Clickedbmx.com: 2/1/09

Name: Greg “I probably don’t like you” Litecky

Age: 26 pushin 13

Current height: 6’2

What were you doing an hour and a half ago?

Getting angry and spending too much money on car crap, I just want a chopper.

Where are you from, where are you living, and where are you going?

Philadelphia, Pa currently in Chandler, Az going nowhere.

How did you get into BMX?

My brother shredded the gnar so I watched him, I had the same mountain bike as in Napoleon Dynamite so I thrashed it and my dad didn’t want to buy me a new bike so I borrowed my buddy Brad Hansens, Gt Mach One Bitch. So eventually I got a paper route and bought a Dyno Nitro and started to ride with my homie Brandon Panuccio, look that name up.

I remember you use to ride for Nirve. I think you were on the team when Stephen Murray was too, right? How did you get on that team, what did they expect out of their riders, and what happened to them?

Nirve, hell yeah only frame I haven’t cracked, and it was good I just rode they called me little Murray. They went bankrupt like everything else. But they took care of me and sent me places to make 1,000 friends, so Nirve was the best thing I could have asked for at that time. But Gray Ellis was the manager and Steven let me into the world of the 909 brah. Since then all those fools have my back, best crew over there man. Seriously, I could never repay what Nasty and Steven have done for me. Miss you Steven.

You are notoriously known to be the most bitter and grumpiest man in BMX. But, every time I ride with you, you're all smiles, I mean you're usually talking shit while you're smiling but, why are you so bitter? Or, why do you think everyone feels that way?

Let me put it this way, im not bitter, I have a good life, I am smarter than I look and the thing is if you like me you like me, if you get me you get me, there is no middle ground. When I ride with you guys it puts me back to being 17 again and coming down to Tucson, and you know that will make you smile thinking about Celestial, wall ride whips and super whips, years before the squids who think they are hard these days. I love to ride my bike, not for you, or anyone else, for me. I also have a hard time around idiots. If you are dumb and do stupid shit with your life fuck it I will tell you to get out the way, go home or something. I just hate dumb fucks and there are allot of them.

The way I see it everyone in BMX lately is nothing but a bunch of whinny shit talking teenage girls. How do you feel about the current trends in BMX and what do you hate the most about it?

Don’t follow trends, still don’t wear beanies when it is 100 degrees, I don’t wear v-necks and I don’t care about Props videos, I shred do what I want and every once and awhile I will learn a new banger, out of the blue. No planning in bmx, definitely not clothing. I just hate scene kids who think bmx is about what you look like at the park, go ride, can you do it alone or do you need attention and social reinforcement. These are the questions. I rode alone for myself by myself for years, fuck bmx queers.

What do you love about BMX?

Personal Achievement, you don’t need a team to pull a double backie.

What is the best memory you have on your bike?

Probably the first time I went to the fort and told my buds I was gunna frontie the box and flair the quarter right after that. Most people thought I was kidding and I pulled both first try and was psyched it was like a week after fronts became all the rage, been there done that.

Top 5 favorite things to ride?

Any seven foot mini, chandler park, Fort McDowell, Celestial, Nasty Trails (any version)

What's your favorite move on the BMX?

Superman Seatgrab---like Ronnie chalk

Who is your favorite bike rider of all time?

Gotta be a tie between Gary Ellis and Nasty

If you were stranded on a desert island and you could have an infinite amount of any three things, what would they be and why?

Ha ha ha, well you no one thing.

Probly chicks, an infinite number of those is good.

Hmmm, cheerios? IDK

Do you have any influences?

Yes and his name will come up often, Nasty, Henio, Moey and Luke Parslow are my homies and the most real people I have ever met in my life, I try to treat my boys like they treat me.

Do you have a teaching job lined up?

Nope

What's the last book you read?

I don’t read for enjoyment and never have read a full book in my life.

Do you consider yourself dickfoot? Because, I personally can't figure out which way you naturally spin and grind.

If it is a trick other than nose wheelies I can do it both ways, just not whips on quarters though, Johnny Stevens has that on lock for me.

How long have you been riding for Standard, and how has that been? Anything in the near future we need to know about concerning yourself and SBC?

Yeah riding for them for a while, probly will forever, Rick is a friend before he is a sponsor and I am planning on going there to build an STA in the very near future. They build everything in house now and the new stuff is dope, but everyone is to much of a pussy to buy their shit because it isn’t sold at the local shop. Its called buy direct, say Litecky sent you and get hooked up.

Is Kronik energy drink still around? They use to carry that shit everywhere down here in Tucson, now I can't find it anywhere. How can I get a hold of some, man I'm jonesing for that shit.

Give me a check and I will tell you about it, otherwise find it yourself.

You probably have the worst luck out of anyone I know, can you explain why you think this is? And can you give us an example of your shitty luck as of late?

Oh god I could go on forever, but at least my car broke down this week, lost my NEW job, broke my forks and basically threw away my hopes of buying a house this year. Thanks George Bush. But yeah, bad luck, most likely because I keep it real and that can come off bad and send some negative Karma, fuck it, I got $$$$$$.

I've seen you do a flair with a cigarette hanging out of your mouth. You are one of the gnarliest riders in AZ and probably the world. What goes through your head when you're charging at an 8 foot quarter?

Nothing, I fully go with the flow. When I ride I usually know what I am gunna hit first to get pump and then feel it out. If you have ever seen me do a trick it just happens. That’s why I don’t film specific tricks. I just do what I feel---isnt that BMX. I just hate how bmx has become so stylish and street oriented and nose wheelied out. What ever happened to being scared of what you are about to do because you are 100 feet above the ground? And when I charge I blast, nuff said, ha ha.

In my opinion you are one the best riders I've ever seen touch a BMX bike, I know you do it because you love it. Is there anything else you do as well as you ride your bike? Is there anything else you're passionate about?

I am fully aware that riding bikes is not what I am a natural at, I have to work hard for that shit. But I am really passionate about one thing. Sitting in the woods, top of a mountain or at the river and just reflecting on what a luck S.O.B. I am. I love to relax, I a pro at it. No couches, I go and see things its called experiencing life.

That's all I got. Do you have any thanks or shout outs? If so, do that now....

Sure shout outs, Rick Moliterno for sure, you can hate him but he is like me no b.s. just take it or leave it ya know, he rule probably on of my best friends ever. Nasty, he has had my back for ten years, Steven Murray for introducing me to my friends, and all the homies that have died off because bikes aren’t cool or they got a chick preggers.

My addition to the questions* (Greg asked himself this one)
Are there any people you want to slam on the internet.

Well yes mike there are, let me list what I hate about bikes.

Beanies
V-Necks
Huge bars when you way 79 pounds
Helmets
Pink bike parts
Tight Pants
Trends
Trick ferrets
Shants
People who talk shit on your lifestyle and then copy it four years later (Phoenix Scene) hating for years but sure are partying now, haters, im OG.
People who think sponsors are the meaning behind tailwhips.
Tailwhips
Kids who mad dog you after they do a trick you did in 2001
People that call me old, if it wasn’t for nose wheelies and 100 stair 360’s ive done it, don’t hate I rode street and did every rail in Az when street was cool the first time.
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBeeen there DDdddddddddDone that.

Holler---Rob the space or give ur real e-mail.

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