Ryun learned to ride watching his older brother set up ramps to jump the neighborhood kids — and at age 10 nearly cleared his best friend’s swing set on a BMX bike. The habit stuck.
Since 1983 the Noble Designs test crew has been riding, breaking, and designing parts for road and mountain bicycles. The best test bench for a component is a rider who refuses to go easy on it.
Ryun was among the pioneers of extreme free-riding, with antics featured in magazines, sports and technology videos, and across the web — including 12-inch-travel all-mountain machines and the Haro Team Extreme.
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