Snapshots: 20 Photos from 20 Trips - Peter Adam's Personal Still United Memories

From The Mind Of A Madman

3 Mar 2016

Trip 1, Malaga Dec 2013 - First trip and first time hanging out with Alex properly, he can crack you up with just a side ways glance at the right moment, nothing happened on this rail haha.
Trip 2, Tenerife Jan 2014 - Tenerife is beautiful, one of the Canary Islands that belong to Spain, amazing spots, locals, weather, scenery and food, when all's said and done, I'm retiring there.
Trip 3, Arizona Feb 2014 - This was at the first spot on the first day on our Arizona/Cali trip. Fernando was soooooo excited to ride the rails at this school he almost forgot to put his pads and trousers on. About 2 minutes after this photo was taken he landed so badly on his balls trying to ice the rail he was walking like John Wayne the rest of the trip.
Trip 4, London March 2014 - This was a really quick four day trip to London after filming at the 4Down warehouse. With Boiski leading us through the streets anything can happen, like peddling past this police van, it had slide on its side for about 30ft after hitting another car, gnarly.
Trip 5, Barcelona April 2014 - Any ones who's ever been to Barcelona will know just how much actual dog shit there is on the streets. Christian felt the wrath with a not so perfectly placed slam. It was all worth it though, he got the trick and came away smelling of.....well, dog shit.
Trip 6 - Northern Ireland May 2014 - Jeffs first United trip and he took to the streets of Belfast like a duck to water, he couldn't make out a word these girls were saying though "were they speaking English?"
Trip 7, New Jersey June 2014 - Fuelling up at one of New Jerseys finest 24hr a day, 7 day a week, open 365 days a year eating establishments.
Trip 8, Paris July 2014 - Heading towards the Sacre Coeur from our apartment one morning we accidentally peddled right into the middle of a riot, with fires burning, people getting a beat down and tear gas flying I got a quick shot of Jeff and got straight outta there.
Trip 9, Nor Cal August 2014 - This was in San Jose California, Geoff was riding a curved wall ride at a pretty famous school there and two vans pulled up, I looked over and Andrew Reynolds was driving one and Beagle was driving the other, Holy Shit the whole Baker teams here! (well Reynolds drove off) They came over and were really cool, shaking hands with everyone, blown away by what Geoff was doing on the curved wall. Joe Brook the photographer in the white T-shirt actually knew a skater friend of mine from back home in Belfast, so we chatted for a bit, then those guys got down on the handrail and Geoff got his move on the curved wall. They were packing up and I asked if I could get a photo, those guys were pros at it, bunching up, full squad posing, I got a keeper of a photoce All the United dudes were well jealous, too cool for school to ask for a photo of their own haha and I got Terry Kennedys deck that's now up on the wall in my house, stoooooked!
Trip 10, Denver Sept 2014 - This is Mario, of ABQ/DNV fame, I couldn't get my camera out quick enough when he fell in the only puddle, what a legend. He showed us around Denver and Albuquerque, ripping on a bike, whipping up meals in the evening for the whole crew, driving us around, cracking jokes, he's the man!
Trip 11, Seville Nov 2014 - This was a fun trip, Malaga for a couple of days, then we got to bus to beautiful Seville. Fernando was checking out a rail so Alex and I got to work on the next Marie Jade look book.
Trip 12, San Diego Dec 2014 - There was so much solo traveling done for the video so it was nice having Boiski on one of the same flights home, here he is contemplating the weather back home in London in late December.
Trip 13, Tel Aviv Feb 2015 - Unlucky trip number thirteen, it's always tricky picking where to go in February, Tel Aviv seemed like a safe enough bet. The first couple of days we where there it was perfect, good weather, amazing spots, Rich and Tal showing us around then a crazy dust and rain storm blew in for pretty much the rest of the trip. Ah well the guys entertained themselves tattooing each other at the hotel and eating shawarma, the weather got perfect again as soon as we left.
Trip 14, Albuquerque April 2015 - Jeff Kocsis, too much van time, "shout out to my sponsors"
Trip 15, France May 2015 - You just can't beat loading up the van and hitting the road, we drove from London to the south of France and back again in less than a week, hitting up a load of spots on the way. This is Alex and I sleeping five star in a truck stop near Lyon.
Trip 16, New Jersey June 2015 - Alex leaves empty handed at an industrial estate in the pissing rain, it ain't all high fives and epic slow mos.
Trip 17, Scotland July 2015 - This was in Wester Hailles estate in Edinburgh, we just randomly turned in to check it out and T-Nez's street senses where tingling, we found a perfect bank to wall then round the corner was a bank to sub, T-Nez had to deal with literally this shit run up, the locals where loving it, coming out and getting autographs, a local called Shug was particularly stoked and even makes an appearance in T-Nezs section.
Trip 18, Paris August 2015 - This was at a plaza in Bastille, there was a load of ramps there for the summer and we'd go there first thing everyday to have a cruise around. This was one of the street kids that was always there and he was straight over asking for goes on our bikes, no problem! He had to borrow shoes off his friend and by the end of the week he was properly ripping, hitting all the ramps.
Trip 19, Nashville Sept 2015 - Williams getting a helping hand loading up his hog, he tried getting a move on a really cool rail set, we went there a couple of times but no dice....The locals brought us out Sunny D and the kid in the white long sleeve LOVED dancing for the camera.
Trip 20, San Francisco, Nov 2015 - I had seen this spot in videos for years and always imagined in down some side street in downtown SF but it was actually quite a bit out of the city. The Bay mist rolled in and Harry got down.

Captions and photos by Peter Adam

Working on one video for more than two years is a pretty epic undertaking but that's what Peter Adam's life has been revolving around with Still United, and now with only a few days until the world premiere in Hastings, UK we thought we'd ask Pete to provide some snapshots from life on the road. Once you're done make sure you go and read our interview with Pete about life as a full-length filmer.

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