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Old 02-13-2007, 07:09 AM   #1
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Ryan Leech Interview
A little fireside chat with Ryan Leech.

Here's what he had to say...
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Old 02-13-2007, 09:06 AM   #2
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Cool interview, I don't really think it's possible to describe just how nice of a guy Ryan is, or how stoked on riding he is. One of my favourite guys on the scene right now I think.
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Old 02-13-2007, 03:20 PM   #3
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Nice interview!
Really nice interview!

I really like to meet Ryan. It
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Old 02-13-2007, 04:56 PM   #4
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I've met Ryan a few times, and he's such a nice guy; so passionate about riding and the show he puts on.

I gained new appreciation for just how dedicated he was to the show while watching him perform in Whistler Village during Crankworx last year. He was doing a side-transfer hop, and the rear wheel *just* caught the side of the box, and it slipped down and shredded his rear derailleur. He was sooooo bummed. No bad words uttered, just sadness and apology to the crowd. Class act for sure.
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Old 02-13-2007, 05:14 PM   #5
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just watch his segment in Kranked 6 and you should get an idea of how nice a guy he is! I don't think he has a bad bone in his body.

I remember watching one of the first Norco Team Trials demo's circa 1996 here on the Sunshine Coast at a Sprockids race when I was around 11 years old. That race was my first exposure to organised "bike culture" and I was hooked in no time. At that time Ryan Leech was maybe 16 or 17, and he was killing it at the demo. That was my most vivid memory of when I first got "hooked" on mountain bikes. I remember Robin Coope being in the demo, but don't remember any of the other names on the Norco Factory Trials Team.
Anyways, thanks for the article and the memories
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Old 02-13-2007, 05:37 PM   #6
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Total pro. So many other 'pros' could learn from the way this guy carries himself and represents his employers.
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Ryan was so shy when i first met him almost 8 years ago. Now a articulate pro who represents the sports and sponsors so well. So good to see him succeed
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Class act guy all the way - great ambassador to our sport and good role model for kids.

Props to Ryan - I hadn't even noticed he used a Norco 4x to do his trail in Kranked 6
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Easily the nicest person in the sport! Way to go Ryan!

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Ryan Leech always positive and just having fun on his bike. It is nice to see.
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I met him one time while I was building at The Woodlot.

He stopped chatted for a bit said thanks and was on his way with the group he was with. This guy epitomizes class.......every 'pro' rider could learn a thing or two from Mr. Leech.
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I first remember seeing Ryan Leech riding in the watershed. He was doing trials on a Brodie XC frame. Even back then he made it look easy.
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I first remember seeing Ryan Leech riding in the watershed. He was doing trials on a Brodie XC frame. Even back then he made it look easy.
No surprise he was on a Brodie - argurably the first guy to put a slope on a top tube of a Montain Bike . . and speakin of nice, humble, talented guys . . . I met Paul at the bike show years ago - the whole time thinkin I was takin to a rep - until I finally figured it out and called him on it.

Just thinkin about it somemore . . . Ot-Pi did a demo as well (first time I'd ever seen a pro trials rider - at the time, he was reigning world champion).
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Old 02-15-2007, 06:50 PM   #14
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"Ryan Leech isn't your average mountain biker. Trials hasn't been 'cool' for some time now but Ryan doesn't care."

This is the stupidest thing I have read in a long time

First, I dont know Leech but I'm pretty sure he doesnt think that trials "isnt cool anymore" otherwise he would have stopped riding right?

McRae is obviously completely clueless about biketrials and has probably never heard of names like Beleay, Macaskill, Keita, TRA...the list goes on and on of riders who's level of riding is WAY above anything the trials riders did when stock trials bikes were shackled to the mountain bike companies.

Those articles with the message that trials should go back to xc frames and sus fork so mountainbikers will think it looks better pisses me off

TRIALS IS NOT A MOUNTAIN BIKING SUBSPORT, NOT BMX AND NOT A MIX IN BETWEEN

----> Biketrials is a complete cycling discipline different from everything else. <----

If some people want to mix it with other disciplines, thats fine by me, but I am sick and tired of people trying to move a message that trials riders should be "mtb clowns" bouncing on the rear wheel of a xc bike to entertain mtb crowds at xc races.


rant over


p.s. I would LOVE to see the kind of stuff Leech could pull if he would pick up a long XTP2 for 3 months Cool it would probably be quite insane
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a friend of mine thinks Ryan is "dreamy"...
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