Sabbatical

I'm off the stunt bike until May now. I got the job at McGill that I wanted, and I'm not going to let BMX injuries get in the way. My bike will still be only nine days old next Spring.
The big bike is now a hybrid road bike / MTB and BMX. Skinny rims and tires, no gyro, stripped. Five pounds lighter, too.
Josh needs to pick up his bike ASAP!

Closing time

I can't decide whether to quit for good. So, here's the deal: if anyone wants to buy my titanium fueled super bike, it's yours for $3000. If someone takes this offer seriously, I'm done. 90 titanium parts. Mostly MacNeil stuff. Profile hubs and cranks. Mostly 2006 issue. 23lbs with four pegs and two brakes. My clever website name at gmail.
I'm just glad I can still walk...

busted

I’ve been away again. In Vancouver, in fact, where I not only picked up a new frame (20” Whitton II in powder blue) that left my bike weighing 21.3 lbs, but also where I managed to crash as hard as I ever have previously. I might as well have been hit by a car. 50km/h into a concrete wall. Showing off at Selynn, I took the Darren Wong speed line and wrecked myself when I got going so fast that I accidentally gapped over a section of flatbottom and plowed into the transition on the other side. The X rays show that I haven’t broken anything, but I’m pretty sore (ribs, hip joint). Pretty purple bruises too.
Other than that, I had a good BMX time in Vancouver. Got to ride with Jason and Dave, Terry and Chris, and many others. Hit Horseshoe Bay, Selynn (BOOM), Richmond, Coquitlam, Poco, Bear Creek, and China Creek. Good enough.
I’m not terribly interested in riding right now, and am mad at myself for putting my body in jeopardy again. It might be time for Tuff Wheels.
Sucks too, as my bike is soooooo rad right now. I also got the new MacNeil Cell stem in brown with tabs (and put in ti bolts), a brown seatclamp, and a ti bolt for my MacNeil / pivotal setup. I still haven’t put it all together since I got back, as I think that might be a bad idea for a while.

Results from the last King Of Quebec for 2006 in Trois Rivieres, courtesy of David Berube (who let me jam out and go to Vancouver):

Salut Wade,
The final of the series was pretty sick. We had 35 riders. The expert class
was just too tight and hard to judge. 15 riders qualified between 7 to 9
points on 10. Robby Compartino is getting better and better, he did the
final and finish in 5th place without taking his best trick run. Max
Compartino completely dominated that comp with 46/50, followed by Simon
Trepanier at 35,25/50 and Ted @ 35/50

Here are the result :

Am :
1 Alex Montembault
2 Bruno Tremblay
3 Julien Grimar
4 Mathieu Tremblay
5 Jucy-B
6 Mathieu Guibeau
7 Keven Pilot
8 Keven Guimond
DNF : Guillaume Beaudoin, John Jamieson

Expert :
1 Max Compartino 46/50
2 Simon Trepanier 35.25/50
3 Ted Bambrick 35/50
4 Charles Deschamps 33/50
5 Robby Compartino 29/50
6 Jean-François Gagnon 27.5/50

7 Jonathan Boucher
8 Pierre Gauthier
8 Sebastien Babineau
10 Anthony Marquis
10 Françis Bergeron
10 Olivier Brunelle
10 Rich Redmond
10 Etienne Boulanger
10 David Lortie
16 Freak
16 Vincent Daniel
18 Olivier Rousseau
18 David gauthier
20 Samuel Nadeau
21 Tony Brunelle
DNF : David Mackey, Damien Astorga

KING OF QUEBEC FOR 2006: TED BAMBRICK!!!!!