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A new mix video featuring Kyle, Brayden, and Dylan—who came to visit from Australia—and the young riders from Japan is now out!
These days in Japan, people are constantly talking about overtourism.
Sure, there are plenty of issues—but from the perspective of our BMX community, having riders visit from overseas is always something we’re genuinely excited about.
Recently, Kyle (@kylston), Brayden (@braydenmcpharlin), and Dylan (@dylanbigmoney) came over from Australia, spending time riding with local crews around Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and more. It sounds like they built especially strong bonds with the young riders around the Tokyo area.
The title of their new video is “YO KYODAI”—apparently one of the first Japanese phrases they picked up on this trip. Just as it reads: “Yo, brothers.”
The video makes it clear that they fully enjoyed their time in Japan through BMX—but it also seems like they had a whole lot of fun outside of riding, too.
We asked them a bit about their memories from the trip, so check it out—either before or after watching the video. Enjoy!
Why“YO KYODAI”?
What’s up! I named it ‘Yo Kyodai’ which is a Japanese phrase used for close friends or to someone seen as a brother. I’m pretty sure it translates to ‘yo brother’ in English. It was one of the first phrases I learnt on the trip haha.
Is there a crew name behind it?
There isn’t a specific crew behind the video as Dylan, Brayden and I are all from different parts of Australia and separated by a few hours of flying and many, many hours of driving. We are all close friends though and try to see each other as much as we can manage. Shoutout to the crews and BMX shops we are a part of and support and Aus BMX as a whole! Shoutout to Local BMX shop, Lux BMX, BMX International, Eclat, Federal, The Hambone Chronicles and Ween Crew.
How was Japan overall? Easy to get here from Australia (money/distance-wise)?
Japan was so sick, Dylan and I spent four weeks travelling together and we had the best time. I drove up to Brisbane from Newcastle to meet Dylan and from there we flew to Tokyo, which was about 9 hours. Brayden was already there on a trip around the country in a camper-van with his girlfriend so we managed to catch up a few times to ride. Money-wise, it was sweet, the food, drink and accommodation were quite affordable coming from Australia. We did it quite cheap though, eating from the convenience stores and local spots, but I can think of many ways we could have made the trip a lot less affordable haha.
Which city was most fun to ride — Tokyo, Nagoya, or Osaka?
Each city felt different; Tokyo was cool because we got to meet so many riders and visit Rodi but we found riding around and finding spots tricky because of all the people and security. Next was Osaka and we didn’t really meet up with many riders apart from Zimmi, the flatland homie from Bali one day but otherwise it was just Dylan and I pedalling around aimlessly for a few days, finding spots and chilling before watching X-Games. Then it was Nagoya, which became our favourite city for sure. We only got to spend about 4 days there but we rode some really sweet spots with locals and Rehito also took us around to spots one afternoon as well as to Matsui Cycle, a legendary shop that’s been running since 1972.
The Mt Fuji type volcano transition spots were everywhere and so fun to ride… We had never seen anything like it before.
That rail ride over the fence in the first clip was insane!
Hahaha yeah… Brayden is crazy. He must have done it about 7 or 8 times so that he could get the right photo with Natsuki and try a couple of tricks over it.
I’d say that there’s a lot more unique and fun spots to ride in Japan as opposed to Australia, for example the transition spots and plazas with unique stuff to play around on.
Security is much stricter than back home. Sometimes we would just look at a spot and there would be an angry security guard ordering us to leave immediately, no exceptions.
One time we were cruising around Tokyo near the Rodi store just riding an old beat-up flat rail on the side of a cycle path and an old lady walking her dog lost her mind and called the police.
How did you feel about the Japanese BMX scene, especially the younger kids?
Simply put, it was amazing. Meeting all the young rippers was so cool and very inspiring to see how everyone is supported in the scene.
From flatland to street to park and everything in between, everyone we met was sick.
Any funny or memorable moments during the trip?
In our first week in Tokyo, Dylan and I rode all the way down to Kawasaki to find spots and by the end of the day we were thirsty… so we found this strange stop pirate themed bar that ended up being run out of some dude’s apartment. It was a little unusual for us as Australia doesn’t let someone simply run a bar out of their home but we were stoked and went in. It was full of all kinds of old school arcade games, an RC car track and fish tanks. After enjoying some beers and chatting to the owner and his wife- mostly through hand gestures and google translate- we showed him some of our videos to which he replied that his son loved BMX and maybe knew us? A short phone call later his son pulled up and was ecstatic, which we found quite funny because we are not pros or famous at all haha! I think he thought we ran Dig BMX or something… Haha!
We left around midnight-or maybe later- to catch the train, only to find out we missed the last one. So, there we were riding about 20km+ back to Tokyo, drunk and feeling like superstars.
Another good one was the night of the X-Games when Brayden’s girlfriend doused Dylan with a fire extinguisher in his room at the Airbnb at about 4 in the morning, leaving everything covered in pink retardant haha!
What part of Japan did you like the most?
The people, everyone has such a great sense of humour and display so much love and support to each other. It was so refreshing to see the way everyone lifts each other up and I now understand why there are so many talented riders and brands from Japan!
