tricks and skids new event

Mad Dog 20/20 Bedpan Vomit is the new skid
(recumbent optional)

seriously I love this picture

injury report

Well, I am going to be of the bike for at least a couple of days. I seem to have damaged the calf muscle in my left leg. Its bad enough that I can’t put anywhere near my full weight on it.
All I did was jump out of the stret bowl at Duncan Creek, which [...]

skatepark roots

A couple of nights ago I was feling all nostalgic and decided to search around and see if I could find some pics of my old stomping grounds from “back in the day”. I was pretty suprised to actually find some!
The first concrete park I ever rode was an old busted late 70’s era park [...]

break

i’m taking a little break from posting…be back in a few days

most prolific bike thief ever BUSTED: 2396 stolen bikes + more

(image via: Eyeweekly)
So what does one do with thousands of bicycles? Igor Kenk’s record-setting collection have sparked myriad theories, ranging from the obvious: that he was planning to resell them all eventually in his used bicycle shop, to the eccentric: that he was saving them to melt them down during the next spike in scrap [...]

Olympic BMX final results

Maris Stromberg(Latvia) got the gold, Mike Day(USA) silver and Donny Robinson(USA) bronze. Jill Kintner(USA) bronze in the ladies race.
Kyle Bennett didn’t make the final, setting the stage for him to make a triumphant comeback showing in London 2012.
One of the interesting things about this event, is that the time margin between the gold and silver [...]

SOPO partytime happiness feeling

you need to go to this:

well it was bound to happen…

I knew it was only a matter of time. Spotted over at the awesome Hong Kong Fixed Gear blog, is this photo of a fixie that is clearly running pegs:

I haven’t seen any yet, but given that this pic now exists, we should soon start to see vid footage of the fixed gear freestyle crowd [...]

Olympic BMX quarterfinals

Okayyyyyy, so the coverage -finally- came on. As a commentor pointed out, the coverage was LIVE which is why it got the nosebleed timeslot…I am pretty sure it was about 12:30a EST when I saw the first race. No worries…staying up late isn’t that tough.
Basically, Mike Day freakin dominated. He just tore through the course. [...]

Olympic BMX racing tonight!

From what I can tell, the coverage starts at 9pm, but NBC has been kinda dodgy about the schedule, so best to tune in early and plan to stay late
GO USA!