the 5th of june 2003

Tuesday 6th Feb 2007 - Cothill

hello. my name is yak of the vale and i dont have a real job or a future mapped out whatsoever. on my tuesday afternoons i can have a bath if i want. so i did. i can also cut the nails on my right hand with my left hand, and the nails on my left hand with my right. can you do that?

so greetings oh fair comrades. lend me your eyes and your ears and your hearts and your hits. and if im very lucky - lend me your bits.
so we had just about the best session ive had since probably summer 2005. im not even lying. after theshovelload shut down last april i stopped riding for a pretty dang long time and went majorly off it, riding probably only a handful of times up until christmas, mainly at radley. today reminded me of a day me and aidan once had on the 5th june 2003 and any other rad trails day we had up until 2005. up to the top for another.

aidan! a special love has been declared that few dare speak of. something that doth not allow the boy to speak properly for short bursts of timepiece. here he wallows in his love and tops up the love levels with a mean twiddler of a kickout over the second in his line.

fact. the last riding picture aidan took of me that made it onto this here website was on the 5th september at newport. and there wasnt even a table on that update. subconciously...you've waited 5 months for this. table over the first on my line. this jump started off shit then steadily turned into an absolute treat, sending you higher every time. this was about half way through the day.

so having not ridden trails since last april there were many a rusty moment. lots of feet down and shady landing on stuff, mistimed pumps and badly pulled stunts. mix that in with the fact that the jumps riding are all soft or wet or need changing and the outcome was remarkable. here aidan recovers from an attempted turndown to no foot can.

plain old no foot can over the hipped bit. note tyremarks, chunks and scuffs all over anything that got ridden. good times. bad times. aidans line is looking pretty sick. im scared of the stuff down the bottom.

whooop! im ten times stoked on stuff after this day. this jumps pretty damn fun too. you hit it rate slow, pump a roller then hit a 4ft tall lip with about a 7ft gap. now thats what im talking about.

what else am i talking about?

if you dont regularly entertain the idea of visiting QUIS! then you're a fool. for some of the most well thought out photography, about as experimental as a mouse with an ear on its back, then i suggest you go look at ever single pictures hes ever taken. digital and film. so you cant hate him.

the boy daz at MIDBMX not only runs a regularly updated bmx weblog with plenty of rad pictures but he also ordered me to watch this video of tony watkinson. CLICKY HEREY and go down to the very bottom right video of cambon and watkinson for some of the most outrageous tables ive ever witnessed in my life. sickening. hes also pretty good at the other stuff too.

thanks for watching. toodle doo til next time. x

Posted by Yak at 05:15 pm in the BMX > Cothill section. Permalink.

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