WHAT MOTIVATES YOU TO RIDE ? part 02. yeah !
"With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars,
men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know." ? fear & loathing in las vegas
i like to think that if you replaced "in red woolen shirts" with "on small bikes" it's some kinda of answer. -
chris hill-scott from cheltenham in the uk
The motivation behind my riding is being together with good friends and the feeling that I am doing something that I realy love. like it to go out and ride different spots
and learning new tricks or work on them. At the moment I am walking on stick for the second time and yes it happend on the bike but I am still stoked to ride again. I
think BMX is big part of life that will always be in my heart. - Jonas Reichert Berlin, Germany
The flow,friends,fun and learn new things.... Allan Pedersen, Dk - Copenhagen with no doubt passion.....and always cross your limits..
Paolo Fratagnol - italy the idea of one day being able to lay an invert out so hard that i chip one
of my shoulder blades with my forks.
jay roe, earth
I am motivated to ride for the sheer fun of balancing on two wheels, and often, the sheer fun of balancing on one. I am motivated to ride for the personal pushing of
limits it involves, the setting of goals, the smashing of goals. I am motivated to ride for the camaraderie it offers with other riders out for the same. I am motivated to
ride for the rebellion it provides, for the figurative middle finger it is to everyone else.
I am motivated to ride for every reason every kid who gets up, and gets back on that bike for the first time is.
-royc. (photo attached, circa 1981)
what motivates me to ride is rather plain and simple:
some days ill be sitting around with nothing to do, and out of nowhere, hey! i wanna go ride.
i wanna go do a line i havent done before, or go do a gap, or a rail i put my foot down on, or learn to ride fackie better, or go brakeless, or pegless. maybe i wanna
ride swith-footed or opposite, maybe i wanna put front brakes on, or a gyro. Maybe i'm tired of how my bike looks so i'll paint it, or put new stickers on it, or maybe i
wanna try another set up, so i'll drop my seat, or slam my wheel, or cut my bars or move em forward, or get shorter crank arms, or a smaller toptube.
What if my chain breaks? Well at least I won't have to back pedal. Speaking of that, having a freecoaster would be alot of fun.
Well what about where to go? I could go to the skatepark, but i go there every thursday and i wanna ride something diffrent. So i'll go ride some street, maybe i
wanna go downtown, maybe the suburbs, maybe the highway, maybe midtown, maybe the bmx track, maybe the warehouse district, maybe a completely diffrent
city. Where do i wanna go? near? far? one town over? one city? state? country?! What about work? I may have to save money, then take some time off. The trip
could be a week from now, a month, a year. That's alot of waiting. What if I get hurt, bored, wasted, burnt out, what am i gonna do in the mean time?
Well, i could just take the money i'm saving to go on a trip, and use it to buy a ramp. That'd be something new to ride, and it'd be in an area where my friends and i could ride it whenever we want.
Or maybe.... We could build trails.
One line, two lines, 3, 4, 7, 50.
six-pack? twelve-pack? 30? 100?
Hips? Spines? Berms? Rollers? Long? Short? Steep? Mellow? Slow? Fast? Trick jump? Flow jump? Turndown? Tabletop? Spin? Flip? Grab? Tuck?
what i'm getting at is...
possibilities.
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riding is not something that anybody can control, or any ties can bind.
It is an expression of art and creativity that can't be applied to any canvas.
If you ride, whether you know it or not, you have a diffrent take on things than most.
Everybody sees their surroundings all the time, but not many people are looking for anything. People aren't carefully noticing, angles, inclines, handrails, brick walls,
curves, hills, etc... . I find it funny that if you asked most people whether they thought that handrail on that building over there was steel or aluminum, theyd probably
say something to the effect of, 'how the hell should i know?', but because you ride bikes you can tell the diffrence from yards away. Not really common knowledge
for most people i know, but still i think it says something about the way we see our enviroment. I think if you can change the way one looks at a curb on the
driveway, you can change the way they see the entire world. opening more, and more, possibilities.
just thinking about the things i could do, the places i could go, the people i could meet, the world i could explore, the growing i could do, the more connected i could
be to any and everything, all because of this bike, i get a little chill down my spine.
i couldn't even imagine my life without it.
and that more than anything makes me wanna get up and go ride.
now for instance would be good.
thanks for giving me a chance to share that,
Josh Beckemeyer
Memphis, TN
What motivates me to ride? I could call moreover so many things, as for example to prove myself a little bit independently to impress some girls to show own abilities
or a lot more things you can do with your bike. However, what are motivated me, mostly motivated me all my friends. Without them riding BMX is like nothing. You
cannot push each other or learn from each other. One creates things which one cannot make it alone...
... that's it. I think friends and to have fun with them is the most important reason, why I am riding BMX.
Jeremias Krakoiwak aka Jerry, neuss, germany
its just such an itegral part of my life that i cant live without it. dini kennedy , west london england
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