Nick Hantosh

Nick Hantosh, the editor of Bikes and Blades, is a very interesting person. He was born in La Grange, Illinois on Halloween of 1995. Now he’s thirteen years old and BMXs. The reason he is qualified to write the magazine is that he BMXs. He uses the parts he reviews and does most of the tricks he explains how to do. He’s been riding bikes since he was four years old, when he first rode without training wheels. A few months after he turned six, he moved from Cicero, a suburb of Chicago, to Brookfield, a town not too far from Cicero. When he was eight years old, he watched his 14-year-old brother Ricky doing BMX and Nick liked it. Although Nick was too young to do most tricks, he still tried riding ramps, banks, and quarter pipes. When he turned nine, Ricky gave him his first real BMX bike, which was a custom

Haro. It was a very heavy bike, but when Nick was ten he finally learned to bunny hop and started doing tricks. Just after

Christmas when he was 12, he bought a Kink Launch. When he got it he started doing tricks better than before: tricks like jumping seven stairs to dropping in on quarter pipes. Unfortunately, Nick had almost learned all the tricks he could ever learn, since there were no skate parks or spots to ride at where he lived in Brookfield. This is when he learned he would have to find a way to get to new places, and the only way would be by train. Now Nick still BMXs and takes the train to nearby towns that have skate parks or riding hot spots.