So Dylan, starting with the basics - age and where are you living currently?
22 years old, I’m currently living in Fairfield (QLD), Australia.
You live in Fairfield now, how'd you end up here?
Yep, I was just got home from a six month stint in Sydney for work and we have a lot of friends that live in Fairfield and the surrounding suburbs, so it was a no brainer for me and my housemate Mason, to try and get a place there. We now live 200 metres from the skatepark, it’s so rad. There is always something entertaining happening in the area too - it’s a good laugh.
How did you get to know Tim Storey?
I bought some old parts off him when I was in high school and then started seeing him around more. He sold me a rad Mutiny Loosefer frame at one point, it was definitely one of my favourites to date. Early on in the piece of knowing Tim he sorted me out with a job at a local pub called the Grand View Hotel. That was an awesome job haha... as we were working similar shifts we would always just meet up and ride in our off-time.
So was that your introduction into BMX?
Nah, I started riding ‘properly’ when I was 13 or 14. I wanted a motorbike but mum convinced me to get a pushy so I didn’t rip the backyard up. My first legit bike was a Norco. It was sweet, a couple dudes on my street rode so we would dig dirt jumps around the bushes heaps. My first local skatepark was a thirty minute pedal and was two bowls with a spine linking them together and nothing else... not even a flat ledge or rail. The big bowl was 8 foot over-vert then it stepped up to a nice 6 foot quarter, I think it was built in the 80’s or 90’s. Maccas got some good stories from there. He skipped school once to ride it by himself and woke up at the bottom a couple hours later.