Nik Seyferth
OFF the Lift
I-70 hike/drop

VIMBY - Holeshot

get creative...

Anything on Earth could be your friend?
Ideas flurrish when sterotypes are lost

This is a picture of Nathan Fons blasting in

 my parents backyard in the year of 2003

Steve Buddendeck took this photo and it

 happens to be one of my all time favorites.

Its got a powerful energy to it, 

look how high bikes can fly! It encompasses what

riding is all about- flying high with 

your friends over sacred ground..

Nathan has accomplished more than most on his BMX

He is fearless and a fire of inspiration to push the limits!

He is also humble and modest, which I admire most..

Check out more photos

 of Nathan by Steve Buddendeck on Nathan's blog

shredtheearth

Here is some advice they don't teach you in school

Watch the SKY

Not the Television

We are in orbit- with no pilot

remember that!

The rain man
coming to a dance floor near you...

who are you calling crazy?
edited by steven
steven and I riding the earth
many months of footage flashing all at once
great days in there
michigan all the way to the cali coast..

started digging a new spot..

This is Cody
Ive only met him a couple times
He is a ledgend of sorts in CO
he has been killing it since he was like 10
raw and real
table out of the oververt
LOCALS ONLY...

This is Malcolm,
Malcolm is a gentle soul
with a tongue that will hit any cheek within distance
he usually hangs out with Dundee, his brother from another mother
they live at my parents house in Michigan.
Dundee is more of a wuss and usually hangs out inside
Malcolm is the trail dog
this last season we rebuilt 248 together
he usually sits on top of the landing I'm closest to
and stares at me. probably wondering what im doing or he just has
mad respect for digging.
he also chases me down the yard during a run and
watching him out of the corner of my eye while floating peak to
peak is more enjoyable than any trick i have ever done.
its the simple things...

no reason for posting this other
than to give Springer Spaniels a shout!

Hopefully i get a springer ranch going when i
am old and far from the city...

"They build these holes in the ground out here"
the business man-way out of the deep end

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability,
but comes through continuous struggle. And so we
must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.
A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fly Free

Heres a scan of some words/photos of mine that got published in
ZwanZig- a German BMX magazine
248/freeflyer vibe roaming Europe...

here is what the words in german mean...

I started jumping my BMX by building roadside fly outs with my brothers. The desire to fly on two wheels was our main motivator as inexperienced youngsters. This desire grew larger as time moved on and we wanted to fly higher. The only way to fly higher was to build bigger. With this in mind the emphasis on building increased as much as our desire to fly. Putting all else aside besides imagination, we began to create our ideas. Days turned into weeks, weeks into months and months into years. As of this very moment I have spent more than half of my 25 years on earth building jumps in Michigan with my brothers and friends.
By staying and working with what felt natural, I have come to realize many important things from building. One of the most important being that nothing in life is consistent. The only thing that remains consistent is change, especially when it comes to building trails. From riders to builders to spots to weather; the only way to keep going is
to adapt to what is put in front of you day after day and year after year.
As far as the idea of trails, there are no rules, regulations or guidelines to follow. There is no certain type of bike you must ride, jump you must build or shovel you must use. The choices are yours. I suggest you make up your own rules, your own way to ride and to steer high and far from following anything you have ever seen. The only thing to follow is your mind. Set yourself free from the illusion put in front of you and build from within. All the energy you will ever need lies within you!

Gain momentum…

Theodore Barrett Van Orman
Michigan, USA

Call of the wild........

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played
out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind
can never break off from the journey.”

— Pat Conroy

Creativity starts at home...

TVO,

Here's the Quinzhee (type of Igloo) my family and I made while I was
back in the U.P. for Christmas time. It took a few motivated
individuals, 2 snow blowers and some snow shovels to produce this
monster. It's about 20 feet in diameter, and about 7 feet tall. It took
about 15 hrs with multiple people working. We used dueling snow
blowers to stack the snow. We carved out from
the inside and transported snow outside and back on top of the
structure with sleds. Arches were constructed for doorways and the
window/bar in the middle for support. It is almost completely soundproof.
We've gotten pretty loose in it!

Even in the deepest Michigan snow there is always digging to be done!

Cheers ta da U.P. eh?

-Mike

FIND YOUR FLOW

Click this link for
1/2 off white t's-10usd shipped

Savage on the warpath...

Pipe dreams

Some search their whole life for a perfect place
Others build it
Set your imagination to the wind
your dreams are waiting on you!

An edit I made with some photographs
of a special place and its creator

How's that for fast editing elliot?
See you on the Island.....
enjoy the moments

I found out something horrible
Mel from BMXUSCO died in a car accident
He helped life? get to Brazil
He gave me motivation to keep on it
He was responsible for the hand built plaza he's riding in this video
In Salvador Bahia Brazil
He will be missed..
I never even got to shake his hand
thanks for everything man....
i just don't understand how it plays out sometimes
all love
I hope you are up in the horizon I see everday
In the moving sky with all the color
you are the color.....
rest in peace..

Enjoy your moments

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to
keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old
acquaintance among the pines.
~Henry David Thoreau

Matt Austin in the midst of christmas eve 08

backyard style
CO

In this who do you know world
Its best to know yourself
see you in the streets

matt the business man
in route to freedom
Denver, CO

Rochester MI destroyer
where ever he is, he's killing it!
so much talent....
RIP Paradise

I got interviewed - disguisedisguise

Super Volcano

In yelllowstone NP (Wyoming,USA) Over 500 earthquakes, as large as M 3.9, have been recorded by an automated earthquake system since the inception of this unusual earthquake sequence that began Dec. 27, 2008.
Yellowstone has the largest volcano on the earth (under the earth)
IF this happens
were in trouble
lifewithaquestionmark....

New URL

this site is now viewable through a new URL

www.betherain.com

is the address

feel free to change your links or to link

its a little easier on the keyboard

be well!

Banos Distribution (France)

Marc Dioni has started a French BMX (trails) distribution company 

which distributes life? apparel in france...

sick!

check it out @ banosdistro.com

The photo above is a page from Dreamers of the Day

it is Marc flowing his (handbuilt) backyard trails in Banos, France

photo: Patrick Kempany

Keep BMX to the BMXers

BMX is fun

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

-Sophia Loren

This is as close as I can come to time travel.

Looking at the past brings forth the realization 

that I have led many different lives, at many 

different points along the way..

Its been a good time.

Anyone want to sit down for a cup of coffee?

French Flyer

Max bimar Part from Bimar Maxime on Vimeo.