TROY SWAN INTERVIEW
BMXMAFIA.CO.NZ

Name, Age?
Troy Swan 23 years young
Where are you from?
Originaly from small town Inglewood, but I’ve lived most places in the ‘naki and currently live in New Plymouth
What do you like about living in New Plymouth?
From the beach to the skifield carpark only takes an hour, and everything is around here, whatever you wanna do. Oh and all the BMX Mafia boys.
What do you like most about BMX?
All the crazy as people you meet around the country and catch up at events
How long have you been riding?
All my life been riding something with two wheels, bmx, cruiser, mx, bit of mtb, but only got back on 20s 4 years ago
What do you hate most about BMX?
Haters on the internet bagging on other peoples shit and little kids/teenagers that all they can talk about is what parts they are getting for there bikes and what is cool etc
What was your first BMX?
First BMX:Diamondback Assault, First freestyle BMX: Mongoose Fuzz (which my brother still has and I want back)
Street, park or dirt?
Dirt or flow park.
Last thing you learnt on a bike?
360 turndowns
Last time you fell of your bike?
Last weekend bailed at the trails but couldn’t throw the bike and landed on it, the whole right side of my body is bruised
Style or tricks?
Style!!!
Best bike part made?
My Deluxe frame
What are you currently riding?
Deluxe XL frame, Shadow 026 forks, Fit Sky High bars, DLD stem, Eclat cranks, Premium pedals, Shadow hubs, 7kA rims

..Top Fives..
BMX riders?
Chase Hawk, Gary Young, Mike Aitken, TJ Lavin, Fuzzy Hall
NZ BMX riders?
Scott Silver (local jumper), Kane O’Hagan, Piggy, Caleb and the Duckhunter haha
Places to ride?
Rotomanu Trails, Hawera Skatepark, PMP Trails, Waikanae Bowl, Te Kuiti bowl and anything new that I haven’t riden that’s fun
Places to visit?
Kapiti koz of all the munters (and Duckhunter)
Taupo koz its always a maggot weekend
Whangareis foam pit koz I hit the roof
Te Kuiti koz that park has too many lines
Mt Ruapehu skifields koz theyre fun and fast on the skibike
Beers?
I prefer whisky so I’ll only pick one and it’ll hafta be corona
Girls?
Dirty ones
Tricks?
To see other people do, there can be only one:
Scott Silvers nacnacs destroy all, if you haven’t seen one, you are missing out. They are old school proper mx McGrath style, sideways and stretched. For me to do, well it’s a short list, but:
Turndowns, Toboggans, 360s, barspin disasters and of course a knees out turnbar
Food?
Chocolate, Bananas, Pasta, Burgerfuel & Hell PizzaBMX
Movies?
I don’t watch many, but Macneil san to van is stil a fun vid to watch, Electronical, Fly Dos, Matt Priests relentless web vid & I just watched the new Mutiny Lets get Mystical and its pretty sweet even though its mostly street
Non BMX activities?
Ski biking, 4x4 trialling including working on the truck, drinking with the boys, fabricating stuff for cars, chilling out with the mrs