The kill list

It's crazy how close pearl jam is to the top of the kill list. They're not at the very top, but they definitely have a clear view of the top from where they are. 

Bar height + recent mtb trends + pro ho = compensating for something, probably skill

From Bob:

"fyi Matt Thompson runs TWO stem spacers. What's your problem?"

And he's right. Matty T has a bike check up on Vital right now, and the big guy has twice as many stem spacers as me. And he's running an XL frame, which in my estimation is Xtra rad. 

So I'm definitely falling behind in the cool guy "who can put their bars higher" game. On the plus side, I'm friends with Matt Thompson now on Facebook, so hopefully he can teach me his ways. I've got that going for me. 

In all seriousness though, my stem spacers are the most awesome stem spacers in the world, because mine were handmade in The Commander's garage. That's +5hp for sure. 

Plus I have spacers under my crown, so my bar height's way taller anyway. So really Bob's way off base is what I'm trying to say.

These are the things I think about on long plane flights and drives. I probably need a job or a girlfriend. Probably in that order. 

Can we just mercy kill Ellsworth already?

Ellsworth bikes look even worse than they ride, well maybe that's a little harsh they look like a broken mspaint abortion of a kids crayon drawing of a mountain bike, and they ride like an Ellsworth mountain bike from the 90's.

its like AIDS and Cancer got together via "pinkbike chat" and were all like "hey bro lets totally make a bike company" and they did, but that was 67 years ago, and they have been making the SAME god awful bike over and over again year after year.

we at TEAM-ROBOT in an unprecedented act of mercy take pity on Elsworth bikes. Allowing them to kill themselves before the robot apocalypse and save us all a lot of trouble.

The "Don" is still better than you.

outside of proving the fact that Downhillers who don't make it can just retire to "enduro", Neil kills it with this video.

Black Jeans check

the Stooges check

flat pedals check

stupid wheels check

all the elements are there for a fun little video.

Neil Donoghue - Bronson Play on Pinkbike

oh yeah and Neil is a badass on any bike.(most notebly a shitty Azonic recoil from about 2002)

all he needs now is a redbull helmet and no personality, a full season of getting his ass kicked by nameless french guys and he can be the UK's Curtis Keene.

METAL MONDAY ANYDAY!

Thoughts on recent trends:

Enduro: the freestyle skiing of mountain bikes.

Name drop

Dude, I have Carson Storch's phone number now. He's, like, famous and stuff.

Realistically though, now that Carson's on the DF5 team, my days are numbered. Mid-pack results + cutesy ironic blog + writing something thought-provoking once every six months does not compete with 720's and double tailwhips.

Warning from Team-Robot

For the guys who think Danica Patrick is hot

Once she got pole at Daytona and we realized that maybe, just maybe she really could drive, it was the final piece in the puzzle.

Finkle is Einhorn.

Einhorn is Finkle...