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Posted on October 1, 2009 - by ChrisDub

StupidBMX – Circa 2001

StupidBMX was started pretty early in my college days, around 2001. I was taking DIT (Digital Imaging Technology) at TSTC with my buddy Andrew, learning how to use Photoshop and build websites. We were meeting a bunch of kids those days that either rode bikes, or were interested in riding bikes.

I had wanted to make a website for awhile. I found Geocitie’s WYSIWYG editor, gathered a bunch of photos together, and got it all online with the idea it would be the spot to go for all the BMX kids in the South Texas region.

StupidBMX was pretty much where the seed was planted for RGVJuice.

Those were some good days, lots of road trips, riding with the McAllen kids, running from the police, and general fun-ery. Back when we had no jobs,  no girlfriends, and no responsibilities. Everything we saw was worth trying to ride.

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Yahoo is closing the Geocities service down on October 26, and I wanted to put together a little memorial post here on ‘Juice.

Below you’ll find a bunch of photos from the StupidBMX site. Enjoy the time warp, and be sure to check out the original geocities.com/stupidbmx before it’s gone forever.

Thanks to Tanner for grabbing all these photos off the site.

Posted on May 7, 2009 - by ChrisDub

Brownsville Session – May 2, 2009

Saturday was a good day. It was hot as fuck, but we still had a good time riding bikes, skating, shooting photos, and eating a billion tacos.

I woke up at around 11am, checked the emails and social networks, took a shower and waited for Dominic to meet me at my place. Dom showed up around 1pm with his camera lighting gear in tow. We packed up the Civic and headed to Brownsville to meet up with Walker at the skatepark.

I rode the park for about 10 minutes before eating balls in the flat bottom while carving around the bowl (I need new tires, bad). Shitty. Ended up sitting out for about an hour in the shade. Finally got up, shot some photos, and cruised around some more.

Walker was showing us and the park his stylish ways, and Dom was impressing me how quickly he could get around the bowl in his rollerboots.

We were all getting pretty hot at the park, with the cement park bouncing the sun’s rays around like a mirrored room. So we decided to go check out the Big Brother shop.

I had never been there, and I’ve gotta say, they have a really nice shop. Complete with ramps, rails, decks, parts, shoes, clothes, computers for checking the ‘Space, and on top of it all, they sell bikes!

We rode the ramps in the back of Big Brother with Dylan and Matt for a while and had a really fun session. The ramps need a few more nails, but it was still really fun.

Finally ended the day, at a top secret, all you can eat taco joint. I think Walker put away around 16, and I had 15 or so. Rumor is Damien Garcia killed 19 tacos the next day, with ease.

Let the Taco Wars begin!

Enjoy the photos.

Posted on April 26, 2009 - by ChrisDub

STC Ditch BMX Session – Photos

I Finally got out and rode bikes with the McAllen BMX heads. These kids are getting good. I remember them just a couple years back showing up at the park with thier Diamondbacks, fully equipped with gyros, pegs, and 4 piece bars, ready to rock. They are the next generation of the McAllen BMX scene.

We went out to find some street to ride, ended up at the STC ditch. Things just started to heat up and the sprinklers turned on. Got me and the camera gear pretty good. We ended the session pretty early but still came away with a few keepers.

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Posted on April 11, 2009 - by ChrisDub

McAllen Blading Session – Photos

Well, I am oficially living back in the McAllen area. All moved into the new pad, with my own office! It feels really good to be back in this area.

Anyway, went out to the McAllen park last night with the blader buddies, rode my bike around a bit and took a few photos of the dudes rockin’ the box.

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