Hannu Cools

Full name :
Hannu Cools

Age :
27

Sponsors :
eastpak, carhartt, wtp, etnies

Years riding :
since 1997

Who got you into riding:
schoolmate jacques

Riding buddies :
my bro, nico vink, greg van tulder, sven griete, timo bauwens, manu ceelen, quentin de martelare...........

Riding terrain :
trails, bowls, park

Tricks or style:
little bit both

Worst injury
broken elbow

Pegs or without / brakes or brakeless:
once in a while pegs and rear brake

If you could ride just one sport for the rest of your life, what and where would it be:
MX trails

Shooting or competing / Trips or contests:
TRIPS!!! and shooting

With an unlimited travelbudget - what would you do and where would you go?
would let scientists make a bmx that infolds to the size of a sugarcube with a 'push button to transform' and ride around with an old motorbike joined by my brother and some friends. driving to where the wind brings us. I know, its not really a moneyspending pimp trip, but this tought interests me more than having a private jet.

Favourite color:
dirtygreen, dirtybrown  dirtyyellow

Favourite food :
cauliflower in white sauce with mashed patatoos/carots/onion... njamie!

Vegetarian, vegan or meat?
best way to describe me is a meateating vegetarian

Favourite drink :
water, beer, thee, coffee, rum, juice...

Favourite music?
stuff like yann tiersen, portishead, the bronx, emir kusturica, goran bregovic, shantal, gogol bordello, flogging molly, gentleman, bob marley, the ninth symfony,  antwerp gypsie ska orchestra, the no smoking orchestra,  the cure, rage against the machine, daft punk, tokyo ska paradise, johnny cash, prodigy, sisters of mercy, billy idol.........

Favourite destinations / places visited :
australia was realy fun, good weather good spots, nice trees, ocean!

Things that bug you:
questions like whats your favorite..... because lots of times my favorite thing depends on the situation

Things you love :
nature, good friends, karmeliet (beer), my girlfriend, cooking on campfire, chainsaw, racing, motorcycles, sauna, dancing, i like to sing, but i guess 99procent of the planet rather has me not doing it! playing instruments (same coment as singing) treehouses, animals, dreaming, when dreams come true, travelling, comming home, beeing naked surrounded by naked people, and it definitely is fun when they are beautiful but thats not the reason why i like it. It just feels more real to me, like everybody is equal.    

Qhat is your perfect day?
waking up next to a campfire from the day before, in a forest.  cooking breakfast on the fire, riding trails with friends, swimming in ocean or lake, river. In the evening, making campfire again, cook diner on it, drink some beers, go to sleep next to the campfire

Top three non riding activities:
climbing, cutting trees, music

One thing that probably nobody knows about you:
I was born ass first and my name was bjorn for a while, until my dad was sick of it that everybody thought it was from bjorn borg ( a famous tennis player) from then its Hannu

Movies or books / favourites:
black cat white cat, snatch, trainspotting, amelie poulin, usual suspects, quentin trantino, and books about the universe, about monkeys, red couple books about families that go and live in the middle of the jungle, am also verry interested in the evolution of nature....

Spray-on pants or Mc Hammer´s:
naked

Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris?
Chuck norris is funny

Any funny or incredible story happend to you:
I always have a good time on raodtrips, but this one time a couple of years ago i went to barcelona with my friends in my van. we have been there for a week and the thirth day somebody broke in the van and stole some money, cellphones...  it was such a bad feeling. Not that my money was gone but just the feeling that somebodywas in your stuff. to make things worse, the day before we left somebody broke in the van again. there was nothing inside this time so out of  frustration they smashed the two front/side windows, 1400km drive home without windows SUCKS especialy when it starts raining!!!!

Best thing every happend :
my life at the moment! riding my bike, working not to much, having an awesome girlfriend, a baby soon!

Heroes (bmx or not) :
charles darwin. it takes a lot of courage (especialy in the old verry religious days) to go completely in agains the rules of how life works and comes from. he kind of proved that we are part of nature and not aliens made by god. everything on earth is one big family! i love that feeling!

If you could have dinner with anybody on the planet, who would it be and why?
the only person i can think of is my mom who past away 2years ago, i really wish i could have diner with her and tell her i will be dad soon!

If you could have someone elses identity for a day, who would you be and why?
id love to be bush or bin laden for a day, so i know what is the real story behind all that bull---s going on. You hear so much stories about that situation but i guess there is only a few people on this planet who will ever now. television makes you believe wathever it wants, and it makes people so scared they show and tell bigbrother everything about there life without asking questions, for our own safety? offcourse! sounds exactly like a church. so actualy nothing changed since a priest new every secret of all the people in the village! and made them scared by with stories of the devil!  hehe television, the modern church:)    

What character (role) in which movie you feel the closest too? young einstein in young einstein, an australian movie, not for the brains, see the movie and you will understand!

Where are you in 10 years?
living in a semi treehouse with my girlfriend and son. having a ridable garden in front of it, some animals chickens for the foodgarbage, a sheep as landmower, maybe some other animals.  

favourite eastpak product/bag :
i love the anarchie line from eastpak but unfortunatly they dont make them anymore resistance disaster

best product ever invented:
music

Thanks or shout outs:
thank my girlfriend because she is the nicest person ever! thanks to my sponsors offcourse, i wouldnt have seen half the things i saw without them. my local friends because i have the best times riding with them. my boss because we have a verry good 'give and take' relationship!  my family because its good to now that wathever happens they will always be there for you!