Checking out a little drop
During the past nine months that I have been living in Seattle, the mountain biking in the Pacific Northwest has been nothing short of incredible. Anybody that has ever ridden here probably shares the same sensational feelings about the special "hero dirt" that Mother Nature has so kindly blessed us with. Yes, it does rain for more than half the year... but that's what makes the PNW stick out from other places on the West Coast. Riding in the wet, the muck, and the mud with some good buddies just hooting and hollering all the way down some sketchy, slick, root scattered descent has become my favorite past time. Needless to say, I'm pretty damn happy with my new home.
Obligatory lens flare
One of the best opportunities I’ve had in my new home is with my job. One person I would like to give a special thank you to is my good friend (and boss) Matt Telmosse. It's not very often that you get to feel like you’re part of a family at your job... and that’s just the environment Matt has created down at the Polka Dot Jersey bike shop in Seattle. I feel extremely fortunate to have found someone who understands me as a person, and can be my boss and best friend at the same time.
The Diamondback 4Cross & Bigger Brother... The Mission
Matt is from New Jersey, but has been living in the Seattle area for almost a decade now. Ironically enough, he moved out here to push his mountain biking career to the next level, as did I. Matt shreds his bike pretty damn hard and as often as he can. With a new business, two beautiful baby twin girls, and an amazing wife, Matt is a stand up guy that I value greatly and look up to in more ways than one. His influence on me as a person and a rider is something I can’t quite put into words, so here is a little riding video we put together after a typical day of work at the Polka Dot Jersey bike shop. I feel pretty lucky to be able to mix work and play.
Post Ride
(have you ever seen a cycler smoke tobacco, i mean come on ...)
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Is it a kind of test or training?
I don't LOVE every single Radiohead tune, but if you go see them and listen to them a lot you'll constantly her all kinds of nuances and little things that add to the song as a whole and you can do this with nearly EVERY song. As a musician this is pretty impessive. And "want to jump off a bridge"??? So you've listened to what like 5 songs of theirs and now you're certain you don't like them and that they're a depressing horrid band??? That statement alone shows how little you know about them and yet YOU have formed a hard-line opinion so I'd say I'm pretty spot on in my "judgement" of you.
Have a listen to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk4goNqMdwE if I ever made a video I would put it to that song not only because it's amazing, but because it would drive small minded morons like you NUTS.
Now go do some sit-ups...
I dig the Radiohead tune off of Kid A "in limbo"...have 3 c.d.'s of theirs. Their music is an acquired taste! I like the atmospheric stuff when in that mood!