I'm an old Has Been industry guy, I'm fat, I don't have and I don't have bike right now. But I'm a guy who has been wandering by Sheep since before it was even there. I used to jump the jumps up where the condos are now, before Sheep. I didn't know Mike near as well as the hardcore jumpers from Sheep. But I knew him. My reason for heading down there was to make a small contribution to the cause, in my own way. My Sharpie are has gotten pretty decent, so I drew this Mike Brown Bow Legged X-up Ale bottle, and I mounted it on a skate deck, the new direction my work is taking. This is Mike mom Cathy with the deck.
While I'm not riding now, I'll get there again, and I spent 20 years of my life riding BMX bikes nearly every day. People were stoked on the drawing, and I was stoked to help the cause a little in the way I could. And also, it was just a damn fun day to hang and watch a few old riders, and a whole bunch of the younger ones, bust out and shred. It was an epic BMX day. I'm sure Mike was stoked, looking down from his perch, wherever that is.
I think this one of the bikes that got raffled off later on. The three raffles for $1 a ticket, $5 a ticket, and $20 a ticket (for Mike's rebuilt bike, and much to my surprise, my art deck). A lot of people won amazing prizes for a small price of a raffle ticket.
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