MID WINTERS DAY DREAM

The weather that has been going on in the Okanagen over the past week has been unreal, and has meant some riding has finally gone down. Myself, Kyle from Alberta, Matt Desson and Slade Scherer made the most of the the above zero degree weather down at Penticton on Sunday.

Here are some photographs of stunts that got pulled, and in Slade's case not quite pulled.

Matt Desson, 180 bars

Matt Desson, Mid 540 air

 Kyle, Hang on

Matt Desson, Hang Five

Slade Scherer, Tombstone 180 to broken cranks

BEAUTIFUL KELOWNA

We haven't had much riding weather lately, so I thought I would post some photos from Kelowna.  I've been living for the past 12 months and its one of the most beautiful places I've ever experienced. The photographs were taken by myself and my girlfriend.

Friends List

Just put up a friends list that can be found down the left hand side of the page. Each of these sites are from great people that are doing a lot of awesome things.

Nobikes.com Arron Gates's BMX blog that he is running out of Connecticut, USA . Nobikes has a lot of great posts ranging from local news to DVD reviews. Arron also has a new full length NoBikes DVD in the works that should be getting dropped early this year.

Zombiebmx.com This is one of the biggest websites for BMX in New Zealand. If anyone is thinking about traveling down and plans on riding their bike, I would recommend checking this site out! Local Auckland rider Mike D started the site years ago but now has a number of people contributing from all over the country.

Volucid.com  Volucid is an awesome BMX clothing company run out of Auckland, New Zealand and also serves as a distribution company for Zion Bikes, a Croatian BMX company. You will always find the latest NZ news here too.

lesseradjutant.com A small t-shirt company out of BC, Canada owned by Katrina Niebergal. Lesser Adjutant has been around for a few years and have recently launched a website containing examples of her hand printed/drawn/sewn shirts, and some recent artwork.

Check them out!

DRAINED

An old freind of mine, Liam Stewart from back in New Zealand, sent me this little edit of a drain in Auckland that has been ridden lately. There are a bunch of drains in New Zealand but I have never seen any that have been possible to ride...until now!



Cheers Liam

Tim Fleagle

Tim Fleagle from Alaska sent me these sweet photos of himself shredding some Alaskan street and dirt.

Thanks Bro!!

Tim Fleagle. University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

           

         

Tim Fleagle, wheelchair rail hop. Fairbanks, Alaska.

Tim Fleagle, hang over tooth. University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Tim Fleagle. Anchorage, Alaska

Zack Rampen's Photography

Zack Rampen who is based out of Salmon Arm sent me a good number of his riding photos. All of his work that I have seen so far has been really good, especially his night shots in which he uses a remote flash set up. The first four pics are of Amos Frake riding in various locations around BC. Kris Le Conn also has a few in there with a carve at Grand Forks skate park, a burley rail in Salmon Arm, and a wall ride in Vernon. The ice pick is Matt Desson from a ditch somewhere in the Okanagan .
You may have seen the last two photos of Andrew Lazaruk which were featured on the Macneil website, http://www.macneilbmx.com
Its rad to see Zack's photos getting out there!

Coldstream Shredder

Local Coldstream ripper, Trevor Angeluci hit me up with these couple of picks. The rail hop 180 is kamloops street and no foot can is from Coldstream. 
Thanks dude. 

Slade Scherer

So Slade sent a few pics which sum him up pretty well, super gnarley!! He had a decent run in with a car a little while back and got a bit of a scrape.

Cheers Slade!





 

Also here are a couple of other photographs that I had kicking around. These two photos are a pretty good example of the kind of stuff Slade throws himself down.

Welcome to ACTNOW; a new blog created out of the west coast of Canada, a place for photos, news, and web edits for and from riders around Canada. If anyone would like to share there pics or edits(they don't have to be bmx related) please flick them my way at actnowbmx@hotmail.com.

To start with, here are some of my favorite photos that I have taken in 2009 mainly around the Kelowna, BC area.