How Street It Is.
The sun is back in Portland, so it’s time to get outdoors and shoot. I went out to ride/shoot with Ryan Sher and Ben Hucke this past weekend. Ben spent much of the rainy months driving around scouting for spots, and he was nice enough to [reluctantly] let Ryan in on them as well. The wallride gap Ryan’s hitting (above) is one of Ben’s secret rainy day spots.
After an early session at my favorite skatepark in Oregon, West Linn (the photo of Ryan below is at West Linn: Pocket air lookback over the gap from right to left), we headed off to street spot number one: A sign that you had to hop up onto, then it became a big wedge you could theoretically launch off of. Ben fast-planted off the top of it after he had figured out the speed/bunnyhop ratioand dodged traffic. Big hop up, followed by a somewhat springy sign. After that it was off to the wallride gap (above) which Ryan did several times. If you follow any of us on Twitter (and you should) you already saw pictures of the gap. So good, but the hot asphalt was no fun to be laying on for the photo. Ben found a few other fun little nibbles, and fired out the Ruben-style wallride below. After that we had to call it quits do to the heat (yes, heat in Oregon).
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[...] posted a few photos of Ben recently you should check as well here. Subscribe to comments || (RSS/Atom) Comment | Trackback | Post Tags: Ben Hucke, bike, BMX, [...]
» One Hour with Ben Hucke added this brilliant insight on Jun 27 09 at 3:34 am[...] While I was living in California in the early 2000’s, Ryan Sher moved to San Diego from New England. Ryan was riding for Kink Bikes, and moved in with fellow Kink rider Jimmy Buchans. We’d gone on a few Kink road trips together (I was working at Ride Magazine and doing a lot of photo work for Kink as well), and I was making regular trips down to San Diego already to shoot with the guys down that, so I began shooting with Ryan quite a bit. I also posted a few old photos of Ryan here from a Kink trip a few months ago. There are also some newer shots of Ryan here and here. [...]
» From the Archives: Ryan Sher, 2001-2002 added this brilliant insight on Dec 30 09 at 10:29 pmAllan added this brilliant insight on Jun 06 09 at 3:28 amAwesome shots. Like the lookback one a lot.
Thriller added this brilliant insight on Jun 08 09 at 2:47 amThat wallride is cool. Sign plant is cool too. That lookback is super crisp cover stuff.
