Yesterday I went out with Grant Robinson to get some shots at a local wood. Rode a mega fun corner in the bracken. Weather was messed up, sunny patches and this crazy weather front moving in from Wales with some serious rain. It was a proper in and out the car for cover job trying to get the shots, which I think we got a couple of. The conditions made it hard to get shots but if it shows through in them I think they should class
On my way back from Manchester I dropped in at the newly re-built Crewe BMX track to meet up with Irish snapper Victor Lucas. Got some shots messing about on it. Every BMX racer will probably say I wasn't jumping the fastest and shouldn't have my foot off in the corner but I did cause it was fun!!
Victor stayed over a couple of nights and we then headed to Penmachno in North Wales to do a feature on the loop there. Was well misty and the shots turned out pretty good so look out for the pics in upcoming issues of Dirt.
Despite it being the off season and not having any races to go to I've still been crazy busy. Recently Victor Lucas, the Irish photographer came over to stay for a few days. We did three days of shoots for Dirt mag. One day downhill, and two days of hacking about on Hardtails. Rode some well cool stuff, found a load of unique jumps and wall rides. I jumped a fence to flat landing in a homage to Steve McQueen. Wrecked my ankles but the shots looked good. I already had tickets booked for the evenings so had to leave Victor home alone at mine sorting through photo's as I went off to watch Man Utd one night and Babyshambles the other. Felt a bit bad for not showing him the delights of Shrewsbury's night life, another time...
I recently finished my latest Podcast for Charge. A little insight into what I have to do to get my hands on a lovely Blender at the start of each year. Produced & Edited by myself and filmed by my mate Sparko.
Check out the Charge Podcast here on iTunes
It features a track by 'Amon Tobin' off the 'Bricolage' album courtesy of Ninja Tune. If you've not heard the album before, check it out, it's mega, especially the second track 'Easy Muffin' which blows my mind. If you want to find out more about Amon Tobin, check out his page on the Ninja Tune website
I've recently finished my first Charge Video Podcast, in the form of a rough Video Diary from the first round of the World Cup series in Vigo, Spain. I'm already working on the next one and there will be some more to come as I do quite a bit of film work anyway. So check these links to either take you to the iTunes Page where you can subscribe or the Charge Video page where you can watch it.
Editing Away:
Did a shoot at some local jumps the other day for the internet magzine Wide Open. It was soaking wet so was hard to ride but still had a blast which will hopefully show through in the shots which should be in the next issue. In the mean time you can check out the current one at www.wideopenmag.co.uk
Before I went away to Vigo I was down at the Charge distributors getting some shots done to use for the website and other promo stuff. As well as getting my bikes pimped up. Did a load posed in front of black and white backgrounds and some out on the moorland. Was cool to meet everyone down there on the south coast, everyone's really sound and a good laugh. Just seen some of the shots and they come out good I reckon.
Been filming for Earthed 4 again yesterday down at Afan in south wales A right full on day, Left at 7.30am got back at 10.30pm. Tracks were cool, bit rough in places for a hardtail, everyone else had little suspension bikes, I'm loving the hardtail though. Me, Don, Brendan Fairclough, Rowen Sorrell and Rob Breakwell were all riding with Jones & Rankin on the cameras.
