If you're new to Clicked or just don't pay attention, then you might not know about the "Red Shoe Diaries". It's basically a collective effort between Floyd and I covering crappy moves in the Tucson area. Red Shoes 5 is in production.
This is rad. Good tunes, sweet riding and fresh spots. What more could you want? Guest balloon played by Ruben and his fellow Spaniards? Well its all freshly packed and ready for convenient consumption. Yeah this was probably all over the BMX internet ages ago but its still awesome.
I now have a South African pen pal, or email pal. He said Die Antword is whack and I need to check this guy out (the one above). Yep, this guy is another hilarious rapper from South Africa. Not sure what's going on over there but I'd like to visit.
Here is some old footage i put together of Mike.. If you dont know Tuba he is a northern arizona legend! I hope to have a Ryan Letcher, Rigo, and random old Flag edit soon! Enjoy
There were so many good moments Saturday it's hard to sum it all up with one sentence or a couple words, but I'm going to go for it. "Fucking awesome", I also heard some youngin' claim "this is the best day ever". He then proceeded to follow Dakota Roche everywhere he went.
That was one of the biggest surprises of the day, when Robbie and Dak pulled up after driving 7-8 hours, leaving Cali at 5am to ride all day long, then get drunk talked by several of us while they tried to eat dinner. But, hey that's how we do it, right? One of their homies Joe, who came with the Dirty "D" also got detained by the PoPo's, but was released after some explaining and was forced to be used as an example to the rest of us. The day started off at Brooklyn Pizza, where we met in the parking lot and ate a shit load of Pizza. Thanks to all the Brooklynites for hooking up the chesse pies, that was deelish. We also got all hopped up on free Redbull, thank you Mr. Bull. After everyone had arrived we bombed down 4th Ave. in a giant pack completely taking over the street. People couldn't help but stop and say "What the hell is going on?" The streets were ours! Well kind of, there were these people in red shirts everywhere searching for a hidden diamond ring, then there were the monster truck people, and the homeless population, Jerry ran one over on his skateboard in true monster truck fashion.
We had a pretty mean session at the blocks, dudes were killing it all over the place, too many moves to explain but Chango, Mr. Cracked Forks, and Andrew definitely threw down some moves, oh yeah Floyd and Dak did some shit too. Floyd got a mean nose press done, and Dak can pretty much hop over my head and land in a manual. We didn't have any problems riding at the blocks, in fact I bet we could have stayed there all day and no one would have said shit. I even saw some old folks stop and watch in the shade for awhile, and when Floyd pulled that nose press they cheered and clapped.
The TCC was a little different. This security guard showed up and pretty much said there was no point in trying to kick us out. But, then he seemed to get pretty mad when he saw the wallride that was getting sessioned. He got on the phone, but no cops showed up at that time. We moved a little further down to the arena and that's when all hell started to break loose. We tried to have a long jump off the 6 stair set and since the monster truck rally was going on, the security and TCC arena folk weren't too stoked. This raging silver back came out screaming. Claiming the next person down the stairs will be a cop, we all started laughing and yelling. The guy was standing at the top of the stairs with his back to most of us, when Robbie pulls on his pants and the guy starts raging. He chases Robbie down the stairs and then proceeds to keep telling us to move on and that he's calling the police. We felt a little untouchable at that point and decided to go ride the infamous "Piggy Banks". These banks are located at the police department. Bad idea, but still pretty exciting. That's where we got broken up and dispersed. We then went to Rocky's trails, threw out the rest of the prizes and rode for a few hours.
It was windy, we had beer, so the pictures pretty much ended there. Bean fired out all the photos for me that day, so thanks to him I got all these. He also took some video with my point and shoot and I put together a little edit below. I really want to say thanks to Michael and the Hi-5 guys for hualing out all the goods and emailing all the sponsors. Jordan and Ajo bikes for getting a ton of S&M and Primo goodies. RideBMX for donating two boxes of product and magazines. Sunday, Mutiny, Madera, Animal, Red Bull, Brooklyn Pizza, Oddyssey, DK, Fit, Revenge, Empire, Profile, and anyone else I'm forgetting deserve a huge thank you. Also, big thanks to Robbie and Dak for coming out and getting the locals pumped, Cult hooked it up. We're going to have to do this again when the weather is right.