China Trip 2011 – Post #1
Earlier this month Tom, Sebass, Drew, Gary, Guy and I headed out to Shanghai to find ourselves some non english speaking wives meet up with Kane to experience China and live like fucking millionaires. On our trip we ate some weird foods and rode some sweet shit. This is the first of 2 or 3 posts I’ll be doing… check out the photos below.
This is a picture of Tom on the flight to Tokyo. As you can clearly see he is way fucked up on Ambien. After this photo he proceeded to take a picture of Guy and show him that he had four eyes. I guess he needs to get that Drug Free tattoo removed now.
Ed Pollio’s list of poisons just grew by one. Ambien = Poison.
After roughly 24 hours of flight we met up with Kane and got some street meat. I wonder what this dude is cooking?
Damn thats one big noodle… oh wait that’s an entire lamb penis.
I told you they don’t give a fuck. This lady is riding side saddle on a moped while talking on the cell phone and holding some bags… oh and she’s holding a baby. This wasn’t even the craziest thing I saw. Entire families on mopeds, people hauling piles of gas canisters on mopeds, even little boys peeing off of moving mopeds. You can also kind of tell from the photo that any kind of street rules don’t apply to mopeds. These people will be driving on the sidewalk, going the wrong way down busy ass streets, driving in the crosswalk, weaving in and out of traffic and blowing lights left and right. In fact I don’t think I ever saw one moped stop at a red light.
Big thanks to Kane at CNBMX.com for hooking us up with a place to stay. Kane runs this hostel and has had some big names in BMX come through.
People like Catfish, Adam22, Dennis Enarson and Rob Wise have had the pleasure of staying with Kane just to name a few.
Endless sea of mopeds. Everyone drives a moped. Also check out the sweet banks on those stairs.
Yours truly shredding the streets on a slippery marble bank to wall. We took a ride around town with Kane and there was little street shit everywhere. Marble ledges everywhere you looked. Shanghai is like a giant PS6.
This picture will give you a better idea of what kind of street there is everywhere you turn. Too bad it was 100 degrees+ almost everyday. The second you step outside you were soaked in sweat. Not the greatest riding weather.
Kane representing hard in this ultra tight GHB tee.
That’s it for todays post, I’ll do another one sometime soon which will include photos from SMP park which is absolutely nuts. Check back later for more.
Old riding pictures
Around 3 years ago I fucked up while upgrading my computer and accidentally erased all of my stuff. Years of pictures were lost with the click of a button. I gave up looking for the photos for a while but then remembered that my friend Sebastian had most of my pictures backed up. Heres a few of the riding photos I thought would be funny to post, but theres a ton more. Most of these are from 2003-2005.
The man that saved my photos. Sebastian – Fufanu on the 5 foot quarter back railing during the first contest at the Ben Soto skatepark circa 2005. I think to this day he is the only one to do this. Too bad he gave up riding for studying.
Augie – Flipwhip over the big box at the Ben Soto skatepark contest of 2005.
I could not believe this picture when I saw it. Little Mike when he was still little. Little Mike blew away the competition in the beginner class and took home the win. I remember for his last trick he landed a feeble to barspin on the side of the big box jump. Things change fast.
Here’s little mike training hard with a barspin drop in as Vin Formisano creepily looks on. Check out the writing on Mike’s helmet.
Yours truly with a dog piss air. Check out how new the ramps look, crazy how destroyed they are now 5 years later. Also notice the lack of the spine, I don’t know how we lived without it.
Vin Formisano blasting the 6 foot as a young Little Dyke looks on.
Sebass getting high at Hackettstown. Now he gets high on the smell of new books.
This picture used to hang up on the wall to the entrance of Hackettstown skatepark until Shane stole it and put it up in his apartment.
This was right after I built my new Kink Freebird frame. This was probably around 2003, before cassettes, pivotals, and integrated seat post clamps.
Eat. Sleep. Ride.
Chris Neighbors riding the bull. Checkout the sidekick in between those giant laptops.
Paino with a big fufanu some years back at Lakewood. I really liked this setup, I used to be there almost every weekend.
Spam flexing hard on the wall slap at lakewood.
Scotty Cranmer flairing the sky at Lakewood.
In 2004 me, Sebastian, Gerry Lyle and Scotty took a road trip down to florida for the UGP Roots Jam. This is before Scotty was hot shit and had 12 exotic cars and a 20 bedroom house. This was taken in North Carolina at my friend Spencer’s Mini Ramp. Scotty took first place at Roots this year and went home with his parents instead of us cause he was annoyed by the drinking. What a wuss.
Spam got really drunk, cheated on his girlfriend and then passed out in his own puke at one of Sebastian’s parties. After taking this picture we all chipped in for a cab to take him home.
The last year I was at Woodward during the summer was 2005 when I worked as a dish dog. Paino was there as a camper and we made it our mission to learn backflips. This is my first attempt on a real box.
Here is Paino’s first attempt. He did about 2 more and never did them again. Instead he opted for 10 foot flairs.
Cabin 23Bupsy. This was when I was a camper in 2003.
Me and my boy Allistair Whitton just hanging out like we always do at Roots Jam 2003.
Icepick grind at South Beach on the 7 foot quarter. This still is my favorite place I have ever ridden.
Theres a ton more photos and some videos that I’m gonna post up a little later. Check back soon for more.
Scoot!
While we here at GHB do not condone scooting in any way or fashion, we still appreciate some talent. Heres little Tony Montana with a big barspin air. Click the Read More link to see Paino giving it a shot.
Hotbars!
Staten Island’s got talent. Check out Tommy John with his barspin variations video.
19 barspin variations from zack on Vimeo.
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