SAM SCHULTE INTERVIEW

Location: St. Louis, Mo.
Age: 27
Occupation:
Owner of Tree Bicycle Co.

Describe the worst haircut you’ve ever had.
I had a mullet for about 4 years! Which is pretty bad but I had a worse hair cut than that. For a while I had my head shaved and only left the bangs and the mullet.

If you had a signature frame, what would you call it?
Call of the Wild

Which other BMX team would you most like to challenge to a wrestling match?
Team Young, they are fucking crazy!

What’s your best move off of a diving board? Front flip.

What trick have you always wanted
to see get done?
A table so tweaked behind you that
your bike is on your back.

What is your spirit animal?
The Buffalo

Why do people call Andy, “Butch?”
Well he used to have luscious locks
of hair and plus he has a beautiful
face. And he would sometimes look very pretty to old men at bars. But
now his hair is cut short and he other day he was walking my girlfriend Crystal’s dog and later that week the neighbor asked us if we had a son!

What is your secret talent?
I can only whistle by sucking air in.

What are your hobbies outside of
BMX? You are not allowed to say photography or skateboarding.
I am very into health and nutrition.
I feel like there are so many poisons
in the commercial foods that are sold
to us. At 21 I decided to eat healthy.
The less and less processed food I ate the better I felt. Then I decided to go
a step further and only eat my food organic, fresh, and raw. When I did
this my senses became clearer and I
felt like I became sober. I’ve done
some strange things along the way
but I feel like I’m on the right path
and that my health is improving tremendously.

Have you ever eaten something out
of a trash can? What was it?
How did it taste?
Yeah lots of things. I was eating 50% food from the trash when I first
moved out of my parent’s house.
Mostly it was Entenmann's Pastries. They had a magic dumpster behind
the store that had at least 3 feet deep
of boxed expired old pastries at all
times. It tasted about the same as the stuff that came from the front of the store; it has so many preservatives it would last for 2 years and still be the same!

What is your most prized possession?
I guess my consciousness

What was the most trouble you ever
got into in school?
This isn’t the worst time but one time
in grade school I got into a fight
with a kid named Brian. He took
my brand new pencil and started to
use it, so I got mad and tried to grab
the pencil back from him. Then we started a kind of tug of war with it,
but then he pushed forward instead
of pulled and somehow the pencil
got jammed into my arm! The whole pencil was just hanging out of my
arm and I had to go to the nurses
office to get it pulled out! It was
funny.

If the entire Tree Team was dead
tired, in the van, hundreds of miles
away from home. Who would you
trust to drive all night to get you
home? Who would be the first to
fall asleep at the wheel?
Myself, I’m pretty good for the long haul. Cole would be the first to fall asleep he can’t drive at night.

Tell me something funny about one
of your parents. When my dad was
a kid his mom used to dress him up
like a girl.

What are you going to name your autobiography?
The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From
The Tree, but Sometimes It Rolls
Down The Hill.

How many times have you been to the emergency room? About 5 times

What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?
I’ve recently been eating raw organ meats for there high mineral and
vitamin content.

What’s the worst job you have
ever had?
I worked as a waiter for a 4-star restaurant. I kind of bullshited my
way through the interview and got
the job even though I never waited before and did not know how to wait. As it turns out I was a horrible waiter and my boss was really hard on me.
Plus I got bad tips because of my bad service. The day I quit I went up to
my boss and told him he was the
biggest asshole I ever met and that
I quit. Be he burned me back by
smiling and sarcastically saying
thanks.

What is your favorite food?
Raw cream and banana smoothies
and any food that is health providing

What is your least favorite food?
Ginger and food that is unhealthy

Have you ever been attacked by a
wild animal?
Yeah when we were in Winnipeg, Canada the mosquitoes attacked us
by the millions!! We had to swat at
them non-stop.