Yeah that’s understandable. When you’re
home here you spend a lot of time in the
workshop. Tell us a bit about your side
hobby.
I spend a lot of my day in the workshop
making s**t, mainly for my bike, and it’s
inspired by all the time I’ve spent on my
bike. The past four years I’ve thought
in my head that my bike should ride
differently and I wanted to do stuff that my
bike couldn’t. It’s only now that with the
modifications I’ve made that my bike has
caught up with and surpassed the ideas in
my head, and my ability isn’t at my bike’s
level.
So what have you changed?
I can’t tell you, sorry, but there’s not
much that’s left standard on it now. Every
modification is freestyle focused and you
wouldn’t be able to ride this bike anywhere
else. It’s really exciting when I see how far
I’ve been able to take this bike.
I reckon it’s at a crossroads right now, eh.
It’s either going to bounce back from where
it is or it’s going to go downhill. I don’t know
what’s going to fix it, but I think the biggest
part is in the riders themselves – no one’s
really putting back into the sport or helping
anyone. Maybe they are in small ways, but
we’re not doing our part to keep it alive
and as a result there’re very few young kids
coming through.
So what does the future hold for you?
I’ve got no plans but plenty of ideas. I just
want to ride and see where I can go. I’m
kinda over competitions in the sense of
trying to win them; now I want to see what
I can do and what’s achievable, as I don’t
think I’m even close to that yet. It’s only in
the last year that I’ve realised that I’ve been
so caught up in trying to win stuff and not
riding to better myself. It’s hard to explain
as the tricks I want to land will probably
help me win comps, but that’s not the
reason I want to do it. The reasons have
changed but the end goal is still there. t
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People need to take a step back and look at
whether they’re helping the sport or killing it
by undercutting the next guy and taking the
short way to the top. The money’s nowhere
near as good in the sport as it used to be
and I think we’ve only got ourselves to
blame for a lot of that.
So, if you’re building a bike for the future
of FMX, what do you think the future
holds for the sport?