Tom Elliott's Top 5's

Ladies and Gentlemen i present you Mr Tom Elliott, enjoy!

Tom Elliott, Halloween 2006.

Riders

Aitkin, Wessel, Justin Inman, Ruben, Joe Rich.


Spots

Lot 8, Cloud 9, Penzance bowls, Perth (Scotland) and any Concrete park


Places

Salford, Gambia, Trails, Pub and Bed!

Tom Elliott, downside footplant in Barcelona. Pulled clean nuff times! Photo by Nik Ford.

BMX Videos

Transylvania, Empire, Shutter Speed, Building the Underground and S and M.

Movies

Old Boy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Crank, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Shaun of the Dead.

Tom Elliott, way up wallride under bridge in Barcelona. Photo by Nik Ford.

Music

Bleeding Through, Trivium, Killswitch Engage, Send More Paramedics and Led Zepplin.


People

Dad, Nik Ford, Jay the Bear, Cheb and the bag ( Andy Coleman. )


Tom Elliott, blue wallride in Barcelona. Check out how we made it rideable! Photo by Nik Ford.



Good Times

Editing Videos, drawing, Roadtrips, Barcelona and Darts.


Influences

Photography, Boosh, Python, Tarentino and booze!


Ambitions

Be happy, Money (more than i have now), Have a reliable right shoulder, Make others happy and Give more.

What more can you say, Tom Elliott.

I hope you enjoyed reading about Tommy. Tom will be of his bike for a while as he's gotta have an op on his shoulder but he'll be back and i hope it aint to long for he's out riding again.

Redditch Session on Sunday, Awesome!

Chris Zerlocki, Table. Photo by Nik Ford.

Hey yo, now i can drive again i took myself over to Redditch on Sunday and took some photos. The above pic of chris's table is probably my favourite from the day It was a awesome session and even Mark Davenport was back from wherever he goes and riding again and get this Mat Hill bought Greenie's bike of him and was ripping! He was doing big table transfers and even pulled a truck! (360 Barspin, not actually pulled a truck, you know what i mean!!!!!!!!!)

Mat Hill, Table the new hip. Bit out of focus i know but its a good table. Photo by nik ford.

Rich Brake, bars over the new flatbank hip. Photo by Nik Ford.

Ben Sutor, sideways wallride back into the quarter, good skills! Photo by Nik Ford

Chris Zerlocki, No foot can. Photo by Nik Ford.

Then Mark got a punture in his back wheel but because he is well street mark just ripped his tyre off and carried on riding!! Check the pic:

Mark Davenport, fast no tyre double peg grind. Photo by Nik Ford
Ben Sutor no tyre opposite feeble grind, mad street. Photo by Nik Ford.

All in all a good day and i cant wait to be back on my bike, roll on the summer!!!!!!!!!!!!

Freestlye bmx in the uk 1983 with Bob Haro Video

Hey yo check out this video of Bob Haro showing the uk one of its first tastes of "freestyle" bmx way back in 1983 at a Halfords race at the N.E.C.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmEgWi6mPo

Rich Brake top 5's

Something a bit new for my site. Im gonna be doing a series of rider interviews first up is Redditch Ripper Rich Brake, enjoy!

Riders

Ben Sutor, Ian Schwartz, Redditch locals, Adam Pope, Steven Hamilton

Spots

Redditch, Cornwall, Stratford upon avon, Barcelona and Epic skatepark.

Places

Barcelona, Lanzorote, Cornwall, Woodward and California.

Videos (BMX)

Lotek mix tape, Animal can i eat, Living in Excile, Drop the Hammer and Roadfools 14.

Movies

Ghostbusters 1 and 2, Scarface, Akira, Snakes on a plane and Spirited Away.

Music

Atreyu, plus 44, Rise Against, Flogging Molly and anything 80's.

People

Family, Girlfriend (Michelle), Friends, Bill Murray and Richard Hammond.

Good Times

Riding with friends, Chilling with my girl, meals out with family, watching movies and getting lose with friends.

Influences

Friends, someone having fun riding, music, dry weather and good videos.

Ambitions

Pro photographer, carry on riding as long as my body will let me, to become a husband, to become a father and to enjoy life to its fullist.

The photo above is of Rich going round the bend in a boat in Falmouth, Cornwall.