Kellie: “Hey Nick, you do know that the bottom tube on your BMX frame has a split in it?”
Me: “Yeah right, it’s probably just a scratch…”
Kellie: “No seriously, there’s a split in the metal!”
Me: “I doubt it babe, metal doesn’t usually just split and anyway, these frames are practically indestructable.”

* Gets bike out and turns it upside down *

Click the above image for a close-up.

Fuck.

Anyone who has been into BMX for a while (i.e more than a couple of years) will probably have heard of the P.O.W (Pros of Westminster) house. It’s the original BMXer pad that came about in Southern California in the early 90’s and where riders like Chris Moeller, Dave Clymer, Keith Treanor and Todd Lyons as well as many others over the few years of its existence lived, visited and rode. As such it’s the source of many a legendary tale and the precursor to high-profile shows like MTV’s Real World.

As I was cleaning up some cruft on my disk at home I came across a couple of documents which contain a few short diary entries written by Chris Moeller himself. I don’t think it actually ended up being used in any magazine and as far as I can see they’re nowhere to be found on the WWW, hence me copying it in here instead.

“Welcome to the P.O.W. house. If you don’t like it, get the fuck out.”
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Ever since Ape Skatepark opened in Stockton-on-Tees a couple of years ago, we’ve been saying we’d make the trip up there to check it out. Everyone we knew who’d ridden there had nothing but good things to say about the place, but for some reason it’s taken us until now to actually get off our arses and make the 270 mile round-trip to ride.

It was definitely worthwhile.
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