No ... I do not have a garage, but I have a talent for disposing stuff that I have not used in two years.

haha, all i did was qoute one of my tandem riding friend ;)

if you hurt your bike its a lot more than bugger all :(

its $800 more than bugger all

Touche'.

I've never seen any sort competition on a track (running or velo) be run counter-clockwise. But the water goes down the toilet the other way down there... ;)

When I fall on my bike it's usually something stupid and in front of a lot of people. Like how I was lugging a case of beer around last week, tried to start pushing through an intersection, my hand slipped and I just fell over in the intersection....in front of about 20 people and a couple cars.

Ego was more bruised than anything but atleast the beer was ok.

Vert ramp in Corvallis….was that the one over in the big park by the river, probably 2 miles south of OSU. Pretty big ramp if my memory serves me correctly.
I always saw that back there and always wanted to ride it, they tore it down a couple years ago I think-

i have no idea...at the time i was 18, this was so long ago. i had never been to oregon. it was for an NSA amature contest. the ramp was there already and the NSA was building a mini ramp for the contest (that i never got to enter because i was in the hospital, smoking marlboros and eating bad food and thinking about how my pro career jsut went up in smoke). Maybe that was the ramp. it was seriously almost 13ft tall. lots of vert. i wasnt even entered in the vert contest, just skating in the practice sessions with friends waiting for the mini to be built.

in my years of skateboarding taught me to do a pretty nice little MacGyver roll out of any fall i seem to put myself into

I'm 40 in May.
Martial Arts 10 accumulated years
Skateboarding 27 years
banned for life by wife for dislocating kneecap and now having holes in the bones in my knee..... still want a long board though...or a mountain board lol
Military-ness cadets reg and reserves 7 years.
Skiiing/Snowbaording 12years.
Messenger in Montreal 6 years.

Nothing like a big air to splat on the 'crete on your stick to teach you the value of being able to roll out your momentum. Like when you ollie the big staircase. I have virtually no cartilage in my knees anymore and the mass of scar tissue on them is something I am proud of most ppl think it's odd. I can slide across pavement now.... get up brush myself off and get back on and ride away dripping blood. The surgeon still wants to fillet my knee and fill the hole in my bone with bits taken from the upper part of my leg to fix the damage from the dislocation. When I can't ride or walk dude. All of it makes me a better rider/crasher. I very rarely get hurt, even when I took a door in the knee at 45kms it spun me 9 feet into the other lane. I give myself whiplash keeping my noodle off the road (no lid...hot day), got up, pickup my **** and continued to ride to work. Word to skating.

Lookin' forward to a fixie setup this summer, promise I will let you laugh cuz I'll be laughin' too on the side of Queen St.

i used to skate in toronto in the late 80's, i worked at hogtown skates at the old woodbine station location, i rode for rodent skates too, used to skate perry's ramp on danforth, skate zone, the cow ramp outside of kingston, street skating in toronto was the best...were you around back then?

edit: jsut noticed you are 40, i'm 34. in skating 6 years is a big difference, maybe we didn't cross paths back then...

Nope I rippin' up Montreal back in the day, went to the Transworld Worlds @ the Vancouver Expo.... oh the parties with the pros were amazing. I heard there was a vert ramp where you dropped in from the second floor, wish I'd that. I got the skate the Clown Ramp from Austin, TX when they rebuilt it in Ottawa. fun. I miss the big air days but getting too old for mashin' my knees.

i was at expo. i was 14 years old. saw the pro vert contest. but something about an all night shroom trip and not coming home got me grounded and i missed out on the rest of the contest at the north van bowls. they re-built the clown ramp in ottawa? crazy.

Yea it was there for only a little while, I had to quit my job to get the time to go skate it.

was tom boyle at those sessions? or steve coffee?

Steve Coffee is like my brother from another mother...... holmes!!!!
Yes he was doing his crazy rotorouters...we drove up in his Austin Marina from Montreal.
I remember Tom winning a comp in montreal at the Beaubien ramp ...won a snowboard and then dropped into the ramp with it. He went balls out crazy when he turned pro. Good on him.

haha!!! yeah, there you go. here's steve coffee, invert on a chair, with greg lowe holding the chair

I swear he could pull an invert in the shower!!!! He was in my wedding party. Messed his shoulder chasing superior snowboarders in Whistler years ago, they popped over he followed to a rather large drop he wasn't expecting. He's fine now. Haven't heard from him in years.

Steve was a monster on a stick.