It has rained pretty much every day in Sydney for about the last 3 weeks. It has been a very stormy month with loads of unsettled weather and cyclones hitting the NSW coast.

As I ride a bike for work frankly I am getting seriously fed up with getting drenched day in day out… (when I first got here I met a guy who told me it had been the driest November in recorded history here and he claimed that it didnt really rain in Sydney…!)

Today the bike broke down on the way to my last job (most likely waterlogged spark plug, circuits and airbox apparently) and I had to push the bike 6kms to the garage, most of it up hill in properly torrential rain. Other than my break down a few weeks back (4 inch piece of metal went through the back tyre, shredding it and leaving me stranded at 5pm on a friday about 30kms from home) I think its been my least fun day for a long long long long time.

Anyway, life goes on so here are a few of my favourite houses from May (skip image 1)…

My friend Danny works for a pretty cool company in Sydney. They have this amazing retail/workshop space down by the docks in Woolloomooloo. They import a lot of unusual and designer products from all over the world but especially Italy. I stopped by to test out a few of the new bikes including a $9000 bicycle partially made from bamboo….

This was in a Nitro Circus episode some time back, but I just found out that my old friend Colin was there shooting too.

Epic POV video

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It’s been a pretty frustrating week…various meetings that have yet to lead to anything, photo shoots that have not worked out at all, people being plain difficult, missions that have come to nothing, a broken down car, lots of head scratching but still no working vehicle, huge queues on the mountain, and no riding…

I feel like I’m treading water, having to wait for too many other people to do things first before I can progress, but I guess that’s life sometimes…

Still, I’m healthy and happy where I am, so just looking and thinking forward…and hoping for a better week this time round…

This is probably the only shoot that sort of worked (except the light going on us a bit)

Stu airing through a V tree…

In light of the recent false claims of the 1st double FMX backflip in competition here, I thought I would post the actual 1st double FMX backflip again by Pastrana in 2006…super clean and still epic 3 years on…

I had a couple of good opportunities to shoot this week so got the flashes out….

1) Lismore Bike Park

2) RedRock Skate Park fundraiser jam