Practice makes perfect.....

Construction of our new, top secret 'SKOOTER FARM TRAINING FACILITY' is now entering the final phase!

It's been a much bigger job than anticipated but it is looking like all the hard work will pay off. The track is now laid and the surface initially packed-in with lots of slow laps in the team van and my dads pick up truck. Today, we fabricated some heavy steel track graders to drag around behind The Captains Jeep. We got the 10 ton road roller, shown above, being delivered first thing Monday morning. We should be testing the surface out by Tuesday or Wednesday, weather permitting.

Skarfing Material.......Damn tasty!

Running late? Too busy blogging to eat? Need to grab a quick snack? Try this... Beans 'n' Sausages burritos.

Super-simple, super-cheap, super-fast, Super-tasty.....I can make this AND eat it in less than 5 minutes!

Watcha need:
1 tin of beans 'n' sausages (I'm veggie but you can use meaty ones, I guess)

2 x soft tortilla wraps.

Microwave.

Watcha do:

Slice up 3 of the 6 sausages onto each burrito.

Divide equally, the remaining beans onto each burrito. Its best to run off some of the excess bean juice or they will be too soggy.

Tuck 'n' roll 'em up and chuck 'em in the microwave on full power for 2-3 minutes depending on your microwave.

Garnish with 'Branston Fruity Sauce', salt and pepper.

I can live off these for days on end..yum yum!

"Once you go black......you ain't never goin' back!"

Captain Highside doesn't do things by halves. Still a bachelor, he attended Ged and Sue's wedding dressed as a black man. Now we aren't talking about just the reception...he showed up at the registrars office in full pimp garb. To tell the truth, it wasn't a standard wedding. Local boxing/ex BMX racer legend Phil 'Pitbull' Henigan was dressed as Fred Flintstone......and the wedding car was a JCB.

Good friend Bean turned up with his hair dyed peroxide blond just like me at the time and also dressed very similar.

The reception was held in the local curryhouse and as the night progressed things got messier and messier. The entertainment got going and John was up singing and dancing. People really thought that John was a coloured gentleman.....and the women were swooning around him, wanting to get into his tight, silver pants... check out the lustful look on the young lady in the last picture. By the way, that's Pitbull bopping away in his Fred Flintstone shoes with the Captain in the same shot.

After the curryhouse, the party moved to local nightclub 'Applejacks'.

It was a Saturday night and there was a huge queue outside. Fred Flintstone and Bean walked straight to the front, told the bouncers who we were, and bish-bosh, we were escorted in, much to the dismay of the clubbers patiently lining up.

We didn't stay very long, John was now really drunk but stayed fully in character. He spent much of his time in the ladies toilets with Louise, touching up his make up. Fred Flintstone and Bean were on the dancefloor and not before long, a fight broke out. Fred/Pitbull is somewhat renowned in the Chorley/Preston area as a tough guy.... he instantly layed out four lads. The bouncers were soon on the scene and unknown to us, Pitbull and Bean were gently ushered into the managers office. At the same time the four battered and dazed young lads were very roughly manhandled out of the nearest fire exit (and probably given another good kicking)

Sensing it was time to leave, we couldn't find John anywhere......trouble was brewing, the battered lads mates, who were still in the club, were on the warpath.........looking for Fred Flintstone and his peroxide blond sidekick.....who just happened to look exactly like me!

 After a few tense minutes we found John and high-tailed it out of there. The next morning we got the full story. The police were called in and Pitbull and Bean 'explained' that they were minding their own business when they got 'picked on'...the police promptly arrested the young lads and then gave Pitbull and Bean a ride home to their respective doorsteps. cheaper than a taxi! Below is a shot of me and Bean earlier in the night.

DAYTONA '99 PART 3

last installment of bike week pics...check out the guys racing number in the first pic!

LIVERPOOL DEATHMATCH

Great clip of the last ever "NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD"  Halloween skateboard all-nighter.
If you don't know about this event, It was the brainchild of Foxy (vocalist for S.S.S.) and was held at a skatepark I built, RAMPWORX in Liverpool. It had a bunch of bands play in the early part of the evening and then at the stroke of midnight, a 10 minute bare-knuckle brawl/ skate session took place. The baying crowd were actively encouraged to throw stuff into the bowl during the Deathmatch. Over the years I saw beercans, pumpkins, fireworks, male and female streakers and a lambs heart.
Foxy is the "Don King" of promotion in UK skate circles and NOTLD was extremely well attended.... maybe 1000 or so people at the last one and things really did get out of hand but it was a real lot of fun.
 Foxy even managed to get Tony Trujillo, John Cardiel and the rest of the ANTI-HERO team to attend one of them...so that was an eye opener for all involved parties!!

The Great Unwashed

Got an email from DP this morning about the pool skating footage in the last post...He's keeping busy to say the least....he sent me this link to a live studio performance of THE GREAT UNWASHED. This is another of Duanes many musical projects that he is involved with right now alongside his new record label INDIAN RECORDINGS, an acting career and some runway fashion modeling.

"Don't tell me what to do.....N####R!" YoYo's bowl 2003

Finally figured out how to convert analog video tapes to M-pegs, so I can now host stuff on Youtube and then post it here.
Here is a short clip of Duane Peters skating my backyard pool back in 2003.We booked a Manchester show for The Hunns with my band The Stags and we put the band up. As soon as Duane saw the pool he wanted to skate but the weather was crappy. The morning after the show,it was still very cold and overcast but it had stopped raining and we got to skate for about 30 mins or so. Duane did all his trademark moves: Sweepers, Layback Roll-outs, Invert-Reverts, Acid-Drops and Tail-Tap stalls. That's me in the red hoodie putting in the odd run....we coulda done with another couple of skaters sessioning but sometimes ya gotta just take what ya can get!
The pool, named after our cat, YoYo, was home-built in summer 2002 and took just over 14 days to construct.I know its 8 years after the fact but I would like to publicly thank the following people for all their help with the build: Di and Joe Crawford, John Lee, Pike, Tim Stamp, Whitey, my Dad, Adam Wilson, Doug the Hole and Louise Crawford.
At the start of the clip I shouted out "Do a Layback Roll-out!" you can just about hear Duane reply "Don't tell me what to do...nigger!!"