Toronto Bike Show 2009 Recap
Posted by Prashant - 17/03/09 at 05:03:23 pm
Driving down in Jeff’s car. Wheel at 45 degrees to drive straight.
Another year, another bike show. I’m glad it only happens once a year, because it takes a full year to recover. The normal stuff happened. Bikes were ridden, people cheered, people heckled. Click below to read about the events that occurred throughout the weekend, and check out some photos before my camera died on me.
Tommy Hains made it through amateur qualifiers and placed 14th. I didn’t even know it, but Ottawa’s Matthew Comeau was entered in the under 14 class and placed 11th. Alex Porier and Prasheel Gopal placed 9th and 7th respectively in the flatland contest. Jorden Guth and Chris Chitaroni both rode really well in amateur street qualifiers, but for some reason didn’t qualify. Jeff Bedard was a late entrant and spent his whole run trying to do a backwards hang 5, and now the internet world knows him as Benard. Pro class was pretty wild, and lots of Ontario locals made it to the finals.
Partying ensued every night at the Dance Cave. People got rowdy in the line up, people were fart sprayed outside, bottles were broken inside, garbage was thrown. A certain culprit decided to spray my hotel room with a fire extinguisher at 4 in the morning, which lead to the police kicking us out and rendering us homeless. We wandered around for a while and then eventually went to the bike show before it opened to sleep on the concrete.
Leland Nightingale was our savior and took us in after that and cooked us perogies for dinner the following night. That’s the sign of an amazing host. Pat got entirely ruthless and started wrestling to the tunes of GG Allin, then we vacated and went back to Dance Cave. The bouncers wanted to call the cops before we even got in it seemed. Nevertheless, the night went by incident free. Jeff Bedard lost his jacket at the club, but some how it made its way to the bike show the next day and he was reunited with it. A bike show miracle.
We drove Jeff’s sketchy car all the way home, and I am still surprised how everyone survived. Year after year the events surrounding the bike show get increasingly wilder, and I don’t even want to think about what will possibly happen next year. See you all then.
This is the flatland area that I spent much time at. Lots of sun. During finals Justin Miller did a 180 to backwards rocket manual to half cab tailwhip. You read that right.
Despite rumours, Jeff actually does shower. I don’t know why this seemed like a good idea, picking the lock while he tried to get clean for the night.
Everyone came in to our room that we had for a short period of time to party before going out. Travelodge Room 344, we hardly knew ye.
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