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The Quarterpipe Question

By Tim Mutrie
EXPN.com

Friday, September 12, 2008

Fredrik Johansson had a dream. It kept him up one night in late June. "I couldn't sleep, just thinking about something new and different in the quarterpipe," recalls the 29-year-old pro FMXer from Sweden. By the next morning, Johansson had in his mind a clear vision and a new mission. Setting out then to make this dreamy idea a reality, he and his cousin went directly to the local freeride park and flipped a kicker ramp up on its back. The new configuration created a quarterpipe hit, albeit ...

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