Manx Missile

tour de france finish 2009 (stage 21)

Slappy Rim Truing Service available!!!

talking about this last night and wanted to post it so everyone could see Slappy's truing technique. niRAD

Squinnerz

A hardy troupe of upward mobiliserz had an inclination at Sunny DeLight last night.. BRNz, HollenBak & NiRad & Sz made it a 2-hut night.  Sean, Tim and Tim met us up top.  We put bladez on our feet, which helped us descend in fine fashionne.  Traci was there, too?  We think.

Wednesdayz.  Its becoming a bit of a habit...

skate

Adam Kimmel presents: Claremont HD from adam kimmel on Vimeo.

Saturday night WhOMpWHomp in T-Ride

they got a snice free album 2 download 2

STompa SKI PArty!

Ski Party (1965) Trailer

titanium cojones required

http://www.gamaniak.com/video/3625

Greetingz TeamTitaniumStompaZ,
please watch the instructional video (link attached). We will begin our weekly training rides down the El Jebel/Basalt Mtn hill progressing to Indy Pass training sessions in May 2010. Uniform measurements need to be turned in to my office by April 8th 2010.
Regards,
Coach R2

Lance Armstrong locates Proper AC Adaptor on Rack

You can dream it

from brain of g

puke fest

havent seen that much snow collect in yer lap on the chairlift ride in who knows how long, sheesh, now i just gotta get my tele boot to align with my realigned leg, , i knew they didn't bolt that thing back together quite straight.. aaanywho pray fer snow

Need one of these at every GearX and HQ

So sad

So sad Brad doesn't loOK at the interweb anymore, his neighbor doesn't seem to be supporting his wireless appreciation so much these days..













Ah well, it's probably better that way, see you on the fax side brn

you has bikes?

here's a backyard somewhere, sure wish I knew where!!

steeeckrz

ker

















Black and white stompa stickerz arriving in the year 2010, preparation and timing always and fo-eva

xtra xtra

While everyone should of course ride an XTRAcycle as much as possible
They should also drive toyota corollaz', which isn't the case, instead there's the suv.
The corolla though seems to be the basic premise of many an xtra, and that's cool, that's cool..

While it might seem like a good idea to drive some sort of monster truck, it's NOT!

AN XTraMONSTompa on the other hand, is the perfect remedy to the corolla blues
basic recipie, 69'r dual disc xtra w/ gearz, match the position of your raddest baddest meanest bike, STomp IT
and a Nokian studded 29'r x 2.1 in front is just plain silly

Earrings are in!!

Got a bunch of earrings made up in the last few days and made a display for em to hang on too, it's all recycled stuff that was just laying around and NOT going to the landfill. Fellas come and get some for your special lady friend, cause they're flying out the door, or call me at 970-945-8500 and I can ship 'em to ya!!! niRAD

I'm so over da internet

Not the safest blog for fragile youngsters, but with pix like this, I'msoovertheinternet rules

Top Things that would Redeem Obama's Peace Prize

Start some more wars..

Juan Cole's INformed Opinion

The world has noted the irony that President Barack Obama is delivering his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize after launching an escalation of the Afghanistan war. Of course, the critique is a little misplaced, since the prize is for a specific policy success, not for being a pacifist.

Still, Mr. Obama was clearly given the prize to encourage him in the direction of peace. It is the tragedy of the sole superpower that it is unconstrained by peers and so can launch wars of choice and shatter international law at will. It can be counseled but not blocked. He was awarded this honor as a counsel.

So here are the things Obama can do to redeem his prize.

1. Get out of Iraq on schedule. We can't stop their low-intensity conflicts, and they are more likely to compromise with each other if we are not there.

2. Resist calls for Iran to be bombed. Such a raid would guarantee that Iran would start a crash program to develop a nuclear weapon, and there would be no way to stop it short of full-scale war.

3. Stop allowing the CIA to operate drones with which to assassinate people. It is illegal and shameful. The US military must be in charge of defending the country by force or we are a police state.

4. Get the Palestinians a state by the end of 2011, even if by unilateral recognition. Palestinian statelessness is the biggest human rights scandal in the world, since citizenship is the right to have rights. This step alone would solve the bulk of US problems in the Arab world and would deal a deadlier blow to al-Qaeda than capturing Bin Laden.

5. Stick to the plan of beginning a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2011. Karzai and the generals will attempt to embroil us in a decades-long quagmire. No one will remember his Nobel peace prize if President Obama lets that happen.

Finally some KNeeDipperz

What can i say, telewhackn' rules all


Powderwhore 'FLAKES' Trailer

snows comin

I meant,, yeaah

Eric Pollard - 08 edit

EP

Eric is so snice

Hallelujahhh

Holidazzle time comes in squirts and spurts for stompaz.. Depending on the timing and preparation, some things just present them selves with gratitude, whenever. Such was the case for BRN at the freebox, perhaps the same one my pink Rollerblade skate bag came from, and he bestowed upon moi a fresh and glorious Rollerblade fannypack, thus filling a rather sizable hole in my life, (no fannypack). Thanks babyJesus, i mean BRD
happyhappy, Holidazzle
sick powder day today too, great bladin'

BroYo

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At the drop of a Hat, Bro Bennski, hopped up the road from duhrango, dragging with him a large pile of snow, and just so happened to get involved with STompRADion KOTO.org last night, and woke up to heaping heaps of freshly arrived freshies. Scampered up onto the hill we did, to revel in the first powder day of the season. The previous snow pack being in such sorry shape that on the blue square terrain of lift five the hordes where stompin the fresh into settling movement all about. STAY Away from the steep stuff, sheesh! It was rad.. then we came back and Ben Photoshopped his way right into the heart, before skipping back over the reopened Lizard Head pass, back to Duhwango for a day at Wolf Creek manana with it's supposed 45" , sheeesh And in Ben's benevolance he hooked a swell fresh pair of gogglez for moi for the holidayz. So snice to see, and it's just gettin started..

Oh yeeeah

So, 18 hrs of fruita, STMPRZ participate in the race on xtras, perhaps as two teams of 5, and we all ride there from bonedale, en mass, camping over mclure en route to coal bran, and arriving in fruita, either early, or at 12:12 pm

PROdoperZtOUR

Yah so u may have heard, the PROdoperZTour is a long way away, 247 days give or take a month. Gonna be in Telluride, gonna be good. Gettin it in order in my braincave.. came across a couple hundred yard drive way thats closed and hasn't been built on, since it's on the side of the fairly steep east side of the town canyon,, perfect tractor pull venue, whoever is on the tractor pull if the cops come, just bomb drop down the side of the mountain..
Skid contest down by the river. . bingerHILClIMb starts as a group climb around the BoomVAN, which will be boomin it's way up mill creek road in neutral mobile binger boomer hill climb mode, then up eider... uuuuh trying to envision a final stage where we all end up passed out in a field, probably in a pile like Where the WildThings R, and probably a ROAD stage, it is the PDT afterall
Oh and wherever this STreet STOMper is, it'll be in Telluride for the PDT, raced as one of the fixxee relayz' and the winner will take it home.

winter go downhillNOW

I luv g3 skiz

Dem bunnnyhawkz so snice

I sure hope he makes the finals.

Mssr. Bridges was 49 when he played The Dude in the Big Lebowzki...   He's 60 now, a mere 100 years older than SteevZ?

Smoooz

Well, upon return, I think this last lil bike ride may have been one of the most immersive and deep pain cave visits i've experienced in long time.. Drove over the pass from t-ride and pulled over near Rico to start.. Nice reverse tailwind for 20 mi or so into Dolores on a lovely Wednesday, reasonably temperate; while staring at an eagle across the Dolores river up in a tree at one point, another eagle dropped in from behind and flew next to me for a bit before perching up in another tree. Upon rounding the corner towards Mancos the wind all of a suddenly got real friendly. With my wide disc-niner rear rack and panniers on the Cooper I was in full sail mode, clickin' the big ring up and over the risers and arriving in durango with time for a shower a nap, some dinner, all before Ben started his party at the abby theatre. Which went well, especially the whompwhomptakincareofbizness part and 5 o'clock in the morning is always a pretty good time to go to bed at benz i guess. Combining timing and preparation for a leisurely sleep deprived take off I settled into 20 degree weather and a ripping headwind for the next 6 hours or so. Luckily i got to start with a nice long climb up 160 out of town. So much for the big ring. Luckily I had totally spaced any tools or the like and had my seat a little too high on the ride there so my knees were good and stretched and sore, no aero bars to hide from the wind, and as always, you don't need to have fun to have fun. Had a piece of cake at the Absolute Bakery in Mancos to make me feel slower. After making the turn up the Dolores canyon hoping that wind would be cooperative ( it wasn't) and the sun went away, I started to wonder just how cold it was gonna get, and where exactly I'd parked. Along came my pal Juju, just back from getting an Alpaca pack raft in Mancos, and he gave me a lift for the last 15 mi or so, which would have been pretty cool in the dark; that was just fine by me, 13o mi of semi loaded riding for a dance party, yeah it's called STOMPN. xoxoxo PainCave!

Diesel Electrificationne

Its always hard to miss a Full Moon Krooze with the Stompaz.  There so are many stompaz worldwide,  I think more of us miss the FMC's than attend them.  Expatriotz just have to piece together their own little FMC, in some form...  and we ride with them.  The full moon can be stomp'd from wherev.
Thx to Diesel for progressing the sport with pyrotechnics.  If the lights don't flash, burn some rubber!  (or send 10,000 volts through the thing, just for good measure)
By the good fortune of advanced robotics, the boomstracycle is self-healing, and lives again to bump another day.  (night)

The solar charging system, though, has seen its last days of converting light into sound...

Are there solar panels designed for combat?

Coool Cooper Tourin'

Been so long since i changed the rear tyre on the Cooper I forgot about one of the sweetest bike bits there be.. Velo Plugs from Velocity via the gearX! Instead of rim tape, little red plastic plugs that go in the spoke holes of your rim.. off for a lil cool tourin down to durango for BTricerhops show tonight, gonna bypass lizard head pass, don't really need a 10k+ pass with a chance of snow even though i changed tyrez too a 28rear 25 front, still gatorskinz, not studded.. mmm cooldSTompN

ssusa

in the unlikely event that you STiLL like bikes, perhaps you'll be interested to hear about

SSUSA – February 6th 2010 – Tucson, AZ

I cannot forecast to you the action [at SSUSA]. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is the [SSUSA rider].” - Winston Churchill (in spirit)


The first 100 people get in, may well already be in, don't mean stompaz will be to sad about STompN in!

turkeytimez

turkey time

Reiterating STompaz Safety theory

Travis' FLIP BIKE double flip!

sweriously, that looks safe

jvt is actually white

turkeytractoring

On and around the turkeyholiday we took out my dad's tractor in Hotchkiss and drove it around. He was doing his part in Vermont by having a bonfire for his 60th bday. hooray BURNiT!

aaalright 'twas a pleasure

Masachistic Schleck Bros Enter Brutal off-season Training-Camp.

VinceLand

I've been all stoked on the writing of Vince and upon reading back a couple years of his excellent posts, i discover that he grew up in VT where I did, snowboarding on the same hill, DaaaaNg

from vinceland.com

-- " Thank you for putting questions in my head: “Do I NEED a truck?”, “Couldn’t you LIVE without a big truck?”, “It’s SO big.”, “Why do you need a truck that BIG?”.

Reality: I am a big man who admires big trucks. I don’t even care what color they are.

If it’s big and strong, I’d drive a pink one and still kick your ass in it.

As a big man who will always like big trucks, and one who has the means to own one, I may just buy one soon, and drive it happily.

Just letting you know, so you can prepare to keep your comments inside, bottled up.

And keep your horribly lame, hybrid wimp-mobile in the slow lane, for as long as it makes you feel better about yourself.

Vince is GREat!

randomsiteFRIendyyy

Stop denying yourself some serious, completely harmless, socially networked fun.

TURN IT UP!!! AND RIP THE KNOB OFF!

i think i may have just blown one of the studio speakers, good way to start off stomparadiotride

STOMPARILLLAradio

Tonight like everyother monday night there will be stompaz on the air.. but now its double your pleasure time, StomPA TRIDE overlapping slightly in a new slot, 9:30-12 every otra monday starting tonight on koto.org plan on playing lots a briteyes for brad so he gets pumped for his 11-1 kdnk.org slot of course kdnk,org may or may not be streamin worldwide much these dayz, koto is tho. . schweet

in da ocean

MAN, Ween OceanMan live in Albany '06

Maui

Well SCooba SteveZ is finding new and fun stuff to do with the fam in maui, which i just happened to catch on the LIVE webcam, seems like the amphibious stompn is really comin along out there on the 50ish state.. as someone in our fabled military industrial complex once said, kill 'em all, let GOD sort 'em out.. stmp

YeeeHA

South Carolina shoppers will get a second chance to buy tax-free guns. The state Revenue Department sent out a reminder Wednesday of the upcoming "Second Amendment Weekend." The 48-hour tax break begins just after midnight the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Shoppers will pay no state or local sales taxes on handguns, rifles and shotguns, which can tally 9 percent. Taxes still apply to ammunition and accessories.

the nation

Tastes like homo?

Found these couple of pics online, pretty classic. Rollerblades r sweet!! niRad

All You Haters Suck My Balls

Just in case you missed the memo from NY.

Telluride Hockey Time

Yup, Telluride Hickey is sweet, makes my ankle feel funny

YA SURE U BETCHA

YA, WELL IT DUZ SEEM TO BE SUM BUNNY'S DAY OF ESCAPE FROM ZE BIRTH CANAL

ANYBUDDY EVER SEEN DIZ BUNNY? HE SKIDZ, YA YA SURE HE DUZ.

whiterim.

yupyup

Did we ever!!

Just got the pix up here

HOw glorious!! STompn at it's finest with some fine STompaZ! Nirad and Getty failed to rally any more roaring fork stomprz, as did Skotty2hotty and myself, but of course 4 turned out to be the perfect number.. 4:20 am saw us awake but in the proud tradition of preperation and timing coming together, we didn't pedal out till 5:30.. and it wasn't until 5:30pm that we encountered our first rain. Prior to that was nothing but beautiful White Rim goodness, tacky dirt, shreddy shredness, and so on and so forth. The last 10 miles or so did see us paying our dues with an epic mud-bog double track that threatened to swallow our bikes whole, but instead just stopped all moving parts, like wheels. Luckily we all know a bike mechanic for that lovely post mud fest overhaul, (aim the pressure washer into the bearings)
And we managed to get up and out of mineral bottom the next morning, but not before doing the right thing for the PBR's awaiting us, (stompn 'em in succesion) eating burgers with salad dressing and passing the f out! NOt quite 100 mi but the White Rim in a day no less, and plenty happy happy all around..

Skotty didn't like bikes or anything at the end of the final mud slog, but he just called and said he's in search of a permit for a three day STompR Tour with lots of frisbee golf for sometime in the vicinity of 4.20.2010. . .sickter. . . thanks guys for showing the way, just gotta believe!!

photoZ

White rim!?@%^^*

Check it out!! We snuck this one in, barely!!
Go to http://thegearexchange.blogspot.com for more fun.
Sorry tried to insert link and it failed, unlike us on the Whitest of rims yesterday!! We did not fail, we stomped!!!!!!!!!!!!! niRAD

In case you just HAPPEN to be in Tempe 2nite...

I found religion. it's a 29er

This just in from Jamey Evans, AKA Sid. (Vicious)  He is a federale, and one of our front line front rangerz:

I saw the water turn to wine right below my hands and feet.  The conversion of this pilgrim was very quick.  One ride is worth a thousand words, and two rides (on two different full suspension 29ers) is worth two-thousand...uh....dollars actually.  Which is roughly what I dropped this week on the 29er that will carry my smiling arse the next ten+ years.  I have joined the Chris, Novy and Brian 29er bandwagon by getting a Salsa Big Mama.  Thank you gentlemen for showing me the way.  My long autumn of test riding bikes came to a lovely end with this new, wonderful toy.  I've attached a picture of the new baby. Novy--you'll really love this part.  I just happened to be wearing the Greenline Architects jersey while test riding and the guy at the shop asked where I got it.  "I got an architect buddy in Carbondale" I said. "Steve Novy?" he asked!  Yep, this small world had Adam Williams helping me look at the end-of-season deals at the Golden Bike Shop!  Quite a hoot.  Adam knows his stuff and is a great guy despite the fact he knows you well.  Was nice to be able to buy a bike from him--from his good advice all the way to the "friends of Steve Novy discount" I said I should receive at the end (which I did).

Glad to be about the good ship 29er, captain.  Peace.  And big wheels.

COLD TYPE

Hot Dogg, more stuff to read at http://www.coldtype.net/Section2.html

RAIL

Oh yeah there was a MEATSTORM

it wuz sweeet. . thanks to Ricks Dads' shirts' for makin sure that JVT showed up outta the purple and Roger cookedGOOD. . and Michael , , and then the Ladiez who made things soo niicee. . mmm MEAT STORM

Boulders on Broadway

Chris Reichel is the man. Not as in copz, but as in bein' a stomperrrr. This bici- friendly establishment around the corner from his HQ has the bike parking inside!
Check out his post on DC.


Sz

cracked

http://pruned.blogspot.com/ really is swell.. this photo from a bit about the changing climates associated with rising sea levels..

and go those who enjoyed the screening of Craig Kellys' "the Smooth Groove" the other night should go check out the 'throwback thursday' clip on the burton site of Craig and co. riding roofs in canda. super sweet..

Fee nix

Just heard a very inspiring speech by Al Gore... You know, the guy who used to be our next president! He didn't come out and say straight up that stompin Is the answer. But we all know that it is.

Speakin-o-stompin, Headed over to DrunkcyclisChris' place momentarily for some international diplomatic talks and bici ridin. Roller derby pub crawl on Fridee.

Sz

BUnnYHAwK

Justin the friendly BunnYHawkarilla got a sweet new ride, be a lot sweeter with some tuneage

This is WHATHAppenS

When it rains, you have to sleep on concrete and nothing dries out. BUt someone might bring you some mcdonalds for breakfast, as happened to be the case when i slept on this particular concrete pad in... indiana? illinois? somewhere it rainZ!!

Don't you have a nice coat?

Not to be too much of a pain, but I heard that most cyclists have some sort of fancy jacket that they covet as an ultimate rain deterrent device. Now, that doesn't mean it will keep you safe from swimming, but certainly a little shower shouldn't hurt... I mean, how muddy can sand get? Anyways, for the somewhat brave at heart, scattered showers should not deter your quest for pain and suffering amongst the canyons of your dreams. And, Sunday? That's the lords day of rest for god's sakes....... But seriously - does it even rain in the desert?

Of course it does, and if so - maybe I could get lucky enough to show you my famous flying boulder tackle knee attack face plant move. It would at least be fun for the rest of you to watch them put in the stitches. Or get a sweet photo of purple blood filled lips. Just a thought.

:)

Blast from the Past

So this guy obviously caught me in St Louis but then he found me on FB the other day, man i had forgot just how amusing seeing yourself was..

KETC | Living St. Louis | Cross-Country Cyclist

NoMoP-p-pOLO

The Stomparillaz 2009 BiciPolo season will go down in history as the strongest showing of a new team in an old sport, ever.
Y'all did great, and next year's gonna be even better.
I got some ideas for improved mallet designs, and some new moves...  I'd love to get together for a snow polo match some time soon, once we've got a consistent layer of the stuff.

I'm calling it good for this season. Thanks everbuddie!

On Tuesday nights, I'll be skinning up Sunlight, so plan to join in. ( we usually meet at 7:00 at the parking lot)
Long live the Stompaz,

We WILL stomp, and we will not not be confused.  Hugz,  Sz

MEAT Storm

Meat and EAT some local and organic MEAT at Bradz Saturday Eve-- 4:20-ish bring whatev you got that fits the bill, local, dead, tasty, or beer

a

"In a nameless mountain town, faced with the monotony of a prescribed American Life, a group of young rollers from a Creative Cycling Collective. Their organization, known as the StomparillaZ Brigade, blends a ridiculous zest for life with a passion for human powered transport. In a world faced with dreary personality and environmental collapse, their idea spreads. Stompa chapters are formed from Denver to Dublin to Dubai. But Internal strife threatens the solidarity of the group, when one strand takes the lawless route while the other takes the peaceful. But then, another more powerful force, the mothafuckinCOPS____, threatens to crush the world-changing movement all together. The Stompas must unite or be destroyed. Even then, they may not be strong enough to overcome, they certainly don't have a loud enough army of boombikes yet. Needless to say their desire to do more with less is at odds with all that surrounds them and there appears to be no limit to how much their country would like to consume. In the unlikely event that things work out that Stompaz will still be easily amused and continue to look forward to goofing off on bikes and not going into the bar, playing music loud enough that someone is annoyed, and generally causing no trouble. As for those lawless Stompaz, eventually their engines will run out of gas and they'll realize that more moving parts don't equal more fun and they'll get back on the bike anyway, so why fight it?

ny

Back in Co after some real nice timez on the right coast, specifically in and around the greater BRKLYN land area.. got to see Palz, ride bikes, and stuff.. pictures never do much justice, least not off da phone.. aanywho here's some anyhow.. peas

Trashy Fiction --Stompalicious

OK. In a recent conversation at the Bonedale Bicycle collective, thoughts turned to the Martial Stompa Arts. It was considered and celebrated that this organization has excelleled in the 2d visual, paint and photographic, printmaking, stenciling, metallurgic, architectural, psychological, recently clay, musical and overall woodie arts. Not to mention a great progression in the overall art of the bicycle. But in the pursuance of global rolling artistic domination, there is always the need to venture into other artforms.

Stompas as of yet are void in the areas of Stompaculinary, Stompachoreographic, and Stompafilm, among others. Standing out to me, the English Professor, is the delinquency of Stompaliterature. While the Stompas have developed a rather original grammatical form, aka StOmPaSpeeek-- this has not yet developed into a fullblown literary artform. In other words, we Gots a MEGAphone--but we aint Gots nO PoEmS!

So, as an insufficiant remedy to this situation, I've decided to write some trashy Stompa fiction as part of http://www.nanowrimo.org/. But I need help. I have a general plot-- but not enough conflict. In otherwords, the Stompas in my story need an evil nemesis. Ideas? Fill in the blank...

"In a nameless mountain town, faced with the monotony of a prescribed American Life, a group of young rollers from a Creative Cycling Collective. Their organization, known as the Stomparilla Brigade, blends a ridiculous zest for life with a passin for human powered transport. In a world faced with dreary personality and environmental collapse, their idea spreads. Stompa chapters are formed from Denver to Dublin to Dubai. But Internal strife threatens the solidarity of the group, when one strnad takes the lawless route while the other takes the peaceful. But then, another more powerful force, the __________, threatens to crush the world-changing movement all together. The Stompas must unite or be destroyed. Even then, they may not be strong enough to overcome the _________."