Less Shirtlessness?

The Bay Area and Central Coast experienced a recent heat wave and I for one spent a good deal of it sans shirt. However the normally shirtless Bronze Bomber, Gary Legendary was spotted with a shirt on day after day, even when this homeless man demonstrated how comfortable it is without one. Even evil world leaders take it all off sometimes.In semi related news: Has anyone ever seen a picture of Mickey Marshall with a shirt on? Picture from Liqour Bikes.

Visitors

Having people visit can be a vacation in itself. A staycation I guess. Dave and the POW yokels came down to Oakland and eventually Santa Cruz to raise some hell and ride some bikes. Funspot saw its most serious action today as well when a bunch of people from the bay area showed up to ride, including Jon Ivers and Kurt Russell who turned 21 recently and may have one less pair of underwear to show for it. Wish I had some pictures from the weekend, but sometimes a lack of photos is a testament to a great weekend. Who wants to stop riding or drinking to take photos on days like these.

Derby Days

The Silk Road

The Italian Stallion doing work in Chinatown. Marco Polo?

cloudbursting

This guy carries his broken cranks around so people know how extreme he has gotten.This could be my favorite thing Donald Sutherland ever did.

Rain and Clouds

Oregon knows how to party.

NW Weekday from BlackRainClothing.com on Vimeo.

If you are like me than you spend a lot of the day looking up at the sky, because you love clouds. One of my few complaints about this little slice of land stuffed between the ocean and the mountains is that we don't always have the most interesting cloudscapes (with the exception of yesterday, which was awesome). The Cloud Appreciation Society publishes books and provides a forum for cloud nuts to post pictures of the skies we cherish. They lay out their aims in the Cloud Manifesto with this being my favorite tenet: We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day. Go Look up.

Living Legends

Sometimes you show up places to ride and you hear things like, "You should see this one guy ride this place!" When I was in Colorado, Pat Sabo was that guy. I didn't witness it, but you can see why he keeps people talking.Different park, same trick, but when you do them that well and that high, why do anything else.Another Living Legend

Whip Contest

Would this be a quadruple whip?I think Leo's or Robbo's took it, but they were all reeeaaaallll good!

Colorado

A few days in Colorado's fresh air were what I needed after the months of work and week or so of smoke we had endured. Big thanks to Ted and Kelly for showing us around. This small waterfall served as a nice break from the heat. When you are 6000 feet up the sun feels closer. on the ledge. Ledge-ndary?splashWilson's Woods is a little slice of bicycle heaven found at the top of a mountain.Wilson could be the best host this side of the Mississippi. He watered the jumps, handed out beers and grilled an amazing lunch for all of us. Thanks! Here he shows off the goods. I find it admirable when people decide they want to live a certain way and do everything possible to make that a reality.I don't have any photos of the second set of trails I went to, but they had one of the most fun lines I have ever ridden and the friendly locals shredded hard and slowly built a mountain of recycling all the while. Thanks for having me out there guys. TBVO photo of Ryan getting rad on my new favorite landing.These little critters are everywhere in this state. Including Rocky Mountain National Park. There was beauty yes...but who would know until men judged it so. -Ralph Andrews, TIMBER. Yes and no..



This park was astonishingly large and has some pretty unique features, including this miniature BMXer who showed me some lines.ShredHelltrack Carve.
The Olympic training center is also located here and it includes this outdoor cement velodrome.Colorado just loves all kinds of bikes. Here are some rollers at a mountain bike park.I took these photos on my way out of California but airplane shots are always fun, even if you look like a super tourist shooting through your airplane window.I managed to take a photo of this skatepark that looks remarkably similar to the one a few posts below.

Internet Stabbings

I work with Kelly, the Office Destroyer-Ron Wilkerson
read it here. In semi-related news, Kelly is hosting a birthday party at the brown recluse infested palace he lives in next weekend. Get drunk, get stabbed*, go to jail. Should be a good time.

contorted

Visit VINYL for a few pictures of Jeremy Muller's recent trip to a bunch of English Trails. Every picture is a of pretty standard trick but ridiculously stretched or contorted. Looks like funhouse trails mirror.Credence Bikes is still on a tour of this big ol' nation of ours, Whoa!Check in later today for some photos from the recent canyon trip to the rockies. And keep your eyes peeled for Kurt Siever's and Andrew's bikes. They were stolen out of Kurt's truck a few days ago. There has been some talk about trying to duplicate this stunt as retribution.

Airing our Grievances

Dave has a really nice pictorial tribute to Chunky up on his site. Black and White Photos must be worth two thousand words.

Still out of the Office

and hopefully getting rad. Back soon. Saw this on Deluxe.

Saavedra fin from matt colisch on Vimeo.

Cunningham

Nick Dawg is doing his thing and trying to make Cunningham more bike friendly and less pad-nazi. Click here to make a difference.

So Rad

Gypsy 2our from FBM BMX on Vimeo.

Before and After

Jordan just got back from Tan Diego and headed out to take some pictures of the flattened field that was once home to a trails paradise.From this:
To This:It didn't really seem real until I saw these.R.I.P.