{"id":3983,"date":"2022-12-09T20:33:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rookie.gr\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2023-07-26T19:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:28:38","slug":"smbikes-just-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rookie.gr\/?p=3983","title":{"rendered":"S&MBIKES JUST DROPPED!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
S&M BIKES<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
HISTORY <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Founded mid 1987 by friends Greg \u201cScott\u201d\u00a0S<\/strong>wingrover and Chris \u201cMad Dog\u201d\u00a0M<\/strong>oeller,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S&M<\/strong>\u00a0Bikes was created to craft BMX bikes that could handle the use and abuse the founders and their friends were dishing out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In early 1987, a then 16-year-old \u201cMad Dog,\u201d was causing a ruckus in the race scene <\/p>\n\n\n\n
and working as a test-rider for BMX Action Magazine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other words, coming across plenty of products that left a lot to be desired. Swingrover, 19, was racing and dirt jumping while working at South Coast Bike Shop in Santa Ana, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
California. By the summer of 1987 the two decided to go into business with their own frame and fork \u2013 the K-9 D-Zine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Moeller, their first offering was a mishmash of his three favorite frames at the time:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe worked from a Profile, my custom team-issued Privateer and a Robinson. It added up to a frame that could be raced well and ridden hard at the trails or on the street without falling apart. We just designed a cool bike for ourselves, gathered money and made two framesets. Our friends wanted them too, so we had 25 framesets made.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the fall of 1987, S&M \u00a0had replaced the K-9 D-Zine with Moeller\u2019s signature Mad Dog frame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1988 they went on to release the now legendary Slam Bar, and in 1989 the Dirtbike! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Throughout 1989 and early 1990 as The Shield gathered a following in the BMX scene, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greg and Chris found it increasingly difficult to balance the books with their steady diet of BMX hedonism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the summer of 1990, Swingrover had taken a job at GT to help support his young family, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
and choosing to concentrate on his new career path, left S&M in Moeller\u2019s hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a van loaded with guys like <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dave Clymer and John Paul Rogers, Chris zig-zagged across the country living <\/p>\n\n\n\n
the \u201cBMX Lifestyle\u201d a.k.a. sleeping on people couches, drinking their beer and riding as much as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more than two decadent decades since, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moeller has steered the S&M ship through hell and high water. Crazy nights, ideas and antics aside, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
the goal at S&M has always been the same: to make good bikes and run things their way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With American flags and middle fingers waving in the wind, S&M will continue to sail the seas of BMX cheese until other companies make bikes as good as theirs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
or it\u2019s not fun anymore. Neither of which looks likely to happen soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(source S&Mbikes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Check out some of their riders.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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MIKE HODER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
D.O.B.:<\/strong> OCTOBER 1, 1986<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FROM:<\/strong> SEATTLE, WASHINGTON<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mike Hoder is\u00a0Bigger Than Most, both on a bike and in person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From huge 360s and death drops to an apr\u00e8s-ride reputation that precedes him, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a dude more down for the cause than Hoder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born and raised in Seattle, Mike\u2019s\u00a0bounced around NYC and SoCal, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
but is outspokenly Northwest for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoder joined the squad in 2010 and wrote\u00a0himself into the history books <\/p>\n\n\n\n
as one of S&M\u2019s most notorious characters shortly thereafter\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
being the first dude to 360 El Toro and inking a Shield on your face will do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LIVES IN:<\/strong> NEW PALTZ, NEW YORK<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They don\u2019t come much cooler than Clint Reynolds. The New Hampshire native turned Austinite, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
welds his own frames, builds some of the best trails in the business <\/p>\n\n\n\n
and shreds everything in sight with style to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clint started building frames for himself and his buddies back in high school after his pops, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
a bike-welder by trade, showed him the ropes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He and his crew joined forces with S&M in 2012 so that woodsmen the world over could roast dirt curls on a Credence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S&M has always been a D.I Y.\u00a0\u00a0operation\u2026 add likeminded dudes like Clint and his boys <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matty Aquizap and James P. Nutter to the equation and the stoke is high. Credence X S&M -as legit as it gets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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CHARLIE CRUMLISH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
D.O.B.:<\/strong> APRIL 7, 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FROM:<\/strong> AMHERST, NEW YORK<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LIVES IN:<\/strong> BUFFALO, NEW YORK<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charlie\u2019s tall, but dat ain\u2019t all! Mr. Crumlish is a technical wizard on the bike and in the edit booth<\/p>\n\n\n\n
he definitely brings the wiggidty wock wock to both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When he\u2019s not riding, filming or editing, one might find Chuck building his BMXFU empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
S&M BIKES HISTORY Founded mid 1987 by friends Greg \u201cScott\u201d\u00a0Swingrover and Chris \u201cMad Dog\u201d\u00a0Moeller,\u00a0 S&M\u00a0Bikes was created to craft BMX bikes that could handle the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468],"tags":[466,474],"class_list":["post-3983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts","tag-bmx","tag-sm"],"yoast_head":"\n
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