Getting to Know You??? Question #3...

jdog said:
Snowboarding since .. 20 years ago. I started at bromley and bought a Elite 140 from the Burton Factory when it was in Manchester. I am old. I have about 10 boards. Most are bigger than 165. Been everywhere and spent most of them money I have ever earned in my life on this sport. I rode with the CVA crew at Sugarloaf in the early 90's on hard boots. I love going really fast. Love the snowmobile bc stuff.
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now that is some cred jay. pretty much mirrors mine. i started riding in 1988 and my first board was a burton cruise 165. l learned on a kemper rampage and remember lusting after a look lamar trick stick. it had those rad grab indentations on the nose. freakin' sweet.

i also remember being one of about 10 or 20 people riding bromley and magic mt. in those days. good times back then. i was also at the original factory in dorset, VT. coincidently, i know where the old sign from there resides...and it's in this state!
 
My other passion was playing pool. I had been playing for about twenty years (10 of them competitively) before the mountain bike bug bit me a few years ago. Now I play maybe once or twice a month, I still love the game but it is frustrating not to be able to play it the way I use to. No regrets, Mountain biking is my passion now and it keeps me fit physically and mentally.
 
pearl said:
wait, a 10 second talon? how many times has it ran tens? 😛
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For the 2005 season when it was set to do so, it probably made 20+ passes in the tens. Nate only ran it one year with that set up. Prior to that, when it was running 11.50's he used to drive it to CCM every day. We even used it to do the Grassroots motorsports $2004 challenge with. Got 3rd in the drag racing portion and 5th overall.

Couple pics of the car over the years. Its gone but not forgotten

http://nathancrisman.smugmug.com/gallery/4550115_t9KV7#268117233_fEQFf
 
is it street driven (minus tires) in the tens? is it on pump in the tens? always show love to the daily driven race cars!
 
my mustang runs 10's. never seen race gas, and i don't even own a truck and or trailer.
it would be a lot faster if i wasn't such *****. and my current living situation really prevents me from having a broken car, so i just tool around in it for now.
 
Utah Joe said:
For the 2005 season when it was set to do so, it probably made 20+ passes in the tens. Nate only ran it one year with that set up. Prior to that, when it was running 11.50's he used to drive it to CCM every day. We even used it to do the Grassroots motorsports $2004 challenge with. Got 3rd in the drag racing portion and 5th overall.

Couple pics of the car over the years. Its gone but not forgotten

http://nathancrisman.smugmug.com/gallery/4550115_t9KV7#268117233_fEQFf
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2001 was when I was daily driving the dsm and going 11.5's @ 124 on 20g
2002 ran a 10.85 @ 128 with it, that was the first "shop car team" season
03 the car sat apart while we ruined the GVR4 to drive it 3 miles.
04 we did Grassroots and stock turbo stuff 11.4 @ 118 /11.9 @ 110 no nos.
05 did the 10.0' @ 150 racecar setup on bottle, 10.7 @ 130 no nos

I never ran the car on pumpgas at the dragstrip. It's a waste of time in my opinion to spend all the time/effort/$ on the car to hold the performance back by a second/10mph due to fuel. Never did with the evo either, always 116 gas. But every pass was on DOT streetable tires. Before 2005, the car was totally capable of street use.

The best part: My dsm had the same stock trans in it for every pass for 5 years that only ever broke dumb stuff (shift forks & center diff). Rebuild by a generic trans shop back in 2001, Lee Myles in hackettstown. hilarious. some guys can't keep a race built trans in the car for a couple months, I got hundreds of 11sec passes out of one stock trans.

So, AWD turbo mitsubishi cars were my passion from about 1998 till 2006. also minorly into dirtbikes and motocross.

Now, Iv sold all my toys, racecars, dirtbikes. MTB's are my only hobby aside from photography now.
 
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Pokgirl said:
This is totally a girl answer - but I love to make cards and scrapbooks. Can't get enough, so I teach classes, sell my wares, etc.

I think it is weird but cool to get all muddy and bloody out on the trail, wash up, and make something pretty. 🙂

Well, that's my 'opposite of biking' answer. I also have been known to be an avid runner and swimmer. Somehow biking seems to be taking over though!
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Pokgirl, I'm with ya on the scrapbooking and and I send out about 75 handmade cards each year for Christmas. Not many girls like us, that can enjoy both ends of the spectrum. 😎

I also love to cook and bake. And I happen to be really good at it too!
 
NiceIrishGirl said:
Pokgirl, I'm with ya on the scrapbooking and and I send out about 75 handmade cards each year for Christmas. Not many girls like us, that can enjoy both ends of the spectrum. 😎

I also love to cook and bake. And I happen to be really good at it too!
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My wife is a Creative Memories chick. It is slowly becoming less and less of a priority for her. She sells the wares to repeat customers and goes away to Scrapbook camps and pounds out a few dozen pages to keep up with the photos we have.

I got into it and made a scrapbook of a trip to Moab. She like to show that off as an example. "Look...even my husband enjoys scrapbooking". 🙄
 
During the summer, if I'm not on my bike you will find me on my Boat. I love to fish. Camping upstate NY is also very cool.
Sking, working out, working on my car or house, doing laps in the pool, Cooking.
 
I have three BIG things other than cycling.

Flying - Whether in a hang glider or an F-16, that's when you'll see me grin the biggest. Although in all honesty, I spend most of my time flying in a Cessna 152 or a Boeing KC-10. Something about being in the air... just so freeing. It requires 100% concentration. Planning ahead. Very little margin for error.
And it's incredibly addictive. 🙂

Photography - I spend way too much money on gear. Or so my friends say. I actually need to spend more; I'm looking to pick up some lighting equipment... and some new lenses...
As for WHAT, I do mainly aviation, sports (MTB, racing, paintball, track/field), and portrait photography. I do the occasional landscape, but only when I can do it right from a unique point of view with plenty of time. If I'm just visiting a place, I'd rather have fun and enjoy myself than carry around my DSLR + stuff. I can buy a postcard or small souvenir as a memento.

Paintball - Not just running around in the woods. I'm talking regional and national events, on full regulation airball fields. Markers and gear that cost thousands and take hours and real expertise to tune. Lighted arenas. Some of you may have seen something like that on ESPN occasionally, if you have, that's about it. I haven't done much playing this season due to deployments, flying, photography, and biking taking up most of my time. But I do plan to get back in the scene in the future. Quite a bit of my photography is closely tied with this.


To whomever read all that... yeah, I don't have much spare money these days. 😀
Looking to get into climbing in the future.
 
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f2- do you know Colin with the srt10? I know he's stationed at maguire and comes in the shop all the time. Cool dude.
 
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