I'm off to Barcelona!

allright, see y'all! I'm off to good weather, good trails, and good times with good friends. What else does a man need? (except for his girlfriend?)

So what does this mean for YOU? Well, first of all, the desktop for April will be 4days late at least. But, after that, there will be lots and lots of great riding shots (I hope).

Many reasons to check back in 2 weeks!

Trip to Dusseldorf: Riding

As promised, here are the ridingshots. It's a miracle I managed to get some, we drove right through Dusseldorf, misled by our gps systems, and the wrong adres. GPS's are great, as long as you feed it the right adress that is...

But we arrived there none the less. For me it was the second visit to the illustrous university, my first visit being 2 years ago, albeit with my mtb which limited me quite a bit. It's a great spot, as the photo's will undoubtly tell you. And what can be seen in the photographs here is only a fraction of the great streetspots on campus. Other spots will be up for viewing in Iron Productions' Video, due out in the next days. Keep an eye out on his blog.

Trip to Dusseldorf: Lifestyle

For as long as my blog exists, the subtitle under the header has always been "Riding and Lifestyle". And there's a lot of riding shots on my blog, but not as many "lifestyle" shots. I recently bought a new (second hand) Nikkor 35-70mm f2.8, so I had to test it out last weekend, while on a trip to Abflughalle.

Wait, Abflughalle? I thought the title read "trip to Dusseldorf"? Indeed, we headed for Abflughalle, but when we got there the place was packed, and it had only been open for half an hour. The decision to head for Dusseldorf, a mere 20min drive, was quickly made.

The photo's here were shot on the road from Antwerp to Venlo, on a picknicktable next to the highway. I decided to make two separate posts, with todays e-youths short attention span and the abundance of photo's. Here are the "lifestyle" shot, the riding pics will appear in the next few days.




toine talking. I challenge you to take a picture of Toine NOT talking.




Still talking...




Wes has had enough of the talking, and decide to take matters into his own hands.




And succeeded! Silence there was, for a short period of time...




Paparazzi! (notice, Toine is talking...)




Wes, definately "De Lekkerste".




Fabio eating. Equally hard to find a picture of Fabio not riding or eating.




Mario, loving the camera...




Dries' hands. Hands gotta love BMX...




Ivo filming.




Told ya... The poor bag of chips never knew what hit it.




Ben, overcoming his camera-shy-ness (yes it's a word. look it up!).




Gesündheit.




Our chauffeur for the trip.




Groupshot.

Desktopbackground March

Last weekend, the weather was nice with the sun shining, so we went riding on our own trails at DirtE19, Edegem. I still didn't really have a picture for this month's background yet, so when the sun was going down I picked up my camera and went hunting for a nice photo. This kinda explains why almost every photo of that day was shot horizontally.

The light was great, the riders were great, the tricks were great, and our trails were great. I hope you'll think the same about the photo's, and especially about this month's background.

Last month I manually made about 10 different versions for all kinds of different resolutions, this month I'll upload 3, which should fit about everybody.

Here's a list of which version you should download:

1280/1024

4/3:
1600/1200
1400/1050
1280/960
1152/864
1024/768
800 /600

16/10:
2560/1600
1920/1200
1680/1050
1440/900
1280/800

RIGHT-CLICK THE LINK, CHOOSE "SAVE AS".

For a How-To on making this picture your desktopbackground, check this page.


Here's a small picture of what it looks like, together with the other shots taken that day: