Quarterpipes and Shad’s Stairs
A 4th of July (3rd actually) gathering/jam of sorts went down at Shad Johnson’s house in Portland earlier today. Actually, it’s probably still going on… I had to leave after about an hour to spend the day sitting in an aiport on my way to Vegas for Lavin’s jam. I didn’t expect there to be much of anything set up, so I figured it would be more of a BBQ, but the boys had built two 8-foot wide 8-foot tall quarterpipes, one on each side of Shad’s front stairs. Awesome set up. Really awesome. By the time they got it all built I had about a half hour to shoot a couple pictures before cruising to the airport. Not much time, considering nobody had even touched the ramps yet at that point. But even still we managed to get a few shots. Roman Tencza (above) was killing it. Flair over the channel, tailwhip over the channel… he didn’t even need a shirt.
Just as I was leaving one of the local street dudes, Tony, ate shit messing around on the long jump they had set up, and smacked the back of his head on the road. Blood everywhere. Ambulance. No good. From what I hear Tony got some staples in his skull, but was otherwise okay from a head injury standpoint. Hopefully that’s true. Check out a few shots after the jump, and keep your eye on the Goods BMX blog for videos which will likely surface shortly from some of the locals.
Roman Tencza, flair over the channel.
Boyd.
John Ivers.
Roman Tencza.
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Comments ( 7 )
zakk madden added this brilliant insight on Jul 04 09 at 1:20 amglad to see some photos of romen i grew up ridin with him before he moved to portland way ta go brothha
brian robertson added this brilliant insight on Jul 05 09 at 2:53 pmman portland riding scene is killing it i wish i was there i used to ride at the 30s and just got back into it does dave thom, eric kelley or gamble still ride ?
jared added this brilliant insight on Jul 05 09 at 8:25 pmDave Thom still rides for sure. The other guys I haven’t met so I’m not sure. Shad at Goods would know for sure.
jared added this brilliant insight on Jul 05 09 at 8:26 pmI said “for sure” twice in that last commment. Weird.
positive peetz added this brilliant insight on Jul 06 09 at 4:14 pmI saw Dave Thom at the Eugene jam a couple weeks ago and rode(ahem…drank)with him. I haven’t heard anything of Eric in a long time. I guess Gabe is a cop now, not such a stretch for that guy, Right. The 30 got torn out a couple years back but had fallen into much dis-repair before its demise. RIP to Oregon’s first real dirt. Probably under a bunch of townhouses now.
Brendan added this brilliant insight on Jul 06 09 at 7:08 pmThose pics are sweet, the jam was a great time, tony ended up showing back up and john ivers hit into a sherriff after airing and all the cop did was tell him he was an idiot! It was a great day
