You’re grumpiness only made me love you more. Sleep well sweet Peepers…

When I was 14 I bought this bike with money that I earned mowing lawns and weekly yard care for a friend of a friend of the family.

A Bridgestone MB5.. pure Grant Peterson mountain bike goodness.. For select bike nerds Bridgestone is a sought after name. Perhaps not the MB5 but I have lovingly held onto mine for years and moved it from house to house and shed to shed..

A long while back I wrote about how I wanted it to one day be an Xtracycle and now that day has come..

Upon slapping it together my main man and I did some cruising..

Horse break..

We then had a pow wow up at the UCSC farm and garden (it’s where we do our best thinking.. plus it’s effing rad!).

“Dad.. we gotta get mom on this thing”

“I know son.. I know”

Luckily I’d just become the owner of 3 boxes of crappy/non-crappy bike parts so I jumped into the garage and chopped down a super worked set of circa 1970 handlebars into something more compact.

“Dad. Mom’s a sensitive lady.. do you think you have have some spare innertube you could dampen those sweet bars with?”

“Oh fo sho!”

A parts bin stem, $5 shim and a bit of bar tape and we’re ready to roll..

I also added some razor scooter handles that as it turn out can totally double as foot pegs!

Fuck your minvan!

We’re rolling to labor day BBQ’s in style!

What was going down around here for the last 7 days? Well I was..

Welcoming homies to the world

Pimping out bikes

Rolling hard with my crew

Getting my shoulder straight rehabilitated

Hanging with some shady characters

Serena really went all out for this labor day by joining a union but I’ll let her tell that story..

So Mar Mar is quitting the Web Dump and headed off to Reno..

When he started in ye olde dump we were like this..

Two dudes forced to sit near eachother…

Then things got rolling

Dude loves to party with Photoshop

Turns out our birthdays are only like 4 days apart!

We started making power moves essentially creating our own department..

Then we started making movies..

Then Joe joined the crew

Our videos got even radder!

Alas Mar Mar had to go… Who knows what’s in store for him next..

By the time he left we were like this…

Pretty there is no way to not infer some type of homosexual innuendo from that analogy/photo but I was so hyped on your chopstick buddy tower that we made at his going away lunch that I’m still gonna run it..

Stay up player!