March 2004 - Failure contest, California, USA

Mar 06, 2004

Written by Bart de Jong

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The end of last year sometime Jon Greer said he had an old mill that he was putting ramps at. I asked him if the cops were chill with it? He said yeah! He said I want to have a contest! I said "Cool, do it we can call it the 1st annual Failure Bikes contest!" He said sweet! so Jon and his bud ryan and a bunch of the inland empire 909ers (which is were we get all the great Metal Mulisha fashion comes from!) started making some of the most shakey ramps ever.

On the day of the Event the whole Failure team showed up (check failurebikes.com) and a slew of other money hungry pros including Rich Dirsch, Ribo, Roofgap, Joe Ridley, Scott Phoster and a bunch of other dudes I can't remember. The action started and the tape player with headphones plugged into the mic hole was the high tech mic. Joe Riley won and everyone had a great time. So the Failure contest was a suckcess! Kind of Ironic aint it!! Vic Murphy