10/24/2018 7:11 AM
Edited Date/Time: 10/24/2018 7:43 AM
If we want to talk about how I got into serious riding, I started skateboarding with my buddies when I was like 11/12. Cruised around the neighborhoods a bunch, waxed curbs etc and built little jumps and rails. Then got a Pacific Wired "bmx" bike for Christmas in 98, rode it until I broke it, but still skateboarded more often then BMX. Then I moved to a farm in 99 (I was 13), and bought my brother's Dyno, trashed it, then bought his Specialized, and went from there. I skated still but BMX took over because of the dirt jumps I built and gravel everywhere.
I'm slower and stay lower, and also run a front brake again, but I will ride until I can't. Then I will swap into more road and MTB or CX.
If we want to see the origin of my jumping/ramp riding, I have a picture of when I was 3 (back in 1988/89), my brother and I put a piece of plywood on our sandbox and I went ripping down it on a trike. It was AWESOME. We build all kinds of jumps off and on from there.
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"BIKES!" -Tom Segura