Don't do it Kids

Testing

Spinx to mother Canary

Ted...almost

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Sandy Vagj

Joe bluuuuurrrrrrrr t

Enjoy

I think i might have put some of these up a while back but i like em so i'm gonna put em up again. There are a couple from a ride i went on with Joe, Ted, and a whole bunch of guy's from farnbourogh (?) who have some aligance with i3mx.com so i belive. With some crazt pics of Cameron. The photo of someone in a dangerous position on a rail is Tusk from i3mx. What you can't see is how long this rail is in the photo and that he was wearing a helmet. He got it done in the end though, and thats what counts. Someone's posted a photo in the prettyshady.com's photo book thing of Tusk written in blood so i guess he's as loose as he was on that rail most of the time. We were headed for 4th feathers skatepark in Mareylobone (?) and it was closed so we went streetin around and about town... as a consolation?

A couple of misc things various people have emailed over...

Sittingbourne
"The mini's have stayed the same, but the spine ramp deck is about three times the depth now, so loadsa room for people and deck tricks! Theres some photos of the street section, no1 shows the new bowled out corner which is super fun, no2's got the new roll-in with a lip on top, box/wallride, quick vert on the left and normal quarter on the right, with a vert wall infront of the box (not shown) and no3 is the new volcanoe/vertwall combo and the new larger spine deck..." - Flip







Rooftop Street Furniture
This is a photo of a wallride on top of a building that the police use to train dogs. Photo by Nicholas Lyne.



Downham Skatepark
Theres a small skate park in downham got a thats got a spine a few big quarters, grind bars flat banks. Its in the park behind macdonalds in downham.

Tat Time Again
Me and Stu Clarke were down in Newport the other week and spotted this guy as he was leaving, as usual, didn't get a name...



Clifton Flat Jam
Spent a few hours in the gym at a College in Clifton, Bristol yesterday looking at a bunch of tricks that I have no idea about. Loads more photos to put up once they are all sorted.





Plenty of Digging
We might not get much for presentation but been putting the effort in at the trails lately, early days still.

At weekends, SNICKERS is teaming up with selected skateparks up and down the country to offer free admission for up to the first 75 people attending a Snickers Sunday.

The next SNICKERS Sunday will take place on Sunday 27th February at The Boneyard, Chester, with more events on a weekly basis.

The Bone Yard, Chester – 27th Feb
Interact Skatepark – Burnley, Lancs - 6th March
Ramp City - Blackpool - 13th March
Bones Skatepark – Bolton - 20th March
Agroverts Skatepark – Huddersfield - 27th March
The Domain Skatepark - Plymouth - 3rd April
Skaterham - Caterham - 10th April
Revolution – Broadstairs, Kent - 17th April

Snickers Soul Bowl
Is back again at the Download rock festival at Donington (10-12th June 2005). Acts include Feeder, Black Sabbath and System of a Down, The bowl has been revamped this year and now include a hip.

For more info, see the website www.snickersbowl.co.uk

To find out more about Download festival go to: www.downloadfestival.co.uk. Tickets for this year’s three-day rock extravaganza are now on sale are priced at £105 for a three-day ticket.

A couple of new photos in the street furniture gallery, on the Blogger page.

Video clip to go with Tom's updates below...Adam stairs 360

Burney gets patched up

waiting for magic @ southbank

mmm tasty like worthers origianals

"picasa" xperiment

We all Look at The ledge

Saturdays omenous sky

What a strange day this was. When i began sussing out the riding vs weather situation i stared taking photos of tempestuous sky's. It'd been blowing a gale for a couple of days but it looked drier than the day before so when Matt called me to go out riding in west London i got myself together and took the train up to waterloo where i met up with George and we made our way to Stockwell to meet up with Matt and a bunch of Mancunians and Chester heads.
We all pedaled our way over West through Clapham striaght to the infamous estate that the Northan dudes had tried to session the day before in the rain. It did'nt take long for it to start up again but it was so windy any showers were breif and the wind with the sporadic sunshine dreid the concrete enoughto keep riding. I crashed as soon as we got there but whats new there so mainly milled around watching th others nibble around on the small rails littering the small area we're sessioning. Someone was over icepick grinding up a long low rail and then hopping back over ,I think the guy's name is Loz ,anyway he then feebled up the same 2" wide round rail and over. Lots of little jibs were going on and then we headed over to Wandsworth roundabout where everyone seemed to be able to peg the walls. Someone even icepicked it a couple of times, then whipped the really awkward steep bit of the bank a few times tearing the internals of his freewheel apart in the process, which did'nt seem to phaze him too much. Loz got a sweet 5 on the bank, Burney (i think is the guy who's face i think i recognize from somewhere) did a really nice sprocket to 180 on the wall and then had the most violent crash just as we were about to leave. There was a peice of pretty sodden peice of mdf at the bottom of one of the steeper bits of the bank and one time his wheel spat out from under him sending him head and sholders into the face of the concrete bank...nasty. He picked himself up and his mates got him all patched up and we went on our way back to southbank to meet up with James from Charharrt who they were all staying with. We stopped a couple of times to ride fresh marble or just to look at stuff. When we got to southbank everyone was cold and stiff but i felt like riding a bit and so did everyone else in the end. Mr drinkwater (did my resarch) twisted the 7 a few time dispite having to scoot up them to get speed loz did a fewwhip hops!, Owen and a few of the others were on their front wheels most of the time nosemanualing up the sloped ledge thats there!, and i think i spotted Phil Dolan obviously out doing them all with that front wheel balancing stuff. Good day and nice people dispite the weather!. Cheers guys see you next time.

Starting at the beginning of March at Tony one times pub, Filthy McNasty's, in Amwell street in Angel, Paul Evans is having his first photo exhibition. If you are in the area, go check it out.

Bicycle Union
John Dye has been updating their website lately, pay 'em a visit and see what they've been upto...www.bicycleunion.com

Fullpipe


Photo sent by Flip

Tom and his bowled corner

for you photography buffs check out the very talented work of Danielle Atkins. There are some amazing photos on there, no BMX to speak of but broaden your horizons. She started off doing snowboarding and skateboarding photography but as you can see on the site she's now doing some cool stuff with bands and fashion. Pretty inspiring... http://datkinsphoto.com/

"The second Front Brake Revolution is set to be huge, with the ever expanding rider list including: Rick Moliterno, Dave Freimuth, Dave Osato, Brian Vowell, Brian Kachinsky, Rob Nolli, Mike O'Connell, James Hitchcox, Tom Haughen, Dan Seig, Ben Foakes, Jim Reinstra, Senad Grosic, Christoph Huber, Dan Emerich, Neil Keddie, Anthony Pill, Anthony Pearson, Mark Murphy and many more....

The rebuilt website is up and running. www.frontbrakerevolution.com

Bristol Flat Jam
There is a flatland jam in Bristol at the end of the month, see the website for more details...www.bristoljam.tk

Greoux Trails Jam
There is also a jam at Greoux Trails in France, we went there on the TWOAND8 trip in 2003, good trails, good people. There's a few photos of them on the site in the galleries. For more details, Adi has some on www.twoand8.com or www.trailpeoplejam.net

Epic Meeting
As Lee mentioned the other day, there was a meeting on Tuesday at Epic Skatepark to discuss plans for the park, Homer was there and has the low down. www.bcbmx.co.uk

Did a few errands around town today, then went to lock my bike up for a third time and noticed this...



Not sure when it was done but it was easily cut half way through, almost got someone there next fix. Probably a similar story behind the bike that some kid has been riding at Dean Lane skatepark lately, paid about £40 for it. Race frame, carbon forks, thompson seat post and profile everything else.

Got another competition running, this time from the people at The Bike Show. A pair of tickets and a pair of trainers are up for grabs. Click here to find out what to do

Just added 4 real nice photos sent over by Dan from www.geocities.com/egyptbmx

They are in the submitted gallery if you want to go see 'em.

Greek Fullpipes
Not totally sure of the name who this is off but it's a from an email sent by a guy from Greece about a couple of full pipes he found over there. One is 8 meters in diameter and the other is 15 meters in diameter with the vert starting from 7-8 metres...

There's some changes happening at Epic and Keith the owner is asking for as many ideas as poss. to make something good. Keith's planning a meeting on Tuesday night to discuss any new ideas, if you decide to attend you'll find free entry + some Stella and possibly your ideal ramp set up put into fruition. The choice is yours!
The old spine, volcano, jump box section has now gone to make way for climbing walls, it's not selling out, it's a way pulling more money into the park to prevent closure due to financial difficulties.

A mate i hav'nt seen in a while has sent me these photos that he just found, there's only four of them and only one "bmx" pic but i like em. Enjoy. All pics by Joe Medland.

Slides and a scanner, almost forgot what that was all about, Jan and Ian at Chissy trails last year.

The Hiddennation setapost comp is over and Lee has informed me that Chris Jensen is the winner, so get hassling him to send it out. Stickers will also be sent to everybody else the entered.

Cranks have been sold.



Nick Garifalos, photo by Leonidas. www.gutlessbmx.com

Eggy has been busy again this winter tweaking the layout of Worcesters finest...



Click here for full size image

New skatepark in Bristol, opened around the end of last month. It's in Withywood, Bristol.



I spoke to Craig Reynolds the other day and he said that it's all go with the new ramp at St George. I think it's a concrete mini ramp, work should be starting soon-ish.

The other new skatepark to be built in the centre of bristol might have hit a set back. They might have found something of historical relevance on the site where it is to be built.

We had one last session at Park Centrral last week, the night before it was changing hands. I think it was changing into a furniture store or something like that, but for some reason they were going to keep the mini ramp in?!

I also heard Matt Sully wants to open a new indoor park in Bristol.

Just been changing the hosting in the last few days so the sites been down. There's actually enough space now to add new stuff without having to delete something else first.

There's some new photos from the Tag Team Bowl Jam and some updates in the Downloads section.

Here's a few photos dedicated to Knowlhill trails, from the jam last year...