[S.Brothers]

Well, here it is guys... the long awaited Greg Grubbs interview. The interview has been finished almost one year, but the layout was just finished. Had to train myself in the art of magazines.

Congratulations once again to Greg, on his recent honor of being voted in to the ABA's BMX Hall of Fame. Now, sit back and settle in... this is the War & Peace of Old School BMX interviews :lol: but Greg is one of the most interesting people in the scene, so we had a nice long chat.

tags: Greg Grubbs BMX, Nebraska BMX, Hyper BMX

[Jimmy]

Awesome interview. Greg Grubbs were the man. My buddy that rode (local jumps, 7-11 bs) with me bitd looks like him. lol

Greg was more of a kid next door with a bmx. This is why he's cool!



thanks S.B and G.G.

[shinburger]

Very cool interview Steve. Nice to see Gregg is doing well. He was all over BMXA for a couple years there.
Wish Redline had of stuck with him a while longer.

[Spur]

Epic interview. I loved hearing how bad those Jags sucked lol!

[Joe Baumert]

Great Stuff Steve, sorry I dropped the ball! I think you know what I mean?

Trust me, Greg was way full of himself BITD! LOL!

Joe Baumert

[keep_it_warm]

....the "N" stands for nowledge! (sorry, can't resist a drive-by Cornhusker blast!)

I think Greg is one of the coolest. Such a great sense of humor. I really enjoyed reading this interview. Well done Steve, and thank you for taking the time Greg!

[AndyDiamond]

great interview - really intersting stuff about Roker - he always looked like a used car salesman to me..... and Gosserau WAS better looking than Roker so if his wife was porking him I can understand - lol

[TrulyOdd]

great interview steve! i felt like i did 25 years ago, reading my new issue of the latest bmx mag.

grubbs was the man with the superstyle! superman on a bike.....clark kent glasses and all!

[bob valentik]

I love that cover of BMX Action. That was my first and only Grand National race and it was and still is my local track, South Park BMX. I think I raced 16 Novice that year. Awesome memories! I have some old pictures from that Grand National including a pic of Harry Leary, Eddie King and Pete L.. Sorry, I don't know how to spell Pete's last name. If I ever get my scanner working, I"ll post some pics.

[Randy C]

Excellent read!

Thanks Steve...and Greg.

[choad666]

keep_it_warm, on Oct 16 2007, 09:44 PM, said:

....the "N" stands for nowledge! (sorry, can't resist a drive-by Cornhusker blast!)

I think Greg is one of the coolest. Such a great sense of humor. I really enjoyed reading this interview. Well done Steve, and thank you for taking the time Greg!

Hopefully "N" stands for New coach! LOL



It's kinda wierd to me that I grew up and still live about 50 miles from where he was born.



Excellent interview Steve!

[S.Brothers]

I'm glad you liked it guys... Greg is a very affable guy, and of course that makes for easy interviewing. And long... as you can see. I can see from the analytics that most of the ADD posse didn't even bother.

Expand your horizons, crackaz!


Joe B., Yeah I waited a year for your help, but....


Just kidding. The delay was all on me.


Next in the Old School BMX interview series... S & M's Chris Moeller!!!


Then at least one half ( ) of your favorite OS-BMX neighborhood side hack crew!

[keep_it_warm]

PAGE 6..."The JAG Days" is so F'in funny to read. GG just rips on that page! I loved it.

[z-man99]

Great stuff! Heavy dose of reality, too. BITD I always assumed anyone who had a factory ride and made the cover of BMXA was rolling in it.

Thanks for putting this together Steve. That was some premium quality content.

[Greg Grubbs]

Thanks for all your hard work and patience Steve. We never even got to the on the road antics did we ? Or the punk bar riot in Kansas ? Hey choad666 what town do you live in ? 60 miles huh ? Columbus ? Anyway thanks again Steve I hope I didn't come off as too much of a douche.

Grubber

[TrulyOdd]

greg you definitely didn't come off like that. great interview. but lets hear those road stories you're talkin about!

[S.Brothers]

Uh oh... there's going to be a sequel to the War & Peace of Old School Interviews.

Baumert! You can redeem yourself. Send those pics.

Maybe we should engage Lillethorup for a little old school Nebraska Grubbs roast.

[Drewel]

Joe Baumert, on Oct 16 2007, 04:15 PM, said:

Trust me, Greg was way full of himself BITD! LOL!

Joe Baumert

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I really doo feel like I had to do twice and much and it seemed like the was a Nebraska bias as well. I mean you had guys from Kansas with Factory rides and Iowa and Missouri and Texas and so on but it was hard as hell to get noticed being from Nebraska

From recollection of when I started racing (1978-79) Nebraskan Kevin Rinker was sponsored by SE Nebraskan Randy Gibson was sponsored by Patterson and Kansan Tim Richardson was sponsored by Mongoose......And we Kansas boys thought you Huskers had the world by the balls! LMAO. But if you happened to live East of the Mississippi i.e. St Louis, Missouri or you lived in Texas had the world by the balls.

In general if you lived in the Midwest (North of Texas, East of the Rockies and West of the Mississippi) you were screwed, and a good example of that is how Skyway treated Doug Prather…..Doug was going toe to toe with Richie Anderson, Skyway signed Doug in after the Gateway National, it was like 6 months before he got a uniform and it wasn’t until the next summer he got to travel. I believe the travel cost may have had something to do with Dougs situation. In the 70's and 80's flying from KCI (Kansas City) to anywhere cost a small fortune. Secondly, considering Doug could have placed high in the national rankings there may have been some alterior motives in letting Doug set.

You can add Tim Sparks, Trevor Litten and Damon Reddick to the list of those worthy of a full factory ride but screwed by the location they lived.


Regardless of the misfortunes of living in the Midwest we all had some damn good times, like keggers at Spinning Spokes and dinners with the Haydens afterwards!


Nice to see Joe, Greg and Tim are alive and kicking!

Congrats Greg on a well deserved award.

Drewel

[S.Brothers]

Hey Drewel... welcome. I'm a native Kansan as well. Cool to see somebody cite up Doug Prather. I was tight with Darrell Pulliam and as you no doubt are well aware, those two were often dicing it out for the KS #1 plate there at the turn of the 80's.

[CurbDestroyer]

Who from the Midwest was "Factory" sponsored? Right now it's a short list. Greg Grubbs, Steve Gibson, and Doug Prather. I don't understand why Trevor Litton wasn't ever "Factory" sponsored.

Does St. Louis count or do they count as being on the East side and for the most part were NBL. I did run into Tim Kakorus (I buthered the last name, but I know someone here will straighten me out) at a moutain bike race a couple years ago and he was doing well. I think Tim was Factory Powerlite at one time. I think John Piant (Factory DG) should be mentioned.

Has this thread been officially Highjacked Yet? Was there anybody more consistant than Trevor Litton and not get "Factory" sponsored? What about George Stewart? I mean at the same time I'm talking about how fast Trevor is, I don't remember Trevor ever beating "Geo". Maybe it was the "Pro Elbow"?

One question I do have. Do Greg and Trevor wear the same prescriptions, because it obvious to me they wear the same frames.