Coffee Chatter

The boys catchup with Arielle Martin! Arielle has a fascinating story from turning pro at 15 years old, racing on the US national team, becoming the first US woman to win a world cup, making the 2012 Olympic team, and then getting hurt the day before flying out to the Olympics. Arielle is open and candid about her experiences, good and bad, and tells her story exactly how it happened and how she felt.  This is a great listen, from an outstanding athlete and person.  Enjoy her story! 

In this weeks episode we had BMX legend and 1999 World Champion, Robert de Wilde, on the show with us. We chatted all things Afro Bob from growing up racing in The Netherlands, to his decision to turn pro and move to the USA to race full time on one of the most iconic teams in the sport, his World Championship win in 1999, adapting to the sport as it evolved into Bmx SX as we know today, his run to the 2008 Olympic games, dealing with the injuries he had along the way, and so much more! Robert is an absolute legend in the sport and it was amazing to hear some stories and insight into his career! Enjoy!

In this show the boys discuss USABMX's big announcement about having the pro title decided at the Grands as a 1 day winner take all race.  They chat with the USABMX Pro Champs Connor Fields and Alise Willoughby and see what they think about the situation, how they're doing right now, and what their mindset will be like heading into the grands this fall, with possibly not racing before that. Enjoy!

In this week's show the boys catchup with David Graf, Laura Smulders and Sylvain Andre! They chat with each of them, catchup, see what they've been up to, what they've been doing for training but also in life, and just catchup as friends. Fun show, Enjoy! 

The boys catchup with one of their best friends Sean Gaian! They tell some funny stories of traveling together and share some laughs, talk about Sean's decision to retire from racing, his mindset, how he felt about it, his views on the sport, his opinion on a few things and more, enjoy!

The boys catchup with 2018 European Champion, Olympian, and Great Britain National team member Kyle Evans!  They chat about what Kyle's been doing lately, his motivation to ride, his wrist injuries, his mentality towards training/racing, his European Championship win, his thoughts on a few things and he shares some laughs with the boys. Enjoy!

We catchup with retired AA pro, many time winner on the USABMX circuit and the People's Champ Denzel Stein! We chat about what Denzel is up to now, get into his career as an amateur starting to win, winning the Worlds in 2007, turning AA pro and winning right away, his thoughts on SX, Why he retired when he did, and some funny stories about the OG Redline days with Tory, Sam, Alise and Jason. Enjoy!

On this week's show the boys catchup with 3x World Champion and 2x Olympian Shanaze Reade! Shanaze talks about how she came into elite, her mindset, winning back to back world championship titles in 2007/2008, her Olympic experience in Beijing 2008, how difficult that was to get through, getting back on the bike, winning another world championship title, London 2012, struggles she went through after she retired, and much more! This is a fascinating/inspiring story, enjoy!

The boys catchup with French/Colombian BMX racer Vincent Pelluard! They share some funny stories about when Tory and Vinny trained together with PH, the biggest gears Vinny used, his outstanding gate technique then get into Vinny moving to Colombia from France, switching national teams, living in Colombia in the public eye, his thoughts on it and some more fun stuff! enjoy!

The boys catchup with 2015 World Champion and Olympic Bronze medalist Stefany Hernandez! She tells her story about how she came from Venezuela and moved to Europe, became World Champion, won an Olympic bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, and how she also struggled with hard times in her personal life and recovery from concussions she had.  This is an inspiring story from an amazing athlete and person, enjoy!

The boys catchup with industry legend Pete Dylewski! They chat about the state of the BMX industry right now, how BMX companies are doing, sponsorship, World Cups, Pete being an agent in BMX, negotiating deals, opinions on different things and lots more! enjoy!

The boys catchup with 2x World Champ medalist and 2x Olympian from South Africa, Sifiso Nhlapo! This is a special show having this man on.  Sifiso talks about how he got into BMX, growing up in South Africa, his first UCI World Championships, the buildup to the 2008 Olympic games, breaking his neck, coming back to a second World Championship medal, and so much more.  Long show, and we enjoyed very minute.  We think you will too, enjoy!

We catchup with Danish BMX superstar, European Games gold medalist, World Cup Winner and Olympian Simone Christensen! We chat about what she’s up to right now, living at the UCI Centre in Switzerland, training with Liam, managing school and racing, how she’s accomplished great things in BMX, the Olympics, and her thoughts on a variety of things! Enjoy!

The boys catchup with 2x World Cup Winner and Team USA Olympian David Herman! They chat with David about growing up racing amateur, turning A pro then quickly moving up to AA, racing SX, how he progressed into a world cup winner, his mindset at the races, the Olympics, his thoughts on training/ what changes he made to better himself, and all things his career! He also shares some funny stories. Enjoy!

The boys catchup with the hottest new A pro on the circuit Riley House! They chat with Riley about the start to his pro career winning the first 3/4 races, the biggest difference between racing amateur and pro, his goals for BMX, how him and his generation view the Olympics, the state of BMX, racing pro and all that good stuff! There is also talk about a certain Chatter video coming out, some fun BS as well, enjoy!

The boys catchup with the bossman at Tangent Products Rich Pelton! They chat about how Tangent came to be, how things are going, their marketing strategy, the value in sponsoring riders, the value in social media, branding, and the best way for people to approach possible sponsors.  This is a really interesting chat about industry and sponsorship with Rich. Enjoy!

In this show we discuss the corona virus, self-isolation, the Olympics most likely being postponed, world championships/world cups being postponed, random chit chat, and also phone up Nic Long, Brooke Crain and Lauren Reynolds to see how they’re doing, what they’ve been up to, and just to chat. Enjoy!

TUCSOOOON WHERE YOU AT!? This guys doesn't need much of an intro, but we caught up with you 2017 world Champion, 2016 World Cup Champion and all around smoothest BMX Racer on the planet Corben Sharrah!  Corben opens up about his career, a difficult period he went through, talks us through his World Championship title,  gives insight to his approach to racing and life, and more!  This is a great show, enjoy!

We catchup with one of the hottest US Pros on the circuit right now, and the new silver medalist at the US National Championships Jeremy Smith!  We ask Jeremy about his recent success, where he grew up, how he got into BMX, his years growing up in BMX, his thoughts about racing A pro then going all in and racing Elite, moving to Florida, opinions and much more! Jeremy's career has a bright future. Enjoy this interview!

The boys chat about their experiences in Australia then recap everything that happened this past weekend in Bathurst, their opinion on the situation, how it was handled and about racing being cancelled.  They then have UCI Technical delegate Luke Madill on to discuss the UCI's decisions this past weekend and how everything unfolded.  This chat with Luke is a great insight to how things get decided at BMX races by the UCI, enjoy!