It's nothing to do with the post, just an album I bought the other day. How good is the word 'Megadeth'?

Here are a few pictures from the past couple of days:

A shadowy self-portrait of me and Will taken whilst riding trails on Friday in Delamere Forest. Are my legs really small or Will's really long? I think it's a bit of both actually.

Assessing Tommy's front wheel after a Tailwhip attempt to bike launch that bent his bars (what else is new?) and took out 12 spokes. His wheel wouldn't even roll afterwards and we had parked the cars 3 miles away!

Chesterhead Mark Taylor from yesterday afternoon at Burnley. A session which apparently occurred during a skate jam, a skate jam with the loudest most inaudible live band you've ever heard and with nearly as many BMXers as there were skateboarders!

posted by Sean @ 14:35 

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Spring is definitely here and I took the opportunity yesterday to properly try out my new 80-200mm f2.8 L. I was up at Tom B's parent's house, where they have this big pond with Ducks & Geese which really provided some good photographic opportunities. You need bigger pictures to really see it, but the lens proved itself to be absolutely ace. I'm really stoked to have found one.

Driveway Daffodil with lots of 'pop'.

Watch out for this Goose, it's evil- it doesn't let anyone else have any bread.

Evil Goose 2.

A Duck Lands.

posted by Sean @ 13:04 

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So the Easter hols are upon us, bring my birthday (which it seems Charles & Camilla are planning to upstage), the report for my year long uni project and hopefully more good weather, oh and maybe some Easter eggs too. With a bit of luck pictures like this (i.e. indoor) will be a bit less frequent, woah woah woah, as soon as I write the words "with a bit of luck" the weather forecast comes on the telly and starts off with "Well if you haven't seen the rain yet, I'm sure you soon will", how rubbish is that? Maybe I'd best not mention the weather in future.

Barny is the heart and soul of the entire Stockport Vert riding scene, hell he is the Stockport Vert riding scene!

Barny kicking it. Actually, knowing Barny he's probably just chilling here.

The lads got it all, look, carving too.

posted by Sean @ 22:00 

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i've been using this black and white 3200 ISO film recently, and here are some photos, gaz in two food eateries as my co-eater, and what can only be described as a tree, no flash.

posted by William @ 00:17 

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Not that it'll probably ever get used but I've setup a discussion board which will hopefully double as a guestbook. You can access it by clicking the link above the 'Contributors' bit, and if you want to come back to the blog there's a Gain logo added in the boards menu bar. On the blog side of things here's a lovely little montage of 'Ben from Marple' (how he only ever seems to be referred to), put together by Gain's man of mentality William Emotion (note that in the picture file name Will only refers to him as 'Marple').

Cracking.

posted by Sean @ 21:26 

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The start of the day concludes the trilogy.....
I normally hate reading jokes that you have to be there for, but I’d better explain this title away, “Are you new?” was the most memorable quote from Vegas that day- I was a bit late in meeting up with the lads who had already been entertaining the local Spar-going youths with some rails. Anyway, I show up, the kids return, talk to us all for five minutes then all shut up and turn to me and ask “Are you new?”, “new to what? The stunt team.”, “new? What, you mean have I just been born?” that’s the gist of the reply’s before we finally got to “Yes, I’ve just got here”. I promise you it was dead funny.

Rail man Andy Clarke doesn’t mess around, can you tell?

Sidekick Gaz approved bank 180

Towering Willy Motion manuals

Vegas in giant Daddy Long Legs attack?

Yellow rail assault by Andy Clarke, a skinny man in baggy clothes. Skinny, not fat, skinny.

posted by Sean @ 23:05 

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That Gaz in yet another hammer dropper shocker, this time from a leisure centre somewhere in the outskirts of Stalyvegas. It's been certified bitch-crank free as well as brakeless; 2 things I'm sure would be present in any attempt I would've had at this line. More from Vegas next post.

posted by Sean @ 19:38 

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The happenings of last Sunday in Vegas, Hyde & Didsbury, and for no reason at all its in reverse order. We join the adventure somewhere in Hyde with attempts to ride a perfect bank to rail. Unfortunately it was located inside Fort Knox which itself was positioned only a pavements width away from the busiest road that side of the A6. It didn't go well.

That Gaz bench presses a bike- just warming up here.

Next thing, BOOM!!! Eat my Police Car. Security from one side, police the other, Tommy straddling the fence- we couldn't have been caught anymore red-handed. I think arrests were definitely on the cards, but we talked a bit and ended up with some tickets, whatever the hell they do.

Successfully getting away with it we retired to the Indian at Parrs Wood for some tea. Curry was followed by 'The Boogeyman' which was somehow worse than 'Paycheck', something I thought would've been impossible. It now takes the top spot in my bad films seen at the cinema rankings. That said, I really think there's a positive side to seeing rubbish films, the good ones are certainly made better for it and it is nice to have something to whinge about. The cinema without rubbish films would be like soap opera's without hatred and despair. Will's curry pictures:

"Uurrmmm, what curry shall I have?"

"...watching you Son."

"...no Michael, that's a homosexual."

"OOO AHHH!!!"

posted by Sean @ 22:49 

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Skip to Sunday afternoon and we've missed a few spots, but forgive me for riding a little. I think since the last instalment we rode Southbank and about 100 miles to get home. Then we started off Sunday with some mad playground in a housing estate, then Meanwhile 1 or 2, another really mental playground (it reads like some scary hidden paedophile agenda this) followed by the other Meanwhile, which is where we're up to here.

This is pretty much the entire overview.

About half the crew here.

Who would've thought, Owain, riding!

posted by Sean @ 09:47 

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the 28th of february we toured the stockport area in tommy's car, it was largely uneventful, but here are some car related photos, and also a photo from the night before on saturday.

clarky threads the eye of a lampost in manchester "don't you just think its bizarre, riding bikes on in the city centre on a saturday night?"

frames within frames, car photo no. 1

two faced tommy. he isnt really.

my friend in the back seat.

jonny depp in bmx stunt riding shocker, or is it the founding father of gain?

posted by William @ 22:16 

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