dyno run

Mmmmmm...I remember dyno. I always wanted a Dyno Pro Comp with pegs, frame standers, and an ACS rotor.

Nice fork!

I really like this photo which I just took.

what kind of camera?

Nothing special; Canon Powershot A710IS

Pretty good macro and bokeh for a point and shoot looks good. How are you liking those BB7s btw? With any luck (unlikely) I will have mine up and running Saturday.

Im so angry with my MTBs that im this close to giving up.

Its really hard to get motivated to get the right parts when youre broke, and service for some companies, cue manitou, in australia is horrible to the point of wanting an ombudsman to complain to.

Thats it in short, of a since-October battle that still isnt done.

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Honestly, if someone offered me enough for my bikes id do it guys. Sorry. However im not sinking to listing them on classifieds/forums just yet. there is still a shimmer of a smidgen of light at the end of the tunnel.

Yeah, for what it is, it's a good camera.

I'm loving my BB7's already. They're only just bedded in, so hardly used, and I love them

Fantastic brakes.

Hahahahahahaha! Y'mean it would actually measure watts instead of BHP?

Just caught wind that Gary Fisher is coming to my LBS for a meet and greet. Awesome!

Screwed around at a BMX track near the Performance I got some inner tubes at (I new of a BMX track so I just through the bike in the back of the van). Spend about 10mins there then decided to leave (My fork was a bit soft for what I was doing and, as I found out, rednecks dont like 26ers). I think I'm going to go back early on a Saturday or Sunday sometime. Got back home and decided to go to the local DJ's. Wow, I'm very impressed. From talking to the guys building there, it sounds like they are trying to make some of the stuff more beginner jumper friendly (they filled in one jump, so now its a table 8 foot lip to landing). Looks like its going to be amazing in about a week (Cant wait for one line which is going to be a small jump or hump followed by a berm, then a hip type thing off the edge of one of the jumps, followed by a straight, small table, double, double, then some swoopy turns with the option for about 100 feet of single track into an old person neighborhood). Sadly, I found out the skate park that is being built starting sometime this year is going to be skate only. Oh, well.

Plus I'm going up to one of the local MTB parks, which is fairly rare (most of my riding this year has been on some small trails we built down in the woods near where I live).

Damn rain.

Damn you for giving us crappy weather. (thats what we're going to have in the morrow).

You won't be missing anything. I ride a park once a year and each time it reminds me how much I hate skate parks. They can be fun if you got the park to yourself, but that usually isn't the case. Most skate parks really aren't suitable for larger wheeled bikes, due to not being able to achieve any flow from the size of park, and when there are people there, if you have started riding a line and a person decides to start off and cross right in front of you, you are pretty much screwed over. The only skate park that I have enjoyed was Rye Airfield up in NH. Was large enough and had enough space to be comfortable, plus they had it setup where there would be bike nights from 8pm until 12am.

For your area, wait until late fall hits and Rays opens back up. The skate park section there I have heard is big enough for to feel comfortable on with larger wheels.

Eh, I seem to have enjoyed all the parks I've played around at, but as soon as you have to watch for other people or others show up, its not all that fun. If there was something within a 10 min ride (as this one is going to be), it would be worth it.

As for Ray's, I hope to get up there sometime next winter, but not for the skate park section

It this new weather man here, it's all his fault! I swear, he sucks.
Junkyard should be in charge of the weather, the forum , and life in general. Everyone would have young girls, good weather, and new bikes.
I say it again, Junkyard should have the golden jersey and the SB Eagle!!!!!!!!

Hambone and I were out yesterday and sew one of coolest things ever. A guy comes riding up the trail with only one arm. He had sawed his right bar off about 3" past the stem. I didn't get a good look at how he did his brakes and shifters but he was awesome!

Representing IMBA in Cuba!

French canadian with 1/25 cuban?

I have 0% French origin even though I speak the language. I'm Ecuadorian-Canadian.

Damn French-Canadian Commie!

How in the world did your parents meet?

I'm using the American terminology (e.g. African-American). Both my parents are Ecuadorian. A funny thing is that in Canada we don't hyphenate our origins. If you were to walk into little-Italy and ask a random café patron, "What origin are you?". The answer will be, "I'm Italian" even if his family has been here for 3 generations.

We do the same, sometimes. I rarely call myself an Italian/Polish-American. I just say I'm Italian and Polish. If I were in another country I would certainly refer to myself as American though.