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Name: Carpentier Clement
Age: 25
Hometown: Fecamp, France
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Flybikes, etnies, unleaded distribution, foundation bmx

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Le Havre or Paris in general, so many spots
-BMX video: I guess Above Below because it's such a cool and unusual project
-Website: soulbmxmag
-Web video: fiending
-Food: burrito, tapas
-Twitter to follow: none
-Person on Instagram: Courage Adams or me @clementcarpentier haha
-Travel destination: Australia
-Riders to ride with: all my friends back home: fla, fab, ect..

Name: Charles Tschumy
Age: 20
Hometown: Toulon, France
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Foundation, Stranger, Unleaded Bmx shop

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Barcelona
-BMX video: Deadline

Name: Delas Thibaud
Age: 20
Hometown: Jouy sur Morin and now in my car
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Diviniti, The Set, and I get help of Alltriks bike shop

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Paris and Barcelona!
-Car: Volkwagen t3
-BMX video: soon new video for the set
-Web video: nikebatalla
-BMX Magazine: soulbmx magazine
-Food: kebab!
-Person on Instagram: THIBAUDPFC and #performancedvd
-Travel destination: Barcelona!
-Riders to ride with: Maxime Dequen, Marwan, Fabien dos Santos

Name: Chris Goldring
Age: Born '94
Hometown: Brisbane, Australia

The FAT Favourites list:

-Spot to ride: Fairfield bowl, Brisbane
-BMX video: Anthem II
-Website: Does Instagram count haha
-Food: Sushi or a pub meal with a good crew!

Name: Jackie Liu
Age: 21
Hometown: Paraparaumu, New Zealand
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Bmx.co.nz

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Waikanae skatepark and Welly street spots
-BMX video: Deadline and Anthem II
-Drink: Water, Coffee and Beer
-Web video: Garrett Reynolds Fiending
-Food: Turkish Kebabs and Sushi
-Twitter to follow: Don’t use twitter haha
-Person on Instagram: @rodeopeanut it’s a good laugh haha
-Travel destination: Melbourne Australia
-Riders to ride with: Kane o’Hagan, Philip Leyten, Casey Longstaff, Joe Simpson, Luke Hendriks, James Taylor and the rest of the Welly crew.
-Car: Subraru Impreza

Name: Joe Simpson
Age: 22
Hometown: Taupo, New Zealand:
Hook-ups/Sponsors: S&M Bikes, FlyBikes, Triplesix NZ, Top Gear Cycles

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: PMP Trails, Catty Woods, Posh Trails.
-BMX video: Building The Underground or System
-Website: dreadingthewoods.tumblr.com, Dig BMX, The Oatmeal
-Web video: Rich Forne's DIG video, anything by Chad Osburn, and that new Kriss Kyle one was awesome too.

Name: Josh Robson
Age: 21
Hometown: Brisbane, Australia
Hook-ups/Sponsors: None

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: probably Redcliffe skate park at the moment
-Website: shock mansion

When injured from the crash at the Dew Tour Simon Tabron received get well wishes from Terry Jenkins and Dave Young, two of the UK's vertical aces in the '80-s, people that Simon looked up to when he started out riding. Simon took the opportunity to send both of them some questions to see what they've been up to and how they see vert riding how it is today. Here's what Dave Young has to say and enjoy the pics. Name: Dave Young

Name: Haha!! Mike Canning.
Hometown: East Grinstead, UK.
Occupation: Aquarium manufacturer.

What is you earliest memory of BMX bikes on ramps?
Canning: Mmm ,okay ....Bob Haro came and did a show at the NEC in Birmingham. I'd only just started riding. It was televised on channel 4, as it was in its infancy, we could only get a fuzzy picture, but I was mesmerised. Not long later I met Carl Alford, he was a bmxer with a track and a 6ft q/p in his garden. He invited me round and told me to do a 180 on the ramp. "Don't turn too much ,or you'll crash" he said .So that's what I did....crashed! I went home and started building my first q/p.

Did you have mates to ride with from the start?
Canning: For sure, I was a Grifter boy, always jumping that heavy bike, I wanted to be Evel Knievel. Some guys from school had a bmx mag, BMXplus! I think. Well they had set up a track on their housing

Name: Jason Ellis
DOB: 27/07/71
Hometown: Retford, Nottinghamshire, England
Occupation: Song writer/Producer

Riders like Harry Main today left school to become a pro BMX rider. When did you end school to go ride bikes professionally?
Jason Ellis: 1989, straight out of school I had a couple of crap jobs to make some money before I went riding shows.

Back then you guys were the first ones to do something like this. Do you have any advice to the riders who want to quit school and ride fulltime?
Jason Ellis: Ride as safe as you can whilst still getting the job done. The first shows I rode were with Mike Canning, he's an awesome rider who got to the top of his game riding very little