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My First Recollections of Being a Padre fan...Written the night the Dodgers drubbed our boys 8-0 in game 4 of the NLDS Game 5 tomorrow night at Doyer Stadium My fir... |  Crazy Birds at Cardiff Reef as a Solid Swell Fills in...Yesterday I checked the Cardiff cam on SurfLie at around 8:30am, and aside from the perfect conditions and empty parking... |
 A Tale of Two Steves...My buddy Caleb snapped this today... too classic, haha! Speaking of Steve, maybe somebody will see these and urge him t... |  The Pacific Beach Surf Club / Cardiff Surf Club / Coalition of Surfing Clubs Tou...The custom trophy for the PBSC/CSC/TCC 8 Ball Bash pool tournament What can I say other than i had great time assemblin... |  Meet Quinn...My nephew Quinn moved to San Diego back in March, and he's been one surf stoked dude ever since! ... |
 Meet "The Gimmick" - Vince|Vaughn Model...Board #4 is finally finished and in the water. This one got started when I was shaping and building the Viceroy in my ga... |  STOLEN: The Vr2(b)...March 27 I went for a surf with my nephew Quinn and I brought two boards along for him to try out. After being out for a... |  Surf Photos by Jeff Kerridge...Jeff's photography is always so spot on. He's gotten more great photos of me surfing over the years than anyone else, an... |
 The Secret Earplug Locker in Most Surfboards...One day I'm walking back to my car in my full suit after a session and I run into someone I want to talk to, only I stil... |  Skip Stories No. 1 - The Kickout...Surf around Pacific Beach long enough and your chances of surfing right next to one of the sport's all time legends will... |  Introducing "The Viceroy"..."A viceroy is an official who runs a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory."... |
 SoCal Vintage BMW Meet 2021...I took a drive up Van Nuys yesterday to find some advice on my 1994 BMW and had a great time geeking out on all the grea... |  The Hands Down No Doubt Absolute Best Surf Wax I Have Ever Used, Ever...FULL DISCLOSURE: I was asked to build a website* for Horny Toads Surf Wax by my friends Shaun and Kasie. And the ... |  Late 60s Wilken Midlength Transition Era Vee Bottom Keyword Stuffer Surfboard wi...I recently got a request to send out a W.A.V.E.set fin box adapter to the owner of a Wilken midlength board from the lat... |
 Some Really Positive, Absolutely Killer Praise for the WAVEset Finbox Adapter...A little while back I got a random but very welcome email from a young lady named Lainey who is the proud owner of a lat... |  The Great Nikon F and Ikelite Water Housing Experiment of 2018...Tourmaline Surfing Park on a Summer's Morning as Seen Through a Nikkor-Q Auto 1:3.5 f=13.5cm Everything about this is l... |  People Riding Surfboards with Vees in Their Bottoms...1968 Surfboards Hawaii 8'0" Vee Bottom It's going on five years since I bought this board at Bird's, and in that time I... |
 I've Found The Key To Surfing!...OK, actually I've made the key... If you have problems with your spare car key rusting like I do (you would think BMW w... |  The WaveSet Fin Box Adapter Project...Old boards and old fins This story starts with a borrowed Gordon and Smith "Midget Farrelly Stringerless" that I took f... |  This Changes Everything! (or at least that's the plan...)...My goals for this project are simple: create the proverbial "one board quiver" create the most exciting surfboard ev... |
 The First Modern Surf Music?...or: EveryThing NoBody Ever Told You About AquAtic Bliss WithOut Slurring Here's a little piece I threw together after d... |  Planning Out My First Hand Shaped Board...And so it begins... the planning for my first hand shaped surfing board: Building things has always been a big interest... |  File this under "The Ones That Got Away"...The fiasco that was the sale of LambrettaWorks forced me to sell many of the boards that I had collected over the years,... |
 More Fun with Surfboards and Lambrettas...Here's a nice snapshot from the old West Coast Lambretta Works days... Going through my old photo library I found this ... |  A magical day at the secret spot...After weeks of spotty weather, San Diego finally came through with one of those amazing clear, sunny days that it's so f... |  Super Stoked to be Featured at Yewonline.com! ...I just got an email from my good buddy and fellow Tourmo regular Chris Cantore letting me know that a handful of my phot... |
 Goodbye For Now, Sophia Tiare Bartlow...Like many other San Diegans I spent a gorgeous Sunday morning yesterday at the beach: surfing, hanging with friends, and... |  One of My Favorite Lambrettas Ever...Of the hundreds of Lambrettas we restored over the years at West Coast Lambretta Works, this one stands out as an all ti... |  My One and Only Win (So Far)...Preface: My racing career was almost an afterthought in the bigger picture of my whole Lambretta experience. As owner of... |
 Product Testing: as Important as Good Grammar....Another blast from the past from back in the old West Coast Lambretta Works days A few random thoughts on this photo...... |  Surfing with Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids...I am so stoked that I ran into one of my musical heroes in PB yesterday afternoon: Rick Miller of Southern Culture on th... |  Some random cool images from the old Lambretta shop photo albums...Here's a nice smattering of Lambretta history for you, including a great shot of Matt Dawson's aluminum framed gas power... |
 I'm getting really stoked on the website!...I'm actually really stoked on how this site is coming along. I have a few issues with the pink login module and the blue... |  All Roads Lead to Tourmaline...The date was July 12, 2012, and after many months of planning and preparation, it was time for my good buddy Glen and I ... |  Bird Huffman...Bird is legend in the surfing world, and we encourage everyone to support Bird's Surf Shed, a San Diego institution.... |
 Ferdie Morales...Ferdie is a classic. He is famous (yes, famous!) for many things: Running the photo lab at San Diego City College 5 ... |  Glen Gorham...Glen Gorham can whup your ass at designing cool shit and making cool sounds. ~ And he don't take no shit from Koslov ei... |  Phil Albritton...Surfing Around San Diego with Phil Albritton Phil is truly a local gem. Most of PB knows him by name; he was a long tim... |
 Paul Verlangieri...Paul was the primary photographer for ASRA for many years. We are thankful to have his wonderful images to look ... |  Shawn "Chuk" Woolery...Chuk Woolery is the man you want for all of your custom wood framed window needs. If you want cheap crap, you've really ... |  Sean McMullen...The whole Lambretta thing was entirely possible in large part because of Sean's participation. He was the driving force ... |
 1992 Was a Banner Season for ASRA...The '92 season was the sixth year of scooter racing in America, including three years under the ASRA banner, and by now ... |  V is For Vee Bottoms!...Detailed notes are important The vee bottom boards masterfully ridden by Australian Bob McTavish in the mid '60s ... |  West Coast Lambretta Works Was Born in a Garage Way Out in the Boonies...These shots are from the really early days of my Lambretta adventure at the family garage in Lakeside, probably around 1... |
 RVLC Cylinder Kit for Lambrettas...By 1993 the liquid cooled SX200 cylinder that I had raced since 1988 was at the end of its life. The cylinder wall was p... |  iSurfedThere.com | Made By Surfers, For Surfers...One of our pet projects is the website iSurfedThere.com. I started this with my good buddy Glen like eight years ago(!),... |  Speaking of things that slide......Few things in this life are as exhilarating as flying through a turn at high speed on two wheels with your inside knee s... |
 Now this is what I'm talking about...Vesparados Endless Summer Rally Patch from 2002 (click for larger image) I found this patch while digging through some... |  Lunacy on 10" Wheels - A Feature Length Film About the History of the American S...Looking back on all we accomplished over my six years as Head Cheese of ASRA, I can't help but be amazed, amused, and fr... | Accidents Will Happen...While going through old footage in preparation for a historical ASRA documentary film I've started producing, I came acr... |
 The Mission...Qustom was birthed from a love of two things: '80s mod culture and surfing. The parallels between the two are many; i... |
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