Monday, October 15, 2007

Sweet Bike Skills

Reed sent me this here video.

I wish I had sweet jumpin' skills like these guys. If I did, I'd be all over trails like this...

Friday, October 05, 2007

Sunrace Driven News

I shot a buncha pics of the new Driven bits the other day, you can see them here:

Sunrace—Sturmey Archer Blog

It's all really nice and has been getting good reviews from folks that tried it at Interbike Dirt Demo. Can't wait to see finished product.

Here's a couple of pics:::

Sweet one piece 10sp road cassette, weighs nothing!

The carbon cranks riff on the graphics I comp'd...look really good and are damn light.

Really like the shifters, I did the graphics for these guys, which Sunrace interpretated to the rest of the line very well. Carbon, bits and lightweight.

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

TeeVee for Me

Another late night in bed, half awake and I'm flippin' throught the channels to try and find re-runs of Full House (John Stamos' hair is so sweet in that show). Anyway, I stumble upon this clay-mation/stop motion thing spoofing Star Wars and it's funny as hell.

I found out more about it in this month's Wired magazine--It's part of the Adult Swim Network and it's called Robot Chicken.

Do like I do, check it out!

Adult Swim-Robot Chicken-Star Wars


Here's the one I remember:

Friday, September 21, 2007

Poop Deck

Stealing/borrowing videos I find on other blogs has been fun lately...This one's for you Otto!

Thursday, September 20, 2007

SSWC08

Quick note on 2 things...
Chipotle jersey contest was a bust, but a fun effort. I just have a hard time designing ugly jerseys (too many elements, fades, shapes overlapping)...for me simple is better (matter of personal taste).

SSWC08—helping Curtis and crew get the event off the ground and running successfully. Imagine 300+ singlespeed mountain bikers, drinking and racing...gonna be interestingly fun, especially since it will be right here in Napa Californ-eye-A.

Skyline is brutal to my fat-ass--pushing 32:16 generally involves some walking fer' me. Plus I have yet to set tire to dirt on the trails that put me out of commission now for 9 weeks...but I do look forward to it!

I poached this here video from the BIKE blog, here's how Curtis was able to secure the rights, the honor, to host the event.

Friday, September 07, 2007

DeeeZinin'

So I don't get to do a ton of design in my current job as I am now a project manager and more involved with scope, schedule and budgets...joy. In order to remain sane and focused on what I really want to do, I have my freelance world and contests.

I'm currently entering designs for the Chipotle/Slipstream Cycling jersey and I'd like to ask for your help my faithful readers!

I've got two ideas up already and one more in the works and when voting opens on 9/16, I would love to have your support and win!

To make it even more funner, think of a vote for me as an opportunity to make fun of me when I win and wear a full team kit.

You can look way to the back of the pack on our group ride or any ride and laugh silently or out loud about ol' Prosser stuffed into the Argyle kit he designed.

It doesn't matter to me, I just want to win!

Here's the link to view the jerseys:

Slipstream Jersey Contest

Here's my first two comps...I'm trying to allow for proper sponsor placement as well as make the argyle something better to look at...

I tried to stuff a burrito in the back pocket (graphically), then upon uploading I see someone else did that too! Oh well...mine's more better

Basically the same, tried a gradient and black instead... option 3 will be something else...

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Unscrewed

Yesterday was the big day, I was un-screwed.

Pretty simple surgery, but the after-effects were not fun.
Got home with screw in bag and proceeded to barf like a super-model. Topped off with a sweet 11 hour headache (compliments of no coffee in the morning) and I was a hurtin' fool.

Today it feels like Spock is perpetually pinching my shoulder so I'm back on the Norco™!

Gooder news? No sling plus I rode my Kestrel on Sunday and Monday...how I miss the bike!

Mountain biking seems questionable for the foreseeable future, but I am pretty sure that I'll be back on the road within a couple weeks (see what my PT has to say, but I can grip the bars and move along pretty well).

1" Long and out of my body!