Band of Brothers – Pt. 3

Posted on June 17, 2006 by Smoke

Last day, so we’re hitting up Powers. Gotta go out with a bang, eh? Here’s Courtenay again, on one of the many berms of Powers. Not bad for a park rat. Of curse, she comes with great references, being the woman behind one of the men of ROAM.

This is Courtenay’s brother, who built the website for ROAM. He almost landed on me when he fell off, but all’s well that ends well.

Check out the intensity on Chris’s face.

Those BMX skills are coming back now.

Jason gets the wall ride on his first try.

OK, those BMX skills are officially dusted off.

As usual, we ran into some of the builders.

The bugs at the top were brutal. It made for somoe frantic work wile we swapped out a wheel for the final run. I wish I had a pic of hte crash, but Jason managed to trash a wheel, dent the fork, tear a tire, and bunch of other stuff. All because he thought he saw a sheep.

Kevin, ya dumb hucker.

Chris on some more skinny stuff. He was ruling it today.

It takes how many guys to check the oil? There’s a story here, but I’m not sure I’m gonna bother. Basically, you shouldn’t put 10 litres of oil into a 6 cylinder Chev.

My work here is done.

Awesome tour. You guys are welcome back as soon as I finish detox. Thanks for a great weekend.

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Band of Brothers – Pt. 2

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Smoke

First I have to wish my parents a Happy Anniversary. They’ve been married for a few hundred years or so now.

And now on to the riding….

Brian Park says “Hi!” to everyone at the NSMB.com forums.

We hit up Arawana today. Jason continued to learn how to ride mountain bikes. Here he is getting a lesson on Bud Height.

Ted was picture perfect under bluebird skies.

There’s some new stuff on Arawana, including a stupidly huge jump they call the Seperator (likely because it will seperate both your shoulders on landing). No pics of it this week, but I’m heading back there soon, so maybe next week. This is Chris on the jump just before it.

Ted gets a road gap. Courtenay isn’t impressed. Keep trying Ted.

Hey Matt, remembering those BMX skills yet?

For dessert we hooked up with Dax for a Rusty Muffler.

It’s a little more country than the other run. Hows the uphill boys?

Some stunts and stuff kept us interested.

Courtenay on another teeter.

We finished up at Hillside winery again, where we managed to offend everyone within hearing distance with foul language and filthy stories.

I guess four bottles of wine at the end of the day will do that to you.

And to finish the day?

Mmmmmmeat.

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Band of Brothers

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Smoke

A bunch of guys from the States, mostly related. How will I keepthem under control? Ahhh, the dog will help…..

The trip started a bit slow. There was yet another accident in front of us. We didn’t have to render first aid this time, but we did get to hang out on the highway for a good portion of the night.