Probably the last one of 2010.

53 degrees and we headed for the woods. I had the flashes and such ready to go, and the Anthem II premier was later that night, so this was my inspired shot, I guess...



The hip is shaping up really nice. Too bad it will be covered in snow by night's end.





The premier was excellent. So many good, strong reactions to what was seen. Bobby asked me why I didn't tell him how good the video was. I thought I did.

My bride attended...even though they don't serve liquor. Bummed.

It's snowing outside. So...

I figured I would post something up. I have a love/hate relationship with this time of the year. I love the holiday and the food (especially the food) and the lights...but I hate being cold and I hate crowds. Online shopping is a great equalizer, but eventually you have to wander out. The cold obviously kills the ability to ride a little, but there are warm-ish days here and there.

Jon and Taco made a rare appearance at the park on just such a warm day.




Adam even got off of his elevated equine beast to do what Adam does, which is...


Mica and I took the kids downtown to the Christmas parade on Friday night. Again, I love the lights and the overall feel, but the crowds...ugh.


Mica's friend Grace brought her girls as well, and Garrett went into full on "hey girl" mode.


Most of the swarm...


It's not a bad life, all in all.

Merry Christmas.

I was not at the Anthem II premier.

But I wanted to be. I pre-ordered that junk, so barring a zombie apocalypse (which, disappointingly, I do not wake up to every day) I will be checking out some of the finest BMX stunting captured in black and white sometime in early December.

On Halloween day, I destroyed my back. Before that happened, I took some photos of Corey riding street. He looks like a BMX version of his dad, but that didn't stop me from taking his picture.



When I saw this picture, all I could think of was, "dad, I am disappoint."


Anna and Garrett throwing down the poses the day before my wedding...


I rode the Central Ave. wallride the other day, and it took a substantial amount of my hand skin from me. I was bleeding all over the place but I did manage to take a nice picture of Tim, Taco and the sky.


Yesterday I met Corey at the park for a little session and was reminded why I always thought Corey was so damn good.


He even snapped one of me doing a footplant. The Garrett Byrnes appreciation thread on BMXboard made me do it.

Back to basics...

I own one of the last MAAS built SFA frames. I also bought one of the first Solid/MAAS Barcodes. I've been running the Barcode for a while now while the SFA languished in my closet. I've been thinking more and more about how the SFA, while a touch heavier, felt soooo good. So I put it back together. It's an awesome frame from an awesome company and it deserved better than the floor of my closet. Also, the Solid always felt a little odd, so there's that. Garrett helped me show off the Garrett.



Neebo rode the other day. This was the last day I rode before my back shit the bed.



Wedding in two days.

Working on something...

In between moonlighting as a telecom technician, going to school, being a father and "helping" Mica plan a wedding, I ride bikes, take pictures of riding bikes and try to remember to video this crap. So I got the video machine out the other day and self-filmed (something I don't do much of) and was pleased to see that at the tender age of 35, I can still get up on that damn Central Ave. wallride. So forgive me while I pat myself on the back a little. I was stoked.



Hopefully the video will be soon. I am operating on Dave Parrick time.

The lull...

I've been so swamped. The wedding is coming up, school is in effect for both me and the kids and work has been a wad of busy that I have not previously known. Anyways, I've been sitting on these pictures I took of Will Love for about a month and since no one replied, I'll run them on the slum-blog.




While there are still a small grouping of shitty skaters who scowl and sneer at riders, for the most part everyone is pretty cool with one another. Josh is one of those guys and while I cannot condone his helmet-less law breaking, I can condone a high speed front-side grind in the deep end of the peanut.


More soon. Weather is changing.

Tri-pictures

Because they are from the Tri-Cities, you see? Get it?

I love stupid jokes.

Like...

Knock knock.

Who's there?

9-11

9-11 who?

Aw, you said you'd never forget.

Will Love was at the park yesterday and shredded the shredding out of it. I have more pictures, but I am trying to send some stuff to his sponsor, so I thought I would let them have first crack at them before I do anything else with it.


Today some of the Johnson City crew motored this way to pedal. Austin Phillips engaged in a little non-voluntary rail sodomy, but before that he banged out a hop over-to-double pegger...


and Jeff Grindstaff (I am hoping for a correct spelling, here) gave this wall at the Fountain City Optimists Club a ride and whip...


And Jake just messaged me to let me know they are going to Tyson. I guess I'll give it a lookie-loo.