2009 Black and Blue BBQ- A Thank You!

Shad Holland pic by STRIKE

Now THAT was a proper BBQ!

I can’t believe how much fun the 2009 BBQ was. It was so rad to see everyone again as well as some new faces, we had a great turnout on Saturday. The day started a little cold and rainy but the weather held out and everyone was super stoked to be checking out some old school machinery and sharing some old school memories.

A HUGE thank you to this year’s event sponsors: Red Line, Props, Kink, Hoffman, Jive, Flatland Fuel and Odyssey. The Faction supports the companies that support old school BMX. Very cool to see the faces of everyone when they would win and we certainly appreciate all that these companies do. What’s REALLY cool is seeing kids running the parts they won at last years event. The new schoolers were out in FORCE this year.

And thank you to the Factionites that help make all this happen: Bill Anstedt (sponsorship, logistics), Bill Sympson (Skilz contest awards), Rich McGillivray (Secretary of transportation) Gregg Strike (photographs) and Matt Kirkwold (Setup/teardown). The Faction events run smooth because of all the help behind the scenes.

Most importantly- thank all of the people that made it to the event, YOU are the reason why we continue to grow each year and why the Faction is so cool to hang out with. Old school BMX is alive and well in Minnesota!

Link to the Gregg Strike gallery

See you in 2010; planning is already underway!

-Mikko

For sale: Iconic Grain Belt beer sign???

I could totally see this being in my back yard. Hell, I could see this in my FRONT yard:


Time to start a little Faction Fundraiser...

See you @ the BBQ!