Family 

I finally got a painting from a member of the Quesada family. Well it’s just a print but that’s good enough for me.

Read more after the jump.

Not many people know it but David Quesada, (owner of Fly Bikes) comes from a pretty well known family of Artists. In fact David is the only member of his family who didn’t become an artist. He chose BMX instead, which I think is pretty artistic anyway. 

I first met David at a contest in 94. He was the Hoffman Bikes Spanish distributor, and I was riding for Hoffman Bikes at the time. I told him I wanted to come to Europe for a trip the next spring. So he said he’d try to set up some demos for me and get me to spain. Pretty cool of him because it helped pay for my trip.

In the spring of 95 I went on a three week trip to Germany, France, Holland, and Spain. It was one of the best trips of my life. We rode a bunch of spots in Germany, hit up the Marseille park in France when it was still pretty new, and then hit up Spain. I didn’t know what Spain would be like but it seemed cool.

David’s family went out to stay in their summer home and let us have their whole apartment in downtown Vigo to chill in for a few days. The apartment was amazing. Pretty much all the walls were covered in super crazy looking art. It felt like we were rolling crazy European style. I guess we were. 

Anyway, I went back to Spain a few more times over the years for demos and kept telling David that he didn’t need to get me paid just hook me up with a family painting. He never went for it. I guess the paintings were too valuable. At the last trade show in Vegas he had a bunch of family prints in the Fly booth. I asked him again what it would take to get one. He told me that I could have one after the show ended. I was stoked. Then I had to leave town early and missed the opportunity to get one. I thought I missed out again until Greenhouse Distribution, (Fly’s USA distributor) sent this painting to me a few months later. Sroked. 

Thanks a lot for the painting David. I’m going to put it up at my house later this week. 

This photo was shot at a cement halfpipe on the beach in Vigo in 95.