I haven't got much to say about this one. Rain has stopped for a few days, allowing
us to shape our jumps, and even ride one line. I picked up my camera, set up my
flash, and clicked away. Trying a few different angles, and flash set-ups.
Here's the end result.
Daarek with a 360 table attempt.
Daarek with another 360. Different angle.
Trying nosedives.
Yare with a nice superman. It no longer looks like he's shagging his seat mid-air. Sweet.
Next day we went to a small concrete park next to the coast, whit a small
pool and a spine ramp in it, fun to ride. Then we went of following the coastline,
found a pretty cool bank to bank thing. I tried to 180 it, didn’t worked out as
I wanted tough? Dimitris tried to hop from the lower of the two banks on to
the highest; which was made of a 5mm steel plate, ending up short whith a flat
tire and an ugly scratch in his rim. Thanks to Repsol gas station for selling nail
files to fix up his rim!
Decent air out of a small concrete bowl.
Synchronised 180's.
Art. Pure art
First try: Fail.
Dimitris putting nailfiles to good use...
The bank-to-bank gapthing that killed dimitris' rim, here nicely gapped by Fabio.
Big gap at small skatepark.
Seriously, who builds this stuff? Fabio with a tuck from an airvent into a dirt bank.
So every morning it was the same, we got up at around 10.30am, ate
breakfast, chilled for about half an hour, prepared ourselves to ride, got
in the car and drove to the center of Barcelona and parked the car in an
underground parking lot. It wasn’t very cheap, but we all agreed it was
better than a couple of broken windows...
The street riding was amazing! It’s like a big skate park whit houses
build in it. I don’t know what the architects were up to when building it,
but it was great! At almost every corner of the street there was something
you could ride.
The first day we parked the car near the coast, because we thought it was
the easiest. Immediately we found a bank that was in the Fit Barcelona
movie we watched the evening before, then we cruised around a little,
found a square whit some pyramid shaped flower-boxes that you could
ride like a set of trails.
The rest of the day we explored a bit of the inner city, found a really fun
statue, like a bank to wall. Dimitris did a sick manual down some benches
starting about 5m above the ground to the left, for about 25m long, respect.
In the evening we met a local, but as we noticed not much guys there can
speak English, and so was he. It was amazing, he kept on talking and talking
in Catalan, even if we tried to explain him several times we couldn’t
understand a word of what he was saying
Flowerbeds, or concrete trails?
I love this picture, because it tends to mess with your head.
This city was built with streetriding in mind.
Lovely March weather.
