PEOPLES!

we are doing an alleycat on halloween night. heres the flyer. the race starts at 10:31 pm sharp and ends at midnight. we have to put a cap on it, just because. we have prizes from mac 5 bikeshop, volume bikes, kink bmx, hell on earth clothing, lux lounge, full moon vista, plus many others that we are working on as we speak. so we hope you know downtown rochester from a bikes riders perspective,..or from a hobo's perspective for that matter. after the awards and shit, we are doing a misfits tribute band. fuckin' aye is right. so get ready.
more to come....

pay attention! this is important

so here is the deal: Ryan and Sara own a great litle bike shop in town called Kore. if you are in the BMX community you have probably heard of it. They have single handedly developed a super positive scene and provided a place for riders to meet and buy all the latest stuff here in AZ for a couple years now. Sara was diagnosed with a brain tumor and has recently lost her job and insurance that goes along with it. The bike community is really coming together on this one and is throwing a little jam to help raise as much money as we can to offset their costs.

so if you are in town 10/18, i encourage you to swing through and check out the festivities and buy a t-shirt. It should be a great time with a fixed gear crit through the neighboring parking lots. The race organizer has said that "the course is so tight it is going to be like hipster roller derby out there". there will be a BMX best trick contest going on in the infield while the crit is going on. Freeride MTB guys and galls are encouraged to come ride the ramps as well. If enough geared road bike guys show up i will organize a crit for them too.

This is going to be a great time, for a great cause.

see you there!!

chris-

better late than never.

since i am not very good with words and i seem to always have a camera on me these days, I am going to let some pictures describe my interbike experience

The dirt demo was a blast only because the guys at Surly let me drink their ice cold Tecate and ride around on a Pugsley all day. Thanks Guys!! Big tires equal big fun.

with a little riding under our belt the group decided it was best to take the rental car rally driving and we ended up in a little ghost town that looked like this and had an amazing picture on the wall

and somebody was nice enough to direct us to a nice little swimming hole called Lake Meade and it looked like this
it just so happened that my good friend Matt was having a bachelor party the same time as interbike (yes it was planned that way, we really are gigantic bike nerds) so for a few days the details got blurry, but i have pictures!

from the looks of it we: ran into some guy named Eddy (act like ya know!), my friends drank cheap booze and hit on women, Justin played Qbert on the hotel floor, saw a cyclocross race that was so fast the camera couldn't even see it, climbed some red rocks, and it looks like Matt is drinking Jameson neat out of a wine glass on the street while wearing slippers.

It has been about a week since i have been home, by way of Minnesota (even longer story) and i am healed up enough to grab the touring bike and head out for 4 days. Full report when i get back! Sedona to Phoenix the long way. Go ride something.

Interbike update coming soon....

I will be filing a full Interbike report as soon as i get back to the desert, which should be some time monday night. Somehow i ended up in Minneapolis for the past 3 days now i have to fly back to Las Vegas and then drive my car back to Tempe...vegas does some weird shit to a man
like
buying a lap dance from Whoopie:

interbike!!!

I didn't go. trev didn't go. i believe chris is there, or was there. I'm sure by now you have seen all of the pictures of alll the new products that may or may not be coming out anytime soon. if not, you can go here or here or here or here or here. from the looks of it, we didn't miss much. Then again, close up pictures of bike parts never really tells the story of what happens outside of the convention center and in the streets of vegas. i'm sure there was way more of this going on


Just thinking about last year and how trevor got drunk and hung out with this guy

i got drunk and turned into this guy

chris got drunk and ended up in bed with this guy

Fam got drunk and ended up going home with this guy

in other news.

i made a video. check it out below. i have no idea what i am doing, but this shit is as fun as an oriental massage... or is it massaging an oriental. not the rug kind.


Untitled Remix from jimmy rathbun on Vimeo.

I love Rochester

Urkel on A Unicycle.

1 Unbroken Egg
1 Flyer of a Shitty Band
1 B/W pin-up photo
1 Moustache
1 Metallica's Kill Em' All on casstte
1 Black Eye
1 Switchblade comb
1 Newspaper from Aug 24th
1 29" tube
1 Jar of marbles
1 Urkel riding a unicycle
Finish in your underwear.

These were the skavenger hunt items for the alleycat we had last weekend. My leg still has a huge gapping wound that has to be constantly bandaged seing that it was trapped under the matress bike. bleeding legs aside, holy shit did we have a good time!. hope you did too. the next alleycat will be sometime end of september. and it may have a theme to it. so get ready.