I suggest clicking the little arrows in the lower right corner to make it full screen then watch in amazement.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Recent Rides
A few words about some recent rides:
PMBAR (Pisgah Mountain Bike Adventure Race)
This is a race outside of Brevard, NC and is just about the most fun day on a bike one can imagine. It’s a great format with checkpoints throughout the forest that nobody knows where they are until the start of the race you have to go to a minimum number of the possible checkpoints to finish (or more to win) in any order you deem best. It’s great because you’re seeing other people doing the same race as you going different directions all day but you have little idea whether they are doing better or worse than you. It has a total party atmosphere. For safety you compete as a team of two, Jeff was my partner this year. We had a great day and met out #1 goal of finishing, it took us a little over 9 hours. I road briefly with a bunch of old paddling friends, that was cool to see how so many people of similar interest have had those interest evolve in the same way. Knoxville was well represented at the event with about 10 folks coming out, all clad in the Union Jack.
I bought a couple of raffle tickets at the event and won a new mountain bike frame that happens to be Tara’s size. It’s a Vessago “Bandersnatch” in traffic safety green/yellow, where going to build it up with leftover parts and stuff to make her a nice neighborhood/greenway/grocery bike. I’m looking for a cheap 29er wheelset for it if anybody has one.
Fired up and ready to go, It seemed Jeff and I had some of the burliest bikes out that day:
Rider Meeting Harper's Crew in full force:
Me sketching out on the bridge, notice how the bridge is bowing up:
Jeff on the bridge, notice how the bridge is bowing down:
End of the day collecting my raffle prize, Tara's new town bike:
Cyclocross Adventure:
This past weekend Jeff and I couldn’t decide on what to do so we went with something completely new and went cyclocross exploring/adventuring. We went up to the Citico Creek area riding some fire roads and some single track that ties some fire road sections together. We did about 20 stream crossings, 200 log hops, 3 miles of horse chewed mud, and 4,000 feet of climbing in some of the most beautiful mountains of Tennessee.
Lots of Stream Crossings:
Lunch Break and map check:
It was a great ride and a beautiful day:
Photo credits to Brado and Jeff
PMBAR (Pisgah Mountain Bike Adventure Race)
This is a race outside of Brevard, NC and is just about the most fun day on a bike one can imagine. It’s a great format with checkpoints throughout the forest that nobody knows where they are until the start of the race you have to go to a minimum number of the possible checkpoints to finish (or more to win) in any order you deem best. It’s great because you’re seeing other people doing the same race as you going different directions all day but you have little idea whether they are doing better or worse than you. It has a total party atmosphere. For safety you compete as a team of two, Jeff was my partner this year. We had a great day and met out #1 goal of finishing, it took us a little over 9 hours. I road briefly with a bunch of old paddling friends, that was cool to see how so many people of similar interest have had those interest evolve in the same way. Knoxville was well represented at the event with about 10 folks coming out, all clad in the Union Jack.
I bought a couple of raffle tickets at the event and won a new mountain bike frame that happens to be Tara’s size. It’s a Vessago “Bandersnatch” in traffic safety green/yellow, where going to build it up with leftover parts and stuff to make her a nice neighborhood/greenway/grocery bike. I’m looking for a cheap 29er wheelset for it if anybody has one.
Fired up and ready to go, It seemed Jeff and I had some of the burliest bikes out that day:
Rider Meeting Harper's Crew in full force:
Me sketching out on the bridge, notice how the bridge is bowing up:
Jeff on the bridge, notice how the bridge is bowing down:
End of the day collecting my raffle prize, Tara's new town bike:
Cyclocross Adventure:
This past weekend Jeff and I couldn’t decide on what to do so we went with something completely new and went cyclocross exploring/adventuring. We went up to the Citico Creek area riding some fire roads and some single track that ties some fire road sections together. We did about 20 stream crossings, 200 log hops, 3 miles of horse chewed mud, and 4,000 feet of climbing in some of the most beautiful mountains of Tennessee.
Lots of Stream Crossings:
Lunch Break and map check:
It was a great ride and a beautiful day:
Photo credits to Brado and Jeff
Friday, May 9, 2008
April Ride Log
April was a decent month on the bike with a little over 44 hours. Several trips out of town and a couple of local rides I dont do very often.
2nd Greenway Weiner Fix 2:30
5th Road ride 2:30
6th Parkway/Dragon/Parkway 5:30
7th SK8 :30
8th Trailer ride with Noah 1:30
9th Haw Ridge 1:30
10th Haw Ridge 1:00
12th Pisgah 2:00
13th Pisgah 5:30
14th Neighborhood Fix :30
15th Concorde 2:00
17th Greenway fix 1:00
18th Family greenway ride 1:00
20th Raccoon Mountain 3:00
21st Farragut Fix 1:30
22nd Commute to work 2:00
23rd Haw Ridge 2:00
25th Commute to work 2:00
26th 12 Hour Allycat 1:30
27th Farragut Greenway 2:00
29th Farragut fix :45
2nd Greenway Weiner Fix 2:30
5th Road ride 2:30
6th Parkway/Dragon/Parkway 5:30
7th SK8 :30
8th Trailer ride with Noah 1:30
9th Haw Ridge 1:30
10th Haw Ridge 1:00
12th Pisgah 2:00
13th Pisgah 5:30
14th Neighborhood Fix :30
15th Concorde 2:00
17th Greenway fix 1:00
18th Family greenway ride 1:00
20th Raccoon Mountain 3:00
21st Farragut Fix 1:30
22nd Commute to work 2:00
23rd Haw Ridge 2:00
25th Commute to work 2:00
26th 12 Hour Allycat 1:30
27th Farragut Greenway 2:00
29th Farragut fix :45
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