While in Sydney I spent an arvo with Luke Cole, Shagga and Ant Collins out at a compound they’ve recently set up at Box Hill. It consists of one mutha down ramp and three kickers, two standard comp and a super. The one that comes in straight at the downramp is on an uphill slope and boots the rider super high, the other that comes in at 45 in more mellow and better for the less experienced rider. As the clouds started to form we made most of patches of sun that poked through now and then. When there was no sun I cranked up the flash and scored some killer pics. Here’s some B Grade ones and hopefully Benny (FRMX Ed) will run some of the A’s real soon.     

Luke Cole is getting better with age, just like a good bottle of red wine.

I hadn’t been to an FMX demo for close to 12-months so I was keen to head out to the EFA run demo at Campbelltown on the 7^th of July. Schuie, Shagga, Coley, Spud, Brown and a few other riders were signed on to ride and I was also keen to catch up with them for a chat, but as soon as I arrived around 2pm, demo started at 4, it didn’t take me long to realise the boys weren’t overly happy with the set-up, and with one decent look I could see why. I’d been told before hand that the promoters had tipped in some serious cash to ensure the demo would be a success, but one look at Pete MCann’s old kicker with a lazy radius and a 30-odd-metre long strip of black, slippery looking piece of rubber leading up to it signalled to me the money had been spent elsewhere.

Luke Cole lets rip a huge Indy Nac while Spud follows close behind for a distance check.  

Yes, this blog is way overdue, but to say I’ve been a little busy of late is an understatement. Late May I spent four days with Mal Palmer from Mt Buller M/C Tours, and a great bunch of blokes, exploring the Huts Of The High Country, Victoria. It was a great ride, freezing cold at night camping by the fire in swags and in the huts. We took on some challenging hill climbs and the footage/pics we scored was all-time. Peto was along filming for an upcoming TBAM DVD, and he impressed us all with a few classic flips off the back of his WRF250 loaner. Wait to you see the pics in the next issue of TBAM, out mid August. Thanks for the top weekend Mal.

I can’t remember being so busy. Over the last two weeks I’ve gone from shooting the Crusty Demons at Lismore for Freerider MX magazine to the next riding and shooting the Yamaha Off Road championship enduro event at Connondale, Qld. Both very different events but both events I really like being involved with. You can check out the Off Road Enduro pics under the Trail/Adv/Enduro section in Pics, and follow this link to see some Crusty pics, remembering the best have been saved for FRMX and won’t be uploaded till it comes out on sale. I’m off on another three day trail ride in the high country, Victoria tomorrow (Thursday) so will have more pics to show soon, cheers Goba.