Video: 11 Year Old Phenom Brady Baker

Dec 24, 2014 at 16:03
by Successful  
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Brady Baker (11 years young) has been pushing the boundaries of kids BMX for the last couple of years. Yet until recently he had never ridden a mountain bike. Morpheus wanted to change that so we reached out to his father, Alex and Brady Baker (rider) to see if they wanted to get involved in the development of the world's first competition ready dirt jumper for kids. When they first heard that our intention was to shrink down our full size Vimana and implement perfect kid's geometry, Alex and Brady quickly became the project's greatest assets.

Vimana JR

Though he hadn't ridden mountain bikes he admired our riders, particularly Anthony and was eager to try out a mini version of his FMBA world tour rig. We made an initial prototype to just get a physical representation of the concept. Once we had tested it and we were confident it was structurally safe we met Brady and his dad at our local dirt jump park to see how it fit. It fit like a glove and on that first day he hit some solid 20 foot dirt to dirt gaps. After taking the bike home it was only a couple weeks later when his dad told us he is ready to do some filming. Brady is a solid rider and he was confident enough on the bike to bang out this edit in a matter of hours. Keep an eye out for Brady in the spring time when we produce an all dirt edit on his generation two prototype, Vimana JR.


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  • 42 1
 Password is "brady" Smile

Awesome video! It's cool to see the next generation of pros so early on. You can just tell that all these guys will make it big already.
  • 3 2
 Thanks!
  • 5 3
 didn work
  • 4 0
 just go here: www.pinkbike.com/video/391045

and type "brady"
  • 13 0
 headtube angle looks incredibly slack.
  • 31 2
 Game of Bike. Baker vs. Goldstone
  • 14 10
 Wouldn't even be close. Baker would clean sweep.
  • 24 1
 Then I realised that this 11 year old is 15 years ahead of my riding! !
  • 24 2
 Is anyone else tired of the word "phenom"?
  • 52 3
 in the last 40 years, i've seen many 'phenoms' totally burnt out by 17 and ending up working at a gas station. let kids be kids. ya wanna start the hype machine when a rider is around 16... okay sure, go for it. but hyping these 12 and unders is dangerous territory for their longevity in the sport. again, sometimes i think we should just let kids be kids........just sayin.
  • 16 1
 Spot on Stacey. Give your kids the opportunity to try things, celebrate their accomplishments, correct their mistakes and support their decisions. I'm wary of throwing out titles like "phenom" or the next one, etc. as it leans towards pressure and expectation/ entitlement. I think its rad that this kid is stoked on biking and it's awesome to see how he just got on a mtn bike and is able to ride like this. I'm sure there will be back pedalling or disagreements about semantics regarding how this young man and other young talented riders are defined- after all it is a comments section. Regardless, thanks for sharing the video and keep riding bikes.
  • 2 0
 +1 to all the above. Just can't wait for the next Jackson Goldstone promo edit to come out right around Sea Otter time. [said with sarcasm]
  • 20 3
 The geometry on the bike is completely reworked from the normal Vimana so it is not simply a shrunk down version. This particular proto has a head angle of about 65 degree which is clearly to slack and this occurred because a longer travel fork seemed more fitting for Brady over allot of the lower quality "kids" forks on the market. Also he ride so hard we were not sure we could trust those more basic forks. Now that we see they type of parts and setups a competitive young rider will use the geo will be adjusted substantially on the next proto and head angle will be around 69 degree with a similar style fork
  • 13 6
 That was difficult to read....
  • 9 0
 First DJ bike I've seen with a 50 degree head angle
  • 9 1
 Until I see a baby in a nappy riding a bike down whistler giving it full on... I won't be impressed.

Big Grin
  • 1 0
 Just think when the teacher says in class 'so kids what did you do this weekend?' He can play that footage, all the other kids can say 'went to McDonalds for my dinner', 'stared at my phone', 'stayed in bed', 'hung round with my hood up,trying to be hard!'
  • 2 1
 If it's a 24" (which I suspect), then regular forks will raise the front too much. It's common for 24" riders to lower their forks, but maybe Morpheus don't feel they can give a bike like that that can't be sold for people to see. Let's see quality forks made for 24" wheels - even if they're for kids. I'm a fat 200lbs 24" rider so it'll need to have some adjustment to it.
  • 3 1
 Not to be a debbie downer, but it looks like he was significantly better a year ago on a 20". I don't really know why he'd make the switch...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=96cwNObNKrs
  • 3 0
 I blame the shitty music he started using in his edits as the culprit. Can shred so much harder listening to Bowie than whatever this crap we were subjected to is.
  • 4 0
 What's that head angle???
  • 7 4
 yea like omg
  • 3 7
flag wuzupjosh (Dec 28, 2014 at 0:48) (Below Threshold)
 maybe its a learning tactic, hell have too lean back more for bars and what not .then when hes older itll be a cake walk
  • 3 5
 It's Morpheus.
  • 4 7
 >then when hes older itll be a cake walk
...may be not, because he will have a more weight, and the bike will need to be bigger(more weight), then yet more older - slower and so on.
God only knows what will happen.
But he's great now.
  • 3 7
flag bikecustomizer (Dec 28, 2014 at 3:06) (Below Threshold)
 The bike is just rearranged to accept fork and bigger diameter wheels.

The fork looks like 29", see wheere is the arch and where is the tire.
It obviously done so because of it's longer AC length to have the front end be higher yet lightweight and not toomuch travel, angle be slacker having more toe-tire distance.
  • 2 2
 Think about it, with a wheelbase that short any fork with substantial travel is going to change the head angle immensely when compressed. I would guess that the HA is so slack uncompressed to account for this. Or they just threw a big boy fork on and this kid can ride anything....
  • 6 2
 @bikecustomizer it could also be a 26" fork, with a 24" inch tire in it, which is probably exactly what they did. The 65 head angle is crazy on this little thing
  • 1 0
 @jeffhall124
Of course, dude!
But the idea is the same, just another implementation.
I mean the idea.
Has written one example of implementation.

There is nothing crazy in it absolutely, as the kid doing pretty superb on that setup.
Crazy it would be if to make some modification which is obviously dangerous and then to crash till die due to that mod.
But this set up is not even potentialy dangerous to the kid.
  • 1 0
 @bikecustomizer i think his bike is about the weight that its gonna be for a while anyway -22-30 lb area . but he will get bigger and heavier , so yea more weight but he will probly double his weight and his bike will probly get lighter . aswell as hell hav a head angle that is more normal
  • 1 0
 His bike is almost 21 pounds exactly!
  • 1 0
 ^^^ what im sayin^^^^^^ thats super g .
  • 3 0
 I definitely would not call him a phenom buts hes pretty good for 11
  • 2 0
 Why not 24? You can still found some 24 fork with short CTA length on market for him to keep the geo normal...
  • 1 0
 its not 24?
  • 1 0
 @wuzupjosh I mean...that fork...sorry for my poor English, which seems to lead you to misunderstanding.
  • 1 0
 ahh, i wouldnt gfo 24 inch fork , you cant get good options really,
  • 1 0
 I want a free bike... I'll huck myself off of anything* if you give me a free bike too



*within reason. I won't throw myself off the grand canyon...
  • 1 0
 This kid just showed me up. Holy crap he was probably better than me when he was 2. But man he is so good!!!
  • 1 0
 Shred on Kid... We'll be lookin for ya in the vids soon.!!!!!! Wish I was that good. I'm 41
  • 2 1
 I wanna be as good as that when I grow up.
  • 2 1
 Why would you post a video and password protect it?
  • 2 1
 There I am debating whether to do a 3ft gap :/
  • 2 0
 Nice hair punk
  • 1 0
 Next generation of DJ'rs! keep it up little guy!
  • 1 0
 Someone on a neg prop rampage... Good riding Brady.
  • 1 0
 Follow him on Instagram @bradybaker22
  • 1 1
 this kid is awsome keep up the good work
  • 1 0
 Next Brandon Semenuk
  • 1 1
 is it just me or does he more float than jump?
  • 2 1
 jesus i suck
  • 1 0
 i want that bike so bad
  • 1 2
 All groms come from the incline club
  • 1 2
 Nice riding. Kids these days.

Anyone know the song remix name?
  • 1 0
 Echosmith - cool kids RAC remix I think.
  • 2 3
 This kid is going places.
  • 1 3
 was i the only one to notice that this kid had like .0001 seconds to land his tricks? Amazing video though
  • 1 2
 Password Brady got it thank you, he is amazing
  • 1 2
 i am a 20 yrs old and i find this offensive
  • 1 2
 Morpheus claims they can make bikes but can't even get a fork lowered.....
  • 3 0
 It's a fox 831 lowered to 80mm that is as low as it goes
  • 2 4
 Screw Semenuk........... Brady Baker is awesome
  • 1 3
 Wow
  • 1 4
 exactly cool kids! it's awesome, future grows Rheeder Smile
  • 2 4
 PASSWORD PROTECTED WTF
  • 1 4
 Nope doesn't work, come on guys fix this.
  • 1 4
 I can not ride. Fact.
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