Max Gaertig
Age: 24
Residence: Bonn City, Germany 		  
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How long have you been riding?
Been riding since 1999.

 What was your major influence when you started riding (Video, Mags, Rider...)?
 "Nowhere Fast" was the first video I watched everyday before riding and it was my first and probably most important influence right from the start...Then the first Animal video came out and the riding in it still influences me and my bike today.

 What do you ride the most?
I mostly like to ride some good curbs and rails, but the spot we ride everyday in the summer is Ramersdorf (in Bonn). I just like to do grinds all the time...

What's the latest trick you've learned?
Right now I'm trying to learn to ride everyday without being in pain, I got so many injuries this year, so I'm just chilling and healing up everything I messed up. The last trick I remember learning was probably an Opposite Tailwhip into a bank.


Favourite Riders?
One of my favorite riders used to be Vic Ayala, but it's too bad he quit riding...Right now I love Danny Hickerson's clean whips, and Van Homans part in "Criminal Mischief"
blew me away (like everybody else, I guess ). The people I like to ride with the most are my men from Bonn, the street riders from New York and all the Pariah guys from England. Actually, all the people I ride with are my favorite riders.

What frame do you ride?
Right now I'm riding a Wethepeople Mono frame with WTP Royal cranks and WTP pi wheels. Also Animal bars, pegs, sprocket and the best product in 2005: Animal tires. And finally, Odyssey pedals, Shadow chain and WTP seat.

What are your future goals?
My next future goal is not being injured anymore.

 
 
Any thanks?
I want to thank Billy for keeping me sane and Dockstar for keeping me insane enough. Thanks to Zoo York for the support and thanks to Lotek for making dope shoes and supporting me. Also I want to thank all the guys at WeThePeople for being some of the coolest people in BMX, everybody who works and rides for Animal for being such an inspiration to my riding and my view on BMX, and all the street riders in New York and northern England for the time I spent with them. In addition I greet everybody who I know on a BMX-bike and my girlfriend Maren for being my special girl.