2nd annual Thanksgivings Eve Night Ride

This past week Rob and I helped organized the 2nd Annual Thanksgivings Eve Night Ride. It's an alternative for those that don't want to flock like sheep to bars the night before Thanksgiving and see all the douche bags from high school and make pointless small talk about the past.

We had a smaller than expected turn out. Rob, Eric from the North, Alex also from the North(Eric from the North's brother), and myself.

We rode off into the woods w/ packs full of cardboard, a lighter, sausages, peppers, buns, Rob's mystery meat, and cans of Modelo Especial, Heineken , Yuengling, The only hint Rob gave us about his mystery meat was that it crawled across his kitchen floor.

The mystery meat was shrimp in Itailian dressing. In my opinion shrimp is the best for tinfoil cooking on a camp fire

Hungry!

This was also my first ride on my 29ner. Hmmmmm....its ok. I can't get as extreme on it as I can on my 26. I have no issues turning it, but I just can't rail turns like I can on my 26. It does fit me very well and climbs like my road bike. Its just a different bike.

"Cheese steaks, Cheese fries"

Went to the Philly Marathon on Sunday to support Iron Maiden.

I saw Super Dan @ the finish of the Half Marathon. He rode his bike there from his house...Sike!

After the Marathon we went to get some cheese steaks...I prefer Pats, but it was Iron Maiden's day.

We also got some Italian pasteries from Termini Pastries

The Pastries were out of this world.

Housesitting another house and dog this week should be fun!!

EOFDM

Last night Iron Maiden and I went to The Note in West Chester to see Eagles of Death Metal. The Note is Owned by West Chester Local, Bam Margera. Its my new favorite place to see a band. you can stand on the main floor or from the balcony to watch the show. The menu looks pretty tasty. Basic pub fare, I thought the California burger, a lettuce wrap cheese burger w/ avacado, scallions, chedder and the Glutton which is any burger or sandwich on the menu that has 2 grilled cheese sandwiches in place of the bun!

While on tour with the new "guns and roses" Axle Rose hated EOFDM and called them the Pigeons of Shit Metal. The lead singer of EOFDM was so pissed he got a Pigeons of Shit Metal tattoo during the last tour stop in DC.

Rockin out

Another thing that I liked about The Note is they sell Pabst Blue Ribbon tall boy cans and Dogfish Head is on tap

West Chester has been the loudest crowd...Can you dig it!


Rockin out





All the ladies dancing on the stage!.....plus one dude?


Check the Eagles of Death Metal they will rock your pants off.

house/petsitting day 3

the_SHT had their annual go-cart night @ mid atlantic grand prix last night.
2 hours of go-carts leaves you all jittery on the drive home and smelling like gasoline/exhaust/rubber.

Here I am after winning my heat

Art from around my boss's house.
My boss's wife is an artist and has alot of her work around the house.

More Art coming 2maro

House/petsitting day 2

Since I was in road riding central...and it poured its ass off the last 3 days I rode some road. After I did a 30min warm up I stopped by the newest Indie Bike Dealer. My good friend Steve was painting the walls of the store. Steve and I go way back. Steve was my first boss @ a bike shop..BL Wilmington...He taught me alot about retail...and about life. Steve's a good fucking guy, mang!

After I rode an 1hr I stopped back to the shop 2 hang with Garrison...He taught me the most about how bikes work/how shops run. He took me under his wing when I first entered the bike industry... I owe him much respect!!!

From out of the basement and into the free market. Garrison is official legit!

After the shop tour I returned to the house and watched surfing/snowboarding on Fuel TV.

When Iron Maiden got home we made and awesome feast. that included steak, Dijon onions, seasoned asparagus, fresh oven baked rolls, and salad.

With our steak dinner we had some Godfather wine.

This wine is only available from F&N liquors(Nwilmington) and Tim's liquors (Hockessen)...due to the fact that the owners went to Napa a picked out all the grapes.. its real smooth.. and makes ya feel good


I also had my first pomegranate

House/petsitting day 1

Cats with candles in their butts are funny...

Scooter the Dog is my dawg...

..Well that least for this week. I'm watching my Boss's house/petsitting for him while he's playing baseball in Florida.

I'm staying in a dope house, in the middle of the valley(where the road riding is the best), with my Girl friend, Iron Maiden, and i'm 15 mins closer to work!!! life is good

Ruckus @ the Ranch

On Sunday the 9th in South East PA there was the 3rd annual Rancho Relaxo Jump Jam. This Jam was a benefit for Pro BMXer Mike Aitken, who is in critical condition from a crash on his BMX bike on secret/locals only DJ trails in PA.
The jump jam was a great success, $3,000 was raised for his medical bills (most Pro BMXers aren't covered by most insurance companies b/c they are "too much of a risk")

Blogger's Note: Wear a helmet when you ride a bike!!!
Or else you clap your dome!!!

This is a pretty sweet 180 degree concrete berm

Ted in his Anton Chigurh pose

Rotten in his Anton Chigurh pose

It makes the coals heat up



Mountain Dew vid

Fuzzy, Bosch, Roger watching some dope shit

The High Jump Comp

Everyone that made the Jump Jam happen

Raffle/swag toss....

Gavinating

Roger Gripping

Trashcan/Dumptruck?

Orange Fox Fork for Johnboy

Halloween Gears and Beers

Rotten and I did some Gears and Beers action in Newark on Halloween. The next morning was the FairHill Cross race. when we were @ home grown we bumped into Fatmarc and other cross racers. They really liked our costumes. Jan really liked mine, he said I needed a half smoked cigar and a bottle of liquir to go with my costume.

We hit up some other bars and then harassed the BMX riders

Homegrown had the shortest line out of all the bars so we ended up there most of the night.
This band Rocked

The sound guy was doing a ok job

Rotten thought he was doing a better job

The lead singer disagreed

Rotten's Newark slut pose

I was to hung over to race FairHill...But Halloween was awesome