I scored the Parting Shot in the new December issue of BMX Plus! magazine. Stoked to have such a serious photo with two of my best friends, Ian Munro and Cody Bowers.
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Keepin’ It Real, 30 Years Later
Saturday was a significant day for me and my BMX carreer, I turned 30 and I’m pretty stoked on it. 17 years of riding BMX for me, and still keepin’ it real and progressing. Not many people can say that. I went out to celebrate with Ian Munro and Cody Bowers and filmed a few clips for our video we’ve been working on. Gap to fakie wallride.
1st Annual Race for the Glory Cup of Spectacular Victory of Triumph Downhill Pit Race
Down from the driveway here at Giant is a hill with a sketchy, rocky, spiraling trail going down it. It looks like it was put there for no reason other than to have a 16″ pit bike race, at least in our eyes. So we’re going to have an invitational race. The other day myself and Hot Dog and Jeremy from our warranty department took a few practice runs.  Believe me, the race is going to be amazing. Someone will probably get hurt. We just gotta build the finish line jump and the race is underway. Stay tuned for more photos and an edit once the race goes down…Â
Chris Arriaga interview…
I’ve got a quick interview up on the ESPN site that should hopefully entertain you. Click the picture below to check it out!
Back to the Basics…
Go on over to the BMX Plus! site and I’ll teach you how to manual. Be sure to wear your helmet when learning advanced tricks such as this… Keep an eye out for an upcoming issue of Plus! where I teach you how to do my other trick… Ha.
Arriaga Wallpaper
I’ve been included in Ride’s newest batch of downloadable wall papers. Cruise on over to the Ride site and download me so you can see my beautiful face everyday.
Bummed…
So the other night my girlfriend and I decided to watch Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Anyone who rides has gotta understand where Pee Wee is coming from when he goes crazy when his bike gets stolen. Watching that movie always remindes you of how bad it sucks. So I’m sure out of pure coincidence this morning I wake up at 5am to my neighbor knocking on my door telling me that my car door’s open. I go outside to find all the doors and the trunk of my car open with my bike gone. I had just built up a 2010 prototype Method Team frame with every single part on it a brand new sample of our new parts line. Totally bummed. Whoever has my bike has no idea what they are riding. I feel for you Pee Wee…Â
Another spot gone…
I’m pumped on a photo in the newest issue of RideBMX riding the now extinct Wagon Wheel Ditch. This ditch is about 5 miles from my house and we used to ride it all the time. Over the years the ditch slowly got some quickcrete work and a couple things were added here and there. About 2 weeks after this photo was shot we went back to film and all the quickcrete work was gone and they splattered grated concrete all over the bottom making it pretty hard to ride. A lot of serious stuff has gone down at this ditch, it’s a bummer that it’s gone.
