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Well, that’s a picture of me trying to sprint with 2 pbr tallboys in my belly. Over the weekend we threw our first “goldsprint” style competition. In this first round, I was barely edged out by spandex man in the middle, but qualified for the 2nd round and made it to the 3rd round, all while running around like a chicken with my head cut off making sure everything went smoothly. It was pretty fun all around, over 30 people raced and about 80-100 people showed up to cheer on. We used the opensprints.org for our software and hardware setups. Bikes were self bought & sponsored by Absolute Bikes. We’ll get all the rough edges worked out for the next race, and start throwing these more often. Fun times indeed.

More pictures here

Here’s a video:

The end of this past year was to be as per usual, but ended up being something completely different. Instead of staying in town and celebrating a glowing pinecone, or seeing everyone that left town come back for the holiday, I ended up going on a roadtrip with an old friend that I hadn’t seen or heard from in years. The general gist of the trip was to do whatever, in search of something different for the new year. We ended up heading towards New Orleans as part of the original plan. Case Miller and crazy bike adventures awaited. Both did not fail to deliver a wonderful time, as neither did the trip itself, nor the renewed amity. Here’s a lil video of the bike craziness:

New Orleans was much different than expected, a place with innumerable examples of dark and light. We were in & around the Bywater, between the French Quarter and 9th Ward. Things like the houses and people were amazing, but there were plenty of hints at the not so fun… like bulletin boards covered with rewards for information on murders and crimestopper fliers. It was really good to see how Case was doing down there. Oh, and the food… the southern food!

Overall, I have a renown interest in getting out and adventuring more. I have a warm place in my heart for enjoying time with others once again. I’ll definitely be making my way out around the world more this year.

I’m not gonna talk about the bad stuff. It still hurts.

Good stuff:
Got the alien frame in:

Ran into an old friend the other day. Brock will powdercoat it for some beerz, but is out on the river till the 8th. So I dunno when it’ll happen. Whenever it does get painted though, is when the Bridgestone goes on the market for like $500 with the pink chris king headset.

I also picked up a road bike:

Very chill indeed!

Also, rocked the risers…

Also, got the kicks J-momo rocked me:

they are very chill!

That is all for now…

Vans 45 LX

Hipsters, Recognize. Courtesy of my main fashionsta man Moore.

Also, whoops…. iCanhas iPhone:

Well, here goes… what’s been happenin:

Hung out with my mom in Virginia for my brother Mikey’s A School Graduation:

He was stoked:

We listened to alot of Springsteen:

Ate some seafoodz right off da boat:

Chilled with my bro Russ:

Found out he is gettin married:

Jason Moore chilled in flagstaff, as did Rey Luv the other week. It was nice.

That is a crappy pic of Jason! Yikes! Here’s a better one with a very chill crew:

aaaaaand I also be dating a hella chill lady. Yeaoooo!