2008 Fruita Fat Tire Festival is in the books baby
Crazy time is over dear friends. Deja Vu? Rolling in last night, passing out at 9pm and then having to get up super early to go to work and play catch up. Can you feel the anger? Well, at least its the greatest office and shop ever and a bunch of cool people are rolling in today. They are worth it. And, I”ll have plenty of time Wed to upload all th DeAnza ride photos, some new songs, etc.
Fruita. First and foremost, a big thanks to the Over the Edge crew. www.otesports.com A Thousand thank you’s to Troy, Sarah, the crew, the sponsors, etc. Riveter played on SAt night….Fantastic. If I had more time, I’d look up their link. I’m sure you all can find them. Riveter out of Grand Junction.
The riding. Well, seemed like I couldn’t get down there on Friday. Finally did. Showed up at 18 Road at about 5pm and rode until 7. Perfect. Maybe just a touch chilly and NOBODY on the trails. Joe’s Ridge, Frontside, Kesselers, Zip, All perfect. And way cool - my LEAST favorite drops on Zippidy was re-routed. Thanks gang. Met some super cool folks on Zip to ride with. Very nice.
Saturday was a chance to go to Grand Junction and tear it up. Now, for those of you who don’t know….a couple of years ago, I helped Troy sponsor a little film showing in GJ. Do you know what ’sponsoring’ means…….it means that you get a ton of free beer tickets AND everybody there starts buying you beers and shots. This is not helpful when you have 4 beers and 2 Jagers at dinner with your wife. Yes….and its also not helpful that the microbrew beer is more than double the strength of the fine lager here in UT. What does this mean, this means that straight up college style yours truely Big Jonny ends up sleeping on the bathroom floor of the cheap motel. And you thought I was mature? This was a nice first impression to ChrisP’s lady friend who stayed with us in the room and had never met me before. That’s okay bitches, I still got up at 6am the next day to race the 50/50. Yes it was rough.
But I’m getting off track. The 50/50 was too hard. Too much walking for a race. And I wanted to have a flow-y fun ride and really enjoy the grand junction trails. So, The Lunch loop, gunny loop, The famous Ribbon, Andy’s. Maybe a little longer than I wanted, and I was getting a little scared of running out of water and cliff bars, but hey, made it just fine. Super excellent ride.
Big thanks to Nate -Dog for the after hours party that I stayed too late at. Thanks to New Belgium for the free beer. Etc, etc, etc.
7am up and at em’ Sunday. Riding Rustlers, marys, horse their. Then, for a closing. Back to town at 11am for Fiesta Guadalahara (sp?). One of my all time favorite places to eat in this world.
Really, my only picture……Jeff Lewnowsky (sp, I’d look it up if I had time). The best street guy in the world brought to you by SRAM. Anyway, check it out.
