Farah and Oli – Day 9 **Bonus

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Smoke

Yes, some bonus content for you. These pics are all courtesy of Wyld Silly at Spectrum Techwear.

Yes, our setup is a bit twisted.

Harlan and Dean on Kobau, ready for lap 1.

Necker on my Chromag. As you can see, he’s plainly struggling adapting to the hardtail.

Oh hey, it’s me again.

..and again.

And Harlan.

Oh, and Rick. This is Rick’s second mountain bike ride ever. He’s a bit of a natural.

Awesome shot of Necker onthe hoodoos at the bottom of lap 1.

This one of Harlan is OK too.

Gary “does-this-lens-make-my-ass-look-fat” Pope.

OK, lap 2.

It’s called TKO. Rick has no idea why. He’s just hitting everything on his second ride.

You know, some of us had to practice to figure out how to ride this stuff.

Dean on some kind of ribcage type of manuever.

Harlan on the last hit of the day.

Farah and Oli – Day 9

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Smoke

Well, that’s a week and a bit. I see a break in the weather too. We’ve got some more foreigners today. In fact, a bit of a possee has formed for another sesh on Kobau.

Farah needed some female company, so we got ‘stash to come along. She and Gary dropped a bit of a bombshell on the drive up. I guess they’re on the same program as me and Barb. Yup, a mini-Pope is on the way next year.

Brad also returned for another, and he brought one of them dumb red, uhhh….. Neckers along.

That’s him on my ChroMag. He busted his own bike yesterday. Which is total BS, as he earned some good karma points for doing trailwork up here.

Oh well, maybe he’s just cursed.

Whoa, Farah is moving fast. I can barely keep her in frame….

Necker.

I just like saying Necker. He’s long gone in the next shot.

So we’ll look at Farah instead.

Harlan and Dean were out today as well.

..and this would be Gary.

OK, and one more from Farah and that’s a wrap.

Oh right, we have another lap to go.

Now, here’s Dean. what you don’t see is my BRAND NEW OAKLEYS. Because about a hundred feet above that, I managed to lose them out of my poocket. Not that I noticed until the bottom. Maybe later in the year I’ll see if I can find them. Crap….

Brad didn’t care. He was more interested in this little road gap.

Then he entertained us with some random stories about his grandmother. It’s a surreal experience, this ride. Killer steep and gnarly, then high end winery.

Aww what do you care. Here. Check out this Chevelle.

Farah and Oli – Day 8

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Smoke

**Todays pics brought to you by Spectrum Techwear. All the fisheye shots are from Wyld Wily. Thanks Brad.

While the kids are taking a break (sorry, no pun intended), it’s time to show the trails a little love.

We headed out to 3.5km (the infamous “Big Money” line) to clean up some deadfall and have a bit of a pedal today. Brad brought some fresh meat for the machine in the form of young “Necker” here.

That little RedNeck sure can rip it. Yet another North Carolina prodigy.

Not to be outdone, the old dog Willy still has lots of fire left.

This would be the straw that broke Neckers bike. After several years of Billy Badass trashing on it and a couple more seasons of Necker beating on it, the head tube finally cracked here.