Chewie Get us Outta Here!

yep Tomorrow!

J. Chewie and i are heading to the Land of Ice & Snow for Icycle .

Weather man is saying we're gonna get hit with a real

and Here it comes...

They're calling for 6-12" in Asheville , more in the higher elevations.

Too bad Fontana Village doesn't have lifts. should be interesting.

Wouldn't that be nice?

Pandemonium in WNC "run for your lives! it's snowing"

What's Playing: I Haven't Got My Strange - Arctic Monkeys

Tragically Hip

this ones for you Meeker (wink)

vv

What's Playing: California - Rogue Wave

One Step Beyond

finally got my boy Steve into the 21th , no the 20th century with a getting a website going. well it's a splash page for a start , the technical engineer babble & eye candy will come later, but at least it's a start...

Help keep Steve out of the soup kitchens & area shelters, have him build you a work of art!

that's right sugaah

some sexual chocolate

Stout!

is just what the doctor ordered.

What's Playing: Give It up or Turnit a Loose - James Brown

I Fuggin' Hate Clowns

I don't know why i don't like clowns... They just kind of creep me out...

but i laughed my ass off when i saw this commercial for WallyWorld

Priceless

(score one for the Unicorn!)

What's Playing: Don't You Just Know It - Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns

Here, Hold my Beer

Working some SORBA stuff today, among other shiz! Hope to get these out to the local bike shops in an effort to increase membership... you belong with us

(mothership is a callin')

What's Playing: Dance This Mess Around - The B-52's

It's Ok...

to bRAD (art by WordBoner)

speakin' of being afraid, here is one the South can be proud of....

scary moves there Diamond Dave, judy chops and ninjee chops!

have a good weekend!

What's Playing: Mean Street - Van Halen

Clemson DH 2010

Here's the latest Poster creation for this Spring's Clemson DH Race

this is a fun one.

Zac's video from the SECCC MTB season ender @ Clemson

http://www.zfhproductions.com/movies/Clemson_DH.html

What's Playing: Tang the Hump - Stanton Moore

Cold & Wet

thought it was supposed to be warm for couple of days?... dayum

What's Playing: Hang Me Up to Dry - Cold War Kids

First Hundred Days

?

or is...

What's Playing: No Hope Before Destruction - The Dears

Where Does it go?

yeah, and i seem to have neither...

that was in my fortune cookie after dinner Friday

that saying always reminds me of that Tom Hanks movie Volunteers

Chung Mee: Opium is my business. The bridge mean more traffic. More traffic mean more money. More money mean more power.
Lawrence Bourne III: Yeah, well, before I commit any of that to memory, would there be anything in this for me?
Chung Mee: Speed is important in business. Time is money.
Lawrence Bourne III: You said opium was money.
Chung Mee: Money is Money.
Lawrence Bourne III: Well then, what is time again?

Exactly!

busy rainy weekend here, so i was able to accomplished a lot . Pisgah 36 Adventure passport art 90% done, (sorry cant show this years... here's last year's) PMBAR shirts designs in work.

(btw if anyone wants a good deal on a 2007 PMBAR Shirt i have a dozen or so various sizes black w/ white print.) $6.00 + 4 to ship gimme a shout brado1@aol.com tell me what size you need... i may just have it. (Out of XXL... Paypal preferred.)

Here is what've i've got left:

• 1SM
• 1LSM(girlietee)
• 5 MD
• 8 LG
• 7 XL

back to work: some more of Eric's PMBAR webstuff getting it ready for Online Registration.

Worked on Todd's New ORAMM art for his website, the T-shirt art is going to be different than last years this was a quick and dirty change of colors and dates from last year's art.

Also the Pisgah Stage Race 2010 art ... hopefully Todd will do shirts of this one as well.

Worked BrouSSard's Niner badge. He's Always hatin' something... i think it's funny, even funnier he's on a 29er and lovin' it... so many years of hate and now he's a koolaid drinker.. with gears no less...

Some other stuff worked on was Suspension Experts T-shirt and sticker art for Kevin & Shelley

Then spent the rest of the weekend doing 2009's tax info for our SORBA chapter.... yeah Brad trying to balance the checkbook and account for every donation for all of the events we did over the year... There is a reason i am an artist and not an accountant! holy shit pulling teeth would've been more fun... but actually i did pretty damn good was only off by a handful of change. Good enough for me... I just need to make sure i don't screw it up enough to land someone (me) in jail for tax fraud.

Then i spent the rest of the weekend fighting the UpstateSORBA website... yeah it's still not working right... F'n Hackers... Why've they got to mess with stuff?

one day i'll get it fixed...

Happy MLK day!

(above art ShepardFairey)

What's Playing: My Mathematical Mind -Spoon

Gearin' Up

This year i am going to try not to destroy my liver.... In couple week is the Icycle Race Event (XC & Night DH) i've been going for more years then i can remember... i know it was back before Wes & Jay took it over...

jandwevents.com

Always a great time... It is the epitome of what Grass Roots Racing should be... Just a big party that happens to have a race going on at the same time. Hate it i won't be riding in it. just shooting pix... and trying to stay warm. hanging out with....

If the past couple of weeks has been any indication of how cold it's going to be this Winter... Fontana is going to be fuggin' cold. last couple of years thought there was snow, the temps weren't too bad.

SirBikesalot's video from 07 not much has changed over the years.

Icycle Race from Brado1 on Vimeo.

What's Playing: Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

Secret Agent Man

Congrats Meek! being an agent of change here in G'vegas.

The latest issue of G magazine features our golden boy as one of the city's movers and shakers....Your secret is out... you have no sense of fashion! good job keepin' the City's focus on two wheeled transportation brotha! btw you're my favorite media whore!

What's Playing: Where It's At - Old School Freight Train

Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

This week has been crazy busy... and i'm not about to complain about working too much! because work is good! I'm working to get as much work as i can possibly get. I'm a bidness man, if it weren't for bidness i wouldn't be in bidness today.

Good news on the health situation: no doc visits till Feb. yeah that's real good. 2 - 3 months before i can hit the bike. The Doc doesn't want anything splitting open.... Yeah i don't want that either!

worked on getting Jut new art for this years Valentines Day Heartbreaker Super D down Heartbreak Ridge

This week we had our SORBA chapters first board/officers meeting, which went well, thanks to Pat Farrell, Chip Batson and Renee Lean for stepping into the mess... and helping turn this org around, and trying to formulate some goals for 2010. It was good to get out and finally able to have a beer or two.

I also finished some art for Chris Herndon and his GROM racing team.

Congrats going out to Eric (Pisgah Productions) & Erinna on their brand new baby girl Zoe

Sunday was spent out at Paris Mountain, we had planned on doing some trail work, but 32*F temps had the ground as hard as a rock.... a big fuggin' rock! so we started scouting possible re-routes and possible work spots on Sulphur Spring trail (DH Course).

back to the Santa Claus title of this post... One i got a ration of it from family for not posting current Christmas pics of "H" (the kid) opening presents... instead pulling one from the archives (busted)

So here they are:

Our Chernobyl Tree

Big H opening gifts

Yeah son, Santa shops the local skate shop (buy local! always)

Here are some pics from the Trail, I really wanted to be riding and not hiking.

Herndog

King of Pisgah (Santa Claus)

Today those two guys were my Santa Claus.... as i drove into the park my phone rings and Chris says "hey you just past us in the main lot, we've got some stuff for you." so i swing back around. They had come down from the arctic wasteland of western NC to sample Paris. As we're talking and catching up Wes pulls out this brand spankin' new Specialized full suspension bike for the kid.

"this is for all of the help you've given us! " holy shit! that is unreal... i was dumbstruck

thanks guys, i am truly blessed to have friends like you, anything i can do to repay this, just gimme a shout.

What's Playing: My Rock & Roll - Dinosaur Pile-Up