thinkers

so it has been a while since my first post. But you can blame that on a lack of inspiration coming from dispatch101.net. He usually posts nothing but gold. I think he is loosing it.
I have been riding a lot lately, and really pushing myself to do better in a lot of aspects since that race. In the race I got such a massive burn in my legs I was just being brutalized, now I try to work up that burn all of the time. Some of those denver kids have some crazy skinny and tiny bodies with some wicked gnar calves. Mad respect.
Other than pushing myself on my distance riding and endurance, Ive learned some new tricks. Ive gotten a lot better at my track stands. Probably going for a little under a minute on the best ones. But the most exciting ones tonight was a leg over skid, where you throw your leg over your handle bars and skid with one leg. Thanks to Jen from cycle jerks for her tut on velo or for some mag I believe. I also worked up the balls to do suicide skids, meaning no handed. Yesterday that shit would have sketched me out beyond belief, but now its cake. Im going to top with lighting cigarettes or slamming a beer before the end of a skid. hehe.
My Chrome bag came in today. Its sorta lame to rock messenger gear when I am not a messenger.. But a lot of this stuff was made for a reason, to haul shit on your bike. Which I need to haul around plenty of tubes, extra parts, tools... Im a mess. got another flat today, which brings me to somewhere around 10+ for this month on flats.
A friend decided to get real drunk and ride at night without his contacts on his new pista frame. Hit what used to be a wheelchair accessible ramp onto this shortcut trail. Anyway ther was construction there and they neglected to put up any kind of signage and the dude took a face plant into the ground. Embeded a tooth in his face up by his nose, put some gnar road rash all over his face, and generally just got really fucked. Nobody wants to go through that.
Anyway I would like to post some pictures but I still havent gotten any from my buddy or synced my phone to show you fun stuff. But some cool news is, is that next pay check I am going to invest in a helmet cam that I found cheap, takes about a full hour of video which is rad. So we might just say fuck it with the cams and start posting vids of the days ride. need to figure out some video editing software and throw some tracks on there.
Anyway I wanted to leave you with this rad video i just found. I love the game tron, the movie is good too. Som dudes made it for bicycles, but absolutely dont remember exactly how tron was played. Its a rad idea and I am glad someone attempted it, but this is just the begining, there has to be a better more dynamic way to set up a game stage to get gnar on some real tron.

lots to start

Ive been riding a lot lately. Yesterday the track attack folks teamed up wtih a skate shop to throw an event called skatebike. Me and a friend Erik went down to check out the scene and see if we could have some fun. Being which we did. A lot of really solid riders who know their town and their bikes.
We only stayed for the race as Erik was pretty down, having wrecked into a parked car last night he wasnt doing too well. We both tied for second/third to last. Along with a lot of people I started out the race at the 50 broadway checkpoint, i thought I was way behind but I was the first to show up at the stop. There was a girl who I had been riding along and we both kept going up and down the block looking for the shop before finding it. Once I left the shop I was completely turned around and almost started heading the complete opposite way of the next stops. Going up broadway against traffic while trying to find a street you dont know in a city you dont know.. just sucks. I eventually ended up finding speer. But by the time I got to the other stops they guys were sick of waiting. Not to mention me and Erik met up, along to the next stop and the dude was mega dehydrated and his face was throbbing from the previous night. Anyway I hope that dude gets better, hes a good person to ride with.
I had so much fun that Im going to head back down to Denver to ride an alley cat that the cycle jerk kids are throwing along side a monster tack 8 movie premier.
To close off with some lessons. Dont try to be a badass, messengers are crazy anyway even just to work that job and they ride their bikes to eat, dont run lights and traffic like a maniac when you dont need to, just stupid. Second be careful with your genital while crashing, they can bruise and be gnar enough to take you out of riding. But if all you have is genitals that are hurting, enjoy your survival.
Anyway Ill post some pictures of the week later.