CREW SPOTLIGHT #7
October 27th, 2019
NOTE: All crews have been asked the same set of questions:
- Where is your crew based out of and can you name the people involved?
- What are the reasons you started a crew? Have they changed?
- What do you do as a crew? (make stuff, travel, film, have events, etc.)
- Should other people start crews? Why?
- Anything to add?
Northeast
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1. Our crew is based out of the Northeast United States. Most of us Iive in or around Worcester, MA with a couple outliers in Western Mass, Boston, Southern Vermont, and Upstate New York areas. It includes: Andrew Beaupre, Ryan Martin, Al Borelli, Tobias Pettinelli, Matt Gaspar, Rob Pettinelli, Josh Lyford, Conor Hobbs, Brad Rheault, James Leger, Shane Lavoie, Fuckin Tito, Matt Copeland, Jamie Cooper-Ellis, Mark Burnett, Chris “Creamy” Oberther, Zack Andriga, Ever Peacock, Zach Burns, and Derrick Anderson.
2. We started the crew as a reason to talk shit on each other. I guess they’ve changed because we now make a bunch of comfortable, indestructible shirts, sweatshirts, and 2 different frames. The woods bike which is the best trails frame in Massachusetts and the Enduro which will tongue punch your ex’s front butt.
3. We had a jam in Hudson, Mass that was definitely better than a normal Saturday. We try to just show up and drink beer at most places around the Northeast. The New England scene is honestly thriving and the people there know what’s up. We just want outsiders to realize the truth. Our dude Marty also films a bunch and made some edits and a photo book called Obsolete which has been sick. And now we’re trying to film trails and concrete shit for who knows what. Sending shirts to idiots who left the northeast is also sick.
4. Starting a crew “just because” sounds weird. We all just have hung out for so long that a joke turned into a name and then a name became a frame which is still super funny to us. We all ride one of two frames made by John Corts at FBM. He hooked it up with a quality product. If you like people enough to define it, go for it. Just have fun and do what you want.
5. Shout out to Vic at Circuit BMX, Busch Heavy Boyz and Challenger BMX Mag. Also shout out to us because we are sick. Also jay from full circle bike shop.
2. We started the crew as a reason to talk shit on each other. I guess they’ve changed because we now make a bunch of comfortable, indestructible shirts, sweatshirts, and 2 different frames. The woods bike which is the best trails frame in Massachusetts and the Enduro which will tongue punch your ex’s front butt.
3. We had a jam in Hudson, Mass that was definitely better than a normal Saturday. We try to just show up and drink beer at most places around the Northeast. The New England scene is honestly thriving and the people there know what’s up. We just want outsiders to realize the truth. Our dude Marty also films a bunch and made some edits and a photo book called Obsolete which has been sick. And now we’re trying to film trails and concrete shit for who knows what. Sending shirts to idiots who left the northeast is also sick.
4. Starting a crew “just because” sounds weird. We all just have hung out for so long that a joke turned into a name and then a name became a frame which is still super funny to us. We all ride one of two frames made by John Corts at FBM. He hooked it up with a quality product. If you like people enough to define it, go for it. Just have fun and do what you want.
5. Shout out to Vic at Circuit BMX, Busch Heavy Boyz and Challenger BMX Mag. Also shout out to us because we are sick. Also jay from full circle bike shop.
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The Primary Crew |
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1. Our crew is from the San Francisco Bay Area and includes Dominic Cellini, Elijah Trujillo, Austin Akers, Josh Higgins, and George Shields
2. We were just a group of dudes who just wanted a platform to put our clips out there together. Now we just stay tight as a crew of homies and do it all for fun; riding and filming when we want to.
3. When we can get the time off of work we go on trips to usually So-Cal because the scene is sick out there. We host jams and contest at our local skateparks to keep the scene alive and get out there. We film each other on our phones, but that's about it until we get some good film equipment.
4. I think it's good for friends to start BMX crews because I think it keeps everyone motivated to stay out there and keep shredding. And I feel like it keeps the homies together.
5. We started in 2014 and we're gonna keep pushin’ till the wheels fall off. Check us out here:
https://youtu.be/_lKzkVp5rak
https://youtu.be/3e9l1_Cq3Rc
2. We were just a group of dudes who just wanted a platform to put our clips out there together. Now we just stay tight as a crew of homies and do it all for fun; riding and filming when we want to.
3. When we can get the time off of work we go on trips to usually So-Cal because the scene is sick out there. We host jams and contest at our local skateparks to keep the scene alive and get out there. We film each other on our phones, but that's about it until we get some good film equipment.
4. I think it's good for friends to start BMX crews because I think it keeps everyone motivated to stay out there and keep shredding. And I feel like it keeps the homies together.
5. We started in 2014 and we're gonna keep pushin’ till the wheels fall off. Check us out here:
https://youtu.be/_lKzkVp5rak
https://youtu.be/3e9l1_Cq3Rc
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Team Dilly |
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1. Team Dilly is based primarily out of Minneapolis, but we have people all over the damn place. Texas in particular is a big outpost, along with smaller footprints in Oregon, Colorado, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Michigan, New York, Canada, and California. Maybe Pennsylvania and Arizona too? It's a forest of names and places. I forget where everyone is these days--there's like 40 people or more in the mix. I hesitate to try to name everyone for fear of missing people, but the OG core group consisted of: Brandon Morcomb, Kyle Stark, Reed Stark, Gunch, Seth Peterson, the Henry bros, Jesse Hilliard, Landon Anderson, Deljon Willis, and me (Cody Smiglewski). In the latter days, we've enjoyed the presence of World Class Pro Erik Elstran, Bink, Chris Kowaleski, Forrest Burkey, Clint #magwheelguy, Devon Lampman, Tallboy, Justin Dewitt, Seth Smiglewski, Chass Uthe, Mike Gelle, Rahlin Rigsby, Mike Hart, along with basically all of our friends, who both ride and don't ride at all because who cares. Essentially, if you know us, you're already on the team so crack a beer in celebration.
2. TD was an outgrowth of a quasi-real clothing thing Landon did called Allegory. The first TD video, “Ride Away on Yo Pussy Ass Bike,” began life as "the Allegory video" and when the Infantry/Camp Three/Square One style clothing fad died out, we just decided to roll with the pocket change crew we already had. The name itself comes from an excruciatingly dumb AIM conversation between Brandon and myself. He used to work at a Dairy Queen, and I asked if he could flow me some Dilly bars. We stuck with "Team Dilly" because the name is dumb as hell and about as far away from a "team" that you can get.
As far as reasons to stay a crew? Well, we're still all friends, and we still like to go ride bikes together and drink beers together and go to each others' weddings and all that shit. Growing up and aging together has been cool, and why break up something that doesn't suck?
3. What we "do" is primarily just exist, though we definitely also make bullshit now and again. We've made 3 full length DVDs, countless web edits, lots of dumb t-shirts and stickers, and most notably, throw a street jam every year in the Twin Cities. "Dilly Jam" as it's come to be known generally takes place on the Sunday closest to 4/20 because a.) we thought it was funny when we were all 19, b.) the winters here can be rough and it's fun to get everyone together to go roll around like a bunch of shitheads, and c.) security tends to be most lax on Sundays. I think we got the idea from some of the DTFU dudes' events in the UK. Either way, we've been doing that for like 14 years now, which also, if it's not a record for longest running BMX street jam, it's gotta be close?
Having said all that, basically anyone on the team is free to do whatever they want with the name, so who even knows what kinds of horseshit is out there with our name on it. We run collectively, so smoke if you got em.
4. You know how various cities and regions have their local PBR-equivalent beers? Like when you go to Chicago, there's Old Style, Texas has Lone Star, the NW has Rainier, and here in Minnesota we have Grain Belt. None are a whole lot better or worse than any other, but they're all fun to try. Crews do the same thing in the BMX world--local flavor makes the rich pageant of life more interesting. Like how sick is it that you had all these like-minded people, all in a specific place at a specific time? To me, that's as good a reason to have a crew as you can get: it's an identity unique to a time and place and to your friends. So hell yeah people should start crews.
5. Someone else will probably have pictures, and I hope they do because I don't have jack shit. We don't have a website anymore I don't think? If we do it's teamdilly.com. We definitely have instagram though, and our thing is @teamdilly666. Have fun with your friends, because in the end, that's all that matters.
2. TD was an outgrowth of a quasi-real clothing thing Landon did called Allegory. The first TD video, “Ride Away on Yo Pussy Ass Bike,” began life as "the Allegory video" and when the Infantry/Camp Three/Square One style clothing fad died out, we just decided to roll with the pocket change crew we already had. The name itself comes from an excruciatingly dumb AIM conversation between Brandon and myself. He used to work at a Dairy Queen, and I asked if he could flow me some Dilly bars. We stuck with "Team Dilly" because the name is dumb as hell and about as far away from a "team" that you can get.
As far as reasons to stay a crew? Well, we're still all friends, and we still like to go ride bikes together and drink beers together and go to each others' weddings and all that shit. Growing up and aging together has been cool, and why break up something that doesn't suck?
3. What we "do" is primarily just exist, though we definitely also make bullshit now and again. We've made 3 full length DVDs, countless web edits, lots of dumb t-shirts and stickers, and most notably, throw a street jam every year in the Twin Cities. "Dilly Jam" as it's come to be known generally takes place on the Sunday closest to 4/20 because a.) we thought it was funny when we were all 19, b.) the winters here can be rough and it's fun to get everyone together to go roll around like a bunch of shitheads, and c.) security tends to be most lax on Sundays. I think we got the idea from some of the DTFU dudes' events in the UK. Either way, we've been doing that for like 14 years now, which also, if it's not a record for longest running BMX street jam, it's gotta be close?
Having said all that, basically anyone on the team is free to do whatever they want with the name, so who even knows what kinds of horseshit is out there with our name on it. We run collectively, so smoke if you got em.
4. You know how various cities and regions have their local PBR-equivalent beers? Like when you go to Chicago, there's Old Style, Texas has Lone Star, the NW has Rainier, and here in Minnesota we have Grain Belt. None are a whole lot better or worse than any other, but they're all fun to try. Crews do the same thing in the BMX world--local flavor makes the rich pageant of life more interesting. Like how sick is it that you had all these like-minded people, all in a specific place at a specific time? To me, that's as good a reason to have a crew as you can get: it's an identity unique to a time and place and to your friends. So hell yeah people should start crews.
5. Someone else will probably have pictures, and I hope they do because I don't have jack shit. We don't have a website anymore I don't think? If we do it's teamdilly.com. We definitely have instagram though, and our thing is @teamdilly666. Have fun with your friends, because in the end, that's all that matters.
JibB Crew |
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1. Our crew is based out of Atlanta, Georgia and the surrounding areas in Alabama and South Carolina. The main crew is me (Nicholas Will), Ben Weaver, Ryan Smith, Tommy Myall, Tyler Hodnett, Jeremy Novell, Tyler Lewis, Jack Callahan, Grant Pair, Luc Sabatier, Cam Phillips, Kelz, Auston Cleghorne, Russ Endelman, Dustin Wheeler, Kevin Scannel, and a bunch more dudes.
2. We stared the crew because the Atlanta area was lacking a central point for the BMX scene. So, we took it upon ourselves to try to put together group rides, jams, and other events. Our reasons are more now for the preservation of the Atlanta BMX scene as a lot of us are getting older (lol) and trying to keep younger dudes interested in riding.
3. We do street jams, DIY jams, skatepark jams, insta-contests, and other events to get people together. We also put out a crew video 4ish years ago and still make stickers and t-shirts as well.
4. Starting a crew is a great way to show off your area and showcase the riding that is in your scene. If you can experience going on a trip with a group of your boys, there is nothing better. Making stickers and t-shirts or editing videos is also a way to have a creative outlet that BMX may not provide by itself.
5. Thanks to imprimaturBMX and Mike Hinkens for letting us speak about our crew. Shout out to all the crews out there putting in work and creating their own videos/scenes/jams/events. I truly believe that the crew level of riding is the realist representation of BMX that there is. Check us out at @jibbcrew on instagram and jibbcrew.com.
2. We stared the crew because the Atlanta area was lacking a central point for the BMX scene. So, we took it upon ourselves to try to put together group rides, jams, and other events. Our reasons are more now for the preservation of the Atlanta BMX scene as a lot of us are getting older (lol) and trying to keep younger dudes interested in riding.
3. We do street jams, DIY jams, skatepark jams, insta-contests, and other events to get people together. We also put out a crew video 4ish years ago and still make stickers and t-shirts as well.
4. Starting a crew is a great way to show off your area and showcase the riding that is in your scene. If you can experience going on a trip with a group of your boys, there is nothing better. Making stickers and t-shirts or editing videos is also a way to have a creative outlet that BMX may not provide by itself.
5. Thanks to imprimaturBMX and Mike Hinkens for letting us speak about our crew. Shout out to all the crews out there putting in work and creating their own videos/scenes/jams/events. I truly believe that the crew level of riding is the realist representation of BMX that there is. Check us out at @jibbcrew on instagram and jibbcrew.com.
Thank You Crew |
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1. Our crew is based out of Murrieta, California – 951. It consists of about 20 plus people.
2. Honestly, there was no specific reason why we started THANKYOU. We just wanted something to rep and have something for people to know us by… something to leave our mark with.
3. As a crew we travel in and out of California to ride and film videos. We make clothes and throw events. We throw jams, do pop up shows, and have video premieres to give back to the local BMX scene in our town. And we make clothes to give to people—quality apparel that’s made and produced by riders, for riders.
4. Yes, other people should start crews. They are the backbone of BMX and keep it alive. Crews can be handed down generationally and can motivate the people involved to progress, produce, and keep BMX alive.
5. Thanks for giving us this opportunity! Shoutout to Secret BMX, Todd Spriet, and everyone who supports us. More videos, clothes, and events coming soon!
thankyouthreads.com
instagram- @thankyouaf
twitter- @thankyoucrew
youtube- thankyoubmx
2. Honestly, there was no specific reason why we started THANKYOU. We just wanted something to rep and have something for people to know us by… something to leave our mark with.
3. As a crew we travel in and out of California to ride and film videos. We make clothes and throw events. We throw jams, do pop up shows, and have video premieres to give back to the local BMX scene in our town. And we make clothes to give to people—quality apparel that’s made and produced by riders, for riders.
4. Yes, other people should start crews. They are the backbone of BMX and keep it alive. Crews can be handed down generationally and can motivate the people involved to progress, produce, and keep BMX alive.
5. Thanks for giving us this opportunity! Shoutout to Secret BMX, Todd Spriet, and everyone who supports us. More videos, clothes, and events coming soon!
thankyouthreads.com
instagram- @thankyouaf
twitter- @thankyoucrew
youtube- thankyoubmx
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