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flag draco
Posted: Oct 16, 2008 at 17:18 Quote
oh man.

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^^^ thats of our crazily built fun back in the day

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^^ notice the banner, cars parked inside, lots of people

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^^ hay bales? really?

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the second-story view from the 'shore' being built through our workshop

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jumps under the 'shore'

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^^^^ here's dating myself: we premiered NWD 4, and then had open downhill domination gaming after.

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we were tight with the redbull guys and got to ride the boardercross course in like... january.

ok, im gonna stop... this is awesome though.
flag great-big-abyss
Posted: Oct 16, 2008 at 18:43 Quote
Hey,

Not sure if anybody remembers me at all. Been around since about November '03???. Well, I've been AWOL for about three quarters of a year. Yeah, I've been riding less. My summer activities have basically been working and autocross.

Oh well. Time to go be absent from Pinkbike for another couple of monthes.
flag chewonit64
Posted: Oct 16, 2008 at 18:49 Quote
What was that warehouse even for? I remember so much shit about it but I don't remember who's it was or what it was actually for.
flag marty660
Posted: Oct 16, 2008 at 19:37 Quote
chewonit64 wrote:
What was that warehouse even for? I remember so much shit about it but I don't remember who's it was or what it was actually for.

Same here, I can remember them talking about it but I never knew how they got a warehouse to themselves...
flag ronnieoceanfront
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Posted: Oct 16, 2008 at 22:20 Quote
hey draco, i remember, im pretty sure it was you, who posted about some guy who broke his neck or something real bad when he hit his head on the roof of a parkcade or something. how is he doing?
flag draco
Posted: Oct 17, 2008 at 5:29 Quote
the warehouse was ours, we used it as a shop space to build frames. had some sweet connections so we also used it to ride and prototype stuff, all year long, regardless of weather!

lrg- that was alex price. about two years ago he was street riding with a group, cut through a parking garage, jumped an island, didnt realize that he was between the concrete rafters, and at about 25mph slammed his face into one while in the air. he broke like, everything. eye sockets, cracked skull, neck, back, got an infection in his lungs from choking on vomit, etc.. he was in a coma with no actual prognosis or expected recovery. for 8 days he was in the ICU and I think at no point were there less than 4 local people sitting there with him. wild shit. at one point we were all standing there, and if you started saying his name, and laughing about stories... his heart rate would go up -but that was it. rough stuff.

however! he recovered, he's better, he's fine, he now reps for some companies down in NYC, still riding, good stuff!
flag superman-4
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Posted: Oct 17, 2008 at 7:33 Quote
Ah mtn biking was so much fun back in the day. Ryan Leech was the sh*t, wheelie drops were all the rage, and nobody had ever heard of a mountain biker doing a barspin or a tailwhip. I remember in grade 8 (so 00-01) I was in the mtn biking club at my highschool (burnaby mtn) and there was a ride with Dave Watson on bby mtn down mels trail, that was the coolest thing ever. Everyone rode 17-19" xc bikes with 3" travel, and if you weren't breaking at least 1-2 parts a week there was something wrong with you. I had a buddy with one of those crazy GT iDrives that had the pivot around the bb or whatever, with some 00 Marzo Z1 dropoffs. 5" travel singlecrown, everyone was super jealous because they only had 3-4" travel. Of course the real pimpshit back then was a norco vps with a monster t. Marzocchi was the ONLY good suspension company, manitou and rockshox were XC only, and fox was only doing rear shocks. Shimano was the only choice for drivetrain, sram was unheard of. Bmx was something you only did if your parents wouldn't buy you a mtb. Oh and everyone wore a camelbak, all the time, even for a 30 min ride.
This was all before I even joined pinkbike, lol looking back i was pretty much the hardest gromit ever.
By 02-03 I joined pinkbike and got a 4hun and i thought i was the shit because I could do nofooter one handers out of flyouts. Anyone who sucked was a poser, and anyone who went bigger than you was a hack. I joined the COP trail patrol formed by James Radke, along with guys like MiKeY and FCF-Spec, and I was so awed to be the presence of such pinkbike heavies. Dropin was just coming out and was super underground, but HUGE in the mtb scene. I still have 2 dropin tshirts. I remember riding with Dylan Tremblay at millenium and then at the calgary bike expo, and it was the coolest thing ever. We smoked a j behind the stampede casino with dylan and ryan shnepf and dylan randomly climbed onto the roof of a building and the jumped off into a bush. Cop was actually sick, and even had a 4cross course. The djs were at the top of the hill, and there was about a 99% chance it would be ridiculously windy, but you'd hit them anyways. I remmeber John Cowan coming to COP for a demo and building the lips up super huge, but there was like a 90km/hr wind when the demo started, so all he could do was tables and suicides and shit like that.
lol anyways thats my rant on how good biking was back in the day, now its all played out. i miss the scene back then, there were actually group rides downtown, we'd meet at eau claire and go shred some stair sets. we should do that again!

cheers
scott
flag chewonit64
Posted: Oct 17, 2008 at 8:11 Quote
superman-4 wrote:
Oh and everyone wore a camelbak, all the time, even for a 30 min ride.
Dropin was just coming out and was super underground, but HUGE in the mtb scene.

I definitely remember the Camelbak thing, although I never did have one. Drop-in was good back in the day. Once they ended up going to a different country and getting all the corporate influence it kind of went down hill for me. Basically seasons 1 and 2 were awesome, 3 was pretty bad. Stop watching after that.
flag marty660
Posted: Oct 17, 2008 at 8:18 Quote
draco wrote:
the warehouse was ours, we used it as a shop space to build frames. had some sweet connections so we also used it to ride and prototype stuff, all year long, regardless of weather!

lrg- that was alex price. about two years ago he was street riding with a group, cut through a parking garage, jumped an island, didnt realize that he was between the concrete rafters, and at about 25mph slammed his face into one while in the air. he broke like, everything. eye sockets, cracked skull, neck, back, got an infection in his lungs from choking on vomit, etc.. he was in a coma with no actual prognosis or expected recovery. for 8 days he was in the ICU and I think at no point were there less than 4 local people sitting there with him. wild shit. at one point we were all standing there, and if you started saying his name, and laughing about stories... his heart rate would go up -but that was it. rough stuff.

however! he recovered, he's better, he's fine, he now reps for some companies down in NYC, still riding, good stuff!

That's one of the worst accidents I've ever heard of! It's good he's doing good, and I'm actually amazed that he's still riding.
flag carnell
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Posted: Oct 17, 2008 at 12:40 Quote
Superman Ever remember thinking Nicoles was like the baddest ass trail ever? Those spoke rides were good i got to ride with leech when i was 14 about 03, i was in awe!
flag i-t-o
Posted: Oct 22, 2008 at 10:06 Quote
draco wrote:
the warehouse was ours, we used it as a shop space to build frames. had some sweet connections so we also used it to ride and prototype stuff, all year long, regardless of weather!

lrg- that was alex price. about two years ago he was street riding with a group, cut through a parking garage, jumped an island, didnt realize that he was between the concrete rafters, and at about 25mph slammed his face into one while in the air. he broke like, everything. eye sockets, cracked skull, neck, back, got an infection in his lungs from choking on vomit, etc.. he was in a coma with no actual prognosis or expected recovery. for 8 days he was in the ICU and I think at no point were there less than 4 local people sitting there with him. wild shit. at one point we were all standing there, and if you started saying his name, and laughing about stories... his heart rate would go up -but that was it. rough stuff.

however! he recovered, he's better, he's fine, he now reps for some companies down in NYC, still riding, good stuff!

Yup, we drank with Alex on the 1 year anniversary of his "little" accident. He is a blast to ride with and hang out with.

Superman-4, I remember you were one of the few guys who seemed to have real style on a bike back in the day. Shots of your tables and whips definitely had me thinking of mountain biking in a different way.

Who was the kid from Calgary that Mikey road with? Really talented, I remember he sent me a video of himself doing a 360-barspin flyout back when most people weren't even barspinning. He rode a bunch with Doug Fink on Drop-In Season 2?
flag therealblinky
Posted: Oct 22, 2008 at 10:12 Quote
are you thinking oF Deter? i think that is what his screen name was. i remember when i was about 14 we rented a indoor park in thorsby AB and MikeY and Deter came down and had an old school throw down
flag i-t-o
Posted: Oct 22, 2008 at 10:15 Quote
therealblinky wrote:
are you thinking oF Deter? i think that is what his screen name was. i remember when i was about 14 we rented a indoor park in thorsby AB and MikeY and Deter came down and had an old school throw down

I want to say his name was Sam. I remember Deter, I believe his actual name was Peter.
flag therealblinky
Posted: Oct 22, 2008 at 10:29 Quote
yea i think i know who your talking about. yea peter was a charactor. what ever happened to those guys? mikey and deteR?
flag carnell
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Posted: Oct 22, 2008 at 11:43 Quote
mikey and []Deter were mods, how could we lose track of them?

 


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