BMXer Billy Perry weaves and willies his way through America's big cities

Of the various ways to tour a city none is more intimate than walking, but cycling comes in a close second. And of the various types of bikes, none are as capable of exploring the cityscape’s contours like a BMX — just ask Billy Perry.

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Perry is a twenty-something professional BMX rider from New York City who documents his cycling adventures from a first-person perspective with a helmet-mounted GoPro or Sioeye Iris4G camera.

While Perry’s most-viewed video to date is one of him and his friends bombing an off-season water park on their BMX bikes, it is his wheeled explorations of America’s great cities that are the bread and butter of his eponymous YouTube channel.

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Perry’s hometown video series featuring himself and friends riding New York City’s famed streets has garnered tens of millions of YouTube views over the past year.

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When he’s not threading his way through congested traffic, Perry uses traffic barriers, rails, stairs and sloped walls as props for his BMX tricks.

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Countless films have used the concrete bed of the Los Angeles river as a action backdrop — including Grease, Repo Man, Point Blank and Terminator 2 and 3 — so it’s only natural Perry began his SoCal BMX adventure there.

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After exploring downtown Los Angeles’ streets, Perry headed to Potato Chip Rock for a surreal snap at the peak of Mount Woodson.

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Perry’s foray through Miami included a couple of stops for liquid refreshment to battle the relentless heat. The highlight of the trip was when he hopped his bike on and off of a flatbed truck that was waiting at an intersection.

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Naturally, no trip to Miami is complete without a visit to the beach.

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The Boston BMX Jam culminated with Perry and a phalanx of fellow riders watching on as one particularly ballsy daredevil attempted an insane roof drop in.

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On BMX Day in the City of Brotherly Love, Perry and a pal showed their cycling bros some love by tossing out free merch and almost starting a riot in the process.