British BMX Hall of Fame Podcast

About British BMX Hall of Fame Podcast

Podcast interviews, insight, news and views from UK BMX past and present.

Publisher

britishbmxhalloffame.com

Category

sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 May 2022

Latest episode

6 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Apr 2025

   Podcast – Choosing the British BMX Olympic Team for 1984 (LA) & 1988 (Seoul)

   New British BMX Hall of Fame Podcast (on Apple Podcasts and Spotify) with Paul Roberts. In this episode, we discuss two new projects I’ve been working on: documenting the rankings and results of UKBMX and NBMXA, and later EBA, including the Ranking/British Championships and Champion of Champions, starting in 1981 (the first year of national racing in the UK for UKBMX, with NBMXA being added in 1983). We also have some fun imagining if BMX racing had been in the Olympics during the 80s and 90s. Who would have made the British teams, starting with the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and then the 1988 Seoul Olympics? There are some great debates when picking a 1984 three-man British Men’s Olympic Team. Who would go? Andy Ruffell, Tim March, Pete Middleton, Alan Woods, Trev Robinson, and others were among the top UK Superclass riders at the time, but we also have to consider some of the top British amateurs from 1984: Craig Schofield, Gary Llewellyn, Geth Shooter, Charlie Reynolds, John Vile, and Martin Jose were all fast – could any of them make the team? We also debated whether Gary Llewellyn was faster than Geth Shooter. We repeat the process for the 1988 Seoul Team. Who would go – Geth Shooter? Neal Wood? Tom Lynch? Tony Fleming? Damon Parkinson? Darren O’Neill? Winnie Wright? Anthony Revell? Lee Alexander? Andy Welsh? Kim Carbutt? Could that 16 year old Dale guy make it in as a reserve? Would Tim March and Ruffell have made the team if they had delayed their retirements to make a run for it? Someone else? What about the women? Would Lulu Adeyemo be on the plane to Seoul? Would Sarah-Jane Nichols, who retired in 1987, have stuck around in 1988 for a shot at Seoul? Had she already made the 1984 team? Julie Woodward, Claire Edwards, Lisa Wright – would they have made the team? Quick fact checks/corrections from this podcast: •Trev Stamford did not win the final NBMXA Pro race in 1988 at Runnymede – it was Tony Fleming. •The PRA did not come to an end immediately after the 1986 Slough World Championships. Check it out if you’re into UK race trivia and history. If you enjoy it, let us know – we’d love to keep picking Olympic teams from the 80s and 90s, including some of the major BMX racing countries. Cheers.

2. 

   19 Feb 2025

   British BMX Hall of Famers Podcast with Paul Roberts

   A wrap-up on our 2024 inductees with a deeper dive into their stories. We also provide an update on the 2025 British BMX Hall of Fame and give a shout-out to everyone who has offered their support for the event. We discuss the 1984 World Championships in Japan, Gary Llewellyn, and a hypothetical Open class at Poole ‘84—could the top amateurs of the time have challenged the Superclass riders if they had raced? And did you have to jump the Dollys to win? We also talk about Sarah-Jane Nichols and Carole Gosling, now two-time British Hall of Famers after being inducted into the BCF Hall of Fame last year, adding to their British BMX Hall of Fame 2022 inductions. Alongside Sarah-Jane, David Maw is also a two-time Hall of Famer. We list the other inductees of the NBMXA / BBMXA Hall of Fame from the 1980s. Plus, we take a deep dive into British BMX history from 1979–1982, reflecting on conversations over the past few months with some of the sport’s early pioneers, including Malcolm Jarvis, Geoff Wiles and more.

3. 

   9 Feb 2025

   Podcast – catching up with Paul Roberts

   Catching up with Grotbags Paul Roberts in Huntington Beach for a podcast. We talk about Paul’s recovery from his leg injury after crashing in the dark while riding back from @epicbmx—mis-timing a curb and ending up on crutches, unable to ride for months. We then dive into some of the topics we’ve seen on social media lately—Is BMX dead? With the industry in a downturn, we talk about how things were in the late ’80s and early ’90s when we were both part of the downtime after the ’80s BMX bubble burst. The riders and brands that stuck around during that period ended up in a good place when the industry bounced back in the mid-’90s. We also dip into a bit of politics for the first time, with so much in the news since the election. Other topics include a potential Neal Wood podcast, Paul’s days as Vans UK Team Manager, getting Martin and Stephen Murray on Haro UK, and a few old stories from racing in the UK in the ’80s and ’90s—including my dad not wanting me to get into a car with Paul to go to a race. And more.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

25

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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