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Name: Trevor Henry
Hometown: West London UK

What's your earliest memory of BMX?
Trevor Henry: Watching Craig Strong doing no handed wheelie’s on TV and then seeing my friends trying to the same on Grifters and Choppers, but complaining about how heavy they were. Then E.T. came out and everybody ditched their Choppers for Burners, PK Rippers, Ammaco’s and DP Firebirds. It’s like a wave hit the London overnight… one day it was Rubik’s cubes and monkey boots then the next day it was BMX’s Breakdancing and Electro Hop music.

Who were some of the BMX riders that you admired back in the day?

Race results Thailand BMX Cup 1 Bangkok, Thailand. 04 February 2024
Elite Men:
1 Komet SUKPRASERT 24 THA     100.00 UCI Ranking points
2 Rio AKBAR 29 INA                         86.00
3 Firman ALIM 29 INA                      74.00
4 Nontakon INKHOKSONG 28 THA 64.00
5 Yussi Wakhidur RIZAL 25 INA      55.00
6 I Gusti Bagus SAPUTRA 31 INA   47.00

One of the reasons we do these Cali trips in early January is that we can fit in two Monster Energy Supercross races, the first one being held in San Diego. On Friday we drove down South on the 5. For those in the know, when the sign Leucadia comes up it's time to look for the place where the Enchanted ramp used to be. It's gone now, but Philip spotted a miniramp not far from the legendary place with the vert ramp. Even though the 2-HIP vert sessions are gone, the miniramp is a reminder in town for ramp action.

We arrived early for our appointment at 100% so we decided to pick up our media passes first and have a stroll through the pits already. We then used the trusty Apple CarPlay to direct us to the front door of

Name: Jonathan Sherwood
Hometown: Durban (South Africa), now living Durham (UK).
Started riding BMX in: Had a BMX from a very young age but only properly discovered BMX in 1992.
Number of BMX bikes in your collection: 35 completes, 14 frames, and a whole lot of random parts and race gear.

Being from South Africa originally, what were popular BMX brands when you started?
Jonathan Sherwood: BMX was huge in SA in the 80's, so all of the major brands from that era were popular (GT, Mongoose, Kuwahara, Hutch, Patterson, etc). In the 90's however there were absolutely no BMX bikes for sale in SA, so you could only get bikes from mail order stores like Dans Comp, ACE, and

Woodward, the global leader in action sports experiences, is excited to announce its 2024 Signature Athlete partners for its Camps division, along with the weeks that each athlete will attend the organization’s residential Summer Camps in Pennsylvania and California.
“Youth around the country eagerly await this news each year, with hopes of having the opportunity to advance their skills alongside some of the most famous names in action sports. We are so excited to get this news out early this year, enabling families to plan ahead and help make their campers’ dreams come true this Summer, capitalizing on the January discount of $200 off camp as well,” said Phoebe Mills, the Vice President of Camps and Programming for Woodward.

Name: Adrian Varela 
Age: 22
Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Hook-ups/Sponsors: PUSHER, Grindwheel, Animal, Sunday

The FAT favorites list:

-Spot to ride: Valdez Handrail In Denver 
-BMX video: Stevie Churchill OSS vid

The Solarena hotel in Newport Beach was going to be our home base for the next 12 days. With a fridge, wifi, coffee machine, bed and shower, it had all we needed. After the long travel and LA shopping spree the light went out early the first day. As usual getting up the next day is easy as the time difference of 9 hours makes you wake up in the middle of the night a few times before you had enough of it and simply get out of bed. California doesn't always provide sunny days of 25 degrees but getting outside without a winter jacket in January still felt good. We had spotted a coffee shop around the corner of the hotel and decided to get breakfast there. It was right next door of the Deus shop. The capucino at Vacancy Coffee was amazing. Without giving my email address I received the receipt in my inbox a few seconds after paying with the Mastercard. That was a first for me. Mastercard apparently doesn't take privacy too seriously when they provide my email to coffee shops like that. Oh well.

10:30hr. That's the time we had set to meet Niek Kimmann over at Troy Lee Designs in Corona. Niek's mom had dropped off a camera for Niek at our place in The Netherlands and brought the camera for him as his old one had some focusing issues. We made good timing as the roads were rather empty (surprisingly) and stopped by Pro Circuit first to walk their shop with all the championship bikes on display. TLD was new to us at their current location.