Swingarm City Dirt Biking, April 2009

Caineville is probably my favorite place to ride! We just got back from a 5 day trip down there and had a blast. We were able to launch my new rocket a few times too. We put some footage of a launch that I took at the beginning of this video. The rest of the video is me riding my dirt bike. We rode all around this time with the whole family and saw much more of the area than I had seen before. There are so many trails and hills and whatever you could dream of to ride on except maybe rocks and mud, and there are no trees. I really had fun in a wash that my dad took us on. I rode the whole trail and only needed help up one part! My bike is a 2004 Suzuki DRZ 110.

My New 2-Stage Rocket For Caineville

When I was at Grandma and Grandpa's house this week, we went to the hobby store and picked out this rocket that my dad and I could build. It's a 2-stage rocket that runs on 2 big D size engines. It is suppose to fly 1700 feet in the air. We are really excited to see it fly when we take it down to Caineville next week. I wanted to post it up so everyone could see how it turned out. Thanks Grandpa!

Homemade Halfpipe

This weekend we listened to conference and built a halfpipe in our back yard. We found the plans on the internet to build the mini skateboard ramp and basically stuck to the plans. We bought all the materials at Lowe's for under $250 Saturday morning and had it almost complete by Sunday afternoon. Materials included 45 2x4's, 3 sheets of 3/4" plywood, 6 sheets of 3/8" plywood, 6 sheets of Masonite, and a box of screws. The video says it's 6 feet wide, but it's actually 8 feet wide, 24 feet long and 3.5 feet tall. We still need to build platforms on both ends and we are going to remove the railing on part of the deck so we can hop off the deck and right into the pipe. The plans recommended skatelite instead of Masonite, but it's much more expensive. We will paint the Masonite with a spar urethane to make it more resistant to damage and cover it whenever it might rain. We are still learning how to ride our razor scooters and skateboards in the pipe, but here are a few pics of us building it and of what we have done so far! Xtreme skater is a good place to find plans.