Dew Tour S.F wrap up

Dew Tour San Francisco is in the books. Dirt, Street, and the all new Street Style event had the Vans pros having a good time, doing their thing and representing all weekend!

Here is some points of interest.

-Kyle Baldock won $5,000 in the Dirt best trick event for a Front Flip Cliff Hanger??!! 

-15 riders wearing Vans in Dirt semi finals in a field of 28. 

-TJ Ellis won semi finals, the preliminary final and finally took 3rd in the 8 man Dirt final. He did a bunch of front flip whips, the trick that took him out for most of 2011 with a torn ACL knee ligament.

-Dak, Josh Harrington and Sean Sexton were in Street and Street style events and all three were carrying injuries all weekend. They still rode and pedaled through the pain. Respect.

-Scotty Cranmer wearing a full face helmet. With the recent head injury to friend of the Vans team Brett Banasiewicz, Scotty decided to lead by example. All riders in the Dew Tour had to pass helmet checks. No soft foam skate helmets were allowed. We recommend you check out the bike specified Pro -Tec helmets and look after your brain, you only get one. Also congrats to Scotty grabbing 3rd in Street Style. Did you see those flip transfers??!!

-Bruno Hoffmann came all the way from Germany and got on the Street podium. Bruno has been blowing lately and this is a great way to wrap up the year. The Street final was insane. Congrats!

That's it for Dew Tour this year with only two stops. Lets see what 2013 brings!

Dew Tour SF preview

The boys have arrived in San Francisco, California for the second and final Dew Tour stop for the year.

Back in August, stop 1 in Maryland included Park and Vert, this stop in San Francisco has Street Plaza, Street-Style and Dirt. Street-Style is something new and exciting. It's a section of road with different obstacles that the rider can hit from a starting point to the finish, and Street is set up in a more plaza style atmosphere.

Look for Vans riders in Dirt including Cory Nastazio, Scotty Cranmer, Rob Darden, Andy Buckworth, Pat Casey, TJ Ellis, Gary Young, Kyle Baldock, Daniel Sandoval, Ryan Guettler, Cam White and Luke Parslow.

Street Plaza Ty Morrow, Bruno Hoffman, Dakota Roche, Josh Harrington, Sean Sexton and Dan Lacey.

TV coverage in the USA is as follows...
Dirt 10/20/12 Saturday NBCSN 11PM EST
Street-Style 10/21/12 Sunday NBC 2pm EST LIVE
Street 10/21/12 Sunday NBCSN 11pm EST

For more info on Dew Tour go HERE and follow @vansjerry and @vansbmx66 on twitter and instagram for live news.

CVLT Premiere and TX toast this weekend!

This Friday night October 12th in Austin, TX the long awaited CVLT video "TALK IS CHEAP" is set to Premiere. Look for full parts from Vans pros Dakota Roche, Chase Hawk, Baz Keep, Tre Jones, Bobby Simmons and Timmy Theus.

On Saturday 13th and Sunday the 14th also in Austin, the Texas Toast is on again. This year Taj went bigger and better with Street, Dirt, Flat and the "Gauntlet of Death". I'm sure it will be very challenging again. Last year only a few made it through, Scotty Cranmer was the first I believe.

Look for these Vans pros to compete at Texas Toast...

Street - Gary Young, Sean Sexton, Dakota Roche, Ryan Guettler, Chase Hawk, Ben Hennon, Trey Jones, Eric Lichtenberger, Dillion Lloyd, Ronnie Napolitan, Hoang Tran, Dan Foley,  and Codey Levesque

Dirt - Chase Hawk, Gary Young, Dakota Roche, Ryan Guettler, Ben Hennon, Kevin Kalkoff, Rob Darden, Trey Jones, Ronnie Napolitan, Codey Levesque, and Dan Foley

Flatland - Matthias Dandois, Alex Jumelin.

Registration for Texas Toast has closed, and it will $5 to get in. For more info check the site HERE and also check out the video interview with Taj as he explains a few things.

DAKOTA ROCHE BRONZE AT X GAMES BMX STREET

Dak is back! X Games BMX Street is no joke these days, but Dak put down the hammer in prelims and straight up dropped some heat in finals. While the rest of the field was caught up in tech lines, Dak was bashing wall rides from flat and big 360 and 180s down the stairs. This is Dak's third bronze medal to go with his one from last year and the one from Asian X. Bruno and Sexton were going nuts as well in one of the gnarliest X Games events in history. So many tech combos, so much insane riding. The whole crew is rocking new LXVI gear this weekend so stay tuned for Cranmer and the crew in BMX Park on Saturday morning at 10am Pacific on ABC!

X Games Street Today!

Today (Friday June 29) the 10 invited riders for X Games Street go head to head.

Dak Roche, Brunno Hoffmann and Sean Sexton have all been riding well in practice and are ready to throw down at 3pm Pacific, 6 ET

Watch it live on ESPN online.

@vansbmx66 are in LA if you want to join us on Twitter and Instagram.

Good luck boys!

X Games LA... Now!

Well the event has arrived a little earlier than usual but the X Games starts later this week in LA. The Vans team have arrived and will begin practice today!

Competition begins June 29 with the first BMX event Street on Friday at 3pm. June 30 Saturday morning Park will get under way at 10am and Vert at 4:30pm. July 1 Big Air at 6:30pm

Street - Dakota Roche, Bruno Hoffman, Sean Sexton (Ty Morrow out with injury)

Park - Scotty Cranmer, Gary Young, Chase Hawk, Kyle Baldock, Pat Casey, Diogo Canina, Rob Darden, Bas Keep, Ben Hennon, Daniel Sandoval

Vert - Dennis McCoy, Coco Zurita, Simon Tabron

Big Air - Simon Tabron

Look for alternates Josh Harrington and Dan Foley to ride if someone is injured.

@vansbmx66 will be in LA so join them on instagram and twitter if you haven't already!

If you can't make it, you can watch it all go down on ESPN HERE. And HERE is the official X Games site for the latest.

CKI2012 This Saturday at The Bakery

This Saturday May 12 you can watch Chad Kerley's Invitational from "The Bakery" in Chicago live on RideBMX HERE from 4pm CST.

Dakota Roche and Sean Sexton will be holding it down for the Vans team with Josh Harrington a scratch due to injury.

$20,000 purse, rider judged, private event. This contest should get pretty wild! Watch the live feed to see it all go down.

Dak and Sexton in Barcelona!

This Cinema Wheels trip happened straight after the Vans Rebel Jam in Holland. Dak took a few really good spills over the weekend at Rebel Jam and definitely needed a couple of weeks off the bike, not go straight on a trip. It doesn't even look like he was hurt in Barcelona!

Dak and Sean both kill it in this one. Cinema is working on a DVD so look out for that.

VANS BMX ON TWITTER

Just letting you all know we started a dedicated twitter HERE and for the Iphone users, an instagram for Vans BMX.

Follow us for updates on road trips, contests and all things with Vans BMX team.

We will be giving away prizes from time to time so look out for those tweets!

2012 should be busy so stick with us!

@vansBMX66

Vans Rebel Jam live cast

Well it's not far away now, riders from all over the world are about to head to Holland for the Vans Rebel Jam 2011.

Vans USA pro's attending Dakota Roche, Gary Young, Scotty Cranmer, Ty Morrow and Sean Sexton.

Keep an eye HERE Dec 3-4 for the live cast if you can't make it!

Schedule: (Check your local time zone or you'll miss it!)

SATURDAY December 3rd
1:00pm - 3:30pm - Flat qualifiers
2:00pm - 5:30pm - Park qualifiers
6:30pm - 8:30pm - Street qualifiers

SUNDAY December 4th
1:00pm - 1:45pm - Street finals
2:00pm - 3:00pm - Flat finals
3:30pm - 5:30pm - Park finals

More info is HERE for the Vans Rebel Jam 2011!

VANS Let it Ride - fueled by Monster Energy

VANS Let it Ride - fueled by Monster Energy

Coming back for the 3rd season in a row the adventure continues with 12 riders spread across two teams traveling to the very south of Spain - the Canary Islands.

Tenerife and Grand Canary, the two main islands will be the playgrounds where both teams are set to explore the terrain, lifestyle and culture of what the islands have to offer.

Each team will be staying in a Vans Team house and be given nothing but their bikes and a van to find the best spots around. After 4 days, the teams switch islands, house keys and van keys - handing over their spots to the other crew giving each a chance to sessions the spots equally.

Two filmers and photographers will join the trip to capture all the adventures both, on and off the bikes and the last day will see both teams getting together for a final party to exchange their stories.

Dates: 4th November - 13th November

Destination: Tenerife & Grand Canary, Canary Islands - Spain

Riders: Dakota Roche (US)

Sean Sexton (US)

Gary Young (US)

Chase Hawk (US)

Ben Hennon (UK)

Bruno Hoffmann (GER)

Dan Lacey (UK)

Bas Keep (UK)

Kevin Kalkoff (FR)

Alex Valentino (FR)

Matthias Dandois (FR)

Eddie Zunda (FR)

Vans Video Vault: Sean Sexton

Sean Sexton has been riding at a pro level for as long as anyone can remember, so it's only fit that he move into the pro ranks on the Vans BMX team.  Splitting his time between Phoenix, AZ and Austin, TX; the Kink Bikes and Cinema pro has been traveling non-stop.  Check out his clips from the road. Welcome to the team Sean!

Vans Video Vault: Sean Sexton - More BMX Videos

Vans Riders on X Games 17 Invite List

Vans Riders on X Games 17 Invite List

Espn just released their first round of invited X Games BMX riders and the list is stacked with Vans dudes. Here is who made it so far:

Park
Gary Young
Chase Hawk
Scotty Cranmer
Pat Casey
Diogo Canina
Mark Webb

Street
Dakota Roche
Ty Morrow
Sean Sexton
Josh Harrington

Vert
Coco Zurita
Simon Tabron
Dennis McCoy

Big Air
Coco Zurita (Alt)

Could Vans make a clean sweep for all events....? It happened in Park, it could happen in street and vert...

Sean Sexton No Cut Session

If real life were this easy, everyone would be in the X Games.
Sean Sexton makes you believe that doing virtually every trick regular and opposite on flat ground is both easy and not a big deal. Check out this behind the scenes vid from Kink were Sean's team manager gives him one heck of a To Do list. The camera doesn't cut away as Sean knocks each one down with ease. Welcome to the future, Sean has been there for a while now.

Sean Sexton flat ground from Kink Bike Co. on Vimeo.

Dak and Sexton rep Vans in XG Street Finals

Dakota Roche and Sean Sexton made it out of prelims and shredded into the Super Final in BMX Street on Sunday. Sean was dropping massive truckdrivers down the double set, sliding crank arm grinds and even boosted a big up-ledge feeble to X-Up for a 4th place finish- barely outside of the podium. Dak was killing it too with massive 360s over the round rail, and up-rail to 180 turndown and a wild tea-cup slighshot to 360 flyout that sent the crowd into an uproar. Dak took home the 5th place finish and was pretty beat up from all of his burly gaps. Congrats to all of the Vans riders at X Games this weekend!

VANS TEAM IN STREET TODAY AT X

The Vans BMX team has a strong presence at the X Games. Josh Harrington, Sean Sexton, Dakota Roche, Dan Lacey and Ty Morrow compete in prelims today on the Street course at X Games 16. Good luck to the boys!
Complete coverage of BMX at the X Games can be found here

Sean Sexton News Coming Soon