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I know some of you fuckers ride.. 
Raise up.
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dammn nathan you look sexy in that sleeveless shirt  :joel:

just a fat out of shape one here.

and i was never any good anyway.

hey did you say you are coming east soon?

Yeah, I'm coming out to TN in the next couple weeks.  There seems to be a good scene there. 
I was waiting for you to chime in too :joel:

I haven't been back east with my bike in YEARS.  I can't wait to ride some real trails. 
I may be up for a little northbound roadtrip when I get out there too. 
You gonna be around?

And I know more of you guys ride..

Mike, you know you can have me whenever you want me...

ive been known to hop on a bike from time to time.... havent really been riding much lately, but here are some pics from when i was thin and like 22....
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clip from the resist video, barspin on the vert wall.
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a more recent one.....
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Fuck yeah, looks like I need to pull down the Resist video.

What's up with Mediocre?  Are the gears still turning?

yeah, i was selling shit down in maryland and kinda had a day job. the company kept bouncing paychecks, so i kinda took a loan from mediocre that i just paid back literally 5 minutes ago.  so yeah, eric has some good ideas, i got a few that he will probably go for... you never know.

here's an old one on my friends driveway spine... choppy but 360 tailtap to icepick.
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i am gonna place an order with the printer this week.

more t's or hoodies?
probably baseball hats too

We need to get together and kill it sometime.
I had an ACL replacement and meniscus repair earlier this year (the knee brace shot) so I am trying to get back on top of things.  That first pic was the second time on a bike since Feb.  I'm so glad to be back on a bike again.

Keep me updated for sure...   
I have always been a weekend warrior.

I've got a Free Agent "Flying Fortress" BMX that I use to ride to the shops on, sometimes.

thats not something a person would usually want to admit... kinda like rocking a huffy.  im still rocking a t1, but i really  want to make a mediocre prototype frame.

A WHAT?

Info please.

listen negro,
mediocre frames.
nick will make them by hand. we will ride them.

yeah, it's been a dream of mine since i started riding.  make a frame.  over the last 12 years ive ridden alot of frames, as have alot of people. i looked at all the geometry as time went on and kinda have a pretty good idea on how angles coralate to how the frame would feel. 

figure since i pretty much made myself eric's silent partner i would put my own money into this side of the venture and try to make a few frames.... i tried about a year ago but didnt know how to tig weld and the person i new that did, didnt want part in it.  now, i know how to tig weld and work for a machine shop giving me access to cnc mills, lathes, welders and metal suppliers.  so first im going to make a roughly adjustable jig... and make a frame from PVC piping. then maybe order some chromoly.  its going to take some time, cause i have alot of shit going on...  but it would be fucking awesome. mediocre psycles.

Killer.
What kind of things you have in mind?
Internal headset?  What type of BB?  Seamless double and triple butted tubing? 

You work at a machine shop?  Are you thinking of doing any small parts?  Sprockets?  Stems?

For the time being I want to get rid of this T-nez and pick up a new Pantera.  The Federal is too damn short.  I had the old Pantera and loved it.  Only thing was it didn't have an internal headset and it got ovalized. 

first few are probably going to be 1 1/8" external headset, and either american or mid bb... just to make shit easier.  if i did internal headset i would have to find a company to make them for us, im not that well versed yet to make one.  and for prototypes i dont want to sink a shit load of money into bb and headtubes.  like the first few probably wont have 990 mounts built in, ill probably just use the old plates for putting them on the forks just for prototype sake.

headtube: 75*
seattube: 71*
tt length: 20.5" and 21.25"
chainstay length: 14"

short rear end will make manuals, as well as spin tricks easier.  steeper then normal headtube makes for quicker steering as well as barspin and tailwhips faster. the seattube is pretty normal.... and im 6'3'' so i want a frame 21 1/4.

I don't know shit about bmx, but I was lead to believe Free Agent frames were well made?  Was I sold a shitter?

not a total shitter... when they came out they were good, then the quality dropped when the company was bought out by a bigger conglomerate that had nothing to do with bikes at all.  like brunswick bought mongoose... brunswick made bowling equipment... shit on the mongoose name and put them in walmarts.  i was just busting your balls a bit. 

Ahh, ok cool...  I bought it prolly 3-4 years ago.  It retailed at £500 ($1000 US) but I got it for £250 ($500 US) at an aircooled show.

The frame has some killer welds on it and it looks like it'd take being dropped off a house, but then, like I said I know shit :)  It is fucking heavy though.

Alex rims on it (which I have on my KHS mountain bike and seem pretty good), but apart from that, it had no-name everything else.

I took the shitty front brake off, took the gyro off too cos that was shit and replaced it with some super slick cable and a Dirty Harry lever and a fucking great rear brake that I can't remember the name of right now....  Stops properly now and can take my fat ass down to the shops without bending.

Basically, I bought it at the show because I couldn't be arsed walking round the place for 3 days while my mates all had bikes.  Bit stupid really, but at least it looks good on my roof-rack:

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nick van homan geo for mine.

here are some old  and older pics

1998 in North Baltimore
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1991 racing in Punta Gorda, Florida
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when Free Agent was cool!! well cooler

Stile for miles..

thats a completely different jig ill have to build... you'll just have to deal... haha.  were those the trails in parkville? that jump was the last in a 12pack and you went down into a huge ravine and then jumped that one?

if so, i used to ride there frequently.

yep that is parkville. i went there like 3 or 4 times. i had to pay tolls to get there.

was this at helltrack?

you guys are gay.
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how did i know who it was before the pic even finished loading.
i love you tony

i ride all the time. gotta give props to randy for the killer photo too.

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TONY........ its funny..... i was asking about you last ngiht. i miss your joy and strenth you bring to the world of lost puppets. call me!

nice to see you on here....you have a sweet ass dan.

thanks nuno! the riding keeps me fit :finger:

i guess so....

fuck...i used to ride. any pics i have of me are actual photos, and i dont have any of them, they'd be with the people i used to ride with, who i dont see anymore. all of which are really good now.

coolest thing i think i could ever pull was a kickflip to tailtap on a quarter...i was such a pussy when it came to riding. could never air out of a quarter, boost big jumps or the spine (i could make it over a spine, but not very high)....coolest box jump trick i ever pulled was a barspin, i landed 5 of those. haha

last bike was a WTP thrillseeker...i loved it. sold it all for $500 so i could finish my MK2 jetta. dumbest mistake i ever made.

now all i have is a busted S&M Holmes NG and an Odyssey freecoast hub laced to a primo rim w/ some burley spokes...and a tire. that's it.

i'd love to have one of the proto frames if yer gonna make 'em, nick. 21.25 please. :) give me an excuse to get back into shape, even if i have nobody to ride with.

Duff, you could always come with me when i go skate or me you and chris could make a day to just go to some parks

gotta get a bike first

maybe i'll get in touch with the cats i used to ride with and see what they got layin around...knowing them, there's a frame laying around...and probably everything else to put something together.

hahahaha, i fucking knew it.

one myspace message, and one phone call....

i have in the works a frame w/ a dent in the downtube (free), bars, cranks, forks, front wheel, stem, chain setup, whatever other misc parts will be needed to go with what i have already.

fucking sweet.

Let me know if you need anything else.  I'll go through what i have and see what I got.

I just moved to Knoxville, TN a few days ago and I'm trying to figure out where to ride.

I'll be picking up my car tomorrow then start searching.

The street downtown looks pretty damn good though..

sweet duff. youll be riding in no time

what'd you move to TN for? the hell of it?

UT campus has some pretty dope spots.

i know there were some trails down there too somewhere, i can see if i can find out exactly where.

hahahhahaha pretty much!

I have been slowly getting a project bike together that has actually gotten somewhat respectable... dunno.. Metal Burma frame (old but dope), S&M slam bars / Redneck stem, FSA headset, Man O War hub & Hula Hoop rim for the front and just scored a Odyssey Hazard light rear... etc. I have been riding fixed and brakeless for about two years so it's a really different vibe to get back into for sure.
I end up leaving my track bikes home and riding the BMX everywhere... Rode it for critical mass last week. It's WAYYYY more fun to be able to jump off and over shit.

Moving to PDX over the next couple weeks, if anyone knows where the good shit is around downtown let me know.

nice man...

fuck.

maybe i'll throw the S&M Holmes NG i have together this weekend w/ some of the crap i've got, figure out what i need and go to town with the tax return.

if i didn't have such a hell of a hill to ride up on the way home, i'd ride to work....but walking through the part of tacoma the hill is located at midnight every night is kinda sketchy....

I have a hammered but usable rear wheel you can have...hula hoop rim w/ man o war hub... uhhh... other stuff as it gets replaced.

I added a odyssey hazard rear w/ 12 tooth and a metal chainring, odyssey 41 thermal cranks and bb, S&M 101 pedals... etc... Fixing a pinch flat while making dinner =

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here is a pic of my new ride minus the BB and cranks

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LAF?

i started pedaling around again picked up an fbm pw moto. the new style headsets rule no more beating the in and euro bottom bracket rules too

I just switched from internal headset to the old style cause I hated the frame I had.
Now my bars don't even spin all the way around.  Fuck it.

im rocking a kink headset that i bought in probably 1998.  best headset in the world, it's been on 4 frames.... and my bars spin... alot. eric can vouch.

Probably doesn't help the headset I have has an aluminum upper cup...
I knew a dude that didn't run bearings.
He stuffed his headset with fresh babywipes.
No fucking joke.  And he was a shredder.
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my bike:
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i only flatland after i had 6 fractures in my left arm

ever think of using a primo pervert upside down so you can run a lever on each side for the front brake? i had that set up on my old flat bike, it was pretty bitchin..

yeah, i had that some time ago, but i kept grabbing only the left handle, so i ditched it

the pic is old, when i resprayed it.. i run brakeless now, but thinking of putting the front brake back on for some more control

man....i first learned to ride doing flatland, and got absolutely nowhere...that shit is so fucking hard. good lord. as much hell as flatlanders catch, i think they are way more technical of a rider than most street and ramp riders....

i remember watching Dave Osato (the canadian) ride back in the day, throwin flatland into his ramp riding....that was the shit...

I agree.  My little brother is riding flat at a pro level now.  I still give him shit.  When we both started riding we rode flat.  But I didn't have the patience, so I ended up riding trails.  Small fish big pond.  My brother won't even attempt to jump a box.  He briefly got into riding mini but that didn't last long.  If I can find any videos of him online I'll put them up.
I'm all about the tech side of riding.  I used to slow-mo through all of Krt Schmidt's sections in the old Baco videos.  But now I think I may take off the front binders again cause eastern TN has the perfect land to build some serious trails.

best mini ramp riders ever all ride flat, except dave friemuth... he's just insane on a ramp flat out.  i never really got good at flat, maybe a pinky squeak or a funky chicken and some whiplashes is about me trick list.  i mostly started riding trails, that got old and started riding miniramps and skateparks more... i think my favorite thing in the world to ride is a good spine.

its a quarter pipe, its a box jump, its a quarter pipe with another quarter pipe up against it.... fucking awesome.

the other day i got on my 20" for the first time since my friend broke his femur in august.  rode for an hour just on a bank near my house and had my little kicker ramp.  the first 20 minutes were rough... shit started coming back fast. 3'd the little kicker and packed it up.

I want a street spine.  Now.

yeah im building one... totally

Maybe I should get my ass up there for a visit then..

if i had the money and space, i'd build a full 6' mini w/ street spine in it.

i seek out spine ramps to ride, by far my favorite thing to ride. and i'm not even good, i just feel cool every time i go over it. almost like having style is required to flow over the thing. :)

i had trouble with spines for a bit, going high was hard until someone told me to actually pull backwards, from there it was over.  favorite trick that i used to be able to do was 360 tailtap to icepick backover, not the coolest trick at all, but i felt like a badass everytime i did it... i dont even know why. 

rode again today, rode the bank near my house hurricaned the curb at the top (sub box style)... didnt think i would stick it... i'm still kind of shocked.  i guess it's like riding a bike...

hurricaned?

essplain please.

you know.. hurricaned.
past tense of a hurricane.
he spun fast.

gotcha. i've never heard of that term...but i've been out of the loop for a few years now.

4 1/2 to 5 to be exact.

It's OK, you ain't missing much.
I haven't picked up a BMX mag in about a year...

hurricane is a trick brian castillo always did... mini ramp/ curb/ wedge/ bank trick. basically you do a 180 stalling the back wheel on the coping/ curb/ top of wedge/ top of bank and then immediatly 360 out. all in all doing a 540 with a quick stall at 180.

damn....brian castillo...haven't heard that name in a while...

same with "rooftop"...wtf happened to that guy?

the foster brothers? what about that garcia guy that rode for schwinn back in the day...had a signature frame, stainless one w/ a clearcoat over it for "paint"...

Rooftop is still in it.  Used to see him at the Etnies park in Lake Forest.
Foster's are still doing it, esp. Brian.  Blue Falcon will always soar.
Joey Garcia has been spotted from time to time, but I think he's thrown in the towel from knee injuries.  "El Heffe" was that bike you speak of.

But I could be completely wrong though, my sources are stale. 

i think alan foster still races. brian lives in jersey and pretty much kills it still, mostly riding street and skateparks. 
rooftop is still a "circus trick" rider... he does some rediculous shit.
castillo owns volume bikes, and demolition parts and still rips.

joey gar"SEEEEYYYYAAAAA" blew his knee out every other day.  i would agree he threw in the towel for it. 

new riders if you dont know you should try to find...
Corey Martinez
Morgan Wade
Brian "the wiz" Wizmerski
Gary Young

find videos of them on youtube or somewhere. martinez will blow your fucking mind.

Took this last New Years in Austin:
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Gary and I used to go jump the fences at all the socal parks that didn't allow bikes and ride till 2am.  We'd do that 3 or 4 times a week.

I need to get back on my bike and quit making knee excuses.

Corey is nuts.

those two are fucking wasted...  they could probably still ride better then us.

haha i hang out with wiz every sunday. he comes out to see me dj and drink. good dude.

Trust me, just watch this.  Don't ask questions, I have no idea:

http://www.break.com/index/girls_getting_a_bikini_wax.html

wizmerski sounds familiar...i think he might have been an up and coming guy when i started gettin out of it.

any of you guys ever heard of andrew carpenter, andy sunbaum, phil sunbaum, or sean mesai?

andrew carpenter sounds familiar.

Who is that dude in that bikini video though??

duff you talking about the el jeffe frame???? fuck i loved that god damn frame.

andrew carpenter has been in a bunch of props videos... a few years back he 540ed a super long pyramid hauling ass.... fucking nuts.

that may just be some random dude in an s&m shirt

I just rode trails a few hours ago for the first time since I tore my knee last February.   There's been these trails out here and it's the first time I went to them since I moved here in November.  I don't know why the fuck I hadn't went sooner.  I had a fucking blast.  They weren't that big, pretty dry.  biggest set was probably 5ft tall and 9ft long, that's giving it credit.  But it's a decent location with lots of *potential* There's a curved wall ride too. 
I found out I can still do turndowns with a knee brace, and I haven't lost inverts. 
last sunday I rode street all fucking day.  I hadn't rode in 2 months before that.  I'm sore as fuck and my hands are mangled and I'm happy. 

yeah... i took my bike to maine, mailed it home and still havent put it back together.  what a fucking slacker i am

Lincoln HS which is in almost every recent bmx video I have seen is right up the street from where I am staying so I have just been riding there...
only notable thing that happened last week was that my front peg/axle had come loose while practicing and went up for a 50/50 only to get my ass handed to me by the peg shearing off the front axle threads....  :banghead: The next day caught a half inch staple on the way there..... :banghead:

Is the only reason I still "ride" is because I haven't popped a tire lately? 

They need to finish the damn skatepark.

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stauffers shit = awesome.

i just gave away that shirt to my buddy

rode sunday, and then rode today.... getting back into it for a bit i think.  i've really missed riding... like badly.

I'm taking my bike to work tomorrow to ride after work, trying to take it easy before T4T though.
And they just started pouring the concrete yesterday at the new skatepark.  It's about time.
When that park opens I can see things changing.

Has anyone seen the dude do a fakie to frontflip yet?

you see the metro jam this year? aaron ross rides up a ledge to double whip out.  yeah DOUBLE WHIP... what the fuck is wrong with these dudes... even this commercial is nuts...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cBh2nNNAvzw (http://youtube.com/watch?v=cBh2nNNAvzw)

thats just outta hand. good thing his bike didn't sound like a giant pile of shit. :finger:

i thought it was rad that it did.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3g6v2k177uQ

And this is looking promising:

http://stokedonbeingpumped.com

i remember doing big stair gaps, but my ankles couldnt take some slams that these kids do on purpose.  shit is retarded...

this part is pretty good...
steven hamilton
http://youtube.com/watch?v=d2Bjt5NvfUE (http://youtube.com/watch?v=d2Bjt5NvfUE)

corey martinez... from the square one video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RuTJzHirPVY (http://youtube.com/watch?v=RuTJzHirPVY)

We're within a couple weeks of having Knoxville's cement park finished. 
Already having a sneak preview of riding it's majestic transitions I'm going to say it's in the top 5 best cement parks I've ridden.
Or I'm just saying that cause I don't have any other local choice of park to ride. 
Good enough reason for you fucks to turn southbound.
That reason having nothing to do wif dat seamint park down the road.

MDNK, I have contacted C-fish and he is anticipating moonshine and seamints. 
See you in a couple weeks.

shine?  :wave:

Fat Kid Jamie?

last time i saw catfish was at waterfest in 02. hahaha.

The grand opening of the Knoxville skatepark is tomorrow.  I'm leaving work early to go.

This is 5 miles from my house:

(http://knoxvilleskatepark.com/images/Construction/overviewMed.jpg)

yeah... eat shit and die. :wave: i mean that in the nicest way possible.

you have no time to be riding your bike....
 :wave:

 :number1:

Correct.

The last session before I tore my shit up:

360
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360 nosepick
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footless nosepick over
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Fuck joints.

that place looks super fun.

And in the next coming months, the greatest trail scene to hit the southeast will emerge.

I can't believe I just found 247 acres of land to build on, with permission.

that almost makes me want to move to tennesee. :wave: