interview 2

John Howkins.. aka dirty ..

age.. 16

years riding.. 3

fav spot to ride.. would have to be the local banbury good atmosphere and good park

riding style.. everything big n brakeless..

plans for this year.. to wait for the summer,ride loads and party and well leavin to college

what inspires you to ride.. seein other people ride..good weather web videos etc.. and just good times

who inspires you?.. who inspires you .. ray smith 4 helpin me with my bike and ridin etc ( editors note..NOT chaz mann).. takin me places urmm and lots of pros like mark webb, morgan wade ,chase ( not Harry) etc.. etc..

describe your local scene.. fun! urmm quite small,great atmosphere and great people in general again good times

music.. with music i duno depends what my mood is i like allsorts really.

what you at when not riding.. urmm just bein with my mates g n to partys etc..

thanks to my family and friends

interview 1..

Callum, aka Baltie..

age.. 16 + 3/4

years riding.. 4-5

fav spot to ride.. specsavers or the wall behind the musketeer pub

riding style.. tweaker (street killer brakeless 4 pegs)

plans for this year.. keep my bike 1 colour

what inspires you to ride.. watchin people go big

who inspires you?.. tom hanks

describe your local scene.. little rats and druggys on bikes

music.. hip hop, reggae

what you at when not riding.. chillin at college or chillin at home ...

thanks to anyone? thankyou to everyone!!

Sheldon Brown 1944-2008

I heard Sheldon Brown died last week. He lived his life surrounded by bikes & his site makes for some interesting reading. I used his wheel building expertise from his tutorial site years ago to teach myself to build wheels & I've often found myself digging through the other parts of his knowledge of bicycles old & new.

RIP to a fellow biker


www.sheldonbrown.com/home.html

Ratboy Rocket Ruler...

SS20-Corby-5th Feb 2008...

It's always got to be good to cut work early to go & ride so it was half day for some old dudes & then hit the road to Corby again.

The plans all came together last minute & it ended up with Sunil & I travelling up from Banbury to Meet Alex, Mon & Zac at the park. After a good old chin-wag all the way up, we were into the park & out of the rain. Derren Bailey & Phil from Cov also came & we were soon all sessioning the bowl & wedge & having a grand old time of it!

Alex - Table


Mon & Zac skated the bowl & were there to do a reccy for the legendary Skate shop SS20 in Oxford. The plan, according to SS20 owner Mon, is to get a load of Skateboarders the world over to get together & have a big Jam type deal to celebrate 20 Years of SS20 with live music, DJ's & undoubtedly, some mental skating going down too. All due to happen as some point later in the year...

Zac


Zac - Hip


Mon


Mon - Bowl Carve


Sunil hasn't ridden for ages so it was good to see him blowing out the cobwebs & getting back into the flow. We made our way around the park & rode a little of everything, there were a bunch of foreign younger guys, all sessioning the main line down the park over the boxes but they all left after a short while & we pretty much had the place to ourselves.

We had a real good session on the street spine which has to have a prize for being the worst positioned ramp in a skatepark ever! it's right in the main line of the jump boxes/step ups callthemwhatyouwill. Fortunately as the park was quiet, we all managed to get some good stuff down on it anyways.

Alex - Spine - 360 Tyretap


Ian - Spine - No-foot nosepick


Big props to Sunil for conquering the spine & for the other guys riding who pretty much nailed everything they attempted. All Good...

After learning that the floor was in fact made of sandpaper (ouch) we returned to the bowl for a while & then Sunil & I called it a day. We said our goodbyes & were soon back on the dark roads to Banbury...

Thanks to you all for the inspiring riding & see you all @ Creation on the 23rd - Yo!

Phil


Derren & Alex


Sunil & Ian


Good times


Thanks to Alex for the photos ;-)

RADBMX-Corby-10th Jan 2008...

Bit slack on the up take, I know, but what a great way to start the year! Over a month has flown by since the Xmas doo & again we were a bunch of excited kids chomping at the bit to get out & ride ;-)

Alex drove us this time round & Ray took up some of his crew up in his motor. A good chin wag ensued as usually I don't get to say a lot to Al, as we are always busy riding our bikes so it was good to catch up. Soon as we got there the usual butterfly's hit (they always do - go figure?) & we were chucking front wheels back on & scrambling for shelter inside. We signed on the dotted, paid our dues & we were in to meet some other Raddies & after several introductions we were away.

First impressions of the park were favourable with a ton of options it was difficult to know where to start but we went with the bowl behind the mini. This thing is nice & smooth & you could spend all day just riding that & never get bored. But there was a whole park to use so we gradually made our way around the place & got a feel for what was on offer...

The day went pretty fast (as these things always do) & everybody seemed to be having a blast, I'm still not sure who half of the RAD crew are & I will hopefully get around to proper introductions & conversation in the future but they are all a sound bunch of BMXers ;-)

Milks snapped a few fotos:

Alex & CBCL made Toothbonks on the oververt

Milks carved the bowl with mucho speed & made some sweet footplants to fakie, I learnt disaster to nosepick & made 360 Canadians again, Alex made some good nosepicks on the wedge/sub thing in the bowl & nailed some other great stuff & Ray had to take Craig to A&E :-(

We got well lost going home without Ray to follow so plenty more conversation flowed...

Great day & already booked & looking forward to the next one, 23rd Feb, where with luck, Sboy should be with us!

So that worked out then...

I was reading some post on RADBMX site & remembered that I had posted about new years resolutions around this time last year. I checked the list I had made to see how many of these illusive goals I had achieved...

Answer: ZERO

SO, my single new years rez for this time around is:

TO STOP BEING AN IDLE BASTID!