Friday, May 25

Bits and Pieces

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Have you ever felt like you've been left out of all of the little goings on and inside jokes of the BMX world? Well, if you have, this new section is just what you've been waiting for. We'll be putting all the news that isn't fit to print in this section. Basically this means that all the random information that doesn't really need a lot of explanation will be going here (i.e., the number of times Jared falls down or spills something each day, how often Scot hurts himself doing something stupid; things like that).

Thursday May 24, 2001
Sean Parker has quit 2-Hip and is traveling the Northwest doing shows for Perfection on Wheels.

Thursday May 24, 2001
Jared Souney has been on a road trip back East for the last week. Today he called to tell me that little kids are heckling him about spilt coffee. That made my day!

Thursday May 24, 2001
Brian Tunney has informed me that Garrett Byrnes is no longer riding for Duffs.

Thursday May 17, 2001
Brian Tunney submitted the following news: "[Steve] Crandall traded a frame for a VW Golf today, and I started lacing up a pair of black Hoffman rims for my bike. I hope you can appreciate the dichotomy between us and Jerry Bagely.Take care."

Thursday May 17, 2001
Yesterday evening, Glenn P.P. Milligan's manual skills sent him crashing straight into the hood of Jared's recently detailed car. Glenn's lack of bar ends left Jared with an eight-inch scratch across his hood. The Saturn has been defaced.

Wednesday May 16, 2001, 10 a.m.
Jared Souney spilt coffee in his lap. It wasn't as big as his normal spills are, so I was disappointed.

Wednesday May 16, 2001
Jerry Bagley (Mosh) recently purchased custom wheels for his Ford Expedition. Bagley is now rollin' on 22s. Bling! Bling!

Tuesday, May 8, 2001
Van Homan, Rob Dolecki and Bob Scerbo went to ride a pool in Pennsylvania this morning. While they were riding, a worker pulled up, so they split. Van got separated from Bob and Rob and ended up running 20 miles before calling Little Devil owner, Derek Adams, to come pick him up.

Tuesday, May 8, 2001
Jared Souney reports that Chris Beecher of Dirt Master has blue hair today.

Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Huffy is now the official bike sponsor of the 2001 King of Dirt series. The long-running dirt jumping contest series recently parted ways with GT, its previous bike sponsor, and it was the perfect opportunity for Huffy to step in. Panasonic Shockwave and Chevy Tracker continue to sponsor the contest series as well. As an added bonus, the King of Dirt contests will be held alongside the Panasonic Shockwave Core Tour, a four-stop action sports and music festival that is sponsored by Transworld BMX in addition to the above mentioned companies. For more information check out the Panasonic Shockwave Core Tour Web site (http://www.thecoretour.com).

Wednesday May 2, 2001
It looks like the City Council in Long Beach, California has approved a motion to recommend a BMX park. They have asked the Parks and Recreation department to do a study and return the results to the council as soon as possible.

Friday April 27, 2001
FBM's Brock Yoder had surgery on his wrist yesterday. The injury was over a year old so the surgery required a bone graft from his hip. Brock should be healed up in a few months, however he will remain on probation.

Friday April 27, 2001 11 a.m.
Adam Banton stopped by the offices today and he signed his Bluetorch ad for me. I was stoked, until I saw that he misspelled my name.

Friday April 27, 2001
We're a little late getting this one out there, but Charles Townsend has recently moved to Elk Grove, Calif. Charles has lived in the San Jose area for 26 years, so this is quite a change for him. "It's weird because I was raised [in San Jose], and I really like that area, but [the cost of living is] just out of control."

Thursday, April 19, 2001 4 p.m.
Robbie Miranda (DK/1-800-COLLECT) came by the office to ride the ramps and he pretty much had the entire soundtrack to the movie "Rad" on CD. He listened to Soft Cell's "Send Me An Angel" at least three times. Robbie was also heard saying that racing "has gone to the goons."

Thursday, April 19, 2001 2 p.m.
Aaron "Mowser" Nardy (Standard) stopped by the office today to show us his swell-bo. It's one-third the size of a softball, and he's had it for three weeks. His doctors can't figure out what it is or how to get rid of it.

Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Ride Publishing recently hired a new circulation manager by the name of Jennifer Hardison. About the same time she started working here, we noticed that there was a Hoffman Little Deebo in the office. It turns out that it's Jennifer's and she's been riding for a little over a year now. She's a regular at Vans in Ontario, and she's already working on riding the ramp in the warehouse. Dope!

Tuesday, April 18, 2001
I (Scot) had to go to the orthopedist for the umpteenth time today. While I was there I read the Mat Hoffman interview in the new Transworld BMX. In the interview Mat talks about people who quit riding because they hurt their knees. Mat says, "I've always hated that excuse, 'I hurt my knee so I had to quit riding.' No you didn't. I've had six operations on my knee; there's nothing left of it. It's just easier to have an excuse why you stopped riding." Needless to say, after reading that I felt like a loser. So when I left my orthopedist's office (who ordered me to have my second MRI in two months), I went home, grabbed my bike, and went riding.

Friday, April 13, 2001 11:30 a.m.
I had a "Pure Protein" bar for breakfast today. It says that it has forty percent of the recommended daily intake of protein. I don't know about that, but I do know that it cost me $3.50, tasted like shit, and two hours later I'm hungry again.

Wednesday, April 12, 2001
Ryan O'Connel said that he has learned how to skateboard. "It's kind of fun," said Ryan, but that's about all he had to say about it.

Sometime during the week of April 9-12
Fuzzy Hall and some of the Utah locals were digging in Fuzzy's yard when they dug up a buried horse. Yep, the entire horse! Apparently the thing smelled pretty bad, but they took the head and bleached it, so Fuzzy now has a horse's head hanging in his basement.