Mirraco team riders at Southbank. Another gold bike?
From Brixton we made it to the London Eye and managed to park the two vehicles right at the Southbank. It’s another legendary spot to ride and with the graffiti everywhere it looks more ghetto than the Brixton park but it really isn’t. On the sunny day people walked by while Dave, Dave, Mike, Mike and Ryan were looking for things to do. The spot was well liked by everyone on the team.
Mirra kept on working on the “Complete Package” and Mike Laird got into it by doing rad 180 barspins out of the bank and huge wallrides and the graffitied wall. Dave Rytell was in his element doing 180-barspins to flat down the stairs, nosewheelies everywhere and newschool tuck no-handers on his brakeless Fivestar. On his first trip to the UK he also did a feeble on a massive rail on the back of the Southbank. Spinner shot a sequence with Sean Hargraves which was a 540 out of the bank to halfcab whip, pulled perfectly. Guettler pressed the street mode button and did fakie wallrides, footjams and more of that stuff. Some rode their bikes back to the hotel, some took the Vectra and got a flat and the other car was picked up from the Vehicle impound place in exchange of a payment of 260 British Pounds! They ain’t messing around in London.
More concrete parks are on the program for today. If you ride in London, you might just run into the Mirraco crew on their Complete Package trip.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Hello Dave Mirra and crew,
Your timing yesterday was soo perfect. I was in a state of anxiety about recent issues in my life and needed the distraction by way of riding… There you were.
It was pure pleasure to have sessioned with you all and especially since it was Mr. Mirra’s very first time at South Bank. I got to be a part of that… Cool. History.