dedication to turbo, kanyon kris, gardie, team rico, plesko

for turbo cuz he knew i couldnt hold out

team rico cuz i saw him team mascot on the trail tonight

kanyon kris cuz i should learn moderation instead of all or nothing

plesko cuz he ripped it up the other night in my memory. yaa

and gardie cuz he had a bday party in pc last night with lots of hot chicks.

i took chippo up to pc, we stopped by gardies party. he can get a crowd together. i wish i could stay longer to talk to all those hot chicks. i got a few for a minute but thats not long enough.

the whole green team was there minus dr sandros. i didnt see marc yap, ok the whole team wasnt there.

can you see that small light spec in the middle, well thats chippo gettin dropped.

chippo said he had watts but he left them in the valley.

too bad sandy and sager moved cuz they would have been there

but i had to tell you bout this epic night ride

I jacked up my thumb bz style.

not good for jumping barriers.
930 we head up johns trail to steps up jupiter lake to scotts hill. up at the top 10,000 ft. its a windy bitch about 50 degrees, i forgot any drinks and i have a wind breaker. no food, its ok though im not hungry, if i was we could set a trap and get some vermin and roast it.

after 1.5 hrs of climbing 4,000 vertical were at the top and have a bad ass tail wind. i jam my thumb on the bar and now it doesnt work.

we get to the rock spine and i blazed it, 1st time at night and i was rippin it up one handed.

ya im not lying.

i had to brag about that one.

then it gets real cold into milcreek, we catch up to a couple porcs, deer, moose, racoons. its like a zoo up there at night. then its a 10 mile coast down the canyon road, 10 miles to the dt and

3.5 hrs later im back in the fox den.

tomorrow im takin this new cx bike up to pc to get my van.

17 lbs and its not even tricked out yet.

yaaa rip it, cuz i wont be my had is worked and i cant even text.

team rico, aj and dh team mascot.

slowran thinks they shoot quills like a blow gun.

trucker is makin me a ghetto blaster for my bike, nite laps in moab blastin tecno full speed dh action.

thats pure style.

if you hear the fat beat that means pull over cuz im blazin trail.

for the fans

it bothers me to make so many sad.

maybe in 2 weeks when racing starts again i will write stories and post pics.
until then i have nothing to say.

after i get back from interbike im sure i will have some pics of the world cup cx race and some hotties in sin city.

then on sept 30 is the cx race in ogden.

so by then i might have the motivation back.

until then.
the blog is on a sabbatical.

thanks for reading.

sly on vacation

in hiding

i retired this blog.

you will have to accept this for what it is.

lay down a 500 foot skid

well these guys can, i cant.

even these track guys here in town today did 200 footers in a parking lot. i watched them wreck into curbs and fall over.

i didnt think of making my own video, it would have been sweet.

we raced around the parking lot and did track stands. the scalpel wins $40 in the sprints. is it the gears, the knobbies, the suspension or the watts?

dont know but a 1 gear cant keep up.

runners are wack

i didnt know the wasatch 100 was today. i had a typical lazy day, up till 4am watching movies. up at 11am.

lotoja was today, they had 5 hrs in before i got out of bed. normie said it sucked, well i told you that a few weeks ago.

he got 13th in 9.5 hrs.

sounds like hell

and those wacky runners they had 6 hrs in, they started at 5am today in kaysville. finishing in midway. thats some hard core shit.

i got dropped off at snowbird and rode up to alta, up catherines i saw a bunch of red flags tied to the bushes along various points. didnt know why but then i figured it out. i saw a few hikers in alta but no runners. i ripped it down into brighton and saw the first runners with numbers.

i didnt know what was up yet so i climbed up the road to scotts hill.

there was a water aid station just past the radio towers and it was now dark so i turned on the lights and ripped some trail.

i was getting mad cuz i went up there to see nobody. i couldnt ride the dh because these jackass runners were in my way.

30 miles from the finish they looked blown and were barely running. every downhill on the crest was a pack of runners so i got to the rock spine and burned it. right after that the fork that goes down to deso and the turn to millcreek i saw a bunch of people coming up from deso so i knew millcreek would be empty. they went up to dog lake then down and up again to deso, crest to brighton.

i didnt see anyone until i hit the parking lot and it was packed, with cars, trucks and people.

i didnt stop i just ripped down the canyon, must of been an aid station.

coasting down milcreek in the dark i saw about 50 walkers on the road with lights. these poor bastards had 40 miles to go and its 9pm.

im at elbow fork and they had to climb that bitch from lambs and run down that trail to the road.

have you ever been up elbow fork to lambs, its a steep SOB.

running down it after 60 miles i bet was joy.

no thanks, im coasting down the hill and going home.

i wonder when they will finish

about 10 years ago we were riding from pc to provo on this trail up at the top of brighton there is a fork that goes south bound into mineral basin. it was sunday morning and there were still people running and had over 25 miles to go. they had been out for 29 hrs and had 5 hrs to go.

thats pure hell and i would never do it.

but i have people tell me they would never do the things i do.

guess its survival of the fittest.

adventures that i didnt plan on today.

identify this frame and win a prize

this is a serious contest

because i dont know what this is so if you do you will win a case of red bull. yaa

if anyone knows greg overtons email or phone number give it up cuz i bet he knows what this bike is. i had it a few months ago but it changed.

racing in scotland

world champs in the northern swamps.

thickest of the thinner brothers chris P.

mitchel looks thinner than his lil bro. rippin the worlds 30th, 6min off the win. check out the results it was a tight race. 1st usa junior.

dont forget U23 worlds today.

2007 snowbird champ thinner of the thinnest.

ya rip it.

wondering

im wondering why it takes some one to die for others to acknowledge them.


you see people die every day, some you know mostly ones you dont know. they always show the close ones on tv saying the same thing.

dont know why this happened to such a nice guy

then you read the paper about these dead people and it says all these nice things about them.

why does the collective society have to wait for someone to die before they get any acknowledgement for their quailities.

i just think thats screwed up.

everyone should be complimented daily.


but in this society its rarely done

if you say anything about yourself you are conceited.
if you blow you own horn you are cocky

if too many people give you props for ass kicking then the group mumble or feeling is "go easy on him he'll get a big head"


ok thats great.

lets just wait for them to die,

then we can be just in giving a paragraph about the guy who was the nicest around.


dont read this the wrong way, everyone should get complimented daily in this world but it never happens as much as it should.


im going riding in the dark

i like the team spirit

dont know why

the green lantern sent me this picture of him before he had a face lift.

i like the long flowing locks

bike practice 12 hrs early

or late, depends on your day.

i sleep all day then go ride at night. you heard the story before.

get up at 10, nap for an hour at noon. then sleep more at 6pm to 8. so its 330am and im riding and watching oprah.

maybe i'll go ride more, meet bart up the canyon at 630 and ride to work with him.

bike practice for moab. its good times you know. i got the night shift on master bates team. that will be more good times. 4 nite laps. no riding till 8pm. then im done at 7am.

thats what i call kickin it old skool.

i'll keep a count of how many people i pass. maybe they will follow my sweet lines.

its only 5 1/2 weeks away.

one year long ago tom cook and tbird did 24 hrs at moab.

that was funny.

ok the flash in my eyes hurts

and for those morons who ride 1 speeds and then do it rigid. like brad keyes, and all those guys in provo.

truck driver and kenny jones.

when you guys man up and get a cannondale you can do it with this rigid lefty fork.

i have not seen anything so stupid since bio pace.

what a waste of metal.

snow at the peak

snow up on the ridge, 10,000 feet. 35 degrees and stormy. i could see the slc valley and it was sunny so i rode the river down the trail.

this ride doesnt have a name so im calling it the millcreek mid mtn loop.

you can ride it many ways but this way takes just under 3.5 hrs.

start in milcreek go up to the ridge on gw. drop over the top to wolf mtn mid mtn connector trail, follow that to jupiter bowl up to scotts pass up puke hill to crest back down milcreek.

its a good loop with about 5000 vertical. mid mtn was packed with people and dry. then it was raining up in jupiter all the way to lake deso. cold and windy, soaked with rain and hail.

i learned how to kill squirrels and build a shelter from this guy, but i decided to press on and get back to the valley.

hard core i know.

down here its 90* and warm. it feels nice after the numb hands.

im kind of hungry so dont cross me

jeff and burk kicked ass at nationals today. check results here just ahead of doper tyler.

and dz in the TT wins the race of truth.

they got 10th/11th. thats pretty sweet.

it says 110 guys dropped out, for a race thats 4.5 hrs long whats the deal? all those guys are paid to race and they cant finish. maybe they are saving it for some cross racing.

i changed my name to justin

just-incredible.


yaaa

im trying to get an interview with linde T smith. hes an evasive busy man always on the go.

driving 60,000 miles a year.

but the guy has fashion, and he has a leadville belt buckle.

same shizzle different dizzle

If this blog is a meat market, i must be the prime rib.

i got rid of the scalpel, time to get the new one.












this is the badest bike ever made




more pics here and here

article here









the 18 pound scalpel kicks ass, check it here.

tenacious

Dear Friends and Family,

In May of this year I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of mucinic carcinoma; three cancerous tumors residing in my lower abdomen and pelvis. After seven difficult rounds of chemotherapy and several ugly complications, I am pleased to let you know that the cancer has been eradicated from two of the largest tumors and reduced by nearly 60% in the third!

Though I have several more months of chemo to go, as well as a likely surgery to remove the tumors, I am more confident than ever that this nasty disease can be defeated and I want you all to know that your support has made my journey bearable.

With sincere thanks,
Terry McGinnis
"TMac"

all they want is a nice pair of shoes

"they" you know what i mean.

if you wear crappy shoes you're not getting any. so go buy some with style.

marketing 101.

at soldier hollow they are having a sheep hearding round up competition tomorrow......... and say 20,000 spectators are coming.

what the hell is this about??????

who wants to watch sheep hearding??

and

why do only 10 people come to a mtn bike race up there??

ski races in pc get mega people

bike races in pc get the same 10 guys & gals that go to soho.

same with nascar, golf, nba and nfl.

its not the sport its the marketing.

so the point is bike racing is lame to watch cuz nobody knows how to sell it.

but you already knew that.

up all night sleep all day

check out my sweet light set up

plus i got the helmet light, if you look up on the hill you can see me riding the ridge from sandy.

yaa

its 3am, hope you are dreaming of me.

i went out at 2am for a dry creek time trial. this is the only spider i saw its not that big but its not very small

these 2 look fun.

I need to get on a moab team and do the night shift. let everyone rest and i will hammer the night away. i wont ride any day laps just me and another guy.

my idea goes like this,

2 guys ride from noon to 7pm. then me and someone ride from 7pm to 7am.

its like 2 duo pro team except the first team gets the night off. we just hammer for 12 hrs and then we are done. then the guys wake up eat some eggs and finish it off for 5 hrs.

yaa

i need to find some guys or hop on a team.

so email me if you want to shred it sly style.

for about 3 nights i have been up till 5am, then i sleep til 10, then around 6pm im beat and pass out til 9pm.

then im up again that night til 5am.

so tonight i did the same thing but instead of watching oprah i hit the trail with the new lights.

ok bionic has better ones, but these are ok.

i want more light so i need to order some jobs from st george dave

i wonder who sent me and atrain the scarface tony voice mail?

new lights and maps

i like maps, i never take them with me. i memorize them and the info is easily accessed.

this is a 90 mile loop in moab outlined in green

and i just got 2 new lites. these are small but bright. 3 bar mounts and 1 head mount. thats some watts.

check out my shoes

ya thats right, i got the sport court in my back yard.


i missed out on a ride with mark up milcreek.

thats cuz im wasted.


i dont know how you normal people work a normal job. i cant handle it. i tried it last week, did like 12 hrs, thats too much.



then today i was hauling so much ass around town im dizzy. 50 pound packs of court transcripts 2 or loads of that crap.


43 deliveries in 4 hrs. back and forth across town. multiple stops at the same office 2 or 3 times.
i dont like this, the only reason i do it, i found out is it keeps me on the go instead of on the internet all day.
some what active, 4 hrs later im wasted, my back hurts and im dehydrated. didnt drink anything all day.

man car drivers are stupid, if it wasnt for my cat like skills i would be dead 5 times today.
holy shit these people are stupid. i let them know it as well. when i pass them a few seconds later ya i call them out. you stupid SOB.

how do they get a license to drive?
and still, the old ladies at the reception, signing there whole 4 names and printing it out for me,
5 mins later the chicken scratch still isnt readable.

elevators, 1 floor stopping for the lard ass with the 100 oz. maverick super mug.
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

thats why i hate people.

im kickin it on the deck. summer is over and im going to australia.
im not an old bitter bat, i like to complain bout stupid stuff.

kenny jones broke his hip, that sucks. i can ride and i can walk. ya this is the same guy about a month ago who split his head open. see pics back in july.
something is trying to get your attention kenny. hope you figure it out.

i know the simple things are the best so my rants are just for fun.
just in case you didnt figure it out

pics from sager, updated by text. hes engaged. wedding on the beach. guess where?? his fave place on the planet.

bart has his mouth open like a sea bass.

chris peterson thin, of thin and thinner fame.

and mini blake trainin in boulder... hmmm

rain on the ridge

i got dropped off in pc tonight at 8, then i headed up to the ridge trail. an hour later i peaked out and it was raining. dropped down milcreek, rippppppppppped it ohh hell that was fast.



tell team rico i brought gloves and socks.







ya


2 hrs later im in the big city 30 degrees warmer and no rain. the only thing i saw tonight was a skunk.


i heard some branches crackling in the woods. its scary when youre alone in the woods climbing quietly hearing the rain drop and then a bunch of breaking branches. thats either a big ass moose or big foot. i didnt stop or stay around to see i just pinned it and dropped that bad boy.

in case you are wondering why i like nite riding here you go.

1- nobody in the way, i can rip the dh full speed knowing nobody is in the way on the blind corners.

2- i hate people. i probably hate you too.... so dont get in my way, i get pissy late at night. dont cross me or i will skid a 2 wheel drift and spray you with gravel.

3- its good knowing im out in the woods with the creatures of the night. even if they dont see me or care.

4- its not hot and i hate the sun too.
5- thats about it for now. mostly i just hate people.


check out the bright ass nite rider, ya thats one helmet mount. i wonder if bionic daves home made lite is brighter?

send me one dave, i'll pay you.

oh ya i went to the movie today, this one called super bad. its funny if you like swearing and fat dorky high school kids. its not a utah family movie thats for sure.

good times.

worlds collided

i was out on the town, more like a 2 hr trail ride. some birds flew in my face, i saw about 5 tarantulas, they were big as apples. the moon is bright, and my camera doesnt work.

oh ya before that i went to a race in heber and i didnt get any pics of that either cuz i was in the hurt locker. it was hot as balls and i got shelled. me and bz were pullin up the rear, caught kriegy for a 3 up sprint for 5th. i came out on the bottom of that and ali broke his chain so thats 8th out of 11 or 12. pretty lame but oh well.
the next one is in 5 weeks so i better ride out to rmr and get some time in the pain cave.

not many people showed up, i dont think it was good timing. its august, its a cross race in a dusty field, there was a 100 mile race in pc today, a road race in san pete and a triathlon at jordanelle.

lots of bikers all over the place doing different races. i guess the cross season starts in october and more people will be ready to pin it for an hour.

team rico won the 50 miler
eatough won the 100
bart won in cross
i dont know who won the the road race
sara won the triathlon
erin won a mtn bike race in missouri by 10 mins.
hmmm must be the scalpel...
good work for pilling getting 3rd. thats hard core.


tomorrow night at 8 im ridin up spiro to mid mtn over to park west, millcreek connector back home.

lets roll

hurt locker

this

or this

riding in traffic

rosie and bart in the atlantic ocean. i had to post it.


ok for the past 3 days i have been a bike messenger. back like in the old school days. i have been ripping around in the down town for 3 or 4 hours a day getting some hammering in with some track geeks and UTA busses.


yaa fun times.

seems my pal adam over at salt city couriers got slammed with 5 or 6 guys quitting at once so he calls me to take the load. ok, ok. i say.





what can the fastest messenger do, i come out of retirement.
he fired this guy yesterday on top of that.
seems hes not a biker,
yet he rides around on a fixie with pink rims and proceeded to get ran over by a car.
for the 2nd time in 2 weeks.



guess what, no brakes equals getting your ass run over.



you dont ride fixies in traffic, i dont care if your name is JJ or jason, or if you work at LMI.



1 speeds are gay and you know how i feel about it so lets leave it at that.

this week reminded me why i hated bike messenger red tape. waiting for elevators. stopping at every level in a building because these idiots are too lazy to use the stairs for 1 floor. im on the 20th floor, they go down to 19 in the elevator.

come on, it didnt happen once, its all the time. i've got to haul ass.

racing the train down main to cut it off with a hard left on 200, 300 or 400 south. it says no left turn but thats for cars only.

squeezing by the front of the train just in time to hook it up and not lose any speed.

trying to beat the UTA bus on 200 south west bound to main, we are both doing 30 and hes trying to cut me off to pull over at the bus stop.

ya he floors it and smash his mirror with my fist.

next time hes getting the U lock in the side window.

people, ok, old ladies that work at the counters that cant hear, understand or know a damn thing about why you are there or that you just sprinted across town to get a pick up and they dont know what the hell your are talking about or who to call.

why are they here? sitting at the front when they can even barely walk?? hell if i know

loading your bag with 50 lbs of court transcripts and trying to get 10 drops done in 30 mins so your bag doesnt break your back.

work that in with 15 min rush calls.

down town construction blows.

no riding on the side walks

bike cops suck more than car cops =power trippers who cant keep up if they were paid 1000 to catch me.

people taking 5 mins to sign their long ass name. hell when UPS comes to my house he gets the 1 sec scribble.

give me the same, i dont have time to stand around while you practice your penmanship on my watch.

the most thing i hate.

wooden pedestrian corridors that are 3 feet wide.

this means you cant access the building riding because all the foot traffic on them and when they peds see you riding in this wooden tunnel they freak out.

LAME!!!!!!!!!

sager, blake and bart have been in puerto rico all week and the only reason i know this is because go check sagers web site



bart sucks at blogging, you get from him about 2 sentences a week if that.
with no pics.
blake writes a 30 page book about once a week.
and if sager doesnt tell you anything, at least he has some vay cay pics.



no race results,
no action shots
equals lame blogging .



team mona vie may be the world premier mtn biking squad but they suck at blogging.
hey guys...... what about the rest of us who want to follow your life??
keep up on recent activities of our fave super heroes?
come on hook it up and get on the blogging band wagon.



it doesnt take but 5 mins a day, so give me the i dont have time, im at the beach excuse.
holy hell

pile of trash

if you were following the comments below. this is for 2 years ago when 20% of the lotoja racers finished.

i know, i was there. i wasnt riding. thank god.

i knew a kid who was 18, a cat 3 rider. carl majors, hes in south africa on a mission now. but i think he was to green to know any better.

i was amazed he kept going.

he wore shorts all day, in the rain and snow and did it in like 11 or 12 hrs. i was his sag and i kept telling him to get in the van,

but he told me no.

ok,

keep going carl, he was impressive.

we drove back to slc that night. left around 8pm and we went backwards on the course to see how many people were still riding.

it was pissing rain at 8pm and we got 40 miles out of town, it was dark and this last guy was still going at 9pm.

he finished at 1 or 2am i think.

props, but you wont catch me doing that.

plain crazy, nothin like riding in a down pour for 18 hrs.

heres the pile of the key bank tower. looks like world trade.