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I’ve Always Been a Cowboy in My Heart

I got my first BMX when I was 10. Nowadays, BMXing and skateboarding is cool, but back then we were outcasts – you’d get beat up just for being different.

When I was a kid, home was Newmains, a working-class, ex-mining town about 20 miles southeast of Glasgow. It was pretty rundown. I just wanted to be on my BMX all the time. There were a few of us who were into it, we had a wee gang and as we got older we would enter small competitions, get drunk, have a

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