Push it a stop...

Someone on good ol' BMXBoard posted a link to this site (Push It A Stop) and I was glad for this because I kinda forgot about the site for a while. There are good tips on there and one of them pulled me back into processing photos in Photoshop (a little). So I have two examples to present.

In this one, Tetro is blasting over the spine. He goes so high that even the pros notice. I wish I were skinny.


This pic is part of a set I took of Bobby Fisher for a article/feature/thing that may or may not show up on the Sunday site. I have no idea. He's riding his 24" and doing shit that he does. He rides flat on it, street...just whatever. That is Bobby.

My clip from Amateur Hour's vid...

I had a riding clip in a video! In the past, I was audibly part of Style Cats (wrecking during a Bobby Fisher trick) and I was in the crowd in "The Birth of Big Air" at a BS contest. But this time...I have something I can actually show my kids. Maybe.

Wall ride Wednesday. Except it is Friday. No fucks are given.

So I had some photos left in the chamber from the Wisconsin/Florida summit, and since I had today off due to the kids being out of school...UPDATE.

This picture has a lot going for it. Good guys, obvious warm weather, and A CAT.


DO NOT HACK THIS DUDE'S FACEBOOK. EVER.


So, comparing and contrasting in these next two. In one, a 19-year-old ripper from Florida, in the other an aging father from Tennessee. The commonality? That wall. That is about it.



A week later, Corey and Jon rode the same wall, which for some reason hasn't been sessioned by us as much as it probably should have...



Back to the Florida guys...Trey just goes high on everything in the world and has the most hairless chest I have ever seen in person. I think my 5-year-old has more body hair. Full disclosure- my son also has a prehensile tail.


Brien is simultaneously one of the saltiest and one of the most positive guys I know. He's actually warming up for a wall ride over a vent on the wall, but I liked the look of this one. Earnhardt bike on the wall instead of into it.


I'm gonna finish it off with one more shot of Trey Jones. Kids should buy Shadow Conspiracy stuff just because he rides for them. This is a slightly different pic than what was up on the Cult site. It still makes me feel like a pussy.

I got some love on the Cult site...

that was fairly sweet of them. Check it out...

CLICK FOR PICS THAT I TOOK OF THAT TREY KID.

The Rusticle Comes to Knoxville...

My internet friends came to visit me. I am eating cheese curd while wearing a Shadow Conspiracy shirt. Thanks boys. The internet rules. Fuck the haters.


These fucking guys...


The BMX Boss looking for Trey so he doesn't plow him..


Joey Juaristi carving the shit out of the Magnolia Street wall ride. Nice to meet you, dude.


Trey Jones came along and rode okay.


Sizing it up.

Hot enough to melt the sun.

Heat Wave 2011 has made the latter half of the summer a tough one to ride. As the saying goes, it's not the heat, it's the humidity. Hands blowing off grips makes for some dodgy at best conditions, and the fact that the temperature drops to a cool 85 degrees at night ain't helping either. But we ride anyways, because I'd rather be soaked with sweat and feeling the effects of a possible heat stroke over frostbite and bitter winds. At least the heat gives me an excuse to drink cold beer in the shower.

We got out this morning and it was already pushing 90 with 160% humidity. Corey has been riding more since his wrist has healed up and that means nothing but good things for me, because riding with my best friend is a good way to go.


He shot this picture of me last year. I am using it now because I miss that set up. I love my Hickerson, no doubt, but that SFA was sweet as pie.


As soon as the Barcode is real, I am selling my current frame to Tetro. He's on a 20.75 right now and he is taller than me. No matter, he still has the best opposite tables in the southeast. Even if the headtube on that thing is steeper than our nation's descent into hell.


BMX bucket list...time to do a legit rail. I have done skatepark rails, but never a real, out in the wild rail. That gets done before summer's end. I am calling myself out.

I've been wanting this for a bit.

Since the park opened and I learned how to drop in and grind, I have wanted to get a double pegger in the over-vert part of the bowl. For some reason, I was laying in bed this morning and thinking that today would be a good day to do it, even though I was pretty sore from a pulled muscle in my back and a little hung over. It was just Corey, Tetro and myself and I fired out an attempt that came up sort of intentionally short, because I was essentially taking a bitch run at it, but I wanted to know how much speed I needed to carry. I got it worked out and sent the next try into a pretty perfect grind on the coping, but I landed nose heavy, and sort of bucked myself off the bike. Corey went to get his camera at this point and I wasn't sure if I was gonna try it again, but after doing the math in my head, I figured I could do it. So I did. Thanks to Corey for the picture...I am pretty fucking stoked right now...