I moved to SF for a lot of reasons, but I never thought I’d be crossing the G.G. Bridge on a motorcycle with 4 of my good friends capping off one of the best days of riding yet. We took Rt. 1 north through the headlands. Not an ugly ride. And I cant say I didn’t have fun, nor could I say that I didnt have a shit-eating grin on my face the entire time. What an amazing day.
All three photos by Lee Bender and all taken from One Sick Race. Thanks dude.
Baltimore Washington has been getting pounded with snow and my friends and family there are bummed. This photo was shot by Tab who lives in DC and says its so gnarly. She said it took her HOURS to dig her car out.
This photo was submitted by Puddin. Snow all the way up to the gas pump. Balls. Then my mom sent me a text that said “We currently have seventeen inches of snow. Tomorrows forecast calls for an additional six to twenty inches. I think we need to be rescued”. Hang in there guys. Snow sucks but it does melt. Its raining in SF, but once the sun comes back out all of you are invited to come visit if you need to get out of the snow for a weekend.
These last three photo were sent in by Momma Eckler. Thanks MOM!
Today Me, Lee, Trolf, and Tracy all rode south down Rt 1 to half moon bay. another amazing day.
If you know the dude then you know why I’m so stoked. Best dude out. He landed at 10am Saturday, we went over to meet up with Trolf (who has an extra bike for Lee to ride), then we met up with Clemoff and Timmy Jack and rode all over town. It was the nicest day we have had in weeks. The perfect day for a ride.
Then Sunday (today) morning we all met up at St. Francis, had a quick breakfast, and headed to north bay! We rode across the Golden Gate then all the way to Point Reyes light House. It was Just under 150 miles round trip. And also my first time in north bay on my bike. You couldn’t get the smile off my face if you tied.
After we got back into the city we went straight to Trolf’s for a Chili and beer party. He was so pumped at how many bikes were in his garage. He kept counting them and saying “look at all those bikes”! He was hyped. What a great weekend.
One really rad thing about having a skate shop has been being able to help out my team riders. I’m really hyped on all my guys. These kids are really killing it. Here is an interview with Abbas Glass on 48 Blocks and a video of Travis Erickson on Strange Notes. Keep up the good work guys. Oh.. and if you haven’t seen the newest Lowcard (issue 32), well Magnethead called it the unofficial “Cruz Issue”. We took the mag by storm with full pages by Andrew Norris, Abbas, Travis, I got three full page photos, Aaron Herrrington got a 2 page interview and Zak gonzalez got the cover! Atta boys… keep up the good work!
While working on Gordoco I came across the first ever Coffee Skateboards AD (featuring Brian Ball as a coloring contest). Coffee was my first skateboard sponsor. It was based out of the little town of Waldorf Maryland where I moved to when I was 12 and lived until I was 18. Coffee Skateboards is one of those things that I look back on and always makes me smile (sometimes even laugh). Those were great days in skateboarding for me. No job, no bullshit, no daily grind… I just skated ever day with some of the best dudes ever. Some of which I’m still in touch with today. The owner of the company Glen did a lot for me and I will always remember that.
This was my Coffee AD. It ran in Slap Magazine (half page). I still remember how hyped I was when it came out. well… other then the fact that one of my really good friends Keyhan designed the ad and had spelled my name wrong. I gave the poor guy a lot of shit for it. The old “and I thought we were friends!” routine. You would have thought we were girl friend and boyfriend and he had called me his ex’s name or something.
Poor bastard.
Ol’ Indo has some how turned his room into a video editing bay / cafe / beer pile in the last few weeks. Dude has been hard at work on like 10 different projects and killing the game on all of um. Right here he’s explaining to me why I should NEVER drink “Four Loko”. The stuff really is so gross.
The Scenester Hater tipped me off about this online show (by the makers of Beautiful Losers) called “D.I.Y. America” that seems to be talking about Skateboarding as an art form. They are interviewing the right people in my opinion. Check um out. They’re pretty good.
Episode One / Episode Two / Episode Three / Episode Four
What do you think?
- Gordo
This is a painting I did of my dad and myself from around 1998/1999. Apparantly I think I look like a chicken?
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