I’m Too Awesome
Cruising down the street riding my 26er and rolling my 29er in the other hand, I wore my black yakima hat, my Specialized Adaptalite sun glasses, large hardware shorts, my black merino wool long sleave undee shirt and some flip flops, a tat’d guy on a downtown bench heckles me… “You’re Too Awesome Bro”
I didn’t make it to the MBAA event up here in Flagstaff this weekend on account of being catapulted off my huck bike on Friday after I shuttled a couple of times that morning with a set of fellow Too Awesome local Downhillers. The Crash was a total JRA maneuver that just made me feel stupid and gimpy for a couple of days. The downhilling was super fun but limited. Even though it may seem a luxury to ride up the hill in a leather padded crew-cab of a Super Duty, trying to get into flow after sitting a car for a 30 minute ride is anxious at best nevermind the actual difficulty of the trails. The second run was even worse so I guess putting a car ride into the middle of a ride is my limit. Id like to run with all those chuckle heads that drive cars up the hill just to smoke them, but I’m apparently not That Awesome & wont be able to match their schedule. I rode a Pitch for that experience and I’d say that the 5 inch travel bikes out these days give you all you need for those trails & are super efficient on the ups.
Regardless, Congrats to Linden and all the peeps that actually made a competitive event happen in Flagstaff that wasn’t directly controlled by some egocentric flagstaffian company or person. This small town is Too Awesome. There were reports of the course being sabotaged assumedly in protest, and it still went off. Is that progress or something? And how good to have it in conjunction with the ending of Bike to Work Week.
Friday night was the showing of Season’s which is another huckish movie put up by the Collective. I didn’t get a chance to see it at the Orpheum primarily because I was working and also because the shop management overlooked notification that tickets were comp’d for shop emp’s. That’s cool. Hui Hui, Travis, Amanda, nor myself really wanted to see that shit anyway. From the previews, it looks like a bunch of stupid raging sprints through flat turny trails on stupid squish bikes that cost more than a good moto. I may be Too Awesome, but at the same time, I’m definitely not part of the scene anymore. I might as well call myself the Gray Wolf.
BikeTrailerShop.com, a local flagstaff biz is looking for an experienced cyclist with (preferrably) some sweet computer hacking skills to assist with the sales, shipping and publicity of their green-centric bike trailer selling efforts. Probably a perfect job for you. More of them here. It Sounds like the perfect gig for Big Jon.
Hello, this is Monday so there will inevitably be some sort of lameness involved in the business of the day. Enjoy the comedy of it.
Summer is in full effect in the northland.