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My Fixed Milano

 

I love Milano Fixed ……it’s my fix!

Pallet Ghetto Ramps

Ragazzi servono circa 50 pallet per la rampa corta e il doppio per il pipe;

io ne metto una decina che ho tenuto da parte !

Rap Crazy Farmer Snowboarding in 1991

“Farmer’s Way” rap video from Critical Condition – 1991

Missing in Action Shawn Farmer 16.2

An interview find on:  Transworld Mon, Aug 26 2002

MIA: Shawn Farmer
By Joel Muzzey

In snowboarding, we hold on tight to our legends-Kidwell, Kelly, Palmer, Sanders, Haakonsen, Lynn, et al. These larger-than-life riders make the myths for all of us. No doubt Shawn Farmer is an ironclad hero in this sport, but compared to other hall of famers, he’s something else entirely. His vertical exploits are well documented in photos and film, but the self-proclaimed godfather of soul is really nothing short of America’s last outlaw-you’ve heard the stories. Full throttle, nonstop-he’s lived his life truly on the margins. Never yielding and never resting on slack rock-star clichà‡s, Farmer is still here. Where will you be when it’s not cool anymore?

Why is snowboarding boring?

It just seems stale. It’s not boring for me personally, I rode one day last year and it was great-a powder day at June Mountain-but in general, pop culture’s just got me down, man. It drives me nuts-the constant bombardment of bullshit. I hate the radio stations. Forget the TV-I’m just overwhelmed by the whole media-presence thing. I mean the mainstream shit-how there’s always a TV screen pointed at you, a chick with big tits, a snowboarder, a skateboarder. It’s just not cool anymore. I want to see something new. Anything that was ever cool-the corporate media-circus money-machine just whores it out to the level that it all disgusts me. The music, the premade look, it all sucks. Maybe I’m jaded as hell, but it’s dead. It’s all about the money-and I’m not opposed to making money. It’s something we all have in common-if we’re not making that money, we’re pissed, right?
But I’ll still stay pissed even when I have money.

Why are we still talking about Shawn Farmer?

Because I’m the godfather of soul, man.

Do you feel like a legend?

Yeah, I guess. I was there. It’s all about the powder, I love it. When I ride pow, I feel like a god. There’s something about it-a sick-ass powder day. It’s like being superhuman, for me. The legend thing, though, I don’t know. To really be a legend, to perpetuate it, you have to die. But I don’t have a master plan-I thought I’d be dead by now.

Can you recall one of those “god” days?

Well, obviously when I straight-lined that chute back in the day in Utah, on Mount Superior-The Hidden Chute-that was a moment. Then I ate it at the bottom really hard because I hit avalanche debris. When you hit hard enough, your brain really gets rattled. There have been some sick ones in Alaska, too. I straight-lined Pythons, this peak back a ways in Valdez. It’s a continuous 45 degrees-I had to make some turns near the top. I laid down a few Euro-carves going like 60, then it just cliffed out-and I rode through that shit, too! I didn’t have eyewear on, so once I got up to top speed, I just froze. The tears were just coming down my face, and I was going fast-70?
I couldn’t see shit, and I just pointed the whole f-king thing.

Did you always scare the guys you were with?

Well, a good rule of thumb is, “Don’t follow Farm.”

To live up to your reputation, was there more pressure on the hill or off?

Both. I had some scary ones, but I think I’ve risked my life more in the mountains. We used to call ‘em “soul-leavers,” when you got really close to death. If you get beat down or roll out of an avalanche-that’s a “soul-leaver.” And that’s what it’s all about for some of us-the fear.

You were ahead of the curve-white rapper and snowboard superstar in like 1990 …

You see this stuff coming. Kid Rock-I was doing that shit when he was a kid. I was rapping, flying off cliffs when Kid Rock was in sixth grade. Everyone knows about the snowboard stuff, but this other shit, I’ve been doing it for ages.

You have thousands of ideas …

I want to sell records, I want to make a movie. But I need money. If anyone out there has a hundred Gs, send it my way and watch it blow up. I have raps, but you need like five Gs to get a good beat done. I’ve been fooling around with these guys who are all, “Let’s do a song,” then I get the beat back and it’s some weak-ass shit. You gotta pay to play-and you get a weak beat when you’ve got no money.

Do you feel appreciated within the sport?

Yeah, it’s cool. I think it’s easy to forget the soul of sports, the old guys. What I did can never be duplicated. Those early days-there will never be anything like that again. Society isn’t even the same anymore. The whole mind-set was so cool back then-it was different. It wasn’t on a soda bottle at 7Eleven. People didn’t even know what it was. In order to find the cool things in life-the truth, I guess you could call it-you have to search. But now, there’s no search-they’re trying to sell you the truth. And it’s all a lie. This whole monkey-circus show-it partly progresses the sport, but at the same time it just washes it out. People are doing shit for the wrong reasons. Think about having some f-king fun instead.

Critical Condition 1991 movie:

A Movie By Gerald Dugan & Arthur Krehbiel
Additional Cinematography By Mike Hatchett
Narration By Carl Dugan
Presented By Snowboarder Magazine, Vuarnet France, Avanlanche Snowboards, Sessions, Thruster, Bamboo Curtain
Soundtrack By Triple X Records
Starring Snowboarders Damian Sanders, Shawn Farmer, Mike Hatchett, Dave Hatchett, Mike Ranquet, Noah Salasnek, Dave Seoane, Steve Graham, Chris Roach, Nick Perata, Tucker Fransen, Shawn Palmer,
Starring Damian Sanders, Shawn Farmer, Dave Seoane, Mike Ranquet, Steve Graham, Nick Perata, Chris Roach, Noah Salasnek, Dave Hatchett, Tucker Fransen, Craig Kelly.

What’s not to love about this classic? Damian Sanders flowing monster airs in a turqoise ski suit, Farmer rapping about dropping cliffs, Roach and Mike getting kicked out of Japan, Nick Perata grinding rocks with his forehead…and the list goes on and on.

From the box back: “In a world of deception, full of Milli Vanillis, Vanilla Ices and other fruit-flavored frauds, we at Fall-Line Films figured it was time to give the snowboarding public the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We’ve gone deep into the lives of snowboarding’s true rippers to see what scares, thrills and makes them laugh. We’re not going to cheat the public into believing in something that’s not. This is the whole story: highs and lows, landings and crashes, the most spectacular display of snowboarding ever captured on film.”

Locations: Big Mountain, MT, Squaw Valley, CA, Mt. Baker, WA, Mt. Bachelor, OR, Blackcomb, BC, Rikgransen, Sweden, Japan.

Critical Condition Fall Line Films FLF Video Music Soundtrack

Intro	“Celebrity”	Celebrity Skin	Good Clean Fun
Mt Bachelor, Oregon	“Street Pig”	Pigmy Love Circus	Live
Mt Baker, Washington	“Swaggering”	Tender Fury	Garden of Evil
Big Mt, Montana	“Death Plays his Role”	SHADOW PROJECT	The Original Shadow Project – EP
Big Mt, Montana 2	“Penny In the Bucket”	SHADOW PROJECT	The Original Shadow Project – EP
Japan Tour	“The Poet”	AMW (America’s Most Wanted)
?	“Place in France	L.A.P.D	L.A.P.D.
Blackcomb, Canada	“Pizza Tran”	The Vandals	Fear of a Punk Planet: Anniversary Edition
Shawn Farmer	“My Way”	Shawn Farmer
Tucker Fransen, Noah Salasnek in Sugar Bowl, CA & Squaw Valley, CA	“Rat Fink”	Celebrity Skin	Good Clean Fun
Tahoe	“Don’t Send Me Down”	Tender Fury	Garden of Evil
Dave Seoane Helmet Cam	“The Rodge”	The Vandals	Fear of a Punk Planet: Anniversary Edition
Donner Summit, California	“Stand and Be Counted”	International Beat
Twin Peaks Kicker	“What Do We Live For?”	Tender Fury	Garden of Evil
France	“Monkey Brains”	Celebrity Skin	Good Clean Fun
Sweden	“Does it Still Live Here”	Tender Fury	Garden of Evil
Whistler-Blackcomb, Canada	“Don’t Hit Me Up”	Doggy Style	Don’t Hit Me Up
Skateboard/Wakeboard	“Hello”	Celebrity Skin	Good Clean Fun

HERE and Another song of the Good Times ! for the fellows…

MTB Ticino in the bosk

Gli amici Riders dell’MTB Ticino ci hanno spedito queste belle foto delle prime uscite dell’anno:

Foto di gruppo, domenica 6 Feb 11: C’erano solo -2° (ma la domenica prima erano -7°!).

L’amico D. impegnato in un passaggio difficile (!).

Le foto sono state fatte domenica mattina, nei boschi tra Borgoticino e Revislate.

La bici e’ una Giant Trance X, il biker e’ il suo piu’ grande limite.

By Sonny Naka

Honda CB400 Four Alloy Carter Cover

Honda CB400 Four Alloy Carter Cover
Avional alloy MIL-A-8625 Mercury lasered

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HONDA CB400 Four test ride dopo il restauro

HONDA CB400 Four prima uscita dopo il restauro

Dopo aver fatto diligentemente bollo e assicurazione, ho saputo che devo far fare la revisione alla moto ogni anno, vista la situazione ho deciso di portare la moto alla concessionaria Honda.

Questa mattina ho deciso di fare un giretto con la moto per vedere se tutto era a posto, scendo in garage, faccio il pieno, il motore parte al primo calcio, minimo a 1200 come da libretto, luci accese, casco in testa ben allacciato e una buona dose di prudenza, ma senza specchietti!

Parto e da subito mi assalgono ricordi di scorribande da ragazzo, dopo qualche km il motore è caldo, accellero, le vibrazioni aumentano con le sensazioni, il suono del Marving riempie la campagna e risveglia anche il nonnetto nella vigna coperta di brina. L’aria punge, ma il sole splende è una bella giornata per andare in moto. Il four attira gli sguardi dei passanti, dovrò ricordarmene in futuro !

Sulla strada del ritorno, andante allegro, all’improvviso eccolo il bastardo cratere, ci finisco dentro, il four regge, ma la mazzata l’ho sentita, vola via un bullone del paracatena, poco male, lo incastro e riparto direzione Moto Mike per revisione, tagliando e altri piccoli dettagli.

Parcheggio, lui arriva e dice: “ah, c’hai su il Marving prima serie e la Giuliari”, stranamente lo vedo sorridere, forse è la prima volta che lo vedo così, fa il giro della moto, scruta, accarezza gli steli, il serbatoio, sono sorpreso di tanta attenzione; il responso: “Lasciala qua che ci penso io”.

Sento di aver fatto bene, tra Hondisti ci si intende.

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