Saturday, September 12, 2009

Friday, September 11, 2009

Paul Basagotia: Dialed

I wish I had 30 acres of flat, dusty, rural farmland.

Paul Bassagoitia's compound from Jorge Alvarez on Vimeo.



If you can watch that whole video, than you, like me, have become a friend of suffering and acquainted with sorrow. That may have been the longest five minutes of my life.



I found Mr. Basagotia's slow, strained, and nearly unintelligible interview skills eerily similar to Nigel from Spinal Tap. See what you think:





By the way, Spinal Tap is amazing:

Thursday, September 10, 2009

The Manitou Dorado! What we've all been waiting for:

Finally, after years of having to settle for normal looking, expensive, high performing 26" downhill forks, Manitou has come along and answered every mountain bikers prayers.

Now instead of having to choose between running one of the boring expensive, high performing 26" downhill forks, now you can run an ugly, even more expensive, poorly designed, underporforming 29 inch downhill fork.














2005 stickers
























2010 stickers



That's right, Manitou didn't just rethink performance when they restickered their 6 year old platform, they also made it available for 29" forks! What more could you ask for. 29" wheels represent the obvious next dirction for downhillers, and Manitou and riding the crest of that wave of innovation:
















Bummer, and here I am stuck running a Fox fork.





















-Chaz

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Leisure time with Mr. Rollins



















Original artwork courtesy of my new favorite non-TEAM ROBOT site, brandonbird.com




My new, official top favorite list looks like this:

1. TEAMROBOTKILLSYOURFACE.com
2. TEAMROBOTKILLSYOURFACE.com
3. TEAMROBOTKILLSYOURFACE.com
4. brandonbird.com
5. wolfparadise.com

Monday, September 7, 2009

Steve Peat: World Champion

















If you didn't watch this live, you're officially out of the scene. Literally a nail biter for me. As Steve pedaled up the last hill, my connection died. And my connection also died when Gee was last man on track coming into the finish. Tense moments.

But Peaty prevailed. All hail the king.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Stickers are really actually for sale

We just sold stickers. Somebody from Idaho, who also has a retarded blog, reads our retarded blog. Our Google Anyalytics say that 300 people visit our site. Other than the members of TEAMROBOT, I can now only name maybe 4.

People read this?

















This has nothing to do with stickers, but it is a bummer. yes, it's a 29 inch downhill bike.


Now onto the goods...

















$1.50 Small (7 1/2" x 1") TEAM RO8OT



















$1.50 Small (7" x 1") D35TROYOU



Not pictured:

$2.50 Medium (4" x 8")
ROBOTS KILL
HUMANS DIE




















$ 4.00 Big (13" x4") TEAM ROBOT



All the stickers come in three badass colors:

Barney Purple
Hunter Orange


All three colors are bright and irritating, the way stickers should be. They're not quite day-glow.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Advice for Pro riders everywhere






















stinkykid100 on pinkbike said that "it looked like hill and faircough were running a boxxer wich is 200mm fork i think that the syndicate team instead of running v10 should tone it down a liittle and go 4 the driver8 or the bullit and run boxxers on the driver 8s and totems on the bullits just what id do"

And here's the link: (link)


That's right Greg, better listen up. Maybe the bullit...