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Name: Danny Parks
Age: 39
Hometown: Bronx, NY
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Baby bean, Woodward Camp
 
The favorite list:
 
-Spot to ride: So many great memories...but the Orlando Vans Park has the best vert ramp I've ever ridden.
-BMX video: Head First or Ride On
-Website: TheOnion.com
-Web video: Can't remember his name...some random kid from Florida a couple years ago doing rad street stuff on pallets and whatever else he could piece together to ride.
-Food: Guacamole
-Travel destination: New York City in the springtime.
-Riders to ride with: So many riders over the years but riding with

-Frame: Mongoose Shield
-Forks: Shadow creeper lite v3
-Headset: wtp
-Stem: Shadow strike front load
-Bars: Subrosa pandora
-Grips: ODI longnecks these grips last forever
-Bar ends: not sure
-Brake lever: n/a

What does it take to make a new ad? Creative minds, ad agencies, loads of money, or just an old ad, a pro rider and some old gear? If you don't get this new Nasty ad, you propably were not around in the early eighties. You see, this Vans ad existed roughly 25 years ago but it wasn't a picture of Nasty laying low holding a pair of Vans shoes. It was someone else. But who? Now enter your photographic memory that's stored somewhere up there in your head. Hopefully you didn't have too many slams to forget about who it was. Wanna know?

Name: Ryan Taylor
Age: 16
Hometown: Walsall Just Outside of Birmingham, England
Hook-ups/Sponsors: AmitybikeCo, Nike6.0

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Mirra's warehouse, the Unit, Rampworks, Creation
-BMX video: endsearch

How many bicycle trade shows can one go to? Well, every country has one or more so if you really wanted to you would be one busy man. The UK has always been a strong BMX market and this year at the Cycle Show BMX was well represented. With distribution firms like IMG, Seventies, Moore Large, Split Second, Scoop and Shiners showing their 2010 products it was hard to miss the shiny new bikes. Here is a selection of what we saw at the show. Damn, it looks like there was a whole lot of BMX going on...