Question: Would this work with a pig?

This goes well with sport legs coco loco…

FAIL Nation: Hydrating FAIL – EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic Fail Funny Pictures.

I know what you’re thinking, 2 posts in one week?!?!?!? Is this the second coming? No, it isn’t. I just got up early today.

This in from Poedunk President Curtis Johnson:

Hi Everyone,

 

The Panther Valley Pump Track will soon be a reality. But we need your help to make it a reality.

 

Pump Track work day- Help us with prepping the site to remove weeds, litter, and small rocks before dirt moving starts next week. Meet at Thursday, May 17, 6pm at Panther Valley Park at the corner of Western Rd and Link Dr. in Panther Valley. Bring Long pants, work gloves and sturdy shoes (no sandals). We’ll have tools for about ten people, but if you happen to have a rake, square shovel, or wheelbarrow, please bring it, but write your name on it first. Depending on how many people show up will determine how long we are there. If we get 10 people, we should be done in an hour.

 

Pump Track Build Day – Mark your calendars for Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 9am until finished, for the public build day to help hand finish the pump track. Hacksaw Severt and crew will be busy over that weekend running the equipment to create the track. We are calling all hands on Monday to help with the finishing and dialing in of the tracks and jump lines with hand tools. Again, long pants, gloves, and sturdy shoes and rakes, square shovels, or tampers if you have them. Also, bring your bikes and helmets for test rides. If you plan on helping on Memorial Day please drop me an email so we know how many are coming.

 

Open ceremonies are planned for Friday, June 22. Hope to see you out there.

 

Curtis Johnson

There’s a chance I can make this event. Anyone else want to go?

-Mike

Awesome riding video showing some of the kick ass terrain we have here in Reno for mountain biking.

Fabien Barel presents #1 – At home and on dirt with Cam Zink on pinkbike.com

via Fabien Barel presents #1 – At home and on dirt with Cam Zink Video – Pinkbike.com.

Greetings. Just watched Wade’s first video blog. In the video he talks about his experience at the recent North American Hand Made Bike Show. Wade makes sick bikes that look awesome. I have one. Several other Bacon Strippers do too. But they are riding bikes. Bikes you can shred, tear up, crash. NAHBS has a lot of beautiful, shiny, exquisitely painted, utterly lust-worthy bikes. Bikes you don’t want to lay over in the rocks. Bikes you can’t lock up outside the bar. That cost as much as a car. I left NAHBS when it was in San Jose feeling like the ugly kid. So I went for a bike ride and felt better.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Check out Wade’s Vulture frames and blog here.

And get the bike frame porn in your Flickr feed as well where you’ll see sweet shit like this:

-M

Rode up to Dry Pond last night. The trails were perfect. Awesome damp tacky dirt, grippy snow, a tiny bit of ice. There were 4 or 5 teams of S&R guys coming down with headlamps. There were psychotic coyotes yowling at the full moon.

I love night riding!

A cool film by Tahoe photographer/videographer Corey Rich

Click here to view the embedded video.

-M

Greetings Bacon lovers. It’s time to get back in the spirit of the bacon strip. And since it’s still not snowing, I give you: happy dudes and dudettes riding bikes. If you have a video/pic or your little shredder, post it in the comments.

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This video is The Dude riding his Strider balance bike. I posted a review of this toddler bike at The Gizzard Stone.

He loves it. I can’t wait until we can make a video of him riding it on the Rim Trail!

-M

ps: I just bought him his first pair of SKIS!

heavy week for us strippers. time to decompress with this nice little ditty that Scot sent my way. Thanks! happy Friday.

The Whole Enchilada: Top to Bottom – Moab, Utah from Phil Shep on Vimeo.

Check out the Tahoe Vertical Challenge. A way to help raise money fot the  Sierra Avalanche Center. -M

 The 2011 Backcountry Vertical Challenge represents Lake Tahoe’s first ever FREE, community-wide fundraising initiative to benefit the Sierra Avalanche Center. In a quest to attain operational dollars for Lake Tahoe’s local avalanche forecasting agency, Alpenglow Sports has challenged the entire Tahoe backcountry community to a cumulative goal of 15 million vertical feet of human-powered uphill travel.

Tahoe Vertical.

Mike Colpo riding peavine at Sunrise

I knew something was wrong when I saw a short, mysterious post about him on Facebook Friday. But J.R. called with the news. Mike Colpo passed away last week, quite unexpectedly, on a run along the Truckee River on December 7th 2011.

I regret that I new Mike far less well than I would have liked. We went on a few rides, had a few beers, he made us pancakes up on the mountain once or twice. We talked about writing, and used each other for sources in articles once or twice. He was genuine, thoughtful, caring, tough, smart, funny, happy and adventurous.

Mike had the idea one year for Bike To Work Day to ride up peavine with a stove and cookware and make everyone pancakes. It was a wako idea, but also an awesome one. We road way up to the shoulder below the radio towers and he had cakes and syrup hot and waiting for us. It was awesome. And impressive. Mike hauled the stove, pans and food up on his Xtracycle bike. Which is a big load and a big ride!

Mike and TBS crew eating Peavine Pancakes.

Many close to The Bacon Strip are close to either the Nevada Wilderness Project, which Mike was quite envolved in, or Patagonia Reno, where he worked, so he had a big impact on the TBS Family and we are sad to see him go. Chances are that those who weren’t as close to him have some good memory of him. Like the pancakes. He seems to have had a way to leave a bold impression, with out much time.

Guys like Mike never just disappear though. He’ll pull away and maintain a pace you can’t quite match. You see him cresting the hill way ahead and dig deep to catch him. He’ll drop in on the pow stash and you’ll just see him, a speck on the horizon until you’re not sure he’s still there at all. But like all adventure hounds, he’s there somewhere, among the trees and tall grass, his nose to the ground, thinking and looking for something fun.

Please tell us your favorite Mike Colpo story in the comments below.

-M

Obituary: Michael Vincent Colpo

(Reno Gazette-Journal, Dec 11, 2011) Mike Colpo, 36, passed unexpectedly on December 7, 2011. Mike was born on February 1, 1975 in Wilmington, Delaware to John and Sheila Colpo. He graduated from the University of Delaware and then headed West to earn a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Nevada, Reno. Mike embraced mountain living immediately, and made Nevada his home.

Mike worked for Patagonia for 11 years. He was a beautiful writer and editor. Mike also taught for the National Outdoor Leadership School and treasured his time teaching others to appreciate the mountains he loved so passionately. He learned to cook on a camp stove in the wilderness and is known for, among so many other things, his amazing culinary talent.

Mike married Elizabeth Mosco on August 20, 2011. He was a more patient and loving husband than anyone could ask for. He is also survived by his parents, John and Sheila Colpo of Maryland; sisters MaryEllen Hearn (Bob) and Patricia Anderson (Dave) of Delaware; and brother John (Kara) of Delaware. He also leaves behind 10 nieces and nephews and countless other family and friends who love and miss him dearly.

Services will be held at Mountain View Mortuary at 425 Stoker Avenue, Reno, on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 2pm. Mike’s kindness and love touched everyone he met. All are welcome to attend. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to The Nevada Wilderness Project (www.wildnevada.org) or The Nevada Land Conservancy (www.nvlc.org).