France Rules .........

[dialledbikes]

....... and so does Anthony Tuffs.

Triple jump at Montelimar BMX Track last Wednesday afternoon.  Pulled clean at the third attempt.  One of the raddest things I've ever witnessed.



Here's the video version:

[harris]

hell of a jump   
did you ride with my mate jay mills mike
as im sure he went.

[dirtbro]

that looks like a fookin amazing track

[dialledbikes]

Yes mate, Millsy was also on the trip.  Quite a few other Norfolk/Suffolk riders too.  Hell of a week.  We must've hit up about 20 tracks.  Every one of them better than anything I've ridden over here.  Even the French play tracks are better than our regional tracks 

[bmxmatt1974]

thats cool 

[QUADROPHENIA]

thats cool 

fookin rad more like 

[Gary72]

fookinhell, looks like after the start hill it seems to go uphill, could just be the angle but that is some jump

[kevin rettie]

some height... amazing    

[dirtyvans]

cool jump

sounds like a good trip, sessioning tracks is great fun and the french tracks sound well good

[dialledbikes]

Forgot to mention there's a sizeable step up before that jump that Tuffy tripled.  Watching the vid again reminded me of that.  He pinned that first step-up, got a few cranks in, then up and away.  Even the locals were amazed as he was the first person to triple it.

Next day we went to another rad track that had some trails and Tuffy was backflipping the last set and going so high he was clipping the trees.

[Moschops]

Fook me!

And that.s off of a prity flat looking start hill, give him a decent run up and he would have probable cleared the step down as well

 

[dialledbikes]

Tuffy's got some pump.  I was pedalling my ass off up to stuff and still rimming it, but he would put one crank in, coast up to it and make the landing smooth as fook.

Damn kids!

[Dingobmxer]

I love watching Tuffs ride but I guess that when you start riding at 4 (or whatever it was) you become a natural

fookin rad vid

  DINGO

[slurp]

I was so amazed by that i told the girlfriend to pause LOST so i could show her.


She was as amazed as me.


Totally Rad.

[Dingobmxer]

Yes mate, Millsy was also on the trip.  Quite a few other Norfolk/Suffolk riders too.  Hell of a week.  We must've hit up about 20 tracks.  Every one of them better than anything I've ridden over here.  Even the French play tracks are better than our regional tracks 

Mike, were a lot of them at schools? last time I went there we went to loads of tracks in the grounds of schools

p.s good interview in Dirt magazine buddy 

  DINGO

[softbike]

great jump 

[dialledbikes]

Yes mate, Millsy was also on the trip.  Quite a few other Norfolk/Suffolk riders too.  Hell of a week.  We must've hit up about 20 tracks.  Every one of them better than anything I've ridden over here.  Even the French play tracks are better than our regional tracks 

Mike, were a lot of them at schools? last time I went there we went to loads of tracks in the grounds of schools

p.s good interview in Dirt magazine buddy 

  DINGO

Not actually in the school grounds, but we saw quite a lot of school kids there being coached when they should have been in school, so I assume that BMX is something that French kids can do as part of their weekly games/PE lessons.

[Brandy Truffle]

 

[dialledbikes]

The thing I loved most about the French tracks was that they build their jumps steep and lippy (unlike UK tracks which seem to all have rounded jumps you have to pedal all the way up to then huck over). 

With the French jumps, the faster you hit them, the higher and longer you go.  Obviously, I didn't hit any of the really big jumps that Tuffs and co did, but I jumped more stuff out there than I normally do over here, just cos the jumps are built better and feel nicer to launch off.