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So yeah I have been putting the blog stuff at the bottom of my list of things to do, if you don't like it then go find another blog to read. The shop has been really busy which is a good thing, I am working on a few side projects that are somewhat business related, Alison and I are getting hitched in July so that's been very time consuming, and Layla is getting big and super fun. I haven't been riding much mountain bike, mainly because of time. I have been trying to get out once a week on the Moto, also I got a gopro hero cam !!!!! http://www.vimeo.com/5070427
more vids will be posted soon

First Wed. night ride

Well I just got home, helpig put Layla to bed and then going to head out for my first night ride in awhile. It's 22 deg. and snowing!!!!! I have to bring my phone since I am on call for snow removel (job #2 of the 3 jobs I have) I will post more later IO have to go get ready

wow a blog!!

yes it's been awhile, Doom this is for you!

The shop has been busy which is good considering winter is coming. I need a ski/ Snowboard machine if any one knows of one for sale. The shop I am connected to (the Fix) through a jump jam, Dirtlabs supplied beverages.
see the video:
http://thefixbikes.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/the-fix-bikes-great-jumpkin-jam-video/


The eyeballs played!!

Anyway short blog more to come later, hopefully things will settle down in life.

old skool

well I just moved into boulder with the fm, it has been super crazy the last few weeks, starting up dirtlabs.com , wrenching, learning to machine kic ass stuff, move the family. Ali and Layla headed to MN this weekend, so I spent the day in the shop, then ended it with my first skate park sesion i over 2 years!!!!!!!!!!! I was by far the oldest and probebly the only dude with a kid, but I did get props fro the sparks I made on the grind box!!! anweay tomarro is som lift riding at sol vista, a buddy of mine has posted some good vids on his web zine littermag.com
I fly out to Santa cruz on tues, B rose should call me!! H U R L you owe me some shirts!

DIRT LAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well Spot Brand Bikes Bought Maverick!!!! All the inventory has moved over to the Spot HQ, I will not be making the move, I will be staying in the building where the lot is full of Dirt Jumps, and the building has a DH/DJ/Freeride shop and a Machine shop that is a design Studio and soon to be Suspension Pro Shop!!!!!!
I found out about the sale and the move so I really started thinking, I love where I work!!! so why not stay here. Start up my own Suspension shop. I spoke with the original Owners of Maverick and they are very supportive, this means alot since it is coming from the guy who Started Rock Shox and Maverick, and also the part owner of Maverick who is super Rad machinist. I worked out lease on a small part of the building with him, on one side of me will be "The Fix" Bike shop and on the other side will be Frank and Paul's new gig... a design studio for MTB and Moto products. So I will be doing set-up, overhauls, tuning, upgrades, and some frame linkage upgrades. With having FV and the machine shop so close it really pens up a lot of doors on things to do.

I leave tomorrow to head out to St. George UT for BIKE Magazine's bike week, I will be represent Dirt Lab!!! and have 4 days of killer riding with some amazing people. When I get back it is time to work work work and get the shop up and running.
We are working on website, one of my bros from www.mtnops.com are helping me with the website which is www.drtlab.com so lots of stuff to do...stay tuned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers

Layla's First Bike ride

in a trailer, behind a Surly running 42X16!!!

She is to small to fit in the trailer the way kids are supposed to, so I pulled a full on Macgyver and mounted her car seat into the trailer. It even had a roll bar just in case. Alison Followed on her sunflower cruiser as we headed into town.

After we ate lunch in Boulder it was time to head back, on the way back I even hit some DIRT!!.

This was both Alison and I's first time with her on a bike so it ws pretty fun except for the bigger hills we hit running that gearing.

City of Angels to Moab

well I finally built my 2 Mavericks for the year I will get pics up soon. I have an ML8 which is my Primary bike for everything!!! Then I decided to build up an '07 Durance that has mainly been my commuter/product tester. Riding in at 2 deg. really slows the rebound.
I was in Cali last week visiting a few Mags, all in all the trip was good. I hit up MBA, DECLINE and BIKE
I had a one of bastard bike we built, basically an ML8 with another inch of travel and no paint....we call it the "Naked 8" I was out there to meet the mag guys and check in with them, but I grabbed the naked 8 at the last minute. It should be around keep and eye out, were only making 10!!! The Decline guys were rad, basically 3 dudes my age trying to make a kick ass mag. From there I went to a Video Premiere thing of Earthed 5 that BIKE was throwing to benefit local trails. It was fun cool to see everyone, sounds like bike week this year is a go.
The nest day I headed to Crank Brothers cool place, we did some speedball tech shit. Then Headed to Garage Works....Delecruz has got it Down!!!! A Mechanics Dream... A full Wrench only Bus. I hung out with him and his beer fridge, and some crank wheels. The next day was a ride with Lou at Bike, the trail we rode was super busy but fun, and hour and half climb on flat pedals and a single 36 tooth ring up front burned me out......
My family was here this last weekend it was great to see them and show them Layla, she is getting big, and smart too.
This week I head to Moab on Wed. Hitting a few dealers on the way down, then we have a crew of 20+ riders for a moto weekend in Moab. I am hoping to do a Porc Rim Shuttle ride early thurs before Moto Chaos starts.

Busy

Life is getting really busy right now, a good busy
sorry not much new, still working on just trying to find time to build new bikes.
sold my truck, so riding in alot...great fat burner.
not sure what I will get next, but who cares...Bikes Bikes and more bikes

Bike Stuff

Well tis the season, to get fat and think about next bike season!!! hmmm moto or mountain?

Anyway I sold my old ML8 and am planning on building up a new ML8 over the next couple of weeks , hoping to build it up all nice like, ya know. I have never been one for the "bling factor" but when good companies help a Luby out why not. I also have a new Peacock Groove on the way to build. The frame is something out of the minds of me and Erik Noren...Black Sunshine!!!!! I am hoping to finish that before the ML8 but who knows. All this bike stuff started when a guy came to look at my old ML8, he saw it and liked it....but also was looking for a good dirtbike....I said" well this is for sale" pointing to my '96 XR250 moto, I gave him a pretty good package price and he cut me a check....6 hours later I am looking at a '01 XR400, bigger, faster, Newer....for the same price!!! yep, I have me a big boy bike now. It needs some small stuff like plastics, but man it has some snort!! Between this and my XS750 I have some work to do!!!! the street bike will maybe become a Cafe Racer........well making poarts store runs on my fixie!! don't worry I haven't lost touch with cycling. Check out the below My new XR400 and XS750 (needs alot of work)

Cheers

LUBY





The First Person to email me 2 things in the pic above that were made or destroyed during "the Luby In St. Cloud" days will win some cheesy gift

Father Luby

Being a Dad Rules!!!!!!

yeah it gets really tough at times but thats life. Layla is really growing and she now smiles because she is happy and not just farting or pooping. Today Alison had plans so it was just Layla and I. The Pics below pretty much describe our day I picked out her outfit myself. Notice the rabbit slippers they were just a little big is all......and when Alison got home we tried on her Halloween costume (not the litle devil outfit I wanted)




bike stuff to come later











She was thinking..."what the F*^!k are they thinking"

NEWS FLASH

...she will be called Layla!!!!!!!!

Update!

For some reason I haven't been able to get into blogger, ot post for a while.
So quick update, Alison's due date is today, an no kid yet!!!!!!!!! Once we have her, I will let you know.

Moto pics near Ft. Collins

This is from the Last Moto ride I did, I was suprised at how green it was up there, normally around here it is just brown. We did some high speed 2 track stuff and then found some sweet Single track, I wouldn't mind hitting on my Mountian bike some time.

Downieville

Well Downville was awsome, I think I only want to do one race a year and it would be the all mountian Downieville.

Me and Mike west showed up grabbed some bikes and caught a shuttle up to the start of the DH course and road it with a few of the other Maverick Crew. The Downhill was fucking Rad, it was much better riding it on a 6 in. travel bike, than on my single speed. It was great to be in Downieville again, first time I was there was for single speed worlds, that was a blast and a whole nother story. Anyway I set up our tent on the Main street and found out the product we needed for our tent didn't show up, so there I was, a tent with nothing but a demo bike in it. I looked over and saw the Beer sponsers setting up with out a tent, a light bulb turned on over my head, And I asked them if they wanted to share my tent. Well the Maverick booth turned into the maverick beer tent. It was fun a couple photos below, the river Jump was pretty wild, I was able to spend some time at the bar Sat. night with Blind Bobby, that guy is so fricking cool, racing while legally blind (if you want to know more, you have the net search him)

Cheers

stuff

Wow alomost a month with out posting?? Sorry but it's been crazy, work has been ,well work. And it is getting close to the baby time, I had to move my bikes out of the bike room, and into the garage. that is when it really hit, but I am getting excited. In other Baby news, I had heard some bad news that some very close friends of Alison and I lost there baby, Best wishes to them, it is very hard to hear. And also (end with a happier note) Congrats To speedbuggy and his lady on there little girl. Cheers dude!!

I head out to Downieville tomarrow for the D-ville classic, I am not riding it but working, but I booked an early flight so Hopefully I can go for a ride once I get there....Haven't been there since SSWC and I was on a 1X1 with an 80mm fork, and now I will be on a full squish with a 150mm f & R if I get a ride in.

Anyway I will try to post more once I get back, hopefully things settle down and I am not so fucking tweaky stressed

Cheers

I'm Back

Actually I have been back for about a week. I will right more later and try to get some pics up.
For now check out Kid's story on the SALSA Blog He has it split up into 3 posts. All in all it was very fun, and awsome to see Hurl and Miker from MNPLS. And the Guides were fucking awsome.

I South Dakota For A Week!!!!!

It's 6 a.m. and I am waiting For Ariel to pick me up to head out to S.D.

BIKE Mag is doing there Bike week thing were they invite random bike industry people and take thenm riding for a week. I am pretty excited it sounds like a pretty dialed trip with camping and Food from our guides Western Montain Spirits. I am not in the best riding condintion but what the hell, it will be Fun. We will be putting oon 24-30 miles day, and When I told Dale From Oscer Blues, He Sent 6 Cases of Beer with me. mmmmmmmmm DALES PALE ale
later

ride + snake

I went for a short ride today, some damn5-6 foot snake was in the trail, not a raddler, but I hate snakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a couple of thrown rocks guided it out of the way ( and for the record, I threw behind the snake, to make it move forward and not AT the snake)
bye

Long awaited update

Props to Feds for starting his own shop..hhhmm(thinking face),,,

Well Sea Otter, then home, then Moab....more stories on those later... just thought I would update you on whats up, I have been very busy lately, not much but stress, stress, stress, aside from that, Alison is getting bigger with my Clone we hopefully find out if it is a dude or dudette on may 2nd. She is so cute right now, Still riding to work a bunch, but missing out on the dirt....B.I.L. lets hit it, but could I hitch a ride....

Cheers