winter, u dig more than u ride

b4 dialing in some.....

after a few test runs.....

now.

yup the title say's it all, you should be diggin more than you ride this time a year or your priorities are in the wrong place.....think a summer man it ain't far off. Check the low ghetto quality vid filmed by a french dude who happens to be dam good mates & used to race BMX with Cedric Carcia, cheers Vince more kiwi beer at mine tomorrow hahhaa! A bit fix'in d last trany on moto after test runs while it's not frozen solid down here! I Will be lbuilding up & lip'in up the last & 2nd to last on MOTO next week....but it'll do for now, hit it up! Had a few rewarding rolls d 2 day, it's the middle a winter & soooooo good to be in cut offs. Big up's to Kris & his digger 4 rip'n a stump out chur chur bro! Marley gotta to ride in the digger, he was psyched!

On to a safty issue, see the pic's below lads, see that bunting/saftey tape! Please do not cross thru the tape/MOTO/bigline any line for that matter unless your planning your own funeral, I had a near death expereince ridine Moto on Sunday with a dude who's old enough to kno better, an yes every does cross thru, one deadly bad habit so SAFTY 1st! So from now on please enter Lismore from the top ie beginner line (3rd line from your right if your looking down from the top will get you to the mainlines roll in) a fence will be built soon but till then the tape stays! If you are a lismorelocal spread the word & tell anyone who does cut thru NOT TO! Thanks.


everything apart for the fin has been fixed up since the vandals fuct shit up a few nights back, we still don't kno who did it...i hope we find out! Then it's our turn a for pay back, i say a good old fashioned public stoning is needed, there's plenty a rocks around Lismore!

buy NZ made "Atlas trade" i just got a brand new numba 2 for free yup it cracked my old trusty a little, the good 'ol 12 year warranty it came with is the shit, no questions asked & i didn't even have my receipt, psyched as!

man down/digger down/rider down! I just found out Ewok blew his ankle to bits, the pic say's it all, what i call a"swankle", he blew it up, keep on riding then found out it's broken in 5 places, you battler, rest up & heal up...ice ice baby & get on to the herbals! All the best. The hottie on all 4's is for you! Bottums up, almost a full moon to.

Issac aka Ground Chuck...4130% trails legend! RESPECT!! Seen on LIFE? If i'm right it's shot at POSH in the early days a bit after PUSH got flattened, someone let me kno if i'm right!

Cater hard at it from down in hole, you boys are charging that red gold! RESPECT!! Rhysty's so right "If this doesn't get you stoked to pick up a shovel, Then not much will". soo soo tru. Pic's stolen of none other than BACKBONE BMX....yup they be well PSYCHED on stack'in it up!


a bunch a pins & stickers turn't up from Mike @ Wasted Youth today, so if ya keen on some let me know, if u don't dig don't bother ask'in me! The 3rd Issue a CASE is out! There in my bag & if ya anywhere else in NZ leave a comment if ya can prove ya dig with ya address.


now this is just crazy, Thai loves his Salmon fish'in, Grizzly's do also, he's in the middle of Alaska somewhere on his home turf catching his dinner & he rekons " just give them some space & your sweet they only want the salmon" OK fuck that haha & he even has time to take pic's of 'em MAD! Well it's not a solo mish.



Photo of the week hahhaa 1 wanaka cop & 2 locals taking the piss, look closely you can see why, does mr blue boy look stoned to you?

lips vandalised

anyone with trails would agree that Vandal's suck ass & they'll get there's..........

5th lip on MOTO yes were pissed, those 2 birds Ollie's hold'in up go out to the vandal/vandals!

6th lip on MOTO & we only just re lipped this on sunday, Jared below on sunday psyched on his fresh 6th 2 days ago

3rd lip on Mainline

i just went for a coffee mish an a walk thru lismore with my kids which is a everyday ritual for me & last night some loser/losers thought it a good idea to act like cavemen an hack/vandalise alot of the main lips apart with rocks on MOTO & in the basin area of lismore, i got a few pic's of some off the damage but there's plenty more, they also turn't the hose on which had made a mess of a few things to so Jamie & Elmo are on it fixing stuff up right now, top work lads i'd be there to if i wasn't looking after my kids! Lismore has never been deliberately vandalised like this b4 it's so not cool, it almost looks like they new what lines are riden the most so if anyone knows anything about this please let Dan, Jamie, Triston or Me in on what ya kno or even better if your the vandal/vandals an your reading this i wouldn't go bragging to anyone that it was you cos wanaka's a small town, /aniwe will find out, we will hunt you down like the prehistoric animal/animals you are! What you've done is a diliberate attack on us diggers who do all the work in lismore purely for the love of it! Bad karma to the vandal/vandals...what goes around comes around remember that!

on a positive tip the 2nd on moto is gonna be cool to lip up now, vandles tried to smash it up but it's rock solid so rock solid it looks like they smashed a rock to bits trying to hack the lip apart. It's also gonna be cool to add a new line at lismore b4 summer, just gotta work out where & come up with a plan for the council, so on paper i guess it's good to look pro with measurements etc etc, time is against me tho & very precious to me ie not alot a free time to really build a completely new line from scratch, what's already there at lismore is so fun to ride an keep riding as long as we can have some compromise with a few things so there fun for everyone & really focus on dailing in every line so they work sweet! I'm sure that's in the best intrest for everyone who enjoys lismore!

the new fin...vadalised

the gorge a few days ago looks frozen solid!

here's a couple a vids to psyche you some......get diggin, get involved



h-cam with Deluxe Max @ peniyer

Eliot is the definition of a real trails rider. Pure flow and you will never see him riding anywhere but dirt. He also had a very large hand in building every set of trails that you see him riding in this deposit. You can also see another version of the edit with music that Andrew had up on vimeo awhile back here also check out the bank

Boys have been digging there ass off this winter at a sweet spot in skidney, OZ. Most the lines have had dramatic changes and slowly starting to run. probably another 2 weeks and the big lines will all be running....Until then this is what we got working so far.

so who's the boss then?

sweet h-cam footy an look at those lips mm mmmm roastable goodtimes.

I seen this up on BTW...start snap'ing those dope pic's as there's some sweet loot up for grabs, i also seen this sweet deluxe over here after the jump an what a treat it is Mark, dam she feels sooooo good, i'd say my bloods almost pure dirt haha!

well it's been a couple weeks since i ranted about anything, if your not a lismore local don't read all this dribble hahha you've been warned! Here goes & don't take this all the wrong way i'm sure some will tho, think of it as "Constructive Criticism" No doubt tho my name will be mud after a few people around here read this rant, like a care, have i ever? I only care about 1 thing being able to ride some nice dirty trails, right, so when ya love trails & are passionate as fuck about 'em sometimes it's easier to type than fight about shit ie all the right words get laid down! So here we go.......

when people who don't have much experience with building dirt jumps build 'em an yes it is fun learning/building trails, an watching the piles a dirt get bigger every dig season is rad as, but you don't need lasers & measuring tapes to get the job done it's dirt. All you need is to have a plan, a loyal crew a diggers, you stack it up, shape it, then you ride it & dial it in as ya go, not pull stuff down when it works good, or change stuff to suit youself unless they are your own private trails & if your gonna go off measurements then your not really doing it right, i've never heard or kno of anyone who builds "TRAILS" that's works out how a jumps gonna work by measuring the gap, designing the layout with hi tech laser pointer systems, we've seen the proof that it just don't work to well. Just cos a jump might be longer than the next jump does'nt mean ya have to shorten it, especaily when it's a hip ya can frang out wide on ie pull up & drift it out....such a good feeling!

Jared/John hit me with some pic's from sunday i'm sure ya got a few goodies, the 3 pic's below Jinja Si took (pom with flash stand & bling camera) there not bad, the one a Fish tabo'd is sweet! Cam above tabo'd by John Kelly. I went to set the lights up last night to dig/finish the last lip on MOTO whoa it's official the ground is now dam frozen, no more night digs till some warmth arrives.

yes it's dam cold right now, the frosty wire fence say's it all!

So it's back to using brakes again on the 2nd on MOTO 'cos of some fear factors a few lads had why has this move backwards has happened i really don't kno, when all ya needed to do was just let go & pulling back more on 3rd lip to stop landing deep on the 3rd which was such a frangable left hip once up on a time 4 days ago, so now you can't boost the 2nd no more...... now that's so very very frustrating, an lets be honest you can't expect to tune back in straight away if a lines been shut down some or you go away for a few weeks an come back expecting to shred after there has been some dam good work/progression going on with a line you were tuned to, retune in next time & give it a chance b4 you make extra work for yourselves (you've made it how you want it) MOTO was running so good while we were all riding it, but that don't count does it old skool will always be OLD SKOOL time to move forward!
Due to Safety Issues? The 2nd landing was cut back to shorten a gap, it now feels even shorter than it was b4 Barney & I changed the landing, now we all get to boost to flat or brake when you shouldn't need to ie brake & race the 1st then brake some more, race the 2nd then have the speed to just roast the 3rd (stick to the middle man no more frang'in it way out left on that right hip kno more). The 2nd lip needs to be moved forward or at least lipped up to get it running sweet again. I havn't seen any local kids back on MOTO since the weekends digs & they were all over it b4 this new change with out a prob, it'll be interesting to hear what they think about it now.

On the positive side of it this change is the space between the 2nd landing & 3rd lip an it's been widened up well good, a drain has also been finally put in to since that big 'ol silt trap/pit never really worked so less work fixing the basin/main line rollin now after heavey rain, top job guys psyched on that. I'd just like to know why i was told during a phone call we would be able lip up the 2nd on MOTO to counter for the loss off landing a good foot is alot really man? SOME COMPROMISE is needed wouldn't you think?
Lismore is public & now it's 100% OURS as Lake Wanaka Cycling Inc./Bike ? Wanaka Club have pulled all funding & want nothing to do with Wanaka's Lismore Jump Park. I gotta say that's the best news I've eva heard since Lismore opened! So what does the future hold for Lismore now? Who calls the shots? if it's a CO-OP it needs to be democratic! The diggers/users of lismore should vote in a committee once a "lismore dirt jump club" is formed with equal numbers of BMX & MTB riders on that comittee. Fuck the lismore politics guy's it's all been dam good till now so is it more or NOmore Progression for lismore? Only time will tell. Either way to get funding it should become a "Incorporated Society" so we can apply for future funding thru a few charitable trusts & more jams over summer to raise $$$$.........but 1st everyone just needs to see eye to eye on a few things!

SO WHAT HAPPENED....basicly after months of diggin/work an no interest what so eva really by anyone else in Moto/big line or lismore full stop myself & a few loyal local diggers started fix'in it all up, dialing it in..then people started to see it all dialed again so as always they got to riding it some & now it seems the handbrake has been pulled on progression or am i over reacting cos of all the countless hours work i've done almost daily during day light hours & at night in my freetime while juggling 3 kids, work & turning my back on my private trails to help the community out/local shredders so yes my freetime is sooo precious to me or i'm a going around in circles? Ah NO!
I kno one thing I'll stop using my initiative when it comes to dialing lines in from now on. I made the mistake an got to busy with shovels, to start with this should've been put to a vote by everyone who rides MOTO i'd agree, it was talked about but not fully. It should'nt be one or 2 guys final decision just because they are SCARED ie man up right (private trails work like that not public digs).

Now talking about SAFETY can someone please tell that idiot Foley (the guy with the light blue helmet, stiff back & MTB) that i could've killed him as he walked thru MOTO he seemed pretty oblivious as i was lining him up for the kill above the 2nd landing ya can't brake 15 foot in the air now can ya " DONT CROSS THRU MOTO WHEN PEOPLE ARE RIDING IT DUH!" if idiots like this keep walking thru MOTO or some XC MTB rider goes cross country up MOTO ( it happens) when they should kno better, b4 long some body is gonna get hurt real bad or killed an we'll lose everthing! Peeps with death wishes are DANGEROUS at trails! SO at the end of it all the lesson I've learnt is that i wouldn't go wasting to much of your free time in lismore with a shovel no more unless the trails boss gives you the OK......i'm done diggin there till it all get's sorted out, tools down, i'll keep ride'n & work'n on what i ride ONLY if it needs it! Us BMX'ers need a new piece aland to build trails on or we all need to sort a private spot out. NUFF SAID!

FUCK YEAH THIS VID IS WHAT IT"S ALL ABOUT!




dam i want summer back hahahha soo very smoking hot!

below is what happens when ya don't dig

ya turn into a lady beast, get fat & lazy.... now that's just not hot at all is it?

hot is much better!

trails TV? yes fun fun...

thanks to Jared it's trails TV time hahha...how can you not have fun fun fun at trails trails trails aye? Both vids are filmed at the same trails on the same day if you didn't notice GOODTIMES! Yes it's normal to dig dig dig more than you get to ride over winter. It's the sweet reward for all the hard hard hard work over winter a dam good summer with loads to roast up! Dig trails! Summers not too far off really.......70-90 days'ish & it's spring, it's gonna be so good to ride ride ride in cut off's again. So happy dig dig dig dig digging diggers!!

an here's a little more inspirational goodness


check out LIFE, it's so worth living.

how many more times can ya watch/dream about these rad PA trails? Infinite times oooooh yes! Marky T kick's ass for sure an so does Bon Jovi hahha! "save the woods" is still up there on top & watched at least twice weekly by me still it's just so dam RAD! PA WOODS......the mother land a trails! Slattery & the Nutter also shred don't ya think! Love ya work Janis! hint hint........again & again & again..........

trails around the bowls jam...now this is a idea i like! Imagine the 3rd "Tim Hales Wanaka Shredaton 2011" set up with trails around the bowls/park here.........i don't think the QLDC (council) will be into it tho or will they?

woods......

Sion enjoy'in his native Woods of Wales, what its all about after a winters worth a diggin, roast'in in spring but sadly Keesh trails are gone R.I.P. & Sion's now on his way back to Wanaka NZ to get his dig on. See you Welsh ratties soon!

a few pic's got sent my way this week, cheers guys! An the new LISMORE WORK NIGHT's start this friday 2nd July & every other friday thru winter, ride till dark then we crank the lights an get it done since everyone wants to go play in the snow on the weekends. So come help out it's not a school night kids. Bring tools if you can & dress warm right!



Jems with yet another sweet edit of Deluxe rider Pom pom chill'in @ la source, awesome vid! An check this out bowl to be a trail if you havn't already.

plenty a strawberrys at these Swiss trails, Claudio's digs are looking fun!

mid winter fin fun

Ollie's loving it & I'm loving Ollie's turndowns..sooo bad ass!

here's a few average pic's of the fin berm jump thang i finished off on saturday night along with a much needed drain, cos i've got no life other than dig'n & laugh'n @ drunks as they stagger thru the trails at night hahha it's amazing, like pack a zombie's navigate'n thru the woods & how stuff doesn't get trashed by them all i don't kno? No drunk girls tho a dam sausage fest. The fin will end up vert very soon, mellows good for everyone to get used to it some then it'll get corrupted. Cheers to the QT boys for coming over, fun sesh lads.....an it's the middle a winter, ya gotta be psyched on that! MOTO's rolling this weekend! Braaaaaaauup! Lights in the woods this Wednesday night 30th June 7pm till late, so come help finish off the last lip/landing & return berm on MOTO if your a REAL lismore local.....man up!

it's dam cold here right now!

Claudio's fine swiss work was in the post today, so easy to put on your Deluxe & there ain't no shortage of spare parts! Thanks heaps digger, happy dig'n & watch that wine haha!



An a BIG GET WELL goes out to Pete'er! Heal up.....so ya can get back to this! SAFE!

SAFE.....

SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFE!!!

i stumbled upon this as ya do...fuck yeah girls & bikes it's worth a nosey while PC chill'in

what the......is it time to switch for springs, gears & more rings? ahhh NO



here's some H-cam footy, RH is a fun spot, it's been a long time since i rode there (2005 i think) it's sure looking dialed these days since it's now a legit spot