Memorial Day (new photos)
Lots of bike related news and photos.
First up: The Westside Invite.
The Westside Invite is a west coast bike messenger race held on Memorial Day Week-end in Portland every year. Jon decided to race the this year. Jon is a 1/3 partner in Tonic, a fantastic welder, a parent of a skateboarder, and a damn good cook. He trys to keep a low profile, but his striking resemblence to young Richard Gear gets him a lot of attention anyway. Jon is sitting next to Drew , taking full advantage of the warming and pain-numbing effects of beer after a cold and wet Alley Cat Race: HPIM1115.JPG
One no-show for the race, Alfred Bobe, defending "King of the Track" (fastest fixed gear rider) from the NACC, and Tonic rider. No word on why he couldn't make it to defend his title, but I know we would have liked to have seen him ride. Fortunately former PDX resident, Bill Dozer, was able to return from NYC for the event. Bill's a very talented writer and organziner. Bill's excellent site can be found here. I also managed to pick-up a new copy of a Seattle Bike culture magazine called Cranked. It's worth getting, if possible. Small, but glossy, and with excellent photography.
One of the check points in the main race was an obstacle course course which included a teeter-tooter, a slalom, a narrrow bridge over a pool of Organic Hobo Pee and a finally through a wasteland of old X-mas trees, scooters and 2x4's. Here are as many good photos from the event as I could take with Tonic Fab's (again) broken camera!?!? That story below...
TonicTrack.JPG
ChubHub.JPG
PeePuddle.JPG
TEETERTOTER.JPG
Bikes_1.JPG
HPIM1106.JPG
SOAKER.JPG
It's been raining a ton here and I think everyone's been going a little crazy because of it. I had already been at the Salem Indoor Park the previous week with Aaron Lutze, where we had an exclusive run of the place. I really hope this Park gets some more traffic, because it's well laid-out, well made, and really fun.
This week, I went to the Park with Drew and we had a really memorable session. Scottish photographer and Dig Magazine contributor Fred Murray was there, along with Metal Bikes pro, Caleb Rucker, a slightly broken "little" Kaleb (2nd in Pro at the OC Park jam), as well as recent pdx transplant Gilles, who's working on opening a arts collective and cafe off Belmont, in addition to a Salem local whose name escapes me. Amazing session that lasted untill well past 1am. Everyone used the park completely differently, with some especially creative riding done by Gilles. I look forward to riding with him more in the future. As you can imagine Caleb Ruecker and Little Kaleb destroyed the place. Speaking of destruction, I wound up breaking our camera again crashing on a fufanu attempt gone wrong. I'm fine, but it looks like the camera will need to be repaired again. The lesson, again..don't ride park with camera in your pocket.
Here's the only photo I've got from that night....
FredTheFingerandCaleb.JPG
Over and out.
L
First up: The Westside Invite.
The Westside Invite is a west coast bike messenger race held on Memorial Day Week-end in Portland every year. Jon decided to race the this year. Jon is a 1/3 partner in Tonic, a fantastic welder, a parent of a skateboarder, and a damn good cook. He trys to keep a low profile, but his striking resemblence to young Richard Gear gets him a lot of attention anyway. Jon is sitting next to Drew , taking full advantage of the warming and pain-numbing effects of beer after a cold and wet Alley Cat Race: HPIM1115.JPG
One no-show for the race, Alfred Bobe, defending "King of the Track" (fastest fixed gear rider) from the NACC, and Tonic rider. No word on why he couldn't make it to defend his title, but I know we would have liked to have seen him ride. Fortunately former PDX resident, Bill Dozer, was able to return from NYC for the event. Bill's a very talented writer and organziner. Bill's excellent site can be found here. I also managed to pick-up a new copy of a Seattle Bike culture magazine called Cranked. It's worth getting, if possible. Small, but glossy, and with excellent photography.
One of the check points in the main race was an obstacle course course which included a teeter-tooter, a slalom, a narrrow bridge over a pool of Organic Hobo Pee and a finally through a wasteland of old X-mas trees, scooters and 2x4's. Here are as many good photos from the event as I could take with Tonic Fab's (again) broken camera!?!? That story below...
TonicTrack.JPG
ChubHub.JPG
PeePuddle.JPG
TEETERTOTER.JPG
Bikes_1.JPG
HPIM1106.JPG
SOAKER.JPG
It's been raining a ton here and I think everyone's been going a little crazy because of it. I had already been at the Salem Indoor Park the previous week with Aaron Lutze, where we had an exclusive run of the place. I really hope this Park gets some more traffic, because it's well laid-out, well made, and really fun.
This week, I went to the Park with Drew and we had a really memorable session. Scottish photographer and Dig Magazine contributor Fred Murray was there, along with Metal Bikes pro, Caleb Rucker, a slightly broken "little" Kaleb (2nd in Pro at the OC Park jam), as well as recent pdx transplant Gilles, who's working on opening a arts collective and cafe off Belmont, in addition to a Salem local whose name escapes me. Amazing session that lasted untill well past 1am. Everyone used the park completely differently, with some especially creative riding done by Gilles. I look forward to riding with him more in the future. As you can imagine Caleb Ruecker and Little Kaleb destroyed the place. Speaking of destruction, I wound up breaking our camera again crashing on a fufanu attempt gone wrong. I'm fine, but it looks like the camera will need to be repaired again. The lesson, again..don't ride park with camera in your pocket.
Here's the only photo I've got from that night....
FredTheFingerandCaleb.JPG
Over and out.
L
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