Mike Day, BMX Olympic Silver Medalist at Oakely.
Troy with Shawn Palmer, pro snowboarder and now downhill mountain biker.
Syndicate's youngest pro, Josh Brycland in the pits at sea-otter 2009.
He's not a pro mountain biker but hey, it's Michael Anthony of Van Halen!!!
Troy meets Sam Hill as the 2007 Sea-Otter.
Aaron Chase stopped by our Syndicate JD trailer at Sea-Otter. He's super cool and hung out for a while.
Here's the Syndicate Pro's at the team kickoff party. Troy got to hit the dirt jumps with them all day.
Johnny O'Mara former motocross legend and now expert mountain bike racer win XC in Vermont the same day as Troy.
We hooked up with Clay Porter after Crankworx 07 and had a short video shoot.
Troy with JD Swangun in Colorado. Troy and I saw JD everywhere this summer: Woodward West, Vermont at Nat'l Champs (they both won), Whistler and Colorado. Thanks JD for being so cool to Troy!!!!
Here is Troy in Mt. Snow, Vermont with XC Pro National Champ Adam Craig.
Check it out----World Famous Hans "No Way" Rey!!!!!! Troy loves Hans and has watched his movie dozens of times. Troy's favorite part of biking is "trials riding" and Hans is the best and has influenced more mountain bikers than ANYBODY!!!!
World Champion Brian Lopes watches Troy on his downhill National Championship run. Brian's comment was "look how little he looks coming down". He raced the same course that the pros raced on.
Duncan Riffle wins in Sonama Pro Mens Downhill and we met up w/him in Whistler for the pic. He's a great guy and we hope he will do good at the World Cup level.
Nate Adams, we met him at a gas station in Oregon at 10:30pm driving to Utah from Whistler BC. We saw all of his Santa Cruz bikes in the back of his truck so we introduced ourselves. He is a great guy and an even better dirt jumper.
Kyle Strait the day before his win in the "Redbull Rampage" 2004
Cameron Zink at the 04 Rampage. See the dirt on his shoulder, it's because he fell of a 25 foot cliff without his bike and that's where he landed. He was laying in the back of his car in major pain and when he found out Troy wanted his pic wit him he got out and stood up the best he could. This guy is tough!!!!!
Super T at the 04 Rampage with a broken foot
Timo Pritzel, he's from Germany and we finally got to meet him at the Oakley Freeride Park right by our house!!!! After watching him, Lopes, Strait and Schley do a photo shoot we talked with Timo for a while and snapped a quick pick with my camera phone