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The Dock

The Doc

Time for a little trip down memory lane.

Like any strapping young man growing up in the 80’s, bicycles and skateboards were the primary form of transportation. The first time you figure out balance via bike and board, it’s on! You immediately want to push past your abilities and explore surrounding areas you’ve yet to discover. In many ways I am exactly the same.

I moved from Tampa to North Alabama in the late 90’s and couldn’t care less about bicycles. I was a skater through and through. I met good ol’ Kyle steed and we would thrash every drainage ditch we could. Unfortunately he moved about a year after our lifelong friendship was established. This left me buddy-less. Low and behold… a fella down the street was an avid cyclist. I was intrigued. I convinced him to let me borrow his whip for a few days. He agreed. I was off and in exploration mode all over again!

At the time I lived a handful of miles from these dock’s. It was my first thought when I got on this freshly borrowed fredom machine. Packed a bag and headed out.  I remember thinking how bad ass the dock’s were! All run down and rusting. It was as if you could sense the history of the place. I imagined all the busy hard working shipping traffic it must have handled at one point. Facing out from the docking warehouse is the Tennessee river with nice green hills in the background. It’s beautiful and quiet.

Processed with VSCOcam with b1 presetThat was about 15 years ago. I’ve moved all over the country since then and have found myself living right back in North Alabama. Yesterday I picked up my Surly CorssxCheck all cleaned up with new wheels from Blevins Bicycle Co. I’d been extremely busy travel8ing, planning FOLLYCROSS, and continuing to promote the Ride x Create message. So, when I nabbed my bike back, it was time to go for a simple cruise. This cruise was only about 20 miles but I got to rip through some construction zones (aka impromptu cyclocross course) and head to The Dock’s! It was so rad. The sun was setting, I got to spend time with my favorite two wheeled machine, and there were beers and bike convo back at Blevins waiting for me! Needless to say… my heart was full!

I’d be willing to bet you fine folks have a similar stories. The Ride x Create vibe has no boundaries and offers endless life long joyous experiences. Take hold of said vibe and dominate good people of Follyland!

 Cheers 

RIDE x CREATE

TRAFIK // King Of Vegas 2013

KOV 2013

This is gonna be rad!  We had the pleasure of being a small part of this last year. So pumped to see all the great folks involved this year. If you’re at Interbike, you should definitely go support/check this! I promise you’ll have a good time.

Go to TRAFIK for further details.  This is going down tomorrow!  BE THERE!

FOLLYCROSS Recap

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FOLLYCROSS LOVE!!

I can’t thank everyone enough for coming out and racing Sunday! This is the first Cyclocross event we have hosted and I gotta say… you guys made it so much cooler than originally imagined.  This was a great kick off to the cross season!!  

I learned some good lessons for next year (which will most definitely go down). Like, women are way better at tracking time/laps. Men are way better at drinking beer and pointing out the same loose gravel lap after lap.

So much sponsor love!!  BIG thank you to Blevins Bicycle Co., Southern Carnage, UPNESS, Chrome Industries, and Lone Wolf Cycling! Everyone was amped on the podium prizes… thank you thank you thank you!!  

Here are the Men’s x Women’s Winners

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