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09 04 10
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Road Fools Saturday Update
We spent friday finishing up sessions in san francisco. At the infamous wharf spot, lil jeff and mcdermott spent 6 hours with the premium team. From what I heard (and from the clips I saw) some serious jibs went down. I tagged along with the rest of the madera dudes and headed into a gritty industrial area. Bryce and tom trained a wild gap after barelling down a typical san fran hill and then like clock work the fog rolled in and dimmed the session.
At night we headed over to ramp rats in petaluma and witnessed the premium team absolutely kill the place. Good group of dudes-its been a pleasure travelling with them. Thanks to mike krnaich for the hook up.
We're off to berkely today for street--i'm breaking away from the guys to head 2 hours south to san jose to visit eilken. He had surgery yesterday, will have his jaw wired shut for 6 weeks, but everything is looking a lot better. We want to thank aaron cooke over at the athlete recovery fund for all the help so far--those guys have already been incredibly supportive. Stay tuned...
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09 03 10
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Road Fools Day 3 plus Bonus Madera news!
We headed out of San Jose today to ride San Francisco, but before we left, Tom, Bryce and I went and visited Josh in the hospital. After a brutally hard fall (clipped his back wheel on a gnarly 360 gap), Josh is doing better and is in surprisingly high spirits. He'll be going in tomorrow for surgery on his jaw and will have to hang out in the hospital for a couple of days afterwards for monitoring. He's a serious trooper--we'll miss him on the rest of this trip.
Street in Frisco was a treat. We hit up a good handful of staple spots and for the most part watched Tom do death-defying high speed lines. Bryce did a pretty amazing wallride over a tall man rail and we got to witness premium's Chad Curley just shred some wildly impossible lines. We're back into the city tomorrow then off to Ramp Rats in Petaluma.
Here are the photos for the day.
-group shot in front of the bay bridge.
-embarcadero street spot. Infamous. Amazing.
-panaramic shot of the bay bridge at dusk.
-matt c., bryce toole inspired smith on the famous frisco hubba.
In other Madera News, there's an interview with Mike Hinkens over on ESPN right now, check it out.
Our friends Eric Marion and Dean Watson from Central Jersey sent over this edit repping a new clothing company (Noside) they're riding for. Stoked on these two dudes--good people and fun dudes to ride with. You have to respect any Jersey project edited to the state's own Glenn Danzig. Here's the edit and a little bit of the Misfits...
Untitled from EricMarion on Vimeo.
Also--a still of Eric M. taken by Mike Kuhn in the midst of the epic amount of spots they have in their area...
09 02 10
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Behind the Wheel - Road fools: day 1
For the next nine days we'll be splitting up into groups of three with each group mixed with both madera and premium riders. A filmer to each group and vincent peraud (photographer) floats to differing groups from day to day.
Firstly, I want to mention that the premium guys are a really sweet group of dudes--its been really fun shooting the shit and pedaling with them. Considering I was with one group the whole day, I can vouch that between tom v., big daddy, and dave thompson, things got handled. There are some seriously unique spots south of san fran., including the infamous mark johnson ledge that everyone got a piece of.
When we regrouped last night at 8pm, we got to hear some wild stories that went down during the day--the madera dudes have definitely been putting in some work. At about 9pm, everyone went back out and about a half hour later I got a call from hinkens asking me to take eilken to the hospital. although completely coherent, he hit his face pretty hard and had to spend a night in the hospital. No details yet--we will all be visiting him today at 1:30.
Stay tuned... Etnies hooked it up with serious hospitality. Thanks to Hinkens for being a serious co-pilot. Every team needs a clone of Mike. You need something? He gets it done.
you want someone to stay away from your stuff? Here's a good solution.
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09 01 10
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Road Fools Day 0
Hey dudes-here's the news for today--please check props tv and the come up for links. Our dudes are already killing it. Road fools: day 0. Tom v. And I got into an fran about 1pm yesterday, we picked up hinkens, eilken, bryce (aka the skipper), and dave thompson (wild card guest who, on top of being a super nice dude, should def. Win best video part of the year). After sitting through hours of rush hour traffic, we met up with the premium dudes, the props and etnies rig, and headed to the multi-million dollar an jose bmx park which was no short of being unreal. A pretty amazing pre-r/f session went down with everyone contributing to the shred. Tom v. Did a wild near death smith grind on top of a giant wallride, eilken did some wild fakie lines most elegently, and mike and john had lines galore. Off to an amazing pre-start, picking up kocsis and mcdermott at 530am today in san fran--street today in 60 degree weather. Good change of pace...
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