Np: My father is a photographer and a videographer, and I was always around it growing up. I remember you were working on shooting graffiti, and you have some history in that as well, right? Can you tell us a little about that? Rl: Let’s go back to how you got into shooting photos in the first place. This is something that’s so new to the kids that they’re not even thinking that way yet. But when I think about filming something, I think about doing lines and I think about doing one trick.

I’m constantly comparing it to skateboarding, and now that I’ve been shooting more videos with them, I’m thinking about skate videos that I’ve seen all the time. And the second I knew about them doing this, I immediately wanted to take photos. So I was already shooting a similar thing-people on one wheel going through traffic. Np: I think it came because my brain was already focused on the dirt bikes. What was the initial attraction to the pedal biking? Because skateboarding is so mainstream now. And that’s interesting because I feel like, as a skateboarder, that nowadays, this is kind of like the new, real skateboarding. Rl: Yeah, definitely the grimier of the bunch. It’s all mostly East Coast, but then you have Paterson, New Jersey which, if you know the city, is an interesting place for this bike scene to jump off from. You’ve got New York, you’ve got Philly, you’ve got Camden, which is kind of the Philly scene, and you’ve got Boston. It’s so new that there are only certain cities that have a scene. The dirt bike craze has been around-I’m not exactly sure how long it’s been going on for-but the pedal bikes, I think it’s been the past few years. Np: I asked them what they want to call it. Rl: So for those people don’t quite understand, there was a phenomenon with the 12 O’clock boys, a dirt bike crew, and now we’re talking about a pedaling crew? It ended up going a lot faster than the dirt bike project. After seeing the first handful of rolls that I got back from the shoot with them, I immediately knew that this was going to be my next project. So I met up with them that week and we started shooting. When he said Paterson, I immediately exchanged phones numbers with him, because I knew he was rolling with the Bomb Squad Kids. So I approached them, we exchanged names, and I asked him where he was from. I was in the parking lot one day, and they were all on dirt bikes except for one kid who was on a pedal bike. On certain days, usually on the weekend, they’ll practice in a parking lot.

His name is Boots, and for the past two years or so I’ve been working on a project featuring the illegal dirt bike scene in Newark. Nolan price: I basically met the kids through one specific individual of the crew. How did you make the transition to photography? How did you even run into these kids? Rob lim: We originally met skating growing up, and I just remember you coming around with company I was riding for, and you were kind of riding for them too.

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