Jason222

Well, the day started with me sitting behind the computer waiting for a friend(Travis) to message me on msn to go biking. I waited 4 hours, and then decided to just go biking alone. I hadn't gone in about a week, so I was really wanting to ride. Not having a bike to ride every day has also made me gain some unwanted weight .

So I take off around 4:15 pm and cross the river over into Moncton, and just happen to meet those exact guys that were supposed to PM me to go biking. They were hitting this huge hip made of top soil over by the library (where there's a huge amount of construction going on). They were probably getting 7-10 feet(in height) of air off this thing. So I yelled to them, and they were excited to see me(I used to ride with them a lot, but I just recently moved about 12 kms away, and across a river ).

They were having a great time, and they stopped hitting the hip for a while and we talked. I tried Travis' bike for a while, it was surprizingly easy to pedal kick on too.

Travis said "Alright, lets hit this hip one more time and then go do some street riding.". So he goes and hits it, lands fine, but feels his rear wheel squish to the side. He pulls over to the sidewalk with his bike to re-align the rear wheel into place. After 10 minutes of fiddling with the bike upside down, with no success, Bryan notices something. He says "HA- Travis, you've cracked your frame!". Travis laughed and said "Good, I'm getting a new frame in 2 days anyway".

So he calls home and gets a ride back with his Dad. Bryan, Dylan and I decide to head out to a Bike Park that I'd never visited, named Youth House. I got there and was amazed. Tones of great street/DJ riders and Bmxers were everywhere there. Unlike most parks, everyone here is really nice to eachother and they all feed off eachother. I had a great time watching a guy with a 4Hun manual insanely, pull 360's off a wooden jump (Sorry, I don't know the language ) and perfected rollbacks. I also saw a backflip done for the first time in person.

Meanwhile, I did the only thing I was decently good at - Trials . I found a double box thing, with one side being about 2 feet high, and the lower part around a foot, or just less. I had a good time 2 stepping and bunnyhopping onto the larger one(and I tried surging, I'm just not good enough to fully get it yet, maybe if it was a few inches lower) and doing lurches onto and off of the smaller box. (Keep in mind that the double box was maybe 2 feet wide by 20 feet long.)

Surprizingly, I seemed to put some of the bmxer kids in awe because they had never seen anyone lurch before.

And today I learned how to do static hops(Hops on the rear wheel in place, with the rear wheel moving up maybe 2 cm at most.)

Things I learned: Bigfoot frames suck, this is the 7th I've seen broken so far. And Bmxers deserve more respect.

Oh, and to make it more enjoyable, I've got some pics of Travis' bike before it broke.

https://www.pinkbike.com/photo/975795/

wethepeople

Yup.