You can see the rest of the pictures here at my Flickr page—and you can click on the "All Sizes" link above each picture to see it larger (I have other BMX/Freestyle-related sets here).

I'd write something about the day, but I just spent the last several hours downloading, editing, cropping and uploading these pictures, so I'm beat. Everyone else who attended can do a short write-up, I gotta go to sleep

[ October 22, 2006, 02:17 AM: Message edited by: Guav ]

Guav, you are the man when it comes to photos.
Thanks for coming along with us.
I hope you just as much fun as we did.

I had a great time, thanks for the ride.

I wish I coulda gotten more individual pictures of the bikes, but people didn't really bring them down to the garage. Oh well. Just seeing them all was amazing.

Brian kicks ***.

I almost went... seriously. I'm so ****ed I didn't go. i was so close to going. Aghjkl!!!!

Guav, do we live in a parallel universe or are all 30 something white guys exactly the same....
please don't answer that.

We are all clones dude—I think almost every dude on this site is 33 or 34 years old.

That'd have been too funny if you showed up today.

Rob and I were joking about how we didn't get any pictures but it didn't matter because Guav waas there and he'd get the best ones anyway!

I had a fun day. I passed up doing a show and some good money and it was totally worth it. I got to see some great bikes, the craziest garage and have a lot of fun. It was so funny to meet new people and realize that we all grew up doing the same exact things. We would have all been riding buddies. Drob described it as a high school reunion where you like everybody.

One of my favorite things was when 3 bears came out of the woods and went into the neighbor's yard and hung out tearing apart the trash. We all sat there watching them from about 30 feet away. I love how bizarre events and BMX always seem to go hand in hand with each other.

Big thanks to Brian and his family. What a great time. Brian's 3 year old son, Cooper, even helped build the wedge ramp. I told him he had to sign the ramp since he helped build it but he couldn't write his name so he just drew tornados on it with a sharpie. Full family effort.

Really good day. It was nice meeting all these people from the site and putting names with faces. Frankenripper, Jesse James, Unfitskip...Very cool. Thanks Brian. -Chris Gulich

I tried to take pictures of the bears, but I only had my wide-angle len, so being 50' away actually looks like I was a mile away hahaha ... I uploaded two pics of the bears but they just look like black blotches. That was definitely insane.

I think next BBQ I have to bring my wife Bea and make her the official photographer so that I can hang out more and ride and stuff. Then I can be like "I didn't get any pictures but it didn't matter because Bea waas there" hahaha

I didn't even realize Skip was there until 2 minutes before he had to leave—I know him from back in the day because we both did 'zines. He actually had three issues of my old 'zine, SPEWAGE, with him. I wish I had had a chance to hang with him and look at 'zines!

Party was off the hook.

Had a great time !! Cool putting names with faces. Thanks again to Brian P and family for having us all !! Great pics by Gauv !!
George

[ October 22, 2006, 10:03 AM: Message edited by: loopy ]

guav, very cool pics.it looks like a better turn out than rockford (for the freestyle part of it ).
looks like it was a blast and some real cool people.
next year i'm coming for sure..

looked like a great turn out brian, congrats..

Cool pics........ looks like it was a blast!

Loved the wedge. Time to start building a quarter for next year. Maybe somebody can locate one of the old manufacturer's touring trailers with a built-in ramp. How cool would that be to have somebody roll-up in one of Haro's old trailers loaded with their VBMX collection. And Brian Blyther riding shot-gun!

Would love to see Brian's garageshop in person - ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!

Who are the winners in each class? I talked to Stephan right after he left the Brawl. He told me everything. If it wasn`t for the baby coming next month I would have been there.

Thanks for hosting us Brian.
Thanks for the voting setup Jeff.
Nice to see you all.

andrew c

Jesse James got best of show and bmx race for his sick Hutch XL24

Smoking Endo got 1st for his RL20II for Exotic Freestyle

RL20II Guy got 1st for his RL Owned RL20II for Freestyle survivor

Not sure of his name but he got 1st for his Chrome Trickstar for Hutch freestyle

I got 1st for my GHP in Survivor BMX Race

I'm sorry if I forgot anyone

I'm surprised no one post these yet!

Brian knows how to make some great builds, and pays very close attention to detail.

Picture do not do justice at all

Stephen
RL-20II Guy

85 trick star got 1st place for his nos sick trick star a true nos trick star thing is a sick bike congrats to him on that build fall brawl worked real nice thanks to brian p and his fam for having us there also shout out to jaimeelexus on tha 1at place beat of show hutch xl a real show stopper bling bling

Is that my old blue CW behind the 20II? I wonder how many of my old bikes were there. lol.

Awesome pics! Thanks again to Brian and family for hosting the event and thanks to Jeff for the efforts in the show / judging and awards. It was great to finally put some names and faces with the screen names.

I posted in the other thread last night but I BIG thank you to Brian and Mrs. P for letting this happen.

HUGE thanks to Jon who dialed my 990's after watching me fumble around for a while. AntDog tried to fix what I messed up, and I certainly appreciate that, but in the end it was too far gone and Jon decided to save us-LOL.

Next year you should disqualfy past winners from entering their bikes as all I heard on the ride home was how Loopy's GHP won first place

The dude who fixed the keg

Overall, a great event and good times.

Jamison

Oh yeah, for the record- I wasn't licking my seat.

Man that is insane!!! Congrats on a successful event BP!!!
There are some sick bikes in there! Cool to see a few familar faces in the crowd.

Nice pics, thanks for sharing!!!

My GHP won ???

my garbage pick hutch pro racer should have won!!! darn,darn,darn!!!lol,,lol .lol great time was had by all !!!after I was done cooking the first round, I went to put my glasses back on and grease dripped off them!!!A hundred burgers later!!!

Amazingly I fealt fresh as a daisy this morning. It was great to meet all of you guys and to share memories as I looked at all the bikes. Great show with a wide variety of bikes.

hey it's Jim Dellavalle. I t was grea tto se all of you come out to Brian and Joanns. I am here right now/ still eating the hamburgers and all. thaks for cleaning up and taking care of things before you all left. I will keep in touch with all of you for sure. See you at the next BP gathering or ?
old skool....

Awesome Photo's Guav
Turn out looks amazing

bmx,freestyle and BEARS oh my....................

thanks for sharing. love the pics.

Great photos and looks like everyone had a great time. Been waiting for the photos since the event was announced.

I couldn't believe they were bears until some-one confirmed it. Something us Aussies find a bit difficult to understand I guess.

look's like some awesome fun!

hey Brian, how much is that neon orange pro performer?

Dude i was doing a lawnmower on someone's trickstar and i saw those bears!! I do not like nature that much. But i had a blast.

Kudo's on the Don's Car Wash shirt! Gee....I wonder where that came from...

Wish I could've been there--looks like it was a blast

Anthony... hahaha. You were on my bike showing me the right way to do it! I got it on tape. You know I'll be posting that later on!!! Classic, haha.

Jeff

How was the film that Mark showed in the driveway on Brian's garage door?
I wanted to stay and see it but I had to get my daughter home.

[ October 23, 2006, 06:52 PM: Message edited by: Glen ]

looked at guav's slideshow at lunch. fun stuff holy crap brian your shop is sick!

Glen, that movie was the FUNNIEST sh!t that I've ever seen !!! It was classic.

Many thanks to the Pleva family for having us, and, to all the other members that helped make this happen.

'85 TS
I am still blind from looking at that chrome.

ac

Here's some bear action.

That was a blast! Thanks Brian P and family. You throw a mean brawl!

I was pretty blown away by those bikes. You guys are crazy! In a good way. Good thing I don't have enough room to store many bikes or I'd be sucked in. Sweet bikes.

Just wish there was enough time to really talk to everyone. What a turnout.

I'm still in shock that Todd is giving me the Orange Street Beat. Totally speechless. Thanks a lot Todd. I will cherish that bike with the other momentos of the Skyway years that I've saved. You did a great job on that bike.

And last but not least, props to the Jawn crew for putting me up and putting up with me.

Awesome weekend.