Random Wayside Jam

I got a call from Schmidt today giving me a heads up that a bunch of riders were hitting up the Wayside Trails this afternoon. It was the rush to get in some riding before the storm...seeing we're due to get hosed with rain this weekend. So I bit, and headed over to the trails, and sure enough a dozen plus dudes showed to get rad. A super random Thursday night jam session at the trails. Summer status to the max. BMX!

Wayside Trails Photos: CLICK HERE

Squatchville Running Nice!

Tonight was the first legit session over at the trails. We had 4 of us riding and the 3 lines were running pretty nicely...even if the High Life line only has 1 jump and a landing-less drop as of right now. Really looking forward to the months ahead...Squatchville!

Squatchville Photos: CLICK HERE

A.M. Dirt

Steve and I both randomly had today off so we headed out to Squatchville for a little morning dirt. It was humid as hell, and pretty dry and crumbly, but we got some runs in on the roller line. Steve took the maiden voyage over #2 in the green line, a pretty gnarly 16 footer that kicks to the right. It took a few attempts, but he was landing it clean in no time. We decided to do a little digging on a berm that's under construction, but Mother Nature had other ideas and absolutely dumped on us. Nothing like sprinting 400 yards through the woods in monsoon rain pushing a bicycle with $3,000 of camera equipment on your back. Soaked to the bone by the time I reached the car! None the less, good times!!

A.M. Dirt Photos: CLICK HERE

Fat Trax Jam - Today @ Noon!

BE THERE!

Portland Needs a Park

For those of you that don't know, TYRANT is based out of Portland, Connecticut. For almost 8 years now the town has been without a skatepark, and the previous 2 parks they did have were epic failures. I'll give the town credit, they were one of the first to put in a pre-fab cement park back in the late 90's, but man was it horrible! Several years after that park was torn down due to construction at the school where it was located, a new wooden park was built on a local tennis court. This park had some potential, but the town felt the need to make it supervised, charge admission, and ban BMX...yet another epic fail! I'm not sure what resulted in the end of that park, but I'm sure their strict guidelines and the park attendant getting caught selling dope to kids didn't help.

So here we are, 2012, and the town just got a $230,000 grant which they intend to "satisfy the communities need for athletic fields". That's some BS if I ever heard it! This town has dozens of fields, some are even lit for night use! It's time to raise awareness that we don't need more tennis courts, more baseball fields, more soccer fields, and another playground in town! We're not asking for all the money, but put some toward a skatepark!

GO LIKE THIS AND SPREAD THE WORD! CLICK HERE

East Haddam Moving Fast!

Paprocki and crew are moving at light speed over at the East Haddam Park. So psyched to bomb around this place when it opens!

Cinco de Sunset

Steve and I headed up to Sunset Ranch yesterday to ride some bikes and meet up with some old friends. Chris has that place pretty dialed, it's mind blowing how much it has grown in 2 years. The riding conditions were perfect, it wasn't too hot, and everybody was getting rad. BMXicans!

Sunset Photos: CLICK HERE

Squatchville Upper Section

Steve and I have been putting in some serious time at Squatchville. Here is a glimpse of the upper section...

CLICK TO ENLARGE

Trails & Track

We were all over the state today. Steve and I met up with some guys at the Willimantic Park at 9:30am for a little early morning 'crete action. We made our way from the park to Schmidt's trails with Ethan Roy in tow. Schmidt's is odd, it just never feels right to me...but some of the guys were making it through the line. We hung out there for a few solid hours before making our way to Falcon BMX in Meriden. The track was rebuilt a few weeks ago and looks pretty fun, but the heavy rains early last week rutted the place up already. We took some runs and called it a night pretty early with everyone beat.

Trails & Track Photos: CLICK HERE

Runnin' the Green Line

Steve and I did a little digging at the trails tonight and he decided to give the first jump of the Green Line a rip. Despite the soaking rains, it's running pretty good. So much digging to be done, so little time!

Squatchville Photos: CLICK HERE

Sunset Ranch Jam: 4/21/12

Days like today define BMX and are the reason I'm 32 and still riding a little kids bike! Awesome trail jam at Sunset Ranch!! Rode with some old friends, made some new ones, nobody got hurt, everybody had a good time, and so on. A huge thanks to Chris Traverse for the invite and for having that place dialed this year! BMX!!

Sunset Ranch Photos: CLICK HERE

East Haddam Under Way!

After 8 long years of waiting the East Haddam Park is finally under way. Stay up to date HERE.

Cromwell Sesh

Fun evening session with the usual dudes at Cromwell. Loving the warmer weather!

Cromwell photos: CLICK HERE

Legends Never Die

Today I woke to the crushing news that Mike Tag had passed away yesterday. I can't say I knew Mike, only met him a few times at East Coast Terminal and the Ghetto Street comps, but the guy def had an effect on my riding! In the late 90's and early 2K's Mike was thrashing everything he came across. The guy was an animal on a bike! Steve Crandall has a great post over on the FBM site: CLICK HERE. My thoughts go out to Mike's family and the FBM crew. Rest in peace, ride on!

Squatchville

The trails tees are done and available HERE!
Grab a shirt, grab a shovel, and get your a$$ to the trails!

Dodging Showers

Rain showers were all over the state this afternoon. It would pour for 2 minutes, dry out for 30, and pour for 5 more. Nature at it's finest! Anyway, despite all the wetness we got a solid late afternoon session in.

Deep River Photos: CLICK HERE

Sunset Ranch Spring Jam

Mauls Brawl 2012

For the 20th straight year, the folks at Mauls put on another kick a$$ contest. Dudes were going off, that's all that needs to be said! A great day, with great people, at a great event. BMX!

Mauls Brawl Photos: CLICK HERE

Kieran Chapman's Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kchapman/sets/72157629727553783/
Josh Huston's Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23069576@N04/sets/72157629363856468/

Squatchville

Steve found a new trails spot and has been slinging some serious dirt. I got down there the other day to lend a hand and the place is coming along nicely. We've dubbed the spot "Squatchville", as it's in some dense pine forest, there is a ton of wildlife, and we're always hearing crazy woodland noises!

First Dirt of 2012

We rode the Deep River Skatepark for several hours yesterday, then made out way to Bongi's to check out his new dirt set-up. As usual with those Haddam kids, the line is pretty wild! Despite the place being bone dry and crumbly, a few of the guys were going at it. Looking forward to riding here when the place is packed.

Bongi's House: CLICK HERE