Bicycle Motocross - The tribute to BMX Bandits

Corey Bohan, Mike 'Hucker' Clark and Leanna Curtis have teamed up with Red Bull to bring new school flavour to the 80s cult classic, BMX Bandits.

The movie screams 80's! They're all wearing 80's style race pants, helmets and gloves. Hucker is rocking his 80's moustache. The BMX bikes have lashings of chrome and are dressed with Skyway Tuff's, rear brakes and custom pad sets.

One of the cool features was Corey Bohan's BMX bike. Watching closely at the start you can see that it has a custom BOHAN BMX padset and BOHAN BMX decals made to look just like the 80's Mongoose decals.

Watch for the Redline and Haro in the final race scene!

How to Remove Yellowing from a BMX Seat

A lot of old school BMX products deteriorate with age. One of the common deterioration found to white BMX seats is yellowing. Here is a Kashimax Handler BMX seat from 1987 that is in perfect condition, except for the yellowing.

The yellowing is caused by mildew growing within the pores of the seat. The best way to remove this without using harsh chemicals and potentially damaging the seat is to leave it hanging in direct sunlight for a few weeks.

I left the seat above for 6 months hanging from my bedroom window where it received direct afternoon sunlight over summer. Here it is now!

The yellowing is completely gone and the seat looks brand new! This seat is going onto my TBC Cobra Quad build.

I hope this tip helps someone else out.

Cranks for the TBC Cobra Quad

I picked up the Tioga chainring and Tioga spider as part of the TBC Cobra Quad purchase. The frame colour was matched to the spider and it suited nicely.

The Takagi CR-MO cranks came on another BMX bike that I purchased. They were a bit rusted and still had bits of the original candy blue. I stripped what was left of the candy blue, citric acid bathed the cranks and gave them a hand polish to get them up to a nice survivor look.

Anlun Stem Saved for the TBC Cobra Quad

Picked up this Anlun Freestyle stem on a $40 BMX find that popped up chained outside the local train station with a for sale sign on it. The whole BMX bike was covered in white house paint. A quick strip and polish and it's come up a nice survivor look.

When I pulled the stem apart, there was problems with the quill staying inside the stem head. I bought a sharp centre punch and gave the knurling a few taps to expand the quill size and help it to fit snugly into the stem head. I added a little Loctite to make sure it stayed in place when I did ride it.

Scouting out The Cove Dirt Jumps

I couldn't stand being cooped up inside the house for another rainy weekend so I decided to head out to have a look at a second set of legal dirt jumps that I was able to find a little bit of information on. The Castle Cover dirt jumps are significantly larger than The Grove.

There's two main jump lines at The Cove. The beginner line is more of an intermediate compared to those at The Grove and the expert line is insane! The expert line had 10 feet high kickers and into 12 feet high landings!

The trails are well worn down and they need a lot of work. I think this is a combination of the bad weather and rain that's been hitting Sydney the last month, people not respecting the trains and local trail locals having moved on to other things. There are still signs posted up asking riders to sweep and water the trails before riding and to cover the trails after use.

I'll be back here in the next few months helping out to dig, reshape and ride!

BMXPO Sydney 2015 (Part 3)

Here's the final set of the photos taken from Sydney's BMXPO 2015 and the 1986 King of the Skate Parks Reunion. Enjoy!

BMXPO Sydney 2015 (Part 2)

Here's part two of the photos taken from Sydney's BMXPO 2015 and the 1986 King of the Skate Parks Reunion. Enjoy!