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5.5.02 yea dual trials rules ey. there was an ace comp today at ivanhoe the course was goo and the competition was good too. the qualifying i did ok got qualified in the first run and cruised the second which actually turned out to be fast bet yea i should have gunned it in the second because as it was the higher the qualifying the easier your run was. in the races the first one i got a good lead over Jason but stacked on a log which meant i had to go back and enter the tape giveing him time to catch up and he juuust beat me the second we where pretty even and i manage dto do it again my front wheel slipping off the balance beam but it was still good ey as it ended andrew dickey took out the elite Dual and gap competition while in the sport class joe won so that was pretty cool with dorgan coming in second. talon won the sidehop comp with a nice 110cm effort and he got second in the elite dual. while i was there i picked up attention the new volitile visions vid which has some nice stuff in it + alot of art ey. so yea good day this week has a bit of uni a bit of skatepark with steve and a bit of building a dual trials course in my backyard:)
later
25.4.02 the weather at the moment sucks so i did nothing today yesterday went to the skatepark and tried some stuff and saw some cool stuff from some of the local BMX'ers some nice backflips from the bowl to a trannie next to it also some pretty nuts grinds on the 9 footer like 20 feet across to a step down half pipe. that was all pretty cool. last sunday i had apretty good ride at the rocks with joe and jake joe got a really nice rail to post gap and i pulled some nice gaps including a nice one that was a bit over 7 foot with a bout an inch up. all good stuff i'm finally getting some new pedals there VP double cages and sould be pickin em up tommorrow of saturday. i got a real big project to do for uni at the moment so i better get back to it see ya
14.4.02 well i'm back at uni after the easter break and have been riding less but still getting in some good rides mostly on my own just messing about, i found a car new my place that had been abandoned and had some fun on that till some fat arse builder told me to get off it, i told him where to stick it and moved on. went out today to the local primary school that was fun i spent like an hour messing around on one wall with a bit of wood just moving it round and try to find as many lines as possible. i went into the city last tuesday and had three pretty decent stacks all on the same side and i bruised most of the right side of my body oh well it's all good i guess i was riding alright that night but not great hence the stacks. hopefully i can reamin un injured this tuesday and i'll take a spare tube this time to
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1.4.02 went out early this morning to the skatepark well early for me anyway me joe johno and jake rode there for a few hours it's actually pretty fun not having done much skate park riding before i am still warming up to it. after that we went to the rocks and did a bit of trials i sorted some nice rock gaps and joe did a nice one. the best part of the day was one the ride home though. there is a carpark nearby that is surrounded by these post about two foot high with rounded tops, there maybe four inches in diameter and i thought that i could probably sidehop that so i tried and made it but no-one was looking till i turned around and statred yelling did you see that so i had to do it again and pulled it off again and i didn't get rectally probed by a piece of pine so i was happy as tommorrow i think i'll go for a cruise down to deakin uni for a bit of urban and natural cause it's got a creek running along side it with some rock sections, very handy ey. any way catch ya later.
29.3.02 yay updates went riding today and it went off i side hopped from the ground to the back of a bench that was pretty cool i got some nice backhops up that i've been eyeing off too. dave got the side hop and a nice four pole gap. at the end i nailed a nice front wheel roll back on a tanbark slope so that was pretty cool. tomorrow were going into the city so there should be some good stuff there, i'll try to post after that.
27.3.02 oh jeez it's been over a month since my last journal well i got off my arse, well actually i didn't i'm still sitting down, but mehtephorically i did any i digress. i have made a few changes the the site and i hopr to get some pics in the near future. alot of stuff has happened since last time, mi course is going pretty sweet, all good stuff pullin apart computers n stuff. riding has been going good two going a bit street lately, i learned front wheel roll back thats pretty cool, dave leanrned 360's jumping on his quasi free ride bike. and where going to the skate park on friday morning when i should be pretty quite to try some shit. i'll try to hook up a ride with mish on the weekend an ride some more cool stuff. he's gettin freaky good real fast. and he's also got a new site easy the best Aussie site and shows lots o promise. check it out at www.austrials.com good shit man. what else has happened... well i got the new bars and stem there all good. the demo went pretty well got 20 bucj out of it and the Beauty comp went off i didn't compete(don't ask) but it was still all good and heaps of fun. so yea i hope to get more of these out regularly but i'm done that before cheack back and if i don't send me nasty letters, it's all about the motivation.
7.2.02 i haven't updated for ages but a fair bit has happened i got into a network engineering course and have been doing enrollments and orientation days for the last week tommorrow i go to get books and pay for the gym. i'm getting a Brisa bar and stem for my planet X too get it a bit more compy as i've been riding alot more natural lately, last weekend me mish and a caopla other guys found the best rock section i have ever seen it's in Darabin parklands which is pretty good anyway but this place is awsome like 300 meters of rocks on a river bank with aeverything from little technical scetions to boulders and cliffs lots of slick wet stuff to practice comp stuff and dry stuff up the bank with better footing. it's spare sock stuff though there's lot's o water. when i was riding i the park a kid and his dad asked if i could do a demo at a birthday party they had there so i picked up 15 bucks and also got asked to do another demo at a primary school fete so we'll see how that all goes should be good. i broke my chain today which sucked because it dumped me on my arse in a river and had to walk home with wet draws. i don't know what i'll get next i don't think i'll go for shimano but we'll see.
well it's been a while since the last update but a fair bit happened i got a new bike or rather my old one snapped so i got a leapard zebdi. i also turned 18 on the 17th so now i can drink and drive(not at once, and i still need a drivers licence which i can't get till i learn how to drive) ne way i went to the beach the other weekend and did some nice riding specially on the rocks at the beech there are some pretty nuts lines where your like 20 foot above the ground but most are only like 4 to 10 not so dangerous but enough to make you careful. they also have a ksate park down there and while it's pretty small it's good to pratice stuff, they just put in a new grind box so i kinda got the hang of that now. when i didn't have a trials bike dave put pegs on his old ryno and we taught ourselves flatland in a coupla days were still pretty crap but still, it's pretty fun and you can do it in underground car parks when it's raining. it's been really hot here latly which really saps all your strength you can't ride for very long without lots of water and a cool place to go. i think it's time to make some modificartion to the trials course for the summer so you can come ina and have a shower every half hour. later
8/01/02 went city riding tonight and it was pretty good had the whole gang until we were going back to the station and me and dave decided to stop at this wall and we both learned how to wall ride man it's fun as well as that i got the jump back where you jump straight at the wall and then back and a 180 jumping on the wall and then off i can get 270, 90 onto the wall and 180 off, that was probably the highlight of the night, also getting off the train we stopped at the poles outside the station and i made the side hop about two foot up to about a 4" pole and also a 180 nosepick over it so i was happy with how it ended even if the begging was pretty unspectacular. i gott go fin some ridable walls round here now i'm stoked on it. later
6/01/02 oh man it's hot, i rememer why i don't like summer now outside is like 35 you walk out the door and it hits you in the face i'm just gunna do a bit of work on the course today cause it's to hot to ride. yesterday was a pretty cool day i went riding with talon weaving his dad dave and hatsu at lake ruffey park good day i was pretty buggered for most of it but still all good after the ride we went to hatsu's and watched taped of the itadori world rounds very cool stuff, as well as the muscle ranking trials tv show with some general funky japanese tv, those cool game shows were people get impaled and the crowd goes nuts. the other day i got my pedal upping record with 44 inches so i was pretty stoked with that i got some new stuff to turn into obstacles in the back yard so later.
3/1/02 happy new year hope everybody had a good one. i've been doing a whole lot of nothing lately i had a bit of a ride today but nothing much i've been doing some more specific and targeting exercises that i got at the gym i gotta get back on the bike and go for a decent ride at some point. really want to get these pedal flips down but apart from that i wanna find some good natural and get into it a bit,later.
29/12/01 haven't posted for a while with a lot on hope every body had a good christmas i've been swimming heaps lately with the weather starting to warm up, and i finally got to the gym today after i went for a bit of a ride and now i'm totally wasted. my pedal hopping has leveled off but it's acceptable now so i just gotta get jumping to a decent standard and i'm all good. made up a new little trick the other day too it's like a tap up exept you strart right next to the object then just lift the front tap and go to rear i've also got pivots onto big stuff like 2 and a half feet which isn't real hard but feels cool, i like using it to 180 walls, i'm trying to learn pedal flips to i was trying it today but kept woosing out cause i didn't have shinies on and i waked them on the third try i got the flip though just gotta get the landing. i got the pedal revolution while heli spinning off to theats cool so basically i've just been doing stupid little trick but hey there fun. later.
19/12/01 man it was hot today i had a coupla little rides which wasted me i worked all morning then went for a swim which was sooo nice any way i have been working alot on pedal ups since they have always been my biggest weakness which was exentuated by my time off after my leg break so in the last week i've gone from about 2 and 3/4 feet too almost 3 and a 1/2 i just gotta get the rear wheel happening a bit better. i'm still wondering how i managed to ride so badly at the comp i gotta put my self in more of those kinda situations and do them three times over to get better at the repitition oh well no point bitching just kinda puzzled me.
16/12/01 had the comp today, i'm really not happy with myself but oh well despite my falling over for no apparant reason it was a good day. the sections are continuing in there nuts trend the elite sections especicially, i personally reckon a pro catogaory is in order since there is a real big division in elite. but oh well. it was the first comp- for a while so it was good to catch up with all the guys i don't ride with much. i also got my XTR front brake so now i'm all set with that i can put a big tick next too brakes on my to do check list. after the comp i went to the hockey rink and picked up a new hockey helmet so i got melon protection which is all good. with dave still not having a trials wheel whgere going mountainbiking tomorrow and taking a bit of a break fromt trials to re group, having said that i'll end up riding trials tommorrow to oh well. i've gotta work later this week especially since i have lost/had stolen that i needed oh well. the result of the comp where ...
elite 26
James Eastham
Andrew Dickey
Hamish O'neil
elite 20
Talon
Sport
Brett smith(mod)
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Steven Huxter(mod)
12/12/01(comp 4 days and counting)went riding in the city with dave, Steve and Jason some riders from round here, it was a fun little outing we were all riding pretty shit and dave blew his free hub but we still had a laugh, especially when these guys came along and strated taking pictures of this damn fine girl infront of our trials spot, what exacly is the difference between clothes and public indecency any way that was a nice change of scenery. i got my biketrials.com CD which is pretty freaky so i've been watching that a fare bit tomorrow i really should work a bit but i'm not going to so i'll go in on friday to clean some bricks:( on saturday i'm going into TXU to run through there new computor system so that's some more desperatly needed cash. i also got my new phone which is pretty cool it's a 3310 small but not so that you lose it i hate those tiny little things also no arial to snap off while riding so thats good. oh well i'm off, later.
10/12/01 well today was crap wity rain coming from no where but today and yesterday i managed to get in a bit of mountain biking on my old mongoose it's good to have a bit of a break from trials. yesterday i went to watch me mate play inline hockey and bumped into Steve from www.e.biketrials.com and we had a chat and orgainised a ride on wedensday night. tommorrow i am going for a cruise with dave if the weather lets up, just local and no big deal i should also have my biketrials.com cd hopefully X my fingers. afetr that i'm going into the city to do a bit of work testing new computer systems for TXU, more money for trials, yey. any way i'll try to post when i get home tommorrow. later
8/12/01well now i can update I plan to make this journal up to date lets say every coupla days so check back dammit. anyway the X games are happening in Sydney as we speak and fresh from the phone i have the results for you lucky people.
Mod -Japanese guy(sorry) on 0! -James Eastham
-nick pierce -Ben Benny
-dan pierce -Andrew dicky
-talon weaving
in one of the courses there was a twelve foot drop onto pallets so the courses sound pretty crazy i'll try to get some pics up when people get back so stay tuned.
I went riding heaps in the last week despite having bruised ribs from a bin jumping incedent which i wont elaborate on but it hurts to breath sneeze laugh and pick stuff up but i have managed to ride so thats all good. i am getting a bit annoyed cause my ups have gone to hell i have gone from 4ft to 3ft in like 3 weeks so i gotta sort that out but apart from that things are all good. i think i might do some techy stuff in my back yard to get used to it for the comp that is in a week sinch there hasn't been one for so long. oh well catch ya later
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