Flying Machines

So here it is... after a year of filming, loads of riding, crashing, and laughing, two premieres and a couple of banging hangovers... Flying Machines. Enjoy.

Not long now...

...until the video goes online! I'm having the Fleet premiere of the video tomorrow night, and have told the Fleet boys that we were still drinking at 4am after the Bath premiere. So they've got a lot to live up to.

Merry Christmas one and all!

Ben

Dane Searls

Absolutely amazing. Ride in Peace shredder!

Justice for a wayward mountainbiker...

Stick to the mountains dude!

General life and ting!

Yesterday we decided to brave the cold windy and wet night to go ride for a couple of hours at Green Park Station, there was a pretty good turn out! People started riding and new lines and ideas got flowing...people started to step it up a bit! Unfortunately i only had my iPhone with me and only got a clip as i was waaaay to busy riding!! Its just a clip of Josh getting his manny on, a lot more doper shit went down but thats getting kept for edits!!



B&C all day every day!!!

Andrew Jackson

This dude's hop is unreal. It's like he's got an invisible kicker ramp or something. His pegless grinds are dialed too. Impressive...

Andrew Jackson - Anytime Now from wemakethings on Vimeo.

A day that will go down in history

So as most of you know we spent the summer filming for our video "Flying Machines" Now to say it went down well is an understatement!! Ben Pearson absolutely killed it on this one, the editing was dope song choice was RAD (youll see what i mean when you see it) and the whole vibe was just ill!

Anyways we all headed over to Andys house to have our "Screening" (andys got the biggest place and a big TV too) Everyone rocked up with beers so we were chatting and watching a few other videos before the time came to put ours on, EVERYONE was hyped, all im saying is Mr. Pearson may be the oldest in our crew but man he put in work!!!! So it ended we were all cheering, high 5'in and generally stoked so we watched it AGAIN!

Then it was time for town to celebrate not only an amazing video and summer of riding but my 21st aswell! We got loose, i wish i could go into details but i dont remember! I did however stumble upon a pic of our crew in one of the clubs in town (i dont think we got there till LATE)

A Massive thanks to Ben Pearson for filming, driving, editing and all the effort you put in! Shouts to Andy Wardle for having all of us over! And shouts to everyone who came along, filmed, got crunk on friday and generally made it ill!

Bath Scene represent FOOL!!

More Tubeless

There's now some more stuff on the Ride UK website here, including a good picture from Grosvenor trails, and one from my flat as well!

Ash's brother from another mother?

Worth watching for his comments at the end...

Gabe Brooks Video - More BMX Videos

Us farmers have went and got a Youtube...

So i thought it was about time to get an email address sorted and also a youtube channel for any clips of us riding bikes or being well us! So here it is

Bikes&ciders very own Youtube Channel

Liam hitting a shady rail at night for the first clip!

If you guys have any clips on phones or leftovers from the vid (Mr.P!!) Send them to Bikesandcider@live.co.uk

Peace!!

Jesus Christ this dude has some moves!

Ride UK photos

Here are a couple of extra trails-flavoured photos from the Ride UK wheel shoot, taken by Robin. Check the mag this month if you haven't already!


Thanks to Robin for the photos, and to James for building a strange and wonderful wheel.

Ben

Lets organise a monthly ride for winter!

So i reckon we should all chime in and come up with ideas for like a monthly ride just to get us through the winter! This could be like a session at GPS if the weather is being british or maybe a motion session and if its dry and not dark (fat fucking chance!) we could ride somewhere a bit better!

Can we build some trails like these please?

Vinyl Pa Soil POV Feat: Arkus, Popple, Muller, Doyle from Vinylbmx on Vimeo.

Andy and Milan Video

Here's a cool little video that Andy's mate Milan made of some riding a couple of weeks back. Downhill and BMX around Bath and Bristol, including some excellent helmet cam footage.



There's also a write-up of the weekend on Milan's blog, here:

http://getabmx.blogspot.com/p/stories.html

Hengrove

Ben, Andy and Ash rode Hengrove on Friday night. In between dodging scooter kids and Scott Hamlin, this is some of what went down:

Andy did a few economic down-turns..

and some nice airs on the quarters.

Ben did some trials...

and showed off some classic style.

Redditch Edit

Hi All,

Below is an edit from Redditch skatepark, how good does this place look!? Let's go and visit before the Winter draws in.

The video was filmed and edited by Ze (Derby legend) and features Robin and Perry, both Fleet legends. Robin is my younger brother, and yes, he's a lot better than I am! Perry is a brother from another mother.

Ben and Tom

A few screenshots from recent filming sessions. Filming is nearly finished for the video, so if you have anything you want to get filmed, holla at me!

Ben tyreslide

Tom, Dorchester hip turndown. This park is good.

Tom, big Luc-E grind at Weymouth.

Dave Thompson is an animal!

Amazing video part, too good for a web video in my opinion.

Verde BMX - Dave Thompson Video Part from Verde Bikes on Vimeo.

Ash getting his street on...

Trails!

Ben, Josh, and Ash embarked on a mini-adventure to find the trails near Weston-Super-Mare on Saturday. Turns out they're pretty easy to find, but they were in a pretty shabby condition and the rain showers weren't helping. Despite these adversities, we got the smaller line and the flyout jump running and had a decent session...

Josh setting up for the fourth

Ben over the fourth

Ben not quite getting the hang of the bike varial.

Ash spinning a 3 out of the flyout

Josh came so close to pulling a whip, but had to give up with a knackered foot. Next time bro!

Andy Riding Vert on Friday

I told Andy we needed to film some vert clips, so despite going OTB off the one foot spine and smashing himself up, he got his shit together and delivered a few moves.

Screenshot teasers...

big set-up air

Big drifty alley-oop carve

Lazy one-hander

Alley-oop X-down, all up in cho grill!

Screenshots of Ash, Dully and Ben's trip to Weston-Super-Nightmare will follow soon. Word!

Corby

Corby still has the resi ramp, which is pretty good fun.

But now it has trails too! The smaller lines are pretty easy, unfortunately the bigger ones weren't running but some of them looked HUGE.

Marshfield

Ben, Ben, and Josh had a session at Marshfield on Saturday

Ben T spine bars

Ben T Box 360

Josh T-bog box

Dully getting his tech on...

Hengrove Edit

Fairly impressive edit of Dan (one half of Del and Dan) shredding Hengrove. I'm not really into the whole Crucial thing - after seeing a few too many 'Crucial Scooters' t-shirts - but the riding in this edit is pretty creative.

Daniel Shepherd an iDeal test rider #3 from Luke Morgan on Vimeo.

LOOK AT THE TIME

Epic bike riding from 19 year old Danny Hart, at yesterday's downhill mountainbike world championships. New World Champion.

History

Can't believe this is online. This is the oldest footage of Fleetscene. Includes such highlights as velmead trails, and my first ever 360. All footage at least 8-9 years old. Amazing!

Recent Filming

Ben, Andy, and Ash hit up Corsham, when it was supposed to be raining. Thankfully we stayed DRY and the riding was PRETTY BAIT.

Ben berm to berm gapper

Ben turnbar

Ash, pull-back Nate Wessell gap.

Ben also went to Bridport with McConnell last week. Here's a nice lookbacker from the man.

BMX in Corsham

...is "pretty bait". Apparently that means sketchy / dangerous. We got lucky with the weather last night and rode the weird track and park in Corsham. I'll do an update with piccers later.

Video

So I started editing the video last night. It's coming on well, and I have a few ideas about sections and the like, but we need to get lots more footage! Obviously shit weather and work commitments don't help but we only have a few weeks of summer left to film in.

Let's all drop a few hammers in front of the camera.

Ben

Nick Armstrong's Best of Spain Video

Had to post this up here. This is the 'best of' video from four BMX trips to Spain, one of which I was involved with. Nick is one of my oldest friends and this video is flat out awesome! I have a clip of a circus trick towards the end...

Best Of Spain from carvebmx on Vimeo.

Hengrove and Marshfield Filming

Ash, hungover manual

Ben turndown

Ben using the old floor-based skin remover

Andy showing the balloon some air.

Boom!

Yate Shots

Teasers

A few more low-q screenshots from the vid. Dully filmed about half his section last night, trick machine!

Riding and Filming in Bath

Decent session today, here are a few screengrabs from the footage...

Ben table air

Ash taking it!

CLOWNS

Spring Shots!

Ash gurning

Josh BAM!

Josh Boom!

And it's Wardle from Stapleford...

Ash footjam whipping