Saturday 20 September 2008
Thursday 4 September 2008
Visit To Spinney Dirt Jumps.
A good place to ride back in the day was Spinney dirt jumps, this place was real good to ride with a good selection of dirt jumps, there was some real good times had down there. The Spinney jumps was in Kingswinford, just down the road from Dudley and the locals were all good guys and very good on the jumps. Bearwood's way of riding was to have a laugh first then have loads more fun riding, this and just a bunch of crazy dude's was a mixture and a half.
One memory about being at the spinney was there was loads of jumps dotted about all over the place, and the area it covered was quite big. The actual place was deep from the road level, and had plenty of trees which was a natural canopy on a rainy day. There was a little set of about 4 or 5 doubles going downhill, which were real good to ride, one day i was riding these and when you got to the bottom there was right turn, and being downhill and no brakes there was some speed being picked up, i made the right turn with the tyres just about gripping, after the right turn it carried on downhill and getting faster, i looked ahead just to see a big mound of dirt which was a take off to a dirt jump, i thought while speeding towards it nah, i dont want to do the jump, never seeing it before, i put my foot down to try and stop but it being a sandy/gravel surface, it's not happening i put my foot back on the pedal said a quick prayer and just pedalled towards the jump, not knowing where the landing was or even if there was one.
I just remember going up the take off at speed thinking "This Is It" and just flying threw the air alot higher than i would of choose to, looking down i could see all the landing going by below,i ended up clearing all landing and made it down on the back wheel at an angle i thought i was going to crash, by grace of god i made it ,i was quite shocked by it all and kind of shaken, i walked up to the rest of the boy's who were at the top riding, told them to try these little doubles out, as they were good, now a few of the crew had no brakes/ and some did, so i said follow me and off we go in a line down the hill, jumping the doubles and as we got to the bottom i just shouted turn right, (now i've not told them about the big mound at the bottom), as soon as we turn right all i can hear is shouts of "get out the way" "wtf" and all sorts, i was nearly falling off by laughing so much going threw the air, they all made it over safely but a little shaken and we had a good laugh about it, a good memoriable moment. Looking back, the gap between take off and landing was quite big.
Much Peace And Blessings To Each And All.
BLF.
One memory about being at the spinney was there was loads of jumps dotted about all over the place, and the area it covered was quite big. The actual place was deep from the road level, and had plenty of trees which was a natural canopy on a rainy day. There was a little set of about 4 or 5 doubles going downhill, which were real good to ride, one day i was riding these and when you got to the bottom there was right turn, and being downhill and no brakes there was some speed being picked up, i made the right turn with the tyres just about gripping, after the right turn it carried on downhill and getting faster, i looked ahead just to see a big mound of dirt which was a take off to a dirt jump, i thought while speeding towards it nah, i dont want to do the jump, never seeing it before, i put my foot down to try and stop but it being a sandy/gravel surface, it's not happening i put my foot back on the pedal said a quick prayer and just pedalled towards the jump, not knowing where the landing was or even if there was one.
I just remember going up the take off at speed thinking "This Is It" and just flying threw the air alot higher than i would of choose to, looking down i could see all the landing going by below,i ended up clearing all landing and made it down on the back wheel at an angle i thought i was going to crash, by grace of god i made it ,i was quite shocked by it all and kind of shaken, i walked up to the rest of the boy's who were at the top riding, told them to try these little doubles out, as they were good, now a few of the crew had no brakes/ and some did, so i said follow me and off we go in a line down the hill, jumping the doubles and as we got to the bottom i just shouted turn right, (now i've not told them about the big mound at the bottom), as soon as we turn right all i can hear is shouts of "get out the way" "wtf" and all sorts, i was nearly falling off by laughing so much going threw the air, they all made it over safely but a little shaken and we had a good laugh about it, a good memoriable moment. Looking back, the gap between take off and landing was quite big.
Much Peace And Blessings To Each And All.
BLF.
God's Knowledge.
The falsehood is when the ears listen to others’ slander,
the hands steal others’ wealth,
the eyes look viciously at others’ beauty,
the tongue is obsessed with taste of food and other cravings,
the feet walk to do evil to others,
the mind is possessed by greed,
the body does not work for the good of others,
the nose is enticed by vicious fragrance.
All those who do not understand this, act in falsehood.
Human birth is successful if one remembers God’s virtues and Divine commands
the hands steal others’ wealth,
the eyes look viciously at others’ beauty,
the tongue is obsessed with taste of food and other cravings,
the feet walk to do evil to others,
the mind is possessed by greed,
the body does not work for the good of others,
the nose is enticed by vicious fragrance.
All those who do not understand this, act in falsehood.
Human birth is successful if one remembers God’s virtues and Divine commands
Wednesday 3 September 2008
Bmxing-Reaches-Bearwood-1983-84, Part 5
The arrival of the concrete transistion banks we have down the park today did not arrive overnight by any means. It took a few years of meetings with the police and council leaders, the main thing it came down to was money, the guy who took hold of the whole affair was Simon "jester" paton, he pretty much had a 2 handed say in the project. We (riders and skaters) all used to go to the meetings held down at Smethwick police station every time there was one scheduled to put over what we wanted to have to session, It all came about because we used to ride the car park at the back of safeways which was on Bearwood high street, we used to carry the fly offs we built down to the car park on the evenings to ride, as time got on and we learnt by trail and error how to build some good solid ramps, These ramps were placed up against the walls which were quite tall and long, making it a perfect place for wallrides.
You can imagine safeways management was not to happy with youth's riding and skating about while there was shoppers trying to go about there day, we was moved on quite a few times by the police and we would protest that there was no where for us to go, hence the police and safeways funding some money towards the anneka's challenge of building Bearwood a skatepark. There used to be a tree in the park just by the entrance to the bus station, this tree was about 2 feet wide and slanted back and became known as the fakie tree, all that rode the park would of once had a go to learn how to fakie on this tree. The fakie tree no longer stands anymore as it was cut down a few years back, some good sessions were had on that tree, as time got on and skills were a little bit better it was not unsual to see tree rides to 180 out instead of a fakie, now this was back in the late 80's. Can be said with confidence that the locals at Bearwood were a little ahead of time when it came to riding, Now take the start of the brakeless time of riding back in 1990, It was a few years after there was any news of riders going brakeless, nowadays there is a whole scene going where riders are riding real amazingly without any brakes.
There have been riders that have said Bearwood was the pioneers of Brakeless riding, but that alone is quite a heavy statement to accept, especially when the whole thing for us came about because of buckled wheels and lack of money to buy new parts, Bearwood was never set out to pioneer anything as we were just about having as much fun a possible on our bikes, So when i say being ahead of time that can be seen on the riding without brakes side of things, like i said in the previous blogs, there was many scary times with being brakless and would of not had it any other way, scary times = many a good times and laughs.
Much Peace to all the little Bears who keep Bearwood's spirit alive by smashing the place to bit's when they session, Really enjoy watching them Bear's session alot.
Much Goodness To The One KennyKen The Bear In Yorkshire, Peace Bro.
Til Next Time Much Peace and Blessings to each and all.
BLF.
You can imagine safeways management was not to happy with youth's riding and skating about while there was shoppers trying to go about there day, we was moved on quite a few times by the police and we would protest that there was no where for us to go, hence the police and safeways funding some money towards the anneka's challenge of building Bearwood a skatepark. There used to be a tree in the park just by the entrance to the bus station, this tree was about 2 feet wide and slanted back and became known as the fakie tree, all that rode the park would of once had a go to learn how to fakie on this tree. The fakie tree no longer stands anymore as it was cut down a few years back, some good sessions were had on that tree, as time got on and skills were a little bit better it was not unsual to see tree rides to 180 out instead of a fakie, now this was back in the late 80's. Can be said with confidence that the locals at Bearwood were a little ahead of time when it came to riding, Now take the start of the brakeless time of riding back in 1990, It was a few years after there was any news of riders going brakeless, nowadays there is a whole scene going where riders are riding real amazingly without any brakes.
There have been riders that have said Bearwood was the pioneers of Brakeless riding, but that alone is quite a heavy statement to accept, especially when the whole thing for us came about because of buckled wheels and lack of money to buy new parts, Bearwood was never set out to pioneer anything as we were just about having as much fun a possible on our bikes, So when i say being ahead of time that can be seen on the riding without brakes side of things, like i said in the previous blogs, there was many scary times with being brakless and would of not had it any other way, scary times = many a good times and laughs.
Much Peace to all the little Bears who keep Bearwood's spirit alive by smashing the place to bit's when they session, Really enjoy watching them Bear's session alot.
Much Goodness To The One KennyKen The Bear In Yorkshire, Peace Bro.
Til Next Time Much Peace and Blessings to each and all.
BLF.
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