PAUL BASAGOITIA

Winner of BIKE Magazine's "Best Breakthrough Performer" award, read more HERE

Age: 19

Home: Minden Nevada

Bikes: Cowan DS, Stuff, Stinky Deluxe

Sponsors: Kona, Race Face, Giro, Smith

Years Riding : Started Riding a Bike Without Training Wheels at Age 2

Favorite Riding Spot: Whistler

Best Bike Product Ever Invented: Suspension

Best Non-Bike Product Ever Invented: Cel Phone

We're At The Bar, What Are You Drinking: Cranberry Juice

Favorite Trick: 360s

Trick You Would Most Like To Pull: Too Many to List

24 or 26 and Why?: 26 for Sure, Cuz They Ride Way Smoother

What Tricks Scare You: Front Flips, Double Flips, Flip Whips

What Blew You Away Last?: Watching a Video of James Stewart Doing the Most Insane Whip

Your Riding Heroes and Why?: TJ Lavin for His Smooth Style, Strait for His Whips, and Zink for not Being Scared of Anything

Goals For Riding: To Keep on Learning New Tricks

How Do You See The Future of Riding?: I See the Scene Getting Bigger and Getting More Props From Other Aspects of Sports

What Are Your Plans for 2007?: Just to Have a Good Time, and Have Really Good Video Segement

Your Ideal Day: Wake up Around 9, Check the Email, Turn on Fuel TV, go to Lunch, Come Cack to my House, Fish it up a Little, go Ride if it's not Snowing,
Go to the Gym for 2hrs, Come Back to my Place and Play Guitar Hero, Head Butt the Pillow Around 10

What Do You Like To Do Off The Bike: Fishing, Snowboarding, Wakeboarding, 50s

Thanks/Shout-Outs: My Family for Picking Me up at the Airports Everytime I Come Home from a Trip, My Sponsors for Backing me up, All my Boys at Home for Being Great Friends