The SMC 100 | 30-21 | Suck My Cog

Heavy hitters only from here. After the jump for the reveal!

Nickname: Pissy / Weason Why / Last Orchid

Years Active: 2009 – Present

Region: Southern California

Social Media: @last.orchid.on.earth

The 29er king himself Corey San Agustin has been a powerhouse in the FGFS world since early days, quickly rising the ranks alongside peers like Matt Spencer and Congo. It became apparent early that Corey was built different and wasn’t afraid to push his limits. One of SoCal’s earliest riders to hit handrails, huge 180’s, and would quickly show that he would have an affinity for falling and injuries. A lot of people who have been riding for as long as Corey and still ride now had a peak at some point and do it for fun or at a lot smaller scale, but Corey’s stonks are still going up and to the right baby! His riding is only getting more refined, bigger scale, and more creative. His Ruff edit from 2023 (linked below) is still some of the best riding I think the scene has ever seen, showing off beautiful 29er pegless riding bashing his pedals, cranks, and bottom bracket on everything he can find alongside huge scale tricks. Corey even proved that he has what it takes to ride a smaller bike with pegs with a brief stint in 2012, but ultimately decided he wants everything to be harder for him and switched back to the big boy size almost immediately after.

29 – Jacob Ruff

Nickname: Jruff

Years Active: 2007 – Present

Region: Seattle, WA

Social Media: @jacob_ruff

From Zlog to CSK, BB17 to Ruff Bike Co, and from the most polite person in the world to the loudest person screaming on the session, Jacob Ruff has been a sleeper, but major player in shaping the landscape of modern (and vintage) FGFS. I feel like I’ve said this a lot… but I feel like Jacob actually might be the longest standing rider on this. Starting around 2007, Jacob hasn’t had any breaks from the bike to this day and his comfort on his bike shows. His riding since I can remember has been filled with speed, style, and grace, dropping numerous significant video parts and DVD sections throughout his career including The Revival and Stay Strapped. Outside of riding, he was heavily involved in the ZLOG crew and content and was the creator of the legendary Collared Shirt Krew: a media outlet, crew, and apparel brand. Jacob has also heavily dove into frame design over the years: aiding in the creation of multiple BB17 frames which helped with the creation of Ruff Bike Co and its products, which have helped keep the FGFS scene alive and supplied.

28 – Oscar Khan

Nickname: n/a

Years Active: 2008 – 2014

Region: London, England

Social Media: @oxhy___

We’ve talked about big personalities, but I think Oscar takes the cake for biggest personality. His on-camera antics, on and off the bike, have elicited some of the most quotable and memorable moments in the sport. Oscar set the blueprint for creative pegless 29er riding, which started alongside England’s Superted back in 2008, and continued into the later years of his riding with the Ninja Cats London crew. His riding in the Ninja Cats videos became a worldwide hit with fans that have lasted to the present day. Oscar has had multiple firsts in the sport, becoming the first to pedal feeble bar in 2008 and doing one of the only natas spins on the other side of his career in 2012. So many of his web edits are cherished to this day, but the two that people still reference till today are his WRAHW welcome video, and his BB17 and Spike edit (linked below). The amount of style and character shown through the screen in those two edits could feed families.

27 – Taylor Dwight

Nickname: Slaylor

Years Active: 2009 – 2021

Region: Portland, Oregon

Social Media: @abjektfailure

Slaylor has had two distinct careers in his fixed gear journey. When he started in the bay area during the Trick Track era, he dominated the scene and shined bright with his ability to rotate his bike in so many kinds of ways along with many technical firsts in the sport. The second half of Taylor’s greatness began when he made the move to Portland and pursued a more unique approach to riding, opting for creative, slower tricks and setups that were incredibly outside the box. Two totally different styles, but both progressive and eye catching in their own ways. Taylor was also a video output machine during his peak years, putting out loads of web edits through his own means and more web edits later through the Still Pour vimeo.

26 – Jakob Santos

Nickname: n/a

Years Active: 2009 – Present

Region: Northern California

Social Media: @jakobsantos1911

When I think of heavy hitters, Jakob Santos is always one of the first names that come to mind. every with Jakob was big scale: his tricks, his personality, the projects that he was involved in, Jakob lives LARGE and well deservingly became one of the sport’s superstars. During what I call the rail cold wars, Jakob was passively battling for the biggest handrails with some of the best like Ed Wonka, Brad Parker, and Kenny Arimoto (they were all friends, but pushing each other). Santos would release more casual content than a lot of his peers at the time on his Vimeo, constantly getting clips wherever he happened to be and was actually an early blueprint for the content climate we’re in today. Jakob’s wild bike colors, colorful personality, and inability to give a shit about what people thought of him were just add-ons to his high caliber of riding which catapulted Jakob into the fixed gear legends list.

25 – Michael Chacon

Nickname: Mikeonabike

Years Active: 2009 – Present

Region: Southern California

Social Media: @mikechacon59

Often compared as the Nigel Sylvester of fixed gear, Michael Chacon was truly the sport’s first star. His riding was distinct early on, leaning into the more Trick Track side of things rather than the BMX direction the sport was going into, then later adopting more of the off-ground tricks, becoming a major player in the race to see who could barspin the biggest things. Through the development of that style, Chacon never left the original fixed gear trick roots and always involved some degree of flat ground tricks. This actually garnered him more popularity with the broader crowd and Chacon became one of the biggest names by far. If you typed in “fixed gear tricks” in 2011 into youtube or google, you’d likely be brought right to one of Mike’s videos. Chacon’s star power superseded FGFS, getting him deals and opportunities with huge companies like Nike, Undefeated, Apple, Myspace, Gap, and more.

24 – Yuhei Hirose

Nickname: Marco

Years Active: 2009 – Present

Region: Japan

Social Media: @_m_a_r_c_o

Japan has developed its own style when it comes to extreme sports. When I think of Japan now, I think of disgusting amounts of swag, cool technical tricks, and night time shred. Marco embodies all of this in my opinion. The first time I saw Marco ride was in Bootleg Sessions 4 in 2010. He was great at the time of course, but I don’t think anybody had a clue that he would become the style god that he is today(ish). Any time Marco touches his bike, the way he maneuvers it looks like he’s in total control. Usually riders who lean into the style side of things aren’t bothered by competition, but Marco was also a complete competitive threat in any event he entered, racking up several major competition wins throughout his career.

23 – Dew Sippawit

Nickname: n/a

Years Active: 2010 – 2014

Region: Chiangmai, Thailand

Social Media: @dewsippawit

It’s hard to find single moments when people change the sport, but I think when Dew Sippawit came into the scene and dropped his birthday edit (linked below), it was a seismic moment in the progression of things. A few firsts came out of that one video: hanger barspin (which took over 10 years to be recreated) and ice barspin, as well as some veeery rare tricks at the time like nosie bars and tailwhips. Although there were some people doing those tricks, nobody at the time had all of that under their belt. Not only was Dew doing all these progressive tricks, he was doing it at MACH 10 speed, doing it with style, and keeping everything smooth. From there, Dew continued to be a star in the sport, especially thanks to his link ups in NorCal with the Wheel Talk crew and travelling content with fellow Thai rider Jaoa Danaikrit.

22 – Tom Mosher

Nickname: Mosher

Years Active: 2008 – Present

Region: Toronto, Canada

Social Media: @tommosher

A true pioneer and lifer of the sport, proud Canadian Tom Mosher changed the sport in very unique ways. His early years were spent on progression of the sport and chasing never been done tricks like feeble bar with pegs, slider to fish n chips, fakie barspin, bigspin to hop barspin, smith with pegs, and the list goes on. Mosher was ahead of his time with adding pegs to your bike in a time where it was extremely frowned upon, but Tom didn’t care and continued to focus on progress. Tom was also early on with tutorial content, becoming the scene’s go-to person in its early days for learning tricks in a time where content like that was extremely hard to come by. His impact doesn’t stop there: Tom furthered his role as an authority in the scene and figurehead with the creation of Tricktrack.org, an online forum that quickly became the go-to place for EVERYBODY in the FGFS space to discuss everything. Lastly, have you heard of YNOT pedal straps? most modern riders are unaware that the YNOT design was created by Tom and the company was co-ran by him for many many years until an eventual separation. But yeah, his design from 2009 is STILL being used heavily to this day, hopefully he has something new cooking though cause its overdue. Back to Tom’s riding though: he managed to adapt well from early Trick Track style to 26″ BMX style, heading into the more creative pegless route in his later years and showing that his comfort on a fixed drivetrain will never go away.

21 – Jackson Bradshaw

Nickname: Jackofff

Years Active: 2011 – Present

Region: Salt Lake City, UT

Social Media: @jacksonradshaw

Another absolute powerhouse and authoritative figure comes in the form of Salt Lake City and FOAD gang superstar Jackson Bradshaw. Before we knew him as the media mogul that FOAD and him are today, Jackson started as a rider who established a funny name for his crew of goons in Utah: FOAD. Their web edits included so many memorable antics, good times, and most importantly, really good bike riding. Jackson stood out among the crowd by first of all, making all the videos, and second of all, going the more Tate Roskelley style creative approach of biking: often finding weird setups and thinking outside the box on trick selection. There are way too many tricks that Jackson does to call out individually, but if you watch any of his videos, you know that he’s got a whole bag of tricks up his sleeve at all times ready to be used at the least expected spots. Not only is he creative though, he can do that advanced hard stuff, becoming one of the first (if not the first? I actually can’t remember) to land and be comfortable with double peg hard 180s. His video parts over the years have been iconic all while leading the production on them himself with projects like Gang Signs, Good Times, Last Try, and more recently, Somewhere Slow, Nowhere fast. His bike skills on both 700c Trick Track and 26″ FGFS are hard to come by for the average rider who majors in one or the other, and his 3rd eye creative brain also transfers to both.