Ride and Seek - BMX Street & Park Sessions in Cali - Ep 2

My name is Corey Martinez and I am a professional BMX rider. I'm bringing my friends on this trip to go film and ride motorcycles, go camping, and just enjoy the open air. [ Red Bull - Ride & Seek ] Going out to California right now I'm really looking forward to hanging out with the guys out there that I don't get to see a whole lot. -What's up? The beautiful weather, Southern California weather. It's gonna be fun. [ Long Beach, CA ] ♪ Hey I'm feeling kind of old school, how 'bout you? ♪ I've been coming to Southern California for a long time. I pretty much come out here three or four times a year just to hang out with all my friends. ♪ going up, going up ♪ Tony Neyer, to me, is this dude that is kind of loud and obnoxious but yet funny and just fun to be around. - Yeah, he got me all the way up to about here. He'll make a scene at any moment but if you're involved you're gonna have the best time. My name is Tony Neyer, I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio I'm 27 years old. I've been riding bikes for about 14 years now. As a kid I had a fascination with trying to grind handrails. At 14 years old the most important thing to me was being able to double-peg a handrail. I was like, "that would be sick." The first video project I ever really worked on was with Doug Horton, this video called "Youth Destruction." It was a video that he started when we were kids then when we became friends we just would film everything and it was all kind of for that, and it wasn't anything serious, we kind of just were filming all the stuff that, we just were doing, and just having fun with it. There was a good scene in Cincinnati at a time. There were a bunch of pros that lived there: Dave Jacobs, Chad Shack Matt Bischoff, Adam [inaudible] Colin Winkelmann, just tons of people to look up to that you would see around town. ♪ in the old school, how 'bout you if you're feeling how I'm feeling ♪ ♪ this is what you do ♪ [Tony Neyer in "Youth Destruction" 2003, courtesy of Doug Horton] The next video project that me and Doug worked on was called "From Nothing." Pretty much the same thing, we had more friends and we just took more trips and traveled all over. We had an awesome crew of dudes that just wanted to ride and get it in. We didn't have sponsors or anything like that, so we pretty much worked our *** off to create money to be able to go on these little trips, and to work on this video. [Tony Neyer in "From Nothing, 2007 courtesy of Doug Horton] That's like kind of what started my career. Is like filming for that video. We were getting photos, we were meeting up with photographers. We were surprisingly really motivated, for 16-, 17-year-olds. I initially moved to Long Beach, just seemed like more of an opportunity to do more with riding. I was living in Cincy and hanging out with friends and filming all the time and was being productive, but just seemed like I constantly happened to come to LA to get things done, and just trying to do something for a living, you kind of just got to put yourself in the place where it's possible to do that. ♪ ... in the moonlight ♪ ♪ We'll dance with the fire flies ♪ ♪ We'll run until the sunrise ♪ ♪ And the embers die again ♪ I'm psyched to have Corey in town, man, it's been awesome. We got to go ride a bunch of parks, we got to go ride street for a little bit. The weather was kind of whatever, but we got to have fun. ♪ We'll run in the moonlight ♪ ♪ We'll dance with the fire flies ♪ ♪ We'll run until the sunrise ♪ ♪ And the embers die ♪ ♪ We'll run in the moonlight ♪ ♪ We'll dance with the fire flies ♪ Long Beach is like a safe haven for a bunch of BMXers. Where it's located it's really close to the main industry like the magazines, the filmers, the photographers. They're all out here because they all need to be out here to work with most athletes. [ RYAN "BIZ" JORDAN @BIZJORDAN ] [ SHAWN MCINTOSH @SHAWN_MAC ] So today, randomly, Corey Martínez asked me to go on a Red Bull motorcycle trip. - Motorcycle trip sounds sick as ***... - I'm definitely down, 100% down. It seems like it's going to be sick We're gonna be taking motorcycles from Nashville to the Keys, and he has a way to get us motorcycles. I don't have one right now so... - No big deal. Ha ha ha. It's kind of sweet to be invited on a trip that you know, there's like a mission. Or, like, something we want to do. - Hucker! Are you ready to ride some bikes? [ MIKE "HUCKER" CLARK @MIKEHUCKER ] - ... [ unintelligible ] you alright? - I'm good, man, how are ya? Corey Martinez is like the dark ninja. Until you get to get to know him he just seems like a kind of quiet guy that just shreds. His riding speaks for himself. He's so amazing on and off the bike. [Corey] I've never gotten to ride street with Hucker. I've only been a few trips with him, and it's always been kind of, like, skate park or watching him ride trails, so he definitely has a different view, an outlook on street riding than I do. I think it's fun and interesting. I just like to ride with people that see things differently. [ Cheering in the background ] - Whoa! - That's insane. [ Cheering ] - I'll take it. Whatever. BMX has taken me all over this world, and I'm super appreciative of that. I don't know how long I'll be able to ride my bike, or you know, what's gonna happen. But, with my life, I'm trying to take it as far as i can, you know? [ On the next "Ride and Seek"] I want to do a motorcycle trip from Nashville to Florida. I want to get a bunch of my friends involved and then just do some camping and riding. - Tony, you, streets, camping, sounds pretty good. I haven't been camping in a while.