FRANKLIN FARM
progress at their chosen sport.
£ Nick and Jed Mildon
take five
“I’m coming to the end of my
career, so I’m now at the stage
where I want to help the sport and
push others along, and still have
some sort of usefulness in FMX, I
guess,” Nick shrugs. “I’m 33 now
and FMX has been my livelihood
since 2002, when I quit my job
to ride. That’s 13 years ago now,
and I never saw it going as far
as it did. I’ve travelled the world
riding a bike, and if I can help the
next wave of young Kiwis have the
same life that I’ve had, then I’ll be
there to help them.”
Plans are already underway to set
up the camps, with Jed looking
at ways to modify the woolshed
(which is now only used for
storage) and turn it into some form
of dorm-style accommodation.
However, with Jed now in the
middle of the intense 2015 Nitro
Circus Live world tour and Nick
bound for Europe later this year,
the plans are only in the very early
stages.
“We’re not at the stage where
we can run camps yet, but in
the future there could be guys
who want to come for anything
between two days and six weeks
to train and we can cater for that.”
£ Inside the woolshed
“We’re already getting people from
around the world asking if they can
come and ride here, so we want to
keep building the Franklin Farm up
and make it a place worth coming
to,” Nick explains. “There’s already
a lot going on, but we need to
cater to all levels of training. At the
moment we have some amateur
stuff, but there’s too big a jump up
to the next level. To me, that’s a
very important piece of the puzzle
we need to look at.”
Once those identified gaps have
been filled, there’s no doubt that
the Franklin Farm could easily
become one of the world’s best
training facilities for two-wheeled
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£ Nick throws a big Nac
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