Quarantine Parks. Private places to ride during Covid-19 times. Part 19: Andy Buckworth's yard (USA)
Name Park: Soprano spot
Operator: Myself Andy Buckworth
Location: California, USA
What are the Covid-19 restrictions where you live at the moment?
Andy Buckworth: Right now we are allowed to leave the house to exercise, visit the dr, or visit the grocery store. Restaurants are open, for take away only.
How does it feel having a ramp available whenever you feel like riding?
Andy Buckworth: Honestly it’s a blessing. I hate being off my bike and even though there aren’t any events coming up, I still ride my bike every day.
Has the yard seen much change since you bought the house?
Andy Buckworth: Not yet. However I plan to make some pretty substantial changes. Hopefully in the near future.
What kind of wood did you use for the ramp?
Name: Fede Villegas
Sponsors: Crupi BMX, Fly Racing, Tioga, Atlas Brace, UnderFeet, BikeArt, Enard, Arg. BMX Federation.
Mechanic: Myself
How long have you been riding for Crupi now?
Federico Villegas: It’s been 6 years already.
How do you like the feel and look of your bike?
Federico Villegas: Like it a lot, still some new parts to place that I have in US. New build coming up middle 2020 tho?.
What is the geometry and length of your frame?
YU YAMAMOTO pt.2 by NOUS_BMX
Sydney Howard races BMX bikes and is training to win a national race. She was born without her left hand and designs and builds her own custom prosthetics.
'BCN AMIGOS' ft. Stephan Atencio, Jaume Sintes, Mauro Valencia and more
Chris Patrick Tilk began shooting clips with Stephan Atencio (Wethepeople), Max Cvetkovic, Andreś Caviedes, Ian Zapata, Jaume Sintes, and Mauro Valencia for 4 days and then lockdown reared its ugly head.
Went to North Carolina for 3 months for work with Rausch installing coke machines in fast food restaurants at night. We got to ride almost everyday. We also got to dig and ride gully trails with Binny Orrell. Thank you Mike for bringing me along and Binny for letting crash
Ben Gordon - 6 WEEKS FROM STUTTGART TO BARCELONA by unitedbikeco
"UK winters are generally horrendous for riding, even when it’s dry you’ve got too many thermals on to move. Myself and a couple mates decided to boycott as much of winter as we could and planned a 6 week riding trip to Stuttgart and then to Barcelona.
Name: Jack Hall
Age: 22
Hometown: Wrexham, GBR
Hook-ups/Sponsors: foundationBMX, TNT tattoos llandudno, flare4media.
The FAT favorite list:
-Spot to ride: Bit of a cop out but any spot with some mates.
-BMX video: Is it cliché to say Deadline?
-Website: RideUK
-Web video: Mark Burnett Home vs Away.
-Food: Too many to choose from, pizza maybe?
-Twitter to follow: I don’t have Twitter
-Person on Instagram: @cam_harrison is very entertaining
Quarantine Parks. Private places to ride during Covid-19 times. Part 18: Ellieland (NZL)
Name of Park: EllieLand
Location: Mum and Dads Tennis Court haha.
Crazy time we live in, but it could be worse having no ramps to ride. What kind of set-up do you have at home?
Ellie Chew: Yeah Crazy times for sure, I feel so lucky to have my ramps at home more than ever during this time! I have a fun little set up, it includes a 6ft quarter with a bowl hip extension, then a 4ft resi box jump and a 3ft spine/spox
For how long have you had the ramps?
Ellie Chew: I’ve had the ramps for about 3 years now
Who built them?
While laying low at home watching videos to pass the quarantine time, Dan Conway has been getting inspired to try some tech combos on his new driveway spine ramp. Despite Dan’s reputation as a gnarly rail boss, the dude can and will ride anything you put in front of him and it’s been awesome to see him hone in his transition skills over the last few years.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.