It’s windy and rainy. Go for a walk.
I on the other hand don’t get to see daylight at the moment. I get to work when it’s dark and leave when it’s dark. What colour is the sky?
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Walking, Walking Walking,
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Swanley Skatepark
Went to Swanley skatepark a while back and took some photos which have only just found their way to the internet. Now it’s raining there is time to start putting some unseen media up. Just a few tricks:
A wimpy 360. Just go faster you wimp.
This hip is fun. This park can be ridden in the dark almost as their are street lights around it.
Tyre tap.
Turndown attempt without zoom.
Unturndown
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Just another Saturday
These pictures are from a few days ago. Just a bit of digging going on, while Becky stuffs her face.
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Maidstone Street
As you probably know we were planning a trip to Sittingbourne on Wednesday. We really should have called ahead. This is the second time this has happened to me. Yep, you know what I am taking about – it was closed. Why do I do this? It’s not that hard to just pick up the phone. So after looking around for a while and not being able to find any way to break in we set off home again. Me and Tom really wanted to ride though so we decided to stop off in Maidstone. We dragged Nigel along as well but he was really much more interested in the fast food outlets.
So we played around in some multistory car parks for a bit, airing out the ramps, and trying a few 180s and manuals here and there. Then we went down to the law couths and did this wall ride a few times and tried out some urban tobogganing.
We came across an empty lorry yard with some pallets in it, so we built a little quarter thing. No sooner had we finished it than security came along to throw us out. i was glad they didn’t make us put the pallets back.
That was about it. We went back to the car and drove home feeling really depressed as we were really looking forward to Sittingbourne and all we got was crappy street.
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Flatim
Tim has been riding a lot of flatland recently due to his broken limb. This has mean that he rides around with his bars inverted like this so the front end is shorter and the headtube angle is steeper. He still can’t do many tricks as they take a long time to learn, but he is good at manuals now.There is a new media page up in the media section or here. You have to wait for a while for it to load.
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It’s a very very, Mad World.
Apparently life is full of strange coincidences. I didn’t know about this until yesterday when I walked into silverscreen (a dvd shop in maidstone). They were playing and REM song called Electrolite. I just wandered over to the sale stand and pick up a dvd – as it happened it was “Mulholland Drive”, a film by David Lynch. At almost the same time the song that was playing sang the line “If I ever want to fly, Mulholland Drive, I am alive.” This was strange. The expalination is from here and below.“There is a significance to R.E.M.’s name-dropping of Mulholland Drive in Electrolite. Mulholland Drive is a really long (42km I think), really windy road that goes across the hills overlooking Los Angeles. You get some stunning views from up there, and it’s right near the Hollywood sign, hence “Hollywood is under me.” And when you drive along Mulholland Drive, and you’re above one of the world’s biggest cities, you do very much feel like you’re flying (“if I ever want to fly”).
As for the film, I think it’s quite possibly the best ever made. I am a very very big Lynch fan and Mulholland Drive is what got me into his work. The metaphor of Mulholland Drive is used to similar effect as in Electrolite. The film is all about Hollywood, and the naivity some take in coming there to experience stardom and love, and end up crushed, bitter and twisted. The only drawback is it’s near impossible to understand what’s going on first time of viewing, and that makes a lot of people give up. But I like a film where the plot isn’t fully explained in the first 10 minutes, something you have to actually think about. So take your time in watching Mulholland Drive – it truly is a wonderful piece of cinema. It’s probably only $5 cos it’s about 3 years old, it’s pretty cheap in the UK now too.
I was in L.A. with my dad earlier in the year and we made a special effort to drive along Mulholland Drive to pay tribute to the film and to Lynch, and as we did we listened to Electrolite, paying tribute also to R.E.M.’s homage to Hollywood.”
Bored yet? Another strange coincidence was that a few months ago I bumped into an old school friend (Happy Time Harry) who also happed to be working in Maidstone, so we started travelling to work together. Then after a while I started giving his sisters boyfriend (Bruce Lee – that’s his real name) a lift to.Yesterday Tim was working in Sainsburys, and he asked one of his usual customers if they would like cash back, and they said “Yes please, I need some petrol money to give to your brother for giving my boyfriend a lift to work.” Confused?
Well it turned out that this lady was Happy Time Harry’s sister and Bruce Lee’s girfriend, and she recognised Tim as my brother after only seeing me one, in the dark, for about a minute. It’s sort of one of those non-anicdotes isn’t it a mad world.
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I am scared
Vote now kids.
I have been to work on pretty shady a little this morning. Joe – where’s my money?
The shovel load is always amazing. Trip to Caversham BMX track soon?
What has happened to unknown trails rider?
Has dave done his new site yet?
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Spiders
Here is Becky’s first spider update. Spiders make you go urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and do a shiver. This update is about the GOLIATH BIRDEATER. It is the biggest spider the world and is a type of tarantula. This picture is life size – they are very big.
They can grow to up to 12 inches across. Urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. There are no recorded incidents of a tarantula bite killing a human but other animals like dogs, cats and cows are much more susceptible.
It is quite common in the places they are for these types of animal to be killed by these types of spider. They also like to eat mice and are the only spiders big enough to do this.Goliath Birdeaters do not eat birds so that was bit of mistake to call them that. They do eat bats and frogs though and also crickets
Spiders are high in protein! The Piaroha tribe in Venezuela collect Goliath Birdeater tarantulas and roast them over hot coals, eating them as if they were big hairy crabs … carefully avoiding the large fangs and the poison sacs. The fangs are later used as toothpicks.
These spiders are described as highly aggressive and should not be handled. Their legs are very hairy and each hair has got a toxin in it which gives you a rash if it touches your skin. I very much don’t want to ever find one I my bed and if I did have a good plan for how to make sure it doesn’t get me.
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Big Keith
Every office must have it’s big Keith. This is ours. He even has the goatie. I have been wanting photo of him for a while but it looks quite suspect taking your camera into the office and taking a picture of a big fat man, so I had to be steath. I was “changing that batteries” in the camera which gave me the opportunity to have it out, and then i rested it on the desk and pressed the shutter button while casually looking at something else.As Tom said. Team noid are off to Sittingbourne tonight. Would be good to see you there, but then again it would be good if it wasn’t busy, so don’t feel obliged!
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Missing Summer
You forget how good summer was until you look back at the old pictures. I have redone my media pages and regrouped them a bit there is now a media 2004 and a media 2003 page. That’s a fair bit of old media now. There’s a few new pages slipped in there which I will advertise soon, but if you are super keen you can go and try to find them. I was looking through them and I found this picture. These trails went from flat to flat in about 2 months. They weren’t ridden enough times but it was still fun to go to the knicker trails and have fires and things. New trails are fun.
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