.W. House days of the early 90's.  I don't think we actually lived in the house at the same time, but everyone would congregate there either to go riding or to go out at night.  So we shared some fun times in those days of stealing $7 beers in clubs and taking over unused beer taps.

These days Todd's a family man, and brand manager for SE Bikes, which happened to be the company that sponsored my Idaho freestyle teammate Jay Bickel back in 1984.  Todd's been spearheading the design of a bunch of big BMX bikes aimed at us old guys, as well as the traditional SE classics like the Quadangle and the PK Ripper.

I stumbled across this classic photo yesterday, looking for something else.  This amazing photo is the cover of FREESTYLIN' magazine issue #3, the first issue I got as a kid in Idaho.  I thought, with all the old school flavored stuff Todd's been doing at SE, like getting Mike Buff and Stu Thomsen bikes out, it would be cool if he did a new version of this classic photo.  It's Todd Anderson jumping over the convertible bug,  with Perry Kramer, Dino Deluca, Toby Henderson, McGoo (?) Fred Blood, and a couple others in the car.

If any of you out there think Todd should make this happen, leave a comment on the facebook page where you see this.  Oh, and to make it difficult for you Todd, you absolutely need to get a Ford Pinto in the background.  OK, who thinks this is a cool idea?

Update:  354 page views on this post in about three hours, AND Todd Anderson said on Facebook that he's up for it.  Freakin' Cool.  No word from Todd Lyons yet, but he might still be in China, in a far different time zone.