About your host: black­dog: I am a 50 year old guy who rode Observed Tri­als in my youth, until about the age of 30. Most of that com­pe­ti­tion was in the Port­land, OR area. I pretty much quit when I moved to the Seat­tle, WA area, and took up Kart Rac­ing. Had a ton of fun with that for about 7 years, then decided to see about get­ting back on a tri­als bike. did that in 2004, first in the Inter­me­di­ate class, and now I’m mak­ing the move to Advanced. Read all about it!

Here’s a pic­ture from 2005:
Section 10, Dallesport, Spring 2005

I’m about 25 pounds lighter than that now, ride a newer bike, and have dif­fer­ent gear, but oth­er­wise, that’s me! :-)