Road Fools.

Now I've been watching these videos probably since I started riding my kids bike three years ago and will honestly never be able to pull myself away from them. Its not about the fancy filming or special affects it just the way in which they document a group of friends having a good time. I think its great way of showing what BMX is really about, meeting new people, traveling, obviously riding and just purely having a good time. Road fools has now been going for eighteen series and had some of the best BMX riders from across the globe shredding their bikes over the ten days of each trip. So I thought i would treat you to some videos from Props visuals to keep you stoked on riding BMX. Stay BAB.









Hope you enjoyed them, leave some comments on how you feel about BMX.

Nowhere to Ride

Now if your like me and snow hit, like i said yesterday in my blog post about finding somewere localy that may be coverd uo and just shredding it i think this is just a perfect example, now i know there isnt any snow or horrible conditions but these place look amazing.Enough said enjoy,Stay BAB.

Wrap up and prepare cos' this snow isn't holding back!

So the winters finally hit us and she isn't holding back, concrete that was perfect for a BMX rider like myself has now turned into this deadly white surface that is unsafe for man and machine. The disease is now spreading and the whole of the UK is becoming engulfed in this deadly white blanket of snow. So the reason for me being on this subject is to run you through a few simple steps into keeping your self sane during the winter and also keeping yourself warm and alive if venturing out into the snow.
To begin with I'm going to run you through keeping yourself sane in the desperate times when bordem becomes almost a killer, now depending on what you may be interested in such as BMX, Football or even going to School you realy need to make sure that your still getting that dose, for example for you BMX riders out there I would consider stocking up on the latest issues of ride magazine possibly even a Front magazine, also make sure to check out the BMX websites that all ways updated daily(I'll link them below) now if your lucky enough to have possibly an open space to ride that is covered from the snow I would advice you to take the risk wrap up and venture to it and ride your heart out!
Which brings me onto wrapping up and preparing yourself correctly for the snow. Now depending on what your doing you always need to have atleast two pairs of socks on with some either very thick of water proofs shoes such as wellys, now if your riding obviously your normal shoes just some good socks! Now you will almost defiantly need with some shorts or possibly long johns underneath, then you will want a good pair of either jeans or joggers which completes the bottom half. Now for the top I would advise possibly a few layers of t-shirts maybe even sneak a vest in to, then a nice jumper of hoody finsished with a very thick water proof jacket. To finish you'll need gloves a wooly hat and maybe even a scalf! As you are now ready to brave the snow, you could possibly add either a nice brew whipped up by the mum, irn bru or a nice beer this is incase of emergency. I hope this realy helps and please do comment if you think that may be anything else added to help survive and also tell me what you've been doing since the deadly white blanket hit us! Stay BAB and stay Safe!

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http://bmx.transworld.net/

http://thecomeupbmx.net/

http://nomeatballs.wordpress.com/

http://canvasrider.com/

http://www.frontarmy.com/

http://woowoobmx.wordpress.com/

http://bmxactiva.blogspot.com/

The good times that have past!

Now moving up to Sunderland I had to leave some very important people who really meant a lot to me and my family. My BAB boys really did do everything for me and always were there for me and had my back. So heres a few videos thats I've just made up today that I had forgotten to edit, I will probaby post some old videos as well along the way just for entertainment but obviously will still blog as normal, please enjoy. Stay BAB!

'Me local' Silksworth.

'Me local' as Ben Hennon says in his thirty seconds edit is now my new local, Silksworth skate park is now my new Wezza. Being from Peterborough I weren't really used to a great selections of parka I was basically stuck with Wezza which was two small quarter pipes and a small jump box, now for me and lads it did do us the job considering we learnt most of our tricks at that place but now I have to biggest opportunity of riding a good skate park every week. Now to start with its a concrete skate park, it has everything you can ask for.

The selection of street madness comes with ledges ,rails and nice flat bank hips. Good enough for a full blown pegs session on a cold winters night. Now although my peg trickery was not to any particular standard riding the park defiantly has given me more chance to put pegs to ledge, many of the BMX locals being into street because of back in the day 'Silky' was not available to them and all they had was the streets, which means more people to session street with me. Here's a video to shows some ledge session time.

Ledge Madness.. from Ryan Hendry on Vimeo.

Now this is were the parks selections of fine quarters comes in, with a range of size the quarter are giving names depending on the size from big to small, Big red (the penultimate), medium red, little red, big yellow, little yellow ,little green , the road to nowhere (vert), medium spin, big spine, little spine, hip into red and hip out of yellow. Now there's a selection. With lines everywhere it does not seem to get boring, really good flow and sizes. Now I've met quite a lot of local rider already and have also managed to get a few sessions done with videos and photos, all really good people and no hassle with chav's or radgy's as the mackems say so really good local park.

Looking forward to many session at the place any many videos will be coming out of it, just hold tight and wait till the deadly white stuff leaves us and all shall be well! Enjoy.

Riders, Me, Dchum, Jay and Ben.

Mackem Interview with Mark "Dchum" Davis.

As I have moved up to the north I thought it was only rite that I got an interview going to give everyone including myself a little bit more knowledge and understanding about the mackems from a mackems point of view, so here we go a Q & A with Dchum.

What does it mean to be mackem?

“It’s something I’ve never really thought about, but I’m proud of where I live, I love supporting the local team (Sunderland) and the BMX scene is as swift as it gets. Red & white army - mackem for life”

What’s a popular mackem food or foods?

“Chip butty splash and pease pudding hahaha without doubt the 2 greatest things ever!”

What about drinks?

“Double maxim from Sunderland”

What words in particular from the mackem dictionary do you use the most?

“hahaha erm hard one this why I man and mara”

A famous mackem story?

“It’s believed the term mackem was brought about when Sunderland had a booming ship industry the ships would be made here on the river wear then taken away hence the name mackem n tackem”

Who is your mackem hero?

“without doubt it has to be Wearside Jack”

Give me a little more insight into this Jack?

“A Jack the ripper hoax from Sunderland who had the police running in circles, he evaded capture for about 36 year’s”

Did being mackem have an influence on your riding?

“It was a massive influence on my riding both NSF 1 & 2 were made here and they are the streets videos known to man. I once read a quote saying Sunderland is street and always will be and it's true even the daft park edits have a street vibe n H-man said the 2009 edit was the streetest park video he had ever seen. SBR”

Snow.

Due to weather and lack of motivation to post because of this depressing weather here is a nice bit of dub-step made by my good friend James Griffin, 11 minutes of goodness, enjoy.

Dubstep Mix (November) by DirtyProspekts