12-24-07 Sictar Lars

Jake and I went out and rode a lap on Sictar Lars in the snow on Christmas Eve. The sun was just barely poking out of the fog and snow. Looked even cooler in person.

This was a shot back towards larch mountain from the parking lot of Jake's bike just before heading up.
Jake just about to go into the clear cut section of trail.
Conditions were great. no sliding around...even for snow being on the ground. sounds weird, but it was a blast. Only did one lap, we didn't have a lot of extra time. Jumping in the snow was a bit weird. Quiet, but weird. No crahses or broken bikes so the day was a success. not sure what ride is coming up next, but i need to get out of the house and ride!

winter riding

we just keep going to blackrock. i should have some good video footage soon.

j

blackrock 11-23 & 11-25

went to blackrock a couple times over the long holiday weekend. both rides were awesome. got some great footage to use towards a blackrock video. no major crashes. darren pinched his goocher and casey showed us his...well, we don't know what it was exactly.

post canyon 11-11-07

went to post on the 11th. i'm actually posting this on the 25th, so a bit of time has gone by. i don't have to remember much about this ride. It was wet and sloppy.


Picked up jake and headed east.
noah doesn't know how fast to go on a jump.
he left a big divot in the landing and hurt himself.

jake was tired and this look summed it up. when is summer coming back?

11-04-07 Post Canyon

Went out to Post Canyon yesterday with Rubberdown (Kevin) and Robholio (Talk a lot) for some riding in this awesome November weather. Sun was out, trails were tacky so we headed to the top of the mountain. As you can tell by the lack of pictures, i didn't have my camera with me and robholio forgot the batteries for his camera. I'm not sure who's worse in that situation???

anyway, had a great ride. trails were in perfect condition and other than not having a dedicated ride back to the top, all was nice. Got in two top to bottom runs with only minor complaining from ole broken leg. we also ran into some kids that were building a beginner jump line near family man. they were just about finished when we were passing through.

hope the nice weather and trail conditions last the rest of the year!

10-26-07 Post Canyon

Went out to Post Canyon with Terry and Casey after work. Conditions were surprisingly dry. We just stayed and sessioned the chorus jumps for a few hours.

It is nice to be able to drive to the spot you are riding. no carrying your heavy pack...just walk back to the car and take a drink or eat something.

Got a couple alright shots. i was using the small camera

Causey was trying to get the air suspension dialed in on his kona. don't buy air shocks or forks. very unpredictable and hard to tune.

this poor dude was right in the middle of a freshly broken right collar bone. his bonhead buddies were trying to make him ride down? shouldn't they have gone and picked up the car and picked his broken ass up? maybe i'm crazy?

I was taking it easy on this ride. i haven't been on a bike for a few weeks, so just getting back in the swing of this. the ground today was tacky...very tacky. you had to pedal like crazy betweent he jumps to clear em! i tried pumping up the tires to like 40psi and it helped. i then started over shooting everything. it's all good.

I was supposed to ride blackrock with the guys this weekend, but boomer is not doing well. gotta get the dog healthy before i go ride.

10/12-10/16-no riding...hanging out in hawaii

well no riding this weekend. i'm missing the annual video premier put on by the fat tire farm. i heard from hack that it was crazy...he and larry fighting on the stage and in the street. hooligans that i hang out with!

This is the cooler that was filled with beer to bring with me. The smart ass baggage handler threw it and broke a beer bottle. the sweet thing was that he got beer all over him and had to smell like dried up beer the rest of his shift!

this is a new inter-island ferry that is new since the last time i was here. all the local environmental freaks are making a big stink about it....they probably don't care that they barge their garbage out into the ocean and just dump it. i would love to ride on this thing.

this video is from the Pali Lookout, it's one of the highest if not the highest viewing points for the public on oahu. It was windy as hell up there.

that's about all i've done so far. i'm heading out fishing today, so i should have some better footage to share with the world.

10-07-07-blackrock

dirk and i headed down to blackrock this morning with questionable weather waiting for us. as we drove down highway 47, there was no rain....to our surprise all the way there...no rain. we peddled to basic and stayed there for just a few minutes, then headed to the top. still no rain. trail conditions were great, no mud puddles anywhere! after a run run down sunday stroll, i headed over to the cliff drop. i've been having dreams about this thing for who knows how long. but once again, got to the top and my vag became not so loose! stayed up there and took like five runs at it...no go. next time. i'd like to follows somebody off it that has already hit it.

dirk and i did another run to the top of banzai to ET to basic and then rode the trail out of basic to the car. that was the only trail that had a bit of mud on it.

i sure look small at the top of this thing! next time!

j

09/30/07-post canyon

rode post today with dirk, ryan and darren. weather was horrible all the way out, it started to let up a bit at the usual spot just past cascade locks. this was the first real rain out there in months, so i didn't think the riding would be as bad as it was. the temp wasn't too bad. prbably around 60, but with the combo of wet trails and stunts...not much went down. i didn't hit the left line, just played it safe and oh yeah, the disability insurance starts up tomorrow. hopefully rain stops soon.

j

Post Canyon 09/22/07

Finally hit the first one on the left line on chorus. i have looked at this thing for too damn long and it was starting to bug me. don't really remember the first time, but it kicks you up pretty good. next time out, the second one. I forgot my camera, so i didn't have any other pics from the day besides this one from Jack...one of the guys we met out at post.

we met up with a couple guys from bend that were pretty cool. they were novice riders, but you could see that they have the fever for it just like us a couple years ago!

they took this shot on the egg hunt drop and got some other really good shots. one of casey actually made picture of the day on pinkbike....good to see local riding on the canadian scene!

i also hit a couple other jumps for the first time, so the ride was an overall good time. fat larry did go down pretty hard on the side of the road gap pretty hard. i actually saw the bottom of his feet when he was going over the bars.

we should be going back out this coming sunday, so i can't wait to hit the second one of the left of chorus!!!!!!!

Blackrock Bike Festival 2007

Went to the Blackrock Bike Festival this past weekend. Fat Larry and April stopped by my house early Saturday morning and we all headed down to Blackrock. Had a friend, Mike H that drove down from Vancouver B.C. to check out the local riding. He got off work and drove all the way down from Vancouver during the night. Plan was to ride Blackrock on Saturday then Post Canyon on Sunday. After the party on Saturday night, we were not ready to drive to Post Canyon. We then decided to stay in Blackrock for Sunday also. Dirk also made the trip down for the festival and rode with us on Saturday. He killed his rear wheel on a jump, so decided to head home.

Jake was in good spirits as usual. He was doing the sound and music for the festival. All of us volunteers received nice t-shirts from the B.R.M.B.A. guys for helping with the festival.

The lead singe of Sons of Thunder...A.K.A. Mormon Craig was warming up for rocking the town of Falls City and all the riders. They mised rock, comedy and Craig breaking the jump on Sunday Stroll!

This is Mike the Canadian tour guide that has showed me and a bunch of others around the trails in North Vancouver and the Woodlot in B.C. He's a great rider on super technical riding, but was never used to gap jumps like we have down here. However, he picked it up quickly.

Mike had no problems following me off of the drop to gap on Sictar Gnar. This is an older section of trail, but it is still pretty damn fun!

We even talked him into hitting the road gap. I think this was his third time hitting it, but he had it dialed and looked like a local.

This was Fat Larry hitting the Sictar Gnar drop to gap for his first time.

I was feeling pretty good all weekend, I have been thinking about actually hitting the cliff drop and today was going to be the day.

I looked at it and I was thinking it was going to be a go...then a bunch of other people started showing up to watch. Which made me a bit nervous.
This was what it looks like from above. You don't see any of the landing until you are right on the jump. I think that this one is easy, you just have to convince yourself to go off the edge. I guess it leaves something for next time.

So we packed up Jake's stereo equipment and headed home. On the way home we stopped at Boondock's in Falls City. The waitress there looked just like Uma Thurman with black hair. Service was great, but the food took forever to get there. April paid for the food behind our backs which was not necessary...but very nice of her. Can't wait for next years festival...bigger and better!

09/09/07-timber

Rode the trail in timber this afternoon. This is one of the shots that Dirk took. He's got the remote flash that makes the images look oh so cool. I don't think he used the flash on this shot, he just used the sun. We did a total of five runs. we all took turns driving....Thanks Chris for the use of the truck. No crashes! The van should be back running fully here in the next couple days, so I shouldn't have to mooch any rides off people when we go for a ride. After the ride we came back to La Sierra Mexican restaurant in Forest Grove. All was good except for Aaron's pink pork...no that's not code for something naughty....he really ordered something pork and in was not the right color.

Next weekend is the Blackrock Mountain bike Festival. Stop looking at this and go ride your bike!

09-03-07-falls city

went and rode falls city or blackrock today. trail conditions were great. weather was nice. no crashes and oh yeah...i forgot my camera again. i need to tape that thing to my head.

08/31/07-post canyon

Went out to post and rode after work. rode out with casey, didn't take anypictures. did one run, it got dark early. my brakes and shiting worked awesome. still didn't hit the left line on chorus. too much work makes me tired!

08-25-07-post canyon

Post Canyon 08-25-07

still didn't hit the left line......argh! that thing is haunting my damn dreams! But here are a few pics of todays ride.

Max's friend...I think his name is brandon

Casey-below

Max
Downhill Dave

Johnny Thunder in the sun.

My riding sucked butt, so i shot my gun.

My bike started off shifting a bit rough. change out the derailleur, so that's never fun to tune in. Then started to change the brake pads on the avid code brakes. to my surprise, the back two pistons were broken. perhaps this is the reason why these things have leg numbingly howled since the day i bought them.. they have always stopped good, but sent horrible vibrations through the bike. Bernie says 11 dollars in parts and we should be good to go on wednesday. no big crashes. Next time out, i'm hitting that stupid left line!

0818/07-post canyon

Josh was hurting pretty bad
But he didn't pass out like terry

Casey was there Josh was there
Terry was there


today's ride was a bit messed up. josh broke his left collar bone. which kinda wrecked the mood of the day. Oh, Chris was there also, but he didn't make it into any of the pics.

Drop in

Bernie and the bagel
Bernie and the anger
me and dylan tremblay
bernie and dylan
me and romaniuk-dude is tall for a freeride guy.

Went down to falls city and met up with the drop in guys for a little while. we didn't have time to ride with them, but we did get to chat with them a bit. They were all good guys and Cam McCaul is more A.D.D. that me or at least as much as me. hope they enjoy the best that blackrock has to offer. We ride post canyon tomorrow.

08-15-07-XC ride at Brown's Camp Loop

Well, I did the once a year XC ride at Browns camp with hack, Lois, Otto, Crazy Jake, Sterling and Austin...oh and E9. We were waiting for Casey and his wife, but I gues they got lost and they wound up riding the same loop a bit behind us.

Hack, Louis and Otto came and picked me up and we then headed to jake's place to pick up him, sterling and austin. I was shocked that hack and jake were bringing the youngsters....but to my surprise, they kept up with us for the most part. they were riding all the technical stuff that we were all freaked out to ride when we first got into the biking. E9 was working at the coast and found the time to hook up with us, even though we were late. trail was in awesome shape and it was really fun to get back out on an XC bike and see if my chubby little freeride body had it in me. I was surprised when i actually made a few of the technical climbs that i used to make a few years ago.

can't wait to get out on the xc bike again!