Dah Shop One Year Anniversary

What, you thought this blog was dead?

Well, it might be.

But in the meantime, check this out. Maybe it'll wake this site back up.

Flatland Jam Part II

10 more photos.

The most amazing thing I saw—and I don't think I got a shot of it—was the guy on the yellow Strowler pedalling standing up with no hands. Think about that for a second, or even go try it if you like. But I'd recommend padding up first.

Flatland Jam

There was a flatland jam in Tompkins Square Park yesterday. Probably 20 riders, many of them rolling and spinning all day—one doing so despite a fatally-tweaked frame. They gathered from all points in the New York metropolitan area, obviously, but also from Pennsylvania and Canada and elsewhere. It was not a contest.

I brought my camera. Here's 10 shots for now, with more to come later this week.

Take Me to the Top

I may write SPRFLS (updated daily!), but at heart I'm just another trend whore. So when I saw that topload stems were making a comeback, and thought about how a little more rise would help my 37-year-old back, I went digging in the crates:


Much better.

P.S. I'm gonna try and start updating this on a weekly basis, at least. It might not be much sometimes, but what the hell.

Kevin Robinson High Air in Central Park

I can't believe it's taken me so damn long to post these—I meant to do a long post about the whole scenario over at SPRFLS, but Supes's post over on Super made me reconsider. If Mat Hoffman was there, and he signed off on it, who am I to question things? Nobody, that's who.

Honestly, I only had two real problems with the whole event : 1) The Red Bull wasn't free, and 2) the ever-annoying NYC Parks Department didn't provide a place to park/lock bikes, and actually harassed people for locking their bikes to park railings. Um, it was a BIKE EVENT. A little common courtesy (and common sense) would have gone a long way.

(Also, I'm not convinced Kevin cleared 27', but I promised I wouldn't talk about that.)

A nonparenthetical aside: Can we please refrain from calling Kevin Robinson "K-Rob"? That's a lazy "nickname" that should be restricted to basketball (T-Mac) and baseball (A-Rod) players. Hell, it sucks for THEM. Kevin deserves a real nickname if he's going to have one at all.

As usual, it was good to see the NYC BMX community, both past and present, show up in force. Things may be fractured now, but at least we can all come together for a corporate-sponsored televised event. Power to the people!

Anyway, eight photos. All in chronological order. To be honest, I was more impressed by the flip than any of his "record" (sorry!) runs. Feel free to use them elsewhere (now that it's only two weeks later), just credit me. Or the blog. Whatever.