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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 

Name: Billy Stupple
Hometown: London, England
Occupation: Building Contractor and joint owner of Radbmx website and shop.

When was the first time you picked up a BMX bike?
Billy Stupple: The first bmx that I ever saw was in a local bike shop

Name: Jess Dyrenforth
Hometown: Santa Ana, Ca 92701
Occupation: Licensed Massage Therapist, HHP. Photographer and Owner and production manager of GOST Brand.

When was it that you picked up a BMX bike?
Jess: I rode my first BMX bike at 11 years old during a trip to San Francisco with my mom. Later that year I got a Raleigh Ultra

-Name? Terry Jenkins (I do remember this one, and now that I am pretending to be all grown up I go by Terence) -Age? This past July I made it to 38, and still counting (freekin hell I’m old, ha!) - Year and age turned pro? I turned Pro sometime in early 1984, yeah twenty-two years ago! But let’s use the word Pro? loosely here; I was just sixteen years old out of school and on the dole of course. The only pro freestyle riders back then I believe were Andy Preston and Mike Pardon. FBMX Magazine contacted me as they wanted to have a Professional Freestyle division so I said yes, wasn’t quite sure what I was saying yes to but it sounded great. The UK pro division now consisted of something like four riders, but hey it was a great start!