ll ManOnFire ll
Text by murderbysound
A great friend and a very talented artist and track builder / rider.
Like many in this community, meeting someone through Trials leads to a great friendship with like mided people. I was to meet ManOnFire after playing one of his tracks and sending that message to say how much I enjoyed his track and driving line ! This would lead to many an exchange of messages about building and then into voice chats and swapping advice and testing new builds.
He was a very helpful man and always had time to show his latest builds and test mine and others builds whenever he had free time.
Was never a dull moment when he was in a party, he was very easy going and also funny as he could take the piss out of people in a good way and always enjoyed it when people took the piss out of him too. Many a time we would wind him up that his parts of his tracks were pish and he should just scrap them, they were fucking amazing, but it was hilarious to hear him say « wot the fook, I aint scrapping shit people can just learn to like my pish tracks » and then would would laugh and tell him that we were only joking and thought they were amazing ! Only to hear him say « I was going to delete you from my friends list » then he would roar laughing.
He was a really great artist with a wild imagination and had that salvador dali type of imagination when creating art on a grand scale. Really talented man.
Unfortunatly he was going through a tough time with issues in his head and it was a hard battle for him, many a time he came back fighting strong and it was amazing to hear him back on track and the good man I knew.
He won a few track building comps and even won a mountain bike through the german building comp (sorry guys, the name of the competition I cant remember) but the competion creators pulled out all stops for that comp and made his day when he won that bike.
He would go on to build for the Redlynx Vs All Stars, and when they told him he would get paid for the track if it was published, he couldnt believe it and said « I need the money so I will build em 2 tracks ! » and he did it in record time.
Then later he was invited to build a test track for the idea to create Trials Rising, which he passed with flying colors and was going to be invited to come and work on the project, but sadly this was the moment when he realy went through a tough time and battled so many hard thoughts in his mind.
Unfortunatly we were to lose a great friend an outstanding community member as his time came to a sad end.
Gone but never forgotten, RIP Max aka ManOnFire.
If anyone is ever struggling, reach out to your friends as they will always be there for you and never be ashaimed to ask for help.