Is There Life After Youth?

Is There Life After Youth? 31
Edu
Garcia
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Edu feeling good at home, Lost Trails Mataró, 2014
Edu Garcia is a 34 year old rider from
Granollers, Spain. Around 1997, after
some years riding MTB and following his
childhood fascination for bicycle stunts,
Edu wanted to try something new and decided
to ask for a borrowed BMX bike from the
brand he was riding for at the time. That
was his turning point: MTB was gone and he
bought himself a HB Condor.
In the beginning, Edu and his friends used
to ride the local Granollers Bowls on a
daily basis, every time they had time,
they’d be there. Good mood, good laughs
and riding with your friends was the only
necessary ingredients for having the time
of their lives. Since videos, magazines
and anything related to BMX was so hard to
find back then, those precious goods were
shared inside the community, tightening up
the sense of unity of the BMX kids.
Fast forward 17 years, Edu earns his daily
bread by being an industrial mechanic and
is still riding his BMX with the same
passion as before. When he was around 30,
he stopped riding for a couple of years,
but he couldn’t avoid going back to BMX:
“the sensations you have by riding your
bike... You just forget everything for a
moment! And specially the good moments one
spends with the friends at the trails”.
Nowadays, Edu, David and 3 more friends run
the Lost Trails, and that’s where he spends
more time riding and having a good time
with his friends and visitors. The “riding
every day, every time” philosophy is a bit
different today, and riding time spans can
go from riding a little bit every day to
riding once every other week, depending on
the motivation and work schedule. Edu also
likes to ride Bowls
a lot, together with
the friends that
he started to ride
with.
When asked about
the BMX scene
nowadays, Edu says
that today it is
easier to follow up
what’s happening
everywhere, but
essentially he cares
about trails news
and videos. He also
says that nowadays
the BMX scene is
different: back in
the days, riders
used to ride a
bit of everything,
but today BMX is
heading towards
a specialization
of the different
genres, together
with the
differentiation of
the way of living
different genres.
If there was no
bike Edu says that
there are a thousand
beautiful things
to do in life, that
you could become
interested in and
dedicate your free
time to.