My First Barspin Backflip
Bicycle, Travel, and Fitness Expo, Minneapolis Convention Center. 2007. First Backflip Barspin on a Box Jump.
Bicycle, Travel, and Fitness Expo, Minneapolis Convention Center. 2007. First Backflip Barspin on a Box Jump.
QBP sent me to Chicago for the week for Progress training. Progress is a programming language which our QBP.com dealer website is written in. That’s right, I’m staying at the Wyndham Four Star Hotel. King size bed, wide screen high def tv, and room service meals every day (I have the best supervisor in the … Read more
Minneapolis Convention Center – This was the second year of this event, and it seems to be growing. We had the same setup as last year with even more tricks. Nick, Bob, and I did 9 shows throughout Saturday and Sunday. At one point we were doing a train where all of us jump right … Read more
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop & look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Frostbike once again… This year we had Drive BMX, Eastern Bikes, FBM, Odyssey, Sunday, UGP, Profile Racing, Answer BMX, Supercross, Primo, Lotek, and a few other BMX brands out for the show. The weather was a bit warmer than last year (2006 was -30 degrees, 2007 was about -15 degrees). It was a great weekend, … Read more
We arrived in Houston and went straight to Adrenaline Skatepark where they let us ride for free and stay after hours. My rear wheel blew up so I rode Eric’s brakeless bike and did some flairs on it for him. The next day we fixed my wheel at the OFP BMX Shop and then went … Read more
All we rode in San Antonio was pure street. We rode downtown and filmed all night. The next day we rode some sweet ditches until the cops kicked us out. We’ve encountered quite a few cops on this trip so far but no tickets yet. This is actually the first update on my phone. We … Read more
We spent our morning in Austin Texas riding through downtown trying to find IHOP. We finally ate our breakfeast and then rode to the other side of downtown to Empire BMX. On the way their, two cops on bikes ran into each other while trying to stop all of us from riding through traffic. They … Read more
QBP is sending Todd, Jay, Darrin, Cal and I to road trip thru Texas to visit a few of our dealers and ride at some local skateparks. Todd got a handful of our vendors (DEFPOPS – Drive, Eastern, FBM, Primo, Odyssey, Profile, Sunday) to sponsor the trip and also send some team riders along to … Read more
I took the day off on Friday and headed out to WI with Elliot, Cal, and Jason. We checked out the first stop of the Props Rock & Roll Tour in Milwaukee. Tons of manly pros were there.. Nyquist, Morgan, Tobias, Scotty, Doyle, Crandall, Ramsdell, etc. We stayed in a very ghetto house that night, … Read more
What A Day. I arrived at Todd’s house in a Tow Truck with my Jeep cause everything shut down while I was driving on 394. Not fun. Anyways, still made it on time to ride. We had over 150 riders in our group go riding in Minneapolis. It was nuts. Imagine 150 riders trying to … Read more
I flew out Tuesday afternoon to Interbike with Cal. There were about 15 other QBP employees on the same flight. Jay, Tony, etc. We have about 75 QBP employees at Interbike this week. Crazy. Our QBP BMX booth had some sweet bright neon colors. I met a ton of dealers and vendors at the show. … Read more
Come check out our shows at the MN State Fair if you have a chance. Shows are every day at 2:30 and 3:30. Last day is Monday the 4th, Labor Day. The level of riding is incredible, so come check it out. It’s only our second day of shows, and there are already double whips, … Read more
Yes I work for this man, and I love it. Steve’s sister and her family actually went to our family’s church while growing up. His nephew Mark & I graduated from the same class. So crazy!
I recently started my first full time postition at QBP (Quality Bicycle Products – Your local bike shop orders their parts from us) where I have currently been working for the past 2.5 years. I am a “Programmer Trainee” meaning I am transitioning out of my year and a half of data entry… Time to … Read more
First time riding the big set at Monkey Village. Frontie in the middle. July 2006. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9OfjpWgDkE
Week one was great! I had an awesome cabin of kids and a great group of 10 riders for instruction each day. Lots of kids learned many new tricks… I taught Hunter (one of the youngest kids at camp) the most massive backflipsOur cabin set the Woodward record for the cleanest cabin ever. We scored … Read more
Spent the day in LA with Erik Engstrom from Drive. We hit up a few cement parks, one was right outside of Compton. Some dude asked me for some money as I was putting my bike together on the sidewalk. He also found some change in the trunk of our car that he took. Very … Read more