Mountainboarding - also known as Dirtboarding, Offroad Boarding, Grass Boarding, and All-Terrain Boarding (ATB), is a well established[1] if little-known extreme sport, derived from snowboarding

Meme – is used to describe a concept that spreads via the Internet.[2] The idea may take the form of a hyperlink, video, picture, website, hashtag, or just a word or phrase, such as intentionally misspelling the word “more” as “moar” or “the” as “teh”.

MOUNTAINBOARDING + MEME = THIS CONTEST

If you unsure of what an Internet Meme is you probably won’t win this contest but the guide below may give you a fighting chance.

Here are some Classic examples of Internet Memes:

Forever Alone - http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/forever-alone

Rage Guy - http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rage-guy-fffffuuuuuuuu

When you see it…. - http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/when-you-see-it

Seems legit - http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/seems-legit-sounds-legit

What people think I do - http://knowyourmeme.com/videos/34059…at-i-really-do

For more examples of internet memes please vist the World Wide Web or just click on this link http://knowyourmeme.com/

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Here we are again, Welcome to 2011 Mountainboarding Pumpkin carving contest. The rules are simple,

1) You must be a member of Surfing Dirt.com

2) Your picture must include you, your board and your pumpkin or the equivalent. It doesn’t matter what your doing, carving, jumping or smashing your pumpkin, but creativity counts.

Winner receives their choice of surfingdirt.com shirts, last years shirt or the new Zombie surfingdirt shirt , that will be posted soon and they will also receive a Cedar Ledge Bad Apples crew shirt.

* * Riding with sharp objects is never a good idea and quite dangerous, the intro picture shows poor judgement on my part .

• Winners will be chosen based on the number of likes received on facebook
• Only people who have befriended www.facebook.com/surfingdirt can vote
• All posted entries will be visible in an official contest album on facebook  
• Posting links to your pic on your profile is ok but tagging is not
• Have fun and be safe!!!

Contest brought to you by our friends at Habitual Suicide

  But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that these are the types of reflections are for someone who knows that something good will soon coming to an end, or has already ended, not when there is still a month and half of shreddable goodness still ripe for the picking as is the case with 2010. I for one am not ready to give up on this year yet.

 Still, as more and more of  the whitestuff falls in North America and other parts of the world reports will continue to come in of people putting away their mountainboards and taking their snowboards out for the duration of the coming months. For some of us that isnt an option.

 Whether it be because of lack of snow due to geographical location, lack of funds for purchasing expensive lift tickets, or maybe it’s  just because you are a hardcore dirthead and dont take sNOw for an answer. Whatever the reason, there are plenty of us out there that are Mountainboarding addicts 365 days a year, and we arent ashamed of it.

As mountainboarders we know all about evolution, every time we ride we learn to adapt to our environments in new ways. Always finding new ways to tackle new terrain, and adapting our boards and bodies as needed.

 When its windy we wear a jacket when the ground turns soft we pump up our psi levels, when the soft ground turns to mud we wear goggles, if the wind and rain freezes the mud then we evolve …

….and if we’re broken we mend, and during our down time we read other people’s reports of  shredding and watch tons of  mountainboarding videos mentally preparing ourselves for our next ride whenever that may be.

  Regardless of the reason, and regardless of the season we are what we are, we live to ride our boards, and we rarely care where or with whom as long as we  feel the wind in our face and the hum of the earth under our feet. We are the members of SurfingDirt and we ride 365 days a year, won’t you join us?

BOTTOM view

…it’s an oldschool Mongoose “Varmint” with MBS trucks from the old green comp16 trucks. Despite the fact that it’s heavy as hell he still manages to shred hard and make mountainboarding look easy so if anyone wants to sponsor him let me know.

The first run down was pretty sweet, I hit it alone so Marco could see what we had built. We hit it again together and then decided to session the new quarterpipe at the bottom for a bit. Little did we know that the car had died about the same time we parked it.

After a bit of sessioning we decided to head back up to the top and hit the other ramps, but unfortunately the car wasnt having any of that and refused to start, so we decided we would go ahead and session the quarter for a bit longer….especially seeing as how it was there and we didnt have any other options.

Fortunately about the time the solid sheet of water that they call rain here started to roll in the car had a change of heart and decided to get us out of there. It was a bummer we didnt get to session the upper portion more and get some pics of the other two ramps, but it was great tp session the quarter with my good buddy Marco and the timing of it all couldnt have been better.

Thanks again,

Parker Eakin

 Dyad Clothing

winners:

SHRED:
1st- Alan RTH
2nd- Dunstan
3rd- McCarver

CRASH:
1st- AndyD
2nd- Crofty (sick backflip by the way)
3rd- Frollysurfer (your shred photo was close too but i didnt think it was fair to let you win twice, and your crash photo is just sooo good.)

HAVING FUN:
1st- PBJ
2nd- Fenboy (i know this was your shredding photo, but it made me laugh and riding with pants half down is more of having fun rather then shredding.)
3rd- BDirthead

congrats to everyone. keep on shreddin, crashin (if your not crashing, your not trying hard enough), and havin fun cuz if youre not having fun, youre not doing it right.

Join in on the discussion by clicking  HERE

Spectators were treated to the aerial skills of US Pro mountainboarding team the DirtstarArmy out of Salt Lake City, Utah, The One5 Crew as well as many other recognized names in the sport.

This years Fall Classic also marked the return of legendary rider Patrick PT Thomas to the rankings as he took second in boardercross as well as third in place in the Masters category for freestyle.

Sponsors included DSA, HillBilly protection, Powerbar, Altitude Sickness, Dyad, just to name a few.

For a complete list of results click HERE

….and inside it I found a lot of this:

But after a little digging I am happy to report that the box also contained all this:

….a perfectly dissected TomKirkman Pro100 straight from the MBS headquarters in Colorado Springs.

Luckily I inspected all the bags closely before tossing them out, because one of them contained some loose hardware that I was pretty sure I was going to need later.

…and MBS was courteous enough to send all the tools necessary to assemble this beautiful beast…….
….including a fancy adjustable wrench in lieu of the home-made looking wrench that used to come with the boards. Nice one MBS.

….and a bit of literature for the inexperienced board builder just in case….

..which ironically enough didnt have any info on the new trucks, but hey who reads manuals anyways?

….my assistant and were ready to get to work putting this bad mofo together.

Once you have them started by hand you just need to slide your wrench in through the front opening to hold the nut in place while you finish the job with your other hand.

Dont forget to double check that they are all tight.

Glad I hang on to these:

I laid everything out to make sure we had the correct number of bearings and spacers

I started by turning the board on its side and sliding one bearing on to the first truck, then the spacer then the hub/tire combo, followed by the final outside bearing. Repeat this step with all four tires. ….

The reason i decided to do it this way is because when dealing with the Rockstar Pros it seems that the bearings are hard to get in there but seem to fall out easily if you even tilt the tire sideway.

Be careful when lining them up, especially if you are putting the hubs/bearings together before putting them on the board because if the bearing goes in a little off-axis its a real bitch to get back out.

When I went to mount the bindings I decided to put it a little more snowboard stance and angle my leading foot a little towards the nose.

I did this by putting the toeside screwin the second slot and the heelside one in the first. I think I learned that in a Jon Diurba tutorial if Im not mistaken.

Then I screwed her in tight using my monsterous thumbnail to get an extra bit of leverage. Then set the back binding at a regular perpendicular position(up and down).

…..next up: Putting some SOUL into my ride

 

 join in on the discussion by clicking HERE

 

 

DyadClothing wants to see how we represent so we’re asking you to post the highest quality pictures you have got of you doing Shredding, Crashing, and just having Fun(one of each) in this thread, and sit back and wait for your prizes!

Ok maybe there is a little more to it….

We will be picking a winner towards the end of September so get out there and start clicking. The first two categories are pretty self explanatory, and the fun category can be just about anything, as long as it involves having fun on your mountainboard. Dyad Clothing will be giving away one free shirt to the 1st place winner in each category, as well as hooking up some stickers for the second and third place winners in each category so theres plenty to go around. So thats 3 Shirts and a lot of stickers to go around.

Remember you need to post one picture for each of the following three categories in this thread:

Shredding

Crashing

Having Fun

Winners will be chosen in one months time. You are allowed one per category so make your selections carefully. If you are having problems signing up or posting your picture please PM me either here or on facebook so I can help you out.

Dont forget to check out all the dope gear on Dyad’s home page www.dyadclothing.com and while you are at it add them on facebook.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyones contributions.

*any pictures previously used in other SurfingDirt photo contest are not eligilible.

Click HERE to submit your entries or to view the discussion or HERE if you havent already signed up.