Our tour start died away easily with guests like Ralf Maier, Janosch Ritter and Ashley Charles from the UK and of course loads of beers from Cologne. So all of us were starched for the next day to go straight to Wuppertal. 
Meeting point on Thursday was the BMX/MTB pro shop “The Local Face” in Wuppertal. We started the street tour with the local face and owner Mike Emde and of course Mike knew how to “face” the rain: a real street spot under a bridge. After the first session the local face crew expected us with another great BBQ at the shop, which unfortunately was not really tolerated by the neighbours…thanks!
Whatever- as the last stop we went for the Wicked Woods indoor skate- and BMX park. The park and the crowd got entertained with a lot of good ricks, such as heavy bowl to wall combinations by Ty. The next tour update can be expected on Saturday, when we have the pleasure to visit the FlensBMX Jam and the famous Schlachthof park the whole weekend. More pics and info about the other teams on tour: vans.eu/letitride
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