The Come Up / BMX » Ruben Alacantara

A Day In The Life Of Ruban Alcantara.

adam — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:54:04 +0000

Surfing, skateparks and trails from the don himself.

Ruben: The Lost Bowl.

adam — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:26:06 +0000

It is seriously so awesome that Ruben is still going on crazy adventures to ride ridiculous tranny spots. This video shows him seeking out, then riding a bizarre skatepark in a tiny town in Portugal.

PAS House Video.

adam — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:00:21 +0000

We posted about this room that Etnies built that you can ride a while back, here’s a video of Ruben, Luc Legrand and Justin Fouque giving it a test.

Ruben’s Signature Fly Parts Line.

adam — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:38:31 +0000

Haven’t heard or seen much from Ruben in a while, here he is discussing his signature parts line from Fly along with some riding.

Ruben Alacantara Bike Check.

adam — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:25:06 +0000

If you want to find out all about Ruben’s new bike, go here and check it out in flipbook form.

Ruben Alacantara Video Interview.

adam — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:41:15 +0000

I’m looking forward to watching this:

“I had the great opportunity to visit Malaga, Spain and stay with Ruben in February. While I was there, I had a few requests to do an Original with him. While the trip was work related I wasn’t sure if I was going to have the time or not to make the interview happen, but right at the last minute before Ruben took me to the airport we sat down for a half hour and made it happen! I’m real happy we squeezed it in!

Ruben is a legend in his own regard, having made a heavy impact of the current style of riding as well as the type of bikes we ride and being responsible for some of the most influential video parts of our generation. Ruben is not only an amazing rider, but an amazing person and I have been a fan since I can remember!”

Via Defgrip.

T1 Freaky Friday 02/19/10.

adam — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:59:25 +0000

Joe Rich just sent this through:

“Six weeks, 1 regluar sized back pack for each of the 2 of us, 1 super 8mm camera, 1 DV video camera, 1 35mm film photo camera, 2 bmx bikes, $400 in train tickets each = 1 amazing adventure. We had the most basic of plans . . . Leave Malaga, Spain by train, and arrive in Prague (Czech Republic) six weeks later. No day was ever mapped out before hand. We’d take a train to a new city, leave the station upon arrival, and see what we could get into. Some cities we stayed for days, others just over night. “Chance” and “Wonder” were our co-pilots. Exploration and adventure go hand in hand, add in our loose schedule and we had ourselves one amazing journey . . . .

This trip was taken by myself and Ruben Alcantara almost 5 years ago. It was put out along with an Etnies Road Trip video that came with Dig issue number 52. Because it was being burned on a hard copy, I had to use different music for the second half of the Train Trip. This was the music I originally edited it with. This played all last year on the Bicycle Film Festival Tour around the world. I’ve gotten a number of requests to put this up online. So here it is, Freaky Friday February 19th, 2010. Enjoy !”

They played this at the Bicycle Film Festival over the Summer before they played the FBM documentary and I was shocked by how good it was even all these years later. If Ruben isn’t in your discussion about the best riders of all time, you have a problem. This video holds a little place in my heart too because it was the cause of the first “Take down that video” email I ever got, courtesy of someone at Dig, I can’t really remember who.

Terrible One Freaky Friday 10/02/09.

adam — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:46:01 +0000

Here’s the latest Freaky Friday featuring Ruben. I wonder what Ruben’s been up to. I know he’s got a real bad back and is having surgery, that’s gotta be the one dude I wish we could see footage of on a regular basis. I slacked on posting last week’s Freaky Friday featuring Garrett Byrnes last week due to a combination of alcohol poisoning (almost!) and bad wireless, so check that after the jump.

“The Matador”.

adam — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:28:23 +0000

Joe Rich hit me up with a really awesome video of Ruben and some friends out in Spain… check the description and then watch the video after the jump.

“This was something fun I had an idea for when I went to Spain to film the Fox Andalucia series. This idea came to me one night while lying in bed. I thought it would be a cool way for people to see Ruben’s hip for the first time. I thought that the matador was fitting due to the fact we were in Spain. Then, I heard this song by Beruit and it fit together perfectly in my mind. But due to music rights issues, I never got clearance, therefore the idea couldn’t be used for the Fox vid. For those of you that have seen the riding in the 3rd part of Andalucia, this contains a few clips from that, plus one pretty funny ending one. These clips never get old to me. We laughed for awhile with this one. Hope you dig it”

Andalucia 3.

adam — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:26:17 +0000

Here’s the 3rd of Joe Rich’s Andalucia series, spotted on Defgrip. Features Chase Hawk, Ruben etc.

Previously: Andalucia 2