I went riding today with a Finnish friend called Topi from work, trying to nail down some of the jumps and rhythm sections on the local 4cross track. I’m still waiting for my knee pads and flat pedals to arrive, but it was starting to feel pretty good.

Oil dropped waaay down today to $126 a barrel from $133.. Is the bubble about to burst? One by one, countries across Asia and the Middle East are being forced to abandon price controls on fuel and energy, bringing hundreds of millions of consumers face to face with the true market cost of oil. The effect has already begun to chip away at world demand and may ultimately trigger a slide in crude prices.

It has been a while since I bought any new shoes as I am on an essentials only consumption tip, but if I did, these would be top of my list, JB Classics Prime sneakers… Sweet temptation…

The Fibonacci numbers first appeared, under the name mātrāmeru (mountain of cadence), in the work of the Sanskrit grammarian Pingala (Chandah-shāstra, the Art of Prosody, 450 or 200 BC).

Stan Meyer invented a hydrogen fuel cell that converts any automobile to run on tap water. Unfortunately, he never saw his invention reach fruition as he was killed shortly after this documentary was made.

I might be a little late on this, but I watched it last night and it kind of puts things in perspective. Full vid above. Not sure how long it will last though.

One of the guys from work found this 4-cross track 5 mins from my house. Stoked!

There were also some drop-off’s..

Reno with a wallride…

and a wicked 4-cross track. First time jumping on a full suspension bike. It’s so smooth! I had never tried a track like this before, or even heard of 4-cross for that matter, but it’s super fun. A bit like motox without the cost, noise or pollution!

Craig

There was a rally on up and down the river in Salzburg until some old dude smoking a cigar lost the back of his old Porsche around a chicane and nailed 4 people on the inside of the bend. One lady was pinned between the front of the Porsche and another car but miraculously nobody broke anything.

Congratualtions to ANNEKE BEERTEN who took the win in the first big womens 4-Cross event of the season in Maribor. -273

Photo Credit: Sven Martin – dirtagency.com

A $10 increase in the price of oil is extremely significant because it means the price of almost everything will increase significantly. It seems like yesterday when I wrote oil hit $100 for the first time and it was as recent as may 6th I wrote it hit a new record of 122. I was going to make a post saying oil had hit a new all time high today of 130, but before I could get around to it, it hit 132 a barrel…( And now I have checked it again it is 135)

Oil Rises Above $132 on U.S. Supply Drop, Bank Price Forecasts

May 21 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil rose to a record above $132 a barrel as U.S. stockpiles unexpectedly dropped and banks raised price forecasts in the past week on expectations supply constraints and demand growth will persist.

Supplies fell 5.32 million barrels to 320.4 million last week, the biggest drop in four months, the Energy Department said. Oil for December 2016 delivery rose more than $20 a barrel, or 17 percent, after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on May 16 raised its outlook to $141 a barrel for the second-half of the year.

Read more here…

It has been a while since I played around in 3d, I had forgotten how fun it is. This sh!ts kind of cheesy but it made me smile so it gets posted.

Dam… They cut some of my gum off today to relieve pressure on a messed up wisdom tooth.
Will take the tooth out in a few weeks.. I had a dark migraine this week so hopefully should be better now.

Home.

Bombed down from here on my mountain bike all the way home twice last weekend. Was so epic.

We went for a long walk…

..but got stuck by the snow.. Couldnt go much further..

Jule’s friend Margaret came to visit. When the snow got too deep to go any higher we just kicked it in that hut bottom left drinking beer in the sun.

The first Kiska designed KTM RC8′s are starting to roll off the production line.