I am nearing the end of my first year getting paid to travel on someone else's dime and ride trails i have only read or looked at in magazines. pretty cool gig overall and i have rather enjoyed most of it. i have met really cool people and made friends of most of them. i have gotten to ride very cool places and NOT ride in REALLY cool places---sometimes it really is work.
I must say that the thing i absolutely hated the most out of this whole year was missing my wife by my side. uh and my dog. the two of them together can make me laugh till i cry. nothing better than the midget getting pissed off cause shakes is following her around underfoot.
so lets see...NY was pretty cool.I did a gig at the Dark Horse 40. a race put on by the Dark Horse Cycles guys. they know how to pit on a show. tons of food tons of beer and tons of pretty killer single track.Michigan riders should check it out and go collect a paycheck. they aint got the founders team speed, but pretty damn good payouts and tons of fun.
what was not all that fun was going to manhattan to do a few shop openings and have shop guys demo bikes in the city. they have a great bit of single track right in the middle of parks where super urban jungle gives way to single track. bad news is junkies take drug induced shits on that trail and then shop guys on a demo ride into it and poo poo is all over your mach 4 and mach 5, fine if you hit dog crap and fine if you hit horse crap but human druggie feces is not too f in cool. good thing the NYC car wash had a powerwasher. it just threw the bike in and let the suds wash off the human waste.....uh yea i puked.
went to vagina beach ( virginia beach) to hang with my boy K. he first called me when i was at slingshot and wanted a deal on a ddx. he gave so i gave and we been kickin since. so i figure what the heck i would give him a shout and let him take me for rides while i set him up on fancy bikes. we did a good road ride and set to chillin. SORTA. damn security system on my trailer went ape crazy and i spent the next few hours getting that fixed. WHICH WAS A GOOD THING...cause that night a crime spree went nutz in his hood. i got robbed of my personal belongings..namely midgets camera and my ipod god, plus a few things i really liked as well.
Kevin lives in mr rodgers neighborhood so it was pretty f-ed up to have this happen. so i gots my insurance company on it and i get to go shoppin...but in the meantime i got no ipod....lets see you drive a gillion miles and not have a pod. ( yea i got xm but the pod is where its at).
i am on the home stretch. i see my wife soon and get to recharge a few days then time to strap it on for interbike. i plan on getting my as kicked as we are the hot shit right now, and getting hotter with our crazy new stuff.
if you want pics in this blog go kick some virginia ass and get me back my crap...
thanks for reading.
ps. shout out to kevin,sal,and juds. thanks for watching the train wreck!
1 comment:
whew! That was quite a week for you. Glad it's over...on to the deep south yo.
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