3 days ago I celebrated my 26th birthday! Looking back I think about how time seems to just come and go! Mentally I still feel as though I'm that 13yr old kid who only thought about how he was going to be able scrounge up $60 plus dollars (or however much I needed) to pay for a new set of forks. You see, back then I lived for learning how to ride 3ft high jumps! I'd finish a day of repeatedly casing over the second jump so badly that I couldn't make it onto the 3rd set but just yet so much fun. This would leave me contemplating whether or not I would be able to simply bend the forks back before they broke off or if I needed to bite the bullet and acquire new ones.
At 13, taking my bike and making a career of riding jumps was only a fantasy. I never really thought it would get me to where I am today. However, as I could never get enough of riding and was willing to