Mark W

This bad-boy can take nearly two cans of coke. Oh. Yeah.

The winner doesn't get £200.

The real-life version of Finding Nemo's cast, Plymouth National Marine Aquarium.

If I was going to be some gay-wad artist, I'd probably call it that.

Out the bunker... NOW!

Just thought I'd add these pics of when I went down to see brother Dan...

The compulsory rail in a trials rider's gallery

Gratuitous arse shot of Mr. Lloyd. Rumour* has it that room in the background has been used on numerous porn videos. * Key word.

Last year, Lewis came down to stay. We arranged to go riding. We rode Builth, the place in the last few pics. Well, it was all going smoothly. We'd had a fun day, and it was winding down on these here walls. Lewis was trying to back wheel this wall, and in retrospect, not having much luck. A local guy had been watching his Middleburns eat one of the bricks. I noticed the look of "I'm going to kill that boy.", and was about to leave when he erupted. What followed was unprecedented. This guy was beside himself with anger. I mean, usually, angry men on rides tend to be of the butch, burly type, but this guy was just... I dunno, he was quite a sort of meek person, and you could tell he was super annoyed but all he managed to say was: "I just... just... I... can't... I just can't see why you keep doing that... I just... I..." Repeat for 10 minutes. Got awkward towards the end. I kinda felt the guy should be able to get it off his chest, but jeez, there's only so much I can sit through. He was still trying to finish off the sentence as we were picking up our stuff and I was making excuses for Lewis. Nuts.

Mark Lloyd sitting on someone's Koxx. It's not his.

That's right. A riding spot next to a gunshop. This isn't even America, just Backwater Wales. Classy.

Lifestyle Shot #223.

Mark Westlake (Mark Lloyd if the Law's watching...) slaying a harmless, innocent wall in Builth. It never even learnt to read.

Mark doing the gap my Dicta refused to let me do. Leastways, that's my excuse

That's right, this is the third picture I've put up with some old people anal fisting in the background. I am a naughty boy. Not least 'cos this medium-sized wall is about 200m from the police station. How daring There was more riding done this night, but it's all video footage so...er... you're all screwed Numerous attempts at a finally nailed manual gap by Signor Lloyd, and yet more (yes, there was more) backwheeling by Signor Westlake. And some townies threatening to throw themselves off bridges. If I get my shit together there'll be some kind of video.

"Oh my Gawd, is that a bike?" Yet more people attracted to me so much they walk backwards up a hill towards a road. Obsession, by Calvin Klein.

Providing the missing link in the T.V. -> Pub -> ____ -> Bus -> Builth -> Night Club chain. Drunk people in shirts get an eyeful of gratuitous riding.

Bit un-necessary I suppose, but the red areas are the take-off and landing, just to clarify... So yeah. There we go. A badly timed shot of Sparky backwheeling it.

I tried to layer this sequence in Serif Page Plus 9. It didn't go very well

The moment of "Crap, I'm about to tumble" caught for forever.

There we go, the pic of Mark's Koxx next to me back wheeling it... It's a Hella weird thing to back wheel. You have to take off well before the actual wall because of the overhang. If you tried rolling up the face and boosting up, you'd just stop dead, so you have to take off sooner and heft the bike out. So yeah, Mark Westlake up.

Well, there we were. I'd just cracked the camera out (after an hours riding, reason I'm an idiot #1), and we were shooting away. I decided to do some portrait shots, but the flash wasn't working (hence this pic). I took four like this - I thought I could just about see the flash working, but then realised it hadn't when I looked at the pics. And why didn't the flash work, I hear you say? Well, when I turned the camera, I didn't actually remember to take into account the flash bulb position, so my stupid fat fingers were in the way. They call me "Mr. Behr."

This root was nuts. It's a touch over bar-high on Sparky's Koxx (*ahem*), but it was strangely springy when you backwheeled it due to it's unsupported nature. I wasn't aware of this, thus it was "funny" when I backwheeled it and the solid, sturdy root I was expecting gave way slightly. Funny indeed.