Category: Bikes
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New Book Pre-Order: Ban the Fan
I’m happy to launch pre-orders for my new book, “Ban the Fan.” These will be signed and shipped by me. The book will also launch worldwide November 15 and should be available anywhere you like to buy books (local book stores can easily bring it in or all the usual online booksellers should list it). This…
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A Couple New Animations
I’ve recently worked on a couple of animation projects. The first one is for Odyssey. They’re celebrating 40 years of BMX with a Vans shoe collaboration. For the promo they wanted to revisit some of their classic animations done by Jim Bauer. I was asked to replicate Jim’s style and that proved to be a…
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Another Dropper Post Cartoon
Mountain biking is so full of absurd tech. Wireless shifting, laser guided suspension, and soft tires you have to pump up harder so they feel normal. Dropper posts seem like they would be at the top end of absurdity but the simple addition of an easily-put-out-of-the-way saddle adjuster makes mountain biking a lot more fun.…
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A Bit of Non-Cartoon Work
Over the last 10 years or so I’ve been watching the Odyssey team work on the OPTIS. This is not meant to be a promotion for the OPTIS (though it is cool), more a little reflection on watching the product come to fruition. I’ve tested assorted iterations of the design and tracked its progress from…
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A Holiday Card for Full Factory
Drew up this holiday card for Full Factory Distribution. Hope y’all have a great holidays!
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New Shirts for Fairdale Bikes
I drew a couple new T-shirts for Fairdale Bikes. I think this guy is pretty cool. A rabbit in Samurai armor calling down the power of thunder via his carrot sword. Kind of fun to empower the meek little bunny with such a weapon! Check it on Fairdale here. I really like this giraffe in…
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A Few Drawings for PinkBike
I got to do a few doodles for PinkBike on Jessie-May Morgan’s Anti-Rise article. She explained it well enough that I think I understand what it is now! And, that I will stick to hardtails for now.
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Dig Fragments with Taj
My good pal Sandy Carson came up to visit and interviewed me for this Dig Fragments video. Talked about the old BMX days and drew him a giraffe doing a no-hander. Sandy’s band Skloss has a new single/ video too. I have a little cameo in it but more importantly the song and video are…
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In the Pines
Mountain biking is so much more than vertigo inducing GoPro footage, life threatening speed and laser guided seat posts. I love that my bike carries me away from the noise of the world and out into the peace of the woods. I always feel a bit uncomfortable when I realize I work in marketing (I…
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A Trick for Brandon Semenuck
This was a joke idea for a trick that I presented to Brandon during a ride in Bellingham. It stuck in my head and so I decided to animate at as a short. It makes me laugh and it jumped up over a 200k views on instagram in a few hours so hopefully that means…
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A New Shirt for Fairdale
“Fine minds find good lines.” I came up with this slogan while working on a Vans project but have kept it for myself and Fairdale. I love finding lines while riding my bike and I think it’s the best feeling there is stringing together a bunch of things in sequence. I thought it fit well…
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New Postcard for Fairdale Bikes
I drew a new postcard for Fairdale Bikes and the Elevator model. This is the MTB I rode this last season and will be riding whenever it gets a little warmer. Super fun, short-back-end, hardtail.
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I Drew Tattoos for PinkBike
PinkBike gave away tattoos at Crankworx of my cartoons. Like real tattoos that people actually had tattooed on them, forever. I had a real laugh drawing these. There was 7 pages of flashart but above are a few of them.
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Thanks OurBMX
I’ve been on the road for almost a year. I was given this award back in September while I was pedaling around Europe. I didn’t have my glasses with me at the NORA Cup awards show and couldn’t read the text. I also couldn’t very easily carry a stone tablet with me while living on…
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Taj Talking About Taj
Here’s a little video of myself talking about my Fairdale Bikes signature edition bike, the Taj. Feels dorky talking about a bike with my name but it is a bike I really do love. It’s not focused on hardcore performance, just a fun bike to cruise around on that anyone can ride.
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Few Recent Doodles and Bicycle Film Fest
My animation about Greg Minnaar was added to this year’s Bicycle Film Festival. Thanks for the honor! Drew Santa on the Grim Donut for PinkBike. Also drew a new podcast title image for PinkBike with WAY too much detail. And a little Christmas card for Fairdale Bikes.
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The Sport of Music
I remember having a discussion with Chris Moeller ages ago about how I thought BMX shouldn’t be part of the cycling world. This was back in the mid 90’s and BMX programs had been all but killed off by the big cycling brands. The few who made “BMX” bikes really only made unsafe-for-BMX kid’s bikes.…
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Pedal to Paul’s Boutique
I’m finally on the road again… well, I am permanently on the road but I’m pedaling again. After my quick trip over to England I left Rotterdam on a warm overcast day. I didn’t have any time to map a route so I plugged my destination into the Garmin and agreed to do what it…
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Good Friends and Stage Fright at the Battle of Hastings
It already feels like a blur of commotion in my memory but I was just at the Battle of Hastings BMX contest and the NORA Cup in Hastings, England. I saw amazing riding, lots of my BMX family, embarrassed myself on stage, and I was given an award. I’m currently typing while under the English…
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BMX Giraffe
If you wonder why I’ve been drawing Giraffe so much lately it’s because I’m working on a book with him. I’m excited about drawing him and each little doodle brings me closer to diving into the book’s final art. I felt roasted after my day riding through The Netherlands west coat dunes (Garmin says it…
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A Study of Dutch Top Tubes
I’m enjoying being in a world where everyone gets around by bicycle. Here in the Netherlands there is bikes absolutely everywhere and under every kind of person. Good safe bike roads are all around too. Surprisingly to me I don’t recognize any of the bikes people are on. With 100s of bikes locked up on…
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Bike Check: My Rig for this Ride
A number of folks have asked for a bike check of my touring rig and so today I’ve sat down and written one for y’all. I started with a Fairdale Weekender frame and fork set. At 6’1 I can ride both the large or XL size frames and chose an XL this time around. No…
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Wondering About White Bread
I sat outside a tiny little grocery store eating bananas and having a soda. I’d been out on empty farm roads and it was the first store I’d seen all day. A bit dazed by all the pedaling I watched the folks coming and going in the same way that I catch myself staring at…
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Day 2 Is Always a Hard One
I felt like I couldn’t do it. I pulled off to the side of road and dismounted my bike. My mind was revolting against this plan. “You can’t make it. This is a terrible idea,” it said to me. I looked back at the narrow two lane road I had just swerved off of and…
Think Up Good Things 