{"id":112,"date":"2009-07-06T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisyoungdesign.com\/news\/?p=112"},"modified":"2021-11-30T23:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T07:07:25","slug":"digbmx-mag-paul-buchanan-solo-mission-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisyoungdesign.com\/portfolio\/digbmx-mag-paul-buchanan-solo-mission-article\/","title":{"rendered":"DigBMX Mag: Paul Buchanan Solo Mission article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisyoungdesign.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dig-paulb-solo-mission-lg.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-178 size-full\" title=\"DigBMX Magazine - Paul Buchanan Solo Mission\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisyoungdesign.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dig-paulb-solo-mission-lg.jpg?resize=1000%2C645&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisyoungdesign.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dig-paulb-solo-mission-lg.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisyoungdesign.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dig-paulb-solo-mission-lg.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chrisyoungdesign.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dig-paulb-solo-mission-lg.jpg?resize=900%2C580&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few years back I helped contribute a story to Ireland&#8217;s DigBMX magazine about <strong>Paul Buchanan<\/strong>, a somewhat elusive rider that shied away from all the magazines and media back in the day. He&#8217;s originally from London, Ontario, so I&#8217;ve known him since he was a kid. Dig just recently posted the &#8216;Solo Mission&#8217; story onto the classic archives section of their site, so it was good to see the article again&#8230; I&#8217;d completely forgotten about it.<\/p>\n<p>You can check it out here: <del>www.digbmx.com\/mag-archive\/classics\/dig-archives-paul-buchanan<\/del> (the article is no longer online when Dig updated their website in Oct 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original story, text-only (for my archives)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If I had to recall the exact time and place that I first met Paul, I don&#8217;t know that I could. He was just this shy and quiet kid that would always hang out wherever we were riding. He was into racing, but he was getting bored &#8211; you couldn&#8217;t keep a guy like Paul on a track. He must have been 11 or 12 when he started hanging out with us, back about 1987. He wasn&#8217;t like all the other kids. He didn&#8217;t ask the stupid questions &#8211; you know the ones, you hear them all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Being five years younger than the rest of our crew, I imagine Paul took more than his fair share of the jokes and teasing, like a rookie race car driver &#8211; but week after week, he&#8217;d be back for more. It didn&#8217;t matter what we were riding, Paul would be there before we got there, and long after we left, that&#8217;s for damn sure. The difference between Paul and all the other kids was that he was just a ripper. He was always going for the burliest stuff. Tricks out of his grasp, hell, tricks out of our grasp, but he was going for it at any cost.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Paul hasn&#8217;t always been the smooth rider he is today &#8211; in fact, he was quite the opposite. Back then he was known for his wipeouts. Paul ate shit bigger than anybody. He was so hard on bikes. He&#8217;d destroy more parts in a month than I would all year.<\/p>\n<p>What stands out the most for me was the day he decided he was going to learn 360&#8217;s over this near-vert spine at the Launch Pad skatepark in Oakville, Ontario. Paul was about 16 at the time, and the older guys were doing them &#8211; so there was no reason why he couldn&#8217;t. Now granted, this was a weird ramp, the transitions were pretty tight, and being 4&#8242; tall, it was hard as hell to ride. He rolled in, hit the spine and hucked that 360 for all it was worth. The second he hit the coping things weren&#8217;t looking too good. He over-rotated and went straight to his face, didn&#8217;t even have a chance to get his hands down \u2013 he&#8217;d knocked his teeth out. Thousands of dollars went back into putting his teeth all back together, but he couldn&#8217;t let a small thing like that hold him back. He had to get back on the bike. And get back on the bike he did.<\/p>\n<p>Paul really started blowing up around the time I moved out west to Vancouver, so I missed seeing the transition in person, but you&#8217;d keep hearing these rumours of how good he was getting. And the rumours kept coming. Paul&#8217;s success could never be measured in dollars, but rather the passion he has for riding his bike, and it couldn&#8217;t have happened to a more genuine and modest person. Paul rode long and hard to get to where he is today, wherever he is anyway, Take care out there Paul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chris Young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back I helped contribute a story to Ireland&#8217;s DigBMX magazine about Paul Buchanan, a somewhat elusive rider that shied away from all the magazines and media back in the day. He&#8217;s originally from London, Ontario, so I&#8217;ve known him since he was a kid. 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