Archive for April, 2008

I never know how to start updates, so this one opens with me relaying this useless piece of information. So what do you have to offer I hear you cry? The answer being, some of the finest bloody media type material this side of the BBC.

This doesn’t show how tall this jump is, steep and treats, riding in

So upon finishing work Friday I headed over to the land of Cothill and 157. Had a really good session at the trails Friday; Pipe, Poll, Steve and Liam all came over and we had an amazing session. Everyone chilling, Steve clocking some footage, Liam going stupidly high, and Pipe and Aidan doing some really grand twist trains. These photo’s show the latest jump through the main line which has been properly jumped so far, super steep, boomer jump, once hard it will send you to the clouds and back. You can just see segments of further jumps in the edge of the above photo.

Aidan kickout times one

Kickout times two

Friday night we chilled out after not leaving the woods until 9 o’clock, sorted out some house bureaucracy, eat some chips and watched Jonathon Ross. Russell Brand was as entertaining as ever, especially with his recollections of the letter he sent Serena Williams trying to seduce her. He’s a genius.
Saturday was a kind of riding come down. After such a good session the previous day, feeling a little stiff and weary, it was hard to motivate ourselves to ride. We persevered and got some stuff done which Aidan should document, and also fixed up a lot of needy landings that were worse for wear. Saturday night we headed to the Annex, all a little narcissistic watching ourselves perform on video, followed by Odyssey Electronical. That video is seriously amazing, nicely filmed without too much pretentious artiness, loads of rippers and a million amazing clips; Gary Young kills it. Then we hit up Wantage town, nothing spectacular, just good to go to a couple of places and talk BMX.

Old school Banbury box

From the front, stretch armstrong

If you ever wondered what Joshbelcher.co.uk looks like, here’s two angles on old schools that I snapped for him today. He has these dialled, look super good and arms stretch almost out of socket. Shredder. These photo’s are for Poll, who made clear he can’t get enough of the old Banbury ramps and never wants to see the spine ramp. Aidan and I also wrote a crimp this weekend, which once perfected should be unleashed on the world in one form or another. Keep your peepers and listeners peeled.

Table from meeeee - Josh B photo

Me turning down the box - actual egotism - Josh B photo

Relaxed down the local today, nothing breathtaking happened, just heckling, shouting and laughing. Two sweet girls who are friends with my buddy John also bought me a Mcflurry, which was bloody nice of them so I gave em a kiss, wonderful. Lovely girls. Josh once again came through with the goods for me today, he steals good souls. Thanks buddy. So once again, much like the start, this update will end in a strange and vague fashion. Until next time, bambushka.

Sunset out of my bedroom window, wild as funk

Welcome to another update from the month of April, which NW9 desribed as a ‘prick tease’ i.e. the weather keeps changing and not allowing sessions to get pumping full bore. The other week Josh Belcher took some photo’s of me that I got stoked on, check em out peoples.

Moto quarter piper

Un t-bar

Turn dizzle

Seriously stoked on those, cheers Joshy B. Haven’t really ridden too much lately, working hard, unpredictable weather and down right laziness all contributing towards this poor show. The trails have been getting dialled in, been there as much as possible, more jumps being ridden, and apparently Pipe and Aidan have been doing three figured rotations over some of them too. Word.

KC Badger

Saw this bike check online today, actually one of the coolest bikes I’ve seen, bar the ridiculous bent flatland forks that Odyssey seem to think are a good thing.

I am samoking a faaaaaaayg

So on Tuesday Richy P, Callum and I decided to take a trip down to Bournemouth and the sunny seaside. Everytime I go to that place I get all sentimental and reminicse on the good old days. We had a rad session at Kings Park and ended up bumping into none other than Jingles and Davros of Bar End fame. Always a pleasure. We also headed dn to Ashley’s shop, where I splashed the cash and bought something new for my bike, sweet times. That shop is too good.

Aversion stencil, as seen at Kings Park, Bournemouth

Go check out this little interview with Louis for some answers about various aspects of Aversion, BMX and general lifestyles. Tuesday evening we headed down to the mighty Slades Farm, met up with all the usual awesome suspects, never fail to enjoy yourself down there. Ashley was riding amazing as usual, guess being a local there since you were a kid shows. Also saw Azza, Jesus, Ollie Gun, Moley, Pickles, a bunch of the best dudes going. Really fun to hang out, heckle, chat shit, shout about, BMX at it’s best. Rich and Callum had an awesome time and really enjoyed the day by all accounts, which made me even more stoked on life. Shame we didn’t hit up the beach but there’s plenty more trips to come this summer.

Balti Callum, 6 foot summit, crammed into the trusty 106!

So life is, in general, splendid. It’s just one thing after another at the moment to sort out and cause unwanted hassle. Tomorow I shall hopefully be the proud owner of a new car with any luck, so more on that as soon as it happens. Trails this weekend at some point, bikes, rad people, good times ahead. Peace and love world. x

This update is especially for any Aussy kids we met who still check Blew, this is what snow looks like! Stayed at 157 last Saturday night, went for a pint at Jib’s student union then relaxed and watched a film with Aidan, Yak and Aidan’s mum. Was awoken at 7am with an exclamed ‘have you seen outside?’, peeling back the curtain revealing to our bleary morning eyes a really heavy blizzard. We sharply went back to sleep, then got up at 10 and took some photos of the already rapidly clearing white blanket. April snow, whatever next?

White Christmas in April

Daffodils feeling natures wrath

Pretty plants

Fresh morning and winter jackets

Art fags

Men in black

Had the shittest week ever, looking forward to jumps in woods, seeing rad people and car hunting this weekend. Dialled. Go check these sites too for the ultimate in entertainment.

The English, more updates to come hopefully

Couple of amazing Forte snaps

Sweet trails videos

Stricker answering some questions

Josh takes photo’s which are nice

Well this is pretty much the best thing on the Internet at the moment. Real good trails video by Tom C featuring a few UK trails spots and few non UK. Real good quality too, HD baby! Go to Vimeo to see it at best quality I guess.
Vimeo

I have been getting Blewbury trails up and running again, will put some pictures of that up soon too. Go dig, trails season is here. SO good being able to dig after not being able to for 3 years, fuck dislocating your shoulder! Chazzer get your fat ass down here too. x

Trails video snap

This update is coming to you live and fresh from 157. So for this infrequent occasion we decided to ride in some jumps and take some souls. Wtareing is such a key part of riding in jumps made with this magical mud, stops them all falling apart like. This landing has had two consecutive days of riding joy, and is getting hard. not as hard as Amir Khan, but perhaps Ross kemp hard at the moment.

Opposite tweeaaaaak

The first two work a treat, which is wonderful. Aidan also tested a hip which looks fun and sent himself into freefall over another skimmer. Not too shabby for the first weekend of the year. this morning we awoke at 7 to an Arctic like snowwy blizzard, which will have no doubt knocked progress back a peg or two. Bugger.

Chris Tucker

This jump is deceiving, in the fact that until you step back and look at the gap, you don’t really realise how far it is. Much like Chertsey express line, which gives a similar deceptive feeling of jump size. straight after this tuck, Aidan skidded, punched the air then soaked himself in Bucks Fizz like he has just won the grand prix.

Tweaks

This jump goes to the right slightly, and makes you do heaps of wierd bike and bidy tweaks that you previously didn’t know existed. the landing is relatively steep and gives you loads of speed into the berm, which nearly made me wee my pants. It’s all fast enough now to give the landings a good Ollie Gunning aka the chainring case to rolly polly.

Look Mum no hands

That was the first update in a long time, and quite possibly the finest damn update this side of Prettyshady. Look out for the next encounter coming some time in late 2009. Peace and love. x