The Lowdown
First fingerbike double-backflip pulled!
Fingerbike riders have been talking about and trying double-backflips for weeks, but 14-year-old Mike Friedman finally made it happen at his parent's house in North Ogden, UT on August 26th. Mike had tried two other double-flips this weekend and came pretty close, and this one couldn't have been any better. "I had been trying them for a while, but at first I wasn't going high enough," Mike explained. "I then started lifting my arm up higher to get the air needed to do the double flip. Then it was just a matter of going for it and hoping I didn't hurt my wrist." When Friedman hit the perfect double-backflip on his fingerbike, his friend Steve Meier, who witnessed this historical event, went nuts.
BMX Web site started with grand plans
August 11, 2000
Rider and self-proclaimed computer-whiz Carl Letourneau has grand plans for a new BMX web site. "This is gonna be the best f***ing site on the web — not like the boring shit that's out there now" said the 17-year-old. "It's gonna have tons of photos, news, links, plus lots of stuff on the local scene. It's gonna show what hardcore riding really is — not like the crap in Ride and BMX Plus. And my site's gonna be updated daily — things happen more than once a month, you know." Letourneau added: "This thing's gonna kick ass!" Carl has already installed Microsoft FrontPage on his computer, and has an "under construction" page in place on Geocities.
BMX Web site shut down
August 16, 2000
Webmaster Carl Letourneau has shut down his Geocities-hosted BMX web site. "I got the home page done, put up a photo of my friend Brendan doing a sweet feeble grind, and a page of links," explains Letourneau. "But after that, it turned into work. It's a pain in the ass, and I couldn't get the other [local riders] to help me out." All that's left of the once-hyped site is the aforementioned pages, including the page of links all stolen from another site ... half of which are old and broken.
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