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Sunday, September 26, 2004

Eddie and Gemma Holmes Wedding Reception

This night happened way back in June, Tommy was exceptionally drunk/funny so I thought I'd re-compose his night in chronological order for everybody's amusement.

Post-JD and MC sessions

Pre-falling asleeping with his head in a cardboard box

Post-sick chocolate cake scoff

posted by Sean @ 11:53 

 

Sunday, September 12, 2004

A New Park Thats Actually Good!

And 'good' is probably an understatement, make your own mind up, but I reckon this is probably my favourite wooden park in the country. Its been made up in Burnley over the last 4 months up by Dave, The Wolfman, Kev & others, and it absolutely rules. Some sketchy directions: From the M65 towards Burnley head towards the town centre, at the Focus DIY turn left, go past the Sainsburys on your left, and I think its the second right turn after the speed camera, the road has a cobbled bit at the entrance, bear right and you should get to the park.

Bowl View #1

Bowl View #2

Street Bit (not showing the excellent flat banked hip/vert wall setup because I was rushing taking the pictures)

JT Bling Wagon

posted by Sean @ 11:45 

 

Monday, September 06, 2004

My 4th Subway System in 2 Weeks.....

No sooner than one shutdown ends and another ones in full effect! The weekend of the week we all returned from Barcelona was spent down in London. Saturday morning and loaded up in Tommy's White Astra, myself, Gaz, Clarky & Tommy set out for the capital. The plan, "we'll go to Harrow, and ROM".

We got to Harrow around 4pm and trained till dark. I haven't been there for over 3 years so bits were a little different, the wooden mini has gone leaving the park now totally concrete and another bowl has been dug out which was deep and a bit rubbish. As the sun was setting Tommy and Gaz were riding this hip, whilst the other one fixed his chain and I took photos, here's one of Gaz's Table's and Tommy's Kick Out thang.

After Harrow we made our way to Tower Bridge where (thanks to my Mum) we blagged a £170/night room for £80 through some internet offer. We then continued the blag with all 4 of us in 1 room- no trip is ever complete without a hotel scam.

This is the Gang mid-food mission on Tower Bridge, after this we walked about 3 miles before spending £4 each on a Tube ticket to take us another 3. Eventually we ended up at Piccadilly Circus and dinned at the ever popular TGI Fridays, we then walked ALL the way back as the Tube had shut rendering our return tickets useless.

Hair drying pads = A right pong

So the following morning we're all chuffed having successfully completed the hotel scam, when to our dismay there's police swarming all over the show near the car. Now this sounds ridiculous, but here's how the police put it to us: Tommy's car with our 4 bikes in it covered by a blanket is too obviously a bomb for comfort, so considering the Royal Marines were marching past in half an hour for some war veteran parade, the best option they (the police) had was to take the car to a compound where it was scheduled to be destroyed by controlled explosion!!!
Can't take no chances with the war on terrorism I suppose. War on terrorism, its like a joke saying to sum up the entire Bush administration, what a stupid braindead concept, as if they can eradicate terrorists. They're scare-mongering the entire western world and then fighting more people in attempts at retaliation, fighting which will only create more rage and anger, thus producing more terrorists. Its something they could never win- how much easier is it to commit an act of terrorism than it is to catch a terrorist in the act? I don't understand how so little concern is given to the terrorists motives. Surely if prevention is better than cure, to find out why these people hate you so much, then altering their perception of you has to be the best solution. Anyway that was my first experience with the 'War On Terrorism', as you can tell I'm an even bigger fan now.

And we thought the Police were joking till this tow truck arrived 10 minutes after we got there. The couple standing next to the truck were parked next to us and had already had there car towed, although I don't think their car looked enough like a bomb to be blown up.

This gentleman slipped by unnoticed during our interrogation. I ask, do they really have all the threats identified?

I've just had it pointed out to me that its 3 years ago to the minute that the first plane flew into the World Trade Centre. That seems crazy with me just writing all that terrorism stuff. Here Al-Quida suspect Tommy Gore destroys the little spine at the top of a bank obstacle, 360, ROM, Sunday.

What the photo doesn't show is that this is actually a Fufanu to Nosewheelie, damn thats hard!!! What a hero.

Spy shot of Gaz's Pancake Aerial.

Ride Caption - "Gaz Hunt obviously has these dialed, he can bust them anytime". I think thats what they write when they're given a name and a photo of someone they don't know.

Emotional Snake-run shot before park closure and the trek home.

posted by Sean @ 14:28 

 

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

The Barcelona 'Shutdown'

This is my first consignment of Eurotour photos, these were from the last Friday (27/8/2004) in Barcelona and were all taken within about 5 hours of each other. It's quite amusing really when you consider the constant theme of sarcastic 'shutdown' jabber. Perhaps the joke was actually on us, maybe we need to spend more time on the beach in future.

Tommy gaping up the bike ramps on some ghetto double stair set - 5:10pm

In Barcelona it seems the general public care more about stunts than paint on rails - 6:20pm

Gidge fighting off the nose-dive demons - 7:17pm

Mike Footjam Tailwhip Nosepicks at TomB's favourite spot that he's never even been to - 8:36pm

Clarky did this jump on his bike over the railing - 8:45pm

A 'shit' Pancake by Gidge - 8:48pm

All you can eat shutdown, maybe IT shut US down actually - 10:21pm

posted by Sean @ 11:14 

 

Sean and Mel's Eurotour '04

So I'm back from my summer holidays then, alot poorer and with alot more miles on my Stepdad's car. The plan was to start off cruising around Western Europe doing as much as possible, then for the last 5 days hook up with the Barcelona Shutdown Crew, 'cancelling' as much as possible. Here was the schedule:

Day 1 - Drive to Paris (16/8/2004)
Day 2 - Paris
Day 3 - Paris
Day 4 - Drive to Annecy near French Alpes
Day 5 - Drive to Piza, then on to Rome
Day 6 - Rome
Day 7 - Drive to Cannes
Day 8 - Cannes
Day 9 - Drive to Marseille
Day 10 - Drive to Barcelona
Day 11 - Barcelona
Day 12 - Barcelona
Day 13 - Barcelona
Day 14 - Barcelona
Day 15 - Drive home stopping in Beaune
Day 16 - Arrive home (31/8/2004)


Trip-o-meter - 1/9/2004

The Toyota Fly Massacre - 1/9/2004

posted by Sean @ 10:36