My trip to Paraguay went a little like this = Over 40 hours of flying and being in Airports, the most amount of beer i have ever drank in my life, wanting to bring every chick i met back to Australia to be my new girl haha and having a whole lot of fun ?

So it was back to Asuncion in Paraguay again to do another show at their annual expo. This time it was huge. 3 hours before the show i realized the air screw was hanging out of my carby so it was rush rush trying to get this bike going as it didn’t run very well. The show ended up being that big they had to get the riot police in with the shields and batons, the kind of stuff you see on movies. Over 20 thousand people going crazy. The show was a lot of fun as Josh Sheehan, Chino from chilli and myself really turned it on for the crowd. The expo loved the show so much that they put on another one a couple of days later. This time they we’re prepared. As we were gearing up, in came over 100 police, including the riot police to keep this crowd under control. My aim was to try and get a riot started but i think the police had more power over them then i did as i failed with that.

It was so much fun getting to hang out with all the guys and girls from Asuncion again as they would have to be the nicest people on the planet and will do anything for you. It kinda makes you feel like your royalty. They were kind enough to give me the nick name of kangaroo gay (real nice of them)

For some reason i have a bad case of memory loss when i go out drinking but luckily all the guys are kind enough to tell me all the funny things that i was carrying on with haha which i can’t really say on here sorry :p

Paraguay would have to have the hottest chicks in the world living there. Unlucky for me i don’t speak Spanish so i didn’t do very well in that side of things, I’m definitely learning Spanish now. I ended up staying for an extra week cause i wanted to have a little bit of a holiday cause i need it haha and also was hoping to find myself a new chicky which i found but she kept telling me she didn’t speak any English when i swear she was talking English to some other guys....... Weird hahaha.

Over all i had the best time as i always do when i go to Asuncion and can’t wait to go back next year or hopefully earlier.

I also want to give a huge congrats to Sincs, Levi and Maddo. Those boys killed it at X Games this year
Which brings me to right now, I’m sitting at Buenos Aires airport waiting for my flight to head back to Australia. Then it’s back into a lot of practicing getting ready for the all new and improved Crusty capital city tour which starts in October. These shows are going to be crazy. So stayed tuned until my next story.

• By Allan H

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Jed gets introduced to one of the locals.

I flew into LAX airport on 10th July with no plan but to ride sick jumps. I found myself a little lost, but contacted two Kiwi boys - Mark Russell from Taupo and Kane O'Hagen from Waikanai – who were staying on Hollywood Boulevard. It took ages to find them, but after a walk down the infamous boulevard I returned to the Banana Bungalow to find the guys here with another Kiwi, Ken, drinking Bud Light.


High-rollin' son!

The next morning we hired a brand new 2009 Chev Landcruiser then drove out to Riverside to meet up with Parslow and TJ who were both at Stephen Murray's house having a BBQ with all the Riverside crew. It was nice to turn up there in that sort of situation and catch up with all my old friends again. After the session ended Luke invited us three out to his house for a Jam. We rode until it was dark, then Luke was kind enough to let us stay for the week. In that week we had a few crazy sessions go down with Parslow double flipping every other day. NUTS.

10 days later I jumped on a plane to Chicago, had a two-hour stopover in Vegas and lost $20 on the damn pokies thinking I was going to hit the $3,000,000 jackpot.


Jed reckons Chicago is the best city he's ever been to for quality street riding.

I landed in Chicago at 5am in the morning with f-all sleep, then spent the next four hours trying to find my hotel (and stumbled across the filming of Transformers 3!) at the Hyatt, then met up with Kiw Paul Langlands and we went on a full-day big mission around Chicago, hitting parts and street spots. I still hadn’t had any sleep but the riding was amazing and kept me amped.


Jed, right, hangin' with fellow Unit rider Nate Berkheimer and nutcase Dennis Enarson post Dew Tour.

The Dew Tour Open qualifier was the next day, but unfortunately none of us did too well and I finished 17th. The Pilgrim and Unit boys all rode well thoughout the whole weekend and done us all proud. After those personal results and the teams results it only seemed right to drink the next three nights away and have a ball. During the week in Chicago we watched as much as we could handle of the Dew Tour and continued the filming quest in one of the best street-riding cities I have ever come across in my life.


Drunk hobos are great entertainment.

I flew back into LAX, and after spending the night crashed in the airport I trained out to Riverside to Luke's house where I spent the remainder of my trip. In that time I did a non-stop 27-hour truck drive with my mate Moses to San Fransisco and back....what a mission! Luke and I watched the X Games on his TV and rode his jumps well into the evenings for the last 3 days of the trip. Huge congratulations to the Pilgrim and Unit guys who rode X Games and were successful – Stevie McCann, you’re the man!

I'm back home in Tauppo now and am a man on a mission. I'd like to say a huge thank you to Unit, Grab A Seat, Rollercoaster, Finn McCuhals Irish Pub, Pilgrim, BMX.CO.NZ, Kicker, Vans, my awesome family and girlfriend for helping make my American trip possible. These last three weeks couldn’t have happened without your ongoing support!

• By Simon M

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