Levi’s latest tricks
Former FMX champion-of-everything Levi Sherwood has always had a reputation for having some of the slickest, trickest set-ups in the game. The crazy thing is, everything you see on his bikes is designed by him, based on thousands of hours of riding ramps, freestyle compounds and tracks, then an almost equal amount of time computer modelling, working on carbon-fibre moulds, machining on a lathe and whipping up stuff on his 3D printers.
Truth be told, Sherwood actually has two bikes and this isn’t the wild one! That’s a revolutionary, featherweight 250SX that is almost redesigned from the ground up for elite competition, and we’ll be covering that in a future issue, so stay tuned.
The bike profiled here is a tougher, more practical “development bike” that’s designed to take the punishment of everyday FMX practice use while still giving a similar feel to his fully-fledged competition bike. And the good news is you could build one like it.
“Basically, this bike came about because I got sick of fixing carbon-fibre parts,” says Sherwood from social isolation in Feilding, NZ. “My comp. bike was developed for performance to the ninth degree, and I
