- I made it back from the BABE Rally alive! Our van made it 3500+ miles, and about 40 minutes from home our muffler fell off. It had two leaky gas tanks, shotty breaks, non-functioning temp. gauge, and a dying transmission, but we never saw that one coming. It was pretty funny to watch the muffler skid and roll its way down I-75. If you're curious about the BABE Rally check it out at baberally.com or check out our photos and blog from the trip at dirtbog.com.

- Here are a few new photos of Greg Goldberg, Zach Hodge, and Zack Weichbrodt.


Zach W. whip fakie.


Zach Hodge doin' the "O barspin"


Greg's bars always seem wide to me. It amazes me he didn't clip a barend on this.


Zach Hodge, feeble over barspin.


Gregory.

- Rise Above met the sales goal for the ICP tattoo challenge! So now Kerry, Dom, AND Jarrett will be getting hatchet man tattoos! Juggallos 4 lyfe!

- I'm moving to Dayton tomorrow. I finally graduated from college, so it's time to say adios to Toledo. Early Wednesday I'll be leaving for the road trip of all road trips with my brothers and a friend. We're driving a crappy old beater van to NYC to participate in the B.A.B.E. Rally. The idea is to drive from the Big Apple to the Big Easy in four days, in a clunker of a car that cost no more than $250. The van pictured below is what we'll be driving. Check out www.baberally.com for more info. I'm excited just to see if our old van with two leaky gas tanks will even make it!



Before...


After! I wish she ran as good as she looks.


- Things got a little big kicked up at Troy and Casey's the other night...

- The new Chenga, Chenga 57, is now open! And it looks awesome. You can get more info and the waiver from their myspace page at myspace.com/chengaworld.

I stole these photos from Jeff P on BMXBoard...







Baun rules.

- Troy Merkle, Ryan Howard, and myself went to Nashville this weekend. Nashville is a pretty sweet city. The cement parks in Nashville and Bowling Green, Kentucky are pretty sweet too.



One of the first spots we rode in Nashville was this rail near the Sixth Ave. skatepark.


Ryan loves crooked grinds.








Road trips are so much nicer with these things.


On our way back on Monday we made a stop in Bowling Green, Kentucky to check out their new cement park. The park was pretty fun, and we got to meet/ride with 123 from BMXBoard, but it was hooottt outside.


We rode this little bank-to-sub setup so much. Icepick to toothpick, from yours truly.


I wish we would have taken a couple wide shots of the park, but they had a couple pretty deep bowls that were fun to carve around in. Merk-Man hits the over-vert.


The park has a few pretty fun hips too.


- Don't forget to buy stuff from Rise Above on Saturday!



Kerry and Dominic are going to love those hatchet man tattoos.


Rise Above also has their 1 year anniversary coming up next month.


- Here are a few more recent flicks...



Mike Hranica, vocalist for The Devil Wears Prada, grinds up a rail in Tipp City. (Photo: Paul Fisher)


Adam Baumker emailed me a couple pictures of him and Jim Baaske riding this wild bank to wall they made out of, a mattress? Now that's street.


Adam Beeeeee.

- The Springfield crew has been pumpin' out the web videos lately, check 'em out. Featuring Ryan Howard, Ric Wood, Matt Skaggs, Greg Goldberg, and Nick Wooten...

- The "Goin' For Broke" DVDs are now in! They'll be available from Albe's and Dan's within the next couple of days, so give em a call and order your copy!

- Pick up a copy of the June issue of BMXPlus!, Nate and Gremlin are in it with a few photos that were shot on our L.A. trip back in February.

- The "Goin' For Broke" DVD's will finally be available next week!!! After a couple months worth of technical difficulties with the replication process we finally got things sorted out. Sorry for the delay folks.




- Kris K drove down to Toledo the other night. We rode Highland for a bit before hittin' up some spots around UT. Here are a couple pictures he shot, but head over to TeamYoungBMX.com to see some more, as well as Kris' photos from the TRP lights out jam.







- The boys from Cincy and YouthBMX have a new website up. Go to www.youthbmx.com and click on the video page to see a sweet video of "scrap footage."