AT's Showdown 2012: Practice
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 Welcome to AT's Showdown 2012 at the infamous Cow Palace in San Francisco, CA. |
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| Seattle to San Fran in one night, we did it. Steven Bafus preps up for todays practice |
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| Thumbs up and it's go time here at the showdown. |
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| Watts dozin' the dirt. Don't get in his way, he'll likely run you over driving around at full bore speed. |
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| Dirt.. and lot's of it. |
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| The Genovese brothers catch up with their fellow Canuck posse |
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| Merican Radness Movember: Steven Bafus takes charge |
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| Justin Wyper's post burrito siesta halfway through the day. |
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| T-Mac doing what he does best. Keeping the dirt happy. |
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| First to make it through the course today, Bafus amps up a 3 onto the container. |
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| Cody Gessel was the only one to attempt transferring lines on the big sender. Mission completed. |
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| Wyper was absolutely destroying the course today getting more sideways than Travis Pastrana in a rally car. |
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| Unfortunately this whip got the best of him. The remains of the chew can that was in his back pocket... |
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| Casey Groves awaits his run in up at the top of the course. |
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| Connor Gallant getting all sideways on the little set. Probably one of the better whips of the day! |
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| Martin Soderstrom showed up today but hadn't ridden the course by the time we left. Saving it for tomorrow maybe? |
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| Brett Rheeder with a huge stretched out can near the end of the day. |
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| They boys gave the course an end of the day buff in preparation for tomorrow. |
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Do you know him? (Not claiming I do) but your respect for him has come from watching him ride, not from his actions in his personal life. If you were to learn more about half the riders out there that you like, you'd probably learn that they have some kind of vice, then you'd probably have a hard time finding any riders you "respect" For some its just a part of growing up and being exposed to a million different substances, and its not really your place or anyone's to say what they should and shouldn't do with their OWN health.
Chew doesn't effect physical abilities like smoking does (pot included). No one mentions how many people you see hittin' a j on the lift at whistler, or pounding 10 beers back to back after riding... now do they?
Our sport is full of drugs, dopers, hippies, losers, winners, straight edged folks. That is what makes this wonderful.. people from all realms participate in the sport we love. Heck... you better remember where MTB originated from... and that was hippies in California in the 70's and 80's.... on who knows what types of psych drugs.
In the end, no point in crying about someone elses personal ordeals. Generally if you would walk up to someone in real life on a bike and say "what your doing is bad"... you will probably get your arse knocked straight out... because in the end... it's none of your business.