Banter: A BMX Podcast - The Kip Williamson Episode

The Kip Williamson Episode

04/18/22 • 153 min

Kip Williamson is a Flatlander originally out of Angola Indiana, an AFA competitor in the 80s, and a Fat House member.
He was known in the 90s as the “Video Guy”. He created “Juvenile Trickery”, “Alternative Forms of Transportation” and UGP videos such as “Face Value” & “Mission of Nonsense”. As well as the GT Bicycles flick “Direction”.

A GT team tour announcer and held many other positions at GT such as Contest Team Manager & Freestyle Division consultant.

Kip hosted the action sports TV show “54321” on Fox Sports, ESPN’s Dave Mirra Super Tour, and co-hosted and was a creative consultant on "Dave Mirra's Trick Tips Volume 1". He was the Mountain Dew tour Announcer for 2 years (10 stops), and the X- games announcer when Mirra did the first double flip in X Games history (San Francisco 2000).
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A GT team tour announcer and held many other positions at GT such as Contest Team Manager & Freestyle Division consultant.

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This episode was sparked by the recent passing of Andrew Wickham. Andrew was a talented flatlander and a friend of Jon’s. If you take away one thing from this episode, please reach out to a friend or family member you haven’t heard from in a while.

Here is a living list of whom we have tragically lost from the BMX world. Please feel free to contact Jon Dowker or Anthony Berardi to add names to the list.

Andrew Wickham
Jason Brown
Dickie Sanders
Don Slepsky
Dave Mirra
Dave Burgess
Paul Buchannan
Dave Vanderspek
John Davis
Shawn Burnham
Sean Spoelstra
Robert Blondin
Jeff Bowling
Andre King
Colin Winkelmann
Jim Burges
Benny Asa
Paul Palmer
Michael Zigmund
Hiro Tsuchid
Chris Bulvan
Philipe Pereira

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Other references:

UnClicked: Dennis McCoy https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/dennis-mccoy-episode-21/id1447198515?i=1000439748999

Thank you to the following people who contributed to this episode:

Bobby Carter
Joe Cicman
Brett Downs
Andy Cooper
Sonni Brickhouse
Keelan Phillips
Shaun Jarvis

Special thanks to Shaun Jarvis for taking care of 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.
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