It seems like this interview has been a long time coming. Simply because I have always been impressed with how talented Reed is. If you are unaware of Reed Stark, that is all going to change in time. Recently added to the Sunday flow team, a few real solid video parts, and progessing all the time will lead to good things. Plus, he’s from Minnesota! What’s better than that? So, I shot him some questions and this is what came from it. Check it out, and leave him some comments!
Name:
Reed Stark
Location:
Maplehood Minnesota
Sponsors:
Team dilly, Sunday bikes!
Years riding:
7
What was it that first got you into BMX in the first place?
My brother Kyle and I used to rollerblade and he eventually switched over to riding. Of course, I followed what my brother did because when I was younger I always tried to be like him ha.
You were recently put on Sunday flow. How did that all work out? Do you have anything cool going on with them?
I do not really know exactly what happened but as I was told Kyle was talking to Charlie Crumlish on bmxfu (their video FUTU out now!) and Kyle said that Charlie should talk to Jim C and try and get me on Sunday. They talked and pretty soon I got sent a message from Jim saying that he wants to get me riding some Sunday stuff. I was super pumped because Sunday is easily the best company in BMX today as far as quality products goes. Jim sent me a frame, bars, and a fork in the mail. Right now I do not have anything going on with them but I plan on filming this summer for the next dilly video and Sunday!
Photo: Tristan Thiel
I have heard some people say some real good things about your part in the new Team Dilly video It Do! How do you feel it turned out and are you filming for anything else right now?
I was really excited to see how my part in it do! turned out and it was all I could have hoped for. Everyone on team dilly had been filming all summer and it came together really good. Every single part in the dilly video is really entertaining and fun to watch. Kyle’s editing and filming is so fresh and so clean. There is no garbage over edited colorful weak ass videos when Kyle is in charge. I don’t understand how people can enjoy watching dramatic serious videos with 420 clips of people airing skatepark quarterpipes with 69 of those airs containing tailwhips. It’s boring. Creativity is important. Summer of 09 I’ll probably be filming for another team dilly video and possibly a Sunday video.
Speaking of your brother, you guys seems pretty tight. Even though he’s in Arizona right now do you guys ride together a lot when he’s around?
My brothers a really cool person. he doesn’t hold his tongue when he thinks something isn’t good, which is why he’s the best. When we are filming sometimes I don’t think I can do something and he usually just calls me a pussy and tells me to do it ha. One time we were filming this line and at the start there was this ledge and I noticed there was a bee hive under it. I told him I was just going to cut that part of the line and he told me to man up, quit being a pussy, and that bee stings don’t hurt much anyways. So, I smithed through a bee hive and didn’t get stung. Motivation at its finest haha.
You have been killing it lately, you kicked a lot of ass at the 3rd Lair contest and then almost kicked the owners ass. What made you want to try the 360 from the bowl to wall bank, and huge 180 turndown into the vert wall?
ha thanks man. I’m pretty sure Brandon called that 360 out for me to do… so I had to do it. I’m pretty sure gunch called out the turndown for me to do also… so I had to do that as well. I guess I tried those things because it seemed like something fun to do.
I remember one of the first times I had heard about you was on Catfish’s website. When was the first time you met Catfish and what is your favorite memory with him?
Within the first year or so of riding my brother sent a video of me to catfish. He was stoked so he sent me a box of random stuff from system cycle. I met him in person at the first ratty fest at 4 seasons Milwaukee. He always seems to piss off everyone on bmxboard which is really funny because he’s a cool guy not on the internet.
You have had the chance to travel all over the place to ride bikes. Where are some of the places you have been, and where are some places you would really like to go to?
My family has been taking vacations based around me and kyle riding ever since we started. I’ve been to Austin, all over Wisconsin plenty of times, California twice, Woodward 3 times, Arizona just recently, Louisville… and the list goes on. I really just want to keep going to new places and riding fun things. Variation in life is key.
Now that you are banned from 3rd Lair, what are you going to do until it is dry enough outside to ride street?
haha actually I’ve been riding there every once in a while undercover… wearing hats and keeping my head down while going in. I’ll probably do that for a while, ride the basement ramps, and ride renegade.
If you could go on a trip with 5 people, who would you pick, where would you go, and why?
Kyle Stark
Seth Peterson (big z)
John Dunlap (gunch)
Brandon Morcomb
Cody Smiglewski
I’d probably drive over to New York and hangout with the bmxfu guys. Riding stuff all along the way. Then drive down to Texas and hangout with Chris (woodlandsbmx) and ride a bunch of stuff in the soufff. In H-town I’d get myself a wood wheel to put in a candy painted slab. We would roll around bangin screw.
Who is your typical riding crew these days? I know a lot of the guys around your area kill it. Who do you think deserves to be getting some coverage?
I basically ride with all the team dilly guys. Everyone is awesome and they all deserve to be getting coverage. I really wanna see a full Mack Albright part because he’s the most creative rider out there. If you haven’t seen Mack yet, you will. Also piratebmx has been killlling it recently. That guy is good.
How the hell do you go so high on everything? You seriously go about 2 feet higher than most people go on everything.
Well I guess a diet of 5 or so bowls of cereal a day, candy, and evergreen is helping me out. Add some speed and you will succeed. Also, you really just gotta push with your arms.
I would imagine because you and your brother ride your parents are pretty supportive of it? How do they feel about it all?
My parents have always helped us out by taking us on trips, buying bike parts as Christmas and birthday presents, letting us have ramps in the basement, and helping us out when we are injured. In reality my parents hate bmx and everything that comes with it though. They always give me talks about how I don’t know the risks I’m taking and stuff like that. They really just dont wanna see me or my brother get seriously injured which is fine. I respect them for letting he do all the things that I do. it do.
Photo: Calvin B
What do you think you would be up to if you never got into BMX?
I would probably be playing hockey and basketball. Basically doing most of the same stuff I do now except I wouldn’t know a lot of cool people. I feel like a lot of people think bmx is their whole entire life. I don’t think its my life. I love BMX but I wouldn’t be that much different without it… I just wouldn’t ride.
What are you usually doing when you are not riding? Don’t you snowboard?
I’m a member at a golf course and play a lot during the summer, skateboard, I played hockey all my life but quit a year or so ago, I play basketball and I’m on the high school bowling team. I used to snowboard a lot but I stopped doing that because its way too expensive and gets boring.
How’s school going? Don’t you graduate soon? What are you going to do after that?
Schools pretty good right now. I’m in 10th grade right now and next year I plan on doing pseo which is where you go to college and receive high school and college credits while just going to college. I plan on going to the university of Minnesota for that if I get accepted. After that I’ll probably try and go to a college somewhere warm.
It seems like everyone changes your age up quite a bit. I think I’ve heard you are 12, 14, 16, and 18 from different people. How do you feel about all that?
I actually seem to change my age up a lot. Sometimes you have to be 12 and other times you have to be 18 or 20 haha. I always think it’s pretty funny when people have no idea how old I actually am.
Have you ever gotten any play from the ladies because you ride? What’s the trick to getting high school chicks these days?
Well the only reason I really ride is to pick up girls. The trick to getting high school chicks is half barspins. Never fails.
Photo: Gunch
What is the craziest story you got involving anything from homeless people, midgets, hookers, pissed off parents, to sloppy drunk girls?
At the it do! dilly video premiere this year Peter Tawfick ass slid a cop car who was at the time giving a ticket to BJ Tomczik. The cop then chased Peter down, tazed, and beat the fuck out of Peter. He blew in a .17 or something like that haha. After all that they ended up giving the ticket to BJ haha. bummer but a good story none the less.
What’s the worst thing you have spent your money on lately?
What money?
What kind of music are you into?
Hip hop mostly
If you could live anywhere besides Minnesota would you move? If so where?
I would probably live in Vancouver, California, or Texas. I don’t really want to leave Minnesota now though. It seems like it’s going to be a really good summer this year.
A midget with downs syndrom wants to fight you. Do you accept the challenge? Who do you think wins?
I feel like in this situation I wouldn’t accept the challenge. I mean heck, he might have a knife. I would get the fuck outta there! There’s just some situations that you leave alone. this being one of them.
About how many girls have you knocked up so far in your career? How do you feel about the use of condoms?
I’ve knocked up 6.9 girls so far. This guy from bmxboard sent me a bunch of condoms… little did I know that they all had pinholes in them. The situation was handled by having Dom Mach 1 footed xup to canadian nosepick all over their stomachs.
What are some things you would like to accomplish in the next 5 years?
I plan on having a lot of fun doing whatever I do.
Photo: Calvin B
What are 5 things you wish you owned or had right now?
A bowling lane
A wood wheel for my car
A completely wood grain bike with a candy painted frame
Spring to come in minnesota
420 dollars
If you could change anything about the world, what would you change and why?
In order to reproduce, humans must be tested for any diseases and an I.Q test must be given. If you pass, you are good to bang away. If not… no babies.
What is the best advice you have been given?
Get up, get out, and get somethin.
Do you have any shout outs or thanks?
Minnesota for being a nice place to live, bmx for having fun, Sunday bikes for making the best products out there, Jim c for sending me parts and being an awesome guy, intelligence for being able to think beyond idiots, family for helping me out and being the jam, team dilly for being the best thing in bmx, high school for pissing me off and making me want to leave, mambas for being sooo delicious, cats for hanging out with me, driving for wasting gas, banging screw for having fun, grippin grain for keeping me positive, candy painted slabs for having people admire, arizona iced tea for drinking, the sun for giving me that vitamin d and putting a smile on my face, friends for keeping my life fun, and you for reading this interview.
Anything else you would like to say?
sundaybikes.com
TeamDilly.Blogspot.com
