BMX

Was a former contestant or what?

No, he was a former BMX star.

BMX star.

Because Dave Mirra used to be the host.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

yeah as in more like when I say like motocross it was ripping yeah just grew up on them

we tend to have very good luck with people that race bikes BMX they're like anything like sleds I race BMX for like 12 years oh yeah so did a lot of our guys it's weird like a lot of our friggin employees race motocross so just some sort of weird crossover you

did BMX?

yeah I race BMX my

girlfriend race BMX

really?

yeah she also fights so savage just crazy how old is she? 28 she just started a cleaning company too yeah pretty sick

So I've been using 175.

I've... kind of swapped back and forth on whether I want to try, go back to one eighties on BMX.

So the fact that BMX racing is my major competitive cycling is why I switched to one 75s on my road bike.

So yeah, there's a bit of, there's a bit of that there.

Although I've got to say, I don't find I'm very sensitive to crank length.

And maybe I will put them on was mainly a spare part.

Whenever my, the other pairs, uh, on my road bike, uh, no, you know what? I've, uh,

I've ridden 510 Freerider Pros, and they are in everything except the BMX start and that little bit of foot retention on doing some of the big pulls, I guess, in BMX.

But she, I wasn't there, but my wife sent photos of her riding this thing.

And I knew she's a BMX girl.

She rides BMXs with me all the time.

And I knew she was going to love the dirt bike and she did.

And she's like, oh mommy, I want one of these.

And I remember the smells.

I remember the, the, in the evening, like it was so hot, the breeze from the ocean.

So it's just like, it's so vivid to me, but then there's so much about my childhood that I don't remember, but I remember riding BMXs.

Well, actually, just like in the country, BMXing is like the thing.

And there's a BMX tournament kind of like coming through town, and they have these professionals that are going to ride this track they call Hell Track.

But they have a couple spots open up, and the paper boy, one of the paper boys, who is just a champion BMXer, In disguise.

Like qualifies and does all this

stuff.

a part...

Where there is a dance in the town, because this is a small town and the economy is now booming because of this, all these folks.

Because of BMX tournament.

So excuse me if the timeline is kind of, you know, a merger or a little off.

But skateboarding, moto and BMX were kind of all around the same time.

But we had a skate park called Premier that was owned by my friend Jimmy.

And it was around for a long time.

So I always just had hate in anything I did.

And I think that kind of honestly shaped me and put a chip on my shoulder.

Because I remember when I grew up racing BMX, i'd hear that and i'd go out there and whoop everybody's ass and then moto i i won my first like 12 races like you know and it needs like anytime i had to compete i was like all right cool like you want to talk i'm going to show you and i remember like just like coming up with snowboarding and i'd rather my little brother and he'd be just kind of sitting like on a knuckle and i would do a trick and people like oh you see that like sit talking some so i think it kind of just developed like And then you know how it is.

Eddie, you go from being a nobody, and then all of a sudden you're in magazines, and you're in a movie, and you're getting publicity, and then the hate just expands exponentially so much.