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Rider of The Month - June 2012 - Scott Clark

Name: Scott Clark
Lives: Northern California

Credits: Stunt Rider

Team: Redline

Scott is the owner of Clark BMX, and remains very active in the BMX community. I appreciated him taking the time to share his stories of RAD and life on the set.

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How did you become involved with RAD?
I was riding for Redline at the time and got a call from them telling me there was a BMX movie being filmed in Canada and they wanted me in it and wanted me to drive the Redline motorhome up from LA.

Do you remember what bike you rode? Any special setup?
I took my race bike.  Redline 800p with Flight cranks.  Fairly stock bike.

 
What is your favorite part of RAD?

I'm a bit of a goof so I like the part in the beginning where one character says "let's walk this sucker".... it's so stupid, no one ever said that back then.  I figured it was a line put in by a writer who just didn't get it.  So it cracks me up it was even in the movie.  

Did you do any stunt double work? Why or why not?
No I didn't do any double work.  I had a broken wrist with a cast on it when the movie was filmed.  I had my gloves and sleeves pulled over it.  I didn't even go down the start hill.  For one it scared the crap out of me.  When you stood up on top it was so steep it looked like it curved backwards.  With my wrist broken I didn't want to mess it up and wind up missing races because of it.

If you watch at the end of the movie you see me coming down the start hill to the finish line in behind the main characters.  That's not me.  It was Mike Miranda in my uniform... he doubled for me.  If you remember he crashed out earlier off the uphill half pipe jump and couldn't be in the final scene.

Any stories you can share about life on the set or off?
There are a lot of stories.  Most of the crash scenes in the movie were real crashes... except the water crash, that was staged.  The crash scene with me coming out of the cereal bowl is real.  The guy in front of me fell and I landed on him... for real.

The movie staff had this person that watched for everything to be in it's place from scene to scene so the bikes were in the same place, uniforms the same, everything.  That way when they moved the cameras the scenes all flow correctly.  Well if you watch the number plates from scene to scene some of the guys moved the stickers around on them or took some off, so a guy comes out of one corner with a sticker in one place and next shot it's gone or moves on the plate.  (They didn't catch that one).

Also I had SCP  (Scott Clark Products) going at the time.  I put some T shirts on some of the extra's that were standing at the finish line during the heats.  So if you look you'll see some of my shirts in there.

When the "sponsored" rider in the skin tight spandex suit rides by... he's on my bike.

On an off day some of the actors and a few BMX'ers wanted to go to check out Banff.  So I drove them up the mountain in the Redline motorhome.  It was icy and snowing.  On the way down the hill the brakes weren't working (felt like metal on metal) and I was driving like hell to keep from going off the cliff.  That would have been pretty bad for us all to go off a cliff in the middle of filming.

There was ice and snow on the ground on a couple of days and they would sweep it off before filming to make it look like summer.

The relationship with Hal, Robert, etc.

Those guys were so cool to us.  They treated us great.  We were invited to watch the dailies every night.  They would actually fly the film out from the days shooting, get it developed and fly it back for viewing.  I couldn't believe Hal and a couple of others... they would stay up Late, Late Late drinking etc... and next morning be on set ready to go.  These guys were no spring chickens, but there they were every day.  I think they trained for that or something.

Have you enjoyed the interest people have 26 years later?
I never really knew there was much interest in the movie until recently.  I was at a Hall of Fame dinner and was talking to Eddie Fiola and he is in tune with the popularity. He was telling me about it.  My step son's were  into RAD when they were kids and now they know I was in the movie they think It's cool, they tell all there friends that there step dad was in RAD.  (They're in their 30's now and they still think the movie is cool)  I've only seen the movie twice.  Once at the premier (which a lot of us riders thought the movie was kind of lame because we were thinking it was going to be a hard core BMX movie) The other time when it came out on VHS ( remember those ).  

It's a trip to know that RAD has such a cult following.  I guess it really hit a spot in people at the right time. Now that they are older they remember it meant something to them and reminded them of their youth.

What are you working on now?
I'm a business man now.  I own two companies.  One is an aquarium manufacturing company. http://www.truvuaquariums.com/ and the other is a BMX company I recently started called ClarkBMX,http://www.clarkbmx.com/.  We sell race supplies online and are coming out with some soft goods and components with the Clark name on them.

Anything else you can add?Thanks for your interest in RAD and us riders.  It's a real honor to have people interested in the movie and myself after all these years.  The interest is very much appreciated!  Thank you.