TK on conwall.TV

Only possibly Cornwall would have it's own TV channel but hey there is lots going on down there. Apart from Tom for change sitting talking about his garden there also a sick vid of so French surfers hunting big waves in Ireland.

The Man he takes and he gives

At the end of November some bad news popped up on the Atbsports forum. http://www.atbsports.co.uk/msgboard/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8246 , http://www.atbsports.co.uk/msgboard/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8279 It seams Team Bads long time riding spot and spiritual home of freeriding in the South west L.A. or Still Woods is being shunt down. It would seam it is the same old reasons, while bikers are masters of shifting and shaping dirt they do get carried away. Time and time again their inability to know when to stop keeps getting riding spots shut down. After all this is the main reason why Norfolk's own Flying Squirrels http://www.theflyingsquirrels.com/index.php Lost their spot which Mark and the others had been riding and shaping for years. The worst thing about that incident was the first they knew about it was turning for a ride to find the council had been in and bulldozed the lot. No warrning nouthing even though there was an agreed code of conduct and a point of contact sorted so the council knew who to talk to.

Well it's not just the spots on land borrowed from others bikers have a habbit of losing. A couple of years back Bedford Fat Trax came very close to losing their rented spot http://www.chicksandsbikepark.co.uk/ due too much North Shore building plus a few other trials out side their marked area. It was only after a national out cry from the Mountain biking community and agreement to tone down their ladder building did the spot get saved.

Which is lucky because if they hadn't The Rem crew wouldn't have a place to go for a cheeky bit

of weekday 4x riding. Which just what I did last friday on the way back from Norwich. The whole place was pretty soggy. So there weren't many people about, just a handful of interested bikers. Some new lines were found, you can't beat lone missions of just you and your board.

Anyways The Man does sometimes gi

ve. it's would seam there is an early xmas present for all the riders in the Derby area

http://notanothermiddleagedboarder.blogspot.com/2009/12/bit-of-longshotderby-mountain-boarder.html

It looks like with a bit of luck the council might have a bit of money for some building in some woods just outside Derby. Which is brilliant news even if the money doesn't come through (you don't really need cash to build jumps peeps with spades) and the riders in the area can establish a dialogue. They should be able to get proper permission to ride and put in a couple of tracks.

This is after all how Fayjay/Carl Rowlands did after getting banned from WX's fav' riding spot Wendover Woods http://www.forestry.gov.uk/Website/recreation.nsf/LUWebDocsByKey/EnglandBuckinghamshireNoForestWendoverWoods Instead of giving up or having an argument with the ranger. He just asked who was best to talk to about the possibility of letting mountainboarders use the woods. After a couple of weeks of sorting through we need to be agreed and getting passed up the chain from one person to another he ended up with not only a code of conduct for Wendover but for all mountainboarders

riding on Forstery Commission land http://www.remolition.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4427 Good work that man. It would be intresting to know is Kent ATB used it to sort out a permission problem they had.

If anyone is wondering what the Freeriding, film making legend Carl (Fayjay) Rowlands has been up to over the last year or so. Apart from having just come back from Everest Base camp. He has been busy setting him self up as a photographer http://www.carlrowlands.com/index.html Which he is pretty handy at as you cane see after a recent trip to the woods before Myles heads to the snow.

squirrelin' it away

Now winter has properly arrived with it's darkness, dampness and coldieness. Are friends down south ProjectDoc have moved were else but in doors.

Squirrel Boy from Theo Acworth on Vimeo.

My what a sensible bunch of chaps :-)

trick tips

yo, there's some new shiz headin your way to keep you stoked as we head into winter & keep you inspired on those rainy days.. Check out the first of Tom Lilo Tikka Maloolie Krikman's freestylin basics now up, with doodles and photos too! There'll be another one added to remolition each week right up till Christmas, like some kind of weird wheelieboard advent calendar. Next week: stylish grabbage. You lucky mountainboarders you xx

The King is dead...

Long live The King!

Mixed feelings sunday-sesh. First off, great turnout: thanks for comin over guys ;)

Kings promised slidey fun with the weather of the last few days, yet alas we were nibbled. Logging, coppice-ing, tree-felling,( whatever it's called) it was almost as if someone had been into the precious woods and cut down good trees over all the good paths. Like: everywhere.

Not to be outdone, we saw new inventiveness like Rog dropping in out of a tree and Daz attempting the bs boardslide on the log. Re-interpretation, adaptation, remolition.

Probably make a mini-field report with more autumnal snaps for rem this week, hey chaps? Reckon there's a cover shot of smilie too! high-speed wintery ripping...

So despite the tragic demise of The Daddy and the Mummy and more, t'was a jolly good sesh, slashing about a bit, trudging, and playing, and stuff. cheeeeeeeeeeers ;)

photo of the crew by Wil, photo of Wil by JB

Morning mist

With Kez taking monday off and me at work due working in the construction industry. We thought it was time to take the lead from surfers and snowboards and get up early. To get the some quality riding in one of our favourite spots, Wendover woods before the populous arrived.

The plan was simple set alarm for 7:30. Grab a bit of brekie, pad up and head to the woods for about the time gates open.

The reason for being there first thing is one the best logging road also happens to be a favourite amongst the walkers as well. Meaning during the weekend at normal boarder time this track is mobbed and there is no chance of opening up and enjoying it's almost 1k of carvey fun. Well the alarm went what felt like to soon, open curtains and peer out to see what kind of weather the morning has brought. Great, winters arrived with the first foggy frost of the session, no big rush then. So we get up and head to Wendover wondering what the vis is going to like at the top of one the biggest hills in the Chilterns. The chances of it being any better are pretty low but there is a chance the trees will hold the fog up a bit. When we get there as hoped the trees are doing a good job of holding the fog up and we can see 50-100 yards. Sorted time hit the fire roads safe in the knowledge it's just us and a hand full of dog walkers, the odd jogger and horse rider knocking about the woods.

The tracks are soggy and muddy with patch's of the slippy beach leaves. Which all adds to the fun of carving it, to pulling long sideways drifts or just point the board down hill till get the sound of an plane over head from the air rushing threw your helmet. All good and making the early start worth while. By the time we decide to call it day or maybe that should be a morning. Backbone (the longest of the logging roads) has been ridden 2 half times, you remember the horse rider I mentioned earlier and Rippers Gash had been well ripped twice. All this with only meeting one group of walkers and they busy reading a map standing well off the track. So not to much speed was shed to keep them chilled. Making the early mission a success! definitely be getting early for ride again. I wonder if it will work out the same on the weekend.

One last thing. A special mention has to go to cool mum for recognizing us as mountainboarders and telling her tobberling son what it was all about. Defiantly worth some sticker's for them ;-)

no fair they 've got bigger wheels

This was sent to us by http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/recreation/article/mtb20091102-Snowdon-in-a-Morning By Roger s to compare and contrast his own attempt at descending Snowdon. http://www.remolition.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=209:snowdon-snails&catid=2&Itemid=9

First off don't know if that's normal for cyclists to cycle to the mountain, cycle up and down mountain ( that's pretty normal) and then cycle home. But it does seam pretty hardcore to me. It also has to help having bigger wheels but he did have to get off a couple of times. One thing for sure is you always need a bit of luck if are going to summit any mountain and keep an eye on the weather. If looks like it's going to turn on you it's always best to head down because there isn't any pride in getting bought back down.

On a lighter note if boarders keep looking we might find a way done just have to do it out of season so the those walkers don't get unhappy. One thing is for sure is riding there is always going to be hardcore and probably rain.

In desk news it would seam we aren't the only one taking picture's of our desks. To prove people will blog anything here is a blog of people desks http://on-my-desk.blogspot.com/ .The only thing is he has forgotten to have a picture of wilz desk to carry on the chain infinite mirror stlyie.