BMX Adventurcation in Guam

The Vans crew just returned from a week in Guam riding skateparks, snorkeling and doing demos for the troops at the US Navy base.  Guam is a small tropical island about 1400 miles off the coast of Japan   that has been inhabited for about 4000 years. Right now is a US territory and has insane scuba, snorkeling and a kick ass skatepark.  This is the Van's team's 3rd time to Guam (2007 & 2010) and it was just as hot as the last two trips. Watch out for the video of Gary Young, Alistair Whitton, Michael Steingraber, Dennis McCoy, Coco Zurita and Ryan Guettler getting tropical in the next couple weeks. Big Thanks to Bill Marx with the NEX for all the hospitality.

Vote DMC for the BMX Hall of Fame

It's pretty crazy to think that Dennis McCoy is not in the BMX Hall of fame, considering he turned pro before a couple of the guys on the Vans BMX team were even born.
Nominations for the BMX Hall of fame just opened and anyone can make nominations.  DMC has too many accomplishments to list on here but the BMX historians over on 23mag have a great wiki history of Dennis and all his media exploits. Go to this link vote for Dennis McCoy for the BMX Hall of Fame and let everyone in your tweet world know you voted with a #DMC4HOF tag!

HARO's Generations of Freestyle: Dennis McCoy

Vans BMX caught up with Dennis McCoy at Interbike for a look at some of his retro Haro gear in the Generations of Freestyle pop-up museum. Dennis gives you an incredibly brief history of BMX and give you the low down on buy a hundred pairs of Vans and slinging them at the BMX track to make a buck when he was a kid.  Respect the hustle!

LXVI INVITATIONAL AT ECSC

It all begins today in Virginia Beach, Virginia. For the first time, the LXVI Invitational Box Jump contest is going down at ECSC. Vans BMX stars Scotty Cranmer, TJ Ellis (pictured), Cory Nastazio, Ryan Guettler, Kyle Baldock and more will compete today at 12 -2 in a qualifying round.

Saturday 12-1 is the final round. Riders are competing for a portion of the $25,000 purse.

There's also Vert Demos going on all weekend with Simon Tabron, Coco Zurita and DMC Dennis McCoy.

The event is free to get into, and you can also keep up with us on @vansbmx66 on Instagram and twitter.

Tabron Qualifies first in Vert Prelims

Today in Ocean City, Maryland for Dew Tour stop 1, Vert Prelims got under way. Twelve riders were cut to six for tomorrows final.

Vans Pro Simon Tabron was on point today and finished in the top spot. Simon can allyoop 540 so good! Coco Zurita blasted to the moon and finished 5th, and DMC put a couple great runs together and finished 7th.

DMC will miss the finals, but was happy with his riding today non the less.

The Vert finals are scheduled for Friday evening 7:30pm EST, for more information, check the official Dew Tour site HERE

Good luck Coco and Simon!

X Games LA... Now!

Well the event has arrived a little earlier than usual but the X Games starts later this week in LA. The Vans team have arrived and will begin practice today!

Competition begins June 29 with the first BMX event Street on Friday at 3pm. June 30 Saturday morning Park will get under way at 10am and Vert at 4:30pm. July 1 Big Air at 6:30pm

Street - Dakota Roche, Bruno Hoffman, Sean Sexton (Ty Morrow out with injury)

Park - Scotty Cranmer, Gary Young, Chase Hawk, Kyle Baldock, Pat Casey, Diogo Canina, Rob Darden, Bas Keep, Ben Hennon, Daniel Sandoval

Vert - Dennis McCoy, Coco Zurita, Simon Tabron

Big Air - Simon Tabron

Look for alternates Josh Harrington and Dan Foley to ride if someone is injured.

@vansbmx66 will be in LA so join them on instagram and twitter if you haven't already!

If you can't make it, you can watch it all go down on ESPN HERE. And HERE is the official X Games site for the latest.

X Games Invites, Vans Team Coming in Hot!

Vans just made a big splash in the X Games list with riders invited from every BMX discipline. Simon Tabron will be kicking it in Big Air and Vert with DMC and Coco Zurita teaming up on the vert ramp as well. BMX Park is pretty stacked with Scotty Cranmer, Gary Young, Chase Hawk, Kyle Baldock, Pat Casey, Diogo Canina, Rob Darden, Bas Keep and Daniel Sandoval. Chances of an all Vans podium are pretty good for that one! Street will be a treat with Dakota Roche, Ty Morrow, Bruno Hoffman, Sean and Sexton throwing down, but look for a few more Vans riders to make it in before everything is said and done.

Vert Crew at Dew

The Vans Vert team Dennis Mccoy, Coco Zurita and Simon Tabron all made the finals at Dew stop 1 in Ocean city, MD.

The finals were supposed to live on NBC, but with rain delays, the boys didn't ride until 8pm last night!

Simon got on the podium in 3rd (.14 away from 2nd!), Coco in 6th and Dennis finished 10th.

Check out this pic from prelims, McCoy at age 44 with a new move. Can Can flair!

The boys now head to LA now for X Games 17. The Vert final is Friday night. Good luck boys!

Vans Riders on X Games 17 Invite List

Vans Riders on X Games 17 Invite List

Espn just released their first round of invited X Games BMX riders and the list is stacked with Vans dudes. Here is who made it so far:

Park
Gary Young
Chase Hawk
Scotty Cranmer
Pat Casey
Diogo Canina
Mark Webb

Street
Dakota Roche
Ty Morrow
Sean Sexton
Josh Harrington

Vert
Coco Zurita
Simon Tabron
Dennis McCoy

Big Air
Coco Zurita (Alt)

Could Vans make a clean sweep for all events....? It happened in Park, it could happen in street and vert...

McCoy and Coco Take on Vert In China

Asian X Games is going off this weekend in China and we just got word that Dennis McCoy took 3rd in vert and Coco was right behind him in 4th place. Dakota rides street late tonight sometime (which is tomorrow over there) so we'll let know how the rest of the crew does. In the meantime everyone is shopping at the black market and playing fear factor with the local cuisine.

Coco 3 Q's on Dew finals

The final stop of Dew Tour was at the Hard Rock pool in Vegas, how was that?

It was amazing, such a mellow and relaxed environment, weather was great people was loud, totally something never seen in BMX before, a Vert ramp over a pool! It was really fun!

Was it the best scenery you have ever rode Vert at?

It totally was the best contest scene I've been apart of!
I hope they repeat this every year.

DMC took 3rd place?

DMC did an amazing job putting his run together, and he landed all his tricks! Like 540's and 900's! He is my hope to keep riding Haha. I hope I can ride till that age! (DMC is 43)

Mackay

TJ Ellis and DMC Scores Podium spots in Vegas

The Dew Tour Final in Las Vegas are now a wrap and TJ Ellis front-flip-whipped his way to a 3rd place podium spot in BMX Dirt along with blasting the most massive backflips of the night. TJ ended the season in thrid place overall followed by Vans BMX rider Luke Parslow only six points behind.

BMX legend Dennis McCoy reached deep into his vert roots and rode to a 3rd place finish in BMX Vert and came in 9th for the season tour. His teammate Coco Zurita stayed within the top 5 for the 2010 season.

The park course was crazy once again and it was Vans UK shredder Mark Webb who came within striking distance of the Dew Cup and brought out a 360 triple tailwhip en route to a 3rd place in the overall series with Scotty Cranmer in 8th place and Gary Yong in 11th.

Congrats to all the Vans riders who continue to push the level of BMX on and off the course!

Vans Then and Now with Dennis McCoy

You've got to give it up to one of the legendary riders of BMX, Vans team rider Dennis McCoy. He has been around forever and is still killing it. Listen up to what he has to say about then, now and everything in between.