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The Street => The Lounge => Topic started by: Danno on April 22, 2015, 04:31:58 PM
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Bas Keep has a big set of bollocks on him. This is insane.
'This is a 22ft gap to wall ride, from a kicker ramp on the elevated road above, into a 32ft high wall ride down the side of a multi-storey car park and into a 12ft quarter pipe. To put it bluntly, this is death defying. It is a giant leap into new realms of preparation, commitment, skill, height, speed and danger. It is monumental moment of BMX history and it is British moment at that – a fitting end to our print history' – George Marshall
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y127/riding_on_ice/825B6B02-22F6-4EA6-89B5-826FA0737F5C_zpsgztvx1lo.jpg)
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Sad times.
As for Bas, he's utterly mental. He seems to be (relatively) chilled in most of his video parts these days, but every year or so he pops up with something completely insane like this, or that huge dirt quarter, or that huge reservoir air...
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That makes no sense whatsoever, can't wait for the video. Is ride still going to continue as an online thing?
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Did anyone else catch those practice run ups from an indoor park awhile ago? Had no idea it was for a real setup .Thats fucking mad
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i saw the pic of this on insta this morning and had no idea what was going on-thanks for clarifying
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So much wtf
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Oh man, I can't imagine how fucking sweet it would be confident the wallride I'd 100% and enjoy the ride straight down a fucking building.
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Damn, curious about how he landed on the wall, ruben-wall style or small wallride before going down the ramp.
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From what I remember he lands pretty much Ruben style, it looks insane!
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Babylon gesturing in the bottom righthand corner?
Guess he was there to stop it? I doubt the police fully endorse stuff like this.,..
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Babylon gesturing in the bottom righthand corner?
Guess he was there to stop it? I doubt the police fully endorse stuff like this.,..
HAHAHA that's a good spot....didn't see that silly sausage there.
Looks like he was a bit late..."I think he's probably gonna........oh wait."
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Completely insane. How do you even prep for that?
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You dont, cant believe he sent that.
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If they sold prints of that photo I'd buy one, frame it and hang it on my wall.
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You sorta fall after landing into a Ruben. That would be scary and possibly more thrilling than riding down that shit.
I do like the composition of this as well, the arcs.
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Mental.
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Completely insane. How do you even prep for that?
https://instagram.com/p/0Q1AgIMxjM/?taken-by=sebastiankeep
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Bas Keeps is severely underrated always.
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Bas Keep is a hero.
As far as I'm concerned. Bas is BMX, always going fast always going high.
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I heard some binliner tried this and faceplanted h a r d
anyone know about that?
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What's a binliner?
I want video.
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That is arguably one of the best things I have ever seen on a bmx. Ride is discontinuing? Sad news, I still remember the first time I ever got an issue, my Nan bought it for me while I was in hospital with appendicitis.
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What's a binliner?
I want video.
Trashbag?/Scummer?
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Binliner = inliner / fruitbooter
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So in other words I was right in my assumption. I didn't know people still rollerbladed and thought that they moved on to parkour.
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Saw him riding at my local (Vicky in east London) yesterday, definitely lived up to expectations. Method seemed to be: pootle around the bowl at a sedate pace, then from nowhere BAM! enormous air.
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(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/22381_10155577455220293_6798894756731530587_n.jpg?oh=d88661fffc35162d777d1dcbcc84ab89&oe=562D3035)
Illuminati
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I just realised that G was the cover boy for issue 34. respect!
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After leafing through the final Dirt (yes that's done as well), I let nostalgia get the better of me and got hold of a copy. It was disappointing to be honest, they'd obviously rushed it - I guess the decision to stop the print edition was quite sudden. Two decades of history had been reduced to a few badly written and atrociously edited articles about favourite pictures and covers.
I don't know whether any of you guys will even read this, and if you do I expect to be roundly mocked for being so earnest, but Ride really did change my life. I started reading when I was a naive 10 or 11 year old kid and it opened my eyes to travel, alternative lifestyles, overlooked areas of cities, and, of course, incredible feats on a bike. For better or worse I was (and still am really) horrendously middle class (I went to the cricket last night for heaven's sake) so BMX felt like something genuinely countercultural and thrilling to me. Alongside real life local riders this was because of the way it was portrayed by the magazine.
I still have a stack of copies at home from the early 2000s when Mark Noble was editor, Pill and Lard produced 90% of the content and Jeff Stewart occasionally contributed mammoth essays about roadtrips through forgotten parts of America. Often the best stuff hardly mentioned riding at all - thinking particularly of his trip with the Gonz and his pieces about Denver and Austin.
I don't think I'm looking at this through rose tinted glasses. I'm a words person, I've always read prolifically and now work with newspapers. In my opinion there was some real gold back then - there was a lot of dross as well but at least there weren't many spelling mistakes or grammar errors. If you want to be taken seriously as a magazine the basics like this are paramount. Someone, presumably Noble, had an English GCSE which is more than I can say for a lot of the recent editors and contributors. It felt like it was written by adults, for adults (although the censoring of f--k always amused me, especially as it appeared so frequently. I still pronounce this differently to fuck in my head).
Of course, it was inevitable that it was going to stop at some point. I'm partly to blame - I stopped subscribing years ago, as the quality slid and the content became increasingly gimmicky to appeal to a generation of kids with short attention spans. For a while it looked like The Albion might take up the mantle as the publication of choice for more mature riders but of course this has gone now as well. (And really, as much respect as I have for Banners, Benson & co, those guys could benefit from some lessons about brevity. Hope I'm not being hypocritical here!).
Anyway, excuse my ramblings, it's just a shame that we no longer have a coherent, interesting and reasonably educated outlet to reflect our eccentric little subculture. RIP Ride, you had a good run.
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^^^ I know what you mean, but we have the internet now and the world is a very different place because of it.. Ride was important to kids then, and it is still important (at least as a memory) to those kids now we/they have grown up, but if we had had the internet (as it is now) back then then we wouldn't have given a shit either...
A thousand years ago, we just rooted around for food and hoped we didn't die, life just keeps getting faster, so by the time we are ready to be farmed off to an old people's home (for a guaranteed year of top quality care before being made into cheap pies) it will probably seem ridiculous...
:)
G.
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I'm sad about the end of magazines. When I was a kid reading Dig, Ride, and sometimes RideUK (when I could get a hold of it) BMX felt so personal, like I somehow knew the riders featured in the magazines or I knew what the dude in the photo was thinking. It was a "yeah, those dudes are just like me" kind of thing. Now we have this huge shapeless mass of media content, things feels much more business driven and we expect to have immediate and unlimited access to everything. With the way the world works now there's no other way the whole thing could play out. Hell, even message boards are becoming extinct.
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ramps are street!
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ramps are street!
knobbed rails while you're trying to find weed at a random skate park is street, I think?