Mote Park is on the edge of Maidstone. It has a swimming pool which I used to go to with school and I jumped off the top diving board there which was “totally intense man”.

They are doing up the play area there and there is a chance that a skatepark may be considered. The guy in Action Bikes in Maidstone is also pushing hard for a BMX track. He is a top guy actually – I went in looking for the washer that goes in a profile chainring so it doesn’t move on the axle. He said he had a spare one because he didn’t need his, and he was going to give it to me, but didn’t becasue he couldn’t find it. So he rang up Profile and asked them to send one to him with some promotional stuff, which they did for free. The next day I went back and Profile had forgotton to put the washer in so he gave me some free stickers and said it would be there the next day, which it was. So the point is he is a good guy.

And the other point is that if you want a skatepark and BMX track in Maidstone then go here and tell them. Put BMX track in the other comments. Ignore the fact that it said it has to be done by 14th January.

Even if you don’t live near here fill it in anyway – the more people that do it the better chance there is of getting a park and BMX track. And the guy in Action bike said that if they get a BMX track they will also make space for trails. Good.

Oh yeh, M@ can you put the ufo pictures up again – by popular demand. I think the book was hacked by aliens who didn’t want the world to see their spacecraft.

I am trying to remember when spring happens. It’s one of those strange things. One day its miserable and dead, the next everything is alive. This is the deadline for having the trails finished. If they are not done then, you might as well give up on having greenery at the trails this year. The question is when is that date? It’s not the 8th March, cos stuff is still very dead, and it’s definatley not the 13th June (above) becasue everything is very alive by then. It’s somewhere between the two, I am guessing sometime in April. The problem is that all last years photos of that time are from Orange, the deadest trails ever, and the year before my camera was broken from March to June so no evidence there. Go and dig some dirt jumps.

There is a new media page here.

It snowed again here. There’s no way the trails will be finished before the summer. Too much to do. Although at this rate summer won’t be here until July.

The snow in these parts has been bad which has stopped any use of the car for the last for days. On the picture above you can see Happy Time Harry running along in the snow. Then on the right you have becky catching the snow. It was the size of her eye apparently.

I saw some tracks in the snow. They were about as big as my hand and were about as far apart as my footprints. Tim saw some similar ones. They looked a bit like foxes but a massive fox. This is useful So Tim thought it might be a big cat. There have been a lot of sightings. On further research I decided that they were rabbit tracks. Tim will still insist that it was a puma, which would be cool.

Above – The river broke its banks and flooded everywhere, there was a lot of snow and ice around.

I also dug a trench to the river. It was such a good feeling just watching all the water running out into the river. I must have drained about a foot of water.

I used to make a website called Distsurfer UK. Kind of like MBUK but with smaller wheels and no handlebars. I just put it back up on this server so you can have a look.

I have some spare bandwidth so go here. These are the movies that I downloaded in 2003 – I didn’t make any of them. They might all be bad who knows. Take your pick.

You couldn’t get much futher from this at the moment. March has come but it has only brought more snow so far. To be honest I am quite glad. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done at the trails before they dry out. Tim keeps saying that we can’t do it until it starts to dry, but there is a long list of things in my head that needs to be done before then. The way I see it, the more it rains (or snows) now, the less we’ll get in the summer.

Spring is great. This is Tim waiting for the trails to dry out, back in the day before we knew about wood. Now we know the benefits of wood so there will be less waiting and more riding.

High summer – About 5 days before I got married. I came off on this day when riding these and got a huge cut on my head. Good wedding pictures.


Wood is the best thing.

These jumps got built in a 4 day weekend. Started Thursday night in the dark and they were actually finished early on the Sunday. Tom Stanley stopped on his way through becasue he saw me digging. He said he would come and lend a hand, but the jumps were finished 2 days later. That was hard work.

This was also a fun day. Tried to learn lookbacks on the trampoline and then took it to Hoggs Green. No lookbacks happened but I almost got a turndown out.

Some jumps in Reading. Now houses.

Spring, and some more early pictures from the trails. Maybe the first time these jumps were ridden.
A Mountain bike at PORC. Good style.

About 2 years ago we started digging small jumps at hoggs green. Nothing came of it – the pikies smashed them all up. When we were digging a couple of kids used to come down and ride around with us. One of these kids was called Gregory and he must have been about 7. Now it’s 2 years on and he has grown up a bit. He has his own BMX and his parents take him to the skatepark. They also bought him this for his back garden:

Lucky boy. This ramp is near Tenterden, but they are moving house back to our village (long story) and want to bring the ramp with them. Good news for us if we can find a good site for it (their garden is too small).

So we went to have a look at it on Saturday. We spent about and hour trying to dry it with a broom, mop, sponges, cloths and tissues but then it started raining, so we decided to just take it down.

The following people have been doing a good job at the trails:
The Shovel Load – Yak digs lots as always.
Wikstidian – Mark (and maybe Chris) have been digging more.
Dirt Lads – Wingham is looking totally nuts. Berms around landings rule.
Pretty Shady – Joe digs for bournemouth.
Derelict BMX – No updates on this site for a while which can only mean one thing – they are out digging again.
Rory – No pictures but you can trust him to be digging.
Paul Beechy – No website but he told me about 8 different sets of trails that he is building now.

Who said the trailscene was dead. I love mountain bikers.

I really am having trouble believing this. 12 comics that I bought 10 years ago. I don’t know why I didn’t throw them away, but I am glad I didn’t. They must have cost me about £25 over the year I bought them. 10 years on I have doubled my money. Investment!