Dustin Guenther Blog!
by: Brink | Thursday, October 11, 2007
I haven't dropped a line in a while, but with school and my thumb healing I feel like I've sat half of the summer out. This photo sums up what the last few months of my life have been like. Over the summer I've been trying to re-learn my old study habits (if there were any there to begin with). I tore the ligaments in my thumb and that was enough to keep my sessions to "roll around status" for a while. I'm beginning to be able to hold onto my bike now while waiting for the next sunny day. Nothing too exciting really but I promise to write something interesting when it happens.
--Dustin
Dustin Checks In!
by: Brink | Friday, August 24, 2007
So I'm riding to work the other day, down a hill with a car just in front of me. The guy is going kinda slow, so I was watching to see if he was going to turn. He wasn't signaling and once he got mid-way through the intersection I figured out he wasn't gonna turn.
Just as I made that decision and let go of my brakes he does an "Oh shit that is the corner I want!" kinda turn.
I didn't really have any options but lock up and slide into him. I wasn't going all that fast cause I was watching out for him to begin with, but I hit him hard enough to get stuck with him and get taken around the corner.
I was wearing a jacket and once I fell to the ground it was like a normal crash on a bike but one of his rear tires rolled over the edge of my forearm. As soon as I felt it I was convinced (you don't get that feeling and not have a broken arm.)
I got up, walked to the edge of the road and started moving my arm to see if I could still move it and see if there was anything that didn't feel right. I could move my arm okay but I could already feel it swelling up.
Now, after a week and a half I'm still dealing with physio but the only thing it seems came out of it was some road rash and a bruise that moved through my arm.
I’m crediting this one to the jacket I was wearing. My arm probably would've been a lot worse if it was straight rubber and pavement on it. This came just over two weeks after I broke my nose in three places too.
I must have a horseshoe up my ass or something. They say bad luck travels in threes so we'll see what happens next..,
‘til then,
Dustin
Dustin Guenther Blog update!
by: Brink | Friday, June 29, 2007
Okay, so I guess some things have changed, but at the same time... nah, actually things have changed for me. I quit my bike sponsor a few months ago and made the inevitable decision to go back to school. I decided it wasn't fair to my current sponsors to try to ride, travel and go to school full time. So I told them just that and left the decision to keep me as a rider, in their hands. I told myself that as long as I was straight-up with everybody, that, at the end of the day, it'd be the wiser choice. I rode for etnies Canada for five years before falling asleep and thinking “a shoe is a shoe” and riding for a different company for a year and a half. When I woke up I was fortunate enough to be welcomed back to the etnies family, which is where I will be until I feel I'm just not gettin' sideways on my bike anymore.
I've been pro for 9 years and every decision in my life, before and during that time, has been to explore and experience all with my bike. I've met some assholes, as well as some truly unique people. I've been to shithole towns and topless beaches in the south of France. I know I'm not the most recognized guy out there and I probably won't try jumping the Grand Canyon anytime soon.
I hope I don't sound arrogant by writing this, but from my perspective, it's nice to know that there are companies out there actually give a shit about the riders that are and aren't winning every comp, getting every cover and the most coverage. Those are the ones that aren't gonna jump ship when the waters get a little rough. With that said, many thanks to anyone reading this as well as etnies, Primo, Square One, Ten Pack Distribution and We, The People, for supporting the riders, both the everyday ones and the rock stars for keeping our “sport” as cool as it is. Cheers! See you at Hastings.
Dustin
A Dustin Guenther Home Invasion
by: Cropley | Wednesday, March 14, 2007
- Dustin's porcelain throne
Rip TV has a full-on home/apartment invasion on Dustin's pad in Vancouver, Canad'eh on their site. It's quite entertaining and the garage ramp addition is badass and worth checking out...you'll be jealous! Watch it!
Also, check out Dustin's etnies blog...even if it is a little outdated!
Dustin Session's Estonia @ Simpel Session
by: Dustin Guenther | Monday, January 22, 2007
Just wanted to drop a line and a couple pics from Estonia.... It was pretty cold (about 20F) and snowed almost everyday and I don't think I saw the sun once when we were there. Tallinn, the city the comp was held in, is right on the Baltic Sea and has a part of the town that is almost 1000 years old. We went into a pub that was founded in 1643 and dubbed "Estonia's first pub." Along with a lot of the other restaurants and bars in that area, your imagination tends to run wild about what could've and probably has gone down in these places. The bars paint pictures of serving wenches and people eating huge drumsticks...Danny took advantage of all of ‘em.
The comp was crazy—way bigger than what I expected—and with a fully sold out arena, wasted Estonian’s and Catfish on the mic, it was bound to be good. Josh Harrington won the high Air comp with 13.8ft out of a 10ft quarter...WTF.
He also proceeded to tear the Wessell-designed course a new asshole and won the contest too. Right near the end of the his run he looped out on a double b-spin alley-oop over a hip and dislocated jaw...that guy can ride a bike. Chase Hawk got second by making riding look as fun as I've ever seen and using the whole course...all with taking but one foot off his whole run and running no pegs or brakes. Mirra got third with a clicked turndown flair, flair whip and a bunch of other things I don't understand. Danny T-whipped down a 6 set to flat and you couldn't even hear him land. Joe blasted 2ft out of a 16ft vert wall, Aaron Ross did feeble grinds to T-whip so easy it looked like if he sneezed he'd do a tailwhip. Ronnie Surridge does good 360's. Sergio rode the whole place both ways like only Sergio could...and with a smile on his face.
There were parties every night and the guy to girl ratio had to be 1-2. Everybody speaks English, good food doesn't cost as much as it does here and 90% of the country has free wireless. Summer in Estonia must be amazing with much more agreeable temps and the sun only going down for a few hours.
Cheers to Risto Kalmre for putting on one hell of a contest…hopefully see you next year.
dustin
A Very Merry Dustin Guenther Holiday!
by: Dustin Guenther | Thursday, January 4, 2007
I just wanted to drop a line again....merry friggin' Christmas. This year Christmas was great; I took it off. I didn't buy presents for anyone and had the opportunity to look at the general public frantically scramble around to find that perfect shitty present that only costs $20. For Christmas being a time of giving I saw a lot of pissy people and even saw a lady get out of her car and yell at 2 old guys who had just fingered her cause they cut her off......hilarious.
Anyway, now it's on to New Years and it looks like I'm going to a rodeo followed by a country concert....file it under something I've never done. In Mid January it looks like I might be able to go to the Simpel Session in Estonia where early December consisted of shooting an interview in Vancouver with Ben Crockett from BMX Plus. We ran into a lot of rain, which really isn't all that surprising, so we shot a lot of stuff in the Igloo. Something I kinda wanted to stay away from but....the weather's gonna be what the weather's gonna be.
Other than that, my truck is back in the shop through no fault of my own. If you know of a good mechanic anywhere please send me his number. It seems every mechanic I've ever come across is shady in one way or another. Anyway, enough of me bitching. I hope things are well with everyone and old man winter has been kind to ya.
Take care and I'll talk at you soon,
Dustin
Dustin Guenther's etnies Blog!
by: Dustin Guenther | Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Dustin Guenther is now among the list of distinguished "bloggers" on etniesbmx.com... holla!
- Photo: Ten Pack
So, I'm driving home the other day...there is traffic in my lane but the lane next to me is open. So I stop, let a car pass and punch it to get over into the open lane. Y'know when the tires spin in a truck and sometimes the rear end bounces? It felt like my truck did that, but it kept doing it.
Feeling like a chump for driving like an asshole and obviously blowing something up in my truck, I make my way over to the side of the street. I've been with friends that have blown out drive shafts in 4X4's so, at first thought, that's what I was thinking. I put it in 4X4 but it still did it...I could drive it, but the last thing my truck wanted to do was move.
- Photo: Ten Pack
I put my hazards on and drove the rest of the way home with it vibrating like a crappy civic with too much bass. I called the shop that worked on it last (from when the idiot ran into it in the summer) and they sent a tow truck. Apparently the tubes in my differential twisted around the axle and ripped the welds right out of the differential itself. Good timing 'cause I just got off the freeway, which could have been interesting if that happened doing 110.
So now I'm back in a rental, a mini van actually, which has proven to be rather boring aside from its seemingly low profile. Ben Crockett from BMX Plus was in town shooting photos for a few days. I had to work on a spot one night and parked the mini van right in front of where I was working. I'm sure the business owners wouldn't appreciate what I was doing so I was trying to hurry and get it done. In the time I was there, two cop cars drove passed and didn't even slow down, let alone stop to see what I was doing...I'm banking this one on the mini van and societies perception of "there's no way that soccer mom would be doing anything illegal." Maybe I'll trade the 4X4 in and just get a lift and some knobbies on a mini van.
Merry Friggin Christmas
- Dustin