At 9:30 on Thursday evening, I got a phone call asking if we were going out partying. The Villa stops letting people in free at 9:45. Needless to say, we were there. Having not touched my bike (due to rubbish weather) since the previous Saturday at Brighouse, we made a half cut decision to hit up Newport yesterday
Ed said he was going to hit up the heaven that is Newport too. Unfortunately, he didn?t keep his word. Bad Ed? However, he was revising for his exams. Good Ed?
Everyone was sessioning the hip line out of the bowl into the box roll in. Lots of stunts being blasted left right and centre. The 157 Whitecross massive headed down from the sunny shire to meet the Bournemouth boys and I. Aidan started sending himself as soon as they arrived, as usual. For some reason, a lot of the photos I took are bum shots.
This may have been mistimed, but Yak thought the flash was on time, so who knows. Pretty sweet whatever. Six of us headed over the border in a VW van, which always results in good times. I pretty much danced to drum and bass the whole journey and talked rubbish. The back of the van is much better than having a seat up front. It?s where all the action happens. Fact.
Look at those two, all innocence I hear you say?
Ohhhhh no! It?s all out in the open now, the secret has been revealed. There were in fact tongues involved in this kiss. It may or may not have only been Aidan?s tongue that volunteered for this.
Pickles loves skate parks like team Blewbmx loves the woods. He had some pretty sweet lines, and whipped the box after shooting the B?s over this hip. Stunt machine. Look out for more Pickles action some time in the future.
Yak hadn?t ridden in ages, and before the journey from Whitecross hadn?t eaten anything in 30 hours. What a ripper. He still produced the goods over the box with the most mellow landing ever. Crazy boost thing whilst trying to perform the armpit sniff test.
Young Yakkle does pretty dialled moto/euro table things. It?s hard to get good lighting in Newport and these few box photos didn?t come out as rad as the previous bowl/roll in shots.
I hadn?t seen Yak perform a turndown in a long while, but he did quite a few yesterday. He wasn?t stoked on the snaps, but I reckon it?s not too shabby so it?s going up.
Tabletop. Not the best one I?ve ever seen young sonny jim me lad crank up, but a pretty cool snap. Last time I rode Newport was also with theshovelload.com. I had just bought an original Macneil Miron with Supra E/Seventies wheels, and was just starting the process of quitting riding tractors and riding kids bikes. I was real shady, and still am now. The park hasn?t changed since all those years back. That was a long time ago.
Little team shot, minus shrEdder, whilst Aidan tries to touch me with his genitals and Yak gets stoked. Newport is rubbish, but we still love it for some crazy reason, and it was an awesome day. Everyone tried to sleep on the van journey home, whilst I coloured them in with marker pen and OD?d on Smarties. We stopped at services on the way home, coincidentally the same ones as where Timmy?s laxatives kicked in on the Aversion trip. Good memories are held there! It?s been raining lots, the woods are flooded, so lots of fixing, building and perfecting is on the cards. Treats. If you are bored in the rain, do two things. Dig, and watch the April video young Tom Higgins me lad uploaded onto Cheltbmx.com. Adios
