| What is your name? Alan Williams AKA A-Dub How old are you? 18 Where are you from? Vegas baby What is your home track? Nellis BMX What class do you race? 18 - 20 Expert Who is some of your best competition? CJ McGuire, Kyle Weisenburger, Larry DeVries, Kenny Anderson, and the Snapping Turtle. Who are your sponsors? I ride on a team called Everguard, Prick Apparel, Chadley Designs, and www.MikeDolan.tk Do you plan on turning pro? After this years Grands I would like to. I just want to finish with high school and try to get a good job first. I guess it just depends on if I feel ready by time the Grands come but that is my goal for this year. What motivates you to win a race or even just finish? Money!! (Laughter) Just knowing that family and friends, basically all the people that care about me are there watching pushes me to do good. What are you thinking in the gate? D - DAWG! (Laughter) Nah I just think about trying to not flip the gate which seems to happen alot. Then basically I just tell myself that these kids aren't shit and I can pull them. What are you thinking when the gate drops? Peddle, Peddle, Peddle... Where did everyone go? (laughter) I can't really think when I ride. I kinda just block everything out and focus straight ahead. What are you thinking when you pass the finish line? Thank god I didn't crash. I'm just happy to finish the race especially if I did good. Which pros have good style and which pros do you look up to? Kyle Bennet, Mario Soto R.I.P, Derek Betcher, Mike Day, and Mike Gonzales How would you describe your riding style? Pretty smooth, I got good power cuz I have been training alot lately. I have good jumping skills. Basically I like to bone out with my bows out. I like to ride in packs through turns, I make a good pimp. (laughter) What is your opinion on the whole clips vs plats issue? If you can balance and ride clips then do it, if you would rather ride plats then do it and stop bitchin' about other peoples preferences. No one tells you what gear to ride or what size frame to ride so don't tell everyone what peddles to use. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? 10 years i'll be 28. Hopefully I'll still be racing and making money. I'd like to have at least a serious realtionship maybe a wife. I'd like to have a kid before I get too old. I wanna be able to have fun with him or her before my body is to broke from racing. In 10 years I'll have a nice house and a nice car(probably a tahoe on dubs) and hopefully have a good amount of money saved up from racing. I don't know that's just my goal but I have to take the future as it comes and just hope for the best. What kind of music are you into? I listen to alot of music but the majority is rap. I like going to punk concerts but when i'm just chillen or riding I like rap. What do you do for training? Drink lots of beer cuz it's full of carbohydrates.(laughter) nah I try to lift weights at my friends house about 2 or 3 times a week. Then I like to just go for rides by myself sometimes. Nothing special like sprinting just riding alone with a little music a free time to think about life. What are some of your other hobbies outside of BMX? Hangin out with my friends and partying, typical teenage shit. I like to listen to music. Some times go out to movies or spend time with a girl. What do you mean A GIRL? Yeah I been talkin to a girl for a little while now but not a relationship or anything. (her choice not mine). We just been hangin tryin to spend time together, it's cool though I like her alot. It's better than than not having anyone at all and just tryin to go out and get some from everyone. Who would you like to thank? Most of all my dad for supporting me through everything. Even when we had no money he still found ways to get me to the races I needed to get to. thanks dad. Then i'd like to thank Mike Anderson and Dennis Debolt from Everguard. They've helped me so much getting to races lately. I'd also like to thank every one who has supported me: my friends and family most of all. Then I'd like to thank all the parents and kids at the track who look up to me even though i'm not the #1 AA pro or anything like that. Finally i'd like to say thanks to all my sponsors, and thanks to Mikey D for this interview (and for letting me touch his dirty heshin.) Thanks everyone. |
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