Free Lunch With Dakota Roche


Here’s another Free Lunch segment with Dakota. Interesting things he covers include Chris Cole (I don’t think it was ever publicly stated that Chris Cole is co-owner of Cult, in fact Robbie said that his involvement was “more on a friendship level” in his TCU interview). He also mentions that he wasn’t stoked on his recent signature Lotek’s (causing him to quit for Vans) because he didn’t have any input and that it was supposed to be Ian Schwartz’s signature shoe prior to Ian quitting riding to play Farmville.

UPDATE:
Rich responds on Formspring:

I can kind of see both sides, but dissing your signature product right after it has shipped, even after you left the team, is like “how not to quit a sponsor 101″.

Previously: Vans Orlando Closing Video| How To Feeble Switch 3 With Dakota Roche.| Vans “Let It Ride 2011″ Team Two.

  • http://Website doidoi

    fuck that fagget

  • http://Website know it

    Dak is the MACK!

  • http://SUCKMYBALLZ.COM NO

    I’M HAVING A DAK ATTACK!!!

    HHHNNNGGG

  • http://www.fag.com Name (required)

    Some people would be grateful just to have a signature shoe at all. Way to quit your sponsor gracefully, Dak.

  • http://Website huh

    wow, classy guy. NOT!

  • http://Website sam J

    dak for life

  • http://Website fuck youi

    i wouldnt want something to have my name on it if i had no say in the design and didn’t approve of the final product.

  • http://Website justinf

    so rich pawned ians shoe onto dak , the biggest dude on the team at the moment, to spike sales?

    cooool
    so not bmx, down for his team/boys, or honesty with the consumer.
    get out of bmx if youre trying to make money.

  • http://Website justinf

    yea thats so fuckin lame.

    gracefully lol. what are you, a queer?

  • http://Website meh

    i really like dak, or at least his ridings and what he appears to be like from interviews, but it’s pretty low of him to bring this out in front of the public.telling the camera about this won’t benefit anyone, not him, not vans, obviously not lotek, who’s been quite nice to him i would think.
    i just dislike drama.

  • http://Website goeorge

    Dak quit to make money remember the root of this discussion

  • http://Website the lord

    Dakotas on that jesus juice

  • http://Website NW

    How many people on Lotek would kill for that shoe and his check. Shit don’t matter he can go get a colorway of another existing model of shoe at Vans just like he is whining about. When did the pro’s start so much more money hungry then the rest of the riders?

  • http://Website VD

    DAKQUITA!

  • http://Website dohuh?

    “I’ve got Robbies back…” word, that’s big back to have dog, you be strongen’

    and, as for designing shoes – so, it takes you three or four months to come up with the proper placement of a stripe, or the space between eyelets… that’s dope…

  • adam

    Have you ever experienced designing and ordering 1000s of shoes through Taiwan? It’s not exactly the same as picking out a pair of size 10′s from Eastbay, buddy.

  • http://Website DAY

    seems like they both have nothing to bad to say breakups are just a bitch…. wah

  • http://Website CW

    Can I get that fools check? I’ll ride in kleenex boxes for $100 homie

  • http://Website THread

    So he got Robbies back so Robbie want him on Vans?

  • http://Website Tykill

    I’d be pissed too if they made the Ian shoes my signature ones. I bought a pair of the Fremont Ian shoes and they are the most uncomfortable pieces of shit I’ve ever owned.

  • http://Website justinf

    true

    when it turns in to lesser of two evils i quit giving a fuck

  • http://Website 151

    adam, you need to get off ians back. seriously, he doing what he loves to do now and i dont understand why you are making fun of him for that.

  • http://Website murder

    heard this kid sucks to film with as well, what more could a sponsor ask for?

  • http://Website tris

    dak that ledge

  • adam

    I’m happy for him honestly, it was just a little joke. Ian said a bunch of dumbshit about me and this site (that nobody could possibly take seriously since he happily did an interview with me for the site like 6 months earlier) so yeah, he has been the butt of a few farm jokes, big deal.

  • http://Website hmm

    appears to be an asshole, but he can ride better than all of us……LIFE IS NOT FAIR

  • http://Website Filip

    1000s? What 1000s? He just said that Lotek is only a small brand…
    (I really hope you get the sarcasm).

  • http://Website Young Skeezy

    I used to like Dak a lot more until I saw this video. I guess sometimes its best to not talk and dak should have done just that.

  • http://Website sam J

    he shreds more than anyone

  • http://Website 730dips

    AM I BANNED??

  • http://Website 730dips

    NIGGA are you a retard? compare 1000s to that like 100,000 that a big skate shoe company might order…you Mark Ass Buster Bitch

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Bauer/1713481203 Steven Bauer

    Lotek sucks balls… thats why he switched to vans!

  • adam

    So because ordering 100,000 is hard, ordering a few 1000 must be incredibly easy. I can see what you’re doing logic-wise here, clean the spaghetti off your face, child.

  • http://Website 730dips

    buster what i was TRYING to say was that 1000s of shoes is still a small company in retrospect…i think

  • adam

    No fucking shit.

  • http://Website 730dips

    im based so spaghetti deez nuts

  • http://Website mo

    WHERES THE RIDING NIGGGAAAAAAA

  • http://Website lalalalaa

    Adam22 judging you by the childish shit you write day after day I’d say you probably don’t have the intelligence to tell anyone how hard ordering any amount of anything is so go fuck yourself. Dakota is the sickest rider but being amazing isn’t a prerequisite for being a rad dude, and everything iv’e ever heard or read this guy say has been the most banal, nerdy shit ever. same goes for the rest of the holy (ex)levi’s trinity BORRRINGGG where the fuck are characters in BMX? burns is not enough on his own

  • http://Website tristan

    Most times lol

  • http://Website MR. T

    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ the path of the righteous

  • http://Website SD

    All of SD has seen it first hand, crying at spots n shit.

  • http://Website queasy k

    get out of a job if your trying to make money!

  • http://Website timothy

    Pawned a signature shoe off… Damn what an offense, I’m guessing he got the fat check that comes with it pawned off on him too right? Tuff life for the American Pro.

  • http://Website pop

    hes the biggest shredder but at least i know now im a way cooler person caus hes a fucking doucher

  • http://Website Rape

    God, you kids have no concept of economics in terms of ordering shoes overseas, etc.

    I respect Lotek and Rich a lot more after his response, which was much more eloquent than Dak obviously trying to bad mouth Lotek.

  • http://dfsdfsd THE TRUTH

    this^

  • http://Website t

    lotek compared to vans is like s&m compared to diamond back. you choose…

  • http://Website Jc

    If he’s at least into vans then he needs to take all he can get now Its hard to be pro in bmx and actually have something to show for it after you’ve faded off into obscurity.

  • http://Website Name (required)

    It’s easy to judge daks answers on this but unless younreally know all the INS and outs then it’s hard to really know what went on in a few minute edit…the kid is cool,super nice kid

  • http://Website C.R.E.A.M

    YO DAK EVERY ONE HATED YOU ON BRIGHTON AINT READY,YOU FUCKING WIENER.

  • http://Website craig

    notice the heavy editing on what dak says. Thats cause for some strong discretion right there.

  • http://Website doom

    dakota roche is a scrub

  • http://Website Name (required)

    Dakota really quit Lotek because he was on the same Team rider list as Adam 22.

  • http://Website jtk

    i loled at the farmville joke. mostly because anything related to farmers is funny. and im from wisconsin.

  • http://Website Name (required)

    his lotek shoe was whack though. van’s will pay him good and if he likes the shoes then no real harm done. he could have been way nicer about the lotek situation seeing as how they did have his back for a long time.

  • http://Website jtk

    i think thats more just to make the interview more quick and precise, not really to doctor what he says. no one wants to listen to two guys jabbering and hemming and hawing for 10 mintues, ya know?

  • http://Website dill nye the sizmeck guy

    so no one can talk shit on you? yet all you do is talk shit? got it!

  • http://Website True Story Bro

    One thing for sure is that I don’t think this video ended up doing what he was originally hoping for. Ouch, this one bit him in the ass hard!

  • http://Website count grishnackh

    hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Pettitt/851140057 James Pettitt

    to bad mouth lotek like that publicly rather than to rich straight up is bang out of order.

    also if he was unhappy with his shoes… then why the fuck did he agree to put his name on them? why not say to rich “no, i’m not digging it sorry”

  • http://Website count grishnackh

    hahahaha give all the money the american pro’s fuck the rest of the world, especially france, fuck the french.

  • http://Website count grishnackh

    hahahaha levi’s “holy trinity”^^^^ fuck christians, i lost half of my respect for dak cmartinez and nwilliams when i heard they’re christians, can’t be too smart and still believe in a cosmic telepathic zombie… die christians.

  • http://Website Mac Daddish

    Wow sounds like Cult mentality of cutting off the middle man to get richer has sunk in to Dakota.. maybe with all the extra money hell be making he can buy some clearasil!

  • http://Website richard

    hahahahahaha that would be the best reason: the best rider leaving because the worst rider on the team had the worst reason to be on it (being a sweaty fat fuck stting behind a PC desk).
    P.S. if A22 reads this, I’d expect a ‘rocks at the throne; kinda comment. But I’m not jealous that you have a popular BMX site, but I go out and ride BMX. And don’t try and pretend what you do is any harder than that. Anyone can have a bullshit opinion on indian givers or tuck no handers.

  • http://Website count grishnackh

    ian deserves the shit talk. adam > ian

    adam dude, you speak the truth, that’s why you run this place.

    too bad ian was mad talented.

  • http://Website dill nye the sizmeck guy

    Not to sound weird of anything, but I’ve got a camera pointed at me.

  • http://Website count grishnackh

    EVERYONE SHOULD RIDE IPATHS.

  • http://Website 69

    Haha so true

  • http://Website satan

    What a class act! Act like a fool on camera and rep Jesus with a DVD that says Satan returns on the cover. Your brain is a fucking pussy

  • http://Website count grishnackh

    REALLY? you think they should’ve kept feeding cash to moeller? fuck that, dude is stuck in some dumb ass so-cal PBR and punk rock tired ass shit. The money makers (fit) should have kept giving their money to that bullshit? S&M was amazing and had an amazing legacy, too bad now they’re trying to scheme up on the new kid’s money.

    talk about money hungry muh fucker, look at that.

    you lose.

  • http://Website dohuh?

    So, then it takes 3 months to find a shoe already designed that doesn’t look like the other 100,000 shoes on the market… sorry… nope, i don’t design shoes, and nope, don’t even buy loteks…

    I’m just concerned with all this back-gotten that’s been living up on the bmx. Fatties got the backs of skinnies/skinnies helping the fatties with their large-rep, black-white dudes rolling all hard through them streets; got southern white trash acting fooly with wack ass baseball team hats… Man…

    sorry, adam for having a thought on lotek (in all seriously, i wrote what I wrote because I think Rich H. is a douchebag, sorry taking that out on Lotek (ha) or Fargo’s free-lunch – won’t hapeen again, you learned me.

  • http://Website tedd

    hahahaha right?

  • http://SUCKMYBALLZ.COM 69 SD 420

    Yeah man, like this one time he was riding with us in SD and I was pedaling toward a rail whenHHHNNNGGG

    I HAD A DAK ATTACK

  • http://Website dayday

    I like that he was honest, instead of the same canned response…”no hard feelings, everything was fine” yadda, yadda, yadda – With that said, dude sounds like a little bitch now. Love his riding though.

  • http://Website Faggot

    Are you stupid, that part was pretty good. and is a way better rider than you. all your ever good as is sucking dick and acting cool by talking shit on here.

  • http://Website Rhys

    I’m a big anti Lotek person purely because their shoes suck, but I’m a consumer and can make that choice. You look like an idiot if you ride for a company forever, then as soon as you get off you bad mouth the company publicly.

  • http://Website Sack

    i love all the fanboys talking shit on him, I think he is a talented rider and would be awesome if i got to met him

  • http://mexicanjohn.blogspot.com Mexican John

    that kid can shred but he is annoying as fuck.

  • adam

    Anyone can shit talk on me. And I can talk shit back. Am I really so important that you think me talking shit to someone absolves them of any ability to insult me back? GTFO.

  • http://Website Jesus H.

    Loteks are shit nowadays, all bright colours and pussy shit. They’re pretty much some garbage 6.0′s with a ‘cooler’ tag on them. Lotek is shit.

    Dak is shit too. You’re not a celebrity ’cause you’ve got a web edit interview. Before you know it he’ll be too old and washed up, begging for sponsors and no-one will have him. I can’t wait for that day.

  • http://Website Scorpio

    damn straight, this video will hopefuly haunt him in future years. (when cult goes down the pan)

  • http://Website guero

    “chest-check with his fist”? Sounds like big Rob is a little sensitive about his weight issues.

  • http://thecomeupbmx.net jawsh

    DAK IS DOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BETTER RECOGNIZE NIGGGGGGGGGGGGUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHH!!!!!!

  • http://Website trufe

    you’re gay along with dak

  • http://Website Crankflip master

    Dak is dick, thinking hes street, i bet he cant pull a crankflip
    i hate dak the cheesy bell end grow some balls and run 4 peggers

    ADAM u are also a prik

  • http://Website Satan

    I would like to see one of you guys in his sitch, he obviously wasnt stoked on anything Lotek was doing for him, when that happens you move on, and when your Dak, you can go to Vans…. Why not? For the sake of keeping it real? Dont think so!! For the sake of a paycheck for sure, which I can’t hate on, because a nigga has to got his scrillaaaaa

  • http://Website Satan

    Oh and Loteks sucks anyways, Love Mikey Aitken, but my Nightwolfs ripped in 2 hours worth of riding!

  • http://Website wot lad

    why do any of you even give a fuck, sad bastards

  • http://Website Aus

    Haha the fuck? nice one moron.

  • http://Website Aus

    Dak’s gone about this the wrong way, what a cunt. But being a big dog and earning six digits is what its about now.. fuck sport. BMX is a hobby cunts.

  • http://Website brian h

    wow that was the coolest most entertaining interview of seen in a while i am always stoked to see dak, super coold dude . I love the Aitken respect Aitken kiscks ass

  • http://Website heyyybrian

    we obviously arent getting the whole interview cause this things was cut and pasted together.
    the part were he talks about cole he never said cole is a co-owner he just talks about him as a friend.

    this is a whack interview i wanna see the whole thing without all the blips and edited shit!!!!

    SHOW THE FULL INTERVIEW SHRED OR DIE DONT CUT AND PASTE SHIT TOGETHER

  • http://Website REX

    completely agree with you.

  • http://Website hiv

    tmz newflash: slobbie always fronts like he’s running the show hence why he eventually jumps ship (also dr. pepper is acutaly half owner whereas bobbo and cole share a quater each), rich hirsch does too much acid, and even dakota’s agent knew lotek was a bad look, almost as bad as his acne, hence his new hessian dirty jesus lover look. for more info go to http://www.dakotaroche.com/ and ask his agent to book dak for an appereance at your kids birthday party.

  • http://Website aussie

    what a fuckwit.

  • http://Website nick f

    mike aitken
    mike aitken
    mike aitken
    mike aitken
    mike aitken

    best top 5 ever

  • http://fucksomebmx.com FUCK BMX

    Bravo dak, you make 30k a year riding a little kids bike, obviously it’s time to be a cocky dick. When these piece of shit “pro bmx” kids are too old to ride ill be laughing when i give them a 20 for some gas.

    Humble up kid, no one outside of the bmx bubble gives a fuck about you and they never will,.

  • http://Website joe

    i enjoyed the farmville joke as well and i respect the hell out of Ian and i respect the hell out of Adam, not his riding, but what he does for us as readers.

  • http://Website thorpe

    “i must be doing something right… I mean Im on camera”

    i didnt like that

  • http://Website thatbugga

    Fuck dak, cult AND rob-o.

  • http://Website Name (required)

    if this nigga only knew.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Bauer/1713481203 Steven Bauer

    the first day he went to vans warehouse.. and got hooked up with 25 pairs… i doubt lotek did that

  • http://Website funtington

    half the kids on this site have never done an interview bmx or not.
    sometimes you say things you don’t mean to say. this is no text message whats said is said.

  • http://Website sam J

    dak is dope

  • http://Website hoder is good

    fvlt fucking sucks go eat some pizza for free lunch pizza face jew

  • http://dfsdfsd THE TRUTH

    yeah and so what? vas is all money and lotek is all about friends!

  • http://dfsdfsd THE TRUTH

    Vans*

  • http://Website TouchMyWeeWee

    He’s a celebrity in BMX.

    They’re not going to put a person in the video if nobody is gonna watch it. 90% of the people only clicked the video just because Dakota’s name was on it, the internet hangs on him.

  • http://Website murder

    best comment

  • http://Website Boom Boom Boom

    Maybe he just got sick of Loteks gimmic of exploding shoes??? Christ knows I am.

  • http://Website Roberto Clemente

    All these kids are retards, go try and start something and keep it up. riders are just the pawns in the bmx/money game. (what ever little money there is) Who gives a shit, there will always be new blood coming up, and ungrateful kids thinking their shit dont stink.

  • http://Website tedd

    Lotek hooks up mad people like that, peep all them fools facebooks and see there stacks.

  • http://Website Doidoi

    hahahaha He’s a celebrity because he has a $1,000 handycam pointed at him during lunch

  • http://Website stevie

    truth

  • http://Website stevie

    to Dohu?:

    It can take 3 months for one sample to come from china let alone the design time…

  • http://Website NW

    wow dak! you are a fucking tool now. so depressing. I liked you more before you got an agent. and I know you really well. guess who?

  • http://Website NM

    Whatever, loteks have been starting to look like vans since 08 anyway

  • http://Website wethefeeble

    He´s on something alright.. like hipocrit water! I can´t love or worship a god and then let myself get brainwashed!!

  • http://Website turnbuckle

    1000 homo dj´s

  • http://Website hiyou@yahoo.com

    I own a shop and I will never carry Lotek again! shoes suck and make your feet smell like a TJ hooker’s puss!

  • http://Website bikerdu

    DC is the way to go!

  • http://Website 2grls1cup

    fuck china!

  • http://Website kharris

    wow…ive lost total respect for dakota. what a douche bag

  • http://Website kharris

    caleb! haha

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rainer-Ross/783957178 Rainer Ross

    gtfo