Todd Lyons has been keeping a journal since 1987 when he was 15 years old. He has started posting some of his journal entries on his website and they are pretty funny/timeless. Here is one he released of him backflipping a mountain bike.

"October 11th, 1994
Actual Journal Entry
Went to Sheep Hills in the morning. Took my BMX bike & mountain bike. I rode with Greg Hill a bit before others showed up. Later, the guys from Haro showed up & did a photo shoot with me for a Haro ad. I mainly rode my mountain bike. I did pretty much everything on it, even flips! I'm going to be in a Haro mountain bike ad. Cool. Then rode my BMX bike & did all the same stuff. Was a good day! Came home & chilled
it & then did sprints up the Edwards hill by my house. Then came home & went to the gym & got back at midnight. Ahh, a day full of goodness.

Looking Back Now
I think I may have been one of the first riders to flip a mountain bike. This was well over a decade ago, back in the fall of 1994.

It's funny, sometimes I open up a current mountain bike magazine & I see a full page ad with a dude doing a flip. Shoot, I was bustin' that like 13 years ago! LOL… It's all good though, flips are still the one of the funnest tricks out there.

You'd laugh if you could see how dope my bike wasn't. It was a pretty much stock Haro mountain bike. I'm
talking quill stem, straight bars, shady cranks, and cheesy Rock Shock forks. It served it's purpose, though. This was actually the same bike that I rode for a whole season of NORBA downhill and dual slalom races.
Needless to say, I didn't set the world on fire. But I sure did have fun trying!

Photo
This is the actual Haro ad that came from that day of shooting. I remember some mountain bike riders commenting that they thought it wasn't real & it was done by photoshop. Back in the mid 90's, they couldn't believe that flips were possible on a mountain bike."

I saw this sign on the way to the Etnies skatepark last night.
I was kind of worried. 

I like the idea of 10 minute team videos online.  They are quick, easy to watch and they don't cost the company anything to duplicate, just server space.Mirraco cranked out two of these visa already. The first one was 15 minutes long and this one if 9 minutes long. The San Fran section is pretty good, everything else is a lot of contest and Mirra's wareshouse footage.

If you can suffer through this guy's monotone voice for four minutes he will blow your mind.I wonder if Adobe has made him an offer yet.

Do you  believe this? I find it hard to believe that the guy with the camera wouldn't have swerved to his death once he saw that deer come onto the road.