Amanda

I grew up in Fargo, ND where the men are men and the women wished they weren’t…. I kid. I was cold 75% of the time, I played a crap ton of hockey, and I watched Strange Brew every other weekend. Here is Bob and Doug doing their version of the 12 days of Christmas. Beauty, eh?

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Look at Sean, just look at him. Doesn’t his face encompass the holiday cheer we secretly wish we all had (hint, hint Kyle). This time of year people get stressed out about gifts, family, weight, travel, ect. What was that book? Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff (it’s all small stuff)? I think that should apply to this time of year for everyone. My plans for Christmas was to hide out inside of Wall Fort, my secret room in my room, and not come out, but looking at this picture of Sean gives me hope not only for the holidays, but for the future of all mankind. I am going to go forth with good intentions and love for my fellow man all because of Sean’s love for the holidays. Thank you Sean, you saved my life.

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Hi, this is Amanda here and I throw bike events in my free time under the name Backyard Blam. This Feb. 4th we are teaming up with Portland’s 1st indoor MTB, The Lumberyard, to throw an indoor super cyclocross event. Just show up and ride. We will provide the bikes, beer, tunes, and hi fives.

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How stoked am I? So stoked…

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Here at the shop we have been hearing about a lot of bike theft recently. People blame it on the holiday season, but I thought it was the giving season not the taking season. We ourselves have fallen victim to theft when our shop was broken into and maybe that’s why I enjoyed the thieve getting beat up so much in this video. It’s not graphic and they only drop a couple of F bombs…. so if you are uncomfortable with suggestion of violence or if you have never been outside your house and heard someone cuss, you probably shouldn’t watch this. Everyone else who like the idea of street justice, give it a looksee.

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I am really excited….. this morning the boys and I went to go tour The Lumberyard‘s, Portland’s first indoor MTB park, new space. I got together with them a few months ago to plan an indoor supercross event that we would throw there before they opened the doors to the public. There was lull for a few months because they were still deciding on a space. It’s official, they have a space and today we got to check it out. 50,000sq ft of awesome.

The future.

The present.

When we get in there The Lumberyard will be partially built out so we will be using some of the features for the event and some features will be built specifically for Cross Up.

I am not really an early bird, but I think I kind of pulled it together besides the bed head.

Potential.

KV on his way to win his beard bet with Verg.

This is the basement. It will be a big empty space and we are going to try to get a sweet band for the after party. People are going to be fired up after the event and you know they are going to want to let loose with some jams.

Idea stuff.

We then met up outside to hash out the details.

This is Joe Prisel. He is on of the designers of Ray’s MTB Park and is now on board with The Lumberyard as their park designer. Being as rad as he is, he is going to help us design our track for the event. With him on our side, we can’t lose.

He shreds…..

We are shooting for late January to throw this face melting event. It’s going to be the biggest, baddest BLAM yet. Get ready, we have begun.

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This sucks….. holy crap does this suck and to top it off I don’t know where my rain pants are. It rains so hard then lets up for a couple minutes and then starts raining even harder than before. I bet you are thinking to yourself, “self, this is the perfect day to ride my bike to the bike shop and get all that stuff I have been putting off.” Well, you should because we are lonely with out you. It’s not all that bad. We use days like this to get the shop looking sweet and “buttoned up”. That’s why the New York Times calls us “The coolest bike shop in Portland”.

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This is great… listen to it.

After listening to this I did some further investigation and found this .

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The holiday is creeping up and we here at 21st sell stuff that, believe it or not, can be purchased and given as gifts.

What’s that? You think the shop looks great? Hey, thanks. That really means a lot to us. We work really hard to keep it looking super sweet in here.

KV set up this new shirt display and I gotta say, he did a great job….. and I am not just saying that because he is my boss and can fire me. Not only did Kyle do a great job figuring out a rad way to display our new shipment of Poler tshirts, he is also very handsome and strong.
Wow. KV, what is your secret to fitness? Do tell.

Yes, that’s right we stock Poler Stuff. Did you notice that it’s all the cool kids in Poler?

Speaking of cool kids, did you know that my boss, Kyle, who has the power to fire me if he feels like it, races cross on the Poler team? Well, he does and he is super good at it.

Not only are we the only place in town where you can pick up Poler, we are the only place in town where you can get Trusty Switchblade goods.

Oh, me… I am silly. Who am I gonna stab with that? No one, that’s who. It’s huge. Come on.

Kyle saw a preview of this post and he said it’s just going to creep people out. Listen people, Kyle can fire me ANYTIME he wants and he is a fiery tyrant. It’s my ass on the line here. Come in and tell him not only are my blog posts your favorite, but you are stoked on our new Poler Stuff. Please… he hits me.

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