Winona Cherry Bomb – 2000

Continuing on with the blast from the past mountain bike videos archives here is a clip from the Winona Cherry Bomb back in the summer of 2000. Oh what beer, lack of riding everyday, and a slowing metabolism has done to my body 😀

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And few photos

Andy riding the course the day before

Joe, Pete Kohner, and I getting ready to start

Brian Lee riding the course the day before

Joe’s Infinity G20

Dave Meyer who I just saw last weekend at the winter race in Elk River

And my roommate for the summer of 2000 Chris Benda

Flashback to 1998

I think for most this might be a headache waiting to happen but back in 1998 my college cycling club made some mountain bike videos. My friend Preston dug them out of the abyss and mailed the VHS tapes to me awhile back and today I finally got around to hooking up my ancient VCR to my computer and uploading them to the internet.

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PugFest 2008

On Sunday Laura and I drove up to Hillside Park in Elk River to photograph PugFest 2008. The race put on by Rich Omdahl, the city of Elk River, and a handful of local sponsors was quite the success. The weather warmed up making for a great day to be out on the snow covered trails.

Over 75 riders turned out to race including 19 of those riding Surly Pugsleys. I took a bunch of photos and I’ll post up a few here. To see the rest visit my flickr account here.

Screen Printing at Home

 

My first attempt at screen printing went pretty well.  From what I gathered off the internet I was a little concerned that it wasn’t going to turn out very well so when I saw my finished product I was pretty excited.  If you are interested in screen printing I would do some searches for DIY Screen Printing on sites like youtube where some have put up nice video tutorials on how to do it.

 

My down and dirty quick explanation.

 

  1. Get a screen
  2. Make a black and white image and then have that made into a transparency at Kinkos (have them make two so you can double it up to get the blacks even darker).
  3. Coat your screen (in a somewhat dark room) with screen printing photo emulsion (available at most good art stores).
  4. Allow emulsion to dry for an hour
  5. Place transparency on screen (have image backwards so that if you were to flip the screen you would see the image properly).
  6. Set screen under a 150 watt light bulb for an hour.
  7. Take screen into the shower with you and hold screen up to the showerhead.  This will wash out all the parts of your image that were hidden under the black parts of the transparency.
  8. Once again let screen dry.
  9. Put t-shirt over piece of plywood to stretch out the shirt.
  10. Clamp screen to shirt/board.
  11. Run a line of ink across top of screen
  12. Use squeegee to pull ink across screen.  I did this three times.
  13. Let shirts dry overnight.
  14. Use iron or bake in the oven for a minute to set the ink.
  15. Wear shirt.
  16. Join Morbid.