growing dirt

blurry dude who'd like more laps here on his own bike

the local pump track is off and growing on it's own.

seems every day or two there is a significant change led by BrettD with some reluctant help from the middle school rippers.

the track was seriously resurrected last Fall by Jessee and Daron and their equipment and dirt.

Their center tabletop jump raised the bar for the regulars and brought back the attention of the serious local BMX riders.  One of the best things about that was that it was not my idea.  So cool that someone else took it and ran with it.

Brett has ramped that up another level with several new step-ups and jumps and smoother berms.  He was still out there working.at 9:30 last night.
After many years of posting signs for April and October workdays and pinging local mtn bikers for help and having no one show up, it's great to see others now taking the initiative themselves.  These guys are far more creative than I, and the track and bike community have benefited from that.
I've seen a lot of new BMX bikes and helmets at the track, purchased from the shop down the street, whose owner was pretty skeptical about the track when we were building it.  Nice to see him reaping some sales.

Harlan stylan

Cranx - Syracuse

www.cranx.com/

the flat pump track,

there were also a couple of downhill pump/flow tracks, but too hard to get any good pix of those

Oliver spent most of the second day in the foam pit

the big box jump at the end of the expert line

we didn't mess around in the skills section too much,
rather pump and jump

the end of most runs, cool way to slow down

if the shutter was at 1/250, I went down at 1/500

gratuitous self-promo to get something else up on the page
Facebook is taking more and more content.....

Paleo Man

just one of the many characters out that day

SSPBE 2011
thanks for the pixels DKeg and Jason.

Pump Track Version 4.0

North Park Freeride & Skills Park

HI 2

a few days after.....

2 days before Irene (Thurs)

the commute

Thurs. at the Lighthouse

the only pixels grabbed at Slatyfork
the hardest Wild 100 ever
thanks to the rally car race keeping us off of 135 and Mine Roads

HI 1

what an old man once-a-year surfer craves
most of the week was choppy on-shore with a wicked current.
it cleaned up a bit toward the end of the week,
the Frisco Pier has fallen apart and the sandbar has grown. Still a good low tide spot

W@W 1

So nice to return to the site of former mediocrity last night and see so many old riding friends. It's great when my work day in VA matches the W@W schedule. Such a rippin' place to ride, with 3 crashes in a 1-hour race. The only one that was a goof-off was trying to manual the creek crossing.
Pulled up too hard
Got Upside down
clipped in
Wheels to the sky
ass in the water
Special

That one put a spot of hurt on one arm and and another crash mashed my already mangled other hand. Gonna be nice to head to the surf in a couple days with a couple wounded wings and some freshly removed skin.
So.Special.

Earlier crash 50-seconds into the race put me at the back of the pack w/ no hope of making up many places.Special.
I'll hope for 2 rain-outs so I can make it to the last race on the make-up date.
I'll be kickin' some ass on that night.

Germantown, finished

Got Tusc?

all fresh & smiley in the morning fog

things started to change

mid-ride beer and food break at the pool

Thanks Ray, Dave, and Karen for the great weekend