Stoke Value 600 and Rising

Did you know that all of the other Transworld sites use “Prop” instead of Stoke? We figured that it would be weird since Props is a major company within BMX. We never liked Stoke, but went with it as the best alternative. Now that I really think about the situation, there’s no real overlap and really, fuck it. Oh well. Stoke the fire. How quickly the term “hot fire” got replaced with “swagger,” eh?

This is rather useless. After taking Adam Taylor’s job for the last few days, I’ve been thinking lately how relatively happy I am that I don’t work (soley) for a website. It’s not hard by any means, but fuck me if it’s difficult to stay motivated. Hardly rewarding. You post, it’s there, and you can check back to see if anyone liked anything you did. There’s no reward after a bout of labor, no end, and no real satisfaction that I can get from it. And, every mediocre web video blends into the next…do two good clips amidst a sea of bad ones make a video post worthy? I found myself sending videos to Daniel The Intern (capitalized) to let him decide if it was good or not. For a short while when I first started at Ride, it was hard for me to spend all day looking, talking, and write about the best bike riding in the world only to go actually ride poorly. I got over it…the idea, not riding poorly, unfortunately. But it’s definitely hard to get psyched to go ride after spending 12 hours (going on 14 now) on the computer switching from the Ride site to RSS feeds to Word to Bridge to the Ride server and back again and still want to even look at a bike. Even turning off the desire to look for web content to focus on the stuff I should be working on is trying at times. The last five days haven’t been fun. Fortunately it’s 1am and I’m only on Tecate number six.