Bicycle motocross from November 2007

Thursday 21st Feb 2008 - Australia

Greetings fine persons. The past few days I’ve been working at an old airbase moving cars around. My preconceptions of this job were rad, drive around in flash new cars all day having fun. The reality is not going over 40 Mph most of the time, and driving up and down the same few routes all day getting really repetitive and brain numbing. Need to find a fun job now I’m done with uni. Thought I’d update with a bunch of photo’s from our Northbound journey at the start of our Australian trip.

Shepparton bowl tabletop

The first park we stopped at once we bought our van and hit the road was Shepparton in the North part of Victoria. This place was just a small town, but had a super rad park. It had a few big bowls, some good hips, random little boxes, banks and ledges, all sorts of rad obstacles. Good start to the trip’s riding, and just the tip of the spot iceberg.

Eddie laying it over

Don't expect much more than table pictures!

Bar turn right out the park

Just another of the good little spots we hit up on our journey North through Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. This day was ridiculously hot, and made us dehydrated after each few minutes of the session. We had the place to ourselves, and had a real good time just pumping about and riding the two hips. We also eat some dialled pasties that day, I asked for a Cornish pasty and the shop keeper replied “they’re meat pasties; I don’t know if they’re Cornish though”. Pretty sure she didn’t have a clue what I was talking about.

Garrett inspired carve, the best fun on Cairns conrete

Eddie in the smaller cradle

Cairns Skate Park was probably the most obscene park I’ve ever seen from a distance unexpectedly. It was the type of place that I’d only ever seen before on Building the Underground, massive trannies, cradle bowls, clover bowl, vert walls, hips, tonnes of ledges, banks and street influenced obstacles around the perimeter of the bowls, everything anyone on a bike or board could dream of. These photo’s only really illustrate the main big bowls which linked together in a loop, which was probably just a quarter of the amazing concrete the place had on offer.

Big cradle, absolutely nuts. Has this photo been on here before?

Another table, this time on some big bowls

Cairns was always portrayed as the ultimate party town by all the travellers and travelling information I had heard from or read. When we got there, the place’s centre was not as big an area as we had expected. Also, the weather was nothing like the pictures on the post cards! Plus there were crocodiles in the ocean so you couldn’t swim anyway. We did have a real good time riding there though, sessioning the park in the town and also sneaking through the fence for an early morning ride at the private race track.
We did party a bit in Cairns, one night we went to some club called Soho, had to pay 15 bucks to get in and it turned out to be a cheesy dance club. We got real wild in there, rave dancing and meeting a whole heap of awesome people. I met this chick from Finland who was pretty much heaven, she was one of the most amazing girls I’ve ever met. Sadly, I didn’t manage to get in contact with her after that night though, which I was pretty devastated about. That night was so much fun.

Opposite carve in the cradle

Another night, we went to see some band called Katchafire in a music venue in Cairns. We thought they were going to be a rock band for a wild night, turned out to be $37 to see a reggae band who were only really popular in New Zealand. Everyone was in a state of tranquillity, rarely moving their feet, even at the most exciting points of the gig. Did meet a drum and bass raver from Wembley though which was rad, plus some skaters and some girls complete with incredibly protective other halves. There was also a pokies bar downstairs (poker machines), so after the gig we went and chatted shit to some older women in there. Ended up getting real lost on the way home, and losing Eddie, he slept in a bus stop with his leg through his frame so no one stole his bike! Legendary as always.

Levi, super nice guy from Cairns who shredded the place to pieces

Aerial

To conclude young sirs and madams, that was some stories and pictures from a nicer climate. Hope you like it. The end. x

Posted by Chaz at 04:59 pm in the BMX > Australia section. Permalink.

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