Ruben Alcantara is the kind of BMXer that you, as a mountain biker, should know. If there’s one thing he’s famous for, it’s wallrides, something far more familiar to us than the other, more technical feats in 20-inch freestyle. But Alcantara’s wallrides are often pretty damn technical. And more distinctly, they’re often pretty damn huge. He has a talent for executing impossible airborne connections between inclined bank A and vert wall B, regardless of the angle or distance. If you were to say “Ruben Wallride” to a BMXer aged between 30 and 45, they will know exactly what you mean.
Alcantara got his first real taste of mountain biking 13 years ago on a trip to Whistler. Like most BMXers, he dreamed of riding his 20-inch* on Dirt Merchant. Also like most BMXers, he knows that would probably be a bad idea. So, apparently over the past several years, he and also-legendary BMXers Garrett Byrnes and Mike Bennett have been experimenting with front and full-suspension on BMX bikes. I say “apparently” because all that we know about it is from the only two posts by an Instagram account, @fingerscrossedbmx. They show Alcantara, Byrnes and Bennett on terrain that you would need something a little more than what they would take to the streets. Exactly how much more is a bit of a mystery until we get some info from the source.
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