Alex Hiam
Alex Hiam is an Australian BMX rider from Brisbane known for creative park and transition riding, his long stint with Colony and the Vans video Magic Powers.
4 min readProfiles of influential BMX riders across street, park, dirt, flatland, vert and racing: their careers, riding styles, landmark video parts and the influence they had on the sport.
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Alex Hiam is an Australian BMX rider from Brisbane known for creative park and transition riding, his long stint with Colony and the Vans video Magic Powers.
4 min readBob Haro is an American rider and designer who helped invent freestyle BMX in the late 1970s and founded the Haro bike brand.
4 min readBrandon Begin is an American BMX street rider from Connecticut known for raw, fast and creative riding, unusual spot choice and well-regarded video parts.
3 min readBrian Foster is an American BMX rider from Delaware who raced as a pro in the 1990s, won X Games dirt gold in 1998 and became a respected trails rider for Fit.
4 min readChad Kerley is an American BMX street rider from San Diego known for fast, technical riding, two X Games Street golds and his part in the Markit video Zero.
4 min readChase Hawk is an American rider from Austin, Texas, known for his smooth, stylish riding on transition and his long association with the brand Cult.
4 min readChris Doyle is an American BMX dirt and trails rider known for huge doubles, 360 turndowns and several X Games dirt medals over a pro career of about 20 years.
4 min readCorey Martinez is an American BMX street rider known for his style and lines, with landmark parts in Animal's Can I Eat? (2004) and United's Still United.
5 min readDakota Roche is an American BMX street rider from Southern California known for fast, stylish riding, long ties to Cult and Vans and acclaimed video parts.
3 min readDave Mirra was an American BMX rider whose record run of X Games medals from the mid 1990s to the late 2000s made him the most decorated rider of his era.
4 min readDennis Enarson is an American BMX rider from San Diego known for all-round street and park riding, big transfers and the acclaimed video part Right Here.
4 min readEdwin De La Rosa is a New York City street rider long associated with Animal Bikes whose Can I Eat part and pegless approach shaped modern street riding.
4 min readGarrett Reynolds is an American BMX street rider from New Jersey, regarded as the most dominant contest street rider ever and the founder of Fiend BMX.
4 min readHannah Roberts is an American BMX park rider from Michigan with multiple UCI BMX freestyle world titles and an Olympic silver medal from Tokyo 2020.
3 min readJamie Bestwick is a British vert rider who won a long consecutive run of X Games BMX vert gold medals and is widely regarded as the best vert rider ever.
3 min readJoe Rich is an American all-round BMX rider based in Austin, Texas, who co-founded Terrible One with Taj Mihelich and rode the first Road Fools trip in 1998.
4 min readKevin Peraza is a Mexican-American BMX rider from Tucson, Arizona, known for stylish riding, X Games gold in park, dirt and street, and a long Mongoose link.
4 min readKriss Kyle is a Scottish BMX rider known for ambitious video projects, including Don't Look Down, in which he rode a bowl hanging beneath a hot air balloon.
4 min readKyle Baldock is an Australian BMX park and dirt rider from the Gold Coast, Queensland, who won multiple X Games gold medals in both disciplines in the 2010s.
4 min readLogan Martin is an Australian BMX park rider from the Gold Coast who won the first Olympic BMX freestyle gold at Tokyo 2020 and holds multiple world titles.
4 min readMat Hoffman is an American vert rider from Oklahoma, nicknamed The Condor, known for record high airs, the flair, and founding Hoffman Bikes.
4 min readMatthias Dandois is a French BMX flatland rider with numerous world titles and an X Games medal, known for a fluid style and a wide mainstream profile.
4 min readMike Aitken is an American dirt and trails rider from Utah known for his style, his Fit Life video part, and his recovery from a serious crash in 2008.
4 min readNathan Williams is an American BMX street rider from Nashville known for big, technical street riding and video parts such as Why Not? and Kink's Champagne.
4 min readNigel Sylvester is a BMX street rider from Queens, New York, known for the GO video series, Nike and Jordan Brand collaborations and mainstream crossover.
4 min readPat Casey was an American BMX park and dirt rider from California who won X Games Dirt gold in 2021 and died in a motocross accident in June 2023, aged 29.
4 min readRuben Alcantara is a Spanish rider from Malaga known for inventive transition and street riding, his Etnies Grounded part, and building ramps in his home city.
4 min readRyan Nyquist is an American park and dirt rider from California whose contest career spanned more than two decades and included multiple X Games medals.
3 min readSean Burns is an American street rider from Pembroke, Massachusetts, known for roof drops, raw speed, heavy slams and his long association with Bone Deth.
5 min readVan Homan is an American street rider from New Jersey known for big gaps and rails, his Criminal Mischief video part, and a long career with Fit Bike Co.
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