Friday Night Lights

SOMETHING GOLDEN - Le Corps Mince de Françoise

loose ends b4 next steezin

so.col. shortandsweet from Ben Cooper on Vimeo.

they made us all proud

stompaz kinda killed it this weekend. won the single speed rigid class... by an hour. Our very own Nirad had the FaSTEst ss lap of 1hr10min42secs. that's fast ya'll! here is some eye candy.

Remember to Wear a Helmet Folks

Just did a sweet front flip.... well half of one,

but it was big...guess the ole fork didn't

wanna be kicked anymore.

A dude stopped to see if i was OK and I nodded cuz

i couldn't breath. He wanted to know what happened

really because not to many people go that huge on

fixies around here....... I pointed at my fork after

I saw that he had some bike racks on top of his

ole suburu.... he understood.

Then a crossmonkey out for a snowy ride rode up

and acknowledged the lovelyness..

Helmet cracked in half.

I think im gonna be alright.....may have cracked a rib......not

I know im preaching to Jehovah's  favorite choir here boys

and girls but...... Remember to wear a helmet......

Hoooray im alive and feeling good!!!

It felt like five soft hands caught my head

just before the ground arrived.

-jvt

ForknNiner

Well, I WAS born on 9-9... and it WAS my birthday this year.

So, I made up a fairly weak, but nonetheless effective, extortion scheme to commemorate SSWC and rock a sweet triangulated carbon fork on my 9er.

I have to say, Atomic Blue goes with just about anything. It could'a, would'a must'a been designed by Stompaz, check the unique form and color scheme!

Will have to compare notes with dave Hagen in Duranggo.

Tired

So, got new rubber for the 36'er. The tread looks a bit more chewy, and I get some extra clearance for free. Good thing they are 100% legit tubeless on big dumb unicycle rims. Moab should provide an ample testing ground this weekend.
S*

Peeertty litez

Them Perrtty Lightz sure are nice to offer their new album free for download..

The Radnestest

So these guys rule, the lost coast STOMPRZ, they rode their single speed pugsleys with their mini alpaca rafts, then they'd blow up the raft and put the disassembled pugz in the front and paddle through some ice floes, then repeat..

and we ended up there via http://www.epicdesignsalaska.com/

and https://www.alpackaraft.com/


ok just think about it alright, goose bumps

STOMpR

So for the record, Melissa doesn't have an Xtra cycle of her own
but she lacks nothing on the STompN front and we left Emilys' Xtra partially assembled by the cars.
Melissa had already decided to burn less diesel by joining us for the weekend instead of driving to San Fran for a swapmeet. Then she decided she could burn a lil more by driving back and forth from T-ride a couple times before heading out on her inaugural xtra-packing tour. Well we left her a trail of Coors cans and she grabbed ahold of that Xtra and dragged it across three river crossings in the dark before stumbling upon our first camp at 1 in the morning. We had spent the evening walking back and forth across each river crossing endlessly with about 5 people carrying each bike.

She then proceeded to unpack her costume collection and act as our camp counselor, rolling cigarettes and jumping in the water naked.. pretty much setting and Xample all weekend long.

INcluding a strangley accurate shot from across the river with Dooms' .22 through the LUVsafety cross on my helmet which was waiting in vain outside our camp for Scotty2Hottys' hoped for arrival.



Aanyway, the bullet is still in the helmet, the weekend is still feeling fuzzy, and the snow is falling in telluride.. thanks M, 'twas swell

I just couldn't resist...

I felt this needed some Sharpie clarity.

What a LOovely weekend

Except for the MooN bestowing us with super night visionWhich helped to get us to camp number one
Melissa did subsequently make it to camp 1 solo in the dark across the river with an xtracycle.
We crossed the river countless timesAnd we climbed up to a portal

From there we could see down to camp



And up above was an old chalet


All in all, about the sweetest SSWC decompression weekend imaginable

more documentation to follow.. thanks everyone

Safety

SnovY, as you can see, there are safe and true options for rotor tat avoidance and embrace-ment
and you have a froggy rotor somewhere..

ANY EXCUSE TO RIDE U'RE BIKE IS A GOOD EXCUSE TO RIDE U'RE BIKE......

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4TH, SOPRIS PARK, 9PM - U SHOULD PROLLY B THERE

Boy oh Boy did these sTMPRZ have a nice time in duhrango

XTRA!!

So while we all know how much Yaya likes to monkey around on rocks, little know fact, his XTRA does too. And since YA had not ridden the xtra since 18 hrs of Fruita, I took it on a lil rock jaunt just today. BAiley was kind enough to bring the djVAN back to T-ride the other night and with a fresh dusting of snow up high this morning he decided it was time to ride back over Ophir pass to silverton and then durango. Well as a show of appreciation I led him out on the Xtra, despite the raging head winds and inability to draft a long tail.. Well luckily the wind was at our back for the climb up the pass, but it was a pretty steep rock and scree slog and the Xtra was happy as could be to kickin' around the pain cave. SO anyway long story short, Ya's Xtra is happy, Bailey hopefully has made it to Durango, and we're going on tour this weekend with Xtra's down the Dolores river, and we're gonna climb rocks, just like Ya! Whoo HOOO!

RoToR Brand

The wounds from SSWC are starting to heal... no damage from the race, just some scrapes from slam dancing in Birkenstocks to French Miami.

...and post SSWC wounds are on their way. Days ago, MC Slap made it over a big log dropping from Hay Park, but SteveZ didn't.

I moonwwalked over my bike to create my own little bailout package. (my bike moonwalked over me, too) I reached back for it, grabbed the rear wheel as it flailed in the air, and felt and smelled the nagging inconvenience of burning flesh. I've had chainring tattoos, but never a rotor brand.

I will consider the pattern of my brake rotors for next time. A polka dot thing would probably look a bit better.

we'll make a fleet

Seems like StOmpaZ will be keeping Metal-Head-Aaron-Mayes-ze-Welder-Guy pretty busy fabricating our new race fleet. Be sure to make em SS & Rigid so we can race them at 24hrz of Moab. Little concerned about the handling on tight turns.... Meanwhile these babies will tote groceries, beer, babies - whathaveu. In between racing, each respective Bonedale neighborhood will keep the charge of one of these handy little whips & use it like a $5 whore. Did I just write that?

SteveZ wins the take home prize!

SO, tonite there was a 'wish you all could still be here' party in Durango, at Ska of course. We really just wanted to super thank our volunteers. Free drinks and food was had by all, with another lap around the art lounge atop of said beer headquarters. Eventually, words and prizes were also handed out...

So , big thanks goes out to ROn ANdrews((you know the one), and he gets free pick of any of the framed entries on the wall. Of course the choice was obvious, but amidst the assortment of beautifully framed pieces, Ron quickly decides on the "pinkasaurus on rotten wood", neatly photoed next to a fine shrubbery, and of course framed with love. It was a breathtaking moment in STompa history, and myself and TricERahops were lucky enough to bear witness.