Rory Meek
Born: in New Zealand 4th January, 2007
Race ranks: W3, NZ1, NZ2, HK1, Thai Open No.1, 2x US Open MTB No.1
World BMX championships: Auckland 2013 – World No.3; Netherlands 2014 – World No.3; Belgium 2015 W20; Colombia 2016 W11
Sponsors:Probikeshop.com, Looseriders, MeekBoyz, Mtbmagasia, Demon United
Fav. ride locations: Queenstown, USA, Lenzerheide, Whistler, Chiang Mai
Fav. ride locations: Queenstown, USA, Lenzerheide, Whistler, Chiang Mai
I am Rory Meek and I have been twice W3 for my age group in BMX racing and I am the current U12 US Open MTB Champion. During my bmx racing years I was sponsored by Thrill Bikes. Now racing downhill mountain biking, I am grateful to be sponsored by Pro Bike Shop, MeekBoyz, MTB Mag Asia, Demon United and Loose Riders Global Alliance.
Up until recently, I raced on a 24 full-carbon, dual-pivot, Meekboyz Beast bike. I have just moved to a MegaBeast 26. I first started racing at age 5 and won the South Island No.1 BMX title for my age group. The following year I became NZ1 and qualified to race for New Zealand at the World BMX Championships. At the worlds, I became W3 in Auckland, New Zealand then again, a year later I earned my second W3 at Rotterdam, Netherlands.
While most kids my age love screen time, I like to be outside doing things, building things and riding my bikes and park scooter. I run my own Instagram account to document my adventures. I like riding fast trails and jump lines on my MegaBeast 26 and my squishy suspension means I can hit bigger jumps than most.
I have been racing around the world with my parents since I was age five. My favourite race event is the US Open MTB because the prizes are the sickest ever. I won a Horizon Hobby RC car for first place. My other favourite races are the World Tour Crankworx events. I have been to Crankworx Rotorua and Crankworx Whistler for the last three years and have a few medals from the different Kidsworx events.
I like to train and it comes naturally for me after racing BMX for five years at five world BMX Championships in Europe, North America, Oceania and South America. Most of my training is outside doing sprint training, trail riding, exercise sets and sometimes TRX with my dad. I like to push myself hard and I do not like to give up.
Aside from racing I love travelling because I get to make many new friends and ride with them on the slopes and we all keep in touch by Instagram.
A favourite downhill race event was at Yunnan province in China. I won the bronze medal for the youth group. It was fun to race there because even though I am a kiwi, I have grown up for most of my life in Hong Kong, China. My dad built a bike park in Hong Kong for my brother and I to develop our skills and learn to jump correctly. Riding in Asia is fun and I have raced events in Thailand, China, Malaysia and Indonesia. The events always have so many good prizes and I get to travel to new places. The people I meet are always so friendly and we like to hang out riding laps together.
When I grow up I want to be a professional downhill racer. Riding is a great way to make new friends and it takes me so many rad places.
Find Rory on Instagram: @rory_meek and @meekboyz 23K followers
Toby Meek
Born: in New Zealand 27th December, 2004
Race ranks: HK1, NZ4, Thai Open No.2, NZ3, O2, US Open U15 No.3
World BMX championships: Auckland 2013 W33; Netherlands 2014 W33; Belgium 2015 W30; Colombia 2016 W33
2018 NZ3 U15 Downhill Oceania No.2 , 2018 US Open MTB U15 No.3, 2018 Crankworx Whistler U15 Dual Slalom No.3 , Air DH No.7
Sponsors:Probikeshop.com, Looseriders, MeekBoyz, Demon United, Mtbmagaisa
Fav. ride locations: Dream Line Queenstown, Surabya, Switzerland, Whistler, Chiang Mai Thailand, Highland Park, USA,
I am Toby Meek and my main racing pedigree comes from BMX racing where I raced at world championships level for five years. Being a December birthday I was always the youngest in my category I had to work harder but I always came in the top third of my age group. In Hong Kong, I grew up racing riders much older than me to help improve my skill-level and challenge me more.
I am current U15 US Open MTB No.3 for downhill racing. During my bmx racing years I was sponsored by Thrill Bikes. Now racing downhill mountain biking, my sponsors are Pro Bike Shop, MeekBoyz, MTB Mag Asia, Demon United and Loose Riders Global Alliance.
I currently race on a 26 full-carbon, dual-pivot, Meekboyz MegaBeast bike. I first started bmx racing at age 5 and always made the NZ finals for my age group. At age 8, I won NZ4 for my age group even though I was the youngest in the year group.
Aside from travelling and racing with my family, I love to jump mega jumps and I mean JUMP! My father made a purpose-built jump park near our Hong Kong home so that I could learn to jump with high technical skill. The park had table tops, gap jumps and an airbag. I love sending it high and far and now I live in Queenstown, I have Dream Line to shred in my own backyard. Nico Vink of Loose riders is my main inspiration.
Last year, in Queenstown I was determined to clear all of Dream Line jump line aged 13. I had seen on Instagram that Jackson Goldstone made seven of the nine mega jumps. When I got there and saw the last two jump spans, I could see why. They were huge! I spent the morning picking my way down Dream Line and as I got closer to the big ones I realised I could jump those too. I got them both my first attempts. You can see it on my Youtube channel. That day I also met Lukas Knopf and rode with him.
Aside from downhill racing, I love aerial time and big air jumps. Heights do not frighten me like most. I have competed in the invitational whip-off competition for the past two years at the US Open MTB. I like to send it, throwing whips, tuck no-handers, supermans, 360s, bar spins and backflips. I was stoked to get my first backflip to dirt at Highland Bike Park last summer.
My dream is to travel and compete. I want to develop my freestyle big air capabilities and compete in slopestyle as well as downhill. For slopestyle riding, I ride a custom 24 titanium Meekboyz dirt-jumper.
I just like to ride, whatever I am doing, whether it be my downhill rig, my dirt-jumper, my unicycle or my park scooter. I am always hacking about, trying out new tricks to progress my skill-set and I like to invent new tricks other people have not tried yet.