Sprite Urban Games 2006

32°C at the Sprite Urban Games on Clapham Common. Sat in the blaring sun watching the Pro Street Comp early afternoon. Now I know what a sun ripened tomato feels like!

Left the SLR camera at home this year so no good photos to show... the little pocket digital camera wasn't really up to the job so I really didn't take many pics at all. It's no fun seeing all the action through a view finder!

Riding was absolutely amazing this year! Flip-whips, flairs, 720s, 360 double whips, front flips, double whip taps... big tricks, big style... it was all there somewhere today. Can't really describe what happened... my words just wouldn't do justice to the riding. You just had to be there!

Skank!

Read this in the paper while on the bog today... is this for real? It did appear in the credible paper that is the Sun so maybe skank like this does exist in real life?

Pretty quiet in Pijin today... I guess most people are out and about enjoying the sunshine! Had the odd mountain biker and crying girl to deal with... but that's nothing out of the ordinary!

Pijin takes a break!

These hot summer days are just too short. Can never get to sleep at night, and can't get outta bed in the mornings to get to work! 24 hour days just don't work for me. I need to move on to another planet which revolves on it's axis once every 30 hours. That way, I can stay up for 3 hours longer in the evenings and stay in bed for an extra 3 hours in the morning. How good would that be?

Ok, it's been a little while since I last wrote a blog. Pretty Joe has been deputising for me... he's done a pretty good job in capturing the gay spirit we have at Pijin, don't you think? :o One thing he's failed to mention is that he managed to lock our keys in the store room last week! And it was our only set of keys, which meant we had to break in. Silly boy deserves a slap!

Anyways, so what's been happening? Congratulations to Jake for entering his first pro contest at the NASS qualifiers in Southsea. He came 8th and managed to beat Ronnie Surridge [gasp]!! See the photos at www.photoboxgallery.com/964977/3262304.

Mr Slosh has gone to ride America with Mr Watson. No doubt he will show the U.S. boys (and girlies too) some proper English style!

After keeping open for 7 days a week, every week, Pijin will be taking a break this weekend. Probably gonna close early on Saturday to catch the England vs Portugal match. And will be closed all day on Sunday to go to the Sprite Turban Games in Clapham Common on what should be the hottest weekend of the year!

MORE GAYNESS

hya there just stoppping by too show mine and sloshys dashing new haircuts and more gay poses

i am once again proving the point that everyone in pijin is just gay you can see by sloshes legs

i love it ------------ im definately gay !!!!!!!!!!!!

PIJIN xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXX

TIGHT JEANS AND COOL SUITS

oh yes !!!!!!! once again the pijin associates have been delving into the tight jeans ...... but this time A-HOLE (DAN) decided to take it one step to far and put on a pair of stupidly tight jeans and prance around like a little fairy boy ! at my house
some say hes gay but everyone who has anything to do with PIJIN has to atleast a little bit camp



and again i decided to dress up for the camera .....in my brand spanking new prom suit and noticed a striking resemblance to someone !!!!!!!! GOSH

The best sandwich in the world!

Apollo Cafe in Bedford Place. They make the best sandwiches in the entire world. Fact. I've been munching on their bacon and egg sarnies for the last week and they're absolutely amazing! Okay, so they might be a bit greasy, but hey, they taste soooo good that I just don't care anymore. Gotta get one tomorrow. I... need... that... sandwich... arrgghhh... [withdrawal symptoms]

A whole box load of the new Fly grips arrived the other day. Might have got a bit too much. I'm not even sure I ordered that many! Oh well...



Also got the new Fly Pantera 2 frame, Slosh has snapped her up already! A replacement for Kelly who is now officially dead after being whacked against the coping. Check her out on the Wethepeople Forum.

Jesse Macaluso - this guy is amazing!

Flair whips! Double whip flips and triple whips?! This guy is just unbelievable! Someone give him a bike to ride. Please...

Watch the video here!

Rainy Mondays...

Rain rain go away! Bank holiday Monday, lot's of frustrated riders not being able to ride in the bad weather... oh well, might as well come and visit Pijin!

Slosh dropped by to cheer up the house. At least James was excited to see him! After checking out Carlos last week, he's managed to get his hands on Mr Slosh! Hmm... not too sure Slosh's girl fans will appreciate the picture.


Always good to see 'Wykeham Will' and his mates. He hasn't forgotten us now that he's famous and even took the time to sign his article [page 158] in the shop copy of Ride! (The signed copy of Ride is up for sale to the highest bidder.) He's also the first guy to get his finger stuck in a stem! Had to undo the allen bolts to let his swollen finger out. Better stick a warning on the stems in future - 'Caution - don't put your finger in the hole, it might get stuck!'.



Finally managed to get some pics of James bike. It's the shiniest bike in England! Lot's of time spent polishing...

New paint jobs & girls jeans

A little update on what the Pijin kids are riding...

Carlos now has a new bright green Mankind Kingdom frame. He absolutely loves it right now, but no doubt he will get bored in 2 months and ride something else. Just like his girlfriends...


Meanwhile, Pretty Joe has stripped the paint off his Sputnic, and Jake and Dan A have both had the bikes sprayed at a BMW garage. Jake's bike is now TVR purple, and Dan's is Lamborghini yellow!

Talking of Dan A, he's a bit of a strange boy. Went round sweeping the floor and cleaning the glass on the counter after we shut the shop. Nothing wrong with that except he's not a Pijin employee and nobody asked him to do it! Normally, I have to bully Carlos or Dave into doing the cleaning...


And finally, we have a picture of Dave wearing a pair of jeans belonging to Flo's younger sister! [I think I need to have a few words with Dave about the Pijin dress code...]

Questions & Answers

Hello all. It's been a long time since the last blog! Been a combination of laziness and absence from the shop...

First off, let's clear a few questions which I've been asked over and over and over and over and over again in the last few weeks. Hopefully I won't have to answer them again!

Question : Have you left Pijin?
Answer : No, I have not. Why would I ever do that?! For now, I just don't work during week days anymore, only on weekends. Week days are spent working on a new website for THQ (who make video games). Once that is done, I will be back!

Question : Who's that girl who's always in the shop?
Answer : Her name is Flo. She helped out for a few hours one day when we were short staffed (and became Pijin's first female member of staff!). Since then, she's become a bit of a squatter and now we can't get rid of her – she scares me!

Question : When are you going to post another blog entry?
Answer : I'm writing it now...

Question : Can I have a job?
Answer : Yes, but only if you're prettier than Joe, can drink more beer than J.P, wear tighter T-shirts than Carlos, are more meticulous at tidying than James, not ask for loans like Dave and be a bigger MySpace addict than Flo. [Translation – pretty unlikely!]

Question : Can I be on the team?
Answer : Yes, but only if you're more annoying than Jake, have a bigger afro than Carlos and have more girly fans than Slosh. And being able to ride a bike helps too... [Translation – it’s possible!]

[Definition - Squatter - Person illegally occupying someone else's property; for example, some of the urban homeless in contemporary Britain making use of vacant houses. Squatters commit a criminal offence if they take over property where there is a 'residential occupier'; for example, by moving in while the owner is on holiday.]