Now Read This

Everybody does it. You'll be driving down the road, or looking out the window, and you see all sorts of cool transitions, or jumps, or rails or whatever.

If you could just get speed that little bump gap would be so epic, or that ditch in the middle of the road would make the perfect transition. Whatever it is, in your mind you always see the coolest zones everywhere. The reality of most of these types of “spots” is that, really the only riding that will ever get done on them is in your head. Which is cool, and an awesome way to pass the time, but wouldn’t it be rad to actually ride some of that stuff? While a lot of urban riding today is reaching that type of level (remember when we showed you this video on Monday?), one of the first times riders really started stepping up the urban mind shred game (does that even make sense?) was back in 1991 when Craig Kelly, Keith Wallace, and Steve Mathews were filming for the 1992 Burton movie “Scream of Consciousness.”

They were at Red Mountain in Rossland, BC and it was so cold out that Red Mountain was actually closed. Craig was never really one to sit around a waste a day of filming, so he rallied the boys, and they all started dropping the many roof lines that were all over Rossland. In the end it turned into one of the coolest sections of "Scream of Consciousness" and uh... maybe even opened the door to the urban lines we see today.

Misty Nug: The average pitch of a roof is 27.5 degrees, which doesn't really seem very steep, but... thats not the point.

Part  of a well balanced week of Burton blog posts officially known as "Now Read This,"

Throwback Thursday is a window to snowboardings past, or maybe it's future