Kriss Kyle never really had any great plans to become an international BMX superstar - sometimes these things just happen.

Looking back, the signs may have been there.

Downing packets of crisps with cans of Coke and pretending to be sick in a bucket to convince his mother to keep him off school is high up there.

As soon as the front door was closed, he was off - straight down to the skatepark.

By the time he hit his teenage years, school was something that happened to other people.

Kriss had truancy nailed down to an art form, popping in each morning for registration to get himself signed in then just walking home again to get his bike.

Anything his teachers said went in one ear and out the other as he came up with increasingly elaborate ways to get out of the classroom and down to the ramps where he knew he belonged.

It was no mean feat in a town as small as Stranraer, in the same school where his mother was a teacher, his father the janitor and his brother-in-law his own geography teacher.

But by the time Kriss was 13, he was already hauling his bike onto the train to Dumbarton every weekend to ride at Unit 23 skatepark.

It took two trains and three and a half hours to get there but for the skinny lad too shy to talk to anyone else it was heaven.

The biggest quarter back in his hometown was five feet tall. The Unit's was eight foot.

For Kriss, it was like being given an extra big runway to fly from.

"I was never really happy until I was on that bike," he says. "It's part of who I am."

When Kriss hit 15 he was attending school just one day a week despite every attempt possible from his desperate parents to get him to go.

Then, one day, after his weekly journey down to Dumbarton, he missed his train home and then simply didn't come back.

After a few anxious calls from his parents, Kriss crashed at friends houses for the next few months, moving every week or so from couch to couch, occasionally finding a warm bed and a chance to wash his clothes.

Kriss wasn't exactly 'homeless' - he just didn't have a home with a ramp big enough for him and his bike to be in.

Until an offer from his mate 'Chick' came in that was too good to turn down - the chance to sleep at the Unit 23 skatepark until he found his feet.

It was in an old industrial warehouse, formerly a WW2 whisky distillery and possibly no place for a normal teenage boy.

But it had ramps, a roof and was one of the best skateparks in the country. For the young BMX rider it was a dream come true.

On the upside, Kriss could ride wherever he wanted with whoever he wanted. The downside was that he was a young teenage boy in a warehouse at night by himself.

He wasn't officially supposed to be staying there so he would have to move all his possessions and blankets each night from the couch in the office where he slept.

"To be honest, I went through hell and back just to ride that bike," he says. "Nothing could stand in my way."

For an entire year he lived there, living off of Pringles, microwavable food, Lucozade and the same unwashed clothes.

"It was hard days back then," he admits. "Looking back I can't believe it. I have no idea how I survived."

Christmas came and Kriss finally returned home, finally admitting to his parents where he had actually been living.

He had originally told them he'd been staying with a friend while he studied for his exams.

In truth, he'd been riding, mastering technique after technique until he defied gravity.

After that, life for Kriss began to change. Realising their son's dream, his parents began journeying to see him to do his washing, bring him food and to make sure he was okay.

Chick gave him a job at the Unit cleaning up and working in the cafe so he could afford to live a little better and by the end of the year, his friend Quinny moved into the park with him, sharing a storage room together and even clothes to get by.

They helped each other out and a sold group of friends gathered around them. And Kriss was able to ride.

As the months went by talent scouts at various parks flocked round him like moths to a particularly speedy flame.

Nike had already approached his parents when he was younger, then came BSD and finally Red Bull.

Richard King, the Red Bull team manager, took Kriss under his wing and out of it came Kaleidoscope, an ambitious BMX film project shot in Glasgow last year that has been viewed across the globe more than five million times.

"They made the dream a reality for me," says Kriss. "Kaleidiscope was the biggest thing in my life. I couldn't believe it when I saw the end result.

"I was under an enormous amount of pressure but thankfully people seemed to like it."

It catapulted Kriss into a bright international spotlight where not just BMX fans but anyone in the world could see him.

Despite being counted as one of the greatest Red Bull videos of all time, featuring some world first BMX tricks, Kriss was only happy with it for about a day.

"I couldn't help it," he says. "By the second day I kept thinking of other things I could have done to make it even better."

Since then, the young rider has been in talks with Red Bull about something even bigger - a project due to be announced in 2017.

Until then though, as the keen Scot affirms "the only way is up" and he's come up with a plan to help other young riders like him join him on the journey.

His latest venture is a continuation from Kaleidoscope, this time offering up an opportunity for young people to come and BMX with him on some of the ground-breaking features seen in the video.

Travelling from Glasgow to Edinburgh and then onward across the UK to France, the Wallriders project kicked off earlier in the month, as Kriss and his mate Alex Donnachie jumped in a campervan and embarked on a road trip from Edinburgh, hunting down the the best wallrides as they made their way to Lyon, France.

"It's actually quite hard to find the perfect wall," says Kriss, 24, who has spent several weeks travelling about looking for good structures to ride his bike on.

"Despite the fact we're obviously surrounded by walls it's hard to find one you can ride at 30 miles per hour on," he says with obvious frustration.

Kriss has actually managed to find his perfect wall - in France - but wants other young riders to send in shots of theirs.

"We'll then pick five riders and give them a chance to come and ride at Unit 23 with us," he says.

To enter the competition via Instagram riders must tag @RedBullUK, @KrissKyle and include #redbullwallriders before October 10, when Kriss will then personally review all entries and choose five lucky riders to ride with him at Unit 23.

When not looking at walls or traversing the world on BMX stunt trips, Kriss continues to ride in Dumbarton.

"I love Scotland so much," he says. "As much as it rains I love being home. I actually bo ught my own house a few months ago with my girlfriend and I still can't believe it's actually mine.

"It was always a dream, I never thought a boy from Stranraer could do this."

Like he says, it's not as though he ever really had any great plans to become an international BMX superstar - sometimes these things just happen.