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!

08-04-07-post canyon

Went out to post today, stopped and picked up josh then headed to the flying j in troutdale to meet up with the ladies.

A bunch of new guys showed up. i think there was 11 total in the group.

We all piled into a couple trucks and a car and headed to the top of the mountain. East coast Eric was on his new bike. He was having to do a bunch of tuning on the thingy. He was also trying to kill the seat.

We were at the bottom on Post Canyon Road waiting for the shuttle drivers to get back down for the second run. After this, about half of the new group went over to syncline for some downhill action.

I saw this shirt in a bike store window.

We went to Andrew's Pizza in Hood River for some post ride pizza. I got the Pesto Tortellini Salad also. not quite sure what they put in this stuff, but it is good!

This was about the only bad thing that happenned the whole day, Casey exploded his rear shock. He should send it to push and make it a super shock.

There was also a bit of a nasty fire that started near the bottom of country club road. this thing was cranking out a ton of smoke and we also saw some huge flames.

We were stuffed with pizza, pasta, beer and desert...so we headed home. traffic was moving fast,Our little Eric was tired...casey made sure his head didn't fall over.
Josh was showing me what eric was doing when he found out we were taking pictures of old man sleepy. But he turned out to be happy in the end. Until next ride....

08-01-07-Post Canyon

Went out to Post Canyon after work on Wednesday...it was hotter than hell, probably in the low 90's. met all the guys at the van's outlet store in troutdale where i was buying the new pair of....are you ready for this one.....$9.95 pair of Vans. they are actually pretty nice shoes. tread pattern is a bit weird, but heck for $9.95, what can you ask for.

We then headed out to post. John and Jake in John's truck and Mormon Craig and I in the candy van.

When we got to post, we all tried out the new step up to platform drop thing on two chair. John was having a musty putter of a time getting this. I'm not sure if he cleaned it. It was frustrating jake also. he cased the gap before it and the step up pretty good. it was loud! John was trying to get this one. I got lucky and stuck it after just a couple tries.

My feet were having a great time. I was having a great time.

It was very dry and dusty, so we went home.