Glen (Ashley’s dad) and I are headed to the skate park to test another Gnarly Bar prototype. We’re taking Rodney, the prodigy kid. And the new and improved Gnarly Bar. The Gnarly Bar is Glen’s invention, forged in the lab of the Wired Ride Shop. I have a fisheye lens today and it’s going [...] Continue Reading »
Gnarly Bar testing. phase two
0wired ride shop presents the Gnarly Bar
1This is the latest innovation of Glen Addair and the Wired Ride Shop: the Gnarly Bar. The Gnarly Bar is a tool that gives an action sport rider a key advantage to their development: the ability to measure. Place it on the flats, or place it anywhere. The advantage of the Gnarly Bar is specificity, [...] Continue Reading »
the butternut creek rat
2We’re en route to Virginia for the week and it’s recording time down in Grandmother’s basement. Ashley’s aunts and cousins will pass the baby and I can hide away for about four days. For tonight we’re in Bristol at my in laws. On Thursday, G Daddy and I will be heading to Virginia beach to [...] Continue Reading »
good organ tone can save the shortcomings in life
2The Mr. J’s sign came down yesterday and two fresh coats of white covered over the tuxedo man stencil. Passersby stopped momentarily to mourn his memory and a Murray institution of fine formal wear and limousine service is history. What exists now is a blank slate of fine office space where your good neighbor State Farm [...] Continue Reading »
some heroes of the road
5Our upcoming adventure needs a model and some kind of basis. What we don’t want is to be living in a Walmart parking lot, our existence going down the gas tank, having become a family of bums who embarrassingly tote a flashy airstream up to McDonalds bathrooms. Sorry, a modern Kerouac is not the [...] Continue Reading »
rocks
6An old mountain stream spills through the community of Papermill, TN and it contains a quiet link to an ancient mystery involving the ruined pyramids of Mexico’s Teotihuacan. This elucidation seems at first to be completely random, however you will see that it is not. The capitol, Mexico City was once the capitol of Colonial [...] Continue Reading »
make your own noise canceling helmet
3We want Wired Ride Shop to be a hangout. There had always been plans for a lounge but when we inherited salon hair dryers with the lease, we considered it our biggest break. So what are noise canceling helmets? Like headphones that suspend around the entire circumference of your head, impelling you into an inescapable [...] Continue Reading »
Wired ride shop to open this week
0Wired is about to open its doors and details will follow soon about our grand opening event this weekend. Check out our recent posts to see what’s been going on here. Then you’ll understand how we came about becoming the inventors of noise canceling helmets. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bristol-VA/Wired-for-the-action-sports-lifestyle/ and twitter, too.
pictures i like: painting in bristol
0[ from a. addair who is listening to Lucinda Williams (Car Wheels on a Gravel Road) ]
the dirty guv’nahs at capone’s
2We are so close to our beloved Knoxville that we can hear the sounds. Ashley and I have moved to Bristol, TN to begin a major project with her dad, opening a ride shop. He and my brother-in-law, Dustin in Virginia Beach design board graphics for snowboards and skateboards, plus a clothing line. This will [...] Continue Reading »