# @rickthorne on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc372-qIGbI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70143940-rickthorne-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-04T17:46:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rick Thorne STAY RAD (@rickthorne) — https://gondola.cc/rickthorne

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REFLECTION: I didn’t find BMX, BMX found me. I’ve always been a self motivated seeker and I started riding bikes like doing tricks on my own. I went from doing wheelies on the street and jumping curbs to actually building a quarterpipe. I actually learned how to do baby airs on a big grass dirt ditch before an actual wooden quaterpipe though. I learned by myself because I had seen dudes in a BMX ACTION magazine doing airs at a skatepark and I was like what is ALL of this? I was born in the Midwest so we didn’t have any skateparks that I knew of? This was back in 1982. So I went riding around town trying to find something that resembled a transition, I found a big ditch. It was like a grass under vert mini ramp 😜 so I went for it. I had no idea what I was doing but just tried. Shortly after I ordered ramp plans and built my own quarterpipe with my dad in the backyard and learned how to ride that ramp by myself. We had just moved to different neighborhood and school district the summer before high school so I didn’t have any friends yet. I don’t know why but those days just seemed so fun. Maybe just being younger it was so pure, so innocent, no rules, just new and just strictly for the rush of learning and chasing an unknown feeling. Yeah also the challenge, to explore, to be excited about something with no politics, no competition and no BS, just natural and raw. Point to my story is if there’s something you wanna do get out there and do it don’t wait on anyone… #exciting #raw #natural #rickthorne #stayrad 💯STAY RAD💯 stayradband monsterenergy monstermusic jtracingusa soli_outdoors therickthorneshow cookingwiththethornes rickthornesheadphoneseries rickthornesradrecordreviews gardenoflife

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rickthorne, natural, stayrad, exciting, raw

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