A couple of pieces of info from our man in the capital, Tom James...

Playstation Skatepark has been fiddlied with a bit and next week is Having a "Launch week!" with loads of interesting stuff going on mainly skate Jam's and demo's but there is also a "PADDED CELL BMX JAM" on Tueday 1st June entry is £7 or £5 for members. Prizes supplied by paddedcell and all that it distributes.

The second date for your diarys and the far more important one, Is the second Brixton Bowls Benifit Jam and is booked for the Last weekend of August so if anybodys not on their holidays or is on their holidays but is taking them at the sunny Brixton Beach be warned. It will be loud and loose as ever, this time with portaloos!. Entry cost is just a mandatory donation, whatever you can afford.

Coming to a park near…

"SNICKERS continue to push things forward in the skate & BMX scene with a series of national Best Trick events coming to a location near you. The second event will kick off on the 30th May at Rampworx, Liverpool and continuing nationwide, SNICKERS GAME ON will hold and sponsor a best trick event.

This is an opportunity for all the riders to try their best tricks in a jam format that normally lasts about 30–45 minutes. The best trick is always the most crowd pleasing and dynamic of any event.

Riders get countless attempts to try the biggest and hardest of tricks within the time limit and those that pull them off to the crowd and judges satisfaction take home the cash.

It is a very simple concept yet enables riders to push themselves outside the normal limitations of competition structure.

SNICKERS GAME ON Best Trick wants you to get involved. Do you fancy your chances of winning up to £300 prize money?

Or do you want to set up a SNICKERS GAME ON BEST TRICK event at your local park?"

Download the word document for full details Snickers Best Trick

Playstation skatepark in London is now called Bay Sixty 6 and is sponsored by X Box. There has been a few changes going on recently besides the name change including adding a Koston Block, resurfacing the midi along with new coping and a few other bits and pieces.



There's a chill out room complete with X box consoles, a plasma screen and artwork from the Scrawl Collective.



For more info check the website at www.baysixty6

Issue 1 of Craig Rynolds 'zine, Body English, is now complete and looks real good. The first issue contains articles about BMX, Skate, Graf, Freaks, Work etc and loads more.



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To get a copy, go to the website www.bodyenglishmag.co.uk and the contact details are there.

There is a jam at Hengrove skatepark, Bristol this Saturday.

Just added a Craig Stevens photo profile into the gallery. To get there...

Galleries > Photo Profiles > Craig Stevens

Here are some more pictures and info on the Mayhem Bike flagship product, the 4130 handmade dirt/street frame named True Vile. It has a euro bottom bracket, 20,8" top tube, 14,37" chainstay, 74,5 degree head tube, 72 degree seat tube and weights 6,38 lbs (2,9 kg). This frame is available in 4 colors: gray, dark red, clear, black and blue.

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I received an email today about a new European BMX Manufacturer called Mayhem Bike Co. They are based in the Czech Republic and produce high quality BMX parts and accessories: handmade frames, CNC'd stems, clothing etc... other products will be available very soon. Mayhem is rider owned and based in Prague. Check the website at: www.mayhembikeco.com

Camera Geek Section
Here is another picture of that crazy fisheye lens as posted the other day. It's an old Nikon 6mm fisheye, has an angle of 220 degrees and is about 24cm in diameter.



Don't know about this weird home made set up though, couldn't understand what the guy was on about.

Finally added an article about the Stockwell Benefit Jam that went down months ago now. Words and photos by Tom James.
Click here to view

Street Furniture
More street furniture photos added courtesy of Tom James. Click Here

Phone Cam
New, lazy photographer, camera phone gallery added. Click here

Stockwell Benefit Jam
The next Stockwell skatepark benefit jam is going to be in August, date to be confirmed.

We are currently trying to piece together a Bristol Scene check article that seems to be plagued by bad luck. As mentioned the other day on the TWOAND8 site, Craig Stevens took a KO attempting a wallride to whip. Another trip courtesy of the NHS after over cooking a line from the volcano into the bowls at St Georges skatepark.

Luckily he was alright and will no doubt be leading the way at the Acamedy on Friday night. Take it easy fella.

Craig Stevens Crash

Here are also a couple of clips of Maggot (John Love) from Sittingbourne skatepark.

Maggot Lookback
Maggot Turndown and Table

It’s looking like this year is going overloaded with jams and events this summer. Here’s a couple more for the diary.

TWOAND8 Worcester Jam
It’s looking likely that this years jam at Worcester will be on the 21st / 22nd of August. It’s the 10th anniversary of the park, so this year will be a 2 day event. More bands, a loose plan and plenty of Worcester night life. I’m sure Graeme Hardie will be into that.
www.twoand8.com

Reddicth Skatepark Jam
The Spam Jam

Date / time
Sunday 30th May 2004 12pm

Venue:
Redditch Skatepark,
Behind the Wild Goose pub,
Icknield Street Drive,
Matchborough West,
Redditch.

The event is to celebrate Suspect Sports the local BMX and skate shops third birthday that are sponsoring the event.
This event is to consist of skateboarding and BMX Competitions, product giveaways and live music from local bands. This is always a well-attended event with a good atmosphere.

Cost

£5.00 with Skateboard, BMX or In-line skates.
£3.00 spectators.

All proceeds go towards the running costs of the Skatepark and new equipment.

For more information contact the Skatepark on
Tel (01527) 524550.
Email redditchskatepark@msn.com

Vert Sessions In Bristol
Redbull are running a vert series tour this summer and this week they are in Bristol this week down at Lloyds. See www.redbullvertsessions.co.uk for more.

On the Sunday 23rd of May theres gonna be an opening jam at Driffield
Skatepark.

Phold has been given the grand job of sorting it out so hopefully it should
go to plan. Seventies, Eastpak, Ride have chipped in with prizes including a
frame and a load of other goodies and we are waiting to hear from a few
other companies for freebies / prizes etc.

Heres the details

"Jam format obviously (same as backyard etc etc, you know the score)

2 groups - beginner and amateur, no age groups cos shredders are bloody young these days!

The riders get to choose who deserves prizes etc by voting and stuff, that way the riders get to choose who they thought won which makes sense.

The park is just round the corner from the train station and is shit-hot. it has a massive wallride, and all the usual stuff with a load of unique lines
and is real fun to ride and should make for a good day out. So yeah, tell all your mates to get themselves down. bring your bike (or beer) and have a
laugh.

There'll probably be a load of stuff for sale so bring your wallet too.

For detaisl mail me or mail Egg : alex@phold.com"

Material: 4130 post with laser cut and machined top plates.
Heat treated self colour high tensile bolts-5mm allen key
Available in Black and Chrome.
25.4mm or 27.2mm (to fit Hidden Nation AKIRA frame)
PRICE: £19.99
www.hiddennation.co.uk

Jam/comp at rampworx on sunday 30th May. Get there Saturday for the krazzy house night out.

Some info on a jam at the new skatepark in Driffield taking place on the 23rd May. The park has just opened, outdoor, wood, built by fearless, so its a goodun, the good thing about it is its got a hipped mini!!

Dean at seventies has hooked up a few prizes and ihopefully some from The North too.

"its gonna be jam format, with beginner and amateur, and prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd, and im kinda hoping that getting the riders to vote who wins and whatnot will help along a bit, cos we know how dubious some judges are!!!hopefully jim and jack from malton are gonna come through and they'll hopefully bring john spurr and the like so hopefully theres gonna be some quality riding going on!" Alex

For more contact Alex@phold.com

Cardiff Skatepark Closed
The indoor park over in Cardiff has closed down for the moment due to insurance reasons. Apparently it hasn't been renewed by the company and there was an incident with someones gran getting hit by a deck?! All the ramps are still there so hopefully it will be sorted out soon and back open.

The Pirate
Air transfer hose, don't be caught flat...



Click here to check it out

Leicester's first ever extreme sports festival is about to take place, may 30th 11am till 6pm (cos the council couldn't really stretch the public liability any further) at none other than THE RALLY BMX TRACK, off Tudor Road.

Check the flyer for more details or contact Andy at the Edge skatepark in Leicester.

They’ve been working on this for about 6 months, mainly just to get the track sorted and money raised will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Park_Sessions_Flyer

Ricky Adams Photography Site
For some quality photography treats check out Ricky Adams new site. The site includes photos of BMX, Bands, Lifestyle and mugshots etc www.rickyadamphoto.com

Lambrini Jam
The Leeds Lambrini Jam is only about a month away, check the flyer for more details… Lambrini_Jam_Flyer

Distinct lack of up-dates
Sorry about the lack of new things to read, things at RandomBMX have been a little slow recently due to the following (believe what you want):

Web space available has reached maximum.
The above problem should be sorted in the near future.
The problem should be sorted in the near to medium future.
The above problem should get sorted at some point.

Kung's scanner is still having trouble acclimatising to life in Bristol therefore no new photo's.
Again, The above problem should be blah, blah, blah...

We've had fuck all to write about.

We're both mentally scarred after a near head on with a farmer in his 4x4 whilst I was gunning it down single track lane. Vauxhall people carriers might be shit but they can launch up grass verges without to much trouble. Get one only if you enjoy driving on grass verges.

Had a look Alcester spine / mini the other night, although some of the holes in the ramp are probably just a bit smaller than the hole which sunk the Titanic. I'm happy to report that it can still be ridden, If you do decide to have a ride there, be prepared to be watched by some of the most in-bred people imaginable, they won't give you any hassle but something to keep in mind is that Alcester had the honor of having more bastard children than any other town in the UK.

In other strange redneck related news. Coventry now has an outdoor cement park not to far from Ride Skateshop and the indoor park. Unfortunately Cov hasn't the friendliest of reputations ( see previous Cov Backyard articles), so when the none riding / skating locals take offence to something it could generally be regarded as a possible problem. From what I've heard the local kids have taken to throwing rocks, stones, hamsters at anyone using the park. This act seems to be encouraged by the parents of the kids who have also taken to joining them in the new redneck sport of 'Stone the Extreme Sport Fanatics' I don't know how bad things are down there but just be weary In case it ends up being like Woolwich. See below report from Tom James.

Random's midland twin site BCBMX is no more. Here's the crack, blackcountrybmx.com will soon be no more, BUT a new improved site will be up which will be called www.bcbmx.co.uk. As soon as the bcbmx.co.uk shit is together I'll let you know and you can start going there instead, confusing but the plans should make it worthwhile........

That's it for now. come back soon.