Edwin Delarosa & Tom White Leave Fit.


I’ve been waiting 2 years to announce this shit. Edwin and Tom White have left Fit. If you haven’t been living under a rock lately, you’ve probably heard that they will both be riding for Skavenger, Animal’s new frame line.

Check out a retrospective of Ed’s time on Fit with lots of great classic photos and some words from his former teammates on Fit.

RUMORS:
If you look at the Animal team you’ll notice that most of them have left their sponsors over the past few years (Tyrone left Rideline, Scerbo quit S&M, Vinnie got the boot from Sunday, Lino quit 2Hip etc) so it’s pretty easy to see who most of the Skavenger team will be. It’ll be interesting to see if anyone else who has an existing frame sponsor leaves to ride for Skavenger and if any younger dudes end up on the official team.

Also, I’ve heard Lino and Butcher will have signature frames but that’s far from confirmed.

Previously: Edwin DeLaRosa Bike Check| Edwin & Mike Hoder In A Metro PCS Commercial.| Edwin Delarosa: “I know I’m riding I’m just not putting my clips out there every day like some people do.”

  • http://www.a.com ayo

    damn….didnt see that coming…

  • http://Website lee

    my dick is hard

  • http://Website on some real shit

    i saw this on a one hour special on Fuel TV

  • http://Website The Ghost of TCU Past

    Can’t say I’m surprised. SKVR frames, 2015!

  • http://Website brian h

    i dont know i think its kinda shady…you got to sick with your team they have always had their back and now they just leave kinda shady…. now dont everyone flip out on me saying i didnt put thought into this and i am an idiot because i did.

  • http://Website brian h

    stick*

  • adam

    Your logic amounts to “if you ride for a company you can never leave and ride for someone else, ever”. This is dumb.

  • http://Website dan o

    i was underneath a boulder, which is much bigger than a rock

  • http://Website hm

    my favorite rider of all time and one of the best riders for the matter, and the retrospective of edwin and fit was awesome.

  • http://Website Me Thinks?

    I think sticking around for 2 years, finishing out a contact and NOT blabbing it online before it was all said and done is far from shady.

  • http://Website brian h

    i dont know man i still think i would stay with the family that made me who i am instead of blowing them off after all those years its whatever though i could really care less edwin is edwin he can do what he wants

  • http://Website Jeezy

    Yea cuz 3 clips in stay fit wasnt weak sauce?

  • http://myspace.com/crighter crighterv

    so pumped for the new frames … you know theres some underline shit with fit and animal / skavenger im sure

  • http://Website JPBMX

    The is 4 Peg minimum on these Animal/Skavenger Frames. If you have wide bars, no pegs, and listen to anything besides Papoose and Big L, YOU DONT DESERVE THIS FRAME!

  • http://Website Me Thinks?

    Maybe FBM will make ‘em?

  • http://Website andrew

    l the only real time fit was when robbie was there !!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Freako-Rico/1123020124 Freako Rico

    dat just made me tear up a lil…

  • http://Website Name (required)

    how is it shady? out of all the quits and team drops in the past few years this one and a few others have been properly done. leaving on a good note is how shit is supposed to be. and isn’t skavenger ed and vinny’s thing anyway? so it’s kind of like him leaving to start his own junk(not in a bad way). good for them though two good dudes and so are the rest.

  • http://Website Name (required)

    good looks boys, shits a wrap over there

  • http://Website punk litte kidz

    least he’s not going to cult aka gayest thing since russel simmons

  • http://Website NWC, tyler baginski

    heard that

  • http://Website Name (required)

    the man who built fit and the team is gone, why would they stick around?

  • http://Website NWC, tyler baginski

    heard that

  • http://Website Stay Lit

    Tom and Edwins part in FIT LIFE is one of my all time favorite parts. gets me pumped to ride every time. stay fit kinda sucked but they were both filming for the Animal vid at the same time. But Adam please post their split part from Fit Life

  • http://Website Jon

    Mikey’s quote was the best haha

  • http://Website Name (required)

    Fbm might make this frame ..since theyre in new york

    Fit needs a gimick or image to get back at it ,seriously

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Billy-Malkotsis/1638262343 Billy Malkotsis

    I guess I have been living under a rock… and based on this, Skavenger is probably going to be huge. Fit is slowly deteriorating.

  • http://Website name (required)

    dave mcdermott 4 skav too

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Franco-Leon/770812602 Franco Leon

    why did vinnie get the boot from sunday?

  • Brett

    I hope sp, dude deserves it.

  • http://90worst.net 90worst

    Do you have to live in the woods but act like you are from the city to ride Lino’s frame?

  • http://Website nope

    wethepeople

  • http://Website confused

    Whos left on fit

  • http://Website samstanfield

    i can def see some serious parts coming out, i mean after all, isnt bmx about family and friends? ive always respected the animal crew and the feeling that they made bmx fun and tricks dont need to be serious, just some good ol get in get out shit. i hope good things happen and i know they will. HOTCAKES!!!

  • http://Website nj

    nope is right and the frames are official!

  • http://Website count grishnackh

    yes.

  • http://Website count grishnackh

    hopefully s&m has nothing to do with it…

    fbm deserves it 100 times more.

  • http://Website THE TRUTH

    Your all clowns. They were all part of animal before Fit so if anything they are making the family stronger.

  • http://Website samstanfield

    arent wtp supposedly making these new metal frames now too? that ive yet to see online for sale other than direct…

  • http://Website ok

    almost funny, but then again you dont actually know him

  • http://Website guy

    sweet now Fit has a whole team of people who leave the ground when they ride

  • http://Website killemslo

    fuckin animal is gonna make the frames fuckface

  • http://Website killemslo

    tha skavnger frames r gonna be ill son…yall niggaz dont knw whts komin frm da streetz…..

  • http://Website Big Sausage Pizza

    Ratkid
    brennan
    Jeff Martin
    Nigga Blackman

  • http://Website Worm

    Man, Butcher’s been needing a frame sponsor for too long…

    Good for all these guys. I understand this has been a long time in the making, and it seems that they finally got there on their own terms. No doubt the frames will be sick.

    I reckon Fit will be alright. Any team that boasts Van, Aitken, and Foster is in pretty good shape, I’d say. Plus, you would think this means that Ratima and Ruiz get bumped up, which would be well deserved.

  • http://Website dill nye the sizmeck guy

    couldnt travel with the team.

  • http://Website dill nye the sizmeck guy

    that pickof edwin is awesome… so many memories.

  • http://Website davicho

    thats so sweet to heard
    i hope so bad that the standover height of the frames will be 9”, or no lower than 8
    the low frames are so fuckin gross
    keep the BMX BMX no bring it scooters.
    so sick from animal,the best bmx brand!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nico-Penitenti/100000707253845 Nico Penitenti

    FUCK FIT!

  • http://Website ted huie

    you sir, win at life. aitken, foster, and inman are the shit

  • http://Website your a punk

    ^ just mike brennan should be on the team, not any of those other scrubs especially ratkid.

  • http://Website squidrick

    least there going to cult aka the gayest thing since russel simmons

  • http://Website AMPM87

    hahaha true story, but fit lost Hawk and Roche in the fallout with Cult. Hawk can boost way higher than any of those cats and Roche could probably bunny hop over that.

  • http://vimeo.com/cdtolley Tolley Always

    Animal’s new frame is not going to be painted, but rapped in joint paper instead.

  • http://Website tomp

    mike aitken, and foster is about it

  • http://Website Cobb

    Adam, I’m incepting the idea of you getting some sneak peeks of the SKVR frames, so that the internet world will be somewhat satisfied.

  • http://Website davicho

    yeah!!
    but him is on deco and deco is great too

  • http://Website crunchface

    Would Brennan leave WTP to ride with the warriors still pretty new? What about Gaertig lol, mike make since for WTP to make at that point if Andrew Jackson is animal and cream not out yet

  • http://Websiteal dan lacey

    we up in NYC NIGGAAA NEW YORK NEW YORK HELL YEEE WE THROW THE BARZ UP HERE NIGGA!!!!!!!! NYCNYCNYCNYC

  • http://Website wakaflocka

    Likes this.

  • http://Website wakaflocka

    Now fit Is just dope ass trail riders and U.K street shredders.

  • http://www.fuckbrett.com Trulz

    HOLY FUCK LEARN TO TALK FUCKTARD!!!!11!1

    YOU’RE ALMOST AS BAD AS THAT FUCK BRETTTT!

  • http://Website t-bone

    half a year ago the fit team was stacked now everyone is doing there own shit the way it should be “SUCK IT EASY’

  • http://Website why

    it’s way less shady than the way robbie morales and the cult team left.

  • http://Website why

    ^ animal don’t manufacture their own shit you fucking idiot.

  • http://Website BBMX

    Or how about Van Homan, Justin Inman, and Eddie Cleveland ?

  • http://Website mike hunt

    who is edwin delarosa?

    looks like he should be mowing my front lawn.

  • http://Website SNOOP

    I think its dope he is leaving. If 10 years with a company is not good enough then i dont know what is. It’s not like the mans gonna seriously keep firing out ridiculous shit…He is climbing up there in age.
    It’s damn good to see dudes giving back..And supporting the real cause..The local seen. And he is just adding to there status, which will there for fund the rights to hook up you snotty little kids.
    So dont hate..It just opens up a spot on the Fit team…And adds to the bmx pool of “omfgeez what do i buy…”

  • http://Website wakaflocka

    Fuck off and die.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Bowman/562570276 John Bowman

    pretty much all frames and parts are the same now anyway. Just pick one and go ride

  • http://Website weed

    i see what you did there.

  • http://Website dopie

    truth

  • http://Website Name (required)

    eddie doesnt count

  • http://Website mike hunt

    thankyou, twas a joke, eddy d is THE man.

    waka flocka is dope as fuck, hard

  • http://Website Name (required)

    yeah man look at dakota and deharts parts right after they left fit that shit is insane, i bet edwins next part is gonna be a banger

  • http://www.youjizz.com macgyver

    hey tomp, how bout you pet me some more next time youre over you fuck face

  • http://Website Iän Schwårtz

    “Tyrone left Rideline” It’s Redline, you fucking fag adam22

  • http://Website JPBMX

    Dude knows hows to do a grind or do one.

  • http://Website JPBMX

    THIS.

  • http://Website JPBMX

    I seriously LOLd

  • http://Website 90worst

    Tell me where i am wrong…he lives in Bolton and has never lived closer than an hour from Boston but plasters his site with images of public transportation and city streets….contrived as fuck

  • http://Website MIAMI HEAT

    it’s like Lebron James quitting Cavaliers for Heat!
    haha it’ll be good

  • http://Website FitBikes

    Van Homan will Save Us!

  • http://Website Wayne

    Starting Cult is so much shadier than what they are doing. Skavenger has also been around since like 2002. It just wasn’t really just wasn’t a huge thing.

  • http://Website crazy

    its crazy what has happened to fit…

  • http://Website ant

    i was wondering why lino had no frame sponser, id seen him chillin with the animal crew @ the banks and im like wait all these doods are madd good, and none have frame sponsers ? insteresting Explained >! This is good shit. Fit is changing , so is bmx, tom and edwin should def be on some skavenger type shit. Fit is a bunch of young bucks now, up and commers other than aitken, Its time they reshape there whole shit and im pumped for animal and skavenger that shit is gonna blow up .

  • http://www.delcobrand.com schnell

    Old news pretty much if you live on the East Coast.

  • http://www.delcobrand.com schnell

    DAVE RULES!

  • http://Website Mirraco Rep

    We are happy to announce Nigel is fired. Good luck mate.

  • http://Website Sheeeet

    I couldn’t agree with THE TRUTH any more…

  • http://Website Ohio

    There better be some Hood Antics x Skavenger shit…

  • http://Website nittygritty

    old news

  • http://Website wtpoople

    How are we The People going to make their frames? They don’t even make their own. They do not make Metal, they hooked them up with their manufacturer in Asia.

  • http://www.decobmx.com meat

    weed n mustaches

  • http://Website Mark V.

    That was a nice send-off for Edwin, classy departure from both ends. I think anyone could have seen this coming. Despite Edwin having a sig frame from Fit since forever, he rarely had any FIT decals or anything on his frames. Maybe one TINY fit sticker but thats it. But he would have a HUGE skavenger sticker on his frames in almost every shot he had. And he didn’t jump ship, and he kept supporting FIT up until he left. Some people are pissy BC he’d been there for so long. But he’s been there for 10 years and he’s moved on to his own thing. SKAVENGER is going to be HUGE! And will have an untouchable street team. It will be interesting to see if they pick up a park or vert guy.

  • http://Website Name (required)

    seriously they way you type, sounds like you speak english like a 2yr old.

  • http://Website lino

    sorry it bothers you so much lol

  • http://Website Kunt Hoeburger

    Cult won’t last at all, Skav might if they produce high quality taiwan frames w/o gimmick heat treating (all heat treating is the same), they stay to the basics and make shit tough. Edwin is the man… never got into Tom.

  • http://Website DanDan!

    Wow I called this man, I had a theory skavenger was going to make frames but I didn’t think it would happen this quick because of Edwin + Fit. By the time they are selling solid frames i’ll need a new build so im gonna be running one!

  • http://Websiteal dan lacey

    who is edwin delarosa?

    looks like he should be mowing my front lawn.

  • http://Website ben

    speak for yourself, my cult frame is solid

  • http://Website CRAZY MAAZY

    u mad

  • http://Website ok

    your right. thats where he lived recently but not now. he has lived in Worcester, and grew up in Southbridge. also his company is not based on Boston, just mass in general, in which there is more than one city.

  • http://Website samstanfield

    just like every other company they have their own welders. true signature parts for team riders are built by in large, in house as the rest of us get contracted parts. as far as wtp and metal it was a rumour that i remember that went around late last year as far as whom were making the new rebel contender, then burns and alex liiv left. didnt know if it had come to fruition yet…

  • http://Website samstanfield

    lol you mean richard or gene simmions..?

  • http://Website samstanfield

    you’s a bad bad man lacey

  • http://Website hiv

    TMZ!!!!!

  • http://Website joe

    yea because all the guys on the fit pro team are “young bucks” LULZ

  • http://Website dude

    doesnt seem contrived at all, those guys all ride street, so it makes sense regardless

  • http://Website JPBMX

    Is this why his bike didnt make it to Miami?

  • http://Website JPBMX

    Only if the park or Vert guy runs 4 PEGS and only listens to rap.

  • http://Website who gives a hoot

    1) teams need to quit bitchin and bein dependent on mates. “wa wa wa they must not like us anymore” so fuckin what get over it n let em be around who they do wana be with. Be glad for what you had n step YOUR game up. Screw whoever whines about it. Fit and cavs fans get a life & let people be free. I don’t know why this is news anyway who cares what other people do. I guess a billion kids across the world. Mans go ride your own bike n quit frettin over what everybody else does I don’t care who they are. Fun not fame bitch

  • http://Website kbkij

    it dosent matter if they left is not like they ride anymore any ways

  • http://Website joelite

    the only thing you ride is your moms dick fagot.

  • http://Website ted huie

    yeah i forgot about those guys

  • http://Website alberto vo5

    Is Tom White african american ?

  • http://Website cfn rider

    real heat treating does exist you know its just alot more expensive to use a real btu blue flame for a couple of hours on a frame so alot of companies stick their parts in weak yellow flame ovens for ten minutes and lie that it will never dent!

  • http://Website spearchucker

    I fucked a monkey..

  • http://Website hoder is good

    hurry up and make the frames i need a bike

  • http://Website Jah

    Cult frame IS a Solid. Bwaaaaaaa!

  • http://thecomeupbmx.com Socal for life, no where up north

    im suprised, i mean wat the bob sagettttt. i was gonna get the FITED frame as soon as when my frame cracked and i was really looking forward to getting it. now i no longer hav respect for edwin delarosa and tom white. although animal is a really really really really really good bike company, i just never thought thed make frames u know. anyways ill wait til their frames come out an get one. i do have to admit that quiting FIT is like commiting bmx suicide. there frames/parts R so damn good

  • http://Website nigor.

    will brennan leave WTP? and hamilton Federal? what about wiz?
    anyways…
    LONG LIVE SKAVENGER!

  • http://Website teddy belle

    You guys crack me up. BMX is a business. Why are you so shocked when people leave a bike company to start their own. When you aren’t living at home and you have pays bills to pay you have to look out for yourself.

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