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BMX

It’s about time – The Birth of Big Air

February 18, 2010

Finally – Mat Hoffman is being honoured by a documentary that covers his legendary status and contributions not just in BMX Freestyle but for extreme sports in general. I kind of feel like although he’s revered by most people who know about bike riding, he doesn’t always receive the wider recognition that he so badly [...]

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FUCK SKATEBOARDERS

February 11, 2010

Naa, not really. But most people are only too aware of this whole “skateboarding vs. BMX” bullshit that’s been going on for some time now, brought to a head more recently by both sport’s popularity in the wake of the X-Games as well as irresponsible articles by the likes of Thrasher Magazine. As a direct [...]

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Best turndown in BMX?

January 25, 2010

There have been a couple of fun questions posed recently on Dig Magazine’s site and on TCU regarding two of the most subjective (i.e style over substance) tricks in bike riding – tabletops and turndowns. Sad thing is, even I overlooked this guy when it came to the last question – Keith Treanor. Keith was [...]

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Life o’ Fids

January 21, 2010

Still trawling back through the old email archives, there’s some quality – and long forgotten – shit in here:
08/04/1997
“hi nick – i went to marseille skatepark last weekend. it ruled.
here’s a photo of fids and a girls ass.
later – will”

That picture of Fids is nothing short of classic. Click to make big.

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Dirt

January 20, 2010

Back around ‘96 / ‘97, myself and Ben used to update a little website that we named ‘Dirt’, with some reviews of BMX videos, music, and information on various ’scenes’ around the UK. The inspiration came mainly from Kieran Chapman’s eWire e-zine, and while it was fun to do at the time we lost interest [...]

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Hard Drivin’

January 18, 2010

The past couple of years have seen the rise of a strange branch of motorsports, an uneasy alliance between the ‘Xtreme’ generation of sports sponsors and the motoring world that’s resulted in a new event in the X-Games and chaps like Ken Block (I still have a Blockhead cap somewhere, cheers Dennis!) earning the respect [...]

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Skate and Create

January 15, 2010

So this post was inspired by a little video that I came across recently, which includes Ian MacKaye (amongst others) talking about how life as a skateboarder changes your perception of the world around you.
It’s funny because it’s this exact same conversation that I’ve had with so many other people (BMXers mainly) through the years. [...]

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Old Gallery back online…

May 4, 2009

So after some dicking about following the move from the old server (a decrepit IBM X330 complete with ATA/33 and other such nonsense) to the new one (a shiny Dell R200!) and reconfiguring my site I’ve also put my old gallery back online. Anyone who uses Gallery2 will know that it can be a massive [...]

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My bikes over the years

December 19, 2008

Inspired by this post from Taj Mihelich, I figured that as I have quite a few photos of various bikes I’ve owned over the years I’d do something similar. This list is far from comprehensive (I guess it helps when you’re in the media as much as he was / is) but there’s still a [...]

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Cheap lenses ftw indeed…

August 22, 2008

Taking a cue from Wes, I recently picked up a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 AIS lens off a friend of mine. It’s MF but produces some pretty amazing images and is super sharp assuming you nail the focus. Here’s a few ‘test’ shots I took of the Nike SB / Crazysmiles toys made to [...]

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