Scituate BMX

indian summer

2011-11-28T16:44:00.000-05:00

went and rode killingly with cody and eddy
had some fun

blasting the quarterpipes

yeah

prov at night

2011-10-13T13:09:00.001-04:00

rode the hip and the bowl. i love riding at night. i also love shooting at night with flashes.

BMX!

Rad skatepark

2011-08-14T17:52:00.000-04:00

thought we were done with that place till next winter, but they built a nice new quarter pipe so we rode it

cody and grant used my camera to take some shots

blargh!

2011-06-23T17:12:00.000-04:00

Here are some pickshas of us Scituatians (situations) doing our things
first off i gotta few things to sell

anyway

270 table

from end to end

josh

anthony

me

cody whip

me

i lurve table tawps

Tables and Turndowns!

2011-05-09T22:26:00.001-04:00

so here are some tabletops

and a few turndowns

and a new variation, a 360 tabletop

at neutaconkinut skatepark

151st post!

2011-04-13T15:49:00.000-04:00

Been to prov, got a new lens, got some pics of there and from the trails w the 18-55

deluxe!
www.deluxebmx.com

matt

prov park

2011-03-19T14:52:00.001-04:00

finally warmed up enough to go to prov again. got some pics before my lens broke
cody lookin like a gangster

grant

guess trick/rider

lol

Rye and Rad

2011-03-10T22:22:00.000-05:00

Went to rad, yet again. got a good pic

Heres the vid from rye
sorry for the shaky filming
i do all the falling in this one
got pulled over on the way back

Rye Airfield from Scituate BMX on Vimeo.
Went to Rye Airfield in New Hampster with the Prov crew.

Rad vid

2011-03-03T23:51:00.000-05:00

Cody and I went to rad for a quick session. I've been using a Flipcam from G-Form and here's what we got. I ran into the wall on the last 360 haha.

Rad on Tuesday from Scituate BMX on Vimeo.
Cody and I went to Rad and had a quick session. Here's what we got. I ran into the wall on the last 360.

Rye Airfield

2011-02-27T18:23:00.000-05:00

Kyle Spenca drove, for a grand total of 6 hours and 60 dollars of gas, to take me, and many other hoodlums, to Rye Airfield Skatepark in Rye, New Hampster.

I didn't get my waiver notarized in time. They didn't let me ride my bike. So I ended up taking a few photos. I mostly used a disposable and my video camera, but here are a few snaps from my digi.

Kyle, Josh, and Abe

I tried to get a shot of Josh pumping this bowl corner. I wanted him to have a blur behind him, but my on-cam flash didn't light him up enough.

I ended up riding Josh's, Kyle's, and Eddy's bike... The box jumps are a blast. More fun than Rad's.

Here's Eddy riding the thing.

I'm working on an edit with the video clips. Check back soon.

G-Form

2011-02-22T23:03:00.000-05:00

Today, charlie drove me, dean and sean to Rad again.
I remembered to bring my pads.
I've been wearing some pads made by g-form since the end of the summer. They're like a gel, and very flexible. I've worn em every time I ride with jeans, and they are very slim and lightweight. But the gel stiffens on impact, and absorbs the shock. It seems like they wouldn't do anything but they've surprised me every time. They have protected my knees from many falls.
So I put them on the outside of my jeans and got Dean to take a few pics of them. They're kinda funky lookin-people were calling me spider man-but they do the job, and i forget I'm wearing them after a few minutes.

I brought my 50 prime but didn't bring any flashes. So Dean shot me using the shitty natural light.

turndown

Just learned tuck no handers today.

pictures of me!

2011-02-16T23:13:00.000-05:00

Charlie drove Sean, Dean, and me to Rad the other night. It was really, really cold when we were working on the damn bike rack.

Dean got some shots of me riding, it's about time somebody took pictures of me. Thanks man.

turndown

abubaca

sean

360s feel crazy good

me, charlie, and sean.

zooboomafoo!

2011-02-09T16:56:00.000-05:00

Went to rad, yet again. nothing else to ride.

Dylan and I set up for some picture taking

and i got a few photos.

cody seat smack

three handed nobog

thats it!

zoinks!

2011-02-06T16:29:00.000-05:00

the only riding we have been doing lately is at rad....so here are some more pictures from there

cody crazy one hander

check out any and all of these photos on my flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/jakeowen
any comments/criticism are appreciated. photography is my senior project, and this little blog is where i show it. but if you're looking for my photos that arent sweaty dudes riding little kids bikes, check out my flickr...

Rad again!

2011-01-31T21:48:00.000-05:00

Went to rad for Sleeper's Bday. 60 bicycle riders there. Good pizza and cake, crazy trains. I only took out my cam for the last fifteen minutes, I was too bizzy riding.

Kyle was stoked on Cody boosting the quarter.

Here are a few other angles.

Finally got a shot of grant doing a can can. I don't care if it's hard to see at least his knee is straight.

At the very end, we had the mini ramp to ourselves. Chris childs somehow convinced me to transfer from the 3 foot sub into the 6 foot extension and I did it first try. But when I tried to transfer from the 1 foot quarter into the 3 foot mini i landed flat every time...cody's standing on that ramp.

Didn't get any pics of chris shredding. He boosted everything higher than anyone I've ever seen with no effort. there's a pic of him over at circuit , which is also the best bike shop in RI owned by the coolest dude i know, viktor krum!

here are my best friends grant and cody =D

Another Rad session

2011-01-22T15:20:00.000-05:00

One day Cody smelled something stinky...

It was Vic Bettencourt, Owner of Circuit BMX and BMX, riding his Bicycle on a wall!

Our friend Matt Silva was absolutely Dumbfounded by this magic

So i pulled my camera out of my hood

and shot some people riding a Vertical Wall!

Heres some random dude sticking his ass wayy out there.

Here's Matt

cody, going a little too fast, went to the tippity top and fell to flat! even went above the flash

This one he didn't fall off the wall.

Dylan.

Dylan was stoked on Cody's whips,

but looked away when Cody did a 1 footed table.

So then, he did a 1 footed almost x up half table

and Grant was disgusted.

RAD!

2011-01-19T15:11:00.000-05:00

been to rad a bunch lately
here's some pics, i shot under the watchful eye of dylan shippee

cody's got turndowns pretty dialed...

1 footed x up

dylan

grantbuttcrack

another one of dylan

cody footplant

cody seatgrab

grant

yet another turndown picture of cody

grant

cody bar hump

ariana, dylans gf. has skills

grant griz

cody, boosting

Winter!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-01-11T15:05:00.000-05:00

that's grant's snowman

we've been going to Rad Skatepark in mass a lot lately...

i bought dean's flashes, set em up, took some shots...and then the flashes ran out of battery! =/....so here's what i got before i put them away

here's cody. tabes whips and turndowns, what more could you want

heres an out of focus tabletop

i rode the 5 foot quarter and vic took a pic

here's my friend jamie bein a gansta

Black and White, and Color too

2010-12-13T13:35:00.002-05:00

Another day at Prov Park.

Rob Clancy rode with us and while I was setting up to shoot Cody, he rolled around doing a hang five and wiped his nose , and I happened to shoot him at the right time...wack

Here are some other photos

Moving right along!

2010-12-09T21:10:00.000-05:00

Winter is here, it is 18 degrees right now. But we've still been braving the temperatures to get in some sessions at prov.

there have been some sweet sunsets lately

We are hopefully making a trip up to Rad Skatepark next week with Vic and the Circuit crew.

That's it for trails

2010-11-19T14:47:00.000-05:00

burned all the leaves...rode everything into the ground. covered everything up till spring =/

more pics later

yo

2010-11-07T19:02:00.000-05:00

been digging for the last days of riding, looks like the rains gonna kill everything =/

got a 50mm 1.8 and i like it.
went to prov 3 times in 3 days it was great.

codys dad yelling at him =D

grant yelling at me =/

crazy sky

some art shit

dirty sensor =[

my favorite place to chill, i made a cairn there

everyone loves good trail shrooms. these aren't the best but there ya go

everything ran fast

the tools of the trade

been burning the leaf piles

everything is fast now

wowee!

dig

sweet tdown

onefooter

this is why i got a 50 prime

cody 1 footer it was crazy wack. landed smooth

textin at da park

yellin

turning down

grizzly bears

sweet hips

we carved out the hip landing more for more speed fast fast fast fastttttttttttttttttt

here's a step up lip we have now

all the lines are running

it's a fun hip

matt silva is a funny fucker

grants a cheeky bastard

new spine, nice for tables

and a picture of my friend jeff

whats happening in scituate???

2010-10-24T19:39:00.000-04:00

haven't posted for a while, haven't been to the park much. been digging though, and chillin and stuff.

the tools of the trade

Is that a schnitzel in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

2010-09-09T18:21:00.000-04:00

cody sellin candy to the little kids

prov.

2010-08-22T15:54:00.001-04:00

PROVVVVVVVVVVV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-08-10T21:50:00.000-04:00

only got one riding shot before the battery died...

prov!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-08-06T20:17:00.000-04:00

dayville!!

2010-08-02T22:19:00.000-04:00

rode with the circuit crew and the eric hennessey crew, it was rad

i got a glamour shot of corey but sleeper was a little too camera shy =[

grant ate shit on a no footed cancan, took a digger to the face =[ get well soon man...

eric roasted the place

grant was diggin erics turndowns so he did a few himself

good day

prov!!!!!!!

2010-07-31T20:02:00.000-04:00

today's session

had an awesome friday sesh, lotta radness

even vic came out

nosebonk

2010-07-21T14:55:00.000-04:00

jake, dylan pic

sweet baby carrots!

2010-07-15T18:09:00.000-04:00

prov this morning with matt silva

Prov

2010-07-13T15:05:00.000-04:00

killingly again

2010-07-10T15:05:00.000-04:00

we went at about 8 in the morning, it got hot really early so we only rode a little,

i nosebonked the rail

then it was too hot so we went to dig at the trails

it rained a little bit

we built some stuff and we all worked on berms

things are looking good

killingly

2010-06-16T20:20:00.002-04:00

it stayed dry enough for us to ride

It's almost summer!

2010-06-13T20:19:00.002-04:00

Okay first things first, ScituateBMX tees for ten bucks apiece, two different designs, both by our very own dylan shippee-

the original

or the new fishy

All different sizes and colors.

been driving a lot

We've been doing some diggin

some riding at killingly,

i cruise at the high school every day

warwick trails,

cumby trails,

cody tried to be like this bird...

the bird was enjoying the sky...the weather has been nice

i have a few rolls of film to be developed, i've been shooting a lot with a disposable camera...the trails still aren't really running but it's whatever, summer is a week away and we'll get rolling...this week is finals week so not much real riding going on.

moar updates soon!

wooohooo

2010-03-16T18:39:00.003-04:00

am very close to getting a bike back together, hitting the trails soon, getting shit back to normal...daylight savings time is awesome....i'll get this site back up and running soon, am working on a new layout too, check back in a few weeks or less!

Hey

2010-01-20T18:41:00.002-05:00

People are still riding, partying, driving, etc, but nobody's taken out a camera to take pics....i haven't ridden since dec 1st, this snow sucks and taunton is pretty far away...i know nobody will probably read this but my howler and burlish are for sale, along with the glam bars, leave a comment... i went to the beach on sunday and took a few pics

Recent

2009-12-11T22:10:00.002-05:00

No posting, a little riding.
screw the crappy pics

Anyway.
I'm done with BMX. My parents say that I'm not allowed on the bike until I'm 18. That's a year and a half from now. I'm not going to be able to photograph my friends anymore. Nobody else in Sci-town really updates anyway, so don't expect rapid updates. It's winter anyway, snow's on the ground, trails are done. See you later.

really good trails vid

2009-10-30T20:21:00.002-04:00

from hennessey, filming on super 8 looks so good

dover this spring from erichennessey on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/2323232

this is the shit

2009-10-02T19:34:00.003-04:00

This is when BMX was awesome. Pedaling full speed at everything, people actually having different styles. Vert riding. Fufanus. Sprocket grinds. Chris Doyle, on DK. I think I'll buy this one, especially since the proceeds are going to Stephen Murray.

NineNineZeroFour BMX DVD Trailer 2 from NineNineZeroFour on Vimeo.

hi

2009-09-04T22:06:00.004-04:00

more pictures from recently

charlie organized a prov session...last one of the summer...and my last one for two months.

charlie, sean, grant, cody, joe, me, matt stravato, and asian sam all rode for a long time. i liked it. oh yeah, and some kids from wrb (we ride bikes) were there too, they were interesting. took some pic tars.

grant's turndowns are getting better every day

matt stravato did some too. i have a bunch of angles on my flickr, flickr.com/photos/jakeowen/ ...shameless self promotion.

dorgan and some technical footy jam stuff

grant got these dialed, even after a pretty hard slam from casing.

matt stravato killing it opposite. i have more pics of this with "better" composition, but this was the most tweaked. look at charlie

i think right after this matt got a flat. and this angle is totally poached from dylan...

sorry that i didn't get any pictures of anybody else...

here are some from other places.

went riding alone in boston. this is a parking garage across from symphony hall. i got kicked out of it because of my brakes.

jake brightman and i went to point judith to get some hurricane flicks...didn't work out, it was pretty hot but i had a nice time.

went camping in maine, this is in a shipbuilding city called bath, and they were building three aegis destroyers. the orange and white crane is the largest crane east of the mississippi...it's massive. although it doesn't lift the most weight (220 tons, i think the strongest one was 250 tons), it was still huge.

village sesh with charlie and sean. i like this picture because non-bmxers would just go down the road, but sean can make a funner choice.

rail at MIT in boston. this thing is perfect to do all your grinds on, or for a first rail.

mass ave bridge. a little humid but looked nice.

pic tars

2009-08-27T21:10:00.003-04:00

Been going through my old photos, a lot of good memories, here are a few i particularly enjoy...and sometimes life isn't all about bikes.

Last winter cody and i would ride every day, even if it meant riding a two foot bank in 30 degree weather for fifteen minutes. No matter what, there is always that urge to just get out and pedal around for a while, even if it means freezing your hands off in fifteen minutes.

Carl and I went to the air show and I caught this on the way back. Being on a boat is nice because you can just relax and enjoy being on the water.

Dylan was always kind enough to give Grant and me rides over to Killingly in the early spring. Grant always killed it and went higher than everybody. When I shot this pic I remember saying "holy shit" out loud after looking at the back of the camera.

Cody's house is always a good time, this is when everyone was trying stuff on the right hip. The place only had two sets at the time (this is last fall i believe), but we would spend all day just jumping the thing and trying different stuff. I really learned a lot of bike control riding those two tiny doubles. Thanks for letting me dig and ride there.

When we used to go camping, we'd throw in a night time session. This was one of those times where everything went smoothly.

This dude is the shit. Thanks for the rides, dylan. This was last fall, when I first got my camera and we were going to prov. That's grant in the passenger seat.

After riding all day in Boston, then hanging out at Dylan's apartment, I took this on the way to my (now) stepmom's apartment. Somehow the station looks miniature, sort of like a tilt-shift shot. I've only ridden in Boston twice but I definitely had a good time. If anybody has the shot of Grant manualing down the ledge at Jmann I want it.

Cody and Grant, letting it all hang out. These days were the shit. I think that's a bag of trash hanging from the tree. I bet we went camping that night too.

Probably some of the best times I've ever had were spent at the reservoir, that's grant with cody off to the right. This was probably a day or two before the arts festival.

Now that school is starting back up again, I'm really going to appreciate how much fun I used to have while riding and chilling out with my friends, and how everybody was friends with everybody, and how someone would always be out riding. That hardly ever happens anymore, it's a chore to get somebody out. It seems like people are just fading out, the "vibes" are different. Forget about the cliques, don't worry about judging people, just ride and have a good time.

Killingly

2009-08-22T16:41:00.000-04:00

Jake B, Mike V, Dorgz, and I went to Killingly a week or so ago...Jake snapped some pics...there was a kid there that sweated Chase Hawk so bad, so I heckled the shit out of him..

Tiresliding the top of the quarter, while it rained and the sun was shining.

I've been working on tables.

Hopefully Jake will put up more snaps of Dorgan and Mike. After hitting my head hard enough to get staples, I've decided to always wear my helmet...as if Aitken and Jimmy Levan didn't convince me enough.

2009-07-25T20:22:00.002-04:00

hello people,

a lot of riding is going down every day, along with chilling, building, and having a nice time! the weather has been alright, but scituate is starting to have a problem with a lack of spots.

Sean and I rebuilt the flyout, and added a small quarter to it. I'd like to request that nobody rides it for a while, and if they do, to keep it smooth, because it's still soft even after packing.

Our lack of spots is becoming a problem, and we need to do something about it. I'm writing a petition that will ask the town for a place to ride bikes without worry of being kicked out, and possibly some funds for hopefully a freeform cement park, like neutaconkinut or killingly. This skatepark would be a good idea because it would keep BMXers and skateboarders off of the roads and properties, specifically the schools. If built correctly, the park would require very minimal upkeep, much less than something such as a baseball field, which requires mowing, cleaning, and watering. A properly built cement park might be costly, but it would not be a money dump, as there are many BMXers and skateboarders in Scituate and the surrounding towns.

We need adults to help us, specifically ones that are involved in politics. If you can get some backup, we should definitely make an effort to get a park.

Cody's trails are really coming along, pictures may be posted soon. We've made the top section into a circuit/pump track, while we have a project in the middle of that that will be two dirt quarters and a symmetrical box jump. Down the hill, we have two separate lines, one is a berm to jump over the other line to berm to long step up, and the other is a right hip step down into a very, very nice left hip, into a wooden quarter pipe lip with no landing, we don't do landings round these parts...

Cody's at woodward till saturday or something, we need him back to ride the trails.

Stop watching TV.

sergio

2009-06-25T12:35:00.001-04:00

is still the best

Enjoy the "Mayhem" v2.0 -09- from Aguanta Pira on Vimeo.

Friends, Sun, Music, BBQ, Beer, Amazing Trails,... Anything Better?

Riders:
Sergio Layos, Juan Luis Leon, Daniel Mendoza & Michi.

Song:
Friendly Fires - Jump in the pool

Filmed:
Sony HDR SR12E with some corrections on Levels & HSL Adjust.

whats up

2009-05-31T16:43:00.000-04:00

chiggers

2009-05-29T20:01:00.002-04:00

son!

2009-05-28T20:19:00.002-04:00

while i'm out of commission, i've been diggin in my yard

been workin for about two weeks straight

i have a roll in, two rollers into a step down, then a big hip, and tomorrow i'll be working on a small jump into a big vert berm. my internet connection sucks, i don't feel like putting up pictures because nobody else besides me is ever going to ride them...it's the RULES, dogs.

my life consists of no riding and all digging with a shovel, so vic can stop bitching because im putting in my damn work with no bike, thanks.

i'd love some status updates from chode trails, seeing as how i'm not going back there, and i've spent enough time there and put in a ton of work, it would be great to see where that place goes.

my chrome sunday triumphs are up for sale, they've been cut 3/4 of an inch on either side, so now they are 26.5 inches wide.

if anybody in scituate wants to post on this site, just get me at ridebmx833 or just email jacobharrisowen@gmail.com

i've got a serious lack of motivation, i'd love to get any news from any of the dudes i used to ride with. i've got all the time in the world, so i don't have a problem with rebuilding pedals, lacing wheels, etc...

i got an old film camera and have been taking some shots to pass the time, maybe i'll put them on flickr.

anyway thanks for listening to me whine and complain, have a nice time this summer

yeah!

2009-05-19T16:57:00.002-04:00

ok well no updates for ever.

seems that jake owen has died

i dont have any pictures now but i will put some up soon.

codys trails are coming along very nicely , so are mine

o yeah and jakes dead.

Men.

2009-03-29T17:41:00.000-04:00

winter dabblings from Scituate BMX on Vimeo.

this makes me happy

2009-03-03T20:33:00.002-05:00

this is brain hunt and clint reynolds and zak early and i think someone else in austin and it's very very nice

old photos

2009-02-25T12:33:00.002-05:00

today it is snowing here

2009-02-18T16:42:00.002-05:00

I went to circuit and got my profile wheel which i have been wanting for so long. it is amazing, and nothing else compares to the quality of profile parts and you all know it!! it looks very nice and i like it a lot, thank you victor for doing a very nice job building it.

also i got these clear eclat brake pads which are also really, really awesome. they're super, super sticky and a very good change from my piece of shit old ones that didn't really work great. it's pretty much no effort at all to lock them up. i hope they don't wear out too fast though...

well anyway.

i'm ungrounded and would really like to ride with anybody and everybody. call me up or i'll call you and we will have a nice time together...

yeah!!!!

2009-02-17T22:05:00.002-05:00

cody and i rode the high school today and had a good time...i bunnyhopped a cone and we rode a fun ice transition in the corner. we went fast and that was fun. i did some sit-down fakies and abubaca'd a parking block sub on top of a dirt quarter. i am finally ungrounded and it was the best day of my life in 2009 so far. very nice. shitty weather tomorrow. too bad. maybe i will go to circuit bmx and bmx to hang out for the day.

Basement racing is on hold, i have no idea why. nobody does.

Extreme BMX Basement Racing!!!!!

2009-02-09T20:21:00.003-05:00

I will talk about that in a bit.
First i'd like to apologize for the lack of updates, I haven't been out much and when i have I don't feel like bringing the camera to shoot some 180 off a curb. And of course winter contributes to all of our misery.
This past week the weather has been very interesting, with a nice balmy sunday that Cody and I spent at Easton's Beach Skatepark in Newport. It's a very small, mellow park with no steep quarters. There is a small spine and a little manual pad. I jumped the manual pad, which is a distance of like eight feet, and it was tough because you have to land perfectly in the 1.5 foot transition for it to be smooth. But it felt really good, i haven't been in the air for a while.

Here are some pictures!!!

and a footplant

and a 180 degree spin

anyway i'm thinking about doing some sort of racing in my basement. Cody and i cleared the whole place out, and it's an interesting setup for some fun competition.

Requirements:

brakes

5 dollar entry fee (i will make lots of food, but of course you can bring some)

helmet...the ceiling is really, really low.

a tire you won't be afraid to skid the crap out of...you can rent one from me or buy it for cheap!

and naturally a good attitude!

I'm still thinking of what the course will be. It's really fun though to make up your own lines.

start and finish will be here, amazing skids will be had.

i'm hoping to see some super tight wallrides done here...this is also the first and final corner.

this is a super fast, tight, small straightaway leading into the back (awesome) section.

you will then see this

this is the same spot, just looking left. many skids will be had here too.

this is a handy little board used for those times of extra cornering space needs. this connects with the last picture.

the notorious stair corner...if you fall on this it will hurt. chunks have been taken off the corner. the dresser behind it is also dangerous.

do something cool on this little chunk corner and maybe you'll get some sort of prize. it is also a tough spot at high speeds.

that leads back to the straightaway. for some extra wicked awesome excitement, the floor will be waxed in some interesting areas...

it makes for some interesting slides...

Now i'll have to think of some prizes, but i'm thinking that winners will be had for:

best skid (has to be seen)

best wallride

hardest crash (haha)

closest call

fastest lap

coolest thing (whatever that may be)

and of course since we will be racing...

winner!

it's almost impossible to pass, but we will figure something out. there will be practice first, naturally.

i don't have a set date yet but call me or something or leave a comment on here, myspace, or facebook, and i will work something out.

quack

this is very important, so sign it

2009-01-18T10:53:00.002-05:00

well the cspc (no idea what that is) wants to test all bmx parts for lead and other hazardous metals, because they think that bmx stuff will be in contact with little kids...this petition says that "we don't use bikes as toys, so you shouldn't test them for lead and stuff because we don't want the prices of frames and stuff to go way up."

sign as many times as you like, so then you won't be paying 400 bucks for an already expensive frame.

petition

100th post!!!!!!!!!

2009-01-07T20:22:00.002-05:00

is not even related to bmx...some of you may know i don't ride my bike all the damn time, and i play halo 3 during some of that "off" time. anyway i was on bungie.net and found this very nice video from this group of guys called "buddy system gaming"...it seems like a lot of fun....i'm hoping this will convert emerson to halo 3 so we can play together :)

gregory dickson

2009-01-01T20:04:00.000-05:00

takes really kickass photos...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregorydickson/

rob darden

2008-12-31T10:18:00.002-05:00

used to be this fat guy who i didn't remember for anything special. well he lost a lot of weight and started eating healthy, and he has a totally different style. he does a really cool alley-oop 360 tuck no hander on two ramps that i didn't think lined up right....last clip was nice too

Go to BNQT for more videos.

real street

2008-12-30T20:20:00.002-05:00

this is the kind of stuff i like to see....there's some jackson mann stuff in there, stuff i didn't think was possible......................................................rory ellis, aka rodizzle, aka dude who won the long jump at the aitken jam at hyde...

embed doesn't work for some reason, but that's okay, you can see more videos of him easily from the webpage.

here's the link. rodizzle

anyway, word got around to me that there are some kids (who will remain unnamed) that don't want to ride with grant, cody, and myself because we're "not good".....i just want to say that that's really lame; why the hell would it matter about our skill level? did we (yes, i'm speaking collectively, this is how we all feel) ever give a shit how "good" you are? why would that even matter? why would you ride with "only good people" anyway? i think that riding bikes is all about having fun, not about "riding with good people" just so you can "learn tricks better"...creativity should come from yourself, not from anybody else EVER. if you don't think that way, then maybe you should go play a team sport like badminton or something. personally, i don't give a shit who i ride with, as long as they're not a dick...but go ahead, ride with whoever you want to. that's just my two cents.

will stroud reel

2008-12-28T17:00:00.003-05:00

i guess this is a resume of sorts for a videographer...this was made by will stroud...it's really fucking good...

Will Stroud Cinematography Reel from Will Stroud on Vimeo.

and however much i say that i don't really like the big bars slammed seat stuff, i'm still amazed at nathan william's icepicks and corey's whatever stuff...although i liked corey's "old" style better, but he does what he wants, right? also there are some very nice mike aitken clips and even one of jim cielincki! i like jim because he makes nice handlebars and i remember that i really liked a photo in ride uk of him doing a railhop on his yellow bike next to the water and it was all grey outside. it was for electronical i remember that. yes i am coming home tomorrow

nice album

2008-12-26T14:59:00.001-05:00

charlie made a very nice album on myspace of people being idiots in the quaint little village of scituate...i like it...a nice way for me to pass the time...

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=332939060&albumID=1144833&imageID=11284903

i hope everybody had a nice christmas...i got a chapstick

Here is a nice picture.

2008-12-22T18:08:00.003-05:00

Found on the Odyssey flickr.....

best webvideo i've ever seen, ever.

2008-12-21T00:41:00.001-05:00

There's some really good freecoaster stuff in here, and a footplant to cancan...also a sweet opener by some dude blasting a cement park...

T-HAT!!! WebVid from bluemacneil on Vimeo.

here's a little sampler

2008-12-21T00:23:00.000-05:00

building the underground...very nice...

2008-12-17T17:05:00.001-05:00

there are so many damn barspins in this i laughed out loud

bmx from Glenn Johnson on Vimeo.

i won't be out of the house for a damn long time, so i'll fix your bike, parts, wheels, whatever for a small fee, depending on the job. i need something to do

there's a nice blog off of circuit that is called life? and i like it

Are You Okay?

2008-11-28T19:34:00.004-05:00

While getting my daily dose of Grounded, I thought about how people ask others if they're okay after a fall. Taj tried to manual an alligator on springs (see for yourself) and fell a little, and the filmer (don't know who for that part) asked "are you all right?" It wasn't a fall or anything that could hurt; Taj laughed it off.

So I thought about when it's the "right time" to ask that question of well-being. Would the person even tell you if they weren't "all right"? Would they maybe lie to make the filmer and everyone else feel better?

For instance, if a bunch of people convinced a rider to do a cool trick, and the rider destroyed himself on it, who, if anyone, would or should feel badly about it? While technically it may be the rider's fault that he hurt himself, everybody else would feel shitty about it. Maybe the rider (who we will call "Bob") wanted his friends (who we will call "Bob's Friends") to not feel any guilt that Bob messed himself up.

Let's say that Bob's fall looked extremely violent but he bounced back up and picked up his bike.

Is he all right? What if he's in "the zone", ready to have another go? Will somebody talking to him throw his concentration off?

Maybe he doesn't want to admit he's all right because he doesn't care. If other people care and he doesn't, should he even tell his friends?

Bob's friends might not want to annoy Bob because Bob needs his concentration. But if they don't ask, would Bob think of them lesser?

Maybe the "question" was never asked in precedence, because Bob's friends are new friends that don't really know Bob's preferences. It might make the relationship between Bob and his new friends weaker because Bob got angry that they didn't ask if he was okay.

That doesn't even take into account if Bob's friends LAUGHED at him.

Personally, I never laugh at a crash that looks like it could even cause a bruise. I ride for fun, and my friends do too. If I laugh, my friends would probably take that offensively. Laughing is derogatory towards their efforts; why would I belittle them while they strived towards their goal?

Maybe the crash looked funny or awkward; for instance folding yourself over your bars. It may look out-of-the-ordinary, but sometimes it can hurt.

I suppose that there's a way to figure out if it's okay to laugh; if Bob fell weird, but got up laughing, then he would obviously not only be okay, but you could laugh along (at your own risk).

You can tell whether or not somebody's really hurt or not. I recently read a book about body language, and I found that there are many ways to show hurt or healthiness, whether it be in the eyes, voice intonation, head movement, modulation, or physical movement. If you learn a few key ideas about body language, it is easy to decide whether or not to ask the question: "You okay?"

trails vid

2008-11-20T19:18:00.002-05:00

this is just a random clip compilation of trails such as saltash (i don't know any others) and other random stuff.

i'm digging the ones that are really fast and long, but not so much the ones that are just jumps in a feild...

it seems like some of these clips were from the uk because the uk guys all act weird and have weird trail setups

and that mountain biker should get on a bmx

i think

south west from alex boyd on Vimeo.

fbm vid

2008-11-13T20:22:00.003-05:00

if you don't want to watch the whole thing then just go to about 5:20 and 15:40 to check two different clips of people snapping their forks. before pitchforks that stuff was normal....crazy

FBM presents... from FBM BMX on Vimeo.

i got surgery

2008-11-11T16:43:00.003-05:00

i had to get surgery today because i rip cartilage in my left knee. also they had to shave it, i felt like a girl :)

leondro morera

2008-11-10T19:50:00.002-05:00

some "day of the dead" aka spanish halloween type festival in the middle of sao paulo brazil

this is leondro morera in a skeleton suit

ruben

2008-11-10T19:05:00.006-05:00

stolen from the etnies site who stole it from flybike's site who stole it from sandra olivera's site who stole it from sandra olivera's computer hard drive which stole it from sandra olivera's camera which stole it from the light from the subject or scene that the camera processor received

amazing

no more summer :(

2008-11-04T21:04:00.004-05:00

but that doesn't mean we aren't doing anything with our lives while it gets colder and grayer everyday.......

grant bent his knee backwards and may or may not be getting surgery :(

while i was grounded, cody came over (kind of defeats the purpose of being grounded...?) and since i wasn't allowed out of the driveway (lame) we decided to see what we could do with my scrap wood...

abe decided to come outside from the warcraft cave and made us a jump using unconventional methods...cody then proceeded to "ramp" off of it...

it was weird because after he went jumped it the board fell off, but nothing else fell over...

next day cody and i went to his house and had a little session...he took this about halfway through...i did a whip without dying so that's cool
cody took the picture and in my opinion it's pretty good for a noob

the n00b did a table for me, but i didn't want to see his face

here's a different view of the same jump which, by the way, has a new lip which is a bit higher and it's now more fun than the first set...

today might be the last time we ride the top set before we get the bottom set running; we're going to make the runs connect which will motivate everybody more because it's easier to keep on working on a run than starting a new one.

it's kind of depressing that the leaves all fell off

and we decided to scratch the bowl to make the run go through here. we're making the spine bigger but adding doubles after. this is the last picture you'll ever see of the bowl, which was the first thing we built....

thank you and goodnight

and some dude is a president now...

sexxy time

2008-10-22T17:40:00.003-04:00

dylan and i went to starstreet one day and got a cell phone pic :)

hyde park jam

2008-10-22T15:50:00.003-04:00

saturday....3 oh clocka

be there

emerson speaks!

2008-10-20T09:25:00.000-04:00

t1bmxrder

damn shit is off the charts fo sho!!!
eatrocks666.blogspot.com

2008-10-18T20:46:00.003-04:00

ramp farm jam november 8...................................................................................................................

hello...

2008-10-16T19:42:00.002-04:00

so nothing really has been happening lately, but i got a few from the art festival and the time around then that i think are okay....

this was the best shot i could get but then the battery died. sucks....

i was just waiting to be picked up one evening during the art festival so i messed around...

brendan wanted a wallride shot...i can work on this and he can too, but it's better than nothing i think

this is awesome because he does it so fast and lands all straight and whatnot, and it was really funny watching it...

i was hanging out with matt diluglio and happened upon this scene...daily reservoir photo if you will...

these are really hard...it took me quite a few tries to get a decent one (for a first time) and i didn't have a tripod to hold the camera steady, so the background is obviously a bit blurry...

great game face, i just shot this real quick, but got it just about perfectly...fucked up his hand for a bit too, that was funny...

bitch...

another trails video

2008-10-12T20:55:00.001-04:00

look at those jumps. they're so perfectly square and dialed. first clip is fucking scary...dead man shit.

untitled from on Vimeo.

kaboom

2008-10-04T16:06:00.003-04:00

i just mowed my whole lawn in two hours...

Update!

2008-09-30T20:14:00.005-04:00

CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO SEE THE WHOLE THING. SORRY.

Well I've been putting up a lot of pictures but not really saying much. Recently I've been doing absolutely no tricks, just riding and thinking about how cool it would be to do something. Fucking ears.
I guess Grant and Cody learned some stuff...Cody says he can do tables and he also said Grant does some sweet no-foot cans. I did no foot cans first but i stopped because it destroys shins.

According to yours truly, Cody's trails are now renamed Junior Jumps. Nobody else likes it but I don't care.
I'm grounded. :(

So I suppose the art festival is going to be taken over by the cute little bmx gang of Scituate. Personally, I'm going on a fuckin scooter. I don't care what you think. If anybody outside of Scituate is actually reading this, you should definitely go to the art festival. It's a three day thing in the village. I think it's the weekend after this but I don't really remember. I'll post something up when I get more information.

Interbike is over. If you have any idea what Interbike is, then you should know how many stupid things were unveiled. Snafu decided to release some colored, clear plastic pegs. Fuck that. First of all, the only good plastic pegs were Plegs. Dumbchucks sucked, and so did the Hoffman SPC plastic sleeves. Not to mention those KHE Alchemy pegs. God. I suppose Snafu decided to do what Odyssey does, releasing new colorways of stuff every month. For instance, the glow in the dark PC's. Stupidest shit ever. Not only do PC's fall below the (my) standard for grip and wear, they now decide to release them in brittle, easily breakeable clear plastic and glow in the dark. Like, what the fuck would you want glow in the dark pedals for? I know they only added a stupid little chemical to (presumeably) white plastic PC's, but it reminds me of light-up sneakers and those little stars you pasted up onto your ceiling when you were like seven. Not to mention, they're still there because you never bothered to take them off. When those things glow, it's not like you have lights under your feet. They're going to basically be just a light, reflective gray. If i hear the excuse that you'll be able to do tailwhips at night, then I'm going to....be exasperated. If you want to do tailwhips at night, then maybe you should just learn how to catch the pedals without looking. I have seen numerous people do bunnyhop tailwhips blindfolded. We all aren't that gifted but whatever. Fuck plastic pedals. Fuck glow in the dark plastic pedals. Fuck stupid colorways that are appealing to 12 year old kids who go to the skatepark and then just sit on the deck for four hours, possibly take one run, and then go off to "cruise the city". I was there, and it sucked. Rant over.

Here are some pictures.

Stoked on box cutters!!!

It is I.

Guess who.

Edited.

Brendan has tuck no handers dialed. He lands flat too.

Joe Parmesean Cheese Grabs His Tire With Quite An Intense Look Set Upon His Flavorful Face.

Here's a grizz air photo of Brendan.

He likes it rough.

Joe is happy...

Funny face of the day. (or funny face of the post.) This is in front of the curved wallride.

The line is flooded. Sorry.
Here's a bowl picture.

That is all for today and maybe tomorrow.

more picturrrrres!

2008-09-23T20:56:00.004-04:00

well i got irfanview and uploading is a lot faster...

here you go

this is grant, far, far away

here is crab man

grant grizzin it
he can do them further but this one was very in control

cody doin his thing

this one reminds me of a closeup in stoked on being pumped of neil harrington

this is dylan just goofin around

and here's your daily funny faces by yours truly and also rateye the sailor man...i don't know

update medley!!!

2008-09-22T21:05:00.004-04:00

sorry about the lack of updates recently. the computer has been sucking.
anyway
i got a new camera...a canon rebel xti and it's nice...
here are all the pictures and the stories to go along with them.

this is on the way back from a rainy day at prov...i didn't even do it on purpose but it looks nice...

i took a picture of my cat too...

grant and i went to newport and i took this long exposure shot of red lights and car light and such

he hid in a bush there too

we made faces

a few days later we went to codys and got some shots...

an x up...

naked boy!!!

i love this picture

i hit my face

a few days later we went camping

i snapped some shizzots

we woke up to this weird swirling mist on the water which was like glass

i found this flower
and ate it...

anyway
there are a lot more shots
but i didnt have time to upload them
they will be up soon i promise
including ones of the trails
that don't exist yet, haha...
peace

hello

2008-09-15T20:33:00.002-04:00

i knocked myself out for a few seconds on a stupid low tuck no hander and i hit my face. my neck is fucked up, and i did something really bad to my jaw below my teeth. i'm going to sleep

hello

2008-09-14T15:26:00.003-04:00

everybody go to cody's on monday...tricks, flicks, flick tricks, dirt, dirty tricks, and dirty flick tricks...watch super amazing riders named grant and cody fly through the air at speeds surpassing the millions...and then check back here for me actually striving at my hardest to put up some pictures if the computer responds.

dons key

2008-09-13T22:18:00.003-04:00

i went to newconyounut! today and mat was there. with in the first 5 miniutes a skateboarder dropped in and hit me while i was doing my run.. but i was fine. then me and dylan went to this big bank to wall and it was what u see ;/

CHAMAERA

2008-09-12T20:56:00.002-04:00

a chamaera is a fictional animal in Harry Potter. I, on the other hand, finally have a camera.
I went with pickle and the rat to prov, and we rode around in circles for a bit and tried to get some pics but then it started to rain....

so then we decided to go back to the shippee household and the mother made us breakfast in the evening...then we hung out in the rat's room for a while. dylan showed me how to do a ton of shit and i messed around with some really long exposure shots and some other stuff.

i probably won't take any pictures tomorrow...but sunday seems like a picturesque day. maybe vic's trails.
on monday everybody who reads this needs to go to cody's...he's grounded till then, but he took advantage of his being-at-home-ness and built some more doubles. i'm pretty psyched to finally try that hip and the step up. i'll take a bunch of pictures for you slackers who don't go and dig.

Anyway, I just spent an hour and a half trying to get four fucking pictures onto this post. My computer decided it wanted to take five minutes (literally) to open one folder with two programs running. Then I somehow clicked on the wrong thing and had the pictures saved in a "protected" file. So i'm not going to put up pictures here. It's not worth it.
Have a nice day.

Moving along...

2008-09-08T21:33:00.003-04:00

Well things have been moving along at a fast pace...grant and i learned one-footers and haven't tried the table part of it yet...i also t-bogged the first set... grants getting good at grizz airs and x-ups which i am too much of a wussy to try...but i'm doing no-handers pretty well. granty boy did this awesome no-footed tire-grab and i was amazed at his...STUPIDITY...just kidding.
props to kyle and brendan for finally doing the doubles.
cody rawed his frame.
prov is totally killing me...i took my brakes off for ONE DAY and i slammed into vic and grant in the same day. bone deth has fallen upon me...
grant 270'd everything in sight there though. i think that's all the special stuff that happened there.

digging is going very slow...we haven't done anything to the new stuff and we're too much of bitches to ride the first new set. it's a huge, steep hip with a weird angle for the landing...it's going to kill more than one person.

My wheels are for trade or sale. they're going to cost a bit.

my xbox broke :(

i got a rebel xti so i'll be putting up a shitload of pictures soon.
buy my ipod.

Little stuff

2008-09-05T21:03:00.003-04:00

well this is stuff dylan's taken the past few days...i can go higher on that hip, don't worry...
we found a mouse while digging a landing and it didn't do anything, so grant decided to eat it.
but then ticket ate it...

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I don't like street much but this is really good.

2008-09-04T20:35:00.001-04:00

Federal Bikes - Jared Washington Edit from Federal BMX on Vimeo.

It's Jared Washington. Actually uses a freecoaster well in my opinion. Backwards smith to backwards nose manual to barspin (i think) out is amazing...

cody wins

2008-08-31T23:03:00.003-04:00

Cody busted out this nice trick today at his trails man!

hello there

2008-08-29T11:45:00.001-04:00

i've been in pennsylvania for three days now and it's not so bad.
i basically slept the whole way, and then when i got here i went to salvation army to find clothes.
they had absolutely nothing, except for this really cool train engineer's hat which i bought. yay.
next day we went to hershey park and i went on this new ride called farenheight. it takes youstraight up and then it drops you down on a 98.6 degree angle, aka over vert. it looked kind of small but it suprised me. it was nice and smooth and a lot longer than it looked. i also went on the great bear four times and roared my eyes out. abe and i got a good on-ride photo. then we just did all the other rides and then got frostys and went home. prices are outrageous in the park. this year it's ten bucks to rent a locker, versus last year's 75 cents. crazy.
today it is raining, and i was going to go to the lebanon y park but it doesn't look so good. so i'm going to go get books. bye bye.

Fuck!!!

2008-08-25T16:04:00.004-04:00

Look at this. Over and over.
Click on it to see the full thing.

Glide cams are the best.

2008-08-20T20:00:00.001-04:00

I don't know these dudes but i like the filming.

http://3615soul.com/img/upload/2007-10-28_REPIEXPERIENCE_par.daniel.mini.mov

major progress.

2008-08-17T21:03:00.006-04:00

Grant, Cody, and I just built five sets in one day. they're all bigger than your house.

we actually did it with a backhoe but you don't know that. we also found a naked mole rat the size of a pinky. it was cute. cody fed it his milk.

more cat pictures

we're going to have these huge jumps all packed and shaped in a little over a week when cody gets back from vacation in south dakota. but we might dig tomorrow. nobody reads this so it doesn't matter what i say here...haha. kibbles and bits...

moar funny pictures

i'm going to go to prov tomorrow and boost the hip as high as i can. maybe dylan will take pictures of my dog piss airs.

the new fbm completes are out. and Nice stuff is finally out. that hemp seat rocks my socks. for your information fbm makes Nice products. they have a stem, forks, and a few seats. i really like all of it.

read up on sprfls.blogspot.com so you know what you're doing. Russ has a great outlook on everything and everything bike.

maybe a web video teaser thingy up soon too.... but don't keep your hopes up. fatty.

this is the olympic schedule. watch every minute of it.

Aug. 19th 8:00-9:00pm, Primetime, Live ET/CT
Men’s BMX Cycling

Aug. 20th 12:30-2:00am
Men’s BMX Cycling Quarterfinals

Aug. 20th 2:00-5:00am
Men’s BMX Cycling, Primetime Replay

Aug. 20th 8:00-10:00pm, Primetime, Live ET/CT
Mens and Womens BMX Cycling Finals

Aug. 21st 2:00-5:00am
Mens and Womens BMX Cycling Finals, Primetime Replay

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 - DAY 11
Racing Schedule (Televised on NBCTV, CBC TV, mostly LIVE!)

Tuesday, Aug 19 –>
8:00pm – Warm-Up
9:00pm – 10:00pm Time Trials – Rd#1
10:15pm – 11:15pm Time Trials – Rd#2
11:40pm – Men’s Quarter #1
12:05am – Men’s Quarter #2
12:30am – Men’s Quarter #3
- End of Day –

Wednesday, Aug 20 ->
8:00pm – Warm-up:
9:00pm – Womens’s Semi #1
9:10pm – Men’s Semi #1
9:30pm – Womens’s Semi #
9:40pm – Men’s Semi #2
10:00pm – Womens’s Semi #3
10:10pm – Men’s Semi #3
10:15pm – 7:30pm Break
10:30pm – Women’s Final
10:40pm – Men’s Final
11:00pm – Medal Ceremony

Some times may be subject to change.

Racing Format:
Men:
2 Time Trials - Best one counts and is used for lane choice in the first quarter-final only. From there, lane choice for each following round is based on the rider’s previous lap time.

Example:
Rider X places first in his 3rd quarter with a time of 33:47.
Three other riders in the that round of quarters have faster times so Rider X gets 4th lane choice.

3 Quarters - There are 4 quarters of 8 with fixed motos and they do three motos. Top 4 in each group transfer to semis
3 Semis - Two groups of 8 race three semis each with top 4 going to the main
Main - One lap for the Gold!

Women:
2 Time Trials - Best one counts and is used for lane choices for their first semi only.
From there, lane choice for each following round is based on the rider’s previous lap time.

3 Semis - Two groups of 8 race three semis each with top 4 going to the main
Main - One lap for the Gold!

DDDDDDDDDIRRRRRRRRTTT

2008-08-12T21:17:00.003-04:00

is amazing.....

we've been digging a lot at cody's lately and have two sets and a berm done...but what counts is that they look good and ride good. today we did a rough job on the berm and just rode it in a bit. i slammed into the drainage hole pretty good though. but today we got a video camera and just filmed a few clips of us just going through...we had our first trains today (me and grant)

i really felt the jumps today even though they were wet...grant and cody redid the first lip and i like it a lot more than the one i did.

tomorrow we are going to film a bit more and maybe get the line to go back around to the spine. it depends on how much i hate topsoil.

CHODS

2008-08-09T22:23:00.001-04:00

The jumps at Chodies are coming along very nice, lots of fun. Dylan was there today and took some photos :D

2008-08-06T20:48:00.001-04:00

have you ever checked out deluxebmx.com ??? their frames are amazing...definitely my next frame.

today's fail

2008-08-06T20:12:00.002-04:00

today grant and i were going to go up to boston but then the rain shitted all over us...this is what i feel like...

recent events...

2008-08-04T18:22:00.005-04:00

basically, the last three days have been amazing. that doesn't include today though; grant and i went to prov today and it was too hot to even just cruise around.
anyway,

on friday grant and i went to town and basically learned turndowns in a matter of fifteen minutes. obviously not clicked but pretty damn good for a first day. then we came back to my house and went out riding when it got dark out because that's always fun. we went to the school and found that they took out the bleachers from the gym and put them outside on the sidewalk. they also left four sheets of plywood that were like 2 feet by 4 feet. we proceeded to make an awesome wallride out of them and we rode that for over an hour. then grant tried this crazy ruben wallride transfer thing with a board on the curb up onto the wall of the school, over the sidewalk. it was crazy because he made it up like four feet and even though he fell off it was actually really good.

then the next day grant and i went to prov in the early morning. it was really hot so even though we did some more turndowns it was just too hot. so then we met up with mat and rode just a little bit of street. my grips were really sweaty so i didn't really try anything, and grant fell and kind of just cruised. we found this really awesome bank that nobody did anything on but definitely a future spot. then we rode to circuit and hung out for the rest of the day and watched this movie called building the underground that i might buy. then we got picked up and stopped talking for all of 18 hours.

on sunday we drove back to circuit in mike anstirman's car with him and immediately went to the trails. these two guys named jeremiah and george went too...george fell pretty bad on the spine, and jeremiah pooped on the berms because he doesn't like them. i started to really get the rhythm of the circuit and got going really good a few times. then vic went home to let out his animals or something like that and grant and jeremiah and i rode these three sets of doubles that were crazy fun. once we got them down we just floated over them and it felt really good.
after that we went home and ate dinner and then drove back to prov and had such an awesome session with vic, emerson, corey, asian sam, and a few good skaters. there were a ton of people watching and i was totally feeling it and did a nice abubaca on the quarter. grant didn't feel like riding that much though and sat it out pretty much, but that was okay with me. we stayed pretty late and it was a great time.

today we went to prov...grant fell on a nose manual and i fell on a regular manual. i fell on my ass pretty hard and it hurt. then we came back to my house and sat around...tomorrow is break day. break day is fun, because we get to relax all day. damn bikes don't let you relax, sadly.

by the way, grant is selling his tierra...it's too small for him.

this post needs a picture...