Everyone has a favourite rider right!!?? someone who, when they were growing up riding thought, 'man, that guy is fuckin awesome!' From either to how they set their bike up, to the freakin awesome tricks they would do! In the early years, when I first started riding, I thought guys like Mike Krnaich, Mike Dominguiez, Vic Murphy, Perry Mervar, The Gute, Ruben Castillo, Manual De La Cruz, were the Bees Knees! But probably the one rider who I thought was absoultly fuckin awesome was Jerry Galley! If you ain't heard of jerry Galley, then I suggest you look for a video called Nails In the coffin by bicycle union, or any of the seventies vids, or Angus vids to name a few. His biggest appeal to me was that he would just blast the shit out of ramps, roasting gnarly tables, turndowns and no handers to name a few. And he was smooth as well! He rode for King bikes for a while, ya know, Stuart Kings company, probably one of the best bike companies ever, stuart kings dad was a race car designer, so everything was precision made, and the King liberty frame paved the way to how many frames look today. As time went by, Jerry Galley sorta went 'undercover' but I've heard rumours of him turning up to playstation skatepark in London, shredding the shit out of it, then leaving. All while wearing an open face helmet and shorts! Anyways, if you're on the net and you see a Jerry Galley vid watch it, and be amazed at dis bad ass englishman!
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