Dan Sieg says things have changed on the local BMX scene
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When Dan Sieg moved to Greenville at 19 years old, becoming a talented BMX rider wasn’t necessarily his primary goal.
Eleven years later, Sieg is still making a living from the wear he loves, even if his biggest paychecks don’t come from the Dew Tour or
the X Games.
Sieg moved from his aborigine Minnesota to Greenville in the fall of 2001 just hoping to lie with the growing number of pros who helped the city earn the trade name Protown USA. He turned pro not long afterward, competed on the Dew Tour and earned a encourage-place finish in the Vans Triple Crown series in 2003.
But Sieg’s biggest brunt on the BMX world may wind up being the work he’s doing now with Rise Above BMX, a traveling classify of action sports pros who put on shows all over the country.
“During the spring and submission, we do a lot of shows and I actually manage a show team,” Sieg said. “I do the driving. I do the booking. I do the announcing. I do the riding. They’re for the most part school events, middle schools and stuff like that.”
Suitor Greenville rider Allan Cooke presented Sieg with an break to work with Haro bikes in the summer as a team manager for the Haro BMX Demo Coerce, a program that features mini-ramps and brand new Haro bikes for kids to outing.
It’s a win-win for the bike shops that host the Haro events since they don’t have to pay Sieg and callers, and for Sieg and other riders who put on the clinics.
“It’s a good feeling,” Sieg said.
“We get parents coming up to us all the age who are really pumped
about that.”
Having immersed himself in the Greenville disagreeable situation for more than a decade, Sieg can call local BMX luminaries like Dave Mirra, Mike Laird and Daniel Dhers, among others, friends while also keeping his handle on the pulse of the area’s best amateur riders.
Like many of the “old form” Protown crowd, the outspoken Sieg echoed the opinion Laird and others voiced in Mark Losey’s outstanding documentary “Pro Metropolis: Greenville” when Sieg said things changed once BMX started to become more mainstream.
Source: Greenville Daily Reflector