9.01.2010


http://www.tricerahops.com/

8.31.2010

Luv Safeness

Mssr. Le Stompa de Slap wuz kind enough to scratch out a new luv-safety logo:::
Two versions that got some mods: one for the jerseys, and the other for the neon sign...

8.30.2010

Ragggged

Whoa was that sweet. . another glorious day of STOMPN.. en route to bonedale from tellyride STompaz demonstrated once again where timing and preparation come together, shuttling a vehicle to ride the Raggeds trail from the top of McClure. Eight friendly stmpz in all, and no camera, perfect day with a minimum of downed trees, plenty of up as well as down, lots of rad singletrack, and best of all, a trail that almost none of us had ridden and a shred alert till the cooler. After that, we dispatched the cooler contents and packed eight bikes and riders into one rather mid size truck. And as a bonus we stopped at the magnificent YaYa tree house on the way back down the Crystal to check it out. Onwards and upwards!

8.25.2010

Maybe a day late, but worth every penny



Just a couple of sewn together shots that prove the fact: White Crack kicks ass, especially at sunset. Cooper throwin the poses. Next trip will be cooler for sure, and Margaritaville will be established for a fully enjoyable layover.

8.21.2010

New T-Shirts are in!!


Come on in and pick up your new t-shirt at the Gear X, robots dreaming of bikes!!
niRAD

8.16.2010

PDT2010


All downhill from here at the top of Bridal Veil Basin, where Scotty2 won the bacon chocolate bar for impeccable hill climbing. Granted, the top that he reached first was a trick top that looked down on Ophir and we came back to the Wasatch trail saddle, but he won, despite Justin bringing the ruckus all the way from Silverton

Timing and Preparation come together at the PROdoperZTour with the 4:20 am prologue road race acually taking place at 4:20 pm on Sunday; Scooba on the attack Pugs.

The ladies comp was fairly convivial, with Hilary taking the big W through her ability to supply us with the most important dope throughout, lasagna.

Scooba negotiates more sweetness album here

8.12.2010

PDTweeee


Well sometimes you stomp the STOMp and sometimes the STomp STomps you. Sometimes STompaz have to STomp so you don't have to. No worries

8.07.2010

Oh CanadiA!


Had an amazing visit to Cortes island in the British Canadian San Juan's and did a sweet ride with Ryan, on his loaned 15+ yr old Rocky Mtn rental bike, so killer, here's Charris standing on it nailing a sign for a new trail that Ryan (in the V1 pro ) and company built. They're building trails all over the logging properties so as to directly engage the logging companies and fight the clear cutting plans. More trails and an event seem to be on the radar, STompaz would do well to get up there and get after it. . . peas

8.01.2010

bunnYHAWkN


HawkN wit da BUNNY, had a couple sweet evenin rides wit da bunny hawk been sooo snice in seattle land, off to canadia we go

7.30.2010

PDTings

the PDT approacheth, and you should start sortin out yer wardrobe. . a light bright shirt without any drawring on it that will get all the pertinent info written on it through the course of the weekend. . bring it, and bring a watch maybe too, if you like

bring sleep before hand, but bring your bag/pad

bring bike for trailz

bring it, whatever you like that is

7.14.2010

PDTtellyride

one month until the PRoDOPrZtour in tellyride, be there or be square, friday night yoga rave, 4:20 am start. you oughta be alive on sunday
this is a need to know event. all stomparillaz r invited
the only required and supplied dope is water
and you better bring an MTB,

7.13.2010

The Trophy!


Thanks NiRad!


-rollin' post completed with left hand only

7.12.2010

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.

7.08.2010

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

7.03.2010

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, ..

7.02.2010

WhompaSTomPA


Sure likes to STOMP

6.28.2010

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

6.24.2010

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.

6.18.2010

So...

How was bike polo last night?

6.15.2010

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.

6.11.2010

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?

6.07.2010

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

6.02.2010

THE NORTHERN OWLS


JVt has a spirit creature

burned in tride




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

5.24.2010

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

5.22.2010

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)

5.21.2010

sowFWESH y sewKleen


new ninnner ready 2 party

5.17.2010

nytimes turned the boombox down

Looking for relative silence? Visit museums of unpopular subjects.


ok, turn it back up..

5.14.2010

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. .

5.11.2010

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

5.06.2010

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.

4.24.2010

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. . .

4.23.2010

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

4.20.2010

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

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

4.19.2010

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

4.15.2010

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

4.06.2010

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

4.03.2010

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

4.02.2010

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.

4.01.2010

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!