Stickers, Photos, Movies, Stories

This past week has been dynamic.

Lots of rumors and bad information circulating about the status of my former employer. Safe to say the only new product that anyone had any interest in won't be showing up at your local bike shop anytime soon. I can say that with complete confidence.

The things I did for that place...
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Anyway, Jonathon Allen(www.alenink.ws) took that photo.

Here are a few more:

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Had a really fun Wendsday evening. Rolled to Salem with a large crew to ride a new indoor skatepark. Really dug this place. Very clever layout, great flow, and had Bad Brains on the juke box for a while when we first arrived. Very fun session. Ross Mccmaster owned a very "Arvey" like bank to wall feature. Some visiting Czechs rode well. Erik Johnson (www.stump503.com), Charlie and Knobjob, Paul LaClava, Harley..all rode well as usual. Everyone had a great time. Really enjoyed watching a local kid on a white S&M straight-up destroy the place. Huge, smooth and flowing.

From the skatepark we traveled to Aaron Lutze's house (www.matchvideozine.com) to watch his latest. Lots of great footage. I think Cam Mccaul's Evel Knevel style canyon jump was amazing, and Adam Hauck is very dailed. Too bad he couldn't have made it to the Gathering. Speaking of the Gathering, one of my favorite riders a that event, Sam Miller, just got sponsored by Union Street Bikes. Congrats!

Opening up forAaron was PDX local talent, Patrick LaValley. He put this movie together with 2 days of filming, and 1 day of editing. Download here: http://www.patricklavalley.com/video/grotto_med.mov

This video is cool because I think it's very well put together, and shows a couple very entertaining Portland area riding spots. BTW, some of those jumps at the end are 40+ feet!

I applogize to the indivduals currently waiting for Fall Guys. We've had a hang-up at the painter, and wanted to do a one time down tube sticker. This took a little extra time. Your bikes should ship next week, hopefully before Wendsday. Here's your sticker: xupcourier-7.jpg

The graphic is a small portion from an awesome pen and ink illustration that Tony's been working on, and a quote that I found.

That's all for now...

-L