Above Below - Berlin Photo Gallery

Documenting ten days in the Grey City...

27 Jan 2015

It pays off to have good friends when you get a puncture.

Unsurprisingly, Nathan has some savage clips in his Above section. High speed switch pegs switch hard 180 in a sketchy Berlin estate.

Rich Forne and Jack DUB - Banana boys

Pitta face.

Berliners don't seem to give a fuck about much, apart from the body building, steroid fuelled, tiny pecker chump who called the police after Lacey completed this ice to nose manual. Dan had more on the spot but this guy was livid and no one felt like hassle. Three minutes later and two riot vans of body armour covered police officers swarmed us. Shortly after realising we were only guilty of having some harmless fun on bikes, we were let go with a smile.

The filename of this photo was - Beer belly loo paper chihuahua man.Jpeg

Lacey preparing to get a clip in before sunset.

Nando a little worse for wear.

Big 360 to end a line at Berlin's Kunstgewerbemuseum before yet another kebab.

So much about this spot said "Don't ride me!" For Nathan though, i think that just increases the attraction. Hop over the barrier to switch ice into a horrible skinny landing.

Zudnon!

Timeline previews have to be one of the best parts of the evening.

Rich about to get fucked with… again.

Searching.

Lacey cooling down after bagging a line that took more than an over an hour.

Titeeeeed!

Post 360 smith to nose 360.

Nathan Williams has to be one of the greatest of all time. I mean who the fuck does switch hangers like this?!

Nando getting a line in before being a very very bad boy…

Lacey - Putting in that work.

Ed Zunda - smith to hard three during a roaster of a day.

Ed Zunda - relief.

€1 falafel! A DIG photographers dream.

Somehow we ended up in a tattoo studio one night and I got to watch Nathan ink a bell end on to Creasy's leg…

Down time.

Big brother love.

Probably the most dangerous spot we went to on the Berlin trip despite its proximity to the ground. Speeding cars proved more of a difficulty.

This security guy thought he had the situation under control…

... no such luck.

Words and photos by Fred Murray

Berlin isn't like anywhere else in Germany. When you put somewhere like Bavaria (Southern Germany) beside it's capital counterpart, it doesn't even seem like they should both be from the same country. Apart from having more Brits than a summer's day in Magaluf, Berlin seems to attract people from all walks of life and continents. Artists, free-thinkers, lazy hipsters, sofa-surfers, beard farmers, musicians… and the Above Below dudes. When I think back to our time there I struggle to actually pinpoint a handful of memories as so much happened in our short stay - maybe that had something to do with three crates of free beer for the apartment and one of the most outgoing humans you could ever meet (thanks Slawo)! Apart from a weird Air B'N'B setup which consisted of the crazy witch lady owner actually living in the house with us and not taking kindly to ten or so sketchy looking BMXers staying there, even though she had previously had her palm crossed with silver, the trip was way fun and productivity was high as ever. Enjoy the photos...

Unless you've been sleeping under a rock for the past few months you would have seen Above Below by now, but if not make sure you get over to iTunes and pick up a copy. You'll be helping out the ‘Road 2 Recovery’ charity at the same time too!

If you missed them, you can look through the other Above Below galleries here: Tokyo / NYC / LA / Nashville