loads a trails!

this is bad ass! Hawk, Innman, Dropsey & a heap a french fried trail lovers roast'in it up! Bring on summer down under man ya dig?

not enough trails......

dope little vid, sweet tune's & killer shredding, enjoy, it's non stop rain in wanaka if tomorrow's good might even get a roll in! Ride on & dig the soil.........

bloodpit

I love this place even tho it scares the crap outta me, if i lived in Dunedin i'd ride it daily, Vert man, Clinton love's the shit & his ankle ain't broke no more, good to see ya ride'in again bro! Cheers for d pic's ya old skool beast!

trail perspectives...prt 3

backbone's bossman & one hell of a dirty guy

1. NAME AND AGE? Rhysty, 33, but the physical fitness of a 29 year old, true story.

2.BIKE ? FBM custom trail slayer, but the way the government works here it may never get the chance.

3.LOCAL SPOT-PARK? Weston Skank park

-TRAILS? Unfortunately i don't have any trails, my most local would be jarrods as I've ridden them 3 in 9 months. Yeah Sad.I have helped dig a bit at a real dope spot, but i just can't gety down there enough to feel like I'm making an impact, which for me really sucks.

4.DESCRIBE THE WAY YOU RIDE IN ONE WORD? old.

5.YOUR LOCAL SCENE IN GOOD SHAPE-PARK? WHAT ABOUT TRAILS? Local riding scene is strong. Trails are non existent, there is some effort but its just not happening without private land.

6.IF YOU COULD GO TO ANY SPOT IN THE WORLD TO RIDE & HELP DIG,WHERE WOULD IT BE-PARK? TRAILS? WHY? My own spot, if we were allowed to keep them.

7.IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY FEATURE YOU WANTED AT YOUR LOCAL PARK/TRAILS ,WHAT WOULD IT BE? Jumps. Made from dirt.

8.HOW OFTEN DO YOU GET YOUR SHOES MUDDY DIGGING? For a long time everyday my boots would have been real muddy, in fact i have so many pairs of fairly brand new vans that i don't wear cause they are caked in clay. ill wash em one day.I'm lazy when i get back from digging.


9.DO YOU OWN YOUR OWN SHOVEL/SPADE? I own about 10 shovels all varieties all long handled a couple of picks a really fat crow bar a wheel barrow, rakes plastic and metal, i got all the gear I'm just missing a local spot to use them at.


10.WE ALL KNOW THERE IS HANDFUL OF WRITTEN/UNWRITTEN RULES OF ETIQUETTE SURROUNDING TRAILS PARTICULARLY,PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT GOES INTO THEM COMPARED TO CONCRETE......DO YOU BELIEVE THIS ETIQUETTE IS A GOOD THING? ie "NO DIG NO RIDE" OR THE IDEA OF "BREAK IT FIX IT" POLICY'S THAT ALLOT OF TRAILS HAVE IN PLACE........DOES IT ENHANCE OR HINDER?? I have dished out my fair share of sea spray over the years, But i have learnt over time you need to be positive to keep dudes keen, dudes work for a living so they don't need to feel like the trails is a 2nd job, it just puts them off it, we all know its hard work and what not so I try to focus young dudes on how much fun its gonna be, blah blah.


11.WHAT IS YOU FAVORITE TIME OF THE DAY TO RIDE? Glory hour, the short period where the sun drops and the day turns to night.


12.TYRES ON YOUR BIKE.....ALL ROUNDERS OR SPECIFIC?? Dirt monster front, V monster rear all rounders really but great trail tyres.


13.WHAT HAS BEEN CHALLENGING YOU LATELY? STUNTS & TRICKS? POLITICS IN YA SCENE OR JUST SHIT WEATHER? The fact that every spot i have ever built or helped build has been dozed, at least 10 good spots. The fact that i'm 33 and have dug my whole life and still have nothing to show for it, not a single fucking jump. I say a big FUCK YOU to the ACT government, FUCK YOU.

16.AND LAST BUT NOT LEST
I KNOW YOU LOVE RIDING TRAILS AND HAVE DONE ALLOT OF DIGGING IN THE PAST,WHAT IS YOUR RECOMMENDATION FOR RIDERS WANTING TO GET IN ON THERE LOCAL TRAILS, BUILDING AND RIDING....,CAN YOU LIST 3 THINGS THAT YOU FEEL ARE IMPORTANT? 1. Dream.
2. Dig Hard.
3. Ride and Smile.

thanks rhysty.

there ya go then more insight to yet another passionate trail love'in digger, i'd be keep'in an eye on backbone for this sick vid as soon as they get the film'in all done! Big shout out & thanks to Raine Turnbull for the pic's! Go roast some!

u ain't got pop!

WHOA! that's some deluxe pop man, Mulville roast'in Poto's, PA.

Mel Stoutsenberger pop'in in dogtown, 1974, big bars have been around as long as i have, 12inch rise goodness! Demand more rise now!

how's Mulville's insane boost'in , bad ass that's what! I cant remember where i stole the shot from, sorry, but god dam they rad as hell, not much has changed really in 34 years has it? the bikes have a bit i guess, how we ride has, what we ride has & the industry is prety much owned & run by BMX'ers , but the reason we ride hasn't changed tho or has it? Dig & ride for the love of it!

roast'in times!

Bonjour, well trubmx has been stir'in shit up & dribbl'in on now for a little over a year , wipe'n dribble from my chin is a daily operation, drool'in over dialed trails is all i do, so if i even had a life i'd do somethang else maybe?...... nope i don't think so trails kick ass, build'in 'em takes time & the rewards......make it all worth it. So to celebrate trubmx hit'in 1, Louis & i cranked the gene, got the lights blaz'in, dug & slapped tranny's. Today i rode my little kids bike all day, hit fresh lips kicks ass, did some stunts & made moto sounds, goodtimes! Why the hell am i type'in this crap, who knows? Just watch the vid if ya ain't seen it! It's d proper way to ride a bike! Ou rivoir.

frogs legs & dirt

hit this dope shot & get inspired!

ler virgin gorge?

i found a little footy from the 1st day roll'in d gorge, mr dirtfarmers creations in QT, dam i know i was freak'in & pysched all at once when i roll'd in for the 1st time, the mind is a strange thing, either way ithe day was hot, beers were cold, tunes were blast'in & we were all hav'in fun, sorry but i only got a bunch a boys on there little brothers bikes do'in a few stunts & trix while try'in to be men, shit it was hard enough stopping to film as it was after i winded myself good. Cheers Mikey for film'in a little, an big up's to everyone who has helped make the gorge as rad as it is! Ride on where ever ya be & dig trails!

EARTHQUAKE & stony hills.......

the day b4 stony waz roll'in sweet, winter, snow is only fun up a mountain!

new line going thru right of 3rd outside, will be fast an theres gona be some big stuff put in if ya go right were ya cant see.

the whole mid section has all been dug in, built up.

look'in back up from the mid section.

look'in back up just below the top.

ohhhh did you feel it last night? fuck yeah we all felt it, i was in a club spin'in tunes, no needle skipage, psyched! Wanaka about 500km from the epicentre, damage? d earth moved 4 sure, 7.8 on d scale, tsunami warnings around the Pacific rim, surf's up dude? Ah no, no massive killer sets. I was more worried 'bout the trails get'in all shaken down, that would really suck big time. Mother nature sure is in control of us minuscule humans, yep she'll kick our ass one day & swallow us up in a second, so keep it green, funny read.

On the trail tip tho stony is look'ing dam sweet, it's gona be sooo fun to roll as soon as winter's over, so it's get'in close to loading up the tools, hit'n d road & get stony roll'in for those roast'in summer daze to come. Were i'm digging it's rock solid frozen, maybe that earthquake lose'in'd the dirt up? Fat chance a that, need a big quake for that. If ya'v rolled stony you'll get the pics above, right, if not well work it out, it's easy.....dig trails & enjoy earthquakes!

piles a dirt........

Hidz toe jam'in it.

Monty get'in used to a weird tranny

Monty slip'in a foot off.

that pile off slap'd in dirt, someone got me ground chuck'in it

this guy knows how to drop a load off......here for kicks man crazy tits, cocks, beers & BMX! Ignore the content warning it's worth it! Sensorship sucks ass!

had a muck around with a few of the local lads, we slap'd in a lip in a pile of dirt, with a piss small gap 3-4ft...they wanted to learn some stunts & all that haha.....shit's scary when ya 3 ta flat hahaha, well a heap of dirt's been piling up @ the public jumps in Wanaka...someones gona finish the losemore spot off, maybe even do some much needed maintenance & even add new lines you'd imagine with the amount a dirt that's piling up there, anythings possible tho, more on that later, get out an dig abit....it's fun.

trail perspectives..prt 2

here's some more insight ie prespectives from another digger......enjoy!

1. NAME AND AGE? Kieran liddicoat aka k murda age 20

2.BIKE ? Take Ivy but ideally I'd be running a deluxe.

3.LOCAL SPOT-PARK? Paraparaumu or Waikanae

-TRAILS? The Burrow

4.DESCRIBE THE WAY YOU RIDE IN ONE WORD? Shitty

5.YOUR LOCAL SCENE IN GOOD SHAPE-PARK? WHAT ABOUT TRAILS?

Local park scene round here is great, wellington has to have some of the best skateparks within an hour radius, even locally we've got Paraparaumu, Waikanae, Otaki and Puk bay.

trails wise there isn't that much, there has been a few spots that have popped up and disappeared again. The one reall good spot locally was Island bay but when the flat there got sold so did they. Other than that i've heard a few new spots have been started in wellington so looking forward to see whats been happeneing there.

Locally there's the burrow but progress on any of my projects is going slow considering i'm doing most of the work myself.

.....WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE RELUCTANT TO DIG, HOW COULD THE SCENE BE TIGHTER WHILE KEEPING SUM LEVEL OF EXCLUSIVENESS?

I think its mainly because the digging season falls in winter and people just don't want to spend the small amount of good weather on digging when they could be riding. Another thing is that most people seem the be really affraid of trails and if there isn't something they want to jump they aint gonna help dig.

Really the big thing is that people are fuckin lazy they want something for nothing and trails can't give you that.

6.IF YOU COULD GO TO ANY SPOT IN THE WORLD TO RIDE & HELP DIG,WHERE WOULD IT BE-PARK? TRAILS? WHY?

This is a hard one, if it were just one spot I'd have to say catty woods, seriously if you watch any of there videos they've got there shit dialed, of course i'd bee shitting my pants riding anything there.

If it could be any country then definitly England, such a variety of trails spots, pretty much anything you could want and of course i'd be willing to help out with any amount of digging there.

Can't for get Posh though, it's pretty much one of the remaining spots from the previous trail era.

7.IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY FEATURE YOU WANTED AT YOUR LOCAL PARK/TRAILS ,WHAT WOULD IT BE?

This is probably bending the rules a bit but a feature id want is a less steep and more expansive area at my spot. If I had that I could build anything I wanted

8.HOW OFTEN DO YOU GET YOUR SHOES MUDDY DIGGING?

I try not to dig when it's too muddy or the dirt just doesn't pack right, but usually I get a good layer of mud that needs to be scrapped off the bottom of my shoes.

9.DO YOU OWN YOUR OWN SHOVEL/SPADE?

What kind of question is this? Of course. I prefer a rounded shovel end over a square head. Mine is like the ultimate work horse for me, digs bulk dirt pretty well, I use it for shaping and compacting and it's light weight so no noodle arms.

10.WE ALL KNOW THERE IS HANDFUL OF WRITTEN/UNWRITTEN RULES OF ETIQUETTE SURROUNDING TRAILS PARTICULARLY,PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT GOES INTO THEM COMPARED TO CONCRETE......DO YOU BELIEVE THIS ETIQUETTE IS A GOOD THING? ie "NO DIG NO RIDE" OR THE IDEA OF "BREAK IT FIX IT" POLICY'S THAT ALLOT OF TRAILS HAVE IN PLACE........DOSE IT ENHANCE OR HINDER??

In some spots it's a given, larger spots definitly need to keep the rules other wise things just get to over run, whenever I go to other spots I like to help out a bit if I can.

I don't mind so much at my spot, Chances are if you know about them you welcome to ride them. At my spot it kinda hinders things to have rules, i've got trouble enough to actually find people to ride them with me haha. My only big rule is don't ever ride a spot without the locals and in somecase only when the trail boss is there.

11.WHAT IS YOU FAVORITE TIME OF THE DAY TO RIDE?

any time from mid day onwards, who likes to get up before mid day anyway.

12.TYRES ON YOUR BIKE.....ALL ROUNDERS OR SPECIFIC??

Grip in the front slick in the back, thats how it's always been.

13.WHAT HAS BEEN CHALLENGING YOU LATELY? STUNTS & TRICKS? POLITICS IN YA SCENE OR JUST SHIT WEATHER?

Mand we seriously had almost a month straight rain. I'd just fixed up this lip id been working on when it started raining. One day in the middle of this rainy period i went down to check it out and found it collapsed, i was pissed but build it up again anyway. We had maybe one sunny day and I thought it would have been enough to dry it out a little. Went back down a few weeks later when it had stopped raining to check it out again. Fuckin thing had collasped yet again, by this stage i was pretty much in a full on rage and almost decided to spot digging at the spot all together.

Luckily i calmed down a bit and rebuilt it and it's looking way nicer than it did before and it's held up this time so i'm happy.

15. IN YOUr OPINION,HOW COULD THE BMX SCENE BE MADE STRONGER LOCALLY?

Our local scene is pretty tight a the moment, don't really see how it could get much better. A few more jams here and there would be good but i'm not complaining

16.AND LAST BUT NOT LEST

I KNOW YOU LOVE RIDING TRAILS AND HAVE DONE ALLOT OF DIGGING IN THE PAST,WHAT IS YOUR RECOMMENDATION FOR RIDERS WANTING TO GET IN ON THERE LOCAL TRAILS, BUILDING AND RIDING....,CAN YOU LIST 3 THINGS THAT YOU FEEL ARE IMPORTANT?

The key thing is inspiration. Big props to the deluxe crew. I feel that since they've started up they've really helped a revival in the trailscene world wide. mainly through there frequent updates and it seems the more you see the more you want to give back the the trailscene.

Other things are finding a good spot. seems to be quite hard around new zealand because our native bush is so thick and makes for a damp enviroment and land is hard to come by but it can be done.

The Last thing is finding a tight crew thats pretty like minded with ideas and willing to dig.

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