Supercross built carbon BMX frames back in the 1980s and shelved the material because it couldn't survive the sport. The Envy BLK was the payoff of waiting: Toray T700S prepreg, Nano Alloy resins, and construction methods that finally made carbon live like steel.

The Story

Development with Toray built on R&D running since 2010 around Nano Alloy and Nano Elastomer resins and high-density, low-void construction. The BLK was hand-laid in steel compression molds — monocoque construction with high-modulus weaves — and passed the EN BMX standard at three times the required level.

The first ENVY BLK was released at Apple Valley BMX in 2014, with the factory team on hand at the track — and in one of those moments you can't script, DJI was at the track the very same day filming its commercial for the Phantom 2 Vision+. The Supercross team made the final cut: they appear in the finished DJI commercial from the 3:31 mark.

In 2017, Māris Štrombergs — two-time Olympic gold medalist — chose to ride the BLK over offers with bigger dollar signs. The BLK won the USA BMX Golden Crank Bike of the Year, the first carbon fiber BMX race frame ever to do it.

The BLK also holds a piece of magazine history: the final issue of BMX Plus! ever printed — Volume 38 No. 11, November 2015 — carried a test of the ENVY BLK, billed on the cover as "Carbon Fiber's Cutting Edge: The Supercross ENVY BLK." The test bike was a white and blue complete running a Speedline carbon fork and Speedline carbon cranks. The magazine that had covered Supercross since the Stiffy XLT in 1992 signed off testing a Supercross.

Specifications

Who Raced It

Māris Štrombergs, Anthony Dean, Randy Roberts.