Awesome year

So I guess that it is time to reflect, what else is there to do when awake at 3:30 am?

All in all what can I say, it has been great. I have gotten through my first year as a pro with in my opinion some success and definitely some great thing to learn from. But instead of sitting here and talking about my results that already on on the right of this page I will enjoy the trails I got to ride and Awesome people I have met.

I started a race series this year to try to give back to the sport that has given me so many great and painful times. I have been having so much fun with the races from hanging out with the racers to making there leather number plates. It has been a great time and I look forward to continuing the series.

Then I was able to travel for several months this year with Intense and do a bunch of demos for them. I was able to ride some of the coolest trails in this HUGE country, I know I drove across it twice, and also Canada. I have always liked the Intense product and the guys and gals that work there make it so much cooler.

To keep from drawing this out to long I am stoked with were things are at and can't wait to move them forward. Top of that list...? My racing, must get faster!!!

Merry Christmas and I hope that next year is an even better for all!

ITT...well some of it

Today Brian ^ and I decided to go for a good ride. About 2hrs of climbing was on tap, or at least what we had planned. Not sure how much we ended up doing but we stopped when we couldn't pedal any more. The snow about a quarter of the way up was 18 inches deep. It made for great times and extremly cold feet. Enjoy the pics, we certainly enjoyed the snow!!!

1.25 hrs in the not so So Cal weather

Today I had to go out for a ride in the rain. Why? because I have not been able to ride in a couple of day and well we race in any condition so I may as well train in it. It was a short ride because it was cold, 40 degrees, and my fingers went numb. It became difficult to tell if I was braking so I decided to be smart and head home. It was a great time and the faces of cars driving make it all worth while. Thanks to Bill Dixon for providing me with all and more winter gear than I could ever use! I just need to use another set of cloves next time and I will be able to ride longer!

Good times!


From the last trip to Brian Head, Ut. Brian missed the bridge and just rode through the water.

Staying out of the storm

Sportin the pink

At least that is the jerseys for winning the winter series. It is a really cool jersey and trophy! It was great seeing so many friends there and most were winning there catagories! Congratulations to all that got an award for all of the hard work that they have put into it! Thanks also to Donny for the cool awards after a long season.

I raced in the Asterisk Charity race yesterday. What a great time that was. The weather was pretty cold, windy and even had the occasional rain shower, but was some of the most fun I have had in a long time! It started off with a fun ride that was lead by none other that Motocross racer Mike Sleeter that organized the event. Mike has even come out to the last several events I put on and he is tearing it up! He has some serious fitness! After the fun ride there was relay race where Mike paired up a "Beginner" rider with a "Pro" rider. I got to be the other half of the team with Dr. Alexander, a local Dr that fixes all of the top moto guys when break things. Sounds like a great guy to know, just in case. After it all was done I got out a shovel and did some TLC on the Short Track course for the next race.

Dr. Alexander rode like a true champion and by the time he came back from the first lap he had us right where we need to be! I had to chase down a few guys but got the job done and Dr. Alexander and I took home the gold rings for first place. They are cool prizes as they actually came off Sleeter's bike so that made it even cooler! Oh and the skull was my dads years of photography school kicking in.

I also posted the video from the last XC race that I took from the seat post cam.

6 flats in 24 hrs

So here is the NEW flyer for the race. We are going all out on this one! Its a stage race that you can do as an individual or a team! It is going to be a ton of fun and we hope that you will make it out!

Onto this past weekend of riding. I got a ton of long rides in and it was great. All week I was doing a bit longer of rides and then I topped it all off with 3 four or more hour rides Friday- Sunday. Saturday I went for an early morning "pedal" with Rob from X-factor performance and my bud Brian. We started from basically Murrieta High and rode to the towers above Lake Elsinore. Now there is an easy way and a hard way to do this, we took the extremely hard way. It started off with us climbing up SuperMan, then Gerald Davis hill, back to blowout and then to the single track. That was not even all of the riding but it was a great start. We ended up getting almost 40 miles on the day and it was great! Ahh except for all of the flats I aquired. I ended up getting 2 on my bike and then I was going to leave Brians house and had a completly flat tire on the van. I apparently picked up a large piece of metal debris from the road and it went flat while we were riding. The bummer of it all was that we got back to Brian's a little before 1 and I did not make it home till after 4. I guess napping on his pourch and not having the proper tool to change the tire was on tap for the day.

Then I got to go on a ride with Eric Carter, Waylon Smith, Rich Houseman, EC's mechaninc John and Cris who helped develop Whistler bike park. We ended up ridng some trials in the San Juan area that I had never riden before. It was a blas and I can't wait to get back on those trails! Riding with those guys is so much fun. It really pushes me to ride with them but we are all there having a great time eating candy as we are doing some epic trails. All in all a great weekend. Oh and as a side note I pulled out the bike from my van in the morning and the bike had a flat, on the ride I flatted, and the van has a slow leak in another tire now. Ahh good times.

All that being said it was still less than Brian got in his first 4 laps of his first 24hr solo race. He got 7 flats in just about 4 hours. I don't feel so bad. Have a great day!