#murray bmx

[stone-cold-groove]

A Murray motocross bicycles ad from 1977.

[superherokiller]

Scott Clark/Team Murray and RL Osborn/BMXAction.

[slashdementia7734]

SCOTT CLARK // R.L. OSBORN // TEAM MURRAY X-20 // 1983 // GNARBUCKET.

[bandcampsnoop]

11/30/22.

I both love and hate this blog. Mostly the hate comes from being challenged to expand my musical boundaries. It would be easy to stay in my lane - Yo La Tengo, BMX Bandits, or The Clean.

Wonderful Sounds (UK) didn't initially require me to recalibrate my likes or dislikes. R.W. Hedges and Luca Nieri releases sold me on the label.

But Monks Road Social? (London, UK) I wasn't ready for this band. And then Paul Weller got involved. How can I ignore that? The sound fits this blog, but more in the the Murray Lightburn, Bobby Orozo, Sometime Songs, or Aaron Frazer sound.

Please enjoy great sounds from a not-so-known label.

[bobbymcmann]

I need to ride Matt Murray like a bmx

[the-firebird69]

VIRO Rides Electric Mini-Bike 25.2 V Cafe Racer Powered Ride-On with Parent Control - Walmart.com

https://www.walmart.com/ip/VIRO-Rides-Electric-Mini-Bike-25-2-V-Cafe-Racer-Powered-Ride-On-with-Parent-Control/597164756

Our son designed it to look pretty much just like this and it does the only way you can tell it looks different is by measuring everything and you put it a slight angle which makes it look cooler than it already looks irresistible and a lot of people think they can put stuff in there but they find out they can change the motor and the thing goes real fast and registered as a motorcycle but it's a teeny one okay four foot is not it's not very big it's a size of a 10-year-old's BMX bike it's small okay that's this version it's the Chinese version. I just looks like this almost exactly it's just bigger it's got the same colors the tank shaped the same the seat because it's his design and it was taken and he's putting bigger motors and real tech real motorcycle stuff this has some pretty hefty stuff for teeny bike and a lot of small people are buying them and putting motors in them that's kind of what they're Wie chan figured it out. And he sells them all over the world and they put motors in them and some people like mini me and smaller people the three or four foot tall people around here get them and they use them as scooters some is motorcycles and they look like the size of the Grom but the tires are bigger and wheels are bigger so it looks a little bit bigger than that no it's the same size because the frame is smaller than the Grom no it's the same size bike it's just a lot cooler looking and it handles much better so he's making a smaller one now and it's not that small but it's smaller and tons of people are buying it it's irresistible to everybody and it goes like a thousand miles of charge because of the trickle charge and people think it's intense it has an anti-theft systems like Joe Murray said and it has a real long chain thing you can hook it on to practically anything and people together hook them together it's a good technique. You can get a small one like a scooter and go like a hundred miles each battery and really you sort of have to it's such a pain charging these things he says this is going down the street. That we sold tons of the smaller ones and they're a little bit they're bigger than this and they're not good for people who are really small but they're good for people who are Max size it's not really that big it's like 5 ft and there's tons of people who are that size and they love it and they put electric motors in and they put gas motors in of their own and we're putting our electric and gas in and they put their hours back in they say this is no this is no better it's worse and I was works great it's a really nice gas motor really you can go 250 mph on it it's just super a little bike it looks cool too we have a lot of accessories and he's ordering tons of these and he wants the smaller ones too cuz I can't fit on the big one a lot of them have trouble with it but he is ordering a lot of the big ones and they lower them they hold a lot more weight we'll see what a damn news London bridge this guy... What's Trump had him dump that would stop him at Chase Manhattan she started helping out. Such a weasel anyways we're buying some of these bikes but not this one these are too small and we don't have people that small we have children and we might buy them for them and these idiots combine try and take them that's what they're for mac daddy says he also adds that there are decent brand and a decent make and they have decent parts like my grand nephews electric bike. So we're moving on no we need to get this out

Thor Freya

You know how it is down there it's tough but it's tough here too mentally and I'm doing a lot better physically I do need you around cuz I know you and I sort of get what you're saying and you locked into it so we're moving out and we're doing things I keep giving me crap saying you're asking for money and some people are saying that here I said you don't understand why and she's us and she gets why you don't have any money here you're screwed and they start saying oh oh and so they're working yeah they're trying to screw our people are you and then start getting mad and said no or not and it made it better I needed that

Hera

We're using this now and we're going to get to it the people are keeping people poor and purpose

Thor Freya

[thetrailcollective]

Thank you to all that provided feedback on the draft design for Murray Bridge Bike Park in Murray Bridge, South Australia. We had a great response and 90% of respondents were in favour of our design for the space! Here are the final concept designs for your new bike park to get excited about. Tag it with someone you shred it with! @ruralcityofmurraybridge @the_station_youth_music #ridettc #ttc #thetrailcollective #bmx #buildbmx #buildcommunity #community #livefortrails #trail #bmxtrails #ausbmx #openspaces #city #ruralcityofmurraybridge #healthyactivelifestyle #families #trails #bikepark #pumptrack #bybmxersforbmxers #design #haveyoursay #southaustralia #sturtreserve #murraybridge (at Murray Bridge, South Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2BK9mJ3Ju/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[billelie]

BMX Street 🔥 Murray Loubser

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[ernestclark]

BMX Street Murray Loubser

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[joannechapman]

BMX Street 🔥 Murray Loubser

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[bestbmxvideos]

BMX Street 🔥 Murray Loubser

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[yodaprod]

1981

[strathshepard]

[bandcampsnoop]

1/29/19.

I’d never heard of the band A Girl Called Eddy.  It is the project of Erin Moran, who has worked with diverse artists such as Ron Sexsmith, and Super Furry Animals,   Her sound reminds me of BMX Bandits, Murray Lightburn, Prefab Sprout, The Divine Comedy and The High Llamas.

Listen to “Charity Shop Window” - it’s a collaboration between Moran and one of her heroes - Paul Williams.

All this hero worship wouldn’t matter if Moran didn’t have the chops to pull off these arrangements and melodies. 

“Been Around” is released by the venerable label Elefant Records.  It is being distributed in the U.S. by Darla Records.  Moran herself is from New Jersey, USA.

[slashdementia7734]

[breadknight-likes-things]

Bread’s Skate (?!) Journal 09/06/20: The Other Ones: A Look Back On The Tony Hawk Imitators Of The Early 2000's....And BMX XXX.

Looking back at Tony Hawk as a series that's pretty solidly in the past can cause someone to easily forget how those games were actually thought of at the time: Hyper popular.  As a result of that popularity, it was easy to see a bunch of other games and franchises that wanted a piece of that money, some from Activision themselves, some....very much not.  Some of these games were good!  Some of these games were so bad that they've become something of a legendary laughing stock in the game landscape as a whole.  

As I said, Activision was no stranger to trying to apply the Tony Hawk formula to other sports in an attempt to cash in on the extreme success of their franchise.  Sometimes these cash in's actually made for decent, if unoriginal games.  Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX was more or less a carbon copy of the Tony Hawk formula, but with BMX Bikes instead of Skateboards, and it actually worked pretty well once you got used to the inherent differences of the two different styles.  Other attempts were not quite as fortunate as Matt Hoffman though, and both of them sort of had the same "downhill" problem.   Shaun Palmers Pro Snowboarder was an attempt to put the Tony Hawk formula into a snowboarding game, and while that should reasonably work, the linear and all downhill nature of the levels really didn't lend themselves to a fun time.  

Following from Shaun Palmer was "Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray" which is quite a title!  It was originally revealed with the far more descriptive name as "Shaun Murray's Pro Wakeboarder" but I have to assume that was changed to...distance the game from Tony Hawk?  It's a confusing move to say the least.  The game was actually quite decent, more so than you'd assume from something like a wakeboarding game, and you can tell there was some talent behind it, the games issue was that, by design, it was pretty much always on rails.  You were literally pulled through the levels behind a speed boat, and even though there was plenty to trick off, it lent a feeling that you were just being guided to the cool set pieces rather than actually doing any exploration of your own, it deserved better.  Hell, it at least deserves it's own Wikipedia page, the only mention of it at all is on Shaun Murray's very small Wikipedia entry, an ignoble end for a game that least tried something new.

I had to find a screenshot for Shaun Murray, which I swear is real, and this is the only one I could easily find online.  I swear this game happened!

Of course Activision wasn't the only studio trying to capitalize on the extreme sports craze and the Tony Hawk trick heavy style.  EA found what I would consider the greatest success with franchises like SSX, and one entry wonders like Freakstyle (which is a seminal game for me as a kid, but one I feel very few people even know exist), a sort of blend of SSX and racing through the lens of Motocross.  Hell, eventually EA would make Skate, which outlived Tony Hawk itself for a few years, and I already wrote about earlier this week, an excellent franchise that was nonetheless heavily inspired by THPS.

Now, there are far more imitators and hanger on's, some good (Splashdown, while closer to Wave Race, definitely stole some of it's vibes from THPS). Some incredibly bad (Gravity Games: Vert, Street, Dirt,  an abysmally bad Tony Hawk ripoff from the early 2000's immediately springs to mind) and some downright strange (Four words: Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure).  But only one company tried so hard and failed so miserably, and that's Acclaim, and BMX XXX.

This is genuinely what some of the worst impulses of the video game industry look like.

Acclaim had found success early on by getting Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX out only one year after Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and it certainly wasn't a terrible game.  It felt a little clunkier than what came out of Neversoft at the time, but it was definitely playable.  Acclaim also went on to put out Aggressive Inline, which, while it might sound insane to say about an inline skating video game, is genuinely one of the best extreme sports games ever made.  So Acclaim had real reason to believe they actually could put something out that would rival Tony Hawk!  Then they put out BMX XXX.  

BMX XXX is one of the most insipidly stupid things that any company has ever produced, certainly one of the worst video games ever made, and was so bad that Dave Mirra forced Acclaim to take his name off of it before release.  You really can boil this game down to two things: Dave Mirra's okay BMX game play, and the horn-dog mindset of a 13 year old boy that just found an issue of Hustler in the woods.  It's incredibly embarrassing!  Full of hookers, pimps, literal strip club videos, dogs fucking and humor that was shitty and mean spirited even by the standards of 2004.  It's astounding that anybody thought this game would sell at all, let alone do the impressive numbers they wanted for it.  Even the console manufacturers didn't really seem to want this thing on their consoles, Sony out and out censored the nudity even (which yes, the game featured full polygonal breasts, and they are horrifying to look at today), and though the other two allowed the nudity to slide, they made it pretty clear they thought the game was terrible.

BMX XXX is a punchline today, rightfully, but I think it did so much harm to the idea of a competing extreme sports franchise, that any further attempt to really hone in on an Tony Hawk alike just sort of stopped right there.  It actually came out pretty early on, in 2002, long before some of the other games I've mentioned on this list even, but the damage it did was impossible to ignore.  Activision kept trying, we still got the occasional excellent SSX game, and we got Skate.  Hell, we even got Ubisoft making a couple of tries, first with Shaun White doing a snowboarding and Skateboarding game, then with Steep.  The concept wasn't killed entirely, a favorite of mine, Amped 3 for Xbox 360, even came out just a few years later, but it felt like the spirit was gone, and it never really came back.  Thankfully, these days, we have more independent developers putting out their own vision of what an extreme sports game can be.  I hope this new generation of developers can really get us back to the glory days of the extreme sports game, and even if they don't end up making it too far, at least they're going to try.

And things might get a little weird.