Coffee Chatter

This week we caught up with Felicia Stancil to chat about the recent news that she’ll be joining SSquared Bicycles and Answer BMX in 2021. We also chatted with Felicia about her great performance at the Grands just a few weeks ago and how she prepared for it, what it’s been like working with her coach Sean Dwight, her experience attending University while still racing BMX, and her plans for next year and beyond! Enjoy! #coffeechatter

This week we recap the 2020 USA BMX Grands Pro Spectacular! We breakdown all the excitment including Alise's first turn move to win her the Women’s Pro title, Riley's dominating performance in the A Pro Class, the exciting three way battle in the Vet Pro Class, and Connor's impressive ride to win his third USA BMX #1 Pro title!  Enjoy!.... ps. Alise won the GRAND SLAM 

It's time for the episode you've all be waiting for, The Grands Preview Show! This week we broke down how we think the big 3 are going to fair, who we think will be the contenders for the title, and who we think you should keep an eye on as a dark-horse to be battling in the final! Also, we discussed how we think racing will go with it being a unique year where everyone can win the title, and we also broke down and discussed the new updates to the 2021 USA BMX Pro series. Enjoy! #chatter

For this weeks show, we caught up with 3x Olympic BMX coach, Greg Romero! Greg has coached racers such as Corben Sharrah, David Herman, and also Mike Day and Jill Kintner to Olympic Medals in 2008, so he has a vast amount of knowledge to share with everyone. We chatted with Coach G about how he got started in coaching, where he learned the techniques he uses with his atheltes, the mental side of the game that he strives to help his atheltes with and much more! Greg has a facinating mind to disect and it was great to see his outlook! Enjoy! #chatter

BMX Grand Slam? This week we chatted about the up coming USA BMX Grand Nationals and gave our thoughts on the recently released track map, discussed AMV's post about Junior girls not being allowed to race the Woman Pro class at Grands, we chatted about who we think is the GOAT of BMX racing, and we created history by officially naming what is the Grand Slam of BMX Racing!  Enjoy! #chatter

This week we brought the fan favorite, Sylvain Andre, back onto the show! Coming off his second French national championship win in a row, we chatted with Sylvain about how the race day went for him and his mentality during it, we dove into his brain to dissect what makes him such a fierce racer and the mindset behind that, how the French team operates when it comes to qualifying for the Olympic games, and much more! Enjoy! #chatter 

This week on the Radio show, we had your favourite pro's favourite pro, Nic Long, on the phone to tell us about his birthday jam he had last week, we chatted about the Dutch national champs that went down this past weekend, we discussed our thoughts and opinions on the new Papendal track design, we dropped our predictions for this weekends French national champs, and more! Enjoy! #chatter

This week, we had the pleasure of having Tony Hoffman come on and chat with us! Tony is a former BMX racer and Olympic BMX coach now speaking publicly around the world, inspiring others with his story, and educating people through the lessons he's learned and the hardships he's gone through. We chatted with Tony about how he got into public speaking, his outlook on coaching/training, and he also shared many incredible lessons he's learned through the years.  The way Tony shares his story and inspires others is truly amazing, we hope you all enjoy this episode! #chatter

This week we caught up with the Florida kid, Josh Meyers! We chatted with Josh about all things BMX from him growing up racing both NBL and ABA, turning pro and racing World Cup events, how he started riding for Answer BMX/SSquared Bicycles, competing at the 2012 Olympic trials, being a father, and lots of fun BS in between!  It was great to catchup with Josh, hope you all enjoy! #chatter

This week we chatted to Tre Whyte about his latest Instagram post saying he’s off the GB program, we discussed the cancellation of the last World Cup round in Rock Hill, chatted with the newly crowned World Cup Champion Connor Fields, and ranted about how BMX Racers always get asked about doing tricks and never get the recognition we deserve for being the racers we are. Also we had great guests call in to talk all things BMX! Enjoy! #chatter

This week the boys caught up with the 2008 Olympic Bronze Medalist and 2009 World Champion, Donny Robinson. We chatted with DR about his work with the BMX Racing League that he co-founded, the concussions he had to deal with throughout this career, his 2008 Olympic Games experience, his solo trip to Australia to win the World Championships in 2009, and much more!  We're happy to bring on a new sponsor of the show, Bump Start Coffee! Go to bumpstartcoffee.com and use code BMX15 to save you 15%! Enjoy! #chatter

This week we chatted about box jumps on the track and if they could have a place if done right, the benefits/differences of riding smaller tracks vs SX tracks, the positives and negatives of implementing B Finals into Bmx racing, the race that went down in France last weekend, the Euro round going down in Verona soon here, along with some good chats with our live callers as well!  Hope you all Enjoy! #chatter

This week we caught up with one of the young hot american pros of today, Kam Larsen. We chatted with Kam about coming up through the amateur ranks, moving up to A pro and then jumping up into the AA pro class and World Cup tour. He told us about how the transition was for him and what it may look like in the the near future. We also chatted about sponsorship and the state of the industry, how it has changed recently, and what it may look like moving forward. Kam is one to watch these next few years and beyond! Enjoy!

*Disclosure: First 6 minutes is crappy audio. Listen through and you will hear why after 6 min* This week we had our inaugural Live Radio Show! It was a little rough and janky to get things going with the recording and wifi glitches, but janky is as janky does.  We had a multitude of friends call into the show to talk about whats going on in life right now and what the future looks like for Bmx and sport in general! We also got word of some rider beef that may get settled this weekend, so you wont want to miss that! It was great to kick off this new addition to the Coffee Chatter empire that is these Live Radio shows. Hope you all enjoy, onwards and upwards from here! #Chatter

The boys catchup with Arielle Martin! Arielle has a fascinating story from turning pro at 15 years old, racing on the US national team, becoming the first US woman to win a world cup, making the 2012 Olympic team, and then getting hurt the day before flying out to the Olympics. Arielle is open and candid about her experiences, good and bad, and tells her story exactly how it happened and how she felt.  This is a great listen, from an outstanding athlete and person.  Enjoy her story! 

In this weeks episode we had BMX legend and 1999 World Champion, Robert de Wilde, on the show with us. We chatted all things Afro Bob from growing up racing in The Netherlands, to his decision to turn pro and move to the USA to race full time on one of the most iconic teams in the sport, his World Championship win in 1999, adapting to the sport as it evolved into Bmx SX as we know today, his run to the 2008 Olympic games, dealing with the injuries he had along the way, and so much more! Robert is an absolute legend in the sport and it was amazing to hear some stories and insight into his career! Enjoy!

In this show the boys discuss USABMX's big announcement about having the pro title decided at the Grands as a 1 day winner take all race.  They chat with the USABMX Pro Champs Connor Fields and Alise Willoughby and see what they think about the situation, how they're doing right now, and what their mindset will be like heading into the grands this fall, with possibly not racing before that. Enjoy!

In this week's show the boys catchup with David Graf, Laura Smulders and Sylvain Andre! They chat with each of them, catchup, see what they've been up to, what they've been doing for training but also in life, and just catchup as friends. Fun show, Enjoy! 

The boys catchup with one of their best friends Sean Gaian! They tell some funny stories of traveling together and share some laughs, talk about Sean's decision to retire from racing, his mindset, how he felt about it, his views on the sport, his opinion on a few things and more, enjoy!

The boys catchup with 2018 European Champion, Olympian, and Great Britain National team member Kyle Evans!  They chat about what Kyle's been doing lately, his motivation to ride, his wrist injuries, his mentality towards training/racing, his European Championship win, his thoughts on a few things and he shares some laughs with the boys. Enjoy!