Mountain Bike Riders
Steve Romaniuk
Style: Freerider, Gap Jumper
Hometown: Kelowna, B.C.
Steve Romaniuk burst onto the scene as a teenager. Full of youthful energy and big hit madness. He started killing it, was featured in several mountain bike films, and became a mountain bike celebrity.
Romo, as he seems to be called, is a self described mountain bike cowboy - the wild west type. The type who likes to ride bulls for fun - the bigger the better. Romo grew up in the interior of BC. He spent his youth hucking dirt bikes off things while straddled on top. Big gets Romo off. At some point he saw one of the early Kranked films, and it opened up his eyes to mountain biking.
Romo is one of the few riders who charges the biggest gaps on earth and stomps them one after another. At only 18 years old, he finished fifth at the 2003 Red Bull Rampage. (He might have placed even higher if he hadn't gone a little too "zesty" into a kicker, breaking his nose and fracturing a rib.) Performances like that, an epic heli drop on a never-before-ridden alpine line in British Columbia, and an incredible charge over the legendary road gap at Gillard Trails, have made him one of the most well-liked mountain bike riders.
Hometown: Kelowna, B.C.
Steve Romaniuk burst onto the scene as a teenager. Full of youthful energy and big hit madness. He started killing it, was featured in several mountain bike films, and became a mountain bike celebrity.
Romo, as he seems to be called, is a self described mountain bike cowboy - the wild west type. The type who likes to ride bulls for fun - the bigger the better. Romo grew up in the interior of BC. He spent his youth hucking dirt bikes off things while straddled on top. Big gets Romo off. At some point he saw one of the early Kranked films, and it opened up his eyes to mountain biking.
Romo is one of the few riders who charges the biggest gaps on earth and stomps them one after another. At only 18 years old, he finished fifth at the 2003 Red Bull Rampage. (He might have placed even higher if he hadn't gone a little too "zesty" into a kicker, breaking his nose and fracturing a rib.) Performances like that, an epic heli drop on a never-before-ridden alpine line in British Columbia, and an incredible charge over the legendary road gap at Gillard Trails, have made him one of the most well-liked mountain bike riders.
