It goes to 11, and then it goes

In a couple of days it'll go to 12

Hoe, Hoe, Hoe

hard to believe this year is over...   I'm kind of glad to see it go.  went from zero work projects to having too many work projects.   A lotta shit happenin' here on the local scene,  too much petty drama and politics to get into on here the blahhg .

Christmas Time in the City

had a great Christmas! though seems here lately the "spirit" hits, and then wham; it's gone...   

even got in a couple of rides

I'm really diggin' the Cross Check

Seems I'm banned from the neighborhood xmas parties... well that's not exactly true.  i just can't attend bearing gifts of Shine.

I put a hurt on too many people including myself

luckily it was our bathroom i stumble back home to redecorate and not our host's.

i am pretty sure i did several of these



including the Rough Rider & Spaniard followed by a Swallowed Dove that resulted in a Dandy Fop

It's all a Blur to me

My apologies to anyone I might have offended in any way;   also sorry to my son,  who got to see the awesomeness in action.   Thanks for the shine Santa Squirrel, btw you're my favorite Holiday bad influence.

My goal(s)  for next year?  Ride More, Work Less.... (No not be Workless) Bitch Less,   Be a Better:   Dad, Husband, Friend, Artist, and cleanse my liver, and stay out of Hospitals & Jails. oh and get more stuff published....  and build more trails .....

oh yeah i going to hire illegal immigrants to manufacture our Christmas cards... too much damn work.

Things coming up.

Sonya and I are celebrating 22 wonderful years of Marriage this New Year's Eve,  Yeah it get's easy after a while.

Next weekend (Jan 7th)  come out and help us get this new Sulphur Springs trail going! so we will have a venue for the Paris Mt. Downhill.    

You don't have to be an REI, Friends of Paris or SORBA member to attend, but we do ask that you Register (FREE)  online so we know how much food to have!   GE  is providing the volunteers with lunch,  REI and BillyGoatBikes/Mountain Khakis  is providing some swag too raffle for those who attend.

Yeah   trying to whip my liver into to shape for Icycle coming January 28th,  What is Icycle? Well it's a big frozen Party in the mountain of western North Carolina and the next thing you know a Race breaks out.    it's an XC race during the day, and a Downhill event that night.

Separator from Ryan Bergmann on Vimeo.

It used to be the first race of the season, which  that title is now owned by the Snake Creek Gap series.  Icycle always has such a great vibe to it,  nobody is too serious about racing as they are about having a good time.

Working on getting the website done this week.

to Register Online Go HERE 

http://go-greenevents.com/event/id/567

I'm thinkin' i may do up some Hoodies and Tees 

also Working on Eric's Pisgah Productions  for his 10th anniversary   web updates for all of the races

and for his Newest Race  the Pisgah 111k Race.

which will be May 19th *Permit Pending,  The course layout, logistics and details are all coming soon. This event is a Jeff Papenfus memorial race event. ALL proceeds to go to Jeff's wife Lisa.  Jeff had been toying with the idea of doing a 100 Mile Race for a year or so then, after starting up the Greenville Short Track Series he was bouncing ideas off of me, and a couple of others, plus getting info from Eric on putting on an event in the National Forest.     With Jeff passing away last summer Eric decided we needed to make this event happen in memory of Jeff.  so without making it a complete gravel grinder Eric scaled it back to 100k instead of a hundred miles, then after some minor route changes it turns out the total distance became 111k.

Shirts maybe?

Some Recent media exposure for the Pisgah Stage Race & Shrimper in the Squirrel suit.  I even had some pix published in the latest edition of XXC mag (full 2 page spread in the back) Now if i could just start making money off this photo gig.



I've also been workin' Todd's updates for his three races in 2012, Trying my best to make something cool, but different from everything else i'm working on.   Trying a new look for Swank65

so who knows maybe it'll be something else... it's been a tough challenge to keep everything different year, i kind of wish there were a couple of others doing some art for the local riding scene...  feeling kind of stuck in a rut.

plus TTR Bikes stuff using the New logo,  getting some shirts and stickers done up

and trying to find a local mural painter to tackle some blank walls

Got some recent projects in the mail yesterday,  Thanks Stevil!

I'd rather be forgotten than remembered for giving in

Not Giving a Shit Beats Evil?

Happy New Year

-bRad

What's Playing: The Daily Mail - Radiohead

We're marching through Georgia G-G-Georgia

the Bad thing about Good weekends; They just don't last long enough!    spent Saturday trying to shoot Christmas Card photos for my lovely wife.  Which meant draggin'

Dumb 

and Dumber  

to the park in the hopes we capture the perfect image(s)  

This year things went a whole lot easier.  The secret?  leave the wife at home... Yeah  there's just too much stress when she gets involved into the production,  the dog gets stressed, the kid gets stressed...

 So Harrison and I grabbed the dog and were told "don't come home  till you get the perfect shot!"   Thanks no stress there.

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Sunday was off to G-G-Georgia to ride Paynes Creek with the Chip (Birthday Boy) & Jackie and their boys.

Thanks to the SORBA workday  that cleared the leaves off the trail the day before.  Super fun ride.

Smokey & the Bandit

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Then it was back to G-G-Greenville to meet with The President of the Friends of Paris Mountain and the Rangers to present $3000 for the Sulphur Springs Trail project. Some of the proceeds from our Downhill race in November are helping the Friends complete the reroute sections of the downhill. hopefully within the next week we can get dirt moving on this project

Finally we've done something more than just throw a kickass Party!  Makin' the SorbaMom Proud!



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