I WENT RIDING BMX IN THE HOOD IN LA AND SAW THIS..

[@JohnHicksFilm]

See the full version here kzbin.info/www/bejne/noK0e62LgZ5kl8k

[@Angel-rw4nt]

Hey my therapist is around the corner from that park bc I know this one I use it too go here a lot when I was younger so grew up around here too dawg

[@Angel-rw4nt]

Went to the school around from that corner of the carver middle school or high school the blue building next to the jack in the box but transfer bc I got in a fight that was against fight policy.

[@Angel-rw4nt]

Ur bringing back my memories dude each street ur going towards

[@Angel-rw4nt]

My auntie lives in that next block

[@tom.mcf.]

If you see John Hicks in the street, please give him some taco truck money so he can finally buy some food while filming. gracias

[@she_luv_bryn1166]

si

[@richiecortezzz7415]

That’s what I’m saying I’ve been waiting 😂

[@theboogeyman9813]

1M subs your boy can afford a 🌮

[@Be2Bless]

What, money for surron but not tacos huh, ok... $GamersGoneWild

[@shazmanbound1496]

The dude doesn't need our money. He is already wealthy. He doesn't eat while biking because who the hell does that??

[@richarddougan7312]

Larger context I'm 52 years old and you got me back in the ride BMX bikes God bless you brother I love it ride everyday love you bro

[@billycherokee7630]

Awesome

[@Catbus-Driver]

I am convinced John is the only person living in LA who actually calls it "The city of Angels" lol. Every time I have said it, people always tell me that nobody who lives there actually calls it that

[@gordocarbo]

Its anything but that! So glad I moved away, wouldnt go back for any amount of $

[@wavvyyybitcchhh8316]

Yoooo this is throwing me baaaaaack to the hood ok days I’m only 26 but man my teenage years were the best I ever had exploring the streets of Los Angels Nostalgic Fs .

[@teatommoteatommo3396]

It's weird watching from🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 because you know south central is rougher yet the cars, properties & the weather is so much nicer😮

[@JakTheLad]

Ik what u mean mate, I’m from south london and the differences are crazy

[@teatommoteatommo3396]

@@JakTheLad 🤔Well I know I'd rather be there in LA than South London that's for sure & take my chances with MS 13 🤣🤣

[@JakTheLad]

@@teatommoteatommo3396 lmao both r dangerous don’t get me wrong but they’re still really different places in some aspects. It’s similar for crime tho.

[@teatommoteatommo3396]

@@JakTheLad That's what I'm saying is although we know south central is more dangerous the weather, people,cars,life style is more appealing to me than anywhere in the UK👍

[@3yungskinny3]

Watching John has made me a local of LA I’m sure I can get around easily there now

[@DnB-BMX]

Love these videos ❤ you've just about convinced me to make some in my city!!

[@zackfrm330]

do it bro YOLO u might be like dammm why didnt i start this a year ago🤘🤷‍♂

[@DnB-BMX]

@@zackfrm330 I kinda did start a year ago but that was a different thing, we made the soundsystem bike and did some critical mass type events, feeling these chilled out tours though and I like graffiti spotting, might need to do a tour of some of the local graffiti spots for the toob, Appreciate you bro!!

[@DnB-BMX]

@@zackfrm330 ok I tried, defo need a better camera though!!

[@aaronhow2568]

Great vid here as always, John! :) Keep up the great biking and vids! :)

[@timmendez1651]

Cruise By The “Friday” Film Location 🔥🔥. keep Up The Videos 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@a_nezzz]

def seeing you get more n more comfortable on ur bike

[@michaelrizzi6448]

Hey brother cheers from nyc…I rode flatland in the 80s and just discovered you,I dig your vids man,very cool I never rode a park before and find you to be a rad inspiration to get back out there….way rad

[@tyholbert339]

So I just started riding bikes and my first box bike is ordered and on its way in 2 weeks. I’m tryna learn as much as I can about box bikes and watching ur videos when ur cruising around LA, It’s just so nice and satisfying and it feels like I’m riding the bike aswel idk how

[@method4202]

You prefer that bike cuz its in your blood man no matter if u get interested in new things like dirt jumpers surons ur gonna always come back to the good ol bmx bike 💯👌🏽

[@leonxger]

As a european, these videos feel like holidays for me 🥲

[@silr659]

My dad got murdered in the year 1999 in that liquor parking lot you stopped in on Central at 12:08

[@silr659]

So random .. my bad just felt scared you were going to go in the alley near by that liquor or even inside haha I was about to change the video because I haven’t been able to step foot near there because of unfortunate events

[@fmfory6]

I’m so sorry

[@gordocarbo]

Thats horrible! Grew up in LA few yrs after the riots in 68. Assualts were so common it was sickening

[@kennethporst1738]

Gonna be a good day

[@hwn8088]

Nice Ride , u got skills on that Bike ,watched a Bunch of yr vids 👍..

[@StefanGoster]

20:20 you can see the way out lol

[@JohnHicksFilm]

it looks open on video but that was a chain link fence

[@ExploringTheUnknown1]

LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@user5.56]

3:05 nod to them & give them the finger.. 🤯

[@furleyforever]

Mini bikes and Compton just go together. We used to work on one guys engine, they don't play. They drop serious funds on these things. Some are built for big money races. Some of those things will hit 100+.

[@angelX834]

6:53 bro loaded into a GTA Online server😂

[@HNT63]

Love these videos.

[@off-gridoutbackaustralia]

@8:56 #lovethekarens 🤣🤣

[@HalGio1988]

BMX videos are 🔥👍🏽

[@DentonJohnStanfield-fq1ck]

Crazy Street video! Love that kind of stuff! Extreme street through the city streets of Los Angeles, me and Bobby Brown and "Crazy George" used to make them runs all the time so then skateparks.. This one is super cool! Next time shoot down rondando Beach boulevard to Manhattan Beach over to Santa Monica! Go down to the Goodyear blimp and hit jackrabbit and then reached over to Marina del Rey and see if the whoopty doo sore still there! It's probably all fenced off from homeless encampments but there's some badass hip jumps on the way in! Really enjoyed the video!

[@originalPupa]

Would be nice to see video where you go throught skater parks of LA! Im from Finland and its been nice to watch these videos, always wanted to visit US especially Los Angeles!

[@ststst981]

You definitely should someday. And not just downtown. The people are usually very friendly

[@TheFloridaBikeVlogger]

here for it fam!

[@samfeuster4673]

Excellent video

[@gomez1990fern]

@ 12:29 in the video in the corner the taco stand, my friends and I used to eat burriros when we skated all around this area, we grew up in SCLA I live on 50st a block away from there on Hooper and 50st. Crazy memory's and crazy I just ran into this video. thanks john.

[@element379]

11:48 is a Time Machine bro lol

[@DentonJohnStanfield-fq1ck]

Hey great street cred video! Hahaha!😆 I love this kind of stuff man ripping through Los Angeles! I've done that thousands of times.. Hey you know what you need to do is take a crazy extreme street ride through Los Angeles down to Manhattan Beach in over to Santa Monica.. I see that you were over there and Compton! Me and Bobby Brown and "Crazy George" canJamie used to do that s*** all

[@remhk6672]

John, I definitely feel the same way about sidewalk riding as opposed to having to be forced to ride on the bike lanes sharing the dangerous roads with distracted and entitled drivers. I dont understand why most places around the world have designated bike lanes right beside regular car lanes on the same road. Its simply not safe.

[@jeffnott-vi2bj]

Nice 😂 we should ride some time when I’m in LA

[@Casualdude17]

21:46 you made the right choice not going in that park cus it dangerous asf

[@janhirahara9001]

You are close

[@zxzara]

hicks, would you do an electric conversion with a bmx:?

[@gomez1990fern]

I do

[@Cocytus]

Glad you liked the Supra

[@chestertaylor6257]

Did I just see you point at a pay phone?

[@fmfory6]

Haven’t seen ya in a skate park in a minute

[@jannaben_mtb]

0:49 when you go see the trash movie that’s popular Forced to Watch baseball Wake up and look in the mirror Go to your siblings activities The list goes on and on lol

[@Term916]

You should ride by some movie locations hicks

[@bosmerguy]

55th street! C MAC!

[@Error32333]

Hell yea dawg

[@boneTHUGS111]

I wonder what it was like in the 80s and 90's, anyone know if it would of been possible for a random to bike through back then?

[@gomez1990fern]

I grew up in the late 80s and 90 in this place, we were the only Mexicans on Skateboards in this area. A few times we got jack or try to get jack by our skateboards but that didn't stop up from Skating. I live on 50st. between Central and Hopper.

[@gordocarbo]

80s when crack epidemic was huge you better live there to ride randomly and know where you can/cant go. Even the san fernando valley sucked couldnt cruiser around and party all night anymore

[@cannedheat2264]

I remember watching you and Adam 22 lol

[@Glizzy93]

There has been bmx cops in the past they might confuse you 12:54, there has also been cops that legit go on duty on skateboards to.

[@elmago4573]

What BMX bike do you have?

[@franciscorivera1208]

We need to get you some tacos, dude! I heard you mention in this video you had not had any food and you were tired. Thanks for sharing some of the spots you ride in LA. Pretty cool to see those spots for those of us who are not from the area.

[@cggaming4673]

Ngl I never been so surprised seeeing someone ride around my neighborhood near like 52st

[@romanbackwood4816]

Vid on childhood!

[@BillyDraco69]

Noti gang

[@coincollectorchase]

It's cool that you ride around and sesh past things 9:10 I rather have that Monte Carlo lol

[@justaguy7338]

That market and alley was in the movie gully it's when he talks about his skateboard

[@shadycola]

YESSIR!!

[@ung0dlyload]

At 8:51 that looks like the spot where that one dude was being chased by cops n then hid behind the blue car

[@ponchoxD24]

That’s a Home is Alley on Avalon😂

[@ponchoxD24]

And the nephew school in front of the wetland

[@gettobythesea]

Dirt Jumper next vid homie

[@Gabriel_macias]

W video

[@songsyluc]

last thursday i was riding my electric skateboard doing 30mph on bike lane, car on the side didnt see me and turned into his house right in front of me, i smashed his passenger door at 30mph lol. atm i didnt feel anything hurt, but the next day i can barely get out of bed being so sore

[@zackfrm330]

love these videos bro but im wondering if you can do hang 5's or nose manny?🔥🔥🔥

[@TheFloridaBikeVlogger]

lets see that wind screen.

[@gregbrownstead4771]

That would be the Figurawhores

[@St4rsyt]

Yo John hicks can u tell me where to buy good BMX bikes because it’s soon my birthday and my dad said I might get one but if I do get one can u tell me the best place to get a BMX bike Thank you.

[@julianacosta3537]

Dan's comp

[@pluto.876]

IS300 👀

[@Pearls94]

Sc la that’s where I grew up.. haven’t been there in yrs

[@archeryan8404]

*My brother in Christ*, get one of those wheel generators to charge your batteries while you ride.

[@josebarrera7523]

Yeehee

[@tmoore7049]

Great weather in this video. Hixs take the sidewalk, the streets are too dangerous.

[@JordanBrisket-wh2fv]

Go to the 55st alley

[@DavidGarcia-rb8zp]

What kind of bike do you have?

[@gordocarbo]

Anyone remember the video game Paperboy? Imagine seeing a random chick swinging an Easton Smoker haha

[@jonathansonnier3078]

JOHN THEY DO THAT TO DETUR CRIME Basically to keep ppl from just walking up from the street and end up hanging out in the park. One way In one way out helps keep ppl out that are not there to enjoy the park

[@nicks931]

What gearing are you riding please? Thx

[@phill5917]

Homie be attracting dogs lol.

[@nerdentertainment12]

What bike are you using bro

[@shawnschmidt8788]

what bars are you riding

[@PassionTooT]

Yaas

[@milz59]

whats your bike name?

[@michaelmcgraw4888]

What was he referring to @11:36

[@oiBashyy]

I think in a previous video he may have said that payphones are going extinct so he was pointing that out

[@josecortez9687]

Go down 51st an central

[@ViscousSphinx]

It’s weird to see my neighborhood in a KZbin video

[@cloehelvetica5090]

So, when you say the second channel is raw footage, do you mean uncesored as well?

[@Kr1s_010]

Whattt bike is that

[@mossdem]

Do you ever get hand blisters or have you just been riding for that long? lol

[@cindeltinker7972]

Mate if you want to see hectic ally ways you should visit nowra. It's a town in Australia and if you know you know. It is straight up one of the crack towns in Australia

[@mastermeme]

Yeah definitely like GTA San Andreas

[@13_13k]

John Hicks --- I grew up and lived most of my early life on the border of LA and Inglewood. Two blocks over from my house is Inglewood. About a mile from City Hall and Inglewood High School. I had friends i grew up with that I played sports with and went to school with and ditched school with to get high that lived in Inglewood, Crenshaw, Baldwin Hills, Windsor Hills, Leimert Park, Hyde Park, down in Morningside Park, South LA. My friends and I would ride our bikes or skateboards from where we lived at Florence and Manchester east down Florence or Manchester , Imperial, Century, Slauson all the way to Watts sometimes. Always getting weird looks from the people in those neighborhoods wondering what these 12 , 13, 14 year old white boys were doing in the hood. The cops would stop us asking what the Hell are you doing down here? Hahahahaha Now my brother and I live in Westlake District of Downtown LA two blocks West of the 110 and between the 10 and 101 a mike from Echo Park Lake and East of Alvarado and Mac Aurther Park and its lake. We're two of maybe a dozen white people who live in that neighborhood. And four are homeless hahahaha. We're only three blocks from Rampart Division LAPD Station. We are the older white dudes that all the homies know. The OGs that the Rockwood clique knows are down and not to targets. LOL. I love this city. Even the bad parts.

[@TheSotiles]

can someone plz explain why they wanted him to go a couple more blocks south?

[@teddy_123.]

Yoooooooooooo

[@josephleanom4934]

How come you never went back to the long Ledge.

[@biguprochester]

Jump cuts are still cool?

[@vincentvelasco5779]

18:00 55th street

[@SolDanny]

what is the best bmx bike for 2023?

[@oiBashyy]

🍎

[@gayleweir1950]

Where is good to get a bmx like this one

[@ricky420DnB]

San Pee Dro

[@Ajsk8s]

Holy shit its a pay phone wow

[@FyCMystery]

'Its so windy' Yet every tent, umbrella, flag, tree, bush is not moving..