potentiallity

So I think I might potentially have some photos but am not really positive on that. All I know is that I am tired and have had to buy a new tire for my bike. Actual "work" that pays has been keeping me from doing much work at the trails. I did get up to Walnut Creek to ride their pump track with Turbo Tim TNT Kneip this past Thursday only to have him make fun of my stem some more. He also thinks that my tire casing tore because I kept casing a step up. But what does he know, his bike is some ugly green color and he has a permanent tramp stamp tattoo on his lower back. I can change my stem at any moment but that tat is a permanent fixture for the rest of his life. He can cover it up but there will still be a tat on his back, and we all know that is "cool". I'm keeping him in my thoughts this weekend since he's in Missouri at a national race and trying to get that cash. Good luck dude!!!! I love that guy (no homo).

More on other stuff later. We're having a house built and they put up the drywall a couple of days ago, so that's exciting. Now they just have to finish out the interior and we'll be moving in about the time I start summer school. Oh boy, that should be fun.

visitation rights

This past Thursday I had a visitor come down and ride with me from Round Rock, Tx and his name is Tim "TNT" Kneip. I think he enjoyed the 1/4 mile walk across the rocky river bed and then through the hot/humid woods. He was pretty much worthless when it came down to prepping the line. He sat there all bummed out that I weigh 15 pounds less then him. I mean he did refill the water jug and hand me the broom if I asked him to, so that was cool. I can't say he didn't try to help, but I wasn't going to bother him with helping me get it going. I mean, you don't invite somebody over to your house and then ask them to cook dinner for you. Not to mention that the line isn't that long right now so it wasn't too much work, but it's beginning to take a lot more water and time to get it ready.

I was kind of proud that he didn't first run the line. It took him 3 runs to get through, and if you know Tim, you know that is one if not two more runs than he would like. He also said that he was "scared" of a set and wanted to know why we didn't make the last couple of landings steeper. I told him that is in the plans but we are just trying to get as much built and running before we perfect stuff that is already running. Little did I know that he was kidding about making them steeper. So today I went out and took advantage of the rain we had yesterday and made the step-up two feet longer. All I did was shave out the pit about another foot and threw all of that dirt onto the face of the landing. I also took about 8 inches off of the face of the lip after the step up and threw that onto the landing as well. Hopefully I won't be able to over jump and flat bottom a landing that is almost 7 feet tall. Needless to say it hurt when I flat bottomed it when it was 6 feet tall.

I didn't get any photos of Timmy riding. He took some photos of my baller stem and of me to post on his blog (www.apachebmx.blogspot.com). He had me take some pics of him flexing, but he wouldn't allow me to click some pics of his tramp stamp =(. He also has one of the ugliest complete bikes that I have ever seen. It looks like a lime green skittle.

Wha Wha Wha Water runs

Well, I tried to take some photos of GGGGG-Unit's lip but it didn't turn out. What is strange is that after I made my remarks about it, CJ went out and turned it into a nice thing. CJ is a hardcore digger when he meets up with us.

But back to me and Pete's thing that we have running. I know that you may have seen some photos of some of these things but whatever.

looking back at the first berm


the "hip" after the first berm


after the "hip", looking down at the roller to set up set to tree jump


tree jump lip


looking over the tree jump landing at the long-low lip


looking back over long-low at the tree jump landing


side view of long-low


looking over the long-low landing at "Get There" lip


looking over the from the side of "Get There"


it's a "waterfall landing" for "get there"


step-up after "get there"




the water source


water barrel(s). I just cut off the top of the blue barrel today.


That's all for now. Hopefully since I had my last final today I'll get some stuff built and be able to ride a little bit. I hear that I might have a visitor come down and ride with me in the next couple of days. If that happens I'll be sure and get a picture of his bowlegged x-up's and turn bars.

flying time machine

I got me some "new" bike parts. Thanks to all of the dudes that hooked me up. Pete gave me a pivotal seat and seat post (but I didn't use the seat), Logan gave me a couple of seats to try out (I went with the thinner padded seat) and I swapped Glen's old front Deore lever that was flipped over for usage on the rear with a XTR lever that has a couple scratches on it. Now I'm just waiting to hear back from Sun Ringle about a cassette cog.

Since it has been over a month with no new post I should have some good photos, but I don't. However I do have some good stories. Since we have had some rain the last couple of weeks Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater and I have put in a little bit of shovel work when we aren't busy with school or he's not flying his plane.

We have finished a set and built the next jump. NO we have not made it over the set we finished successfully, but we have been close. Yesterday I think it was still a little soft in the pit or the the landing before it had some moisture in it because I was leaving ever so small ruts in the landing. I kept coming up about 6 inches short so I decided to lower the landing about 6 inches. This looks better on the approach but of course it looks longer now. I also rolled over the top corner of the landing so it wouldn't jar you so bad if you hung up on it. Honestly I think I could have made it over but I had the wife with me. If we had some 'Off' it would have been ok, but she had to walk around while reading her book so the mosquitoes wouldn't bite her. Since I knew this was bugging her I forced myself to make run after run with no breaks. Plus it was really hot and humid back there since we haven't had any dry heat to kill the built up moisture. Within 7 runs my gloves were useless do to the amount of sweat that had built up. My gloves were so wet that my grip started moving. I also wore the brain bucket since she was there, and with the humidity being almost 100000% by the time I reached the drop in I had sweat falling in my eyes. All of these things together did not create a very fun time to be trying to get over a new jump.

The set we built last week should be really good. It's a short (in length) step up. You jump out about 6ft and up about 3ft to a steep 6 1/2 - 7 ft tall landing. The lip is really wide, thick and squared off. We also have the next lip stacked and semi shaped. I'll try and get some pics of this stuff today and post 'em.

So GGGGG-Unit started his "line". It's pretty cool. I can't even describe how well it's coming. I mean this thing is "sick" looking. I can't wait to post photos of it. The lip is............ I don't even know. I've only ever seen a few lips like this one. The guys at 9th can't even build lips to this caliber. It's so awesome that he even dug a big hole right in the middle of our entrance/walking path to get some more dirt. If I wasn't so tired I'd go out there now just to pop a pic and come home and post it. I guess the only reason he hasn't finished his line in the past month is because he's been putting all of his work into this lip and school. Because you know it's "crunch time" for finals. I don't know how he has put as much work into this lip as he has since we are all busy studying for finals. The guy is AMAZING!