Road Tripping

So over the long weekend I had two choices, qtown or a week long roady around the south island.  Complications with my ride to qtown meant I ended up going on the roady which all good as qtown was super busy by the sounds of it and gorge road was shut half the time. 

On day one we packed up the car, alot later than we were planning so a good start to a proper roady, went to dunners for some of the guys to pick up parts for their bikes (chaz still ended up doing the whole roady without a sprocket), then on to Oamaru and Timaru skate parks before camping just out of Methvin for the night.  The plan was to ride the indoor skate park there but the earthquake had weakened the building and we wern't allowed in.

Not a bad view to wake up to

Christchurch and Kiakora the next day, scooters galore, I'm used to no more than 2 scooter kids at a park so was quite a shock and annoyance as lots of them have no skate park etiquette.  Christchurch was awesome though the parks are awesome compared to down home.  Then Nelson for two days riding and chilling with Adrian, cheers to horse and his parents for putting up up.

Screenshot from Nelson

Reefton was next on the list and pretty much the reason for the trip.  Reefton has a huge skate park and only has afew thousand people living there so it wasn't to busy thankfully.  No skate parks really suit my style and Reefton was no exception, still fun to ride though but to ride it to its full potential you would have to be an awesome park rider.

Chaz, turndown out of the deep bowl

Next was a huge drive down the west coast to Wanaka to ride their park and the first dirt for the trip, Lismore.  I was super stoked to be riding dirt again even though I was wasted along with the rest of the crew after 7 days of tripping.  Quick stop at ferg burger to get a feed and then home.  It was a long week but was awesome fun, even learnt some new tricks at the park so cant complain with that.

Chaz and Sam getting comfy in the back

Backyard

I'd always thought about building a new runin or doing some sort of upgrade to the back yard but I haven't really been home for any long period of time in the last 2 years or so.  Seeing as I'm at home for a decent period of time now I thought it was time for an upgrade; a new 4m high runin to replace the old 2m runin, a bigger kicker (still to be made) and my mate Adam put his quarter after the jump to turn you back around. 

 

I'd have half the paddock filled with jumps if only the ground was clay not sand but as most people will know sand doesn't really hold its shape very well so I've made do with what I've got.

All these photos are from my first day back, we quickly made the runin rideable then had a sweet session.

I hadn't really done any cork flips all season so I threw afew and they were alot easier and better than I remembered.

 

 Off on a 7 day roady tomorrow round the south island, with BMXers tho so itl be all park and street for me for the next week.

Cheers Sam for the pics

C-Mac's Sessions: Southland (mainly)

C-Mac's Sessions: Southland (mainly) on pinkbike.com

Abit from around q-town, farm jam and out the back of my house. All filmed on a gopro.  Starting to get the hand of the whole editing thing now so this clip went together alot easier for me.  Hopfully, depending on how much footage I can get, I'll put a clip together every month or so.  Enjoy 

New Bike!

Well new bike for me atleast, cant complain though I'm stoked as!  I was about due to get a new DH bike after riding the same one for 2 years so cant complain with a fullybuilt proto.  Dogboy at wideopen gave me kellys bike he had been shreding on for afew months after he changed frame sponsors.

Corsair Dominion

Sweet AT Gravity Signature bar and stem

Photo: Sam Kirkwood

Seing as I havn't been riding untill today I nicked my mates camera and took afew photos on the old jump.  I used some of my time off to build a new jump and runin.  So good having a semi decent sized jump instad of the small one I used to have, its now about twice thw size it used to be thanks to the 4m runin we built.  Cheers to everyone who helped mebuild it.  So good to be back riding again!  Didnt learn anything new like I wanted but did sum combos I havnt dun all season so im stoked on that for 1st day back.

Adam getting his wip on