WHoa

YEsterday was looking up. After a morning court date in Delta to deal with a speeding ticket in my friends rocketship i was back in tride and Stash asked if I'd care to join him and Pete Garber for a ride in Cortez. Yup, lookin' up. Beautiful day for shreddin at Phil's world. Three steel 29'r hard tails rallyin' around. Upon stopping at one point i mentioned discovering a crack in my old Niner frame and Pete looked down to see a Huge crack in his Soma Juice. Downtube juncture with headtube, above the underside gusset all the way around to the other side. oh snap! Well having forgotten, among other things, my helmet, I also didn't have a camera to catch the expression. Then a matter of moments later, riding around to meet Pete making his way gingerly back, I started to here awful creaking noises, although I was gradually climbing and didn't experience a big impact in particular, reaching down to the top tube where I'd broken my last SiR9 and just put some tape on over my front cable guide, i felt something. Proceeding to shred I couldn't really ignore the noise and after a bit I had a look under the tape. Same crack as last time, running around the top tube from the front side of the front brake cable guide, with about a centimeter of material remaining intact on top, which of course is plenty. Oh SnAp! Well since I didn't discover the last crack until i got home I figured I'd ride it and see if the entire top tube sheered which it didn't, so aaanyway. WArRaNTY!!!!! maybe they'll opt for internal cable routing this time. Good thing I've got an xtracycle race this weekend and pugsley tour next week and a big hammer for niner dis-assembly.

otra blogz

otra blogz having just spoken with a STompA who went off BUNNYhawkN in Seattle, Justin that is, whose lovely wife Anna (alsoSTOMPA) just gave birth to a ten foot tall baby bunnyHAWK named Swift; i was reminded of an old family friend named EM Swift. A longtime sports writer, his blog has an old SI story about going on a MTB ride with my Dad in VT. Checkit. .

As well as the QuollaBaerZ blog where my brobraTRICERahopZ has dropped some real nice tunes for DL. . .

aaaand, i sure wish the aprilFoolN snow stormZ would knock it off in T-ride and we could get back to great and glorious spring weather. . .

Like my Zeal-a-lotz

D00Mster

DOOm gets after it, floating the Valley Floor in a snow storm, with his sweet pink Crit bike for transport. Prep for da tour

Pix from one of the Ladies of the PoloTourNey....

http://picasaweb.google.com/irwin.maria/LadiesBikePoloTournament?feat=directlink

DANg that wuz a schgweeet tourney

MARCO
polo
awesome tourney, stompaz still have a ways till winnin' no biggeee

Oh yah and Diesel has a magiK stiK and if he was as much of a goal tending punk as FC maybe, maybe mayb

whens bonedale tourney mid june? early july? outer space

PoloTIIIME

SO our world famous SToMpaRIllaZ are off to DurhangoVer for the first BiciPolo TOurney of 20ten & I'm sad to say I cannot join them. But this is a little taste of the tourney we held here in beautiful CarBondale last August - put together by DurangoDevo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK_dKmiiFu6Ll
See you all out of the field soon XOXOX ~R2

nyc stompn

round table

You want a custom round table? I can get you one by three o'clock

fruita tour

So STompAZ, here's a tour, ,
135 Mi to Fruita I mean seriously NiRad will probably do ten times that in 18 horas..
Sweriously though, if we busted a solid 80 mi or so from G-wood on Thursday morn then camped out in the middle of Colbran way, we could ride in Friday Morn 50 down river to Fruita, take a lil nap and be ready to STomp @ Midnight .. . so anyway there's that We could ride wed eve and spend it longer, who can?

As you know, sometimes the stomp stomps us and if this plan proves to problematic, so be it.
REgardless ThiNK about it, when was last time you snuggled with your xtra?

peas out, slappy

Lest we forget

The sweetness

Timin' and PreperatION y STOMPN

APRIL foooolZ , jeez 11.11 " of glorious sunlight powder and some stompaz stompn away a april foolz evenin' Stars even came out of the storm. . . and in the attempt to be done with drivin' i returned a nice '96 toyoyo and hitched a ride back in a 10 cyclinder diesel vw, which i managed to drive way to fast/notfast enough and got a ticket in delta, just dessert for 4200' mi of crosscountry speedlimit pushin' aaaah jeez time to shut down tellllluride

Good idea.

Highline Lake STate Park,  for our campsite, #27, WEd & Thur BEFORE the Fruita Race.  Turns out NiRad is racing, and the rest of us are chasing him, in a supportive, constructive kind of way, of course.  Like by throwing water balloons from the canoe..

So, get there early...  and set up the tramp.  If any one asks, you're Stevesie G. Novy, III.

This blatant squatting action, combined with some sweettalkin' to the campground host & hostess... (they like pastries)  and we should be good.

Crested Butte FTBW

if there was every an event or place that screams STOMPAstomp! it would be crested butte's fat tire bike week. i'm mean, 24 cruiser race? Chainless downhill? YES! Just a thought, that we all could make cb our home for that week, and show all what stompin' means. it's snowing outside, byebye!

nice work oBAMa

Weeenin' onez' self off whichever mediaz come easily and regular, well it's often very pleasant to forgo that commentary

but then

stumblin

back

upon

Danny Schecterz'

NewsDissector

he's a good read

now and again

The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling for the first time, officials said Tuesday.

Remind me: Is this another turnaround on a campaign stand? Again?

xtr

STomp till yer DEAf , xtraWhompariLLa trainin' for somethin'' . . .

oneTHOuzanD

Obama oh no you dinint.

Trash talken Social Democrat Prez Obama aint afraid to talk some shit with his stoney grin. I personally dont know crap about our new health care overhaul bill, but i do know it attempts to cover sick people and attempts not to start any homophobic gunbattles in space. This isn't 'Nam Karl Romney, there are rules. Welcome to earth.

P.s. I think the guy in the back has a crush on the goofy girl in the front. They should exchange information...could be good.

P.P.S. "Do you guys have any copies of THe Communist Manifesto?....I just need to ... never mind."

"I'll just grab a copy of David Byrne's "UH oh," and some gum..do you have gum...or cigarettes. ...Ill just take the cigarettes....... thanks."

PPPS. I bet that Obama only pretends to smoke cigarettes for the votes.....Oh no you dinint!

you sly dog. Can we just call him slick willy too?

Slick Barakeee?

Schtick to the Broccoli?

Obama wan Kanobe

Kobe Von Ginobli?

I caught a bat once. No I didn't.

Bow Down

This is, by the way, the best that we can do...

Isn't modern life grand?

the DarQness

fresh tricerahops mini-mix
QUOLLA bareZ dot COM

Bike-F'in-Wild

Only deer and elk are allowed to ride bikes in Wilderness, or didn't you know?

...and to all the motorheads and player-haters out there, just remember,  "I'm Bruce Fuckin' Willis."

www.bike-wild.org

leisure

Well we are hopeful that the leisure seekers will be spending hard at the Arch Digest Home Show, Brads there we also hope. Sleeping in the glorious light depravation chamber ensures that we have no idea what time it is in the morn.. and off we go to prospect park for some stompn' a lil brunch party to tide us all over. . hooora

StoMpN DeSignZ

StOmpN DeSignZ by R2

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Bbbbbbbb

Did Brad get out?

Mmm Yes but we got him goin again pretty quick

MMMmmmm.....

I know you've heard it - but, have you seen it?

Board2theMax

Go Broke or Die Tryin',, you missed it, well the pre show at bradZ shop anyway, we driven' it to nyc manana you can catch it there at the architecturedigesthomeshow aaanyway

live

why you try to hurt me girl?

Gorillaz - Stylo (HD)

Gorillaz - Stylo (HD)

WHY YOU TRY AND HURT ME GIRL!!

Pugzn is Thugnnnh

all velosnooze had to offer on the handbuilt bike show, could be dragged around by this

designed specifically for stompn up sunlight it appearZ

Tour Defiance

It may be hard to convey exactly how much energy was produced in last night's conquering of the pitches at Sunlight.  That's right I said, pitches.

There must have been a gravity discrepancy.

WiNverso brought up the polo bike, a fixee sans breagks.  I was purrty amazed at how much he was able to ride.  We criss-crossed our turns up the hill.  Will was going wide...  making big switchbacks, and Sz was going straight up the gut...  or making little slalom S turns.   Drawing an uphill line on a slope-alope is an art form.

The unleashed-but-chained snowcat pugsley, gripping...

The last pitch was the cruxofit. Sz just HAD to take a break about 60 feet from the top.  As if by levitation, he was able to get started on the hill again. (with a few grunts and well-timed revolutions)  Completely treadful results.  Legs were the weak point in that system...  though to be fair to those old stumps, Sz DID stay with Will.  Only because Will kept heckling said Sz.

Officially, there are a total 30 feet of terrain that have not been ascended in the appropriate manner.

Sz, Tim, Cody, and Will  had planned to go down GRizZLY, the way we came up, but on the way Heavy Metal Cody says, "We're going down Defiance!"  Surprised,  I say, "No way, I'm not going down Defiance."  He reiterates, "We are going down Defiance."  I think, "Whatever."  Turns out we were ON Defiance already.  (Upper Defiance, to be specific) Off-camber, and rolling to the left, it was the fastest, gknarliest descent.  One leg on the slope, one foot on a pedal, a stomach on seat, and an ear to the ground.  Once I could see Grizzly Road, I just let it go.

Holy B'Jeezus.

You all deserve a trophy.

NiRad and Kendall built up that Pugzley for the good of all stompaz.  Stop by the gear exchange and give the Pugz a shot one of these nights...  NiRad's taken 'er out WEd next veek.  Hollenback, you next after that?  (Tour Defiance is the sweetest name for an event in G'wood.  K-Rad and NiRad get ALL the credit...  but what will it be?)

Hugz

Why i luv Kunstler

All I can offer, really, are observations: for example, that Congressman John Boehner (R -Ohio) needs a set of steel ball bearings to roll around in his hand to perfect his otherwise dead-on impersonation of Captain Queeg, the paranoid villain of that 1950s movie The Caine Mutiny. I kept wishing that President Obama would reach under the table for a fungo bat every time the miserable Mr. Boehner opened his Midwestern pie-hole to drone out a new lie, and split his fucking head open like a Crenshaw melon -- but perhaps my fantasies are excessively baroque.

James Kunstler today

Concurrent Stompin'

Hardly likely that all of the stompaz around the world would be fully in sync and stompin' at the same rate, at the same time, but it could happen.  Maybe it did.  The stated goal was to ride Ute on the pugz.  The system of chains, cables and rope was surprisingly successful, and even though there was no sign of intelligent life up there, traction was had.  There are still pitches that need to be conquered, but it would be hard to imagine a better first ascent.  Just for good measure, the 12 Hours of Sunlight course got some skidz on the way down.

Telluride

Ivin

Fashionista SHow

Well all signs were good for the Telluride Fashion show. I was quite pleased to work for the fine folks installing for the week prior. Building the set and hanging lights and rearranging the telluride conference center was way more enjoyable than modeling as far as i was concerned.

SO Thursday night, the locals night, we managed to get the boombike up to mountain village as well as a couple pugsleys. And some PBR; are we not STOMprZ? Well we got kicked out of the fashion show by a typical douchebag type of fella who reenforces my feelings about mountain village. Kicked out for drinking our own PBR. OUt the door we went, and up went the boombike, and typical douche called the cops. Well who would have guessed the cops didn't want to get out of their cars and thus were unable to follow the boomcycle around the various contrived pedestrian pathways. Then the WhiteParty followed at the Peaks resort, another proud piece of shit huge development up there, and with shitty music too loud and a tremendous amount of attitude keeping people out of the party, we discovered a little pool room/foosball hall on the second floor and rolled the boombike right on up.

We will not NOT Stomp just for the record. Eventually we got tired of our little games and went and stuffed the boom into the gondola and rolled back down to town, away from the land of nothing better to do. Certainly look forward to a future of disassembling mountain village piece by piece and reconstituting it into something useful and appropriately scaled, like a prison at the bottom of the sea. Long story short, we couldn't possibly have had anymore fun at the fashion show than we did, where stompRZ belong; outside.

Tapin'

I know there's been some confusion. WHere does the magic tape come from? How do I get some? It's so confusing, MAxamillian doesn't even know how to get it. Well, I have gotten the source, and let it be known that you're probably used to the 1/4" variety, although YaYa swears by the 1/8" (much more curvy). So get it while the gettin's good.

http://www.identi-tape.com/chart.htm

Tim goes head over heels for Sunlight!!

Tim jumps his Bianchi into the pow pow last wed. night!! Fuuuuuuuunnnnny!!! niRAD

stOMPN

Epic SnowtimeZ in Tellyride. Biggest whompn snow storm this season by a long shot, still dumpin' actually. And skiing with some of bestest palZ, like Ivin, lovin life at 12'300 with his BRklyn lungZ, and Melissa whose birthday was in full swing, I broke my tele binding on gold hill. As usual it turned out to be a nice opportunity to demonstrate the various ways to crash, then it turned into a full on one legged stompatron and slayed some POW en route to a repair. Thanks to Marco who lent me his skis so i could stomp back to the house real quick to get my spare cable, while he took care of bizness at Giuseppez. Long story short, I ended up being faster on one leg than two, and it was my formerly broken one i was skiing on, so i guess it's good to go.. whooHOOO

been here?

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Stompa Fiction: Installment Uno

Her new film was set to a dreamy French opera song called called "Faites le Velo", and featured the lyrics transposed upon an deep urban Rhumba beat. She had heard the song on a record she found in the city-- performed by Francetta Belorouge-- a 1920s Parisian Blues Harlot After practicing it, she recorded it and forwarded it to her 1st grade sweetheart, Adam Williams. Adam was an infamous Rasta DJ sought after by the most subterranian of underground clubs across the country. He played it at a party in Denver held in the abandoned Keebler cookie Factory and July cut footage for her video. She also had the idea about editing in a poem, one word at a time, to be read during the sequence, subliminal-like. Finally, she intended to combine it with images she had collected over years of concern for a of a desperate planet and people. After a year of preparation, she finally had all the material, all that was left was the editing.

One might ask why. Why would a mostly shy trailer girl partake in such scrupulous, lonely activity, but July never did. She wanted to make a film that would impact people who saw it. Why the hell not?

Hunched over the mess of computer spread across the Ping Pong table, she mouse clicked away with the frames of footage. Her gracile frame perched neatly upon a crimson velveteen stool, her legs in striped stalkings angled with teen haphazard. Her hands donned fingerless wool gloves and she wore a scarf with her sleeveless top. Her black hair was self-cut short in back but long in front. She had to retrace it behind her ear every few minutes as it kept falling-- blocking her view of the unfolding vision of her film. As she chopped in the sound and camera angles, her mind fell to a certain silence. The kind of silence that the mad scientist experiences right before a theoretical epiphany. Sitting there, alone in her room, she felt joy. The kind of simple joy an artist feels when tools match intention to create a fluidity unreachable to non-creatives. The same joy a figure skater, or a fencer, or a marble sculptor feels when time disappears to a task. She was creating. Not creating something good, necessarily, or beautiful. But she was creating something new, and that made it good.

It was major work putting together the movie that was in her mind's eye. It seemed to take an hour for every five seconds of video. She stood transfixed none the less. At some point her mom came in with a tray of cheese and apple slices and said goodnight. There was no night for July. Only the film. And she knew she couldn't do anything else until it was done. She stopped every few hours and rode her bike around the block for some fresh air and starlight, but even as she did so the movie played through her mind. She maintainaed the focus of a great creative spirit for most of the night. Finally, as the sun rose outside her dirty opened window, she added the last frame. The movie was finished. In that state of rapture and focus, she clicked "Play Video" on her computer and watched her creation come to life.

As the author, it is impossible to describe the combination of images and words that this movie portrayed. There were scenes of dancing, bicycle, unicycles, sunrises, and urban magic. The images blended with the words and the sound of July's melodic and innocent voice. It wasn't one particular element-- the song, the poem, the images-- that created a sense of volitility, rapture, impetus and joy in the viewer, it was the combination. She had created a masterpiece and she knew it. Only the trained eye of a failed artist is wise enough to know when it beholds a masterpiece, and July knew. She knew. Now-- she only needed a venue, the proper Global Creative Cycling Collective, to publish it and see what would happen. It was not a matter of if, but how big.

Serene visions, Spots of light blue and red.
A dreaded DJ clenching headphone between ear and shoulder
explosive bass, Behind Ray Bans

Dark forms of revelers funking it up
Sweaty youth in a room with no ceiling
City streets, butt of beautiful bicycle babe
Now a bigger butt in embroidered jeans

Now two huge butts in sweatpants, holding hands
Pan down--
The dancers ride unicycles.
Slum boy in alleyway no shirt, racing BMX through chickens and potholes

Huge white smile
Chinese man on chinese bike, entering a sea of the same in someplace Beijing
Polar bear swimming, flooding, fire.

Unicycle dance party, Mudslide.
WE MUST FIND A WAY TO CHANGE
car, mangled, white sheets cover bodies
Blue and red flashing lights

Emerald, and Riotous pink
Glaciers melting, factory chugging giant blue plume forever.
Man in hospital, debribultor, flatline
Dancers, wild now. Kissing, fighting.

Chickens in line to be slaughtered,
cars in traffic
BIKES ARE FUN
Slow motion of boy on bike

blasting through a puddle.
unicycle dance party, revelers crying out
pain and elation, celebration
LETS QUIT CARS
BLUE AND RED FLASH
flash

pugzn

is thugn.. go SKooba, go SToMPAZ

Carb-dale town council needs this!

hot dawg

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Orchestral Trailer (HD)

HAULZ & FloatZ

Dear Hall & Oates, we might have heard that one or two'z of you liked to haul and or float on the big phat skis. Well, we da STompariLLAz do love the Sunlight mountain and we here the nordic skiing is swell there, while we tend to whomp up and down there on wednsday evez rather late ish like, we was thinking that a HAULZ&FloatZ party there during the sunnylight day would be simply amazin', & if perhaps you, Hall & Oates, were interested in judging the radness on the slopes, via the freest of heelD STOmpaZ, led assault, welllll that would be, u know, 'mazin'

p.s. early morn skin up from back side

Stompa Love

Just painted up a new front fender for my xtra, now maybe I won't be soaking wet when i ride through the puddles, cant seem to steer away from them!! niRAD

taking the stompas abroad...

making the move to zug/luzern swizzzerland this fall.

open door stompa couch surfin for everyone!

bring yer boombike or alpenhorn...

no fun allowed

twould be sweelllll

Apr 24 2010 8:00P

Bluebird Theatre

Denver, Colorado

i don't know if this will happen but i would love to catch Yeasayer at the bluubrd
dang
we shall seee

V-DAY EVE T-RIDE STOMPWHAMPIN

9.20.19.13.5.723378

WHoMPAriLLAz RADio 2nite

koto.org 9:30-12 ok ok

kdnk.org 11-1 ok

ok
whompitUP

WUbeatlez

swerious buisness,, a WUtang Beatles mash up album.. dang

SAMPLE AND HOLD - NEIL YOUNG (1982) - TRANS - UNLIKE HUMANS!

i luv snorky

"Cross Country with the Snakes" trailer

Featuring BRADNELSON

BoomPugz STMPN

Design conditions were experienced on the streets of the CBD last night with a steady snowfall and several inches of plush accumulating...    Freebox EMPTIED in search of the Snorkiest chemise on the planet.

Pugsley is the future.  Who's riding theirs tonight, NiRad?

Heading up to Sunlight this PM...   FrogaMoose, Snorky and I are going from the Bonedale side.

Dearest SToMPAZ

Back to bonedale STOMPN and just wanted to get a few things straight.. STOMPN is 4 LoverZ
Pugzn is thugN iz LuVIN FlatXC SKiin is the best painCAVe a STompa can get treed in these days
bikepath nordic ski mananaa tuesday in the dusk hour out the groomed nordique no? Pugzn' is thugn and you should really check by BRNZ to check da pugzleee, so sweet.. peas mcmcslpy

JVT needs a TT bici

and this was the first Yamaguchi I came across, holy sweetness. JVT ought to go impress in Rifle with his ninja skill set and get his self one of these...

Woodwork

safety lessons 4 StOmpaZ circa 1963

One Got Fat 1963 Bicycle Safety - check out this little video

You MOtorboatin so &SO

Well aanyway

gonna jump in that ol auto mobile manana and drive on down to duhrango, get involved with some stomprz stompn, hut trippin.. sure hope the snow stablyizes'! sheesh

STOMParILLAz 2010 RAcerirationZ

SO here's a new race i just saw and heard about in the most sweetest fresh MTNFLYER, it's a 25 hr race in ST.George UT and I'm pretty sure the STomPAZ just Gots to go!

ssusa is so close it smells sweet feb 6 tucson

18hrs of fruita xtracycle brigade rides from bonedale, someof whom carry singlesppedz on the baK!

NiRAD is gonna slaythe radness at LEdville,

MOoob, is are people ready to ride the course in reverse yet? who wants to race 5 ersosn front suspended 1x? matching polka dot masks

uuu h sswcnz work in the wine vines to fund bike tour viz. 29r ebb touring rig

SUnlight 24 hr race pugzley lapz

other races? salida banana belt

ohy eah the PDTt

nordic pain cave entry

SKi Design Contest fer G3

Yup, design some sweet skis, maybe you'll win..

WHoompityHOP

Dinotopia sweetness


Hopesfulllly STeveZ can make it tuesday to tellyride along w tricerhopz who would do well to get bailey shotgun and of course any stompa prepared for the spacecave is alright here

wailerz tues eve at conference center, pond hockey bob marley party outside

skateski pacelines for brunch

peas, SLappy

p.s. all i want for 2012 is a polkadothoodscarf

STmpRADio

alwayz and 4e\/A koto.org 9:30 -12 tonight WEenus kdnk.org 11-1 tonigt and everyother mondaynite ok

Thnx DC

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for my dad in the new year