Ryan : My first sponsor was The Jiffy Market of Los Gatos.
I think the age I really started to progress was around 16 or 17 and it was mainly with 360 varriations and getting comfortable with those. That was probably the biggest learning curve.
5th place stuntmen street @ 1996 BS round 2, LA.
A new kid named Ryan Nyquist showed up at the 1996 Seal Beach BS contest, turned pro and started turning a lot of heads.
Ryan : The first day of school back, seeing me on ESPN was all I heard. "Dude, I was flipping through the channels and I saw Ryan Nyquist on there, what's up with that?". They were stoked. I then told them I got hooked up with Airwalk and they were all like, "Can you get me shoes?" That's all they were really wanting.
Ryan is ponsored by Bontrager.
Ryan : They're just a bunch of totally cool guys, they just wanted to get into BMX, and they saw me and Butthead in the Sick videos and wanted to hook us up, and ever since then everything's been going the right way. They've been getting ideas from us, and just totally putting the bikes together the way they should be, real strong and sturdy.
New Bontrager freestyle professional Ryan Nyquist pulls of a no-footed can can over the box jump at the Destination Extreme contest in Seal Beach, California on the cover of BMX Business News premiere issue.
4th place stuntmen street @ 1996 BS round 3, Chicago.
Truckdrivers, bus-drivers over the long box, truck driver to opposite busdriver, the list goes on and on.
First photos in Ride US august september 1996.
Soccer.
Ryan : I was on the Los Gatos soccer team. A lot of people were giving me crap about that.
Sponsored by Bontrager bikes, Airwalk, Primo, Jinx, Solid bikes, EP, and Jiffy Market.
Interview in Ride US #25 december 1996.
I got sponsored by Haro in 1997. Todd Lyons was leaving the team to ride for Huffy, and recommended me as a replacement for him. I was getting a lot of coverage at the time as a new guy who was doing fairly well at the contests, and they decided to pick me up.
X-Games
Ryan : The San Jose Ramp Club was awesome, and I can truly say that I learned most of my skills that I have today from riding there. NorCal will always be where my roots are, but there comes a point in your life where you need to move on, and for me that was moving east to see what was out there.
Interview in Ride UK #38 december 1998.
Ryan Nyquist is the name on the lips of most (...) Not only is he multi-talented but the fact that Ryan's such a nice bloke has made him super-popular.
Ryan : I had 100-percent input on the stickers, the colors,... I'm really psyched on how it came out.
X-Games
Ryan : I made the finals -the top ten- in every event which was one of my goals.
Ryan Nyquist at the X-Games on the cover of BMX Plus! october 1999.
Poster&interview in Ride US november 1999.
Ryan Nyquist throws a barspin to no hander into a backflip at the KOD finals (Huntington Beach, CA).
NORA Cup #1 dirt jumper
Adidas Nyquist shoe.
Ryan Nyquist suicide no-hander during the Mirra tour on the cover of BMX Plus! october 2001.
Ryan pulled a 360-flip over a spine for the first time.
Ryan : It took me three tries to land the 360 flip on the spine clean, and it was at the Worlds in Germany.
Ryan : Actually my name (according to my father) is from German and Finnish descendants. I did make some great Swedish friends at the Worlds in Cologne, Germany.
Cover of BMX Plus! august 2004.
Ryan Nyquist Silver Run BMX Dirt X-Games 12.
