Mark W
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From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
The winner doesn't get £200. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
The real-life version of Finding Nemo's cast, Plymouth National Marine Aquarium. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
If I was going to be some gay-wad artist, I'd probably call it that. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
Out the bunker... NOW! -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
Just thought I'd add these pics of when I went down to see brother Dan... -
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The compulsory rail in a trials rider's gallery -
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Gratuitous arse shot of Mr. Lloyd. Rumour* has it that room in the background has been used on numerous porn videos. * Key word. -
Oh yeah, I could also be laughing to hold back the tears, seeing as the more observant of you might notice the pool of drying sick next to my foot. Someone didn't dig the Chinese food round the corner. By that stage, I was so hungry I could've eaten it. Well, I wasn't, I was just going for shock value. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
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. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
Mark Lloyd sitting on someone's Koxx. It's not his. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
That's right. A riding spot next to a gunshop. This isn't even America, just Backwater Wales. Classy. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
Lifestyle Shot #223. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
Mark Westlake (Mark Lloyd if the Law's watching...) slaying a harmless, innocent wall in Builth. It never even learnt to read. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
Mark doing the gap my Dicta refused to let me do. Leastways, that's my excuse -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
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. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
"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. -
Drunk Radnor people watching someone backwheel a wall.
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From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
Providing the missing link in the T.V. -> Pub -> ____ -> Bus -> Builth -> Night Club chain. Drunk people in shirts get an eyeful of gratuitous riding. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
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. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
I tried to layer this sequence in Serif Page Plus 9. It didn't go very well -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
The moment of "Crap, I'm about to tumble" caught for forever. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
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. -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
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." -
From the album: Onzaboymark's Folder o' Shite
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. -
That's one of the best things you've written/I've read, John, sums it up perfectly. ----------------------- It was weird earlier. I was in SM Chat looking at the G/F Pics thread, and DJ was joking with Nic about an "experience" he'd had with his gf in a jacuzzi or something like that. The thing that struck me was the post time: 3:02pm, 13th May 2004. It's weird to think that just 24 hours later, it would be the last 8 minutes that we would have DJ alive and well in the world. I don't know what he did the day he died, but one thing I do know was that he was heading to a trials spot and helping someone find it (or something like that, from what I read earlier) when that 16-year-old made a bad mistake. I think that's a telling thing about DJ really - he always seemed to be super friendly and put other people first. He might have had a "dark side", but I seriously doubt it, and if me and other people who've left nearly half a thousand messages of rememberance and consolation have all only seen his good side, then if he does have a bad side it must be infintesimally small. He was an awesome guy, and I'm saddened by the fact that his family and close friends have lost him, and that I never had a chance to meet the guy who made this forum and the world around him a better place.
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Bearing in mind the context, that mistake made me giggle. Anyhoo, seeing as £9-ish a pair X-Hydras are making me spuff to this very day, I don't really see the need to spend £15+ on a pair of pads :(