Blog by: Paulo’s Portugese

SHORT TALK INTRO

I’ve the idea of sending a few short questions to the maximum number of riders, from the older ones to the youngest ones (old school, new school, doesn’t matter). Simple and easy to answer questions, nothing too dense, where they can show their tastes, fears, favourites spots, influences, other interests besides BMX, etc.
I think that this is a good way of showing to foreign riders the diversity of another BMX scene, in another country with another culture. For me, is a good an entertaining exercise reading all the different answers to the same questions and seeing that for example the age of the rider (that normally doesn’t matter for nothing when you are riding your bike at the park, trails or street) is for sure an important factor on the way you look to life in general and BMX in particular. Enjoy the SHORT TALK! Interviews.
I will post two interviews, each time, with pics in my next posts.

First:

NAME: DAVID INÊS
AGE: 33
HOMETOWN: LEIRIA, PORTUGAL
SPONSORS/HELP: SUGARBIKES, GUERRILHABMX ONLINE SHOP, ROOTS-BMX SHOP
YEARS RIDING: 19

1. INSPIRATIONS: My recent family, my dog, friends (blogger note: congrats David for the new baby child).
2. FAVOURITE SPOT TO RIDE?: Home town Leiria
3. BIKE RIDING HEROES?: Dave Voelker, Ron Wilkerson, Eddie Roman, Hoffman and many other’s old school riders
4. FAVOURITE VIDEO PART?: RIDE ON, HEAD FIRST, all parts
5. WHAT’S THE BEST THING ABOUT BMX? Being able to ride with people half my age and still have fun
6. WHAT’S THE WORST THING ABOUT BMX?: Injuries
7. YOUR BIGGEST FEAR IS: To work my all life
7. MUST HAVE GADGETS: Phone, internet
8. OTHER THINGS TO DO BESIDES BMX?: Drawing and modeling bike parts
9. THE LAST BOOK YOU READ WAS?: I think it was “uma aventura” 24 years ago
10. THANKS?: To my girl, to her presence in my life, my mother that lent me the money to start Sugarbikes and all of my friends and riders that support me.

Second:

NAME: BRUNO SANTOS
AGE: 19
HOMETOWN: Lisbon /Queijas
SPONSORS/HELP: My Parents wallet
YEARS RIDING: + 5

1. INSPIRATIONS: My friends, music, videos, photos
2. FAVOURITE SPOT TO RIDE?: Skatepark Monsanto, Skatepark Albufeira, Queijas, too many other places…
3. BIKE RIDING HEROES?: Mike Aitken, Natham Williams, Dan Lacey, Animal Team, Dakota Roche, Corey Martinez, Seth Kimbrough, Van Homan.
4. FAVOURITE VIDEO PART?: Nike 6.0 Garret Reynolds and Dennis Enarson, Levis, Animal…
5. WHAT’S THE BEST THING ABOUT BMX? The union, good times with friends.
6. WHAT’S THE WORST THING ABOUT BMX?: Getting hurt.
7. YOUR BIGGEST FEAR IS: Mr. Dead.
7. MUST HAVE GADGETS: Ipod, photo camera
8. OTHER THINGS TO DO BESIDES BMX?: be with your friends
9. THE LAST BOOK YOU READ WAS?: Signal/CODE-Book, for the driving licence.
10. THANKS?: My family, My friends.