11-23-08-BLACKROCK

Went to Blackrock on Sunday with Derek, Darren and Argyle.

on the way down, the sky looked sweet and the sun was coming up. We met up with whiplash, josh, doney show, some of the young brothers raul and agony rob.

The trail conditions were great considering all the rain we have had recently.

Darren was showing us powty. This was his first time back to Blackrock since like May, so it was good to have him back.

Derek goochered up his leg pretty good on one of the sunday stroll ramps.

The camp had some extra money for a big fancy sign...probably to keep out the bikers!

The door man at this restaurant was pretty aggro looking. we decided not to go there, but go to mexican food back in dallas....mexican food is always good after the ride!

The day was great other than a couple small crashes. Argyle went down hard on sunday stroll just before derek crashed.

We go to post next week!

11-16-08-Syncline

Well, we did Syncline part two yesterday and it was awesome! the weather was even better than it was last weekend, the crew was bigger and the ride was crazier!

when jake was doing his morning download, i did the following:

the morning started at jake's house, i found this little figurine guy and a bowl of nuts. i made it look like the guy was throwing the nuts and left them all over the kitchen. he threw them, not me! this guy looks like trouble.

jake had a new set of wheels built...see below. tubeless and i of course predicted three times that he would have some type of trouble with them. what do you know, he had three problems with them. i am a tubeless tire see the future guy.we picked up derek on the side of the road and a guy mike followed us out there. when i snapped this shot, i was talking on the phone, taking the picture and driving while drinking coffee. talk about multi tasking!when we arrived, the crew was waiting and ready to head up to the top of the hill!

let's see if i can list all in attendance. me, mike (trick master), jake, andy, derek, the guys from chris king, johnny thunder, dirk, robholio, jason word, raul, chris calmeth coven, his buddy, kevin, his buddy the new guy, fat larry and skinny april. not sure if i missed anybody, but i'm sure they will pop up in a picture somewhere. i'm sorry if i missed you! i don't think there was anybody there named the tim.

raul had his new camera rockin this run, i haven't seen much of the footage, but i'm sure it will be great!and oh yes, team aggro was in attendance! they we a bit hard to see. their jerseys were syncline camo.

i got this shot of kevin as he was passing me towards the bottom of the hill. i thought it looked cool???this was one of the chris king guys before he ate poop.

kevin had a wimpy crash . no blood or lost teeth. he seemed awful happy and pleasant about crashing. i seem to alway be pretty pissed when i crash and get fired up for the riding. no injuries on the day. robholio didn't even break himself on coyote canyon. we did three runs with a bunch of people at syncline and then a few of us went over to post and did a couple runs around family maing. i think we are going to try and go to blackrock this coming weekend! i got some ok footage yesterday, but i hope to have the cable camera ready for next weekend at the blackrockS!

11-09-08-Syncline

Got up early this morning and headed over to Fat Larry and Skinny April's house in Hillsboro. We rode out through the normal horrible weather on the west side and out through Portland. When we met up with Josh, Raul and Carlisle in Troutdale, the weather was still looking bad! From there i jumped in with argyle and i joke on the way out that the weather would start to get better at cascade locks.....and what do you know, it got better at cascade locks! from there the rain got lighter and lighter until we arrived at the hood river bridge and could see blue skies over the bingen side!

This video was taken on the first run. i think we were all shocked at how dry it was. We did run into donkey show and mrs. donkey show about half way down the first run. they didn't want to shuttle with us, so they only got in a couple "laps" but i'm not sure where they were riding. we met up with a guy justin that i've ridden with a bit out at blackrock...super fast racer guy, but won't really hit any jumps.

the weather was great, we nearly killed some xc riders that thought it was a good idea to stop in the middle of the trail on a downhill section, just around a blind corner. i think each of us had a near smash the guy in spankex experience around that corner. some people have no common sense on where to stop.

raul and i did a bit of filming with his new camera and we may have gotten a few keepers from todays ride. next weekend we have the drunkfest/bike fest 2008 back in syncline. until then...

oh, i also got the old mint green 888 re painted by mormon craig...it looks sweet!