Half Moon Bay, CA

[darkside]

Scroll down for links to semi-professional pics...

Pictures from today's ride at HMB. I'll add more later, but it was my first day playing around with this camera and the pics need a little shadow/highlight work.

Kevin (me):
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0051_edit2.jpg

Paul (marshalllaw18):
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0018_edit.jpg

Jay (J):
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0020_edit.jpg

[darkside]

I got lazy, so some of these are still too dark...

http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0035_edit.jpg
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0045_edit.jpg
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0052_edit.jpg
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0037_edit.jpg

http://www.observedtrials.net/vb/../otn3/IMG_0041_edit.jpghttp://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0040_edit.jpg



http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0055_edit.jpg
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0059_edit.jpg
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0028_edit.jpg
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0030_edit.jpg
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0038_edit.jpg
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0031_edit.jpg

Damn this photo for being blurry!
http://www.observedtrials.net/otn3/IMG_0032_edit.jpg

[J]

Awesome pics, I had a great time.

[beastoftheeast]

knee pads and pad on the stem, nice. i did the same but i only had 1 knee pad haha.

[mekanic305]

Looks like an awesome place and perfect weather.

[marshalllaw18]

Here is a link to some pictures the professional phhotographers took. Not many bike shots though =(.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=photowalking8&s=rec

[darkside]

Thanks for the link, Paul. I'm biased, of course, but I think our pictures turned out better...:wiggle:

If ever a group of trials riders could be out-geeked, it's by a group of web-based, semi-pro photographers swarming over said trials riders.

[uownme]

damn haven't seen an xhydra in a very long time.

[darkside]

Wow! I didn't give this one photographer enough credit when he was showing us the tumbnails on his camera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/everettt/sets/72157600029087611/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/everettt/sets/72157600029087611/)

Some really cool shots there.

Other photographers:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fogview/sets/72157600029444891/?page=2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewbilizer/tags/biker/
http://beta.zooomr.com/smartsets/thomashawk/12074

[MIKE1968]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/everettt/435421876/in/set-72157600029087611/




http://www.luminomagazine.com/2004.10/spotlight/nerds/images/ogre/ogre2.jpg


NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDS





:rofl: luckily that's what I'm up against 70% of the time.



HMB ride in may?

[KeepRollin]

Those rocks look awesomeo

[darkside]

HMB ride in may?

Anytime!

Those rocks look awesomeo

They're really fun. Not a lot of big ups to work on, but tons of gaps and technical lines. Some gnarly holes too; gotta have quick feet if you loose your balance.

[Mordax]

ill be in Redding this summer. i'll have to come down and ride with you guys sometime

[leemie]

That mod looks awful.
But hell, what a beautiful place to ride :)

[marshalllaw18]

That mod looks awful.

LOL.

While I agree with you that it isn't the finest piece of machinery in the world, I love it. I bought it about 8 months ago from a friend of a friend for cheap. It was my first real trials bike and was 100 times better than either my full suspension bike or huge XC hardtail that I'd been riding before. We've been through a lot including a cracked chainstay, a crack in the sidewall of the rear rim, a rear hub which is 90% destroyed (but still rideable) with the bearing cups flaking off metal as we speak, a large dent in the front rim from being run over with a car, and finally the freewheel recently losing 1/2 of the engagement points.

I know it isn't a shiny new Koxx of Monty 221 Ti (like the one I rode at Keyesville, WOW) but it's what I learned trials on, so I love it.

Oh, and I was seriously laughing really hard for a few minutes (almost wokr my roommate) when I first saw your post because I know exactly what you mean =P.