My first BMX bike was a chrome Torker with black tuff wheels.
This photo is from the january 1985 issue of BMX Plus! I remember going down to the local 7-11 convenience store and seeing myself in this magazine, and just tripping out. I'm on a Skyway TA, given to me by Tony Murray's dad. Photo by John Ker.
Eddie is riding for Skyway
I was riding at an AFA contest in San Diego and I met Robert Peterson, Dave Vanderspeck and Maurice Meyer, the Skyway team. I rode in front of them there and at another contest in Pleasanton, California. I kept in contact with them, and one day the Skyway manager called me and asked me to ride for them. They needed a ramp rider for their Summer tour. It was great. All my bike parts were paid for.
BMX Plus! january 1985
Life's a beach riders Eddie Roman and Pete Augustin headed for sunny times in Tahiti for a few demos in october. After that they reportedly hit England and Japan.
"...Kevin Jones and Eddie Roman are making the scene in 1988, on the hot new Street Scene by Skyway. 'Cause these dudes know what's happening in freestyle..."
Life's a Beach Surfgear sends Eddie Roman and Pete Augustin to Tahiti to perform in shows.
Fakie tree ride on the cover of Freestylin september 1988.
The shadiest BMX video ever, made in 1989. Featuring Mat Hoffman, Steve Swope, Dave Voelker, Dennis McCoy, Vic Murphy, Craig Campbell, Pete Agustin, Eddie Roman, Mike O'Day, Kevin Jones, Mark Eaton, and more. Aggroman is a BMX superhero. This is one of the first videos to show Street Riding.
2hip video Ride like a man produced by Eddie Roman.
Ride On video produced by Eddie Roman.
Eddie Roman, thepromomaker.com, march 2009: In 1995 I produced, shot and edited the first MTB freeriding video before it was known as freeriding. Better than the Mountain Bike riding is Mat Hoffman’s motorized BMX ramp session as well as his 55 mph quarter pipe mayhem. Hammertime was alot of fun to make and I’m pretty sure the riding in it influenced much of the MTB jumping/freeriding/action we see today.
I married Carri on June 29th, 1996.
Mat Hoffman asked me to re-release it. He wanted to show the new kids how it all started and what it was like back in the day. Mat did all the work to get it onto DVD: all I did was say, O.K.
BMX was the thing that drove me to learn how to produce videos. I wanted to make better BMX videos, so I always tried to improve my production skills, Video production is like anything else, the more you do it, the better you get. With Aggro Riding and Kung Fu Fighting, I used my dad's VHS camcorder and my High School's professional camera & editing machines. Linear, twist-the-handle-to-make-the-video-move kinda machines That was before all this computer stuff.
I ride sometimes. Not enough to enter a contest. Not enough to stay dialed. Just enough to have fun with my 5 year old son.
I'm really stoked to see my old friends doing well. I trip out on how popular Mat Hoffman is now. My mother-inlaw (a total non-BMX type) asked me, You really know Mat Hoffman?" I see Mirra in commercials, I see Thorne hosting TV shows, It's trippy. I'm happy for everyone who's done so well. The only bad thing I see is this: Every time I see a new skatepark pop up, I think, "Man, back in my day they were tearing all the skateparks down! No fair!"
