Interbike/ Cowan's Jump Jam
Just got back from Interbike a couple days ago and it was the same
as the last million times I have been there. I had a few signings to do
and a couple meetings, but aside from that the show was pretty mellow
for me. Of course you always have to have at least one night of
partying in Vegas and since I don't do much of that it is always hard
to recover after a late night.
New World Disorder 7 premiered and I had a small part in it. It sure
felt like I did more filming than what was put in my segment and some
of the shots of a few of my jumps didn't seem like they put in the best
angles. I saw some of the stills from a few jumps that looked big and
sick, but the movie didn't do them justice. Oh well, what can you do.
Cowans jump jam was today and re-did his entire yard. Pretty much
all the hitters from the freeride/jump world were there. Cowan has a
bit of everything now with ladder drops, railing berms, and more tech.
jumps. Some riders were struggling, others like Kyle & JD had
smooth flowing sick style, and then you got guys like Cam McCaul,
Cowan, & Paul B. throwing some sick tricks off the last ramp jump.
Monkey just built me up a new GT Zaskar built to my spec's for
jumping. Stiffer and stronger for the jump scene, along with the new
Marzocchi 4x thru axle front fork. What a difference I could feel with
these additions. The bike was solid and the two 360's & no handers
I did were spot on, just like the bike. Sure is nice to have GT
building me custom bikes and having them perfect on the first run.
Lopes
ps look for a few OLD SCHOOL pics of me soon on my site with the story of why I run #55.
