About

Born from online arguments of who used what song in what video I decided I’d settle it once and for all by building a database. Ably assisted by Greg Short pulling many all nighters uploading videos and a touch of artwork from Fraggle the original site launched in February 2010.

The next couple of years were full of uploading, blog posts and a couple of interviews before I embarked on building an iOS version of the site. A year long project died on the vine of Apple’s review process and bugs in third party components of which I had no control, which killed my enthusiasm for the site for a while.

In 2015 I started a site redesign to make it a bit more usable on mobile as almost half the traffic was now coming from there, that went live in May 2016 without any fanfare, understandably as in hindsight it was a bit half assed.

Fast forward to late 2018, I noticed that someone who recently followed me on Instagram had the sites URL in his profile, showed it to a couple of people and thought nothing more of it. A few weeks later Dillon hit me up, told me he was into the site and if I wanted any help he’d be into it.

I tried to set him up an account on the old site, but that bit was broken (I said half assed) then I noticed that you couldn’t even full screen most of the videos on the site so started looking into the code to fix that. After 9 years of bits being tacked on here and there the code base was just a mess. So on New Years Eve I fired up an empty project and started a re-write from scratch. 4 months later (May 2019), here we are, a cleaned up database, a music section(duh!), you can now watch all of a riders sections in one place and more full movies than we’ve ever had.

Long live BMXMDB.