Charles Robertson
In some ways, Charles Robertson projects the characteristics of your average teenager. His first job was at KFC, he’s dead keen on skateboarding and riding motorbikes, and by the time this magazine is released he will have finished high school in Sydney. On the other hand, he’s got some pretty grown-up shit happening in his life. Instead of heading to the Gold Coast for a schoolies-week piss up, he’s making his first trip to The States to film for Chocolate Skateboards, who have just put him on the flow team. He seems to have a sure-footedness about him, revealing that he’s already made plans for what happens next in his life. Maybe this is a side effect of being sponnoed since he was 13, or maybe it’s just Charles.
As we chatted about a stolen motorbike, a broken wrist and the staff politics at his favourite fast food restaurant, I got the vibe that Charles has a lot to look forward to. And, as the photos attest, the young fella’s sure not afraid to throw himself down a hefty gap or rail.
“I BET MY BIKE WAS BEING STOLEN RIGHT AT THAT VERY MOMENT. I DEFINITELY THINK I JINXED MYSELF.”
I heard you’re really into your motorbikes; how long have you been riding them?
I got really into bikes after getting my first one. I just wanted to go places without catching buses or trains; especially from school, ’cause that bus came like an hour after I finished and I’d always get home when it was dark. I read that you can get your bike Ls three months before your car Ps, which is basically like having a full licence anyway, so I worked a bunch and got a dirt bike and my licence the day I turned
