Under the knife

more kick ass photos by Bob Quirk www.flickr.com/photos/hannahmontanna

Falltime

We called off the races considering all the rain and the fact that balls would have to drive up to maybe race, oh well. Good news is, its nice and wet, prime for digging, all the new stuff needs clay and packing so we can ride it sooner than later, Im sure folks will be down there all day, lets get muddy.

the remains

there was a lot of shots of the action floating around the interweb but i didnt see any of the aftermath, above is the remains of a kickass day. who would have thought millions of beers, hundreds of tacos, pounds of BBQ, and several gut fulls of hotdogs could all fit into this port-o-john, well done.

cheers!

Cool Beans

We gave away the bowl corner recently and recieved this email yesterday...

"Hey Brian. I got the bowl corners from you and just wanted to let you see where they went. This is the bowl I built out of them. I have the wood for the last corner, but I'm going to ply it first to tighten up everything. So far I have 37$ into it including gas to Richmond. LOL Gotta love construction friends. OK, I just wanted to keep you updated Ill send one of the completed bowl. Thanks again and your welcome anytime in Portsmouth. Chris."

38 bucks, heck yeah!



Latane origanated the saying "cool beans" apparently. State finals at the Gillies creek track in RVA this weekend, come hang out, Saturday afternnoon, yell at Balls and support local BMX. Lets get in the woods.

Another rad e-mail...
"ps. We visited Mikey Aitken in the hospital last night and his wife wanted us to take a picture w/ him, now keep in mind he is still knocked out. I suggested a thumbs up photo and we all asked mike give us a thumbs up and you would not believe what happened next... HE OPENED HIS EYES AND GAVE A THUMBS UP FOR THE PICTURE!! It was awesome. Everyone was so happy and excited, there was a party in the hospital room. He closed his eyes again but that moment was awesome. He's a champion and will pull this off. Keep the love for him going."

Yeah!

Wow. The ghetto jam was amazing, Garret Guilliams took the high air win without 1.3 million dollars or a laser height meter, Geoff Slatterly came close but style didnt win it. Other highlights included, the vert apes throwing out some ridiculous tricks and looking clean all day, holes was plowed, every one being psyked, the girl in the ripped fishnets, Gull, RPG, 80 foot airs on a 6 1/2 mini, Mat Hoffman, Mat Hoffman, Mat Hoffman, fun more or less. Thank you so freakin much; Rob, Steve, Brian, Tidewater bros, locals, attendants and anyone who put a hand in without asking for anything in return but a smile and a handshake.

a lighter note

good weekend! thanks to all the dudes getting stuff done. above is the bike lot as of yesterday (click it), below are latnea and ryan demostrating their fire dancing skills at erin and evan party, thanks for a good time. see you this weekend.

Did you know Mat Hoffman only has one "t" in his name because he crashed so hard once the other one fell off...

Hopefully yesterdays post and comment gave some neccessary constuctive critisism to all parties involved, deleted the post, moving on. Ghetto jam is set for blastoff, hope to see everyone out this Saturday the 11th. Details are posted at fbmbmx.com. No glass at the lot as usual. Thanks again to all the locals and beach friends who made the roll in happen this weekend, wow, good show. Lets get friendly.