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Well, why not post it here? I like how they said I was “one of the more interesting characters BMX has ever seen”… haha.. Thanks to the boys at Props for posting this.
Props Visual – – Videos Props Issue 6 – Krt Schmidt Interview.
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Great video. This contest was a lot of fun and my first trip to England. I’m in the red shirt with the white stripe. I saw some tricks I didn’t even remember doing! Everyone was very cool and I hope to go back someday.
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“The Vanilla Trike was custom built by bike maker Sacha White for his daughter, which costs him around $10,000. This luxury trike features the finest components with a Brooks leather saddle, cro-moly frame, headset from Campagnolo, front hub and rear wheels from Phil Wood and front end forks fashioned from stainless steel. If you are rich guy and …, you can order one from Vanilla Bicycles.”
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Fashion designer Paul Smith teamed up with Japanese bicycle saddle specialist, Kashimax.
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Thanks to Kurt Hohberger I’ve got a Rapid Response interview up at Dig. If you are interested click here and check it out!
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I was looking through some of my stats and found that the top ten posts, to date, in terms of traffic are the following. Take a look in case you missed something!
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Tags: Johnny Knoxville, Ricky Swallow, Skater, Venice, Wolfgang SauterThis was in a obscure local paper but I thought you would enjoy it because Tom is totally awesome to the max.
Had he nicked the furniture, Tom Haugen’s career might have been over before it began.
With Minnesota winters incompatible with outdoor BMX riding practice and few indoor sites available, Haugen and a friend resorted to honing their tricks in the Haugen family’s basement.
“I told them if they scratched the pool table, they were done,” said Roger Haugen, Tom’s father. “They never did in all the time they spent down there riding their bikes.”
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Twenty-two years ago, while living in St. Louis Park, Tom got his start riding in the basement, on the street in front of his house and on makeshift dirt jumps. Today the Twin Cities native makes his living on the bike, performing and competing around the world.
He had not had a chance to be in a major event in his hometown until April 25 of this year when he was part of the Action Sports World Tour event at the Target Center.
At 32, Haugen is getting used to being referred to as a “veteran” BMX rider.
“A lot of guys get hurt and are done at 23,” Haugen said before a BMX demonstration this week at the Mall of America. “But there’s also a guy, Dennis McCoy, who’s 42 and is still a top-level competitor. I’ve had injuries, but if you take care of yourself you can keep riding.”
Haugen, who has a residence in Plymouth, spends five to seven hours a day on his bike and another two in the gym to keep up with riders who are younger – some more than a decade younger.
He built a reputation as a consistent rider who is as comfortable on ramps as he is on flatland. He has competed in five X Games, three International X Games and seven Gravity Games.
“I always took pride in being versatile, and I think that’s one reason I’m still doing this,” Haugen said. “Today, most guys focus on one discipline.”
But in the late 1980s, when Haugen started riding, there were few if any BMX ramps. So he started out as a “flatlander,” with the practice facility often the street in front of his house. He rode flatland for six years – until he was 16 – before moving on to dirt jumps and eventually ramps. He moved to Orlando in 2005, making it his permanent residence, in part because it was better for practice in the winter.
“I’d always had a bike, but when I was a kid, the cool thing was to have a bike with pegs [essential for various BMX tricks],” Haugen said.
After he got a bike suitable for BMX, it wasn’t long before he was pushing its limits.
“One day when I came home, I was coming up the driveway and he was coming down the driveway on his bike, standing on the handlebars, steering with his feet,” Roger Haugen said.
Haugen’s parents were aware of the injury risk, but didn’t discourage their son from riding.
“I think they saw I had a passion for it,” Haugen said. “And I think they were OK with the friends I had. I have a really tight group of friends, the same friends I’ve had for 20 years. We were just a bunch of young kids riding our bikes.”
Haugen had a serious injury in 2006, breaking his tibia, fibula and ankle. That forced him away from competition for several months, but he was able to return by 2007.
He elected not to return to school. In 1998, Haugen had about one year until graduation from the University of Minnesota when he turned pro. He had been pursuing a teaching degree.
Haugen hasn’t ruled out teaching someday, saying it’s the only other thing he could see himself doing as a career. Going back to school was always a fallback plan in case his riding career ended catastrophically.
If worse came to worst, “he said the U of M was handicapped-accessible,” Roger Haugen said.
Watch some TH footage after the jump!
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One of the latest project firmed by the italian design studio “studiometrico” which converted an old cinema in Milan, into the new Bastard flagship store. The spectacular and hazardous ultimate milan recreative device including an administrative offices and a suspended bowl…enjoy your fly!
All the rest about the project, here, here and here
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Sorry for the poor photo but I wanted to share this with you as quickly as possible because it has changed my life. Funny how a “kids” bike can do that eh? More »
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