LOL!

I tagged along to the Role Models thing at Corby as seen in Ride this month. Displayed below is the reason why I am a photographer, not a photographee. I’m no Adam Bora.
This pic of Bruza is mine, but I must stress that this is a rail ride to opposite whip, not a regular one. As if regular isn’t hard enough!

Nice one barcode face, it came out good!

Ahh the glamour!

I’m pretty sure most people think that taking BMX photo’s is one of the most glamorous things a person can do. Ever. And for the most part they are right! There’s the leather jackets, Instant access to the woman of your choice, beautiful locations such as old industrial estates and dero warehouses. Not to mention people just generally wanting to be your friend and carry your 15KG camera bag round so you can actually hop stuff and do manuals while riding to different spots. It’s a pretty sweet deal.

Reality checks are something I personally like to steer clear of. Saturday was like any other normal day of photography, money and women. I was just hanging, waiting to get a picture of merman doing a ledge of no considerable ease. I left a 20 minute window between my pedicure and wine tasting to get the thing done. Plenty of time I thought. The Chauffer won’t even need to turn the engine off. I set up and found a pleasing angle, lying on a tarmac carpark floor. A tad cold I thought, I should have brought the two small boys I normally have accompany me so they could lie underneath and provide padding and insulation. Mental note taken.

Now I’m not knocking Merman in any way shape or form, but the 20 minute lie down turned in to a 40 minute lie down turned in to an hour or so lie down. Merman just didn’t relent (apart from 2 minutes running off a dead leg) meaning the cold side of my body went in to near shut down to keep my vital organs working, my craning neck was severely aching and my trigger finger was so cold that I was unsure if I could control it well enough to fire any pictures at all. Top this off with more than one passer by mentioning the fact that I looked like I’d been run over (I was pretty much under a Porsche Cayenne) and others trying to talk cameras and it was getting rather ‘samey’.

Today, it has to be said, the ledge won. Now I’m tempted to publish a picture of said failed attempts, but I will save the picture for the day Merman wins. It would be an injustice not to. I have added an illustration to perhaps demonstrate what demons David had to battle that day. Nobody begrudged him. (Though having said that I did have to cancel the wine tasting, the Indian massage and my debating session with good friend and fellow philosopher Dr Gunther Olaf-Denk.) I think Dr Olaf-Denk would like to have words with Merlin, although he probably wouldn’t understand any of them.

Should my helicopter be serviced in time I will be back in a couple of weeks. I will have the gas heaters and on-site catering standing by.

This is BMX after all!

You can click the picture to enlarge it if you need to. It is probably worth mentioning that the stair set somewhat narrower and much longer than sown in this crude mock-up.

DUNK IS LITERALLY DECLARING WAR

well done duncan, you're friday nights sure look radddd.
i'd rather 'listen' to paint dry then 'party' with you..
ok no i wouldn't, and im sorry i got a little teary then, but i dont enjoy being antagonised, i found this and realised that i AM the better man and dunc is actually a hamster..



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"i understand, are you the mayor?"



the last trick in this is an actual joke..

and finally, i got sent this, some kid ripped all my videos from youtube, aswell as some footage from other people, and made his own edit.. hmmmmm.
stoked or not stoked?


xx

Alright Mikey do this then!

More friday night drunk stunts

Not so smug now are we Mikey!?
I got the skiiiilzz!

Let's Play DARTS!

Booze and darts. Don't do it kids.

Arrash Saidi footage.

I just saw this vid of Arrash on thecomeup. Fuckin rad to see that the footage from last summer didn't go to waste. We thought at one point that it was going to be impossible to use. That last gap is seriously crazy, the vid (as is always the case) doesn't quite convey the gnar. Awesome styley trails riding as always. And a wee bit of fboro on there too. Reppin the log for real!
Nice one son!

Arrash Saidi - S&M Bikes from Johnny Elia on Vimeo.

Hyper Massive Super Update!

Well, maybe not an update of super stellar proportions, but an update none the less. I've been meaning to do it for ages, but in between working out, counting snow-flakes and punching horses out cold I haven't really had all that much time.

It's old news now, but I got some more stuff in Ride this month which I'm happy with.



Also pretty cool that my boyee Craig Tull has a full page of Fboro Shredder Ryan Winterbotham right next to my article. World domination next I think.

I stuck up some pics from Belfast in media which didn't make it in to Ride. There's also some more pics from Estonia.

Lately we've been to Petersfield trails a bit. I took a couple pics of Mayo and Vid. Vid hasn't ridden for 10 years, and to be honest it looked like it last time I saw him here. Then this time (about 3 weeks later) he's throwing t-bogs mid set and doing fancy turndowns over the hip. I was pretty amazed at the difference. Mayo did a table too.
I heard the locals are changing this line soon, hopefully not too much, it's well fun.



Haggler has started editing little bits and bobs, here is a quick edit from a chilled one at 'The Barn' with Mayo and Monkey. Expect more to come from that handsome chap.



A few of us went to Brighton over the weekend. It was pretty bloody cold, but we still got to ride the changes made to the Level (still unfinished). It's better than before, a lot more bikey. Niki Croft called this out, so we shot a pic. It's 6ft, pretty big.

And finally, this last pic is just one I randomly found on my hard drive. I shot it when Arrash was over during the summer, I think he was mid-Segment roadtrip. This was over the Ultimate Warrior, so if you're familiar with Chertsey you'll know it's a biggun. I just forgot about it I think.
I feel like I should put up some pics of me frolicking in the snow but I think you've seen enough of everyone else doing that.

Phew!