March gets a new desktop background!

Ever since I stopped with the monthly calendar desktop backgrounds, I've been trying
to upload a background without calendar every now and then. So far, I've managed to
upload one. But no worries, I haven't forgotten about you!

I've got a new background for you. It's a picture of Hanny Cools, doing a table on the 
RedCross jumps in Hasselt, near the concrete park. 

RIGHT-CLICK HERE, AND CHOOSE "SAVE AS"

I hope you all remember how to make a picture your background. If not, just google it.

In search of the sun (Part 6)

A three-man trip to the south of France, Barcelona,...
Words: Fabio
Pics + italics: Drooze

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.

In search of the sun (Part 4)

(it's been a while since part 1 through 3. they can still be found in the archives, in april 08)

A three-man trip to the south of France, Barcelona,...

Words: Fabio
Pics + italics: Drooze


Although we were able to ride in short sleeved shirts, the nights were pretty cold. The second morning we even got up whit snow on our tents! And if it wasn’t the cold that kept us awake, it was an owl that was making just too much noise! We eventually stayed there for three days; it was great riding, chill locals, some guys from Switzerland, guys from Marseille, and guys from elsewhere in France...
I also noticed quite al lot bmx racers riding the trails, something we don’t see that often at our own trails. One thing I learned about those guys is that if they are following each other through the jumps they are taking it a little bit to serious, at a certain point the first guy bails to the left side of a jump, and the second went just strait after him. When he was at his highest point, around 2 - 3 meters above the ground, he noticed that there was no landing in sight, so he drops his bike centimeters behind the head of the first guy. I heard his explanation later, “I thought it was a transfer to the left”. Everybody had a good laugh about it, no problem.




Snow? In the south of France? Oh come on!



Forgot to take a bowl with him. But a little creativity goes a long way...



Rider from marseille. Hadn't ridden his bike in quite some time, not that I could tell...



Also quite a lot of fourcrossers... These guys were from Switserland. They spoke German, of so they said. I can speak a little German, but I couldn't understand a single word they said.



Fabio on the transfer line.



Dimitris on the transfer line.



Fourcrosser tweaks one out on the speedjumps. You could park a Hummer between those jumps.



Dimitris with a tabletop on the last jump of the hip line.



Marseilledude with a transfer from the hipline to the big line.

Same, but from another angle.

Part 5 will be online in 2 days. So check back soon!

It's been a while...

Yes, it's been a while. But then again, the weather has forces us indoors for the last few months now, and exams only made riding or photographing possibilities slimmer. 

Here's an old photograph I took way back in October. It's Fabio, doing a euro table at our trails.

He's been busting my balls over uploading it ever since I shot it, so this should put an end to that.

Another skatepark shot...

Jup, it's that time of the year again. The weather turns to shit, and we're all doomed to ride skateparks for the next 3 to 5 months.

Maybe the picture will show that it doesn't have to be all that bad...

(Click picture for larger version. DO IT!)

First Dirt Session Of The New Year!

Finally!

The rain is stopping, sun is coming through the clouds, and the dirt is drying up.
Spring is (almost) in the air. These pictures were taken a few weeks back already, they've been on
my flickr page for some time now, but I hadn't had the time to post them here too, but now here they are, enjoy.

(btw, check back by the end of the week, I've got a nice desktopbackground for March coming up!)