Posted by Eamonn on 2006-03-02
Jaydub (Jerry Willows) aka Johnny Photoshop and I went filming with Diggs the other day for the next installment of his North Shore Extreme Series (NSX9), and I finally remembered to bring my digi to capture some shots of our excursion. After watching the
replay of my not so successful landing attempt on a very soft and greasy LZ (Landing Zone), Digger was kind enough to give me a sneak peak of some of his footage and it looks sick (hat
Posted by Eamonn on 2006-02-26
With the perfectly timed break in the rainy weather for my much needed reading break, I had a chance to catch up on a few things, riding, bathing and of course some trail maintenance on Airsupply. Though, the turn in weather has halted the construction of my Ark (after the 40 something days of rain), it did get me back on my bike with vengeance! The trail conditions were fantastic, especially on Fromme; with the snow line hovering just below the sixth switch-back, and the lower mountain conditions summer like (dry and tacky due to the cooler weather). I guess I did something right because we had nothing but sunshine for my whole week off. As I mentioned earlier I was able to get up to Airsupply and do some minor maintenance, but nothing could have possible prepared me for what I encountered! The incident occurred mid afternoon on what was a typical sunny and cool day for my week off.
I was busy doing some raking and removing windfall from the trail, as the windstorm earlier that week had deposited some rather large obstacles, when all I heard in the distance was a faint cry for help. At first I thought it was an injured biker, but as I got closer I realized that this could have been no biker, or no human for that matter! As I scrambled over a mass of newly fallen tress I came upon the source of the screeching
Posted by neil on 2006-02-01
The Gathering Day One:
Arrived at The Gathering jumps in Renton Washington a little late but was psyched at how they looked. They were great, 2 sets for 2 different categorys, a step up/down, C wall, and a dirt spine. There was a wood to dirt stepdown at the start that everyone in pro practice was going bizzerk on! I'll let the pics do the justice on that. The pro dirt results go as followed. Jaimie Goldman came in Third with a unreal run, including a
backflip on the stepdown ramp. In Second was
Paul B. with an almost identical run. Darren Berrecloth was deservingly the champ. His run was packed with large moves, all dialed in as usual. He threw down a clicked 360 table on the stepdown, to
indian air the first jump, whip the second straight to the pedals with enuf time to 360 off the step up/down, and then with the judges likely not even noticing, an opposite 360 over the spine.
After the contest:
Since Rosscofatty was the senior of the group we had him do the brew run for the Hoes 'n' Volvos team. We stopped at the 76 gas station/snack shop and got Rossco to do his thing. 60$ later we had around 20 Fourties of our favorite crunk juice, Mikes Hard Lemonade. Then we head back to our pad...The Hilton. Only the finest in accomodation for the Hoes 'n' Volvos team. We were prepared to head out for a nice meal before we started to hit the brews, but then we realized it was 12 o'clock and ordered pizza to our hotel room. Things started to get out of control fast as R Kelly and the Caveman both made appearances in room 214, we invited everyone to our hotel party and when the night got going we had ALOT of mountain bikers in the 214. We learned a few things by the end of the night. There is an abundance of weiner at MTB partys, and Fraser loves to go swimming in his boxers but doesnt love getting tripped and landing on his face! At around 4 am we hit the sack after "the po po" were called. I guess nobody told the Hilton that Canadians were showing up. The next morning we awoke to a note under our door with the title
"NO party rule".
The Gathering Day 2:
Park day. Awoke nice 'n' early with the taste of Lemonade still in tack. Everyone made it to the park when they could. I was a little unsure about the park layout at first but it turned out to be a real good session. Spent a good couple hours riding this 3 foot mini off to the side of the course. Tried out a bunch of new tricks and basically got worked. The locals certainly brought their A-game as they cleaned up in their runs. Phil Sandbaum was smashing the ceiling on flips and Andy Sandbaum was whipping everything in sight! Man those brothers can rip. Chase was riding with total control and mad style as always. Some local sporting a Hockey helmet was a nutter! One of the craziest wallslaps I've ever seen. All this was great, but the main attraction of the day was certainly the ROAD GAP! Evan Holmgren took one for the team on that one. Spleens are mean! We all basically lost our voices from cheering so hard for the gnarly road gapper. I hope someone got pics of it!
Day 3:
Time to go back to Canada again! First off we stopped by an IHOP in Renton, soon realizing that it was a 8 hour wait for seating and that no one actually had any money. Next stop is the bank, and then we spot out my favourite all day breakfast...DENNYS! Eating there was a must, so after waiting 25 minutes for Danny Brody to park his ratty V Dub, we head in. Reid spotted a
claw vending machine with teddy bears inside, so he pulled a Mike Reid and blew about 12$ on unsuccesful attempts at getting a bear for Danny to give to some lucky lady! Our
waiter was dope and our food was perf as always.
Things I learned at The Gathering:
o- Both Lunn bro's are half man half werewolf
o- Cork flips are the new X ups
o- Roadgaps can even be found in skateparks!
o- Reid kills it at shotgunning
Photos by
Mike Reid,
Kyle Scully, and
Shrew
P.S...Heel that tibia quick my little
gull banger!
That's it, ya'll!
PEACE!
While shooting for NSX 9, Pro Photographer Stephen Wilde was there with camera in hand. Needless to say his photos are amazing. I'll let the photos speak for themselves: Note: click on the photo for actual size
Just a lil rant about some of the stuff me and Diggs have been up to lately for NSX 9.
Here's a little Abbotsford session with Jesse Meerkerk... local ripper who made the UFC Top 16 last year
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