Man VS. Toddler

I love this.

By the way I set up a Flickr. Thats where most of the photos will be going that don't make it onto this blog. Peep game.

Winter machine

I've been volunteering down at the bike kitchen for the past few weeks and my main project was just completed: Guaranteed Worlds Finest Bicycle Precision Mechanism. Thats the actual name for it, so great. Anyways, I just got it street ready and the next day the snow storm hit. For anyone who isn't in Bozeman, we got hit with a big storm and everything is caked in snow and ice at the moment. So that day I played slip-n-slid all the way down to Summit bike shop to get myself some snow tires. I picked up some Inova studded snow tires in 35c. Im super stoked on them so far. I know a lot of my friends are really into studded tires for the winter and I have wanted to try them out for about 2 seasons. I can say now that I am very glad that I made the purchase. After slippin' around for 2 years its nice to not have a sense of dread every time I walk out the front door to start my commute. The feeling is quite the contrary as a matter of fact, I now get excited when I have the opportunity to ride my snow bike and actually welcome the conditions (to a degree). Being able to safely commute in the winter on extremely less than perfect roads makes a world of difference, with the proper equipment the same old roads get a new face that is pretty enjoyable.

You may be wondering why I am so happy about these new tires, after all they are JUST snow tires. I mean get with it, this is Bozeman. Well my past 2 winters have been primarily spent on a track bike with no brakes, now fender mounts, and 23-28c road tires. You get where Im coming from, right? Here are some pictures:

radical repost.

Omar is the man.

HUF x NIKE SB from HUF on Vimeo.

Killin' it. Omar rules. Repost from here and seen here.

Mulecross

This Halloween I partook in the Halloween Mulecross cyclocross race here in Bozeman MT. The turn out was pretty good, I believe about 70 racers all together. The course was a good one, there wasn't too much deep sludge-like mud, the mud that was there, however, was extremely tacky and felt like pedaling on fly trap paper. It was a fairly large course with 2 very challenging run-ups in close succession of one another. The weather was great, kind of windy though not freezing. I competed in the Mens Cat.4 devision and finished 8th. All in all I was pretty happy about the way I raced. As always it hurt a lot but since the mountains are yet to open and all that awaited me at my house was homework, I wouldn't have cared to spend my saturday in any other fashion. My friend Sam was there documenting and cut together a sweet video of the event.

Here are the final results incase you were curious.

Muleterro Mulecross 2009 from samh on Vimeo.

Im the one with face-paint and the 80 color vomit jersey.

Thanks to Team Muleterro for putting on the race. Video from Samh @ the Fix

Movie Movie

10.29.2009 Posted by not andrew

The Revival is the first feature film from Skitch and Morehart Films. It has been 6 months in the making, with locations including Toronto, Vancouver, New York and Seattle. I think its really cool having a video that isn't focused just on the riders ripping around one particular city and Im excited to see the finished project. World premiere is happening on Nov.8th in Vancouver BC.

Here is the latest and final trailer. See more about the riders and up-coming premiere dates on their site! And yes this movie will be in HIGH DEFINITION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$#$!#$#!!!!!!!!!

Re-Posted from here

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder

This Saturday I partook in my second cyclocross event of the season. The weather had called for a high of 50 with 70 percent chance of rain and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Luckily the wind was the only negative part of that forecast that became a reality. Though this was only my second cyclocross race, I don't have many different race stories to compare it too, however, I had my best start EVER this Saturday. Right off the line was dodging racers like NYC cabs and managed to work my way to 8th going into the first turn and remained so after the hurdles. Though all that changed when I found myself flipping over the bars after getting forced into a bad transition at the bottom of a super steep berm. The rest of the field, that included 50 riders total, caught up and passed me as I regrouped myself on the ground. For the rest of the race another rider and I battled it out until the last lap, finishing just a wheels length behind him. They only posted the top 20 positions, so I figured by the number of people still on the course when I had finished and number of riders that finished ahead of me that I probably took about 36 or 37th.

Here are some pictures of pain/game face

Thanks Mom.

Sometimes yah just gotta let it all out.

Thanks to my mom and stepdad for coming out to visit this weekend and driving all the way to Missoula with me for the race.

Re-posted from The Fix

Papers from the past

Finally got around to emptying out my wallet this afternoon. The biggest brick of receipts was from my bike tour I took this past summer. Im not sure why I said yes every time someone asked me if I would like my receipt. I suppose it was some sort of weird desire to keep a clue from every point along the road, something that wasn't going to be posted periodically on the blog. Just a little something to keep in my pocket, just for me.