Motocross Crash Compilation

Yesterday I felt a little down in the dumps. Even with the Snake Eyes pictures. So I got this little idea in my head after watching a bunch of videos on YouTube. I wanted to create a Motocross Crash Compilation video. The difference in my video would not be better editing or quality, but the music. Every compilation video has a bunch of crappy heavy metal music (not that metal is crappy just these peoples selection). So I created a video with some mellow music. Starting a new trend! Check out the video.

G.I. Joe The Movie

AHHHHHHH!!! I'm so excited! I can't stop creaming my shorts. Oh my god I wish it would stop gushing out, but it feels so gooood. I feel like a girl waiting to get into a Hannah Montana show.

The Return

March 22, 2008 marked a very special day in "world*" history. Sir Robbie Rob (me) finally returned to the world of riding motocross. It’s almost been a year since the last time I rode, a year that I’d rather not go through again. After tearing the ACL and re-injuring it, I thought about not riding for a long while. After a week those thoughts turned back to “I can’t wait to get back on a bike”. Throughout the year I went back and forth about riding again, trying to weigh how much it was really worth to me. From the posting about the new bike you can see what my final choice was. Even after we bought the bike I still doubted I wanted to ride again. But not riding had left a huge void in me that I needed to fill. I had to at least get back on and see if it felt the same. So Alev and I went out to Cross Creek MX Park this past Saturday. After un-loading the bikes and gear, I took my time getting ready. I wanted to make sure I didn’t rush into anything. Plus I had to get comfortable with my DonJoy knee brace. So I finally get suited up and jump on the bike. I’m not use to this new bike and the feeling of the clutch so I stalled the first couple times. This was just adding to the doubt. After figuring out the clutch, I rode around Cross Creek flat land getting re-acquainted. Nothing felt right to me. After riding around for 20 minutes, I went back to the truck with more doubt than ever. Going through my head were thoughts that I wasn’t going to be able to ride and enjoy it like I did. I just need to let go and move on. I told Alev that I wasn’t feeling it and she gave me a little pep talk. After the break I got back on the bike and decided to putt around on the Day Track. This time around I felt those old feelings coming back. I still had quite a bit of paranoia but overall things were going good. I wasn’t jumping anything but I was working on my corner speeds. I must say I think my corners are a ton better than before. I still need to continue working on my legs so I probably won’t be jumping anything anytime soon. But I have hope for the day that I can piece everything back together.


*By world history I mean the world I've created in my own head.

Moved the blog

I have moved the SirRobbieRob.com blog off of my own server to blogger.com. I was getting tired of wordpress and trying to keeps things up to date. So what better thing to do then move over to blogger.com where they do everything. All I have to worry about it posting. Boo Yah. Going to http://www.sirrobbierob.com still works, so keep using it.

Motocross Feeds

The links below are direct links to *MX related RSS/Atom site feeds. You can use the following links to subscribe to your favorite sites. All you have to is use a RSS reader (like google reader) to subscribe.

Watch a video explanation of RSS feeds

Blogs

• All Things Motocross
• Blogandt
• The Burm
• NJ Motocross
• SX Weekend Window

Magazines

• Dirt Rider Features
• The Burm
• Motocross.com

Companies

• Alpinestars
• AMA Direct Link
• Etnies Motocross
• Girlyz Clothing
• Metal Mulisha

Photos

• Flickr (pictures tagged with motocross)
• Glenn Kasin

Forums

• All Things Moto!
• MotoTalk
• MXCraxy
• Off-Road Junkies

Videos

• Daily Motion

Tracks

• Budds Creek

Site Owners: I have searched the web for MX related sites and there are a ton out there. Unfortunately, many of those sites don't have RSS feeds or require a login to access the feed. So those sites will not be added to this list.

Want your feed listed here? Let us know about it here!

The New Hotness v.2008

In 2006, I made a post about the arrival of the new to me 2004 Honda CRF250R. It made a huge difference in my riding. I was progressing quicker than being on the 2004 Kawasaki KX250. Cut to April 12, 2007, I tore my ACL riding at the Austin-Del Valle track. A few months after surgery I was back on the bike and 5 minutes into riding I had a set back in my injury. Out of frustration and not wanting to ride the cursed bike again, I sold it. Now almost a year after getting hurt I’m ready to start riding again. After posting a few wanted ads around the net I found a beautiful 2005 Honda CRF250R. Alev and I went to go pick it up from the owner today. It’s definitely the nicest bike I have owned to date. The most powerful too. Here are some of the pluses with the bike:

- New complete 2006 CRF250R topend installed less than 8 hours ago by a professional mechanic. (Used the 2006 head because it has replaceable valve seats unlike the stock 2005 cylinder head.)

- Forks were serviced at the same time as the engine with Genuine Honda parts used.

- TAG privateer triple clamp kit

- ASV F1 Levers

- FMF Factory 4 full exhaust

- Devol Racing skid plate

- Moose wide foot pegs

- New Accerbis plastics all around

- New Troy Lee Designs graphics

- New Uni air filter

- Braking rear wave rotor

- Polished frame

After picking up the bike we came home and took some pictures. Then I took it over to Georgetown Honda to put on a new tire, tube, fix the jetting on the bike, and just look it over. We should get it back next Saturday in time to head out to Cross Creek for some riding. Check out some pictures.

Check out more pictures of the new bike in the gallery.

Mindblowing! Moving on!

Mindblowing

Mindblowing! That’s my new thing. We watched a documentary at SXSW called ‘Shot in Bombay‘. The jist about it, is it follows the making of a Bollywood movie with a bunch of other crap going on. Doesn’t make sense? Perfect, it’s like you have already seen it. The best thing about the movie was the director of the film, not the documentary. Every time he yelled cut he would follow it up with “Mindblowing!” or “Mindblasting”. I can’t wait to direct again because I have adopted this as my new “thing”. Cut. Mindblowing.

Moving on. I took some footage from the Socially short and put together a quick edit. I posted it on YouTube for everyones viewing pleasure. Take in mind that no color correction has been done. So things a little dark and what not.

Have a great day! I should be picking up my new (to me) dirt bike tomorrow. I will post some pictures when I get them.

Mindblowing.

Writing

Writing. blah. It is something I’m not very good at doing. For the past couple of years (probably since I started this blog) I have been wanting to work on building up the skills. Much like everything else it, I never have gotten around to actually doing it. I’m hoping that is in the process of changing. Since Andrea and I started this Script to Screen class I feel like my brain has been given a jolt. I wrote my first script for the short film called, SNAFU, and I have more ideas I want to get down on paper. To help me keep moving things along I bought The Write-Brain Workshop. It’s a creative writing workshop in a book that is supposed to help “liberate your writing”. Andrea is already going through this workbook and posting her entries, not something I think I will be doing. But I hope it will translate to other writings that will be posted here. blah.

Socially

So for the time being I have given up on producing the SNAFU script. In turn I am directing Socially, the script Andrea wrote for Kat Candler’s From Script to Screen workshop. I thought not producing my own script would take some of the stress away. Boy, was I wrong! This past weekend marked the beginning of shooting and it went good, I think. Directing felt like a natural thing for me. Problem is, I let stress kind of blind me the first time doing something like this. So it ends up taking away from the experience. After this wraps I will start studying up a little more on the art of direction and maybe get my own style going on.