Interviews

Year started racing? February 1988. First race was at Nottingham Outlaws and still have the trophy from that race. Do you actually know how many National and British Championships titles you have won? And, yes we’re including Cruiser and both Federations? When it comes to BMX and its trivia I’m pretty good with stuff so…

Year started in BMX? 1979/80 How did you discover BMX, were you already in the bicycle industry? I worked for Malcom Jarvis at Ammaco selling some of the first Mongoose bikes he brought in from the States. I worked with Joe Cerelo along with Don Smith who came from motorcycle trials and had a good…

What year did you start BMX? I think I started bmx around 1980? I fixed up my sister’s bike, which was a 20’ girl’s shopping bike and used to pretend to do motocross over a track we had in local fields!!! The bike didn’t last long.  I had been riding an 80cc Suzuki which my…

How did you discover BMX? What year was it? How was your local scene, who did you ride with back then? Growing up in the outskirts of East London in the 1970’s was a magical time for anyone who rode dirt bikes due to the close proximity of Epping Forest and untold wasteland as a…

For anyone who hasn’t heard of him, Lee Alexander was one of the big guns of the 1980s, regularly banging elbows with the likes of Stu Diggens, Tom Lynch, Tim Print and of course his local long-term nemesis Darren Wood. After gaining a nation number 20 in his first full season in 1983, Lee steadily…

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How did you discover BMX and what year? Well I started racing motocross February 1976, age 11, we raced practically every weekend, all over the country not just regionally. I saw ads for BMX magazines in the MX mags and clearly remember seeing one up in Cumbria probably about 1978, a photo still sticks out…

Stu Diggens Interview – by Chris Carter For those born in 1969, Kuwahara factory rider Stu Diggens was the acknowledged dominant force in that age group in the early 1980s. ‘Super Stu’ became national number one in 1983, having wrested the title from Mongoose’s Steve Greaves. He kept the number one spot for the ’83…

Active years racing? 10 years 1983-1993 How did you get into racing? My friend at school brought in a BMX Action Bike magazine and that was it, I was hooked. ET had just come out as well. I found out about Hayes track and rode up there. There happened to be a race going on…