quote of the week photo gallery number twelve -- -call it a comeback

Steve Byrnes wallriding under the M-5 overpass on 12 Mile road.  For some reason there were tons of little dead mice all over the sidewalk, maybe a rainstorm killed them or something, who knows.  On one wallride to manuever that Steve tried, he slid out down the bank and his bike skidded over one of the mice and made its guts explode everywhere, not a pretty site.

J. Suchan wallriding.

We rode the Comerica tranny walls for about 30 seconds before this fellow came outside and said in a very feminine voice that it would make him happy if we left the premises.   Then he stood there and played with his phone and said he was calling the cops as we called him names and angrily left.

The Livonia, Michigan skatepark looks like a lot of fun, but doesn't allow bikes.   It's on 5 Mile road, about 2 blocks west of Farmington.  Some kids have been able to sneak in for a decent session here and there, but the latest rumor is that the police are giving out tickets if they catch you there, so be careful.

Dane getting kicked out of the park by The Man

Dane riding in his adopted hometown, 180 x-up up a bumpy bank and over a curb

We were driving down Orchard Lake road and Randy demanded that we pull over because he saw a good bank to wall, it turned out to be woodchips, how unfortunate

there was a Great Lakes flatland jam in Livonia, Michigan a few weekends back.  The turnout wasn't as big as previous years, but there were a bunch of lads there shredding the parking lot, Brandon Fenton is shown here doing some manuevers.

JimmyJames riding the downtown Detroit hospital wall.

Rusty Keys was also spotted on the wall.

JimmyJames came over with a cd full of photos for me to use but didn't tell me who this kid doing this stunt is, the kid in the foreground is called Wanker though.

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one day when we were heading out from our apartment, we passed by the parking lot across the street and saw these three fellows shredding some little jumps they made out of wood chips.

here is performed the afro jump of death, notice there is no seat on the bike, adding to the element of danger.

goin big

the statue of Joe Louis's fist in downtown Detroit

Kristin and some elephants in Windsor, Ontario, with the Ambassador Bridge in the background.

going low on the Comerica tranny walls

lost boy in the mud

where the blood still flows you will find the hidden thing

we went to this skatepark in Battle Creek, Michigan called Airtime on our way back to a trip to Kalamazoo one day.  We had heard the place was having a contest the next weekend so we wanted to see what it was like.  The place was ok, but could have been better, it was built by some construction guys that didn't really have any idea what they were doing.   The miniramp was 6 feet tall and vert, kinda odd to ride.  The vert wall had the mellowest transition ever,  Besides the wedge Steve Byrnes is walltapping in the photo as Timmy holds the railing, there wasn't too much fun to be had in the place.   The ramps were made very awkward, 6 foot mini that went to vert.  The stuff seems like it would be fun riding because it is so weird, but it got old fast.

6 foot vert miniramp

the pretty useless pyramid/grindbox area and mellowest vertwall ever

the roll in and quarters with subbox area

the best thing about the park was watching pro flatlander   Aaron Frost killing the place with a bunch of hi-tech brakeless manuevers.

This is Josh H.,  one of the Grand Rapids locals.  A few months back he messed up his hip and twisted his tibula so now his whole leg and knee is twisted funny.   It hurts him, but he can still shred the park on his bike.  He could get an operation but it's too expensive, so he might end up living like this for quite some time. Josh doing an abubaca on the subbox.

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the Spirit of Detroit statue in downtown Detroit-what?

4th grade having Spleen for lunch

Spleen and George Dosantos

Spleen in his underwear scaring Joey and Kris10 outside of Chenga World.

Ron Thomas, Kris10, and Jon Gordon posing for their annual Woodward group photo in Cloud 9.

some young man flailing from a backflip attempt on Cloud 9's resi.

I came home from work early one morning and discovered that somebody had taken the hubcap off of my car and left it on the bumper, later, after closer inspection, I noticed that my back wheel was an inch or 2 off the ground and there were bricks underneath the car.   Somebody had tried to steal my awesome 13 year old rims.  Too bad they're so rusted on that I haven't been able to get them off in 2 years.

Kris10 practicing her tailwhips

A few photos of the public skatepark in Belleville, Michigan. Located just out of downtown in a park between Savage and Sumpter roads.  Bikes aren't allowed, but I hear that that rule isn't really enforced too often anymore, go there in the evening and you should be ok, not too much, but kinda fun for awhile.

Kerry Sayre finally has enough tattoos to join a motorcycle gang.

youngsters enjoying a mud bath at the Garden City family festival.

TopBlock Joey and Anthony Cico, representing Infantry on the Ohio frontier.

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kick it old school with the old photo gallery pictures

the more you make, the more you spend, so then the more you have to keep making

well it all began as a simple plan  in order to

accomplish some sort of goals that we had all set out to wonder about

how great the con of man