few more photos here n gordons site... enjoy
Saturday, February 6, 2010
roll your bones
maybe the steepest hill in sf gordo and i could find. its about 6 or 7 blocks long with no stop sign at the bottom... neutral was good enough... still not home..
few more photos here n gordons site... enjoy
few more photos here n gordons site... enjoy
Friday, February 5, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
OUT WEST
RIDING BIKES WITH FRIENDS IN AND AROUND SAN FRANCISCO. PHOTOS IN A FEW DAYS OR SO. HEADED TO BOLINAS IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
fretboards uh fire!
pretty ricky was shredding tonight. from lucero to skrewdriver.
25 pounds of squirrel food.
25 pounds of squirrel food.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
january 20something
waking up tomorrow to schedule my cure for ms... finally ill be able to go back to huffing paint and eating out of gas stations, ive had enough of this healthy stuff.... that bread below doesnt look to healthy though huh... (insert internet sarcasm, turn it up)
yats is still good
and i still hate our neighbor.
our mailman thought he was dead once
yats is still good
and i still hate our neighbor.
our mailman thought he was dead once
yes
happy birthday to zach byrne, my favorite human boy. yes i went back and added this to make it look like i wrote it in the past. much love boy, hope texas was fun... or were you chicago longer? i though chi was a layover for your houston stay?
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
3.5 billion for a city that cant fix pot holes yearly...
found this deactivated link i was able to access via my computer nerdiness... prowess... and slick and individual capabilities.... just found it interesting... water is the next gold heres the link i got it from if you wanna look for yourself.
http://www.ibj.com/legacy/PARAMS/legacy_article/31686
$3.5 billion. 200 feet deep. 20 miles long. 15 years.
Indianapolis’ sewer project will be the city’s biggest public works undertaking since the interstate highway system. You won’t see it. And you won’t want to.
Sat. February 14 - 2009
Chris O’Malley - comalley@ibj.com
IBJ staff
Try to imagine a space large enough to hold as much water as thunders over Niagara Falls in five minutes. Now imagine stashing that water beneath Indianapolis in a cavity nearly as deep underground as the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument on Monument Circle is high.
That’s the goal of city engineers and consultants as they fine-tune plans to build a colossal tunnel to temporarily store water and raw sewage that now shoots into local waterways during rain storms.
The project was big when the city filed its latest plan with the federal government three years ago. Now it’s twice as long—20 miles.
At a projected cost of $3.5 billion, the sewer upgrade is easily the largest public works project in Indianapolis since the interstates were built nearly two generations ago.
The plan includes a lot more than the tunnel and related surface improvements, which will cost $1.7 billion. Also on the drawing boards are $1.8 billion in connections to extend sewage systems to homes now on septic systems, plus numerous improvements to sewers and treatment plants.
Indiana companies don’t have the massive machines needed to grind a tunnel as tall as a two-story house through limestone. But local firms will have plenty of opportunity to sink access shafts, supply concrete, haul debris, and design and build interceptor sewers to feed the tunnels.
“That’s where the local contractors are going to be in their hey” Department of Public Works.
The project has been a long time coming.
For decades, Indianapolis has been plagued by the so-called combined sewer overflow. In 2006, the city reached a consent agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice to eliminate 97 percent of the overflow by 2025.
Click here for related side bar article.
The tunnel will begin near the Indiana State Fairgrounds and, shadowing Fall Creek, proceed west around downtown. Then it will roughly follow White River south, ending at the Southport wastewater treatment plant.
The latest plans call for an additional seven miles of deep rock tunnel at the southern end, between the city’s Belmont and Southport treatment plants.
The longer tunnel opens possibilities of extensions toward Pogue’s Run and Pleasant Run creeks to better capture sewer overfl ows.
No matter how details shake out, one thing is clear, Nielsen said: “This is the most massive project for the city of Indianapolis in public works.”
Residents will put up with untold interruptions as contractors dig up yards and streets to route drainage to the tunnel, but about all the public will see of the tunnel portion of the project will be trucks carrying away seemingly endless loads of dirt and rock, enough to fill Conseco Fieldhouse three times over.
Indeed, the tunnel will be unlike anything ever built here—mass construction in the unseen realm of bedrock that begins at about 75 feet beneath the sidewalk.
Doing the work will be a tunnel boring machine, a cylinder the length of a couple of school buses and about 25 feet wide in diameter. At the business end is a round, rotating head with disc-shaped cutting teeth. Advancing the monster through the rock will be grippers pushing against the freshly cut wall.
Rock and muck leave via conveyor belt. Getting the machine to the depths will require constructing a vertical shaft at least as wide as a semi-trailer is long, and more than 200 feet deep.
The exact route and size of the tunnel is still being worked out, however.
“The project is in its very early stages,” cautioned James McKelvey, associate vice president and tunnel practice leader with Black & Veatch Corp., an Overland Park, Kan., engineering firm hired by the city.
McKelvey has worked on sewer overflow tunnels in such places as Charleston, S.C.; Las Vegas; and South Africa. One recent Black & Veatch project was a 7.1-mile tunnel for Milwaukee, completed in 2005.
Milwaukee’s tunnel also went through bedrock, but at a relatively shallow depth of about 150 feet. Indianapolis’ tunnel will be deeper—225 feet to 275—because the rock begins farther down.
Though the city could tunnel through clay that lies above the limestone, the risk of disrupting wells and of causing ground to settle was too great.
Good for tunneling
By contrast, hundreds of borings show the limestone bedrock under Indianapolis is relatively dense.
“We found what appears to be an excellent tunneling medium,” McKelvey said.
Not so in Milwaukee. There, workers ran into coral from an ancient sea that allowed water to pour in.
Tunneling into limestone deep beneath Indianapolis is not unprecedented. Martin Marietta Materials operates a limestone mine about 160 feet below the Southside Sanitary Landfill, along Kentucky Avenue.
While Indianapolis’ limestone is favorable for tunneling, getting to it poses perhaps the biggest challenge.
Along the length of the tunnel system will likely be at least 10 access shafts. The excavation could rupture groundwater tables—especially those now tapped for water wells. Also, sewage flowing down the shafts could leak through walls and into the nearby water tables.
“One of the real challenges has been our [proposed] alignment passes close to the White River well field,” said McKelvey, noting that the city draws almost half its water supply from underground wells along White River and Fall Creek.
It doesn’t appear that the deep tunnels will pose much risk to groundwater. Many of the wells are above the bedrock or are shallow in the limestone.
Early designs call for installing concrete liners in the tunnels and injecting grout between the rock face and the liners.
The tunnel boring machines can’t do the work alone. Some blasting will be needed, particularly during construction of the shafts. Initially, that was a big concern in Milwaukee, where the tunnel ran close to a medical center that performed eye surgery. The solution was to bring in an expert who designed less disruptive blast patterns.
“Truthfully, the biggest headache is what is the [best] alignment” of the tunnel, under the city, Nielsen said. •
http://www.ibj.com/legacy/PARAMS/legacy_article/31686
$3.5 billion. 200 feet deep. 20 miles long. 15 years.
Indianapolis’ sewer project will be the city’s biggest public works undertaking since the interstate highway system. You won’t see it. And you won’t want to.
Sat. February 14 - 2009
Chris O’Malley - comalley@ibj.com
IBJ staff
Try to imagine a space large enough to hold as much water as thunders over Niagara Falls in five minutes. Now imagine stashing that water beneath Indianapolis in a cavity nearly as deep underground as the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument on Monument Circle is high.
That’s the goal of city engineers and consultants as they fine-tune plans to build a colossal tunnel to temporarily store water and raw sewage that now shoots into local waterways during rain storms.
The project was big when the city filed its latest plan with the federal government three years ago. Now it’s twice as long—20 miles.
At a projected cost of $3.5 billion, the sewer upgrade is easily the largest public works project in Indianapolis since the interstates were built nearly two generations ago.
The plan includes a lot more than the tunnel and related surface improvements, which will cost $1.7 billion. Also on the drawing boards are $1.8 billion in connections to extend sewage systems to homes now on septic systems, plus numerous improvements to sewers and treatment plants.
Indiana companies don’t have the massive machines needed to grind a tunnel as tall as a two-story house through limestone. But local firms will have plenty of opportunity to sink access shafts, supply concrete, haul debris, and design and build interceptor sewers to feed the tunnels.
“That’s where the local contractors are going to be in their hey” Department of Public Works.
The project has been a long time coming.
For decades, Indianapolis has been plagued by the so-called combined sewer overflow. In 2006, the city reached a consent agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice to eliminate 97 percent of the overflow by 2025.
Click here for related side bar article.
The tunnel will begin near the Indiana State Fairgrounds and, shadowing Fall Creek, proceed west around downtown. Then it will roughly follow White River south, ending at the Southport wastewater treatment plant.
The latest plans call for an additional seven miles of deep rock tunnel at the southern end, between the city’s Belmont and Southport treatment plants.
The longer tunnel opens possibilities of extensions toward Pogue’s Run and Pleasant Run creeks to better capture sewer overfl ows.
No matter how details shake out, one thing is clear, Nielsen said: “This is the most massive project for the city of Indianapolis in public works.”
Residents will put up with untold interruptions as contractors dig up yards and streets to route drainage to the tunnel, but about all the public will see of the tunnel portion of the project will be trucks carrying away seemingly endless loads of dirt and rock, enough to fill Conseco Fieldhouse three times over.
Indeed, the tunnel will be unlike anything ever built here—mass construction in the unseen realm of bedrock that begins at about 75 feet beneath the sidewalk.
Doing the work will be a tunnel boring machine, a cylinder the length of a couple of school buses and about 25 feet wide in diameter. At the business end is a round, rotating head with disc-shaped cutting teeth. Advancing the monster through the rock will be grippers pushing against the freshly cut wall.
Rock and muck leave via conveyor belt. Getting the machine to the depths will require constructing a vertical shaft at least as wide as a semi-trailer is long, and more than 200 feet deep.
The exact route and size of the tunnel is still being worked out, however.
“The project is in its very early stages,” cautioned James McKelvey, associate vice president and tunnel practice leader with Black & Veatch Corp., an Overland Park, Kan., engineering firm hired by the city.
McKelvey has worked on sewer overflow tunnels in such places as Charleston, S.C.; Las Vegas; and South Africa. One recent Black & Veatch project was a 7.1-mile tunnel for Milwaukee, completed in 2005.
Milwaukee’s tunnel also went through bedrock, but at a relatively shallow depth of about 150 feet. Indianapolis’ tunnel will be deeper—225 feet to 275—because the rock begins farther down.
Though the city could tunnel through clay that lies above the limestone, the risk of disrupting wells and of causing ground to settle was too great.
Good for tunneling
By contrast, hundreds of borings show the limestone bedrock under Indianapolis is relatively dense.
“We found what appears to be an excellent tunneling medium,” McKelvey said.
Not so in Milwaukee. There, workers ran into coral from an ancient sea that allowed water to pour in.
Tunneling into limestone deep beneath Indianapolis is not unprecedented. Martin Marietta Materials operates a limestone mine about 160 feet below the Southside Sanitary Landfill, along Kentucky Avenue.
While Indianapolis’ limestone is favorable for tunneling, getting to it poses perhaps the biggest challenge.
Along the length of the tunnel system will likely be at least 10 access shafts. The excavation could rupture groundwater tables—especially those now tapped for water wells. Also, sewage flowing down the shafts could leak through walls and into the nearby water tables.
“One of the real challenges has been our [proposed] alignment passes close to the White River well field,” said McKelvey, noting that the city draws almost half its water supply from underground wells along White River and Fall Creek.
It doesn’t appear that the deep tunnels will pose much risk to groundwater. Many of the wells are above the bedrock or are shallow in the limestone.
Early designs call for installing concrete liners in the tunnels and injecting grout between the rock face and the liners.
The tunnel boring machines can’t do the work alone. Some blasting will be needed, particularly during construction of the shafts. Initially, that was a big concern in Milwaukee, where the tunnel ran close to a medical center that performed eye surgery. The solution was to bring in an expert who designed less disruptive blast patterns.
“Truthfully, the biggest headache is what is the [best] alignment” of the tunnel, under the city, Nielsen said. •
best shit ive seen all year!
ladies and gentlemen... tom silva!
ps, hes tired of doing 360 wheelies on his fixed gear bike.
ps, hes tired of doing 360 wheelies on his fixed gear bike.
Monday, January 25, 2010
devil eyes
"I want to thank Christians for inventing Satan. If it weren't for you guys, we wouldnt have so much awesome heavy metal"
"slap your hands!"
"slap your hands!"
leave it to europe
...the new lame... bennie hannas and varial grabs. just learn to skate better. at least its funny, right?
Winch Madness from MikeL on Vimeo.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
skateboarding saves! case study #2
my good friend, nathan, was riding back from the dice party in los angeles or wherever it was out west and got what we call speed wobble in the skateboard world. similar to tank slap in the motogp/bike world... apparently, between the big rig rutted lanes and pothole infested freeways he lost control of his newly built scoot at 65 miles an hour. nathan is from indianapolis and had lived in arizona when we were building my bike. he always spoke of wanting a chopped ride... he got an old sporty somewhere and immediately stripped it down to all he needed. the package came with a frame i believe, none the less. he built it with his uncle cousin (dont ask me) they built the bike right before nathan moved back out to the los angeles area and had it shipped shortly after he got there. nathan said he was trying to somewhat dodge a pothole and laid it down on the left side and it needs everything from the head light to a new tail light and everything in between. tank, pegs, levers, fork tubes, new rim and tire, fender struts, etc... he on the other hand escaped less harmed with some burns on his butt.. in speaking with nathan, he attributed his slam and lack of injuries to skateboarding and knowing more than the next guy how to fall properly.
the car behind him that watched it happen, stopped to see if he was all right. they said, as nathan was standing back up, "we thought you were dead or not getting back up!" nathan exclaimed "im alright, i skateboard!" glad youre up nathan... get that bike rebuilt and keep it on two wheels... oh yeah, he was on his way back form the dice party, like i said earlier... after the slam, he still managed to keep ahold of his copy of the new mag that was tucked in the back of his pants... golden..
the car behind him that watched it happen, stopped to see if he was all right. they said, as nathan was standing back up, "we thought you were dead or not getting back up!" nathan exclaimed "im alright, i skateboard!" glad youre up nathan... get that bike rebuilt and keep it on two wheels... oh yeah, he was on his way back form the dice party, like i said earlier... after the slam, he still managed to keep ahold of his copy of the new mag that was tucked in the back of his pants... golden..
Saturday, January 23, 2010
BEST GUY OUT
JUSTIN JARJIM MAKES A RETURN, OF SORTS. JUST GOT ONLINE AND ALL I SAW WAS THIS TEXT.
" ive been using carb clean as hand soap..."
ITS IN HIS BLOOD MORE THAN YOU KNOW... YEAH JUSTIN. CANT WAIT TO RIP AROUND SOUTHERN INDIANA WITH YOU NEXT... OH WAIT, YOURE GOING TO CAMP....
" ive been using carb clean as hand soap..."
ITS IN HIS BLOOD MORE THAN YOU KNOW... YEAH JUSTIN. CANT WAIT TO RIP AROUND SOUTHERN INDIANA WITH YOU NEXT... OH WAIT, YOURE GOING TO CAMP....
i got me a biltwell seat hinge!
so come out and support these guys, if you live in southern california, im sure you dont need this flyer on my page to convice you to go, but the cincinatti event.. im 100 miles away from that and id go... but ill be in SF that week.... sooooo, if youre in the midwest, make the quick trip and check it out... im sure it will be fun... in the meantime, ive got epilictics flux of pink indians doing circles on the music machine... its 46 degrees and wet, headed to the garage to spend some legitimate time out there, cleaning up from a winter of throwing tools AT the places they are supposed to go. hopefully some of you are getting to ride today... im sure ill head out at some point... enjoy!
Friday, January 22, 2010
healthy lifestyle
ummmmm... ive never been one to claim straight edge, but i dont do any of that stuff for personal reasons. never looked down on anyone who chooses to drink, smoke etc... this is the absolute worst... have a good night.
35 and cloudy
the cold is beginning to not matter any more, the desire to ride is over powering mother nature... the roads are wet, but they arent frozen. fixed an out of nowhere gas leak, started the bikes and got the fuck out of here. not far, but got some skids in... roughed up hutch neighborhood and drowned out any other noise possible, see the south park harley episode... good times and great weather.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
for everyone that...
has been sending me links to the new ms drugs that are out there, the pills that stop the progression of the disease, i appreciate it more than you can imagine. honestly its a hugely offensive kick in the throat. there is a potential cure that is on the brink of being allowable to the masses... but the government and pharmaceutical companies are scrambling like mad to keep covered up and forbidden. why? because the current meds for m.s. bring in some where around 7 billion dollars annually. and if theres a simple common procedure thats been used in patients with clogged veins, a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money. and to top it off, this procedure was tested as early as 1936 and thought up even earlier in the 1860s... so i really appreciate your concern, just keep your fingers crossed that the new-ish procedure, CCSVI makes its way in to all of our lives...
like brother and sister, the cold, the rain
drugz!
JAM! colorado, autumn 2006 hours before his life was smashed by a truck going 60 miles an hour... we love you jerimiah...hope youre well. that john cougar 7" is for you...
creep. old shot from a few years back 03 or 04? collars up to keep the sun off my neck, sleeves are long to keep from getting skin cancer...hutch photo...
JAM! colorado, autumn 2006 hours before his life was smashed by a truck going 60 miles an hour... we love you jerimiah...hope youre well. that john cougar 7" is for you...
creep. old shot from a few years back 03 or 04? collars up to keep the sun off my neck, sleeves are long to keep from getting skin cancer...hutch photo...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
pleasant surprise today
jump seat jimmy and my man jay croft aka the celebrity, showed up today. came down from chicago to get lunch with me at noodles and co in broad ripple. he showed up in his cadillac van thats got vans stickers everywhere and the employees lost it. asking for vans bindings and all that shit. he plays the role of clint eastwood well... yeah jay! good to see you and jimmy, stoked that you get to ride back from akron with the lady! always a pleasure seeing you... forward motion
pink sporty? its rose colored, baby...
roberto rouserio. smoke out west few years back. stealing his angles, def not as sly as he is though. i thik hes closer to the ground than i... good times.
chris miller! stole this from wrex cooks photos somewhere in wwwwwwwwww land. yeah chris! yeah wrex!
roberto rouserio. smoke out west few years back. stealing his angles, def not as sly as he is though. i thik hes closer to the ground than i... good times.
chris miller! stole this from wrex cooks photos somewhere in wwwwwwwwww land. yeah chris! yeah wrex!
neither here nor there.
sean, get off the phone
richmond indiana two thousand and a long time ago. hutch board.
richmond indiana two thousand and a long time ago. hutch board.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
eat, communist radio.
the jams just keep getting better... just need an amp and some louder speakers!!
hey
say what you want, just dont forget why you hopefully started skating in the first place... freedom from freedom
stole this from mythicl vultures blog...
ps im not backin it.
stole this from mythicl vultures blog...
ps im not backin it.
RISE BLOOMINGTON
RISE SKATEBOARD SHOP IN BLOOMINGTON
WILL BE RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR IN A
NEW LOCATION. 710 N. WALNUT, BLOOMINGTON
THE 6TH STREET LOCATION WILL BE CLOSING
ITS DOORS SOMETIME NEXT WEEK AND WE
WILL BE RE-OPENING IN THE NEW STORE ON
FEBRUARY 5TH. I WANT TO PERSONALLY THANK
EVERYONE THAT HAS SUPPORTED THE SHOP OVER
THE LAST 6 YEARS. WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO
DO IT WITH OUT YOU THE SKATEBOARDER.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE FEEL
FREE TO CALL THE SHOP. 812.331.7473
THANK YOU
RYAN
liberation
radio interview with this guy who has MS, like myself if you didnt know... theres a semi new procedure thats the hot shit right now thats a possible cure for it. right now, its not reversing any previous nerve damage just yet (thats where stem cell therapy will come in to play) but it is stopping the worsening of the disease which can put you in a wheel chair, make you go blind, create extrme fatigue where you cant walk/stand up, make your skin go numb... etc... enough people with MS have been pushing for this new procedure thats similar to angioplasty... where they insert balloons and or stents into collapsed veins in order to get them back to normal operation, returning blood flow to the heart, which seems to be a cause of MS they are finding out. its not even considered a new procedure, so we wont have to wait for all the red tape/bullshit and years of hoops the fda makes new procedures go thru. heres an interview to download if youre at all inclined to listen too,,, im stoked and hope that this is sooner a reality for myself than later... wish me luck...
click here if you wanna check out the interview.
click here if you wanna check out the interview.
tuff guy
im not a complete idiot, im a bit more than 100%.... makes sense to me... i bought this 2 gig memory card for my camera tonight for 10 bucks,,, only because i didnt buy 60 dollars in paint to paint my room.. upon checking out, the clerk told me to go stand in line at customer service and they would take it out of the container for me... i simply replied "no" and tried to explain to him that i had a hammer at home... little did i know, not only do they make sure that these things are too big to be stolen, they put them in bullet proof cases, "incase" someone gets a little crazy and unloads, the memory cards wont sustain any traumatizing damage... i got it out with 4 tools. a hammer, a flat head screw driver, wire snips and a razor blade. chris took photos while i entertained him with my inert stupidity. but needless to say, i won by not standing in line... but i lost looking like an idiot in my room, smashing a plastic box with a concrete hammer. but only chris witnessed my science... to top it off... the damn thing doesnt work in my camera... wrong size.. close, but off by 1/16 of an inch or so... me idiot.
a dog chasing its own tail is just going full circle.
a dog chasing its own tail is just going full circle.
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