The forerunner of all BMX freestylers, at the height of his career in the mid ’80s, Eddie Fiola was earning huge bucks and featured on the cover of countless magazines. He won the King of the Skateparks competitions in the USA five times, then the most prestigious event in BMX, and was the Freestyle NORA award winner four times.
Post BMX he also went on to become a successful stuntman, working on ‘The Dukes of Hazard’ and ‘The Italian Job’ among others, and even had a film called ‘Rad’, that is loosely based on his life. He basically invented freestyle BMX and did it with class, style and more importantly – without leathers.