I’ve acquired a lot of stuff in the last 12 years from riding. Most of it is pretty fun to look at. In that picture, I’d say thats about 40 sets of tires and wheels, a few bikes and drawers filled with old parts. While I was in the basement closet I was looking at this old black LX shifter that I broke on my first ride on my new bike back in the day. I’ll never forget it, I was happy as a clam to be out cruising along on my new mtn bike the day after Christmas and a branch just jumped out at me and it snapped off, I was soo pissed… I remember hucking the bike in the woods and it took a while to go get it I zoomed it so far. The amount of bike stuff I have now is ridiculous and I’m finally ditching some it! I also stumbled across some cool pictures of me when I was a youngin to put some street cred’ to the stories speak of! I found a picture of my first 24″ wheel mtn bike. The Giant Awesome, and it was AWESOME. So for the younger junior guys and girls that read the site, just remember it takes time, this whole bike riding/racing deal. But it does come. Heres another cool one of my first year racing my second bike, the specialized stumpjumper with a mag 21 rock shox fork. That was my first real racing bike. Okay and the last one, this was from when i was 13, standing in the rain waiting to wash my wolf creek at some new england pedro’s series race. That was really a sick bike. Now fast forward to a couple weeks ago, Chris, “The Fox” who is the u23 national team massage therapist and a good friend of mine send me a cool picture he took with Jens Voigt and I. What a great guy that Jens is. Just like in the interviews, hilarious. People were screaming to him “comon Jens!” at the prolouge and his reply: “Stop using your mouth and use your hands and push me!” (in his German accent.) It was great, he was telling me he thinks he might actually have more fans here in the states then in Germany. And for my face in the picture? Well I think he was asking me if I was going to try to use the big ring all the way to the top like he did last year, and that my friends is all I’ve got. Seeya!