Vans Euro BMX team goes Cali. Day 2, by Andy Zeiss.

Jan 14, 2010

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Day 2: After a good sleep we got up pretty early again to make things happen. Weather was awesome, at 9am we already hit the 25 celsius mark. It´s warm in SoCal during winter but it does get dark early too. So for some outdoor riding we needed to get it done by 5pm. We drove something like 10 min and then by total coincidence past a ditch. It looked pretty cool from what we could see from the freeway so we decided to take the next junction to hit it up. Arriving at the ditch we figured we just found a pretty famous

ditch by coincidence, pretty classic LA river ditch with a bank to wall under a bridge. Perfect to ride. 1st session was on for 2 hours!

7eleven´s might not the your best choice for food but they are convenient as they´re located every three blocks or

something. So quick charge up and then thanks to Ryan Fudger we had a pretty cool next spot with the Fullerton Skatepark. The park was OK crowded with skaters and some bmx riders. Normally it´s skate only but they were cool with us riding there, I guess it´s also cause it´s kind of a FIT and S&M ground. There were some cool lines with some trannies and some street stuff. Tobias Wicke and Ben Hennon boosted some hips, Kevin Kalkoff did some sweet tech s

tuff and Bruno Hoffmann 540´d the fence.

Our last mission for that day was to check out legendary Sheep Hills for some sundown riding. Unfortunately it wasn't running at all so we decided to call it a day – riding wise.

After a quick shower we got invited to a party Vans threw at the HB Hilton. Every bar is nice so can't go wrong with that and they had some great fresh food there too. Thanks guys!

Stay tuned for day 3!

Ride on!

Andy Zeiss