Posts Tagged ‘Banbury’

Hello February 12 2008. So here are a few snaps on what’s been happening round my way. The elbow is all fixed up now, which is amazing news. However, my arm in general is super weak, and riding has been making it ache real badly at times. Need to get it stretched out more I guess and perhaps do some light gym stuff to help the muscle regenerate. If anyone has any good exercises for arm rehab let me know. Here’s a little peak at one of Banbury’s lesser known heroes.

Banbury local, Mr Goldner, unluckily son Tom wasn’t available for photographs

Saturday night got pretty wild. It was my friend Jo’s birthday, so a bunch of us went out to celebrate that. She had booked out a lounge in a little bar/club place that’s pretty rad. We went to a couple of rad bars before hand, including the shittiest pub in town. We ended up kicked out of there for someone smoking a cigar that the 50 year old Coolio-esque bouncer thought was weed, jokes.

Butler shreds right now, eagle spread

Stoff boosts higher than most, this time over a chubby kid

Rambo tables

Ended up smashing up the lounge place in the party bar, bloody fun, me and Rich fell across a table and smashed glass everywhere, I ended up getting kicked out, proper little twerp the bouncer was. Sweet night out whatever, I just chilled outside making annoying conversation with the bouncers trying my hardest to wind them up as much as I could. Sick times with some even sicker people, just a shame that my phone camera doesn’t work so I haven’t got any party pictures.

Log 180, to rollback, to (mistimed photo) tyre grab hop. This is how Gregg gets off

Someone tell me, since when did being a BMXer become all about riding bikes? All this website is at the moment is pictures of people riding skate parks with an occasional pose or two. I need to get my phone camera sorted for a bit more variety, like a drunk horse or something else dead exciting.
Shameless is on tonight, probably the greatest programme to ever grace the good old idiot box. It is just 100% pure entertainment from start to finish. If you don’t watch it, then start immediately.
Just saw a good video from the Ride quarter pipe challenge, some pretty sweet clips on there, check that one out. Summer of Fit is a complete video of new school walking pace street with barely a clip of Inman and BF, what a load of rubbish. Lastly, I set up a new bike this week, with some new bits and bobs fresh from Empire. Got an S&M Black Bike which I’m full on stoked with, plus a few other bits, by far the raddest bike I’ve ever owned. The weather’s good right now, enjoy it. x

Black bike

Just got back from Epic (now Creation?) in Brummyland, just went to chill and chat and shoot some photo’s. Real fun times, more on that in another update. Here’s a bunch more from the pictures I updated with the other day.

Richy P kicking out

John checking his hub for play

Moto

Wierd double can, needs to dial these in, he sucks

Thought this was going to turn out a bit better, but it’s still mental - four foot spine, mega

He rides bikes to impress the skatepark chicks and get to cuddle them, fact

MBUK would call this a dumped 360 I think

Plenty of lookbacks and turndowns as usual

One day soon I’m going to do an update with stories, that should be good. Aidan just told me to watch Max on Aversion, you should do too. Byeeee. x

Decided to get my act together today, and took my camera to the skate park when Rich came to pick me up. My flash equipment also decided that it was going to get it’s act together today and allow me to get some good photo’s, first time using the SLR since I got back from Australia. Got a bunch of stokers of Richy P (my apprentice), and John, who shreds even more than when I left three months ago, no surprises there. Here’s a selection of them, got more to put up soon too. These kids are reet mint.
I haven’t been doing a whole lot since I’ve been home, but I’ve seen some awesome people, read some good stuff, watched a few movies and generally chilled. Elbow feels a lot better over the last few days, and gets its 3 week X ray Friday, so I’m real positive about it being on the mend. Look out for a bunch more photo’s from down t’local today, and a heap load of Australia updates. Blewbmx is back on the world domination path.

Rich, twist to flat

Extention boost

John’s lookbacks are proper savage

Learning twist tables - they’re getting good

Rad looking air

Goofy footed goofy kid

Another angle, banger

Bish bash bosh

Table saturated updates are the best ones

Steez = Style with knees

So my Dad and I decided these two massive trees out the back of my house needed cutting down, felled them, cut them up and then had a big bonfire out the back of my house. Should have saved it for November 5th I guess, never mind hey. Country boy indeed.

Firestarter

In honour of Ollie gunshot Davey D polish digger skid row Ollie, I decided learning proper style tables would be good. I’m stoked on them, going to get them all hanging off the bottom of the bike like my new hero, Tony Cardona. I’m on the home page cos I’m fame hungry, take it. Me old mucker Oakey dokey took these photo’s of me, thanks a lot sunshine. I hate the kid in the background of the euro photo.

Dopamine producing material

Euro moto bermslider downside whatever

So last night myself, Danny Boy and Eddie Chaffe went to a gig at an arts centre. Forced to drink a bunch of Ouzo, watched some PA Woods, and planned out a rough idea of the route we’ll take around Australia beforehand. Turned out it was a seated gig with a bunch of wet flannel teenagers singing about topics like being fanny flaps from what I gathered. After party was in some village with about twenty houses about 12 Miles away, so decided that was a good idea.

Step down

Freecoast madness, booya

Yeh one hand bandit

After more drinking back at Eddie’s and watching street videos, we got a taxi to this village. Guy had no idea where the place was, eventually found this barn ages away from anything else. It was a proper 1990’s-esque illegal style rave playing drum and bass, loads of sketchy wrecked kids, plus three bmx riders with a big bottle of vodka and ouzo going nuts. Met some rad girl who was a proper raverhead, did some kissing, raved hard, smashed shit, explored fields and barns, nearly smashed a bad boy’s car with a big fence I fell through, and ended up having to make a quick exit. Got in a taxi, then ten minutes later the taxi people rang, we were obviously in the wrong one. Strung out pretending we were still waiting for one on the phone for a long time, treats! Got in at 5:30, feel like death now, pussy.

www.skavengeranimalstreetdogledgegrindrailboss.com

Danny Boy got himself a sweet load of new bike parts, painted everything else up nicely, and now has the best looking street bike since Will Taubin on Neighbourhood Superheroes. Tomorrow we here in Banbury should be receiving the treat of a visit from theshovelloadisasellout.com + Jibbles. I’m sure Aidan shall boast for a long while, about the fact he has a Segment sticker. He’s so commercial it’s untrue… hopefully boozy woozy too.

Josh learnt twists, chillers

Sweet angles

This update marks a landmark for me, being most probably the last update I will complete on British land for over four months. My fellow pirate and I will be heading off on the journey of a lifetime at 12:20 on Wednesday. If there’s one thing I do not look forward to doing on this trip, it is sitting on the plane for 26 hours. Other than that, I really look forward to learning a hell of a lot about a whole other world. Have a sweet winter everyone here, take care and have lots of fun at all times. If you don’t already, also listen to Russell Brand’s radio show, best radio content of the week. I’ll try to update from the other side of the world with any luck. See you all in spring my lovers. x

So here is a bunch of random photo’s that I’ve been taking lately. Rob O Rob has gone and disguised his magic carpet as a skateboard, and now spends his time hovering over waist high rails to make people trip out.

Eh Bobbie

Tommy G and I headed over to Cheltenham park some time in the last fortnight too. Having that place to yourself is amazing; you can just go every way over every obstacle, if only it was made of wood. Tom rode the best in ages, killed everything, really good to see the bald bastard getting stoked on riding again.

A to the L to the I to the G

Ali G, Ali G that’s me

Banbury park is without a doubt one of the best little parks in a while, with the highest rate of ghetto rats on shit bikes sat in your way ever. I love making John do stunts for the camera, although he usually crashes out as soon as I call something out. Some sort of bad karma going on there. John’s aunty told my friend who met her that he was in the top thirty riders in the country. What a little liar! He sucks! Here are three photo’s of him riding his favourite skate park, the little ripper.

Loose

Sepia tone memorabilia

Best rider in Banbury, for his age, height and bar width anyway

Two reprobates from Croydon way came to stay the other weekend with young Jibbleton. We planned on riding Wisley, but due to wetness ended up at the poor substitute of Abingdon. It’s pretty irrelevant where you are when you get to ride with some really rad kids though, which is exactly what happened.
It’s just 8 days until I depart with young Eddie Chaffey to the land of upside down people and animals with mini me’s in their front pockets. Excited doesn’t come close. I even got a box from a GT to put my bike in on the plane, mega.

Jibbles shreds every day

Look at him go

Mugglebum turner

Went to Chertsey yesterday with young Aidzilla, which was more absolutely fabulous than Jennifer Saunders. Those jumps are too much fun, and the locals ain’t too shabby neither mush. Got to see young Crazy Peter which was lovely, been a while, hopefully he got some cool photo evidence of our fun too.

Everyone should go listen to Regina Spektor. She is pretty much the greatest female vocalist since Scary Spice. I bought one of her LP’s off Ebay the other day, follow me into musical bliss my children. Go buy Begin to Hope.

There she is, lovely Regina

In other news, Aidan made Dew Tour with his signature one foot tyre grab.

Learnt that at Cothill mate