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Here is a video a friend took in my back yard
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1-12-08
Its only the second week of the year and things are happening quicker than I can type!
I’m proud to be riding for Mongoose on the Black Diamond Triple and the Ritual Dirt HI
The bikes are awesome and you will soon be seeing all new pictures of them in my photo gallery. I will be at Ray’s MTB Park for the Mongoose Demo Weekend to cap off week three on January 18, 19, and 20. I will be riding with Eric Carter and other Mongoose team riders all weekend. Have a look at the 2008 line-up at www.Mongoose.com
Don’t forget I’m giving away a Bern helmet to one of my You-tube subscribers that leave a comment on my video “Living The Dream”
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Talk about setting the bar. The first week of the year has already been packed full of fun and exciting news. On January 1 I went on a 15 mile group ride and ended up getting my picture in the local newspaper. It was 30 and snowing pretty good when about 60 of us left the farmers market in Midland, but there is no better way to spend the first day of the year than on a bike.
Later that day my friend asked me if I wanted to try out his snow scooters, and of course I said, lets go. We went to a hill with old school scooters that had ski’s and or a snowboard bolted to the bottom and it was big time fun. I got a great workout walking back up the hill and the only thing that hurt was my cheeks from laughing and smiling so much.
On Friday January 4 I found out for sure, that I have been accepted as a factory team rider for a new sponsor. They are sending me two new bikes, and will also be helping me with travel expenses so I can go to more events, new places, meet new people, and continue living the dream. I will be announcing my new sponsor and showing off my two new bikes in just a few days.
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Well I moved to Coleman Michigan just over one year ago after 41 years of living in south Florida. I bought a 53 year old house that has an addition built on it bringing the sq. ft. to almost 6000. In total there are 28 rooms. The house is divided into two halves, one for me and my riding buddies and one for my wife. In my end of the house there is a pool table, a ping-pong table, and a couple turn tables too.
Outside the house is six acres of beautiful woods with two creeks running through it. There are three ridgelines that run along side of the creeks providing 30 to 40 feet of elevation change. I have never seen the complete cycle of season before, just the endless summer that is Florida. I love the climate change and watching the woods come alive in the spring. It is just as amazing to watch the tree turn colure and drop their leafs.
Everything is so much different here, it is very refreshing.
I arrived in the winter and it’s winter again, for riding that means studded tires and trips to indoor skate parks and Rays MTB Park, or grabbing a snowboard and hitting the slopes.
It has been a life long dream to have an extreme playground of some sort in my back yard, and now I am in fact “living the dream”. The first year was good and I think the second year is going to be five times better. I already have a big head start with lumber stacked up ready to become new stunts, and with one or two more days of Kurt’s help with the Bob-cat the jump park will be epic.
Now my dreams are to build my back yard up until it is worthy of a pro invitational freeride jam / video making event.
You can see pictures of my back yard here http://www.mmba.org/viewtopic.php?t=71243
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I'm finally getting settled in here at the new house in MI
I am heading into the studio to begin editing some new vids and I will be updating my profile with pictures of the new stunts going up in the back yard.along with blogs on a regular basis.
Thanks to the whole SH family (that means you too)
See ya soon, PEACE!
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I don't Know what happened to my other blogs but anyway, I am moving to Michigan in a few weeks.
I will have 8 acres to build trails on and 2 awesome skate parks near by and an NBL track too.
I cant wait!
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I am in MI picking out my new house. This is the one I want.
It is 7 acres of rolling woods with a creek. The house is almost 3000 sq ft.
Insead of a basement the house has an addition that has 8 rooms and an office entrance. I can't wait to start building trails and set up my half of the house.
see the pictures here
http://www.freeridesouth.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=7204
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I did a demo for the YMCA Oct. 14 on my 42nd birthday. It was for a cycling safety fun fair and they were giving away helmets to the kids that needed them. I passed my BERN around for everyone to feel the difference wile using my bull-horn to explain why it is such a great helmet. The local news was there and once again I got a killer picture in the paper. I was sportin my Fuel socks, Osiris shoes, and flying the Sponsorhouse banners too. All my sponsors logos were on display as the " short bus" was parked by the ramps in plain view. Until i get a better one, Its the new headshot for my SH profile
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Well, I don’t know how to write a story and convey the highlight of my birthday weekend, because the whole weekend was a non-stop highlight.
It began Friday when I picked up my friend and video photographer Bill Hollywood ½ hour ahead of schedule. We had the “Short Bus” loaded down and headed for Lakeland to meet up with Ray and Ali of Red Trail Racing. Ray invited me to perform a freeride show for the kids at YMCA on Saturday. Friday afternoon we arrived at Ray’s Ranch and started riding a variety of bridges and skinnies including one that’s 6 feet high that you huck off to a lander. Ray’s house is in the middle of 40 acres of cow fields. He has 2 quads and we went riding through the fields at night. I found a big dirt hill that we drove over from every which way and then drove to the far end of the field. On the way back to the house a huge 3000 pound black bull came out of the night and started charging me. He stopped 5 feet in front of me, kicked up some dirt and then took off. When my heart started beating again we headed back to the campfire to laugh about the whole thing. Saturday, Sponsorhouse members casey lambert and joey bunch and the Red Trail Racing crew set up at the YMCA for the freeride demo. We were all treated like rock stars and had a great time.
Casey and Joey wanted to hit-up the public skate park in downtown Lakeland so off we went. The park was small but fun and after a little riding and promoting Sponsorhouse I saw a knee high kicker 8 feet from a 4 foot high fence so I bounced out of the park.
After a quick stop to see K.C. at Bent’s Bikes we headed for “Scary Larry’s Lake House.
Larry’s was insane! Everything was big. 22 and 25 foot jumps at the bottom of some very technical bridges and drops. The lines were so addicting, and challenging every time. Just before dark some wild pigs were in the woods across the road. One of them was invited for dinner. There were 30 people at the party, all but 5 of them expected everyone to bring food so the pig was like a gift from God with no argument from Satin. (Lee was there too) To cool off, Larry has a lake jump into a clear water lake, a number of cliff diving spots, and the scariest rope swing in the world. We all partied around the camp fire and ate that hog until there was nothing left. Not even a strip of bacon for breakfast.
The people were great, the weather was perfect, and the fun never stopped. The 3 ½ hour ride home seemed quick and easy because I could not stop replaying the whole time in my head, at times bursting into laughter for no apparent reason.
I will be adding several pictures to my profile soon and I will be working on another video that I am sure will be my best one by a long shot.
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