Archive for April, 2007

Jim has been practicing his racing face. He now looks more determined than 99.3% of people out there. Fact. Oh yeah and this Maindy place is also now not a dirt track but a concrete track. Sort the best and worst thing ever. Good place to get knocked out I guess.

Maindy is fun to nibble on. Even more fun with no brakes. Jim went up there on his own the other day and some kids robbed some other kids stuff. Jim tried to get it back but the kid had a bat with nails in it or something, wish I had been there. Gotta love Cardiff.

Apprently the legend that is Chris Dando is now in the Marines, god help them. So he has finally found somewhere where he will be at home abusing other men, and whatever else. Apprently he can never ride again, least he gets to get fit and shoot innocent Iraqi’s etc.

Newport…

Had a good session this weekend at some places, pictures and whatnot up soon. Maybe tomorrow?

Ollie wafting one with his bum out

So a bit of rain meant damp trails, no good for Gilly?s day off session. Yesterday we headed down Kings Park for the first time in a while, and he shredded. Here?s a snap of a twist table over the hip, which looks alright?

The next one shows how nuts they actually were. Proper boosting high and going real far across the landing treats to watch and snap. It rained today lots, which means good conditions for digging bicycle jumps. Stoked. Stuff definitely needs fixing up and looking sharp. We are actually in the process of making some sort of flyout Slades bowl trick jump thing which should be radical.

This snap makes it look much better. BLASTAGE! Jesus is hopefully going to be getting my bicycle sprayed up all pro style, pretty cheap with any luck. For once my bike won?t look like a bag of nails. Gilly also did twist X ups, not quite as high on the altitude scale, but as high as the tables on the sickness scale.

Think I?m going to finish uni at the end of the uni year. My course is unbelievably rubbish, and I?ve hopefully got the opportunity to go to Australia and New Zealand for a few months over winter which I want to take. With any luck things will turn out for the best, I?m pretty positive about the whole ordeal. Definitely want to move back down these parts next year, get a house with Ollie, work at the zoo or something fun, and make the woods even wilder. Here?s some random snaps that my phone has captured over the past few weeks or so.

Tombo?s crazy double jointed fingers.

Banksy piece on a random building wall in Bristol. Such a sick artist.

Ibbo with his du rag/bin bag, getting gangster vip. He got an operation on his wrist today, bone graft and allsorts, few months off bike and other strenuous activities, hope all is well as soon as possible.

Cufflinks, pure style.

Tattooed man in the newspaper, running out of body space I guess.

Aidan getting stoked on free food at the Aversion trip party in Grove. I?m not really into anything involving phones, but ones with camera?s are a pretty good idea. Every update I do at the moment seems to include loads of pictures. I guess a picture paints a thousand words, so from that perspective Ed owes me one hell of a lot of wages. Maybe going Bristol Friday night and possibly riding it Saturday day time which could be real fun. I was pretty impressed by Bristol?s offerings a few weeks back, and I?m pretty sure they haven?t discovered CCTV yet. Me and Ollie are going jean shopping, then paint shopping, then woods playing. Adios.

So the trails have been riding in pretty good, especially with security meaning not returning to the woods with raped jumps. Everyone?s been getting pretty stoked on the place at the moment, with more being ridden in as the days go by. Roll in still needs to be bigger, which is work in progress.

Gilly has been helping out at the woods a lot over the past few weeks or so, which has been fully appreciated. He can probably do every trick invented, including all of Matt Hoffman?s crazy vert combos. These photos have dodgy lighting, but hopefully with wireless products on order (to arrive soon) this will be eliminated in future. Here he throws a sweet toboggan.

Had a wild night out Saturday for certain. Drank loads of cider and absinthe at a party on a balcony before we went to town, and did some pretty good destruction on the way. I was real haggard before we left the house. Went to break summit, missed and landed in a massive bush lined with compost. Dialled. Consortium had some band playing, ?7 to see them, so I opted for walking about busy town shouting at people and talking shit. Talked to some pretty sick people, all of whom probably didn?t know what I was saying. I doubt I did myself.

Rode some Winch madness on Saturday which is always a treat. Nicest bunch of guys about. Netley shot some photos of me doing aerial manoeuvres, hopefully some of which will develop good. I?d like to see how they come out. Every time I go to other trails I get too excited about riding and don?t shoot any photos. I suck. Rory seemed pretty excited about the photo of Will Herman jumping Chertsey stuff, so get stoked Ed.
Aidan rang earlier and got excited about getting Gillys signature, and was actually buying new bike parts. I couldn?t believe my ears. On other Aidan news, he still has a wrecked foot yet is happy to ride on it. In the words of Mr T, crazy fool. Or summit.

Angle 1 /\ /\ /\ /\
Angle 2 \/ \/ \/ \/

Two angles on the same trick on the same jump. Gilly does the best proper table tops, i.e. with a level bike and 90 turned bars. This is a pretty mellow racer hip too, so is a pretty mean feat. Uni work sucks, I think I might leave and go travel the world for a bit. Then start my own gardening business, or work with wild animals, or something else reet fun. Brighouse a week on Friday for the weekend, get ready you Northern nonce?s, we?re going to destroy your jumps with crazy 1 hand bow legs. Only a month until I finish uni for summer, so after the 23 May as many people as possible are welcome to come stay, ride, drink, party and generally get radical. Feel free to invite yourself, if you’re rad that is. Bring on summer loving.

So the woods are basically the best place in the history of places. The payback from a winters digging is extraordinarily amazing at the moment, getting stuff running and the like. We also have trail security dialled in due to so many people already arriving unwanted in the woods. This update is not an invite to party in the woods, unless you are rad enough to have put in your own work over winter. Salt? However, the lazy sons of guns are definitely not going to spoil the wonderfully summery mood.

So the mainline works pretty dialled. Yet to really test other stuff which is a little damp still. Hopefully in upcoming days. Me and Ollie do strangely similar tweaks, maybe too much time together? The feeling of being in the woods again makes you realise how much you really hate the days at the wooden/concrete/metal places since October time. Rode Winch Sunday with just the 5 main locals, all of whom are the nicest chaps ever. Last in needle line was the first biggish jump of the year I’ve done, which made me pretty scared. What a fanny flap.

There?s a random bike that I though was pretty rad at a ghetto ass park back home. I wonder how many years of decay that rust is built from.

There?s a snap of me taken by Aidan?s childhood hero, Eddie Chaffe. Although he doesn?t do quite as many drugs any more, Eddie now has an infatuation with Buckfast, a red wine with a crazy high caffeine level. Apparently it is the best drink ever, and gets you real buzzing whilst real haggard, get on it kids.

Gregg is another Banbury chappie, who just moved back from Scotland, where he worshipped blewbmx. Apparently it kept him sane whilst in the nether regions of Scotland, with rain filled days and Miles away from anything worth seeing. Gregg and I thought up this rad surfer trick, bit like when surfers touch down on the wave.

Lewis does a good intable to disaster back home at Easter. Pretty stoked on this picture.

Myself and Ollie had a little session down the park today. A combination of heat, lack of drink and general skatepark vibe meant a lazy and unenergetic day. Managed to get a couple of mediocre photos, nowt special mind. I don?t think I?ve ever put more than one photo of myself in an update, usually because there aren?t any. This is one self indulged update. Hope to see many more fun and awesome people in lots of rad places now the best part of the year appears to have started. Get out in the sunshine and enjoy every minute people, it doesn?t last forever.

This might be a bit of a monster update. Pictures from some trails and grove. This jump was pretty big, locals were shredding it. Waffer Will also had a go.

Louis was doing some good turndowns on a hip

Someone else does a turndown.

Pipe does the best x-up in bmx according to someone. He has bendy legs like a superhero, so i think that helps. Went back to pipes after this with louis and timmy in tow. more on that later

Will did a 270 with a turndown which was not bad. Also a 270 tyre grab and other stunts.

Timmy with a turndown. There are a lot of turndowns today. Take it.

Yep another one by a local, name in the book?

Pipe no-foot can. With added bad timing.

Louis another lookback.

Louis one foot table goodness.

Timmy does a turndown. I’d count how many that was in the update, but I can’t be bothered. At least 5 I think.

Drive home time courtesy of pipe.

We were playing sliding along the floor in Sainsbury’s (Wantage edition). The security guard wasn’t that stoked so followed us around for ages. Best thing to do is split up and find cover.

Lima does a stunt and revvy gets skinny

Shower time.

Lima again. Grove hip should be left alone unless you’re lima.