theshovelload vs blewbmx

Wednesday 16th Aug 2006 - Cothill

hello my fair friends and comrades. i am yak. welcome to the new blewbmx. it just got even better. allow me to explain. you may remember me from a website called theshovelload which closed down in an epic finale. blimey. since then, riding quietened down a bit and me and aidan learnt to do other things.

however, as of recent times ive been kinda missing writing stuff down and putting pictures in places along with us riding a tad more often. aidan mentioned restarting a website, but when ed introduced the idea of contributing to the long standing blewbmx, we'd be fools to decline. so ive just been given a 10 minute lesson in how to make this blog thing work, and the future looks rosy. whereas before i'd save pictures up to do entire updates, me and aidan can just throw pictures up and write shit not too dis-similar to this.

large thanks go to ed for making it all happen. ive had a bunch of pictures saved up for a while and will slowly leak them here.
lets begin:

we found this grass bank in the vicinity of abingdon back in june, on a sort of industrial estate. so seeing the potential a few of us carved a lip into it using a block of wood and a metal stick, using our hands to shape it and feet to pack. call us 1996. aidan turndown.

this is pete, one of the local abingdon rippers. his sister is cute, you'd agree. kickout.

ripper! aidan destroyed this hip, in both meanings of the word. meaning 1) he went higher than anyone else and played tailwhips (not landed). meaning 2) the lip literally fell apart whenever he rode it, cos he rode the weak bit. step thru.

however weird this lip was, which it was a bit, with a strange hip angle and a tree stump that was easily hit, it rode so nice. yak hip table. i need a new wide angle lens...

bang! aidan turndown on a hip going the wrong way. i definitely need a new wide angle lens...

i got more pictures, maybe i'll leak them too. ooofff. many more updates to come.love from yak xx

Posted by Yak at 10:11 pm in the BMX > Cothill section. Permalink.

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