Foreplay

Selling my Hardtail. My 40 as well.

New Recruits

Working on getting some new peeps to hook up with DR for '10 and beyond. Limited success so far, but we'll see how things turn out. Might have to be more persistent than I thought. If anyone has ideas or requests for people I should call, let me know. I am open to ideas.

Got My Dirt Jumping Fix

Been jonesin to hit some DJ's for years now, finally got the chance on wednesday. It hit the spot, heres some pics... Yes that is a 360 Berm

Pump Track

this thing is keyed up for success. so fast so flow. love weekends in november with 50* weather.

OMG FUNNNNNNNN

Trouble in Paradise

This would not come as a huge surprise to those in the know, but it would still be sad to see because I know I wanted to see this happen in a BIG way. Hopefully things pull through and it stays, but the UCI is a picky mother and Windham dropped the ball when it was under the gun and had the eyes of the MTB World glued to it. Only time will tell if this is actually a rumor or not. Yikes. (For more information perhaps supporting this potential decision, read the collectors edition of Decline that came out in October. The article in question was written by Matt Delorme and brings the issues at hand to light).

[CASSIFIED]

802 Top Secret Test Location is raked off and partially prepared for the spring.

Pump Track Madness

It went down again today on just off Rt. 7 at a (not so) Top Secret Location. We got loose. We got low. We had fun. You need one too. Should you need someone to build it for you, my rates are very reasonable.

November Rules

four days of consecutive days warm weather = pumptrack - highland and more pumptrack. Digging rules. Highland on Saturday depending on weather. The New England Style jump trail @ highlands was fire on sunday.

New

The header is new and improved at Mer's request, picture is from the old Vital, aka Litter Mag, from Schaldming in 2008 taken by Damien Breach. In other news, XC rides at Saxon Hill on a DH bike while sick as a dog are not highly recommended. Fun, but harsh. The Rt. 7 pump track saw me for the first time yesterday. Good fun in the dirt with Jack and Jay. Some digging to be done soon. And at some point we should have a legit team meeting if people are down, basically just to voice ideas and air grievances while holding onto the ceremonial boobar. That is all I have for the moment.

email me your results -mntbiker84@hotmail.com

we should try to get some more support for next year.

please email me all of your seasons results. so we can compile them

if you can't find them

www.gravityeastseries.com

or usacycling.org results and rankings you can search by your norba lic number

dave doug and zach all got 5th GES in cat 1 and pro respectivley

oliver and dave placed 2nd for the vt state series in age groups

jack placed 2nd @ ny state series

lauren took a win in W.virginia

mer didn't get stiches and took a 2nd at platty

cody didn't get arrested

sam had a 4th @ highland and took home the drummer win 2/3 races

if anyone else has any highlights send them to me

Diabloween

Had a blast riding at Diablo closing weekend. Saturday kinda sucked, it rained all day and the lift line was longer than it was at the U.S. Open. However, Sunday was one of the best riding days I've had all season and made it all worth while. Rode most of the day with Sue and her bros from VT. (awesome pose) then linked up with Memmelar and Gavin Vaughn and tried to keep up with them for a couple of runs, which was awesome. For the last run of the day, everyone waited at the top till they shut the lift down and trained the whole upper mountain down dominion to the top of alpine. At Alpine, someone suggested the idea of a Le Mans style race, so we all put our bikes down, and hiked up the hill. Thanks to my strategically placed bike and getting the wholeshot I won the Le Mans race! Great way to end the season at Diablo. Yuroshek took some helmet cam footy of all the shinnanigans, which can be viewed here.... http://www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/Diablo-FreeRide-Parks-Last-Run-Down-Train-of-2009,753/Yuroshek,1184