Two Thousand And Eleven.

Bearwood Bmx Would Like To Wish Everyone A Happy New Year And All The Best For 2011.

Peace And Blessings.

BearBmx.

Words With Mike"The Pigeon"Coley Part 3.

Firstly Would Like To Thank The Pigeon For His Time And Patience, BearBmx Managed To Catch Up With Mike Coley Down At Don Chromeleones House, And This Is What He Shared For All To Enjoy....

BearBmx--- Hows It Going Original Brakeless Wonder,

Mike, Everything is going well, I have been busy keeping fit and enjoying life on my inline boots, 2012 is just around the corner and have to be ready for the BMX in the olympic games, I'm Lucky to be on the reserve list for the racing.

BearBmx--- So Your An All Rounder, BMX, In lining, Olympian Gamer, Fisherman, Sailor, Anything Else We Don't Know About,

Mike, I,m glad you asked really, I,ve just come back from India which was part of the Bearwood Bmx World Tour and i came across the Rickshaw Bikes out there, I was totally in awe when i seen them, Since i got back i have been thinking of starting a Rickshaw Company in Birmingham, And its going to be called Pigeon Express, The Passengers will have to sign a Waiver, to say that they won't mind jumping off the curbs while there on the journey, Jumping Rickshaws you may THINK, But while in India i done loads of tricks while out there on my friends Rickshaw, I had taken the milk crate out with me to India as i had some shows Booked to do on my Inline Boots, The last show in Thailand last year went down a storm with the native people, Thanks Bunty,(Rickshaw Owner).


BearBmx--- Do You Have To Wear Special Socks With Your Boots,

Mike, With the Maxi 2000 Boots I've just had the socks made out of material NASSER use on there projects, Oh my days the speed you get is amazing, We talking a easy 55.5 MPH and that's a good speed, Ive greased my bearings with some super smooth grease, Good with titanium bearings.


BearBmx--- I See Your Back On The BMX Now,

Mike, That's correct because last time we chatted, (Part 2) i had that nasty spill on my boots when the stone got jammed in my wheels and sent me head first, The injury wasn't any bother but when i scuffed my suede Maxi 1500 Boots that hurt me more, So since then i go and get the Bread and Milk on the BMX now. It's nice to get back on the BMX i kind of miss it since i turned to the Inline Boots for a living.

BearBmx--- Whats That On Your Right Heel? BearBmx Is Confused At What It's Seeing?,

Mike, Oh dear i thought i had taken that off, Your not to know about that yet, I'm Not one to share my advancing steps but, They are indicators for my boots when I'm on the roads at night, They work by tapping your heals together, I'm Not willing to share anymore with you as there in the early stages of design and testing.

BearBmx--- Are You A Really A Geniuine Sailor,

Mike, Didn't think you was going to ask me, WATCH THIS THEN, (BearBmx Note, Mike Is Playing With Some Rope?) See that then bet you cant do it, "It's a Triple Butterfly Sail Knot" you cant go wrong with that Knot, Mike Shows BearBmx His Sailor Certificate and his Boat Sailing License which he keeps in his wallet.

BearBmx--- Whats New For Mike "The Pigeon" Coley For 2010,

Mike, Well I'm designing and testing the New Inline Maxi 5000 Boots in Gold Colour with some Glitter sprinkles on them, for when i start the nightclub shows, And i'm practising some new dance moves, Can't say to much but let me share that It's a Michael Jackson Dance Mixed with MC Hammer. Sha Mo It's Hammer Time U Can't Touch Me. Thanks For This Interview BearBmx Your The Best Ever And I Love BEARWOOD 19 long time.

BearBmx--- Would Like To Wish You All The Best For The Future And Would Like To Offer You This Gold Key For All Your Hard Work And Effort You Put Into Making Bearwood What It Is Today.

Mike, Thank You So Much Wasn't Expecting The Gold Key, The Thought Is Making My Eyes Water With All Your Kindness, Best Thing That's Ever Happened To Me, Way Better Than Designing The Maxi 5000 Inline Boots.

BearBmx--- Can You Do A Rollback On The BMX For Us, (BearBmx Note- Looks At His Manager).

Mike, Sorry My Manager Won't Give The Go Ahead, As He Is Worried I May Get Hurt And Will Have To Cancel My Shows.

BearBmx--- There You Go Mears, Hope Your Wiser Because I Am. One Second Hes Back To Say Something Else?

Mike, Sorry cant keep away, I Pledge That I Will Only Give My Secrets Of My Sailing Knotting Techniques To Those Who Deserve It. Come See Me.


Peace And Blessings To Each And All.

BearBmx.

Bearwood Bmx World Tour 2010.

Picture At Night Is Of The Landing Coming Into Singapore, All The Boats Lit Up.

Picture With Skyscrapers On A Hazy Morning Is Melbourne.


Your Probably Thinking Whats All This With A Trip Report, Well Let Me Share That This Was Requested By Don Chromeleone, Mart, And Coley As There Avid Boeing Fans. Sorry Boys No Regs Were Collected As That's Not For Me. SORRY LADS.
This Journey Was Leaving Birmingham On The 2ND Feb 2010 And Arriving In Australia On The 4Th Feb, With Only 2 hours In Dubai And 2 Hours In Singapore Stopover For Refuelling And Crew Change.

Would Like To Share, The Journey To Australia Was VIA Dubai And Singapore, The Flight Booked Was With Emirates Airlines From Birmingham International Airport To Melbourne International Airport ,Australia. BearBmx Was Booked On The Evening Flight To Dubai With Emirates Airlines flight number EK 38 for a 2020 Departure Time, Aircraft Type Was A 777-300ER. The Flight Left 35 Min's Late For The 7 Hour Trip To Dubai, Whats 35 Min's When You Got 25 Hours Ahead Of You Eh, The Flight Was Smooth And The Inflight Food And Entertainment Was Good Also. The Load On This Flight Was Full As Not One Seat Was Empty, 400+ Passengers And This Aircraft Just Thunders Away On Take Off With Immense Power, Think If I'm Right It Was A Rolling Start As Soon As Be Got Onto The Runway, Truly Amazing Aircraft The Boeing 777-300ER.

The Seating Pitch Wasn't To Great And Not To Bad Either, Well It Is Economy Class And Not Business Class Bearwood, BearBmx Arrived Into Dubai On The 3rd Feb Around 8am (Dubai Time) And Had To Dash And Get To My Connecting Flight From Dubai To Singapore With Only An Hour Or So Between Them, Dubai Was Hot And Nice, Considering Birmingham Was Down With Minus Freezing Temperatures So The Heat Was A God Send, Praise The Lord. Dubai Airport Was Busy With Loads Of Passengers, It's A Huge Airport And The Walk From One Gate To The Next Was Away Away, Seem to Take Forever. Managed To Get To My Gate In Plenty Of Time For My Connection To Singapore, Was Looking At Exchanging Some Pounds Into Currency For The Trip, But The Rate Was Rubbish So Didn't Bother.

Soon As My Gate Was Located, The Search Was On For Showers To Use, But It Seemed They Was All In The Lounges For First And Business Class Passengers, So Onbound We Go To Singapore, BearBmx Had Pre Booked The Same Seat From Birmingham To Australia, Which Saved Alot Of Issues Of Relocation And Wondering Around Lost In The Aircraft.
The Flight From Dubai To Singapore Was Another 7 Hours And Went Smoothly With Only A Little Turbulence To Digest The Food, We Landed In Singapore At 9PM On The 3rd Feb With A Smooth Touchdown, All Passengers Had To Disembark The Aircraft In Singapore And Take All There Belongings With Them, Found A Lounge For All Class Passengers At Singapore Changi International Airport Called The "RainForest Lounge" Where You Could Take A Shower ETC To Liven Up A Bit And For Only 5GBP, BearBmx Recommends This Lounge, Staff All Seemed Rather Pleasant In Singapore.

BearBmx Rushes Back To The Gate For The 7.5 Hour Last Leg Of The Flight From Singapore To Melbourne, This Time My Seat Was Given To A Family And I Got The Emergency Exit Seat Over The Wing, Which Was Great As You Can Stretch Out As You Like, Got A Little Insight From The Elderly Couple Next To Me About What To Do In Australia. All They Said Was Wait Til You Feel The Heat, They Was Right. Flight From Singapore To Australia Was Smooth And I Managed To Get 4 Hours Sleep As Ive Not Had Any Sleep Since Leaving Birmingham At All, So A Little Tired I Was. Fast Forward All The Way To Landing At Melbourne And That's When A Few Words Were Exchanged With Customs And The All Clear Was Given And Australia BEARBMX Is In Your Country.

A Further 6 Hours Drive From Melbourne In Victoria To Griffith In New South Wales.

Dedicated To The Don, Mart, And Coley. Avid Boeing 777-300ER Fans.



Much Peace And Blessings To Each And All.

BearBmx.

Tales From Bearwood.

BearBmx would like to share a few thoughts about the journey, I Kind of like the old days riding compared to nowadays seemed there was more fun back in the day. Bmx was about the love of riding in them golden days, I'm sure it still has the love nowadays. As mentioned in previous posts, first came Fun then came Bmx throughout, What you see on Jackass was the norm with Bearwood riders so much antics going on around you that you wouldn't know when you would be dragged into it. You had to have all your senses on full alert at times. Even when you would be riding there was a good chance that someone on the deck would grab your back wheel in mid air or just slap it making you over rotate, resulting in either you fall off or you manage to keep your balance and land the best you could(Funny)without crashing which was very rare. Somehow out of these antics nobody got hurt which is a surprise really, One time myself and Coley learnt to do double airs (one airing over the other) on the first rareunit mini ramp we had, The ramp was 16 feet wide and 5 feet tall we would have 8 feet each in width of the ramp to do our set up airs(Very Funny) I remember we would, be just airing normally, and didn't fancy the airing over each other part. We managed to get it sorted in the end best we could, remember now this is Bearwood where smoothness and style was out of the question with a majority of us, One double air, we was doing, we got our speed by doing 3 airs each and on the 4Th air over we go, now we airing over each other and our timings all wrong, I take off to early (more speed) and coley a fraction later, I'm now going over the top of coley and look down and hes just coming up the transition where I am about to land, bit of shouting is going on and laughter from both of us, then I just land on his back wheel and we just crash, Praise The Lord no injuries still. Even if we both had brakes it wouldn't of helped us as we was past the point of no return.

P.S. Hopefully br />
Until Next Time Much Peace And Blessings To Each And All.

BearBmx.

Bearwood On Tour, Forward Bound Liverpool.

The Bearwood Riders would be ready to travel to any new place at a drop of a hat, this journey would take us to Liverpool Indoor Skatepark, this was a real good place to have a blast and quite enjoyable with plenty to ride, 3 Cars 7 Bikes and 7 Riders was the way this day rolled out. This day was a Saturday and riders going was Don Chromeleone aka Kenny, Max, Andy Ding, Ding Dean, Bearwood Tom and Myself, Getting to Liverpool was good and the day's session was out of this world, If i may say it was Bearwood in true form, You Would see Don pedaling across the floor and just hit the funbox and just throw in his signature X Ups then just hit the big quarter pipe and air like there was no tomorrow in classice Don Style, Max And Andy would be in some corner riding and just be on a Ten15 mission, Ding Dean would be killing any coping that would come across his path and laying down a good selection of lip Tricks with plenty of style, Well Bearwood Tom Would be everywhere like a manic just pedaling and launching into space, All was well until Don Chromeleone twisted his ankle on his last trick and come away limping and ooohhing and aaahhing. Ding Andy told me that the ooohhing and aaahhing continued all the way back from Liverpool To Birmingham as don had to drive his car back and Andy being the passenger. Don went to hospital on his return to find no breaks but torn/damaged ligaments in his ankle, If you ask Don he will say it was Max's fault as he cut him up as Don was on route to do his Wallride Transfer.

Til Next Time Much Peace And Blessings.

BearBmx.

Birmingham Wheels/Aston Banks.

Birmingham Wheels was a great place to go and ride on the weekends, you were guaranteed a good time everytime,they had a mini spine ramp, which was real good,it was always a blast to learn how to ride it. There was also a big vert ramp there for the Bmxers/skateboarders who could deal with it, seen alot of great riding and skateboarding there over the years,also there was a street course with plenty of ramps of all sizes there to ride. It was the street course and the mini spine ramp that we spent alot of time riding/learning whenever we was there. The big vert ramp was just used to mess about on except for anyone who would take it serious enough to ride it proper, there was a one or two of Bearwood's riders that would be the ones who wanted to learn and master the vert, and i think they did.
The ride from Bearwood to Birmingham wheels would take us right through the city centre which meant that we'd stop off at Aston bank's which was on the way, Aston Banks were something else, a real treat for anyone that was lucky enough to session them. They was in a issue of an old Bmx mag from back in the day, i think it was called BMX Action? not sure still, it had Birminghams finest Rob Sanderson in the mag doing a fast plant off the Aston Banks. Respect To Rob. The banks at Aston were just smooth all varying in steepness and style.

Til Next Time Much Peace And Blessings.

BearBmx.

Intro : John E aka John Chin.

A little introduction about John E aka Chin,Was Known to ride to Bearwood from Acock's Green which is on the other side of town just to come and session, A good ride that is. A John E session required his Bmx and Two or few of some Beers.
A good memory of Chin was the trip we made to Manchester to watch the U.K's Top Vert Riders do a Show. Myself, Chin and Don Chromeleone set off in Chin's BMW 3 series, I had the pleasure of being the driver from Brum To Manchester, as Chrome and Chin got tucked into there beer's, As i was driving i noticed the car's handling was quite sketchy reminding me of the trucks in India where you had to spin the steering wheel 3 complete turns before you got any movement in the wheels.

I said to Chin is the car ok and chin would reply yep it's sweet, I thought it's probably just me as it's the first time i'm having the pleasure of driving a beemer and it's the way they drive, A gust of wind blasts the car from the side and just take's it across the 2nd lane into the first lane of the M6 and im trying to hold the car straight,i say Chin is this car suppossed to do this LOL, im sure he said yes no doubt, We somehow reach Manchester and enjoy the show as you would and seen Some Good Vert Riding. Now we ready to head back to Brum and Chin drives us back, from what i remember he was doing well driving back, We reach our homes safe and sound, John Chin Next Day had taken his car to the mechanics get it checked over. LOL the report back was the car was a death trap and we was lucky to be around, From what Don Chrome say's the car was scrapped on the Spot. Next Time You Have A Ride In Chin's Car Ask To See His MOT.

Much Respect To Mr And Mrs John E And Kid's.

More To Come From Chin As I'm Just Finshing Off His Interview, A Must Read. What A Interview It Was. Peace.

Peace And Blessings To Each And All.

Bear Bmx.