Posts tagged chicago freeride

Wear A Helmet

Aug 19th

Posted by Tim in journal

I was really bored after work today so I decided that even though my knee still hurt from Saturday I would go ride. I had fun riding. ( as I almost always do ) I practiced riding skinnys near the zoo, and then went down to Navy Pier to play around on the stairs. I’m getting a lot better at riding up stairs. It seems like a dumb thing to do, but it’s fun now that I learned how. I was riding back down the stairs on the narrow edge ( not skinny, but narrow ) and when I got More >

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Challenge Park

Aug 18th

Posted by Tim in journal

Finally got down to Challenge Park on Saturday… That place is f’n amazing. I want to keep going back until I have the nuts to ride everything they have there. ( Which won’t happen because those teamsally dudes just keep building more. Thanks to Danno at chicagofreeride for giving me a ride down there, and of course teamsally for building everything and letting us ride it.

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Ride with CFR

Jul 29th

Posted by Tim in journal

Went out riding with CFR today. I found out that there are dirt jumps easily within riding distance of my apartment. I can’t wait to get the new bike and give them a proper try. I saw some amazing jumping today. A good evening even if all I got to do was watch.

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Strangers on a train

Apr 13th

Posted by Tim in journal

Had a good day yesterday. It was colder than I hoped, I wanted to wear my sandals with my new jeans but that didn’t work out. The all day concert was worthless. I hung out in the house and watched TV all afternoon. Climbing at VE was great as usual. When we got back I was really tired but I went to the house to try and party a bit. Unfortunately the place was deserted. I ended up going home at like midnight. I was about half-way back and dozing when 6 guys came into the car with really high-end More >

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