I can barely move I am so sore from riding the skatepark. Riding there is almost no pedaling, and all pushing, pulling and pumping. Also, a lot of the puling and pushing aren’t sustained efforts, they are extremely quick microbursts like pulling up to jump, or kicking the bike out sideways to land a particular way. I haven’t had to do any of that for a zilion years so those muscles are all hatin it right now.
Heres a sick pik I grabbed from the session yesterday:
Holy crap this guy was shredding so hard! I have to start taking a pen down there so I can get peoples names when I get good pics of them.
I’m able to drop in on the small bowl now. When I say drop in I mean ride parallel to the coping and then hop into the transition. We used to call this riding in back on my day…dropping in was something diferent, but nobody drops in the old way any more because 8ft wide 1/4 pipes are a thing of the past now. Learning to drop in has opened up a wealth of new lines for me. My next big hurdle will be to drop in on the bigger more vertical bowl.
I’m also going to have to make some gear changes. Today I bent a tooth on my big ring because I cracked it on a corner of one of the hips. It still shifts fine, built now I am keeping the chain on the big ring so that if I smack it again it will hit the chain not the sprocket. As son as I can I’ll be converting to a 2X9 hopefully with a bashbaurd and a chain tensioner, because every time I try a disaster, the chain comes off when I hit the deck. I also have my seat angled upward now like te BMX guys because it allows me to get further behind the back of it…tuck in for a little more control.
The park is way to chaotic for me to ride in the evenings. Seriously, there are a zillin people there, and a lot of little kids, so I just hang back and watch. I keep running into the same guys in the mornings when I go.
Also, when I get there in the mornings, I spend a little time picking up trash because I feel like it gives me good park karma.
PROPPA BAD! I wish I could air that high – I can only just about reach head height.
Then again, I’m kinda glad I can’t go that high, because it hurts enough when you crash a trick from 5 feet… crashing from 10 feet would probably break a few bones…
Really good picture by the way. makes me want to get back on my BMX, but my back would soon stop me.
The guy on the deck is Rob Christianson, who is a bad ass in his own right. The guy in the air, I can almost guarantee you, is Kyle “Skyle/Skydog” Kelsey. He won the Dew Free Flow Tour last year, and he’s a pretty good kid. Insane, crazy skills.