Mother City Street Riot!

Firstly, THANKS TO ALL THAT CAME OUT TODAY FOR THE RIDE. We had a good crew of about 40 riders, of different skills and styles and we all met up on time, which is a big deal in CT. Savage got a flat from some last minute spoke replacement but after 10 mins, we were ready to roll. With most of the shops in this area still open, we hit the "Red Banks" down the road.

Although not technicaly riding today, Wayne set to work making the spot more user friendly by removing a branch or two from an over hanging tree.

Eddie Botha started things off with a barspin on the steepest part of the banks and got himself a R50 voucher from The Riot.

If you throught Eddie Cleveland did some slow barspins then you haven't seen Scott Owen ride. Nice bars to fakie and some ally oop bars attemts too from him.

Johan has been overseas in the US driving trucks around for the past 8 months but is back with his big pop. Here he hopped up and over the rail then turned around and hopped back over into the bank. R100 voucher from The Riot was his.

Werner Mathee is on a learning curve that is almost vertical. With big moves like this hop whip and loads of technical variations all day, I'm very scared of how good he'll be in a years time. This kids middle name is "progression".

I have a soft spot for anyone who runs pegs in CT because there isn't alot of us. Killian has been stepping up his grinds lately and it makes me smile. I knew this rail was right for him and we took a ride to go get it done. This rail is outside of an old age home and is usually a bust after 30sec. Killian pulled through and under abit of pressure, he got it done first go. We got cornered by some cops, about 30mins later and 2 km away, telling us to stay away from the old age home. R100 voucher to Killian from The Riot.

Mr Colin Loudon is in town and he says he's going to be "local for while". With moves like this hop whip, I don't think anyone is complaining.

I also got a great sequence of Wayne doing a quick manual to 180 off that ledge on the right, but it'll take me some time stitch that together.

We then went of search of a curved wallride in some sketchy area but found this rail setup instead. Blaze set to work with a hop in to 180 out.

And Clemie did this wallride over the rail to hop out the other side. Both great moves.

Some of the guys then headed off in weird directions and/or got lost. Scott, Josh and I headed back to the warehouse area and got some grinds and gaps on. Here's Scott with a good manual to gap. Everyone then met up back at ToysRus where this happend......

The low light of the day was when Lyle went for a hop over a fork high rail with a 1.5 meter drop on the other side. We cased back wheel and went straight to the face. He slid a good 30cm on his head and came to a moaing holt. After some ghetto medic work from Killian and a few others he was back on his feet. Tough kid.

Well thats it for now. Thanks again to The Riot for the vouchers and supporting something thats over 1000km away. Colin should be putting an edit together soon too so watch out for that one because there was some great stuff that I missed. Also check out Killians blog for more photo's over the next coupe of days.

THE NEXT ONE WILL BE IN APRIL. NO JOKES!