Dylan Rieder: Style Was His Soul — A Reading from Kyle Beachy's 'The Most Fun Thing' | Skate Bylines

In a heartfelt essay on the life and legacy of Dylan Rieder, Kyle Beachy looks at style, skateboarding, and how skateboarders come to know those who they spend so much time watching and admiring from a distance.

Edited and produced by Farran Golding
Photography by Anthony Acosta

You can a read the written version of this story which features incredible photographs from Acosta's archives of Rieder at: https://skatebylines.com/2025/05/26/d...

A version of this story was originally published as ‘The Dylan Period’ (2020) excerpted from the book The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches From A Skateboard Life (© 2021 by Kyle Beachy), reprinted with permission of Grand Central Publishing, all rights reserved

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
1:51 I: Above and Beneath the Rest
10:15 II: Signature
15:20 III: Essence
20:43 IV: Better Days
28:00 V: A League of His Own
36:15 VI: Style Was His Soul
42:26 VII: Time Does Not Heal All Wounds