Nigel Sylvester, Pro BMX Athlete and Internet Star, Is Riding from the Screen to the Page with New Book - Yahoo Entertainment

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Nigel Sylvester, Harrison Boyce, Rob Dyrdek Where was the representation taken – Los Angeles, Paris, London, Dubai, New York When was the representation taken – 2015 – 2019 Who took the photograph – Harrison Boyce Full recognition enactment – Harrison Boyce/Rizzoli

Harrison Boyce/Rizzoli

Nigel Sylvester rode his archetypal motorcycle erstwhile helium was 4 years old, and the New York autochthonal hasn't stopped pedaling since.

"The infinitesimal that I touched the bicycle and took those archetypal fewer pedals, I knew astatine that constituent that the bicycle would beryllium contiguous passim my life," the Pro BMX jock tells PEOPLE. "I consciousness similar the mode we're designed arsenic people, we gravitate towards definite things. And the bicycle was my thing."

In the years since taking that archetypal ride, Sylvester has near this people connected BMX civilization by blending the athletics with music, manner and art; a conception that is instantly evident successful his fashionable point-of-view YouTube series, GO.

The videos person received tens of millions of views and amusement Sylvester riding his motorcycle — oregon pitchy ski, or Ferrari — astatine a breakneck velocity done large cities similar Miami, Las Vegas, and Tokyo. But the spice of Sylvester's videos comes from however they showcase some metropolis streets and the things that fewer get to experience, similar hanging retired with the likes of Steve Aoki and DJ Khaled or, successful the lawsuit of his Dubai trip, jumping retired of an airplane with a bike.

The videos, usually astir 5 to 10 minutes successful length, tin instrumentality weeks to program and shoot, Sylvester says. And portion that whitethorn look similar a analyzable undertaking (because it is), Sylvester says, astatine his heart, helium likes to support things simple.

"I consciousness staying existent to yourself arsenic a originative is the astir important thing," helium says. "And for me, that's however I recovered success. Throughout my career, I've evolved — immoderate artist, athlete, oregon originative volition germinate due to the fact that your experiences are different. You get antithetic influences, and antithetic things animate you."

True to the rubric of the series, Sylvester's GO videos are fast-paced and perpetually successful motion. Clips seamlessly modulation into each other, and a clip filmed from a edifice stairwell volition power to a photograph studio, past backmost retired to the thoroughfare moments later. GO videos are filled with fluid sequences similar these and tin beryllium considered the ocular equivalent of a rhythmic hip-hop beat.

But for 1 uncommon moment, Sylvester is slowing things down to instrumentality GO from the surface to the page.

Nigel Sylvester: GO, a photography publication retired Oct. 11 from Rizzoli, features much than 200 pages of Sylvester and his trips astir the world, which were taken by lensman and cinematographer Harrison Boyce.

"It was decidedly a process," Sylvester says of choosing what to see successful the book. "But we decided, man, what are the astir important stories for each city? And besides what are things that radical haven't seen before?"

Like the GO videos, the postulation features cameos from celebrities specified arsenic A$AP Ferg, erstwhile NBA subordinate Nick Young and Super Bowl XLVI champion Victor Cruz. But betwixt the celebrated faces and places featured connected the book's pages, Sylvester — who besides runs the Nigel Sylvester Foundation with the extremity of donating thousands of bikes to underprivileged younker — hopes the images animate much radical to instrumentality up riding.

"I anticipation that radical are inspired and moved successful immoderate way, successful a affirmative way," Sylvester says of the book. "I besides anticipation that radical recognize the boundlessness of bicycle riding. We ever accidental the motorcycle is the astir accessible mode of proscription successful the world. And to spot the bicycle assistance facilitate this travel astir the satellite — and we inactive person much to spell — but this is the archetypal bookmark to spot however almighty the bicycle is, and I anticipation that radical recognize that arsenic well."

Harrison Boyce/Rizzoli

Assembling the book, and looking backmost astatine hundreds of photographs from his life, offered Sylvester a accidental to bespeak connected a travel that began arsenic a kid increasing up successful Jamaica, Queens, and 1 that has allowed him to scope much radical with his motorcycle than helium could person ever imagined.

"One of the things we've been afforded by filming GO are the friendships we fostered passim the experience. I've met astonishing radical passim the process of the bid frankincense acold that I'll cognize for the remainder of my beingness and that I talk to connected a predominant basis," helium says. "That is astir apt the astir important portion — the friendships and the assemblage that we've built, and sharing with radical that they could spell execute immoderate they want."

"The ethos of GO is the unapologetic, relentless, graceful pursuit of immoderate dream," Sylvester adds. "We each person dreams and goals and ideas. So to person the GO brand reenforce that, a spot wherever radical tin galvanize others, it's a almighty thing, and I privation to proceed to physique it."

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