Arawana Jumping Spiders

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Smoke

I guess I’m running out of smartass titles. Kelly and Rollie are out again, and Kelly is pregnant, again, like five thousand of my other friends seem to be this summer. They brought out a bunch of other riders from the Island for their every other year visit to the Okanagan.

Whenever they show up, we gotta ride Naramata. Something about that place…

Jason was so excited, he just couldn’t keep his wheels on the ground.

Maybe it was this little dude that inspired him. I like how he looks like he’s begging or something.

“Please Sir…can I have some more?”

A million laughs. PK, pregnant chick shot. I should have gotten some better ones. Kelly was killing it today. Nothing crazy, but she was throwing down some solid moves, make no mistake.

The other two ladies, Tera and Jodie, were also riding well. Sorry, I didn’t get to know you well enough to know which one was which. I get sort of hypnotized by hot babes on bikes.

Anyway, they’re both awesome. See?

Round two and we did a half height Beer Run. Since we already inspected the first time, we really let it roll this time.

The crew totally threw down on the Red Booter.

Almost forgot, we had a random rider from Edmonton join the crew on the ride today. He must have had a great time, as the group was just buzzing all day. Here he is, throwing huge.

Not to be outdone, here’s the girls on the stepup.

Another wildlife shot, this time of an Osprey.

Last run was a full tilt Drops A Lot rip. Absolutely retarded fun. Brant and Andrew showed up for the final lap too, as Brant was celebrating his 30th birthday with a triple crown adventure in the southern Okanagan. Lucky guy….

three up, three down, sunset at Three Mile beach, and we’re done.

Dynomite – Day 3

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Smoke

If I ever manage to strike it rich (highly unlikely given my chosen field…), this is one car I’d be pretty interested in having. Coincidentally, it happens to be owned by my pal Don, who struck it rich via a Dairy Queen franchise. Don is also a kickass mountain bike racer from the 90’s that kept Barb company at the World Masters a few years back.

But enough reminiscing. Lets bust out some airs on the Bog….

Our warmup lap was all 3700 vertical feet of Carmi, from Code 4 right to the lake.

That’s enough to wake up anyone.

Unfortunately for Joe, it was also enough to cause a good strain of his Achilles on this aborted DJ. You can see him about to bail out here. Killer shot though.

He’s pretty tough, he kept riding all day anyway. Round two was a full height Beer Run. Haven’t been doing the upper section that often, but Gabe went out and cleared the top for us last week so we called him up to show us around.

Can’t believe that guy is going to be a dad too. They’ll let just about anyone into that gig.

The other brothers had to step up and do some road gaps now that Joe is taking it easy.

Fruity portrait shots in Ivy League…

Whoa…who’s that handsome devil?

We also got a bonus lap on Drops-A-Lot. No pics, as we were BANGIN’ on that lap. Seriously, bumper to bumper action all the way down. So ggod that we had to chill on the beach with some beers until…

..the sun set.

Can it get any better? Well, there’s always tomorrow.

Four And A Half Men – Day 1

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Smoke

No, it’s not a cheesy new sitcom. Neither is it a reference to our often larger than normal clientele. This time, it just means that these guys brought along a smaller than usual rider.

They got here yesterday afternoon, and I think Will is still on North Carolina time…

We have a special surprise guest guide with Super T hanging out with this group. That Tyler sure knows how to party.

OK, enough preliminaries. Here’s the “half” showing the old farts how it’s done. Trip is twelve, so let that be a warning to you.

Yup, Matt got sucked in by the young’n.

Bryon wasn’t letting himself get upstaged so easily.

But upstaged he was, nonetheless.

Todays woldlife shot, a green rattlesnake. Right when I was telling the story about the last one we saw too. Phil found it when he was looking for a place to pee, which reminds me of this joke about the Lone Ranger and Tonto….

We did a couple of laps on the Bog, and then ripped over to hit up another run on Drops A Lot.

It was another epic day up there. Here’s T on the drop.

Trip keeps getting these epic pics. Do you think it’s the white wheels or what?

Justin, who figured out that cotton is better than poly on the hot days.

Oh, it looks like Matt figured out to drop some of the padding too. It’s just shy of 100F or 37C right here.

The Sheep Shagger wasn’t as astute. He’s not as experieenced with the desert heat, and didn’t bring enough water either. I think maybe the fact that he’s on his honeymoon might explain this little lapse in judgement. He’s still riding half decent anyway…