Monday, May 7

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).

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.

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 11:00am
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, California. 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 4:00pm
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 2:00pm
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 bitch. 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 11:30am
I had a "Pure Protein" bar for breakfast today. It says that it has 40% 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.