Brian Foster - Caption This!

"...there were just screws and sharp edges everywhere, but it just seemed normal"

5 Jul 2015

That is so good. You can see Wiz, Martinez. It’s a cool photo with all the people. This was the second Ghetto Street comp. It’s just a good time. I fell once, and when I got up, there were just screws and sharp edges everywhere, but it just seemed normal. - Photo by Ed Docherty

I don’t remember the gold bike very well, nor shooting photos with Ed at Sayreville. I had just moved to New Jersey; I had pegs on. This is the local park, and it’s the same thing I jump on a daily basis. I don’t know why I spray-painted my bike gold. - Photo by Ed Docherty

This was the Jim C. best trick on the rail. No one wanted to ride it, because it was super sketchy. I ended up riding it, and I did that crooked, and my first and only ever over ice. It was a time when I was psyched on whatever. “Oh, there’s a rail jam? Sick.” - Photo by Ed Docherty

This was at Decoy, when the first Empire of Dirt got rained out. Everyone is in town, the contest was cancelled, so what do we do? We went down to the bottom of the hill, and the trails were running good. That set was so good. I won a guitar that day for having the most fun or something. It just turned into a jam, so that’s what made it fun. All the guys you want to ride with are there, and there’s nothing at stake. People are barbeque-ing; just a good day. - Photo by Ricky Adam

That was a Primo trip, probably ‘09. Tommy Blanco shot it? Josh Stricker and his sidekick Chris Reyes were a mess. Heaton met up with us, Sam Lowe, PP was filming. I remember this being a real headache because of crowded traffic, at four in the afternoon. - Photo by Tommy Blanco

I lived in NJ. That clip is in the BF-it video; the hip to hip. When Van was talking bout me riding with Dave Osato and Brian Terada. It took me all weekend to get that; I kept biting off little pieces of it at a time. - Photo by Ricky Adam

Wow. Look at the handlebars, seat post. That was the first FIT sample I ever had. It wasn’t even painted. Being at Sheep Hills, that thing was probably so rusty the next day. I think we just needed photos real quick; I think I put that bike together just so it wasn’t a Schwinn Blue Falcon. - Photo by Keith Mulligan

I love this photo. It was last call for the flowing locks. I remember that hip being really good. And they don’t make shoes like that anymore; they were the best shoes ever. - Photo by Chris hallman

There was a time where I thought riding in running shoes was a good idea, because they were comfortable. A couple of months later my knees were aching really bad, and I realized that although they were comfortable, they didn’t’ have any support on the soles. So when you would land, all the shock would get transferred up your legs and lower back, and they would get really sore. It ended up not being a good idea. - Photo by Rob Dolecki

Photos: DIG ARCHIVES Photo captions by Brian Foster

We thought it would be fun to go through the DIG photo archives and pull out a bunch of BF pics at random (some seen and some unseen) and have Brian give us his memories of them straight off the top of his head. As ever, he didn't disappoint. Check for some great images from Rob Dolecki, Ricky Adam Tommy Blanco and Ed Docherty, and see what The Blue Flacon had to say...

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