CLOCKTOWER/SUCKER FREE JAM REPORT
OK THE JAM WENT DOWN AND WE DID NOT HAVE AS
MANY RIDERS AS WE EXPECTED SHOW UP..HERE
ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS.....
-15 FLATLANDERS SHOWED UP, 10 STREET RIDERS
FOR A TOTAL OF 25 BMXERS AT THE JAM. WE ALSO
HAD THE QUICKSILVER CREW SHOW UP WHICH ARE
TEN SPEEDERS WHO DO TRICKS ON THEIR TEN SPEED
BIKES..STUFF YOU SEE ON THE MOVIE "QUICKSILVER"
WITH KEVIN BACON.
-WE HAVE ABOUT 30 FLATLANDERS IN NOR-CAL AND ABOUT
HALF SHOWED UP AND RODE AND ALOT WERE OUT OF TOWN
OR COULD NOT MAKE IT FOR THE JAM. THIS IS THE IST ANNUAL
SUCKER FREE JAM SO HOPEFULLY MORE WILL SHOW UP NEXT
YEAR.
-IT WAS HOT OUT THERE AND ALOT ARRIVED IN LONG PANTS BUT
QUICKLY CHANGED TO SHORTS AND HIGH IN DOWNTOWN S.F.
WAS REPORTLY 82 DEGREES SO YEAH IT WAS VERY WARM.
PETE B. HAD SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE HEAT AND WAS
THROWING UP WITH SOME BLOOD TOO WHICH REALLY WORRIED
MUTT AND WAS HE CONSTANTLY TELLING PETE TO DRINK ALOT OF
WATER AND NOT TO DIEÂ AS PETE WAS OBVIOUSLY DEHYDRATED
AND MIGHT OF HAD HEAT STROKE AS HE WAS WEARING HIS
PATTENED BLACK SWEAT PANTS.. THE CRAZY PERSON HE IS.
THE HEAT MADE IT DIFFICULT TO RIDE TIL THE SUN STARTED TO
GO DOWN AROUND 5PM AND ALOT WERE SEEN IN THE SHADE
RELAXING AND TAKING A BREAK FROM THE INDIAN SUMMER
OF THE TROPICS HERE IN CALI. EVEN AT 7PM IT WAS STILL
68 DEGREES AND ALOT WERE STILL WEARING SHORTS AND
RIDING AT THE CLOCKTOWER AND THE JAM OFFICIALLY ENDED
AROUND 8:00PM...1PM-8:00PM ISNT BAD RIDING DAY.
-STEVE NEVIAS SHOWED UP WHICH SHOCKED MUTT AND SOME
OTHERS AS IF YOU DONT KNOW NEVIAS THEN YOU SHOULD KNOW
THE NAME FLATLAND FUGUTIVES AND HE WAS ONEOF THEM
ALONG WITH THE 14 OTHERS AND GABE WEED, ANDREW ARROYO,
STEVE NEVIAS AND MUTT MADE UP THE NORTHERN CHAPTER OF THE
FLATLAND FUGUTIVES. HE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN FOR A LONG TIME
SO HIS APPREARANCE WAS QUITE A SHOCK.
- ALSO SOME OTHER OLD TIMERS SHOWED UP AT THE JAM AND
THEY ARE SLOWLY GETTING BACK INTO RIDING WHICH IS GOOD
TO SEE AND I KNOW ONE OF THEIR NAMES IS MARC AND THE
OTHER I HAVE FORGOTTEN BUT THINK IT IS BRIAN BUT MIGHT
BE MITAKEN BUT THEY ARE FROM SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO OR
WHAT WE CALL SOUTH CITY!!
-YOU EVER SEE ALEX..THE RUSSIAN GIRLFRIEND..OH BOY
SHE IS JUST ..WELL UNBELIEVABLE AND LIKE I THINK ALL
THE GUYS JAWS WERE ON THE GROUND AND I KNOW MUTT
AND SOME OTHER WAS DROOLING AND MUTT IS A DAWG
BUT HE DROOLED ALOT MORE THAN NORMAL..TALKING
ABOUT POOLS OF DROOL. SHE FOR SURE LIGHTEN UP THE
JAM ALOT AND SHE WAS SEEN PEDALING AROUND ON ALEX'S
BIKE WHICH PERKED ALOT OF GUYS ATTENTION...LUCKY ALEX!!
-SOME FILM CREW SHOWED UP TO FILM A KLEENEX COMMERIAL
AND I KID YOU NOT THEY HAD $1,500,000 BIG ASS CAMERAS
AND EQUIPMENT AND HAD A COUCH FOR THE ACTORS OR GUESTS
TO SIT IN, WARB DROB, MAKEUP PEOPLE AND WE THOUGHT
WE WERE ON A MOVIE SET..EVEN SET SECURITY AND POLICE
ETC. WE WERE NOT KICKED OUT BUT WE JUST RODE AND
ACTUALLY MUTT AND A FEW OTHERS GOT BIT PARTS IN
THE COMMERCIAL SO LOOK FOR BOTTLE AND MUTT IN ANY
UPCOMING NATIONAL KLEENEX COMMERCIALS. IT WAS SORTA
OF FUNNY BUT AGAIN IT SORTA PISSED US OFF AS AT THE END OF
THE JAM WE WERE SORTA HAD TO STAND BACK A BIT AS WHILE
THEY FILMED THIS COMMERCIAL.
-IT GOT WEIRDER..MUCH AS PETE B. AND MUTT WAS INTERVIEWED
BY CHANNEL 5 NEWS FOR SOME PIECE ON LOCAL ALTERNATIVE
SPORTS PEOPLE AND SOME OF THE OTHER FLATLANDERS TOO
WERE INTERVIEWED ALSO AND THIS GUY AND CAMERA WENT
AROUND AND INTERVIEWED SOME OF THE FLATLANDERS,
SKATERS AND QUICKSILVER CREW.
-OK WELL IT GOT EVEN WEIRDER YET...WE FOUND OUT WE ARE
ACTUALLY RIDING ON STATE PARK SERVICES LAND AND NOT
CITY OF SANÂ FRANCISCO LAND WHICH MAKES IT EVEN WEIRDER
THAN NORMAL AND A PARK RANGER WAS THERE FOR THE
COMMERCIAL SHOOT FOR LEGAL REASONS AND CAME OVER
AND WAS JUST OVER COMPLIMENTING US ON OUR RIDING BUT
NOT KICKING US OFF STATE PARK PROPERTY...WEIRD.
I AM SURE GLAD RANGER RICK IS ON OUR SIDE
REMEMBER CITIZENS..ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST
FIRES! LOL
-EMANUAL AND MUTT MET A NEW FRIEND..A HOMELESS VIET
NAM VET WHO THEY MET AT THE LOCAL LE TOILETTE WHICH
IS A BOX BATHROON THAT IS STATIONED ALL THRU S.F AND
IS FREE. YOU MEET THE WEIRDEST PEOPLE AND SEE THE
WEIRDEST THINGS AROUND A PUBLIC FREE TIOLETTE BOX
IN S.F...PERIOD!!
-PETE B. HAS YET ANOTHER NEW FRAME..THE KGB HE HAS NOW
IS PURPLE COLOR AND LOOKS VERY SASSY AND COLORFUL.
HAVING A GOOD SPONSOR MEANS GETTING NEW FRAMES
QUITE OFTEN AND ONLY IF WE ALL HAD GOOD UNDERWEAR
SPONSORS AND WE CAN CHANGE THEM OFTEN....OOPS TO
MUCH INFORMATION THERE.
WEIRDEST MOMENT..MUTT SHOWING CHANNEL 5 GUY ALL
HIS SCARS FROM FLATLAND OR EVEN BOTTLE ALMOST HITTING
THE INTERVIEWER FOR THE KLEENEX COMMERCIAL AND HE
JUST MISSES HIM BY INCHES AND YOU CAN SEE THE GRINGE
EXPRESSSION ON HIS FACE.
SEE YA NEXT YEAR!!