The Union tapes is a London based BMX podcast with people who's story we want to hear.
We believe the UK needs BMX podcasts so we threw the hat in and interviewed the riders who were actually there.
We'll aim for one a month and see where it takes us?
Enjoy.
FBM team rider Ryan Corrigan was in the UK, yet again-for the recent annual Boyley Jam in Hastings recently. We knew he had a storied life so took the opportunity to get him in the chair and find out the some of the stories. Ryan has visited the UK many times over the years, partied, on multiple tours and events, shooting pics for magazines and just cruising around London more often than you'd think. As usual we take it from his earliest BMX and punk rock days in Arkansas to moving to Austin, early sponsors, recent sponsors and follow it right through and up to todays BMX sessions, he still rides BMX now, travels and builds ramps as a day job.
2 Sept 2026
Mark Noble - Episode 52
Theres not many people who fit in this bracket, Mark Noble first started in BMX magazine publication business when he began contributing photos and writing to a lost and dwindling publication, Freestyle BMX in 1986, saying that, BMX was lost and dwindling at that time. The publishers gave up the magazine and the Nobles, 2 young BMX riders took the reigns, with virtually no budget, very few advertisers, a couple grains of know how and no audience they some how managed to put a monthly magazine out of BMX Freestyle, Racing and Skateboarding for a few years. In 89 Freestyle shed what was left of the very 80s looking Freestyle BMX title and turned into Invert magazine, which featured more of the same but with a more feel and grit to it. As BMX started its slow rebuild, Invert eventually evolved into Ride UK, solely BMX with content from around the world. Shortly after that the publishing company 4130 started releasing other titles, and a family run company grew into something stronger than they'd imagined, eventually being bought by some idiotic venture capitalists who bought every core magazine in the uk and managed to run almost every one of them into ruin . We cover this whole journey right up to current day, and the release of Marks highly praised Emulsion book, a select collection of Marks BMX pics from 1987 to 2003, which came out a few years back.
7 Aug 2026
Steve Crandall - Episode 51
Crandall has lived a BMX life, you probably heard about it before? But you wouldn't have heard most of these topics. Cause I havent and I listen to most BMX audio out there. The Cran man could definitely be considered a 'Lord of fun' as one of their old t shirt slogans used to say. I wanted to know the in's and out's of FBM, one of my favourite BMX co's of all time. Who was involved at the start? And what spawned its inception as it bounced from Ithaca to Fort Wayne to Ohio. How did they break into selling and designing soft goods, ads in USA ride, why did they make such chaotic and ground breaking videos, what was road fools 2 like. Why did they end up becoming a full blown bike company-and one of the most important brands of the 90s- and what happened to finish it off? The stories behind the jams, how they went up against the multi million corporate X games with a bunch of pallets in parking lot and where it went from there to what he is up to now?
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
YouTube views
281,764
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
4.8 / 5
12 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
23 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Pod Engine is an independent podcast discovery and analytics service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by this podcast. Artwork and show content belong to their owners. Full legal notice.
Explore this show Podcast research with Pod Engine
