…don’t blow your fingers off, a’ight?

Congratulations to Tim Buechele of Loranger & Wayne Gauthreaux of Hammond , the Winners of the final “Big Mike Raffle.” The two bought a total of 4 tickets, but as good friends they opted to double their chances by adding both names to all 4 tickets!

Tim is a skater from waaaay back, his first deck a GT model some 20-plus years ago! He parked his deck a long time ago, though, due to a left ankle blow-out and an addiction to Harley-Davidson motorcycles and building bikes. Tim is a regular at Dreamland Skatepark in the summer, supporting his 11 yr/old son’s passion for skating and has recently started trying to skate again with the help of an ankle brace.

Wayne has dabbled with skating on and off and also frequents Dreamland with his son Tyler, age 8. Wayne too has been caught “boosting” his son’s deck, but now he’ll roll with class!
Tim & Wayne both work at Hammond Harley Davidson.

Due to some technical difficulties yesterday, we weren’t able to get everything taken care of yesterday as planned… so today is the day (or tonight, rather). Stay tuned!

Look out for the June 2008 issue of Slap… the cover looks lke this:

…turn to page 22, and notice the “GrimCity” part:

…that’s me, your friendly neighborhood Small Time Skates webgeek. The photo was take by Small Times’ very own Gregory Tracy (you may know of him as Dead Gregory). Anyway, I’m not putting a readable version of the article up yet because the magazine is currently on sale and we want you to go out and support the mag. They should be sold at anywhere where there’s tons of magazines.

Our homie Terry Adams is filming a show on Fuel TV, and he just sent us a sick photo of him along with Chris “Dune” Pastras, a long time, well respected pro skater and co owner of Stereo skateboards.

…now I know Terry, and I’m pretty sure he should be the one wearing the wig. Either way, sick as hell! We’re always stoked to report on our ever-so-popular little bro!

…thought it was over? Oh hell no… just get your five bucks ready, come over to the shop, fill out a raffle ticket and cross your fingers. As always, the money from this will go directly to the Big Mike Trust, so even if you don’t win, you’re still winning just for helping out people that the Hammond community loves, all in the honor of our friend.

I’ll post up the winner-announcement date soon, but I can say that you’ve got at least a couple of weeks (after this post) to enter (over and over), and help out your chances of winning a huge stash of stuff:

Here’s what you’re looking at:
1 alien workshop deck
1 true love deck
2 flip decks
1 signed Jake Brown Blind deck
1 signed Lindsey Robertson Mystery deck
1 signed Adrian Lopez Mystery deck
1 signed Ryan Smith Mystery deck

2 sets blank wheels
1 set zero wheels
1 alien workshop pillow
1 listen dvd
1 element dvd
1 atmosphere dvd
2 zero t’s
4 world t’s
3 globe t’s
1 darkstar t
1 blind t
1 almost t
1 enjoi t
2 dc t’s
4 world hoodies
3 blind hoodies
2 darkstar hoodies

…FIVE BUCKS AN ENTRY, ENTER A MILLION TIMES!

Roll forever!

We want to give some huge props to everyone that has shown support… THe Big Mike crew and the rest of the Small Times family have a lot of love for you cats. You guys and gals did this, and we’re honored that skaters and non-skaters alike would be so willing to contribute to the cause.

Some of you may already be aware of this, but I want to make sure that those of you that don’t know… know.

The Hammond Harley Davidson Shop here in town has gone out if its way to show its alliance with Small Time Skates. They recently put out a newsletter, and in it, three of our friends are shown rocking a couple of mean bikes as well as a stash of Small Times’ boards… at the bottom of the newsletter, they even state that “Hammond H-D proudly supports Small Time Skates,” and I personally think that’s the sickest thing ever. The cats over at the Harley shop are seriously cool, and they’ve been down with us since we all got introduced to each other.

Here’s the newsletter in question.

Personally, I think core bikers and skaters have a number of commonalities… the main one being that neither of us are quite understood by the general public, but at the same time, we really don’t care to be. For the most part, we’re all good people that choose to live our lives based around an activity that saturates every cell in our bodies. Core skaters and core bikers are lifers… it’s in our blood, and I’m glad to say that we have a mutual respect for each other because to some degree, bot groups know where the others are coming from. If you’re in the market for a Hog, Buell, some leather, or just need to get your old bike back up to showroom standards, check out Hammond’s very own Harley Davidson shop. They’re cool as hell, and they’re 100% down with the cause.

We don’t normally do plugs for businesses… but it’s Harley Davidson, son! How bad ass is that?

While I’m at it… be sure to add Hammond Harley Davidson to your MySpace list… they’re right here!

As should be expected, Big Mike’s family got a proper stack of the limited edition Big Mike Memorial boards… the aim was to make sure that everyone in the family got a deck or two, because the loss of Mike hit them harder than anyone.

Just to show you how f’ing awesome the whole BM crew is, they dropped off a completely customized version of the limited edition board, as a complete, and damn did they go off!

Custom painted riser pads (painted white) and two-tone custom painted trucks… the front hangar has a blue finish, but what you can’t see is that they painted the underside of the hangar red:

Then they did the opposite with the back truck (inverting the colors… note the blue trim inside the truck):

They didn’t stop there, either… they added red and blue seals to some stock Bones bearings, and wrapped them inside some Bulldog wheels, red and Blue respectively:

As if that weren’t enough, they did the most amazing griptape job I’ve ever seen in my life, not only cutting around the top graphic, but topping it and trimming it in both red and blue to match the deck:

Here’s Josh holding it to give you a sense of scale:

And last, here’s a ginormous pic of the underbelly of what may very be the most amazing effort I’ve ever seen:

Mike’s twin brother Tony wanted to give this to Kerry for skating, but there’s no way! Everyone in the crew (including Mike’s son Erik) lent a hand in putting this together, and you really need to see it to believe it. It’ll be on display at the shop for some time to come… I still can’t get over it.

The Jeansonne family is seriously what it’s all about. We love you guys and gals, and all of us that witnessed this board were awestruck with how amazing it is.

All of you kick serious ass, all the way down to the marrow in your bones. It really is beautiful.