http://arfreeriders.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:07:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://arfreeriders.com/?p=184 We are glad to announce our newest feature of the Arkansas Freeride Society's webpage. Starting in September we are going to have a monthly giveaway. A different item will be released each month. The way it will work is at the begining of the month ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=183 Time to ride some street boyz. We will meet at the $hit ditch as usual around 6:00 as ususal. Lets get a big group together. Someone bring a camcorder so we can start getting clips for a street video. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=182 Metzger over at TBC has given us another No Big Deal video. This is a video on how to do no-chanders. Pretty sweet video. We need some foampit time so we can all thrown down some no-chanders. Check out the video. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=181 Kade has been riding with us for a little while now. He is young a full of energy. I got a message from Josh M. the other day telling me "dude i just watched the new videos on youtube of Burns, f'n sick. I had NO clue ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=180 This is one of the best short video edits EVER. Some F'n sick tricks!!! Check it out!!! http://arfreeriders.com/?p=179 The guys over at transitions have come out with a new video series. Looks like its gonna be pretty sweet. Hopefully there will be many more to come. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=178 http://arfreeriders.com/?p=177 I found this on Nitro Circus's Facebook status. It looks like on sweet ass time. The Nitro Circus guys may go bigger on bigwheels but there is a good time to be had by all here. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=176 Well guys we have been pushing hard to get the park dialed (and by we I mean Chris, Greg and Jake- NOT me:) ). After some careful deliberating we have come to the conclusion that with the recent park transformation, maybe it's time we collect membership dues and charge non members ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=175 http://arfreeriders.com/?p=174 Dylan has got his first sponsor! Big thanks to Paul and Greg over at Riders Ready! They have now official sponsored Dylan. He stepped up to a Diamondback Mini Viper (a 16"). He has been wanting the thing for a few months now. It took ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=173 Our regular ride night is Wednesday. Then when the weather permits we try to ride on Saturday or Sunday. We had planned on ridding the dirtjumps Sunday but the weather is not supposed to be very good. Friday is supposed to be mostly sunny and ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=172 Our buddy Mike Metzger over at Transitions Bikes is coming out with a new shoe. From the picture I have seen of it everyone will want one. Check it out yourself. I will be saving my money. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=171 Transition Bllindside for sell by one of our buddies out in New Mexico. I realize a Blindside is a bigger bike that we have to have around here but this is one SWEET ride. Check it out and see if you like it so much you just have to have ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=170 I am not sure this is new but I am pretty sure it is. The man Danny McAskill is back at it with another amazing video. SICK backwards nose manual at about :20 into it the video. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=169 I the words that E2 stole from Big. "Do work son!". As everyone knows the dirt jumps have been in need of some major attention. We ALL talk about how we want to get out and ride them but no one has ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=168 I was on pinkbike and had a link to a video from one of the guys in New Mexico. I clicked over and this is what I found. We all love our sport but I cant think of anyone locally that is riding like this at 50 years ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=167 Aight. I know the weather is not perfect for a street sesh but damn it has been WAY too long since we rode some street. So Wednesday at 6:00 at the $hyte ditch. Its on. Lets all deal with the cold weather and throw down on ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=166 Our buddy Lawernce from Four Corners Freeriders e-mailed me a link to a new video some of the guys have put together. May it will give some of us motivation to get some work done or some riding done or hopefully both which my lead to us putting together ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=165 We have not had anything new in a while. I was looking at Corey and Jay's missing links and found this. It doesn't fit with the site but there are quite a few clips with bikes so it works for me. Hope you enjoy and get a ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=164 Jake has his new Bottle Rocket and I have the Nugget back. Plus Slaughterpen has the new flow track. That being said. Road trip. We are planning a trip to slaughterpen this sunday. As of now we only have 3 people going that I know ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=163 E2's newest steed. Hopefully when he gets it built he will take some more pictures of it. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=162 I was chatting with our buddy Lawrence over at Four Corners Freeride. They have a new video of a race that was at one of their ridding areas. We have also been invited to visit and do some riding. Lawrence even offered to be our "tour guide" ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=161 The details are not nail down quite yet. Looks like there will be a trip to NW Arkansas at the end of the year. Jason Nixon from www.sicklines.com is planing to come down and ride some with us while he is on Christmas break. As of yesturday ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=160 Who's in for a ride? http://arfreeriders.com/?p=159 Leave it to our boy Jason at Sicklines to keep everyone up to date on cool stuff. Along with all the sweet new product he keeps us up on he is always posting new video's. He has one on right now that is pretty sweet. HUGE doubles ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=158 This is either the coolest engineer ever or one who overlooked a few details. You be the judge. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=157 Our buddy Jason over at Sicklines has a video up from the yearly opening of Rays. The new Troy Lee room looks sick. Here is the video to get you even more excited Jake. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=156 While rollin down the street on one of our normal Wednesday night street sessions we see this figure coming our way in the dark. He is not on a typical bike for this part of town. Who could it be? He pops ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=155 I was checking out our buddies over at Four Corners Freeride webpage this morning and they have made a trip to Canada recently. A thirteen day trip to many different locations. They put together a video and I thought everyone would enjoy it and maybe get some of ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=154 This is not you typical Danny Mac video. It is shorter and it is for a commercial. E skyped me the link this morning and I was as usual with Danny impressed. I thought it would make for some good NEW content on the webpage. So ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=153 Site is back up along with a BIG table top and a HUGE double. Ryan is frustrated by the whole mess. Here is the Skype convo to prove it! [9:51:45 AM] E2 says: there are some photos of the tazer on our flickr dillhole [9:51:51 AM] E2 says: and the arfreeriders ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=152 THE DIRT JUMPS ARE BACK!!! We got the dirt jumps back up and going. Time to shred it boys. We will be out most of the week-end ride the newly restored dirt jumps. New lines, new dirt on the lips and landings. Lots of work put ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=151 We need help BAD! This winter wreaked havoc on our jumps. We need to totally demolish the Intermediate crappy lay out jump line and start from scratch on it. I say we make it a HUGE ass tabletop to learn tricks on- just 1 table and a ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=150 Well people- it's Wed. again- that means street session time- I'm out this week- have the kiddos- so I'll be wrestling with them and doing the daddy thing. Next week let's try and get a big crew riding- I'll bring the camera and take some video- let's venture out ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=149 Well another day of wasting some time in the morning baby-sitting the shop till someone got here to watch the place. I was on our myspace page and one of our friend started chatting. I jumped over to his page and was checking ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=148 Our own E2 has been trying to wheelie the fountain at the Doubletree for a few weeks now. We all knew he could do it he just couldn't trust himself. All he need was the right bike to do it on. He got a little ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=147 Last night was a blast- we rode for a while at the usual spots- Chris was practicing barspins, he was riding the SC Jackal, Greg pulled a nice tire grab off of a wedge wall ride (monument ride) at the Arkansas Arts Center- I finally wheelied the retaining ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=146 Sorry man I didn't realize you were upset over my last post....I wasn't calling you out- just having fun bro! Get over it and get out and help with the trail so we can all ride it! Sorry T-Biscuit...aka Flip...aka T-Bag....aka T-Bird http://arfreeriders.com/?p=145 3 of us busted out some quality work Sunday morning- bench cut some more- finished the landing for the little roller double and positioned the step up where we think it might end up- not sure yet. Greg, Chris and E2 you guys did a great job!!!! Oh ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=144 Well fellas the photos in this post are a couple weeks old now, but after Eureka Spring Fat Tire Fest I'm sure everyone is super pumped to finish what we started last year! The boys from PTD put a lot of hard work into the DH run ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=143 Okay. The dirt jumps look like $hit. The warm-up loop needs some love. And the freeride trail is STILL less then half done. Now that the weather is nice and we can ride almost any day, we need to get off ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=141 I was watch some TV show recently and same a clip of a wakeboard event called Redbull Wakelab. I know this has nothing to do with bikes but thought it looked sweet and know there would be someone else out here that would enjoy it. So here you ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=140 Well not much to report on this week- Chris is out of town- Travis wasn't able to ride- neither was I since it is my week the kids. I figure maybe we can just post up some random stuff. Anyone interested in helping us get more trail work ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=139 This picture speaks for itself....nuff said. This is Travis in full effect! Good ride last night for everyone. More photos on Flickr page. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=138 It's Wednesday and that means, RIDE NITE. You know how things go with us. Right now the plans are to meet up at the $hyt Dytch after work. Somewhere around 5:30 is when people should start showing up. From there the plan is to ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=137 With the dirt jumps being more like grassy gravel jumps it was a street nite. Tired of riding the same $hit we decided to hit some new stuff. It was nice to see a new street. E2 was ready to hit some ledge gaps. ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=135 Rumor has it that an old buddy of ours may be back pretty soon. I am not able to give a date or release the person's name at this point but here is a short video of him to give you a little teaser of who we are talking ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=134 With all this rain the dirt jumps are probably pretty beat. I guess this means some street sessions are in order. Here is a video that hopefully will get everyone pump to ride. Mike Montgomery Edit - Republik Apparel from Republik MTB on Vimeo. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=133 Set the DVR. This Saturday night at 9:00 Central time on MTV2. Red Bull Rampage. This is a great chance to get our sport out to the general public. Tell all your friends and tell them to tell everyone. Who knows maybe this will lead ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=131 This post might not make sense to everyone- some of these are pics from lyriks quoted in rap songs- pics of elusive animals in the Arkansas woods- shows we enjoy and ........well "other interests" (Skrilla Fan from Killa Cam) "Other Interests" http://arfreeriders.com/?p=130 It's raining and the DJ's are wet- no one wants to work on the trail- so watch these videos. http://ride559.com/2009/04/pablo-tafoya-talks-corsair-with-us/ http://arfreeriders.com/?p=129 So it's been a while since we posted some new content. Since the last post, both myself and Kit have bought new hardtails....I needed one WAY more than he did- I was still rockin' the 5+ year old clapped out STP. I was waiting on Intense to produce ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=128 So the jumps are still there- although they are still probably pretty beat down from the rain. Yesterday's post was totally an April Fools joke. I still need to post up more about this Konig- but in short let me just say that this thing manuals with ease, bunnyhops well, ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=127 Well boys me and Kit rolled out to the park last night to get in a few jumps before sundown and to show him the trail work we did this weekend. Apparently since we didn't finish the "Pro Line" as expected IMBA and Ben Blitch had to come level ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=126 So I titled this in the words of Big Black because that's what we did today....we did work son!! I'll let the pics speak for them selves, but just to let you know- we now have a full on 10-12ft. double on the trail, and 2 new rollers. ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=125 So each year the Bike Industry showcases new products. The news usually starts trickling in after the Taipei show. I remember not long ago- maybe 3 years now, I was challenged by Ed from SRAM- not an outright "I challenge you to this or that" but ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=124 Well so Kit "I can't leave well enough alone" Williams showed up Saturday afternoon at my house with his cranks from his Transition Double installed on his SS. This set up has been a hot topic for debate as to whether or not the SS with first gen style ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=123 We are riding a little DH this weekend at Devil's Den. We are loading up and leaving at 6:00 (ish for Kit) on Saturday morning. Anyone up for a change of pace from the DJ scene meet us there. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=121 Okay Kit. You are our Transition Bikes MAN. They have just released their newest bike(The Bank). Man this thing is SEXY. How long before we can expect you to be rollin on one? You have to go with the red/white. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=120 When I got to work today and opened my pinkbike account I have a lot more comments on Dylan's pic than normal. After looking closer I noticed that one of them had 77 comments. I thought that was too many to be a normal day then I ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=119 We met at the quarry this morning for a couple hours to work on the DH/FR trail we've been neglecting. We bench cut about another 60ft. or so- the moisture content in the ground was just right for packing the dirt back down after plucking rocks from ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=118 Well boys and girls- we've finally gotten our dirty mitts on a Corsair Konig. I've had my eye on this particular offering from Corsair for the last couple of years. It looks interesting, but not much is available in terms of real world reviews, or action ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=117 Alright so it's been quite a while since we made a new post. This should make Old Man Ryan happy:) Today was a great day for working and riding.....well okay, it kind of sucked chocolate salty bawls because it was colder than a polar bears toenails! T-Bird was first ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=116 I went out to the park today to do some riding since I had a rare day off during the week. When I pulled up I saw Mother Nature had been doing some work. Lucky for us she did not make any changes to anything that we had ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=115 We've talked about highly anticipated products before. Hardly anything has had us biting our collective nails as much as the Truvativ HammerSchmidt. That's the beauty of the bike industry -- once we think we've seen the best and brightest, and that technology has taken us to the top, along comes ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=113 This is the worst website in the whole world! http://arfreeriders.com/?p=112 We, the members of the AFS, have a lot to be thankful for in this time of the season. We have great friends and families, most of us ate a whole bunch of Turkey and stuffing, and we ride cool bikes. Life is good. But as we begin to ride ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=110 Yo check it out. A Truvativ HammerSchmidt is in our possession. Eric and I work at Competitive Cyclist. Sometimes we get to benefit from the company's resources and get our hands on some really sweet new toys! so to make a long story short, one of these highly sought after ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=109 We are boys who like their toys. I'm not sure if we'll ever grow up. To that end, we love to get our hands on new bikes and bike stuff to check out. We have an '09 Mongoose Nugget on the way. If you've visited our site before, you'll know ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=108 I almost titled this one "we dig better", but didn't want to offend anyone;). It was going to be all in fun(Ben). Long story short we made a tremendous amount of headway Sunday after the ground dried from being saturated the last few days. ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=106 I jetted a little early today to pick up kids and make time to write this post while everyone is still out there diggin' and getting this Park underway. There is still plenty of work to be done and volunteers are starting to come in larger numbers ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=105 Ben and Jen have been rockin out at the site for a couple of days now. Chris, Eric and I played in the dirt today as well. While I dug with the excavator, Eric prepped the site with a box blade and pushed away any junky leftovers from the city ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=104 We want to do more of this!!! The Arkansas Freeride Society will be having a work party weekend on November 8th & 9th from 10:00am – 4:00pm. It will be held at the construction site for the dirt jump portion of Argenta Freeride Area in Burns Park. Work will consist ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=103 Attention anyone who is currently, has before, or might want to ride with us in Little Rock, Arkansas at the Argenta Freeride Area. We are at a crossroads in our drive for a complete and well-rounded freeride area in Burns Park. IMBA (you should join) is sending a contractor our ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=102 Ok this guy's back from the wilderness...after a few months layoff, officially regarded as "healing" time from a suicide no-hander/pedal-face grind/ankle buster, T-Bag is back! We all know he was actually trying to pick up babes online and started training as a cage fighter. In the end, the AFS is ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=101 http://arfreeriders.com/?p=100 It appears that young Dylan is learning mastery of the basic wheelie. Boy am I glad to see those training wheels gone. Hopefully the old man tossed 'em in the trash can and they're long gone by now. It appears in this photo that he wheelies at least as good ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=99 http://arfreeriders.com/?p=98 Alright guys just so we can add some new content to the site- we constructed a Mulch Jump last Sunday- it flows nicely- pops you really controlled into the air. T-Bird was pulling tuck no-handers- and attempting super mans. This jump should help everyone progress at ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=97 Today we met up at the AFA to ride with a few guys who have been frequenting our website: Rory- from Little Rock, FalconAR (sorry I'm bad with names man) who came all the way from Dallas- for a wedding but to also get in some local flavor of ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=96 Five members of our AFS crew made the trip to Eureka Springs for the first DH event of the Arkansas racing season. Three of us raced, and two rode for fun. Only Eric had raced downhill before. Kit and I were newbies. Kit and I arrived in time to get ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=95 Here are the first AFS decals I was able to get cut. They are available in any color and any size and in any quantity. 2 and 3 color decals can be made for an additional charge. They are 100% UV and color fade resistant (can be clear coated). I ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=94 Alright everybody, 3 of us met up this morning to finish off the last of the building on stunt #1 (we'll call it for now). The ladder bridge portion is now complete with 2 optional lines off of the ladder decking and one jump just to the left of ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=93 Eh!! Im a freerider from Ontario but im moving to Arkansas in August, I would love to do anything to promote the freeride scene. I race 4x, dh and compete in slopestyle events. I will be in Arkadalphia going to school and ive already scoped the spots to start building ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=92 This bike just got built up and is about to be punished on the streets. Full review coming in a few weeks. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=91 Alright everyone- first off BIG thanks to JohnTaylor for getting us some lumber this week. We broke ground this morning on the ravine section of the Argenta Freeride trail. The trail is far from being complete, but after no action had been taken for months on getting the ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=90 MIKE VALLELY - "Drive: White Hall, AR" Pay Attention. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=89 Short and sweet boys! Today I went out to the trail to break ground on our first ladder drop- hopefully it will be completed within a week. E2 http://arfreeriders.com/?p=88 http://arfreeriders.com/?p=87 Joel Blatnicky is a guy that I grew up riding with during the early 90's. Joel rides 20" flatland and street and we both have a lot of memories from back in the day. The last time we saw each other was at a paintball tournament in ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=86 http://arfreeriders.com/?p=85 1st ANNUAL AFS BIRTHDAY PARTY! When: Who the hell knows Where: Like we can get everyone in one place at the same time See you there! http://arfreeriders.com/?p=84 Last night we went out on the town. Kylie had gone to Dallas for a baby shower so it was just Dustin and me. We headed down to Brouwer's, a Belgium Ale house where a Maredsous 10 and a rib eye kicked off the night. After that we ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=83 Woke up. Went and ate some damn good food. Dustin picked up a fish eye. Checked out a skate demo at Green Lake. Came back, went riding. Left the camera. It rained. People in Seattle cannot drive. I miss the girls back home. http://arfreeriders.com/?p=82 Woke up this morning to some more rain, temp was really nice though. We headed out for Transition around 10:30. The drive was a little over an hour and a half but being able to see some of Washington outside of Seattle was nice for a change. Washington ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=81 Last night I was able to get some good sleep. The apartment was a bit hot so I asked if I could turn on the air only to find out that people in Seattle don't have air conditioners. But once the screen was open on the balcony it ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=80 Hadn't had much sleep the whole week coming up to this trip. Scheduled to leave at 6:45am, I was exhausted the night before doing some last minute packing. At 12:15am I received a call from American Airlines that my flight had been canceled and rescheduled for 2:55. This ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=79 When it comes to bike set up everyone has their own preference. As for me, I guess I'm a bit more particular about certain things than some. For my full suspension rig I turn to E2, Ryan and Kit for their input. These guys have the technical stuff ... http://arfreeriders.com/?p=78