Lost for words this is so awesome...

Took the vid out, it didn't fit. Here is a small expose NSMB did and the vid is in there. Watch it if you have a minute. It is nutters.

Sign on the dotted line.

The Rumor Mill is churning with talk of Minnaar and Peaty back on SC for another 3 years and Cedric on Sunn with Anne-Caro. See the SC talk here.

2010 GES SCHEDULE

1. April 31 - May 1st - Massanuten, VA 2. June 12 - 13th – 7 Springs, PA 3. July 3th-4th – Plattekill, NY 4. July 10th – 11th - Highland, NH 5. July 31st - August 1st – Sugarbush, VT 6. August 13-14th – Killington, VT 7. Sept 11th 12th – Whiteface, NY 8.Oct 2nd -3rd - Blue/Vertical Earth,... PA - Finals

Real Time= Warp Speed Mr. Zulu

Still Rad

Steven Hamilton - The Day is Over section from Federal BMX on Vimeo.

Ripped from The Sensus, from Vital. This is so good.

Gee Wiz

(Another post for Sam. He made some jokes and general banter with this dude at the Open in '09. What a guy.)

Lawyers Lawyers Everywhere

The good news Sam, there are a half dozen injury lawyers in Keene. So, you have options there. On the other had, you're from the city...so you might know my cousin Vinny . He's got a cute fiance who is pretty smaaaaart (accent that) too.

Got drillllllled last night

So, I got pounded by a car last night riding my cannondale. I was just crossing the street with a buddy of mine to go for a street ride at like 9pm and the car stopped for him, didn't see me and pulled out right into my left side. Went to the hospital to get checked out, x-rays came out fine but I'm still pretty damn sore. Tryin to decide if I should sue or not

Una Fiesta

I'll say this is pretty cool...

Holy Shitballs Batman

BMX. WOW.

raise em Gey!

raise em gey! what the hell is that? i like last year's add campaign of "boom jay peak!"

Fabien takes it to the ice.

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up its bobsled time!

Team Car

Let's pool our resources.

Intersante`

whistler and all assets according to yahoo news are going up for auction because managment has not paid the bills. whistler really means interwest and that means mountain creek/ diablo. more importantly the Ohlympic Games in 1 month. dirt's finally mini series is pretty awesome. so is jayz piik and snowblowing gapers who can't ski

Nat'l Champs Down Under

Some where in the World it is warm, sunny, and summer time. Funny, that sounds just like Australia right about now...and they just held their National Championship race! Kovarik won, making it his 4th in total. Clair, Chris' wife and killer rider took the win in the women's race, but being Canadian was not awarded the "National Champion" title...as she is not an Aussie National. Troy Brosnan took the Juniors win. SRAM Australian MTB Championships – RESULTS Elite men – downhill 1. Chris Kovarik 1:56.03 2. Shaun O’Connor 1:57.52 3. Joshua Button 1:57.58 4. Kaine Cannan 1:58.50 5. Sam Hill 1:59.25 6. Amiel Cavalier 1:59.65 7. Rhys Willemse 1:59.82 8. Mitchell Delfs 2:00.07 9. Rhys Atkinson 2:00.40 10. William Rischbieth 2:00.51 Elite women – downhill 1. Claire Buchar 2:18.46 2. Leigh Douglas 2:26.71 3. Claire Whiteman 2:31.89 4. Leonie Picton 2:32.55 5. Joanne Fox 2:34.45 6. Emma Lewis 2:36.34 7. Julia Boer 2:37.94 8. Shannon Chugg 2:41.11 9. Shelly Flood 2:43.95 10. Sarsha Huntington DNS

Eat your veggies kids.

You might just turn into one. http://www.livescience.com/animals/green-slug-animal-plant-100112.html (this is very cool, but oh so weird)

yeah weather

it was 40 for the past two days. went for a rode ride on spear st and saw some other guy who was also jonsed out going the opposite way. jeeze pek on monday. ribs tomorrow. we are almost halfway through the winter.

300th Post

College ain't so bad... (My Friday afternoon)

swampthings for $20 sticky 2.5 @ jensonusa

his mudders was a mudder. his mudder was a mudder? his mudder was a mudders mudder.

Basement

A little clean up action before I came back to school. Looks a million times better than it did.

Have you pissed off anyone today?

(In a hilarious sense of course!)

Dakar in SA

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/dakar_rally_2010.html

DIRT had it first

but in case you missed it:

Just Because

also, didn't manage to get to the gym tonight. a bit pissed. double duty tomorrow night. gotta sweat it to get it.

EDIT

Check that, new best time is 75.6 sec

I POSE A CHALLENGE

Vital MTB got me hooked on this game. There are multiple tracks, but i've found this replica of the BMX track in Bejing to be the most fun and challenging. My fastest time so far is 78 seconds to the bottom. Beat Me! http://fr2db.fr/play.php?track=4425

MOTO

So.Rad. Stewart is a freakin' animal. Ryan Dungee put up a damn good fight. Props. Villepoto, he'll find form. Top ten dudes are gonna make it an interesting '10 season for sure. That is all.

Day Off

Went for a hike with mi padre today. It was awesome. Padre Zadre Also, picture of the trainer set up.

New Trainer: Day 2, with some extras.

Sorry for making you all worry, I did not know I was being monitored so closely. On a lighter note: Things went much better today. Spun for about 25 minutes while watching rugby...it helped me feel manly and go faster. Tweaked the bike a bit to make it more comfortable. I'll put up some pics later. Also, I did not eat a full Italian meal before hand. So that was helpful. Totally different piece of news: Mr. Mark Washkevich is planning on returning for approximately three races in 2010. We are all very excited. Similarly: Former Drummer Racer, Scott Moody and Wifey Sam are expecting a baby girl in August or so. Incredible. And a huge congrats to the them as well! Now, back to watching Comedy Central. Good Stand Up on tonight. har har har har, lots o' laughs.

Trainer Fatality

We haven't heard anything from Zach today so I'm going to assume that his day 2 of training unfortunately killed him. I vote Cody as new team manager, obviously the most responsible.

New Trainer: Day 1

15 minutes. Almost puked. Note: An hour and a half after eating a large dinner...not a good idea. Tomorrow - Should go a little better.

Indoor Shred

I'm headed out to the Incline Club in Lakewood, NJ today for some indoor shred sesh. They've got a foam pit, yikes.

Roots

Get back to them this winter. Watch Earthed. Then Earthed 2. Then Earthed 3. 4&5 are relatively current. But recommended as well. MSA and Bromont in 1 are nutterzzzz to the max. b-b-b-b-brapppplesauce

New Plates for the Race Van

Snow ain't gonna stop the fun.

Went out for a ride today. Here is some footy I took really quick. Sorry if it doesn't look very good, I was using a timer:

Jeeze peek?

was awesome today. some new snow. lots of woods. i almost landed on a gaper. spent the first day of the new year on a lift

Danny MacAskill in the NY Times

I know we've all seen his famous youtube video .... Today, Danny MacAskill made it to the front page of the NY Times sports section, kid is seriously blown up. Good for him http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/sports/global/29cyclist.html?_r=2&ref=sports

SEMI TRUCK JUMP

Sure thats cool with the trophy trucks and all but it ain't nearly as red neck as this...

Trophy Truck Update

Whiteface

Solid day of skiing. Funky view with a massive low-lying cloud that covered ground all the way over into VT and through the Champlain Valley. At the end of the day, the cloud started to move and creep up the hill, as seen in the last pic. Good times. And then I went sledding today. We called it early because we were soaked from rain. Fin.

Party like a Rock Star

Movers and Shakers

Big Ups to Jimmy C, great to see some 'Mericans killing it in the ski world. On a slightly different note, just saw this little piece about straight hucking trophy trucks. nutterz. video, please.

This is feken awesome

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091221/ap_on_sp_ot/ski_men_s_world_cup gravity rules Keene, NH

Now that is getting creative...

racing in my head

so there was a race last night in my room at 156 ferguson in burlington. between the hours of 12am and 10am. doug daver oliver and sam were there. there was a huge drop i think it was @ mt snow because of the tall grass.

Class B Awesomeness

Vittel Water

Snow Outside

Means it is time to hit the stationary bike. First indoor ride of the year. Me thinks it is heart rate monitor time as well. Happy Training.

New Levels of Loserdom

december rules

and so does global warming. the rt 7 pumptrack is still runing strong. got the xc bike out today and rode into a tree @ f.s. 2009 has been a great year for riding bikes due to the lack of snow (march-december) and destroys the old excuses for not riding in the winter. so much for the off season, more like the post season. Everyone is fired up about Drummer's 2o1o season.

ON

Update: Agent X recieved an email stating that Windham is ON for 2010, more news soon.

Turknasty

Vacation was nice. Did a little tripod filming and photography. So of course I shredded the hell out of this berm in my yard. Check out that rut: booshtastic. I'd say like 4-5" tall, 3' long, and 2" deep. Yup, still talking bikes here, thankyouverymuch. Cornering is fun. Listening to the tired literally shred the dirt was baller. Not to mention the SX rips so hard. <3 staking my prey. just for fun.

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

Platty #7 FINALS

bueller? been sick all week. finally feeling better. about to take off for platty finals double points. sitting in second for the overall. how you feelin tony?

See you guys @ Drummer

SIck GES FINALS . Results are up. Zach killed it in Pro. http://www.plattekill.com/summer/images//dh%20race%20%236%20-%20oct%2011.pdf

GES FINALS PICS

GES FINALS/PLATTY #6

the season is winding down. Only 3 races left platty drummer platty.

the ges finals is this weekend. the link is above. THe mob will be there. Hopefully the weather is drier than the past 1o days

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=224265

Killington

was sick. perfect day. think we banged out 10 or 12 laps. big ups to Rian letting cody use his scott which was a dope ride according to cody. from then the madness continued into NH for some drinking.

Platty #5 results up

such a sick weekend. sick race course. the points are getting tight as the season winds down.

Cody is in town someone take the kid riding. He is desperate.

First Pro Race...

Raced pro today at Highland, possibly my best race of the season. Had an awesome time, great to race with the pros. 15th fastest time overall, 10th in Pro, 4th in AM Link to results... http://live-timing.com/race2.php?r=13847&u=60 Moody killed it as usual

Drummer Killing It

like a butcher.

Good Vibes

GO JACK! Drummer #3 was just a warm up for this guy.

2009 WC Champion

Sam Hill.

RC Car Racing has awards girls...we do not.

Platty #5

Looks fecken wicked auwesim! Old school to say the least steep and fresh. Ulmer might have created a monster. Can't wait to see it on Saturday. mainted 3rd in points from in last race. Bershmeshky might show bueler? buleler....

Bikes for cheap-ish

http://diablofreeridepark.com/demobikesale.html just thought i would throw this up just in case.

My New Race Ritual:

Coming to a starting area near you, Zach Faulkner, scaring the shit out of the competition with crazy chants and dance moves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqnimvUMCAk (GO BLACKS!)

Race Schedule

Saturday: 9:30am - Course Maintenance 12:00pm - Practice 8:30pm - Apres Ride Party Sunday: 10:00am - Practice 12:00pm - Race

Platty #4

Its was bone dry all weekend. Perfect weather. Dave showed up on Sunday and pushed some new lines into the plan for my race run. The course was the jumptrail/fun run which was fast but alot of work into the mother of all plattekill features- Hardcore- ( I now need a backiomitomy ). Then into some fresh new stuff in the bottom. Dave placed 5th 329with a crashin his run. I again placed 7th 315 with a clean run. 8 seconds off first and 3 off box. Psched not to wad up and crash but with 3 people in my second everything was important. There are only 3 platty races left . One of the is GES Finals. Get there

Race Prep

Doug, Steve and I have been up on Drummer for the past couple of days laboring over the 2 new sections of trails we're going to have for the Drummer Race this time around. We're building a sick new course on the upper power lines and a new lower section of double drop. I'm inviting anyone who wants to come up and practice the courses on saturday to stay at my house and party if they want saturday night. So start training, we mean business this time around

Unreal...

Diablo Edit...Real this time

the weather is sweet from y.arava on Vimeo.

You Win, Chriss Akrigg.

One gear No idea from chris akrigg on Vimeo.

Mid Season

You know it is mid season when your bikes are roached like your tires and you begin counting down the final events on your schedule. As well loving the bone dry conditions of the past week in comparison to the new sport of swamp dh.

Didn't work last week so I rode. Killington 2x. Got to Highlands with Len on Sunday as well.

2009

First 3 races = good results. Would have been nice to Q @ Open but it was a dope weekend.

Following 4 races - crashing bug had laid larva in my brain.

Race #8 at Mt Snow was ok except I took a poll and some course tape with me but i exorcised the crashing larva.

Race #9 is Whiteface coming up in two weeks. If

Race #10 Platty #4 Double Points. Oli sits in 1st for series. I sit in 3rd for series.

Race #11 Platty #5?

Race #12 and 13 are ! Platty also.

Drummer Race #2/3is coming up quick also and the mudslinging has begun.

Pics from Attitash

You have got to be kidding...

Old Helmet Cam Footy from Threader

Sugarbush Pics

http://www.photostockplus.com/home.php?user_id=24379&tmpl=35&event=307939&action=viewphoto&photo_id=19997205&album_id=307939&pcount=45

Oli, Jack and Dave

40 voodoo

http://service.foxracingshox.com/consumers/Content/Service/QuickTech/Dust_Wiper_Seal_Quick_Clean.htm

cut n paste and learn how to keep your 4o factory

Windham Roll Call

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLLLLLLLEEEEEEAAAAAASSEEE let me know if you are going. so far: Yes LP Me No Jack Mer Doug Dave MAYBE? Ollie, Sam who am i forgetting? it's late. text. call. facebook. anything. i am trying to make this condo thing happen! haha

I think Sam, Jack, Doug, and possibly Ollie might like this:

Jolly Blue Giant

Brapplesauce Slo-Mo

2009 Thunder Valley Slow-Mo Destruction - More Motocross Videos

Scrubba-dub-dub

If you haven't seen this, now you have. Baller steez? ya damn right...holy handles batman.

Quick Edit From Diablo

Went up to Diablo to do some filming yesterday, came up with a little quickie. Going back next week to shoot some more PEEP IT

My other bike is a car...

Brought to you by Top Gear. Who else?

Not MTB'ing, but neat.

http://www.projectletour.com/

sugarbush. results.

Pro: Heath Moody Vaughn Howland Faulkner Cat 1: Ollie (1st) Jack (9th) Mer got 2nd, Sue 4th, Dylon 6th, Jason 1st, Dave 9th SO slick. gnargnar.