I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.
I'm truly doing it my own way. I'm not following what the traditional # BMX route is.
From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.
BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.
My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.
The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.
As a kid, so many films made me want to travel. . . the New York of 'Ghostbusters', the Shanghai that 'Indiana Jones' swung a few punches in. However, if I had to name one film that inspires travel, it would have to be 'E. T. ' - especially if I could do it by flying BMX as he did. . . !
At an early age I told myself I would never quit skating, I would never quit riding BMX and being a motorcycle junkie. I just can't stop doing those things.
