A flipping post at last!

Ha, finally remembered my login details for this thing so i can post :)

Alot has happened since the last post so i'll fill you in quick as i can....

Charm City skate park in Baltimore is quality, dead skater but still good fun. I couldnt manual or bunny hop which sucks but the shoulder is getting better. Last few nights were wicked with Jenn & Co. Good times bowling and pub'ing. Shout out to everyone we met out there - appart from the dickhead cops, turns out pushing them isn't a great idea.

Washington was awsome to see, but VERY hot! could have sat in a sauna to cool down! Saw all the sights etc... Oh and dont bother with the Pentagon - you can only see three sides and can't take any pictures....so here's a picture :)















En route from Washington to Savannah we stopped at a motel in an Epic storm! lightening and thunder everywhere! we have some video which we'll post up. Got to Savannah the next day. It's a really nice place, not much going on at night but we met some cool peeps. It was funny getting turned away from a Bristish pub because we had British ID! shout out to Faith selling the Hot Dogs till 4am, the Atlanta crew and Denver from Denver.

We decided to de-tour to Atlanta the next night. Stayed down town with some cool views out the window. Headed to an area called Buckhead that night. Was a wicked night, played loads of pool (Jay won) and drank the bar out of Cider. Jay wasn't feeling to good (lack of food and overload of alcohol) so we made it an early night at about 1.30am.

Next day it was time to head to St Augustine - our first stop in Florida. En route we ate at the best Hooters in the country! got a t-shirt signed by all the girls and loads of pics.... big up all the Hooters girls, especially Krystal, my future wife lol. Hooters pics....










St Augustine is great for history and arty shit (Mum you would love it). Stayed at an awsome Hostel run by a really cool dude. Went out that night, had a look around the town and hit the bar with no name (actually has no name lol). Was looking like a pretty boring night until we met loads of ace people from Georgia who made us say different words all night hah. Shout out to Holly, Kelly, Rachel and the rest of the Georgia crew.

Today (Aug 22nd) we headed to a local St Augustine skate park, but it was skate only - a real shame as it looked amazing! Sooo it was Daytona beach time. Fully awsome beach, real warm and lush. Quite funny when these massive Pelican's fly just over your head whilst swimming.








In an Orlando hotel right now getting ready to get sum grub. Off to theme/water parks tomorrow and a skate park or two. Can't wait!!!

Quote of the week: "lifes like a box of chocolates" (we forced some of the Georgia girls to say that with their southern accents)

Joke of the week: Lady Ga Ga has been asked why she uses that name instead of her own.

Apparently, 'Geoff' doesn't have the same ring

Rays bike park and Baltimore

We spent 3 days in Cleveland riding Rays Bike Park a bit each day. It’s the most amazing place I’ve ever been, so much stuff there and such a big place. Had some good sesh’s there in the rhythm room, the dirt room, and on the resi as a lot of the rest of the park isn’t rideable as its being worked on atm. On Wednesday Lex over jumped a hip in the rhythm room and hit the wall quite hard with his shoulder still can’t ride.

We spent an afternoon street riding in Akron too, its a university town with so much good stuff to ride! video of this coming.

Wednesday night we left Cleveland at 9pm and drove through the night and arrived at New York at 8:30 in the morning after a few stops. We parked in Jersey City and took the ferry across to Manhattan. We walked up to central park the all the way down Broadway through Times square, down past the empire state building and on to Ground Zero and Wall Street before taking the ferry back to the car park from there. After finding a Hotel and having a power nap we got a taxi down to Jesse’s house (a guy we met at the hostel in Toronto) and had a few drinks there before heading out in Hoboken, Jersey City. Things seemed to be ending quite early there quite early so we took the Subway over to Manhattan and found a bar there which was open till 4.

New York Photos

Friday we drove to Baltimore, stopping at a MASSIVE shopping mall and bought a few things, arriving in Baltimore in the early evening. On Saturday we went to a house party (the guy whos house it is works for Monster Energy and had fidge loads of every type of Monster there is) and then went into town to Angels Rock Bar.

Going to check out a local indoor park in Baltimore today as Lex recons his shoulder is ok to ride with again now after hitting the wall at Ray's.

The Internet isn't great here so I will upload more photos to Facebook another time. I will also put together a short riding video edit as we got some good footage of Rays and street riding in Akron on the GoPros.

Toronto

We have just had an amazing few days in Toronto. On Wednesday we Spent the day at Joyride 150, its a sick indoor park with everything from North Shore, Jump boxes, Park, Resie and foam, and even an indoor XC loop. After a good days riding there and after cleaning up at the hotel we drove into Downtown Toronto and got the bikes out to and had a look about. We randomly bumped into some street riders there who showed us a few cool spots and gave us the intersections to put into the GPS to find all the good parks.

So on Thursday (Lex's Bday) we started at Markham's outdoor concrete park on the outskirts of Toronto.







We then moved on to Vanderhoof which is an old concrete bowl with a massive cradle! the coping was huge on the bowel which made it quite hard to ride so we didn't stay too long.






Having looked online we had seen that there was quite a popular backpackers hostel in the Entertainment district in Downtown Toronto. This turned out to be about the same price as the hotel we had been in further out in Markham so we booked in for 2 nights.



After checking in we went to find a wooden skatepark that the street riders the night before had told us was quite ghetto. This turned out to be 1 of the best parks I have ever riden! yes the ramps were fairly haggered, but the angles on all the quarters, spines, volcano's, jump box, etc were perfect!












The locals there are amazing riders and really sound people too. We met a Plain Lazy team rider called Lee from Camborne, Cornwall (small world), and a local called Ian who was going super massive on everything. They told us about 2 more parks worth visiting just outside Toronto on our way back to the US.

We found somewhere to buy beer (everywhere is the equivalent to £1.50 a can here!) and headed back to the hostel where we met a few people from different places. The Hostel had a night out planned to the club where we had guestlist for Lex's bday anyway so we went along with them. It was a rubbish club so we left after 1 drink and wandered around a few bars with a couple of Canadian girls we met. Most places wouldn't let us in because we wernt wearing shirt and shoes (on a Thursday night :s). We ended up in a Chinese Restaurant at 3:30 in the morning eating the worst sweet n sour chicken balls ever, before heading back to the hostel.

On Friday (feeling quite hungover) we wandered down to the CN tower and lake Ontario then back into town.





In the afternoon we went for another sesh at the wooden park and then went to some local street spots with Ian.
Friday night ended up being quite a laugh. we started off drinking at the hostel again with Jesse, a guy from Jersey City, and a German, Sebastian. We headed out to a bar with them where an Australian girl came up to us before we had a chance to get a drink n told us we should go to a bar called Madison with them, so we all jumped in taxis and went. Everyone got very drunk and had a good night.

Saturday We hit 2 more parks on our way back to the US.
The first was Icelands, a 10 year old concrete park with a lovely flowey street section and nice bowel with perfect quarters and a cool hip.












The second park is called Shell Park. Its a very old park with some amazing lines, but having just had lunch we were both feeling too full and hungover to do much there and didn't get any photos.

The drive back to Cleveland took about 5 hours with having to go through boarder control, but we eventually made it back, and went to Paninis bar for some food which was quite entertaining as the waitress struggled to understand us.

I will put up more Photos and all the riding photos in an album (probably a publicly viewable one on facebook) at some point!

Going to ride some street in Akron today then Ray's bike park for the next few days!

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Bloody Massive American Lorry

Kay, so we've just got back to our hotel battered and bruised from our first days riding. But before that let me fill you in on the last few days.

We finally arrived in Cleveland and our gracious hosts Adele and Lynn collected us from the airport and back to theirs. That night we planned the next day and talked about places to visit. Next day we woke up silly early (weird time difference), got ready and went shopping for bits n bobs. Upon our return I was expecting to see our Sat Nav on the porch but no joy. Soo we went to get the hire car Sat Nav-less (we also failed to buy a map!). Anyways after choosing our car we set off. I would just like say thanks to Lynn for all his help that day!

My first bit of driving in the USA was an illegal U-turn in the middle of the main street downtown Cleveland, which could have gone better - we have the video! Now en-route to Toronto we were flying up the I90 watching for cop cars. Once we got across the border a quick visit to Niagra Falls was on the cards. Got there and parked up - BTW, parking is CRAZY expensive here $20 a car! Niagra falls is pretty epic and an insane ammount of crazy tourists too.










The pic dose not do it justice. Here's me looking excited about it:















We headed on to Toronto not knowing where to stay and no Sat Nav to help. After getting lost, confusing shop staff and debating on sleeping in the car we found a Canadian Tyre and purchased a Sat Nav - Her name is Elizibeth, Good times. Anyways we drove through downtown Toronto which looks amazing at night! and up Younge street (the main one). With the help from Liz we found a hotel which had a deal with Joyride 150 to get a cheap rate. Next day woke up, had a swim and sauna, breakfast and set off for Joyride.

This park is epic! first room housed the beginner stuff, pump tracks and chillout area. The second room has the resi/foam pit, jump box lines and street park. We rode there for a good 6 hours but had to stop every 10mins as the heat was insane! dunno how much water we drank!? anyways here's some pics:

Vert wall was cool as. Did'nt get as many pics as we hoped but lots of vid.

Jay messed his elbow up basically cutting it in half, but he's double 'ard.

































Quote of the day: "Yo english shredders" from a kid at Joyride

Joke of the day: "how the hell does paper beat rock? stand in front of me and ill throw a rock at you while you protect yourself with a piece of paper "

I'm 26 now! Wheels and age! gunna get hammered tonight - happy days.

Thats it from me, Jay will do the next one.

This is my United States of Whatthefuck...

After struggling to get the bikes into the bags and keep our bags under the weightlimit, we have now made it to the US of A.














Due to being at the back of our first plane and so having to Q behind everyone else for customs, we missed our connection to Cleveland so are currently sitting in Charlotte the airport for 2 hours waiting for the next flight.

Got the Intro/Outro template for the videos done on the plane so once we have footage from Toronto and Rays bikepark we'll get the first vid up.

Making a shopping list for tomorow morning before we collect the car at noon and head up to Niagra Falls.

Shopping list:
Tent, sleeping bags
Mobile Phones
Pain killers
Energy drinks
Food

We plan to make it up to Toronto tom0row evening ready to spend Wednesday at Joyride 150 Bikepark and have a bit of a Toronto street session before heading to a club where we have guestlist and VIP for Lex's birthday :)
From what i've seen of Joyride in a few Pinkbike VOD's it looks epic!