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

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.

FLD

Filmed and put this edit together for Paul Langlands, the first practice session for his new show team Freestylye Lifstyle Bmx. Check it out.

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.

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.

SHT

Had a sweet weekend up the trails, all lines are running for the first round of the dirt series this weekend. Snapped a few shots of a jam on Sat few riders from out of town showed up keen as to help and ride, cheers heaps, can never be too many people on shovels,

Gypsie, 360

Cooper, T-down

Jon Riddle ripps, he threw down on Sat, be one to watch for sure.

Our new water supply, these 2 tanks are filled from a 15000 litre tank at the top of the hill, big thanks to Yogi for sorting the water out and setting it all up, legend.

New downhill pump track, super fun and super fast. Open day this weekend, there will be a low-key 2 cross race after the jam on Saturday, info on the day.

Just dirt

I headed over to Hamilton for a roll on the weekend, stopped in at Cambridge on the way though to catch up with Paul Langlands, I was intending to go to Ragland but I couldn't pass up a ride on Paul's local trails, the Patch. So Paul and I headed out there with 2 other locals Jon and Dan, it was a super hot day and not a breeze anywhere, still a good ride though, cheers Paul.
Check out the slide show.