Mid Week Session

Had a solid crew up the woods last night, made it worth taking the tarps off. Shot to Jaye for heading up early to start un-tarping and those who made the trip. Managed to get a few shots at the end of the session.

Connor Knox kicking over Hef

Hugh Wotherspoon made the trip over from the mighty C-Town, 

#makingsomethingoutofnothingsince1988 

Nathan Saunders roasting Hef

Under over, Riley & Nathan

2017 Jedi jam

Been a while since the last Jedi jam, so its good to have this event back again. Always a good time in Taupo. Props to Jed Mildon and Tane Lawless for organising and running this event again. Personal highlight for me was the 20+ rider train on the dirt jumps in spa park.

Managed to shoot a bunch of photos, enjoy.

Billy Clerk, flip no hander

Billy Clerk, no hand one foot

George Bolter

George Bolter

Hugh Wotherspoon, no foot can

Hugh Wotherspoon

Jaye Riddle, loopback

Joe Simpson

Join Riddle, text book 3 table

Jon Riddle, Tuck

Langers, Stretching

Liam Marshall

Logan Hall, stomping flips on the big box

2017 NZ Dirt Nationals

Here's a few snaps I got at the 2017 NZ Dirt Nationals a while back.

Full credit has to go to Paul Langlands for organising and running this event, speaking from experience it takes a lot of work to put on an event like this and not many people understand what goes on behind the scenes. Shot Langers 2018 will be even better.

Daniel White with a big Nac

Hugh Wotherspoon, Flip

2017 champ, Jaden Leeming big 3 on the last

Lewis Jones kills it, flip one  foot X

Winter is upon us leaves are falling, digging season has begun. Managed to get an ANZAC day roll on the trails. Trails were running super good, even after all the rain we have had lately. C-Town locals Paul Langlands and Hugh Wotherspoon made the trip over for the day along with part time local Nathan Saunders from Rotorua. Even had a cameo appearance from the elusive Gold Factor. Rad day in the woods with a good crew. Got the camera out to film some clips and make this video, enjoy.


Summerhill Trails, ANZAC day 2017 from Carl Cavanagh on Vimeo.

Summerhill Trails

Rad jam up the woods the other day, been quite a while since the trails have been running this good and even longer since I have had anything worth posting on this blog ( I don't use Facebook so feel free to share around). Thanks to a solid crew of diggers, Jaye Riddle, Phillip Callard and Conner Knox we have managed to get a couple of lines going. In between riding I managed to film some clips and put this together, sorry for the average quality but I had to use what I had. Cheers to all the riders that made the trip for what was a good chill trails jam. Cheers.

Summerhill Trails, Jan 2017 from Carl Cavanagh on Vimeo.

Summer Street Series, round 3, Melville bowl

The final round of the Summer Street Series went down on Saturday. Good turnout of riders and everyone was killing it, haven't been to a jam at Melville for years, was good to catch up and ride with some old school riders including two legends Grub and Alex Reid. A great day for sure.

Big shout-out has to go to Micheal Reid for organising and running these events, good stuff Mikie.

I managed to film some clips and put this edit together, enjoy.


Summer Street Series, Round 3, Melville from Carl Cavanagh on Vimeo.

Patch Jam

Good day at the patch on Saturday, managed to film few clips in-between cutting some laps myself  (so didn't manage to capture all the radness) and put this edit together. Enjoy.



Patch Jam 2015 from Carl Cavanagh on Vimeo.

Thursday, Patch night

Snapped a few shots of a few Patch locals a few weeks ago of Brad Webb, Hugh Wotherspoon, Jon Riddle, and Nico Groenendijk finally got around to posting them, enjoy.

Woods

Got a good jam in the woods on Wednesday, with Hugh Wotherspoon and Mark Bensemann. Filmed a few clips and put this together. Check it out.


Summerhil Mid week session from Carl Cavanagh on Vimeo.

Thursday, Patch night

Headed over the the mighty C-Town on thursday to catch up with the Patch crew and cut a few tracks, always a fun time for sure. Snapped a few pic's of Hugh, Nico and Langlands. Enjoy.

Woods

Got in a jam up the woods with Jay Brooker and Hugh Wotherspoon last weekend, shot a few pic's. Woods are running so good right now.

Last shot of yours truly, shot by Jay. Cheers Jay.

Trails

Snapped a these pic's a few weeks ago of Hugh Wotherspoon and Billy Clerke up the woods. Trails...

Woods

Managed to get up the woods on Friday for dig and a session with C-Town local Hugh Wotherspoon, trails are running so good right now. Hard to beat a good day in the woods. Though together a couple of animations of Hugh and I gettin some flow.

Digging

Been helping out the Patch locals building a new landing, this is a pretty epic landing can't wait to ride it. Loads of barrows. Photos by Matt Langlands.

 

Hugh was so overwhelmed with excitement, he was flipping out. Salmon flip.

Cheers Matt.

Joe & Cams Style&Flow birthday freestyle bmx jam

Mikie Reid sent me though this link to an edit of the recent jam in Taupo a few weekends back. Check it out.

Joe & Cams Style&Flow birthday freestyle bmx jam from Dare Devils All Day. on Vimeo.

"BMX Event: Joe & Cams birthday freestyle bmx jam.
Description: Style & flow Freestyle bmx Jam to celebrate Joe Simpsons 21st and Cam's 18th Birthday.
Crazy bicycle stunts like Joe Simpson Decade Airs, Joel McDowell Tailwhip to barspin,Billy Clerke Tuck no-Hander backflip, Michael Reid first double superman and Hugh Wotherspoon boosting half pipe airs and tricks.
Getto crate fly out comp and half pipe park cranking good day.
(not in film) complemented with a swim at the hot cold river and raging night at the Irish Pub with 2dollar double browns all night good times.
Location: Taupo NewZealand.
Camera: Kodak Play sport on tripod and handheld.
Filmed & edited by Michael Reid Films.
Date: November 2013.
Featured Riders: Joe Simpson,Billy Clerke,Hugh Wotherspoon,Joel McDowell,Michael Reid,Jon Riddle and more Kiwi freestyle riders."

Cheers Mikie.

Langas Backyard Sessions

Headed over to the mighty C-Town on the weekend for a jam at the Patch on Saturday and Langlands backyard on Sunday. Some killer riding went down with a few international riders in town on their way down south for the Farm Jam and Roast-it, although the Kiwi's were definitely holding their own with Jon Riddle taking King of the trails with super consistent riding all weekend, Best rider, Danny Campbell (Aus), Danny is a shredder one to watch for sure, and Best trick Luke Parslow (Aus) with a super smooth 360 flip (or cork 7 whatever you like to call it) over the first. An awesome weekend was had by all, big thanks to Paul and Mat Langlands also Keith Shine for letting us camp in his backyard.

Went a little overboard and took a lot of pic's, check out the slideshow.

Taupo

Headed down to Taupo for the weekend, to catch up with Jed and a few Taupo locals, always a good time, also C-town local Hugh Wotherspoon was in town for some shenanigans. So I shot a few pics and filmed some clips, check out the small edit I threw together. The 3rd to last clip is a good reason why you shouldn't push your luck around water.



Weekend in Taupo from Carl Cavanagh on Vimeo.

Redbull Double Down

Better late than never here's a bunch of pic's I snaped at the Redbull Double Down on the weekend, weather was real good, jumps were real fun nothing to serious just good size fun jumps, 20 or so riders entered with Josh de Reus took best trick with a flip barspin over the first, Jaden Leeming took 3rd, George Bolter 2nd and Paul Langlands taking first.
A good time was had by all. Check out the slideshow.

Big thanks to Chris Beaverland for letting us shred his jumps.

On the road

Went on a bit of a road trip on the weekend via Mata Mata to pick up Mr Simon Cavanagh, because he actually decided to move there???? caught up with Hugh at the Langlands homestead in C-Town for a jam in the foam pit (cheers Paul) and on the way home a sweet roll at an old favorite of mine, "Putaruru bowl".

Loaded up ready to roll.

Mata Mata skate park, wonder how long those alloy sheets will stay on there??

Karapiro Dam, on the way to Putaruru.

Good old Putaruru

Hugh boosting a huge T-bog
Sorry for the lack of riding pics, but I wanted to ride so "you get what you get"

These next 2 pics of Cristian Orellana were taken by Alan Murphy
Cris kills it wherever he goes.

Also big thanks to Hugh for hooking me up with a shit load of tarps for the trails.......so good,
cheers bro.