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X-Games 15

Every year around this time I get this unexplained urge to buy a Suby Impreza STi…  Ford had a good showing in the X-games Rallycross with the EDM Fiesta Olsbergs MSE rally cars on the eve of a USDM release of a significantly more pedestrian version alongside its Mazda 2 platform-mate.  Definitely a good marketing move on their part.  The Mitses did as painfully bad as last year.

Good to see Rune take Gold again this year in skate/park.

Didn’t catch any of the BMX stuff this year.

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Skate Resurrection?

Back when Scat got all nostalgic agout skateboarding and peer-pressured Ckucke into getting a board, I picked up a new deck since my old one had been chewed on by the termites after being left outside after coming home from the Shaka, Nara show at the Contomporary Museum.  Weeks after the deck arrived, I finally got some Mob Grip tape on the recommendation of the sales dude at T&C Pearlridge – it does in fact have a rougher tooth than Black Magic, but it is more difficult to get on without ending up with creases. Continue reading ‘Skate Resurrection?’