R1 Homepage & Product Review by Andy Spary

Route One Inline team rider and all round legend Andy Spary, takes a look at the all new inline homepage and blows some of his team budget on the products available from it. After giving you a run down of the new stuff, he goes and tests it out, killing Hengrove, UKskate and Hype skateparks and also hitting up some streets in Newport, Wales.
Thankfully Andy was considerate enough to let us film him do all this, and you can watch it all below! Enjoy!


R1 homepage/product review by Andy Spary from Routeone.co.uk on Vimeo.

NASS Report By R1 Rider Keir Lindsay

NASS 08 was, as expected, a riot! After a quick 8 hour train journey from Glasgow, Scotland we (Me and my friend Stu) arrived at Shepton Mallet Showground on Friday evening at around 8 O'clock.

After signing in we went for a wander and were swiftly diverted to the 'Relentless Athlete tent' where we were assured we would be 'looked after'. On arrival we were pointed to the bar where we could get some refreshments and the best part was they were free!

I met up wth a few of my mates from Leicester; Cal, Jock and Dan Mac. Big Jock had already had one refreshment too many by the looks of things and everyone was in good spirits chilling on this big balcony. At this point I was introduced to Sam Currie and Lee Mainland (both Route One Riders) for the first time. With them I also met Paul Bates (Route One Rider) who I had met briefly in London at the Chris Farmer DVD premiere. All very pleasant gentlemen! Zak Buys (Route One Rider) was also there with the young Jamesy, both holding it down for the Kingdom of Fife.



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After a pretty good night we went to the Route One Stand in the morning where we got to meet all the staff working at the stall, which was packed to the gunnels with bargains and all sorts of goodies. Loads of people had also been signing up for the shoe competition which was happening every hour.


Rich Barber (Route One Rider) and I decided to start stacking boxes to see what the limit was that we could get to to jump. I think the highest we got was 6 boxes and about chest height! I’ve never jumped that high and I’m sure it was because it wasnt a brick wall or metal pole so I wasn't suffering from the fear factor. Shows you how much skating is in the mind.

Then at about 10 o'clock we headed through to the skate park where the competition was being held. Stu Game was trying to get a few clips but it was pretty hard because there was like 300+ people everywhere, most on bmxs. 1 or 2 bmxers kept going and just doing massive tailwhips and tail 360s: it was intense. A photographer for Route One was also there taking photos of the team.


At 11.30 the rollerblading started to take the course and we got about a 1 hour session before the am comp started.

My 1st run consisted of 1 540 then I fell and walked off. It must have looked like I threw a right wee hissy fit but the truth be known you have to be super consistent in these comps and one fall is not really allowed. So for my second run I was intent on not falling. I had a pretty good run; 540 the litte picknick table box 360 the lunch box front farv to flat on the far quarter, backroyal the driveway to flat then over for a cab 5 then a we 360 over the hip beside the wallride finnishing with a 270 backackslide on the rail.


Loads of sick American skaters were there and I found myself liaising with Brian Aragon on the little rail but he only did a few tricks because he was obviously quite limited on it compared to me.

Chilling with Eric Bailey and Stockwell is always fun because these guys have some good banter. I also got to meet Brent Hicks and Demetrious George for the first time, so thanks for making the long journey over guys.

Look out for me and my boy Dre Powell negotiation the size of the Vans tour bus in the next razors podcast: gotta love Dre man - he's such a cool cat and possibly one of the most friendly people I have ever met.

Then we went and skated the Gibbon Slackline out at some pavillion, with Paul Bates, Rich Barber, Zak Buys and Gibbon Slackline world champion Scott Quinn. Much to the amusement of Chaz Sands!!


After that we went and skated the rail outside a toilet then we skated a drop rail with a 2 inch run up. Then it was about 10 o’clock at night and I still hadn’t had my breakfast. Oops!

When I woke I watched the pro comp, ate a bit of my friends cornish pasty and started to feel sick. Then I had a 12 hour drive up the road being sick out the side of my mate’s car. I had to go to hospital and have been here for 2 days. I'm still in here and writing this from the hospital. Stay away from pasties kids. Nass 08 sick as ever!

Thanks Keir, you rock, check out his profile right here.

NASS Report By R1 Rider Sam Currie

We're back from NASS and here’s a little post to let you know what we've been up to. We didn't do too good on the photo front I'm afraid, there were loads of good friends there we haven't seen for ages, so our time was consumed with good conversation and many a brewski. There was a massive turn out this year and they had really hooked it up for the riders too, we had a massive athlete lounge complete with X-Box's, foosball, tiger skin rugs, massive couches and bean bags everywhere, free fruit, free beer, free nandos, a DJ and a hot tub.


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The competition was fun, the park was pretty tricky but everyone managed to squeeze some nice tricks out of it. Lee (Mainland) decided he couldn't be arsed to compete and when they called his name he scampered off and we didn't see him for three hours. I enjoyed watching the bmx guys shred the course. (it was designed for them as usual…)

We hung out at the Kingdom booth and mooched around the trade stands a bit, this is where Lee discovered his natural talent for snakeboarding. He couldn't quite master the random roller skate style skateboards though.


The nights were wild, we kept ending up in some random drum and base barn. Lee also spent half an hour trying to convince a bar lady to accept a completely ripped in half fiver and eventually succeeded by taping it together with stickers he found on the floor.


We managed to leave just in time because it p****d it down pretty much as soon as we got in the car. The journey home was super slow with loads of traffic on the motorways. We hit up little chef for some traditional bad road food and when we eventually got back we hung out with Lee's dogs for a bit and then parted ways for some much needed rest.

Cheers Sam, check out his profile here.

All taken with much thanks from the excellent Dirt Box website

NASS 08!

NASS was back at the original Shepton Mallet venue in full force this year. Routeone stand was there and pumping all weekend. With Kingdom mag as a sponsor and handling the inline side of things, it was guarenteed to go off!

R1 stand st NASS

The Kingdom Booth where the mags were getting snapped up!

The whole Routeone team less Tom Portas was there to check it out - Andy Spary, Keir Lindsay, Lee Mainland, Sam Currie, Rich Barber, Zak Buys and Paul Bates.

Jon Julio, Rich Barber, Andy Spary and Paul Bates

Friday night was the classic NASS mash up involving under cooked food, over-priced beer and fairground rides that make you chuck both up anyway. Gotta love it.

The sun sweated everyone out of their tents by about 9am on Saturday so we headed to the park to check out the course. As you can see from some of the pics it was a transition based primarily BMX course but it worked really well for rolling too, offering up loads of transfer and big trick opportunities you know the likes of Aragon, Haffey and Chaz would be all over.

The NASS course

The only criticism would be it could have had more stuff to grind. That didn't stop the legend that is Keir Lindsay absolutely killing the short square rail with 270 backside backslide 270 out, 360 mistrials and 270 back royale 630 out to name a few.

Keir Lindsay getting funky

Zak Buys was laying off the grinds due to a dodegy ankle but was flowing some nice lines and Rich Barber eyed up a few of his trademark massive transfers.

Rich Barber - Transfer

The Qualifying comp was a close event with a very high skill level. Sam Tuffnell looked like he was ready to take on Aragon and Haffey and qualified by a mile for the pro event followed by Julian Coulter and Zak Whitelaw. Another notable run was Dan Mclaren missing out on qualifying and coming 4th by one vote after a solid run which included an effortless alley oop topsoul on the nasty down square rail and true top porn across the nasty flat square rail.

After the comp the park was taken up by the BMX and skateboard events, and the ramps were pretty crowded so we found a spot to set up the Gibbon slackline and had a session on that! The list of tricks you can do on the slackline doubled with sweaty's, kindgrind's and even fishy's getting laced on it.

Keir Lindsay - Sweaty on the Gibbon slackline

It was attached to a hexagon fence type thing and Paul Bates led the way hucking from the slackline over the fence and then transferring to grind the fence. Check out the edit to see some of the tricks that went down.

Paul Bates - Back Royale to huck the fence

Zak Buys - Mizou to huck the fence

If you can remember what happened Saturday night then you didn't drink enough, but i did. So i can't tell you. Although Keir's drunken freestyle battles with Dre Powell were the funniest thing i've ever seen...until the next morning at 9am when I saw Keir still up, still drinking and still roaming about shouting Skull fuck!

The pro event was everything you expected it to be and more. All the top names showing why they are the top names and the unstoppable Aragon and Haffey going bigger than anyone with 900 transfers and crazily high boosts out of the quaters.

Brian Aragon - 540 out the quater

Brian Aragon - 900 transfer

Frazer Watson absolutely went off on one and destroyed the park and the competition to take first place and 2.5 grand!

Frazer with his £2,500 1st place check. Nice.

Followed by Haffey in 2nd and Aragon in 3rd.

Haffey and Aragon with their cheques

Sam Tuffnell made sure no-one would forget his name by doing one of the most ridiculous tricks i've seen in a very long time to take the undisputed 'best trick' award, even though he didn't roll away with it landed, if you see the clips i think you'll agree he earned it.

Sam setting up for the best trick


Sam mid-gap to the roll in to win best trick

All in all a wicked event and put on well by the organisers. There was a VIP area with a hot tub, free booze and Nando's chicked and more free relentless than your nervous system could take. Nuff sed. Looking forward to next year!

Chilling in the V.I.P. Hot-tub

Jenna Downing relaxing in the V.I.P. area

Route One Riders Have Arrived!

Why we haven't done this any sooner is a bit of a mystery, but finally we're giving the Route One Team Riders the spotlight that they deserve!
If you didn't know already, Route One has two teams, one skateboard and one inline, both rammed full of the best skaters we could get our grubby little mits on! On the profile pages you will discover a bit of background behind the riders and see some sweet shots of them in action. The profiles will be updated all the time, with new videos, photos and information for you to peruse at your leisure. NASS should give us some great footage, so keep an eye out for updates.
So if you've got some spare time, give it a look and find out a little more about some guys (and girls) with a very bright future.
GO TEAM!