kylecarlson

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  • 10/23/2007 8:25 PM

    dew tour is over!!

    yep........ the dew tour is officially over for 2007. here are my thoughts:


    vert.
    jamie bestwick is the best. hands down. watching him ride a vert ramp is one of the greatest things i've ever seen in all of BMX. he airs so high and so smooth. i was also really impressed with the fact that simon tabron does 540 no hander to barspins and the fact that steve mccann has progressed so much in vert riding. minus kagy's temporary absense, it was a good year for vert.

    dirt.
    dirt was ridiculous. everything was soooooo close. my pick going into the tour was cam white; he's been riding super good lately and i'm somewhat bias because he lives about 10 minutes from me for half of the year. bringing out the flip barspin to whip was awesome, i'm really stoked that he got that done. i was very impressed with how good dennis enarson did. i expected him to do really good in park, but was impressed with his really high finishes in dirt. i'm glad nyquist finally got the overall win in dirt, he deserved it. it's been a little while coming and he's been riding better than ever. not bad for a married guy.

    park.
    daniel dhers is the man. no one can touch him. he rides the whole course and does the most tricks every contest. spinner rode really good, but was a bit more conservative than most. in practice at every contest i thought Mirra was going to win, but it never worked out for him in the finals. anyways, it's nice to see daniel's bank account getting larger. we're going to the strip club soon in his new bentley. it's going to be awesome.

    overall:
    a decent year for the dew tour, but i'm not too bummed it's over. 

    that's all.
    -kyle carlson

  • 10/11/2007 9:16 PM

    josh betley's house.

    i'm at josh betley's house in phoenix. we've been playing mario kart 64 and eating top ramen mixed with peanuts and hot sauce. it's been a good night. his cat got beat up by a bigger cat today. this house is dialed.

  • 9/11/2007 8:42 AM

    keep schick's money in bmx!

    http://www.showschickyourtrick.com/

    schick has this contest going on that a lot of you have probably heard about; basically bmxers and skaters from the west coast and the east coast submitted videos, nyquist and burnquist picked the best ones, and someone gets eliminated each week, until only one remains and wins $20,000.  let's get that $20,000 in a bmxers pocket!

    there's a lot more money in skateboarding than there is in bmx and this is a really good opportunity for a bmx rider. regardless of who you vote for, you should sign up and vote for one of the bmx guys.

    my personal pick is josh perry. josh is an awesome kid and an amazing rider; check out his clips on there. halfcab tailwhips are awesome. anyways, check it out, and i think you can vote 3 times a day. get on it!

     

    also, i'm pretty sure josh can't grow a beard so it would be pretty funny if he rode for schick. 

  • 9/7/2007 11:23 AM

    tempe, az fixed gear race.

    i've been staying with my friends kc badger and sam buros in arizona for the past week and kc just told me about a fixed gear race they're putting on the weekend before halloween.


    fixed gears have really been blowing up in bmx lately. volume is making one, fbm is making one, profile is making hubs, and it seems like 50% of bmx riders own one (or atleast some sort of road bike). 


    anyways, the race in Tempe is called the Dagger Death Race. Billy Franvesky is pretty much the guy in charge and he has an insanely creative mind. so far, the race includes sprinting across the street to the bar, pounding a beer, riding through a really long underground full pipe, stopping in a cemetery and taking a rubbing of a tombstone, throwing ninja stars, and a bunch of other wild stuff. it should be a pretty wild time. everyone should bring their fixed gear (or buy a fixed gear) and come out. 

  • 9/5/2007 10:49 AM

    new ipods.

    If you haven't checked them out yet, Apple just introduced the new iPods today. I'm pretty sure I won't be getting one (until I get a new computer and they give me one for fre, atleast) because I'm already rocking the iPhone, but they're definitely a step up. the iPod touch pretty much seems just like an iPhone, minus the phone abilities. It can still pick up wireless networks though, pretty dang sweet.


    check them out on apple.com if you haven't seen them yet. also, send me money so i can buy an HD camera. thanks.

  • 8/24/2007 1:08 PM

    Anthem Skatepark = Closed??

    Anthem Skatepark is the closest decent skatepark to my house in Henderson and it was recently (temporarily) closed. I'm on the road so much that the reality of the situation hasn't quite set in until now, when i get to spend a week or so at home. 


    Anthem has always been a strange spot, everyone once in a while cops would come and kick bikes and kids without helmets out, but it was pretty much one out of every twenty five times we rode there. Now there's a security guard there and thousands of rumors about what's going on.

    Basically, I guess they're supposed to be building a new fence around the park and, what i keep hearing from all of the dudes that are a lot more local at the park than i am, they are going to allow bikes every other day and are going to have a city employee there inforcing rules. 

    I'm really not too stoked on the fact that it's closed, but as long as it opens back up soon and is bike friendly atleast half of the time I guess we don't have too much to complain about. 

  • 12/13/2006 5:29 AM

    arby's action sports awards

    i just watched a bit of the arby's action sports awards on Fuel.  i think its pretty ridiculous that they had rob dyrdek, who was in charge of the creation of an entire "skate plaza" that doesn't allow bikes, present the award for bmx rider of the year.  guettler should have given him a figure four leg lock instead of a handshake.

  • 11/23/2006 4:28 PM

    i'm 20.

    i'm not a teenager anymore awwwwww

  • 10/15/2006 3:56 PM

    daniel dhers just won the dew tour.

    now i have to supply him with four attractive american girls.