Mark König

"Ride as much as you can and ride as hard as you can. "

 

Date of Birth: 07.11.1979

Hometown: Dietzenbach / Germany

Who are your sponsors? Haro Bikes, Pyro Shoes

Do you have a girlfriend? Yes!

When did you start to ride BMX? In 1994

What do you ride and why? I ride mini ramp but I also ride street and dirt. I would like to ride more halfpipe but there is no ramp here around.

What did you do before? I did skateboarding for 3 years.

What was you biggest succees so far? I became Worldchampion in expert  mini ramp  in 1997.

 

Did you ever think about going to the USA? Yes, when I have enough money I will go to Austin Texas or Woodward.

How do you train for contests? I am not training. I ride as much as I can. BMX is not Tennis or soccer.

Who do you ride with? With my friends where I live. The Heusenstammer and the Darmstädter,…. Al of the Hessen.

What are you doing when you are not riding your bike? Listening to music, working, working on the ramps in

 

Darmstadt, hanging out with my girlfriend and go to parties.

What will you do in the winter? We go to ride the indoor place in Limburg because it is the only indoor place where we are aloud to ride with bikes. (Railslide sucks)

Descibe what it is like to ride BMX!? You can do what ever you want to do. You can ride when ever you want to and you can choose with who you are riding.

Descibe a normal day in your life?! Wake up, working, calling people to ride with, go to a party or to bed.

What should be changed in Germany? Nothing. I think that the german BMX´er are really cool and everything runs good.

 

What are your goals for 2001? Go to America and ride as much contest as possible.

Last words: Ride as much as you can and ride as hard as you can. Because the americans have a slight advantage. Tina, I love you! Ride on!

 

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