Turn On The Night

Not special, just some pics from last weeks.

The snowboarding season has started and I'm loving it. The park here in Kokonniemi will open soon. I'll take my camera with me there then!

A little while ago, when there still wasn't any snow.

A snowstorm at night. Love it.

Nothing to explain about here. Beer.

Lights Out

I've been pretty fucked up with my art diplom at school. That's also the reason why it has once again been quiet here. When I have to do something that I usually would like to do, it becomes something that I don't want to do any more. Just because I have to do it.

Well I anyway got it done in time, and here's a few pics that I involved there.

Twist Of Chain

Riku Mertala @ Signature from Riku Mertala on Vimeo.

Remember to watch in HD on Vimeo! Mondays bmx session at Signaturebmx. Now I'm healing the tattoo and next riding time will be in Turku!

The First One

I've been waiting for this and now it's true! This is the sprocket of my first decent bmx-bike.

Wake Up Call

I haven't once again had so much inspiration with my camera for a while.
And most of the little amounts of inspiration that I've had, have gone for schoolstuff.
Maybe I'll post some of that stuff here later.

Here's anyway a little wake up for this blog.

Same old GT La Chiva, with a new Cinema Tungsten frontwheel.

It's getting dark pretty early on this time of the year. Now it's just waiting for the snow!

Stairway to Heaven

I just sold this a few days ago, my old bike. Damn it was beautiful! 

...though the picture of it isn't the best possible.

I was supposed to shoot schoolstuff but the spot wasn't as good as I tought for that and I hadn't time to change it. 

And then I somehow came up with a picture of myself.

I saw this and first thing in my mind was Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven. 

Even though I had allready packed my camera to my bag I couldn't leave without this picture.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

My little brother

Big trees and a sunny day

Broken bicycle

The last apple that's left on this tree

I Don't Wanna Stop

We had a bbq & beerpong night on saturday. Almost ready for beer pong in this one!

The weather has been shit and we haven't been as lucky as this for a while. Alltough this sunny riding session had a rainy ending... It was also nice to ride bikes with Reima after a long time!

And to the end a decent picture of my updated ride! Brakes off once again and a new frame and fork.

Still GT and still La Chiva.

Here, There and Everywhere

PorvooBMX Jam 2 from Ville Puurtinen on Vimeo.

Bomb This Track

Autumn is coming and it's raining too damn often again. Fuck.
Anyway these wallrides are from last weekend when it luckily did not rain!

We had our BMX-Jams a bit over a week ago, and there's web-edit about that in progress also, "Stay tuned!"

Wallride to table. (c) Ville Ahonen

Wallride to fakie. (c) Ville Ahonen

Few days ago I tried to play this after a long while. 

I'm planning to change this to an accoustic one, if I ever have money for that...

I'm not sure, but this might be from 2007. One of the first photos of me riding BMX. 

I found this while I was searching pics for my presentation to school. Nostalgic.

Shock to the System

High Hopes

I finally managed to take my camera out from the bag and here's what happened. I think I should change the fisheye away sometimes...
Thx to Ville for photoshooting me!

360

Turndown

Nacnac

Cruisin'

Railhop

180

Lost Inspiration

Riku Mertala 2012 from Riku Mertala on Vimeo.

It's been pretty quiet here for a while. I haven't had enough time or inspiration to use my camera lately. On last weekend we anyway put together my BMX-clips from this summer and here it is!

Take These Chains

Once again, bmx stuff.

360 and toboggan at Savela, thx to June for these!

Back in brakes and a new chain!

Details

And ofcourse I had to take a testride with brakes.

Das Auto

I bought something a while ago and here's the first decent photo of it!

Volkswagen Golf Mk4, washed and waxed.

Emäsalo brigde

The view from the same bridge. I think I'd need steadier hands or a tripod...

Wake Up to Wake

Today I tried wakeboarding for the first time. It was love at the first try. We had to drive more than 500km today but it was with no doubt worth it!

Here's a few pics Pekka took while I was on the board.

Cruising on the flat water went fine. This jump then gave a bit too much challenge for a first-timer.

Ridin' Ridin'

I just learned this and now it's one of my favourite tricks.

And this one then is one of the scariest tricks... Thx to June for pics!

411 - Riku Mertala MTB from DMG.fi on Vimeo.

One Day One Video

Riku Mertala One Day Edit from Riku Mertala on Vimeo.

Camera: Jonathan Ewalds

Bbq & Billiard