Sunday, November 30, 2008
Photos from Landvetter demo
This was a few weeks back, but I just recieved the photos. Thanks goes out to Bosse Kobb for arranging the event and for giving me the pictures. These are the three I liked the most:
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Pics from this weekend's demo
These are just two stills taken from the video my dad shot during one of the demos at the bike fair today.
Svenska Cykeldagarna
I have attended "Svenska Cykeldagarna" (Swedish Bicycle Days) which is the biggest cycling fair in the Nordic countries and the gala dinner with award ceremonies for the best cyclists in Sweden this years in different cathegories. Not for trials though. Dalblads Nutrition arranged it so I could ride there. I did one show at the fair both Saturday and Sunday and rode on stage during the award party. I counted roughly 800 guests, mostly important riders, sales people or event organizers, and they all seemed to enjoy my show. I'm very pleased with how the show went, the crowd was really supporting and with music, lights and a big screen it was awesome riding there. I did get video footage from one of the demos at the fair and will get a copy of what was displayed on the big screen during my performance, hopefully I'll also get hold of some photos from the night.
A few weeks ago I did a small demo at the opening of a café in Landvetter. It was outside and it was really cold, but still a fun demo. I'm waiting for the photos from that night aswell, hopefully they will get here soon so I can put them up for everyone to see.
A few weeks ago I did a small demo at the opening of a café in Landvetter. It was outside and it was really cold, but still a fun demo. I'm waiting for the photos from that night aswell, hopefully they will get here soon so I can put them up for everyone to see.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
England
Hello.
I came back from my UK trip yesterday. I went to the final round of the British Championship, which was also an so called European Cup which everyone from EBU countries could enter.
On Friday the 19th I and my dad arrived to London and got picked up at the airport by Stuart Matthews (Thanks Stuart) and went to his house where we stayed on Friday and Saturday night. During the day on Saturday I went in to London City centre to meet up with some friends from home who happened to be there on the same day, and in the evening I attended a dinner with trials people from a lot of European countries.
In the morning on Sunday 21st we. together with Andy Chai went to the venue at Hook Woods. It's a great place for a competition with loads of interesting obstacles such as rocks, logs, banks and concrete things. Throughout the day I rode fairly well, but did some silly mistakes and ended up on 5th place in Elite, which still isn't bad.
The day after the competition I went to Exeter to visit Joe Seddon and Juliane Treue. We went down to the seafront of south England and rode the cliffs, where these pictures were taken by Juliane:
On Tuesday we went to a cool spot pretty much in the middle of nowhere in Devon, where I took this picture with my phone:
and Juliane shot these photos from the same place:
On Wednesday I went to Bristol to ride with Rowan Johns, Sam Wheeler, Tic and a few more riders. It was a good day out, and I got to ride some of the now classic Bristol spots. In the evening I and Sam went to his house, where I stayed until Friday.
We rode Oxford on Thursday. It was a very relaxed ride, which was good as my back started hurting during the week. The only bad thing about Oxford is the amount of people and security guards, which stopped us from riding some of the spots.
Friday didn't really bring a lot of riding during the day, we went to a roughly built BMX-park inside an old factory building somewhere. It was cool going there, but I couldn't ride much on the trials bike. In the evening, however, I went back to London to stay at Chai's place near Hammersmith. The first thing we did when I got there around 10pm was to go out riding the streets around his. That turned out to be an awesome ride, loads of good spots, almost no people out to disturb us and perfect weather. I had a great ride and pulled off some really cool moves, which made the night ride even more perfect.
The morning after, on Saturday, I got on the underground to Oxford Street to meet another of my friends from home who rescently moved to London. We had a good day just walking around in the streets, looking in shops and going to different cafés and areas in the city. In a shop in Covent Garden I found the perfect birthday gift for my girlfriend too. This evening I had dinner with my friend in her apartment and later went out to a club.
Sunday was the last day of riding. This day there were a fair few riders out, of which I can name John Shrewsbury, Andy Chai, Sam Wheeler (still on BMX though), Nick Goddard, plus 10 or so other very friendly people.
I had an awesome week, thanks to everyone who made it possible by helping me out in all sorts of ways. When I got home I emptied my walled from all the train tickets I had left from the trip, which together cost me approximately 130 pounds. These are the ones I still had left:
I came back from my UK trip yesterday. I went to the final round of the British Championship, which was also an so called European Cup which everyone from EBU countries could enter.
On Friday the 19th I and my dad arrived to London and got picked up at the airport by Stuart Matthews (Thanks Stuart) and went to his house where we stayed on Friday and Saturday night. During the day on Saturday I went in to London City centre to meet up with some friends from home who happened to be there on the same day, and in the evening I attended a dinner with trials people from a lot of European countries.
In the morning on Sunday 21st we. together with Andy Chai went to the venue at Hook Woods. It's a great place for a competition with loads of interesting obstacles such as rocks, logs, banks and concrete things. Throughout the day I rode fairly well, but did some silly mistakes and ended up on 5th place in Elite, which still isn't bad.
The day after the competition I went to Exeter to visit Joe Seddon and Juliane Treue. We went down to the seafront of south England and rode the cliffs, where these pictures were taken by Juliane:
On Tuesday we went to a cool spot pretty much in the middle of nowhere in Devon, where I took this picture with my phone:
and Juliane shot these photos from the same place:
On Wednesday I went to Bristol to ride with Rowan Johns, Sam Wheeler, Tic and a few more riders. It was a good day out, and I got to ride some of the now classic Bristol spots. In the evening I and Sam went to his house, where I stayed until Friday.
We rode Oxford on Thursday. It was a very relaxed ride, which was good as my back started hurting during the week. The only bad thing about Oxford is the amount of people and security guards, which stopped us from riding some of the spots.
Friday didn't really bring a lot of riding during the day, we went to a roughly built BMX-park inside an old factory building somewhere. It was cool going there, but I couldn't ride much on the trials bike. In the evening, however, I went back to London to stay at Chai's place near Hammersmith. The first thing we did when I got there around 10pm was to go out riding the streets around his. That turned out to be an awesome ride, loads of good spots, almost no people out to disturb us and perfect weather. I had a great ride and pulled off some really cool moves, which made the night ride even more perfect.
The morning after, on Saturday, I got on the underground to Oxford Street to meet another of my friends from home who rescently moved to London. We had a good day just walking around in the streets, looking in shops and going to different cafés and areas in the city. In a shop in Covent Garden I found the perfect birthday gift for my girlfriend too. This evening I had dinner with my friend in her apartment and later went out to a club.
Sunday was the last day of riding. This day there were a fair few riders out, of which I can name John Shrewsbury, Andy Chai, Sam Wheeler (still on BMX though), Nick Goddard, plus 10 or so other very friendly people.
I had an awesome week, thanks to everyone who made it possible by helping me out in all sorts of ways. When I got home I emptied my walled from all the train tickets I had left from the trip, which together cost me approximately 130 pounds. These are the ones I still had left:
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Pictures from the summer
As i mentioned in the post titled "A Forest" sometime in the beginning of the summer I had a few cool photos to upload, but I haven't been able to get them until now. Here are some of them:
Monday, September 15, 2008
Last round of the Swedish Champs
I got second place again,both in the last round and in the overall results. Theres not much to say except Congratulations to Björn Levin for his 5th championship title. It was a great day anyways, I liked the sections which had tricky bits but were possible to clean.