The Bill Batchelor Episode
10/14/22 • 103 min
Bill Batchelor was an avid BMX rider during the early 80s, participating in racing and followed by freestyle. He was also interested in photography from a young age with black & white images being his preferred style. Talented behind the camera and a world-class skate park in his hometown he documented 80s BMX with some amazing images. After sitting in a box for decades many of these images have come to light for the first time in his book Concrete and Smog.
Get your own copy of Concrete & Smog while supplies last:
https://www.billbatchelorbmx.com/
Special Thanks to our man Shaun Jarvis for handling the Banter socials!
Bill Batchelor was an avid BMX rider during the early 80s, participating in racing and followed by freestyle. He was also interested in photography from a young age with black & white images being his preferred style. Talented behind the camera and a world-class skate park in his hometown he documented 80s BMX with some amazing images. After sitting in a box for decades many of these images have come to light for the first time in his book Concrete and Smog.
Get your own copy of Concrete & Smog while supplies last:
https://www.billbatchelorbmx.com/
Special Thanks to our man Shaun Jarvis for handling the Banter socials!
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Maurice Meyer started riding BMX in the mid-70s. In the 80s he was a part of the epic Golden Gate Park freestyle scene and a rider on the infamous Curb Dogs BMX/Skate team founded by the late Dave Vanderspek.
He rode for Kuwahara in 82/83 and started riding for Skyway in 1984. As a factory Skyway rider, he participated in both the US and European tours along with Vanderspek and Robert Peterson. He placed 2nd to Dennis McCoy in the 1985 - 17 and over class in the Venice Beach contest. In 1987, he was working for Skywear Clothing and designed the 1987 Skyway jersey and the Eddie Roman street shirt. In 1988 he left Skyway as a rider and did a brief stint as a salesman for them.
Special Thanks to our man Shaun Jarvis for handling the Banter socials!
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Special thanks the Shaun Jarvis for handling our socials.
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