With school and the holidays coming to a close, there's a ton more time to ride! As per usual, Post Office is the place to be around here during this time of year, and it becomes an oddity to see a vacant roll-in during sunset.
Photo: Davin Pena
Also, with the new year means I will be parting ways with Banshee. I'm absolutely grateful for the support that they've provided during these past two seasons, and I put together this compilation of footage from my time with them.
Happy New Year!
Straitline AMP pedals with matching AMP stems, that is all!
Stems are ready in February but we will issue an IOU once we receive proof of payment of course!
AMP stems are being made in one motion/pass on our Doosan Puma, watch this video and enjoy the music.
I am not going to lie, I haven't done much work today! Sunny friday afternoon –3pm , 2 hours to go.
I ate the world best burger then chugged 2% milk at lunch… makes me want to sleep.
Trying to work on Jumpship 2012 and another bolt fell out of my pimpin office chair. Some of them look like they are important.
Not sure when she’s going to let lose but if the phone goes dead while we are chatting, it’s because I just took out the desk.
Thinking about my mortality got me onto a Milli Vanilli rant and started singing their beautiful lyrics. I want to share this with you because when I watched Girl You know it is true I started to crack up and get my energy back.
Take special note at the 3:25 mark where Milli does a sick jump split… and watch him hyperextend himself and rip his hamstrings off his bones.
Lets go do more planking, I was told my form was off last time.
I had the pleasure of having Zinger and Howey stay at my house for a couple weeks at the beginning of the month. We rode a bunch, and Zinger was hard at work behind the lens, coming out with this banger!
It's been an eventful past couple weeks! AT's Showdown never fails to disappoint and this year was no exception! I always look forward to this contest, not only for the good times that it brings, but because it brings friends from all over to the area, making for some rad days of riding before and after the comp. The contest went perfectly, with few injuries and exciting finals that the "head to head" format brought. I ended up finishing 8th, so I'm stoked on that!
We got a bunch of rain in the days following, so it was back to the good 'ol step-up for some lighthearted sessions--a nice change of pace!
But good financial woes… owning a new Doosan PUMA MX2100ST 9axis lathe with live tooling blah blah blah… very expensive!
Our Edgefactor show Gnarly Metal didn’t hurt awareness of our abilities so hats off to the crew!
This machine is going to be dedicated to making our AMP stem line along with some fancy other robotic contracts!
As I type this blog, they dropped the machine off the track shaking the facility.. UHOH…that is going to cost someone a hundred grand in repairs… I cannot believe that just happened and for once I am not kidding. I may cry!
So as many of you know we filmed a TV show around our production facility called Edge Factor Gnarly Metal!
The Edge Factor: Gnarly Metal - Full Episode on pinkbike.com
We filmed it around our new local event called Jumpship, it was a huge undertaking and great success.
OFFICIAL JUMPSHIP CONTEST VIDEO!! on pinkbike.com
Then mid filming of our episode the Producer Jeremy Bout who's brain never shuts off and rivals mine... decided that it wasn’t enough, lets launch a global design challenge and piggy back the shows release! I was already screwed for time and mid season so why not add more to the to do list…
Reality tv style design competition Reality Redesigned!
Turns out if you want it bad enough you get it and here is Jeremy's first instalment of Reality Redesigned.
Reality Redesigned - Defined. on pinkbike.com
Details on the competition will be on Pinkbikes front page shortly, but enjoy the sneak peek we have partnered with Intense and Cane Creek to be your personal manufacturers.
Christian Wright and I had the pleasure of riding the Bridge Jumps, with Brendan Howey behind the lens with his broken ankle. We were joined by Dennis Langenstam, and later Eric Lawrenuk, Mark Matthews, and Kurt Sorge, making for some good times! With contests filling up everyone's schedules, it felt awesome to have such a chill day riding such flowy jumps! I threw in some footage from our trip to Teva Games as well!
Enjoy!
