The third issue of Ride PA BMX is now available for purchase through our online store. Issue Three features sixty-four pages of original content spanning 2018 – 2020. Printed on 5.5” X 8.5” glossy paper in full color. You can view a complete list of contents below.
Read More “Ride PA BMX – Issue Three”The Berks Street bike shop and its owner Steve Tassone hosted a ‘Sunday Street Ride’ this past Sunday, October 28th. The event started with a meet-up at the Berks shop at 10 am before disbursing into the streets of Philadelphia at noon. Gene Barclay was on hand and documented some of the action which he released earlier today on his YouTube channel. The video includes riding from George Duran, Jeff Purdy, Eeshond Kirk, Davon Johnson, and many more. Shout-out to Steve at Berks for putting on another in a string of events for the Philadelphia BMX community.
On Saturday, October 14th, 2017, the Kink BMX crew including Matt Miller, Tony Hamlin, Joe Niranonta, Jake Petruchik, Casey Starling, Breyon Woods (Bdub), and Kink video producer Darryl Tocco rolled through the streets of Philadelphia for a jam co-hosted with the Berks Street BMX Shop. The Kink crew was met with near perfect weather and an anxious crowd of BMX riders ready to throw down. The event made use of an empty parking lot at the John H. Webster Elementary School located across the street from the shop. A makeshift street course was assembled using a number of moveable obstacles including several rails and boxes, a bolted down pole jam, and even a fence for the afternoon. Shout-out to Gene Barclay for shooting the event on our behalf, Steve at Berks Street for constantly working to bring the BMX community in the Philadelphia area together and the Kink crew for always supporting the Philly scene.
Photography provided by Gene Barclay
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Jeff Purdy – Rail Hop during the final Street Series.
Photo: Kyle Dipilla
With only a few days remaining in 2017, it’s time once again for our annual year end list of the top videos from the past year. Take a look back with us at some of the videos that we felt made the strongest impression on our viewers and the scene as a whole. The list is in no particular order and is not based off of any web statistics or analytics. Simply put, there are no winners or losers. With that in mind, we invite you to sit back, re-watch and enjoy.
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Berks Street BMX Shop is exclusively stocked up on new apparel from Chocolate Truck including a collaboration shirt with the JIB crew. The ‘City Wide Specialist’ collaboration tee is a play on the ‘City Wide Special’ (shot and a beer) available at most Philly taprooms and was designed by Pat Schlitzer. Chocolate Truck have also released their ‘Pattison’ tee printed on heather grey and white long sleeve shirts just in time for winter.
Read More “New Chocolate Truck / JIB Apparel”The ninth and final section from “JIB: Tape #4” has been uploaded to the JIB Vimeo account. Joby Suender fittingly closes out the video with a section packed with cellar doors, tight banks, gap tricks and bangers. Joby’s keen eye for spots mixed with some of the best Tabletops in the game make for a perfect closing section. Don’t forget to pick up a hard copy of “JIB: Tape #4” on DVD through the Berks Street BMX Shop. You can also watch the full video online by clicking here.
Kink BMX and Berks Street hosted a jam at the Berks Street BMX Shop in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 14th. Darryl Tocco was on hand to document the event and released the subsequent video titled “Out Here Werkin” earlier today on the Kink website. The event took place in the parking lot of the John H. Webster public school across the street from the Berks Street Shop using several rails, boxes, and even a fence. “Out Here Werkin” includes riding from Casey Starling, Mike Guth, Joe & Ryan Niranonta, Matt Miller, Breyon Woods and more.
We are proud to announce that Ride PA BMX – Issue #1 is now available through our online store. Issue one is composed of sixty pages of original content spanning the Spring / Summer of 2017 as documented by a variety of contributors and is printed on 5.5” X 8.5” gloss pages in full color. Supplies are limited. A second and final run of the zine will be available in a few weeks and a digital version will be available online free after the second run is sold out. You can read a comprehensive list of the zines content after the jump.
Dedicated in memory of Lorenzo Velazquez.
Rest in Peace.
To coincide with National BMX Day, we are proud to announce the official launch of our new zine. Ride PA BMX Issue #1 will be available in mid to late August and spans the Spring / Summer of 2017. The zine is 5.5″ x 8.5″, printed in full color on gloss paper and features over 60 pages of original content from the Pennsylvania BMX scene. A digital release of the zine will also be available for free once copies of the zine have sold out.
Special thanks to all the photographers, riders, writers and Matt Smith. You can check out a complete list of the zines contents after the jump.
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Eric Capone cooling off during the Berks X Alive Industries jam.
Photo: Brendan Mulrooney
Our ‘Featured Photo’ updates have been few and far between lately but we couldn’t pass up on this one. Brendan Mulrooney shot the above photo of Eric Capone taking a moment to cool off from the summertime heat in true Philadelphia fashion, by hopping through an illegally opened fire hydrant during the Berks X Alive Industries jam last month. The spurting water in for foreground as well as the rainbow colored curbs, poles, flags and brightly colored houses in the background provided by the ‘Gayborhood’ section of Philadelphia really make the photo come alive.
On Saturday, July 2nd, Berks Street BMX Shop and Alive Industry threw a joint jam in the City of Philadelphia. The jam included Alive Industry riders Rehito Murata & Ryutaro Higa from Japan and locals Brendon Reith & Knick Smith. Steve Tassone has uploaded a gallery of photos from the event which can be viewed on the Berks Street website or after the jump.
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After serving the Philadelphia areas BMX needs for nearly two years now, Berks Street is opening a store front location at 3419 Frankford Ave. Philadelphia, PA, 19134. The shops grand opening will be held this Friday, June 9th at 7pm and will double as a zine release party for Rob Dolecki’s ‘Maintain III’ as well as a movie night which will include Ratkid’s upcoming Skapegoat section, Maintain II.V, The Whale Flipcam Extravaganza, and trailers for Chocolate Truck Two, AM:PM 4, and the upcoming Atown Trash DVD.
