Yikes.

Dougy-fresh narrowly avoided being squashed on his bike this morning whilst simply trying to ride to work. When all was said and done, he was ok, only a few scrapes, and got the guy to pay for his bike's damages, and drive him home. Not too shabby. Glad you're ok buddy! There's lots of riding to be had this season, no fun getting whacked by cars.

Over dinner tonight, the conversation got kinda funny:

Doug: The guy couldn't drive for shit anyway.
Me: Oh yeah?
Doug: Yeah, I was pressed up against the door while he was driving me home. Really scary.


Funny ha-ha, not funny weird. In case you were keeping score. But this is not so much funny:





Dinner conversation turned to a few different subjects, like old snowboard equipment (Burton CFX bindings), recent rides, and the upcoming Ghostship kits. Oh shit! What? That's right. Ghostship kits are almost finished. We're tightening up the design pages, crossing the T's and erasing errant pencil marks. Right now we're shopping custom companies in an effort to find the best balance between affordability and quality. When designs are finalized we'll post them up here with a listing of options available, tentative pricing and more details. Keep checking back!

Teaser!

New project in the works. Here's a little teaser to get you scratching your head...



More details to come. Stay tuned....

Doug's New Nose

We mentioned how Dougy-Fresh recently underwent the knife to help correct his breathing. He expounds on that mentioning over on his new blog post. Check it out here.

And the new High On Fire comes out near the end of this month (2/23). Sounds pretty rad!

Music Video

Our man Illus just dropped his new music video "Feel Good Music", the title of which is the same as the album (which you should go out and cop now). Peep the shirt @ 2:32. Nice work Illus! Can't wait to see some more! Let's get busy.

New Year Catch Up

Well, happy belated New Year. So far this winter hasn't been a total wash out. There have been some great days to ride, and not-so great and a bunch in between. We hope you've all had the chance to get some rides in. Or make some art. Or record some music. All fun stuff.

Our man Dougy-Fresh got some SERIOUS pre-season prep taken care of. And by serious we mean surgery. He mentions is in a brief section of his blog here: "for I was still fresh off surgery on my sinuses (about 2 weeks out... yeah, started 2010 with a doctor's visit, but it was planned). Temperatures finally rose above freezing (got to maybe 40*F that day) so I figured my sinuses wouldn't be that sensitive. I was wrong. The air hurt as I would breathe." During one of our phone convo's he mentioned what a big difference there was in just being able to breathe regularly (once he got the horrible packing taken out of his face). *note, this is not Doug. Just some poor dude getting his nostril abused.

So we're stoked that Doug is recovered, the surgery went well, and that he's positively going to terrorize everyone at his races this year. It's basically like super-charging and already finely tuned engine. Nutty.

Mike Stock wrote us a note about what he's been up to lately: "class forevvvvverrr". Well said Mike, well said.

Other than that, we're got our proverbial irons in a couple of fires at the moment. We're in process of putting the wraps on about 3-4 new designs, which will hopefully be available for pre-order in the near future. Keep riding, and here's to warmer weather sooner than later.