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Behind the Curtain

After years of VX footage it is a little strange and a lot awesome to see Brandon Eckles ride in HD. Alex Raban is huge in Europe.

Sasquatch Canyon is planning on ringing in the New Year with a roadtrip. We gotta work on Tuesday so we would leaving on the 1st and returning on the night of the 2nd. We are still undecided exactly where we are going, and although we have some ideas we are still willing to be convinced. Get a hold of me however you know how or at sasquatchcanyon at gmail.com.

2011

FBM is saying goodbye to 2011. "Life ain't nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs."- Mike Cooley

One Man Bands

On the Neil Young kick, Crandall and I did a little interview exchange recently.

HAIRY CHRISTMAS!

Using only their rudimentary instruments, December 25th is the first day after the solstice that sasquatches can actually tell the days are getting longer.

Two years ago

Crandall mini interview

One of my favorite parts about hanging out with Steve is the questions he asks you while you are digging, riding or just driving around. "Hey Jax, are bikes awesome?" Often they are kind of rhetorical like that, but it's nice to have your friends ask you questions. Sometimes you already know the answer (and he does too) but it can force you to think about how lucky you are to to be living a life you are proud of. Steve and FBM just went on a trip so I figured I'd turn the tables on him. I had some pictures of Steve getting real rad over the last month or so, so I thought I'd throw those in too.
So you guys were just on the road for a little bit? Where'd ya go and what the hell for? Old man winter sends his best on the east coast this time of year, and when he does, Magical places like Kona, with its sun, and fun, and smiles call from beyond the grave of summer days and nights past. I like to travel, the FBM crew loves the adventure on the road, and I am lucky enough to try and document some of it as part of my job. 

The road gives us a good amount of content to help promote FBM, inspire new ideas, and interact with locals in different areas and give them hi fives in real life. “What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”  ― William Least Heat-Moon

What was the wildest thing that you saw on the road?  On this trip, I asked a  wealthy potato farmer, a rich white racist republican, with finger rings, and a Cadillac Escalade, an escort date, and a chip on his shoulder, if he had ever done acid. He flipped his shit, threatened to kill me, went on a tyrade, left, came back screeching into the parking lot where my friends and I were standing, starts threatening to kill me some more, and says - "Fuck you, you acid taking hippie motherfuckers!" and then yelled, I'll Kill all 3 of you, to which Kenny Responded - "there are 6 of us…" That and the cop that said he used to ride an FBM, knew Jody Donnelly, and threatened to lock us up for the felonious charge of grinding a ledge… that was was kinda nuts.
About how many times a day did the Ginches high five each other?Were there sardines involved?  The ginches eat sardines, refer to them like a 3rd person called "the dean" and interact with each other through a streaming conciousness that eliminates normal stuff like words, context, or anything other humans can decipher, it's like they are listening to the same song in their heads, at all times, and high fiving after the breakdown, like they are watching Maiden live at Anahiem stadium in 1984. It is a sight to behold. Its perfect really.
Did captain Fun come along? Captain Fun is always there, much like a shitty orange ski mask wearing Animal Chin.

If you could sum up the FBM crew by describing the ingredients of a sandwich what would they be? Gold Baby, pure GOLD! ( imagine the ginches headbanging to pizza!)
What makes you get up in the morning? I never really thought about it, but sometimes, If I go to bed sober, I can't wait to wake up the next day, have a good cup of coffee, and do some cool shit...

New Crop

Every year we see some internet projects we love go under, but luckily we also see new ones crop up in their place. LEO's CANTSTOPTHEFLICKS has a lot of familiar faces getting rad and filling their lungs with sea air. Our Sasquatch mountain affiliate PAT LEAHY started TWO HEADED DOG to detail his adventures in Gold Country. You can find both in the links from here on out.

The Silence is Golden State

There is a great mixture of Ted wisdom, the best opposite and one footed tables and silence in this video. Ted is firmly on my BMX dream team.

Watsonville

Mike and I were recently looking through old photos of Watsonville and lamenting the lack of shots that showed the place in decent shape with all the lines running. Jarrod Allen must be a mind reader, cause he emailed Mike this old photo the next day. Such a great little place carved out of the woods.

Weather Permitting

It looks like it will probably be raining tomorrow morning, both here and over the hill. If it dries up enough, or if the rain misses us, we are planning on heading to Cunningham for the Thursday session. See you out there.

FULL GLORY

I love this video. It hasn't been that long since it first got posted but I think about it quite a bit.

The places they'll go

A few years ago Simon Whitlock came to California from the UK. Simon is a traveler, a photographer, a farmer, a bike rider and .... well, Simon is Simon. He stayed at Mike's apartment here in town for a few weeks and during that brief period of time he became an honorary local. When he first got to town he called me at work (I have no idea how he had my number) and we made plans to go to the trails in Watsonville, the only problem was I was driving around in the company delivery truck. Rather than make a separate trip to pick him up, I just told him to meet me somewhere and I threw him, his bike and his giant backpack in the back of the work truck. For a few minutes he was 5,000 miles from home in a dark and unventilated panel truck sliding around with old couches and cardboard boxes. I imagine Simon liked that. Simon has stayed in touch over the years and he recently set out on a most impressive journey. He has been riding his bike across Africa. Good luck Simon, Santa Cruz misses ya.

TLP FUDGER

The Last People have a short but stellar Ryan Fudger interview up. You can watch it below but I recommend you click through and read the intro by Ryan Scott, since it's great.

Dynamic Duo

I feel like this has been a long time coming, and not just in the "Andy and Kurt have been trying to wrap this up for a few months" sense.

The Sinator

Pat Leahy is a man among men. One time we were camping and Pat and Luke stayed up all night playing wizard staffs and Pat was still up before dawn catching fish. Sonora breeds em.

Jay Perry

The first rider section from Caliwumpus!

Print by Santa Cruz based wood block artist Andrea Rich.

Jeff H.

Jeff Herbertson, one half of Chromaculture Apparel and the driving force behind the Sasquatch Canyon shirts, is a beast on a bike. I have seen Jeff land like a cartoon anvil and get up laughing like woody woodpecker. When I ran into Jeff at the SF bike expo he told me he hadn't been riding his bike a ton due to a "large" project. The fruits of his labors:

Jeff going upside down at the AT showdown last month.

Time Will Tell

I got to see a couple sections of Time Will Tell while I was back east this summer. I came in part way through and then got pulled away before it was over but in between I was mesmerized. Human beings flying bicycles all over the place, through time and space, in more ways than one. The video covers a ton of regions and years in the life of Elliot Van Orman and the lives of everyone around him. Peep the new trailer and then go buy a copy from his site. $10 bucks, shipped. Can't beat that. I just bought one and can't wait to finish it, it's been a long time coming.

Ready to Shreddy

DustUP

Dusty has been off his bike for a long time due to knee surgery but he has been able to pump around on MTBs lately, getting closer to being able to do this again.