The Trophy!

Thanks NiRad!


-rollin' post completed with left hand only

BlockHeadz Grass Bike POLo Tourney in Glenwood!

This video is only one minute, twenty seconds...  and then BLACK.

Thanks to Chuck, Stefano, Craig, Dan, Earl, Bill, Zack, Seth and William and all of the stompaz!
Boy, that was some good bike polo.

Jackson Goldstone is a 5 yr old RIPPER!!!!

Jackson Goldstone is only 5. I'm 39 and still can't do most of this stuff!!
niRAD

XTRA stomP

The HoliShift tour sure is friendly-ful and after a rad cruize after a grand ol evening at the first friday festivities in carBONEdale we continued to not NOt discuss the transformativly lovely

then this mornin we wended our way down to the GREat and Glorious Gear Xchange where the whiny neighbor buisnessz' pushed the airstream around the back and there we be leisurely loungin in the hot hot sun under the canopy talkin long bike.

And Manana we are going to park the long trailer at the sopris park off stage slightly and riden up to REdstone to swim and rock out, check the parade and so on and so forth.. 10 ish depart means 9:15 meet and purchase. . . NIrad says so, it must be, ..

WhompaSTomPA

Sure likes to STOMP

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill (HD)

XtraSTOMPN

Yup, Xtracycle's rule and they're comin to your town to party down, Telluride on Thursday, Carbondale Friday through Sunday check out the Holishift tour
oh snap

BlockHeadz Grass BiciPolo Tournament - July 10

BlockHeadz Grass Bike Polo Tournament


Saturday, July 10th in Glenwood Springs, CO.

9 teams maximum.

Entry Fee - $15 / team early, $20 day of event.  e-mail bicipolo@greenlinearchitects.com to register.

Round Robin for seeding in the morning, 10:00-2:00 down by the river, below the GWHS track.   Then, 2:00 SIESTA.  (lounge in the river, or head over to the hot springs pool for the afternoon)  At 6:00 we start the tourney at Sayre Park.  At 8:00, the lights come on, and we play semis and finals under the lights!  Lights out at 10:00 PM.  Finals will be called at that time if necessary.

Teams will be of 4 people.  1 sub is allowed per team.

Seeded double elimination bracket.

Games are to 3 points.  Must win by 2.

Semis and finals are to 5 points.  Must win by 2. 

Goal size is roughly 5 ft. wide, with cones!

If'n you can't reach the ball with a mallet at the goal line then its too high and no good.

If'n you play the ball backwards through the goal, you must relinquish possession to the other team.

The field is roughly 40 yards by 75 yards.  Dirt and grass in the morning, grass in the evening.  

Teams may play goalies if they want.  It seems to be a good idea when you've got Chainsaw bearing down on you constantly.  But sometimes, it limits you on offense, so not always a good call if you play good position!

Contact allowed:

Stick-on-stick, bike-on-bike, man-on-man.

Ref your own game.

We start the ball in the middle and face off.  Teams must circle their goal after scoring.  The opposing team may advance the ball as necessary immediately after a goal.  i.e.: "Comin' HOT!"

Foot down rule:  If you put your foot down, you must get out of the play and do one full pedal revolution before being able to play the ball again.

Respect the player with the ball.  You may not run him off his line to the goal.  You may stick check, from either side.  You may get out in front of him, but no T-boning, and by no means should you contemplate any head-on action. (I know you know this...)

HELMETS are required.  Face-guards are strongly recommended.

There are great camping options available and host housing will also be arranged.

Costumes are of course, mandatory.

e-mail bicipolo@greenlinearchitects.com to register.

So...

How was bike polo last night?

Laahd, don' take away my stommPARillaz!

Check out the last line of this WuTang lyric...
Coincidence? Foreboding?  Or just good planning? Most likely, I was just out of the loop, and Wu Tang had as much influence as Joanna Newsome in the naissance of the brigade.

www.quollabarez.com

Have you been tak'n your pills?

Look what just arrived via pony express from Doc Heaton, our SLC polo Therapist!

We'll give 'em a try, but they are so small...

Maybe they go down easy?

STOMpaz take care of bizness on da whiteHOTrim

and a weird yumbl son of my father

peas out

Grass Bike Polo - Dubble Illumination in G'wood

Bicipolo for all...
Stomp yerself into the spotlight this Saturday at Sayre Park in Glenwood Springs  6-10

Come early, 5:00 ish and BBQ with the famz.  We play until the lights go out.

Sz

THE NORTHERN OWLS

JVt has a spirit creature

burned in tride

saw sum sTOmpAz in a mine shaft & around, there was fire too.

sum doperz

somebody oughta tell floyd to take a deep breath and let a lil stompn' cheer him up
or not
dopeN isn't quite the end of the world, in fact your recommended to keep stompn' regardless

Too Bad Soo Sad

Been a fan of Danny Schecter the News Dissector for a while now and was sad to read todays post about the dissolution of the 24 yr old GlobalVision project that has attempted to bring more transparency to the news. The energy disperses into other websites, amped status, and global vision but without the physical base and financial backing. Onwards and upwards and backwards and downwards and round and round and down and down, Thanks Danny

The taller they are...

I keep telling people that you have lots of time to think about how you're going to contact the ground when you fall off the tall bike.  It was bound to happen, too.  I mean, I was trying to wheelie it...  and I don't do wheelies all that well on small bikes.

But the will to avoid serious injury is a strong one...

As stompaz around the world observe daily, there is always time to tuck and roll! 
(and ripping the SZ vest of doomdom is of course, unthinkable)

sowFWESH y sewKleen

new ninnner ready 2 party

they probably haven lots o fun out der

nytimes turned the boombox down

Looking for relative silence? Visit museums of unpopular subjects.

nyt

ok, turn it back up..

Pugz tour schlide schow

Gratzeeee

Thanks to all the thuggn Puggzn, (and norml bike tourn) stompaz out there on tour last couple few days, 'twas so glorious, can't wait till next time. .

WHompaSTomPA

Onwards and upwards with da stompaz', amazing amazin' effort by NiRAD in winning his first solo race, Fruita18hr on his SS w/ a smack down stompatron of laps, besting the next closest (geared) solo racer! and off to meat the durango PUgzn iz Thuggn crew for a bit of a desert tour, hiphiphooray can't wait to see some pix

BicipoloMalletz Design Studio

That oughtta do it!

Skuke

This is Skuke, aka Payton Wong, our bud from CA, who came and visited us when we lived in Japan.

One time, when Payton and I were working on tightening the bearings on my hub, I asked him how much to tighten it.  He said, "Go until it won't turn at all, then back it off a bit."

Here, he's rollin through the Grizzly Peak century in the Oakland Hills.

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