Well the season hasnt been up to much. However today’s riding at the Gorms was pretty decent.
Fresh powder, sunny skies, new board. Was a mix of win!


2012 libtech skate banana 156W. After my last season Burton Blunt decided to blow up I needed a new ride. The mrs thankfully decided to treat me to this deck thanks to Gordon at Granite Reef. Check out their lib range now!

The board was amazing. So much pop, flex and jibs. The Gorms has a select park option which you have to walk to but my god it was worth it. T-Bar to the top and your in for 3 butter plates (mid, wide and narrow) a hop to it box, a rail then a sweet kicker all in a nice even row. Was sick!

Not sure how the photos will turn out but it was super fun. Heading back up tomorrow for more slides can’t wait. Riding fresh powder again got me addicted fast. This board butters sooooo well, I swear I can hop like 3x higher as well lol.

Oh and how’s this for a winter beater?…

Anyway that’s most my pictures for the day. Since I got shot of Facebook I can stick Em up here again and make things worth while.

Although there was a good amount of sweet spots the following pics will show u just how bad our season has been so far..

But hey. Scottish Snowboarding. Who cares. Ha! Until tomorrow!
Ja Ne!

Today Kyle and I headed down to Glasgow to drop off a s15 spec r kit to Ian and some 20mm hub converters to Gary.

It’s almost time for Chinese food!

On our last day in Japan. Our friend Amanda decided to take us for a trip to Kawagoe. Kawagoe with a population of around 343,926 as of July 2011, is located in the Saitama Prefecture, With only a ‘quick’ train from Tokyo station to Honkawagoe Station it didnt seem to take too long, and we were even handed some fried chicken for the trip thanks to Amanda (Good tour guide!)

Kawagoe is a famous town known for its edo period remaining buildings. The Bell tower still stands and for whats left, museums are on hand to display the history of the old Samurai town.

The city is known locally as “Little Edo”(小江戸, Koedo) after the old name for Tokyo, “Edo”. Kawagoe castle was the headquarters of the Kawagoe Domain and occupied by close aides of the Tokugawa shogunate. Most of the buildings were dismantled in the 1870s but some remained or were relocated.

Before it was merged with Saitama Prefecture in 1873, it was the capital of Kawagoe Prefecture (1871) then Iruma Prefecture (1871–1873). (Click below for more!)

Ahh Japan. That good old Asian island on the ring of fire. Where the sun sets red, the cars tear up the touge and girls wear shorter shorts than Soph.. well, almost   I think by now, most people have sorted tuned out of the fruit blog and in on the Minty.Fresh blog. Its true, most of the blogging time has been towards noonefresher. For good reasons though. Just to clear the confusion, Mintofruit is my own personal site, and No One Fresher is the group of us, where we all post shit. So its always wise to subscribe to both and that way.. when Iv got something worth posting about, you’ll know.

ANYWAY. Several members of Minty.Fresh including myself headed over to Japan for the Summer Matsuri held at Ebisu, in Nihonmastu. With a MASSIVE thanks to Andy and Emily from Powervehicles, I would first off like to wish them all the best with their wedding and the fun times to be had. Im almost certain, we’ll see you again though

This post however is just some photos from Yokohama. Mainly because trying to find time to edit photos, well.. there’s not much of it.

Check back often though – I’ll get through them and type up a report on the Summer Matsuri and the rest of our adventures in Japan.

Ahh good old Japan!

-Mata Ne

Here’s a few shots ‘mid paint’ of my Eunos – Iv been working on this for a few months to get it ready for todays drift event at Crail. Alas, the plans, did not go to plan.

The car was in a certain garage to get work done, long story short, they werent happy with the car being a bit ‘used’ (i.e. subframe scraping, a bushing fell out) so after charging me for their ‘time’ I got in touch with a friend of a friend, who could do the job at his workshop. With the car running around -5′ of camber on the front, it handled terrible! So you can imagine after months and months of having it sitting on stands, the day when I had it back again, on the back roads.. I was happy, VERY happy!

Alas, good things usually come with an equal. About 10 minutes from my house I encountered a very large deer, who helped me spent some more hard earned.. lame.

As you can see, headlight was totalled. No surprise really. Wing, indicator, lens, lid, motor and those super bright Raybrig headlight bulbs i picked up in Autobacs. Gutted.

I was beginning to really panic now, this was Tuesday.. around 2am. I had to leave on Friday, at 8am. Which left me.. Wednesday and Thursday, both of which I was working. I set to it and got some parts ordered up and sent up to my door before the end of Thursday and took a day off work to get the car fixed and road ready for the drive down.

Basically, I got it done, along with a new exhaust system (from the US) which is amazing. Got the whole car painted and made the deadline for yesterday morning. However, I had brake issues.. big ones, it almost put a stop to the drift day, but we got there..

More photos and info to come on the full paint job and from todays drift practice at crail.

Ja Ne

It was released this morning around the early hours of Monday 13th that the Japspeed Subaru Impreza was found in a back street in Reading!

I updated the noonefresher blog 5 minutes after it was announced by Team Japspeed. Here are some day light photos showing just how they found the car.

As you can by this photo, the car has been returned now safey to the correct hands and can be inspected for damage and missing parts. The spoiler has gone along with the rear over fenders (which are inside the car)

The rear lights were in the boot and the stickers down this side were almost totally gone! Its just aswell the found it when they did or it could of ended up just another looking scoob!

Here’s the shot of the wings in the back. Guess it was a quicker way then peeling those stickers off.

The bumpers gone too but I dont know if Japspeed have that or not at this point. It looked missing in the early morning photos.

Lights in the boot.

So all wells that ends well. No word on if the cops have those guilty for this yet, plenty of rumors going around as you can expect. Were just happy this is all over with and hopefully in the future.. we wont have to do this again. Needless to say this will have done good things for Japspeed over the weekend, alot of people were helping them out! Good job to the Driftworks community and various other clubs out hunting.

Ja Ne!

Well this has been an ongoing issue all weekend down in the London direction of the UK. I have been following the thread on Driftworks and Japspeeds Facebook page all day.

(Picture thanks to drifted)

There has been a massive flow of support thanks to the members over on Driftworks with a running update down to seconds and sightings all day. People heading out and sitting at various locations on the M25 and various other spots its possible to swing past. Infact as I type Mitto and others are out in the MK area scoping out the place for any updates on what the hell is going on – Crimestoppers are involved, various regional police departments and only tonight, it was shown on the BBC London news!

(Dont know who owns this picture im afraid – contact me)

So at the Performance Vauxhall show at Santa Pod yesterday the car was connected up (Battery) and driven right out the grounds. At first question was coming in to if this was a pro job or not, stolen to order as well.. this car runs a 1JZ 400+hp engine RWD set up, unique to this car so the parts arnt exactly something you can stick up on eBay and expect a quick sale. However a video was released of the car about 1 hour and 15 minutes later spotted on the M25 heading the Heathrow direction.

The car was stolen around 6.30pm so this would tie in correctly – Now the car only has a small fuel tank, So they must be making quick stops or they have spare cans with them.

Anyway, More information has been coming through all the time about possible sightings and its where abouts. This image was released of the car leaving the Santa Pod exit.

Here is one of the latest quick reports from Mitto, one of the dudes out on the scene at the moment.

11/06 100% confirmed seen on the M25 (video proof)

11/06 suspected to be in windsor, wolf lane area

12/06 suspected sightings by josh crofty in milton keynes, fullers slade, seen on weavers hill and shermans

12/06 suspected sighting by kye hedges in Hertford, then heading along the A414 into hetfield, hilltop.

Here is the report from the BBC

There is a reward going out to anyone with information on this. If anyone has any detailed know how or serious info then contact Crimestoppers ASAP! Contact details on next image.

Although there has been a massive positive response on this matter from like minded drifters, there is still the odd nut who feels the need to joke and laugh about this and through conspiracy theories all over the shop aimed at Team Japspeed. Its unreal, thankfully we can all ignore that and get on with the matter at hand. I really hope this is brought to justice shortly and those caught, are dealt with.. correctly.

Driftworks Thread

Team Japspeed Facebook Page

Ja Ne!

TK & Myself head on down to London – For a chromeo concert.. and end up in Fabric Live!?..

Being massive Chromeo fans that we are, when the opportunity arose for us to head south of the border to go check these dudes out jamming some g-tar and talk box we had to ensure there was no way we were gonna miss out! We got our tickets super early, sorted the flights out.. hotels.. basic plans for what else to do and see and 3 weeks before the gig.. it was announced Chromeo has cancelled their London show, due to a sore throat .. Pretty miffed off, TK checked up and found out DJ Hype was playing live at Fabric Live that night, so we decided to maintain our plans and get on board our flight outa the granite city scape!

London is one place, im not a fan of. If I could avoid going to that city in the future, I will indeed try my hardest not to. So you can imagine I wasnt exactly too stoked on going especially since Dave and P Thug had pulled out. However, Tk convinced me it would be some good times to be had and I did need a break from work and the norm.. So meh. One thing about London I came to realise was just how, ‘fake’ it was.. I could best describe it like going to Lego Land. Everything was so false and just ‘there’. Non the less, there was some cool shit to see as a tourist.

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Its been sooooooo long since I have posted on here – I need to change that, Got photos to edit and im off to Japan in August for the Matsuri and the G1GP. More to come on that.

I have been in London with TK – I messed about with some pictures while we were getting drunk.

mmm i miss this. OEM Arch flared… WIN!

Ja Ne

That boso bashing miata was out yesterday for the first drift day of the year at Crail. Hydro in and it was time to lock it up!

We got home really late last night – The drive home was horrible.. Semi Slicks in rivers dont work :/ After a quick break at Dundee for scran we headed off.. I caught up with Scotty from SXOC and noted that his Zenki 14 didnt look to be in the best of health… within 7 miles of leaving, the bottom end went. We tried what we could and eventually got a tow truck to come past.. 2 HOURS! So with the long drive ahead we decided to carry on.

By the time we got back.. Outside of Aberdeen was a white out! It make driving.. hmm, hard. The front lip acted like a plow however somehow.. it survived. Looks like Wes was right when he said they were solid! I had no tripod and I was shattered but you get the idea

This was a good day.. despite whats been going on in Japan, Iv been stressed out.. mega worried for all my friends over there. I hope they pull through.

-Ja Ne