Eddie Roman’s 1995 Hammertime Full Video
FatTony
- March 13 2009
- 14 comments
Back in ‘95 Eddie Roman got Fuzzy Hall, Mat Hoffman, Dave Voelker, Alan Foster, and a bunch of other BMX riders to make a video riding mountain bikes—Hoffman even aired the original “big air” quarter on an MTB. I’m not going to pretend like I knew about this video as it was before my time, but these guys are legends so I figured this wacky old video was worth posting.
Here’s the description Eddie posted with the video…
“MTB and BMX action featuring Mat Hoffman, Tim Fuzzy Hall, Brian Lopes, Chad Herrington, Eric Carter, Hans Rey, Dave Voelker, Ryan Vanderveen, Todd Lyons, Alan Foster and many others. Filmed in Utah, Oklahoma and California, Hammertime features some of the first MTB jumping including the first MTB backflip. Mat Hoffman riding his motorized BMX bike on the gigantic half pipe is absolutely amazing. Watch Mat launch off a quarter-pipe after being towed by a motorcycle at 55 mph.”
To upload photos or videos, 
»
March 13th, 2009 at 7:27 am
i was just watching this because i thought i’d laugh my ass off
but this vid is amazing
March 13th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Thanks!
March 13th, 2009 at 11:42 am
That last air was NUTZ
March 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
oh man that footy brought back sooo many memories of the Head first and Ride On days. The BEE bit me!
March 13th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Haha, i wonder if Fuzzy still wears the spandex?
March 15th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
this was prob one of my first ever video’s ( not dvd ) i owned. This video made me move from MTB to bmx. I have loved this video for as long as i can remember . hahah im only 25 so i was younge when i got it…
March 15th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
eddie whats the name of the band when they ride sheep hills .. the section where he does the awsome bumb jump
March 16th, 2009 at 11:34 am
That´s the best “history video” what I ever seen. I was interested whole 24 min..greate work !!
March 25th, 2009 at 7:17 am
this was the first bike video i ever saw and got me right into riding.. rooots
April 7th, 2009 at 3:41 am
Oh man! I’m 38 years old and remember most of these guys. There were no skateparks in every corner of the city, so people just rode anything and anywhere, except for the ones who had a local track or a half/quarter pipe–as you younger ones can see. Eddie Roman was one of the first guys riding real street when it wasn’t even the most popular riding style. That was just his domain.
Same with Hanz Rey on trials. “Trials,” not trails!
When I got into Freestyle, in the mid 80s, Mat Hoffman was already doing Indian Airs, Bar Hop Airs and stuff. I was amazed and confused because he was a few years younger than me, but already knee deep in a sport that I had never heard of, when I opened my first magazines. He was on another level, way back then. And better that the older guys.
That why he is so bored with the average stuff, today, I guess.
By the time 1995 came, most riders across the globe, from the guys on the block to the guys in the magazines, had to “grow up”, get jobs and join the adult world.
It was a sad time.
The companies cashed out and scrammed, the sport disappeared underground, riders took over with mags, parts, frames, contests, etc.
Then ESPN came on board. The rest is history.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:48 am
great video and yeh sounds pretty right!
May 18th, 2009 at 7:08 am
matts bit at the end is epic! real golden stuff
June 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pm
That was the same soundtrack as my first bmx video, bmxmen!
October 24th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
wats the song at 20:50 ?