A local at Costa Mesa's famous Sheep Hills BMX jumps, Marvin Loetterle is a long time S&M Bikes rider, seen above in the their video Please Kill Me (2004).
Marvin Lotterle has 30 years experience as a fabricator. Starting young working in the trade, Marvin was also a hardcore BMX rider, and one of the Sheep Hills Locals crew coming up in the 1990's. Then the most famous BMX jumping trails in the world, many of the first X-Games dirt jumping riders rode at Sheep Hills, in Costa Mesa, California. S&M Bikes, created by dirt jumping legend Chris Moeller, was born in Huntington Beach, and now resides in Santa Ana, California. Marvin was a part of the S&M Bikes team form 1997 to 2006, and appeared in their videos, like the clip above.
Marvin has focused his mechanical skills largely on building pro level off road racing trucks since 2002, and is now turning his skills to do work in the yachting world as well.
To contact Marvin to install dinghy davits, call him at (949) 500-0951.
21 years old and still ready for action, here's one of Marvin's first truck builds.
My name is Steve Emig, aka Steve the Blogger in this blog. I was a BMX freestyler in the 1980's. A zine I published led me to a job at BMX Action and FREESTYLIN' magazines in 1986, followed by several years in the BMX, skateboard, and the TV production industries. I followed that with a series of odd jobs, and began blogging seriously in 2008 when my taxi driving went downhill. I've written over 2,500 blog posts, across many blogs, which have drawn over 370,000 total page views. I met Marvin as a BMX rider in the 1990's, and I'm the guy publishing this blog for him. "The White Bear" is a nickname that came from a poem I wrote after getting dumped by a girlfriend. That's the name I'm known as to 90's BMX riders.
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