Animal Bikes – “Facts”

Animal Bikes released their latest video “Facts” online on Monday, December 19th. The video premiered on the Animal Bikes website and a physical premiere was held at Ethik Clothing Co. in New York the night before as part of the Ethik / Animal collab release party. The video was edited by Ryan Navazio and features full sections from Matt Miller, Andrew Castaneda, Ryan Niranonta and Colin Varanyak. After you’re done watching make sure you check out the Ride BMX interview with Ryan Navazio and behind the scenes photo gallery shot by Harrison Boyce from “Facts”.

Ryan Niranonta Mix

Ryan Niranonta put together this heavy mix of footage of himself and some of the Chocolate Truck crew & friends. The video is mostly filmed in the Philadelphia area but also includes footage from Baltimore and Arizona. Keep your eyes peeled for Ryan in the upcoming Animal Bikes video as well as his forthcoming part in Chocolate Truck Two.

Chocolate Truck Jam Videos

On Saturday, June 25th, The Chocolate Truck crew hosted their first jam in the City of Philadelphia. The spot by spot style jam started at 3pm at the 9th and Poplar DIY spot which was followed by a product toss before moving on to the streets. A few videos from the jam have surfaced online over the past two weeks including an installment in the DIG series “In The Cut”. The “In The Cut” Video was filmed and edited by Rob Dolecki and features 14+ minutes of raw footage from the jam. The second video which can be viewed below was filmed and edited by Evan Yoh with additional filming by Joe Niranonta, Tom Nguyen and Rocky Ventura.

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Chocolate Truck 2 Appetizer

This morning, Ryan Niranonta released an appetizer web edit for the highly anticipated “Chocolate Truck 2”. The edit consists of clips that were uploaded to Instagram, second angles and throwaways. There’s even some footage from the recent Chocolate Truck trip to Arizona. Featuring riding from Pat Schlitzer, Ryan and Joe Niranonta, Jon Schimpf, Nick Barrett, Dave Krone, Breyon Woods, Joby Suender and many more.

Top 12 Videos Of 2015

Every year, we post a long list of videos on this site. They are here one minute and archived the next. But before we close the doors on 2015, we wanted to take a look back and highlight the videos that we felt are the most notable from this past year. The list is in no particular order and is not based off of any web statistics. With that in mind, we invite you to sit back, re-watch and enjoy.

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Fiending The 13th Video

Last Friday (the 13th), Fiend held a round of jams in cities around the US including one at the Paines Plaza in Philadelphia. The event was hosted by Fiend / Chocolate Truck riders Ryan Niranonta and Kevin Vannauker. Tom Nguyen was on hand to film the event and put together this edit from the jam. Fiend also gave away a free GoPro for best trick of the night which was won by our good friend Will Barr.

FAT Favourites | Ryan Niranonta

Ryan Niranonta is the subject of the latest FAT Favourites interview posted on the FAT BMX website. You can check out the interview by clicking here. And in case you missed it, you can catch some footage of Ryan in the “Animal Bikes 88th Street Plaza Jam” video by Ride BMX after the jump.

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Golden Dawn Mixtape

Over the past couple of months Evan Yoh managed to film some footage of the Chocolate Truck crew around the crew filming for their follow up video ‘Chocolate Truck 2’. Evan put together this mixtape named after a popular diner in the Buck County area. The mixtape includes riding from John Yoh, Herman McCracken, Marc Arnold, Matt Spencer, Nick Barrett, Kevin Vanauker, Joe Niranonta, Ryan Niranonta, Jose Morales, Josh Coverdale, Dave Belcher, Rocky Ventura, Coady Clarhaut and Grant Maddox.

Philadelphia Urban Youth BMX Program

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Photo: Ryan Navazio

Philly Voice has an article posted on their website focusing on an Indiegogo project started by David ‘Joby’ Suender and Steve Tassone (Chocolate Truck). These two Temple graduates are hoping to raise $10,000 to create the Urban Youth BMX BikeLife Program, in partnership with One Day at a Time and the Urban Affairs Coalition. You can read the full article here or make a donation to the Indiegogo project by clicking here.

Featured Video: Ride PA BMX ‘Smokey’ Shirt Promo

The new Ride PA BMX ‘Smokey’ shirts are now available for purchase through our online store. A few of the Chocolate Truck guys were kind enough to put together a quick promo for the shirts. Featuring riding from Breyon Woods and Ryan Niranonta with filming / editing by Evan Yoh. You can pick up one of the new shirts through the store for $12.00 with free shipping and stickers.

Throwbacks: JIB Tape #3

One year ago yesterday, The JIB Tape #3 video was released online in it’s entirety. The video includes riding from Tyler Butler, the Stinkpit crew, Jonathan Schimpf, the Chocolate Truck crew, Pat Schlitzer, Nick Bott and many more. Since the videos initial release online it has also been released section by section on the JIB Vimeo page.