to the US and got a sponsor Deal from Mc Donald`s Europe, Vans, Ecko, MCS, AMÉ, Adidas, with my Sponsors I was able to spend two years in San Francisco and LA and could race everyday and competed every weekend. Sheephills got me kinda out of Racing, I was not really training for my races, I was just building Jumps and started to Dirtjump, was more fun. Back home in Europe the BMX Scene was not as big as it use to be, no good riders or races anymore. 
So in 1993 I started to ride Mountainbike Downhill and became after my first World Championships Race a Pro Rider Deal and from that day, I spent 20 years on my big BMX as a Pro Rider. During the 20years of riding MTB, I spent so much time with my BMX Homeboys from Hamburg City and did a few Roadtrips with Benny Korthaus, Alex Bender, Markus Hampel and the great guys from Pennier. I never left BMX, this passion got me to the point where I´m today! 
Have you always liked working on bicycles? NPJ: I always loved working on Bikes. I always worked on my Bikes, I took all my Dads Bikes apart, took off the fenders, lights, and everything else that I thought was useless. I always repainted my Bikes, at least once a month, I was working on my Bikes and my Parents Bikes all the time. I loved it my parents hated me for doing it. Even today I take my Bikes and Motorcycles apart all the time, because I get new ideas all the time and today I still don`t like useless parts on my Motorcycle or Bikes, I love rides which are stripped down to the minimum.
When was the time that you started working on motorbikes? NPJ: I got my first little Motorcycle when I was 7years old, it was a Honda Monkey. I took all bullshit off and made to a real cool looking little fast and loud Monkey. I rode that thing to school from second till fourth grade, but one day my teacher found out and told my parents. Yeah, I started to work on Motorcycles from that day on. Later when I was round about 19years old, I started to get more into classic Motorcycles and started restore old Triumphs.
What does your workshop look like? Does it have everything you need? NPJ: It is small and right now it is a chaos! I got everything in there to work on my Bikes, but at the moment I`m looking for a bigger place and make it more professional and want to put in the workshop a Showroom for my Bikes and a little shop for my Merchandise and Products I´m bringing out. The whole place will look like a Oldschool Garage with all the stuff I have collected over the years. I´m going to put in my whole life and will show what my passion is, Oldschool Motorcycles, Parts and Clothes from back in the days, the good old days.
What style of bikes are you into?
NPJ: In first place I´m really into older Bikes, let´s say Oldschool Bikes. I like café
Racer Bikes, I have a Thruxton Triumph, but my real passion are the Choppers and Boardtracker Bikes, 60´ and early 70`, that is what I love and what makes my heart beat. The Bikes from Indian Larry, Powerplant Choppers and Falcon Motorcycles really hit my taste, I really respect them for building such amazing Bikes. What's Cheezy rider all about?
NPJ: Well, I have been riding Motorcycles all my life, but since I was bu
sy with my BMX and MTB career and traveling all the time, I never really had the time to get my Motorcycle license. When I decided to stop riding Bikes for living, I was thinking what I could do for paying my bills and I had no idea! One night I was partying with my friend Evil Jared from the Bloodhound Gang and Alex Anderson from West Coast Customs and we talked about what we would like to do before we die, after a couple of hours there was a bunch of crazy stuff on the papers but one thing really was the top dream, we all wanted to ride a custom Chopper through a special country with endless roads and breathtaking nature to search for freedom and adventure! Just like Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson back in th
e days in legendary road movie "Easy Rider". The idea of “Cheezy Rider” was born. But the problem was, none of us had a Motorcycles license, so I decided to build badass Choppers with only 50ccm Motors. At the end of the day, the size of the Motor is not responsible for a great adventure, it`s the ride and the guys you are riding with. With Cheezy Rider we show the people that everybody can live is dream, you just got to think a little bit different. Believe me, the first two Cheezy Rider Roadtrips (2009 from Hamburg to Oslo and this year 1000km across Japan) was the best time of my life. 50ccm is not a crime! Hahahaha… 
You recently went to Japan for a tour, how did that work out? NPJ: That was soooo crazy! Really Japan is a crazy Country, really crazy Country! But to ride across Japan from Tottori Beach to Tokio was unbelievable, amazing nature, super friendly people and culture. We got in a lot of trouble and had many problems, but we got great help and met amazing people and the Custom scene in Japan is by far the best I have ever seen. Extremely clean and outstanding work they put down, super creative work, amazing!
Dirty hands every day, what does your lady think about that?
NPJ: Nothing really, but I think it is better to have dirty hands, than a burnout from working behind your PC all day and all night. I wish I could work more on Bikes, but at the moment I have to get the whole Cheezy Rider thing going. This year we get our own TV Show and got invited to a few live shows and next year in August we will come to the US for the third CR Tour, let`s see what happens.
What's the project (bike) you're working on at the moment? NPJ: We just finished 4 Bikes for the last Tour and at the moment I got tons of ideas but I`m not working on one yet, but it will start soon, I know it.
Where do you find parts that you need these days?
NPJ: We got some companies who help us out, we get some parts from W&W Motorcycles, get cool stuff from Biltwell and Thomas Habermann builds my frames. Most of the other stuff I got to classic Bike Events, or flea markets/garage sales and I look up on Ebay,
you get really cool unique parts on Ebay and sometime for just a few bugs. I get parts from all over the place and I like that, because each part has a different story and that makes every Bike so special. Where can people find out more info on your work?
NPJ: We got a Cheezy Rider Webpage and a link to CR Motorbikes, you find Videos and pictures on both pages. www.cheezyrider.com
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