Todd Lyons.com

Actual Journal Entry:
“Rode to work in the morning at GT BMX. I got home & called Haro. They offered me a $500/month sponsorship salary & all travel expenses! I’m cool with that. It’s a deal! Welcome to fatness! I’m going to quit my job at GT tomorrow. At night, John Paul Rogers & I drank beer & then rode down by Main Street in Huntington Beach & went to the heavy metal bar, Mazotti’s. I met this girl (woman), Leslie. She’s from England & she was all up on me. John Paul & I went to another bar with her. We had fun! When we left, I doubled Leslie on my handlebars back to her house. Funny! She’s old! I think she’s about 35yrs old. I stayed the night there with her.”

Looking Back Now:
Man, I was absolutely stoked that Haro was going to pay me $500/month to ride for them. Wow! It felt so good to walk back into work the next day at GT to tell them that I quit. I was only making about $475/month working at GT three day a week. So I was on seventh heaven being able to quit my job and being able to be an official salaried “Pro Rider.” This was the first time in my life that a company actually paid me a salary to ride my bike. Man, I couldn’t believe it.

How about that “old woman?” Take note that I’m 35 yrs old now. I remember that we used to see her at all the bars & we’d named her O.E. As in “Old English.” And sure enough, I went home with O.E. I guess it was my way of celebrating my new Haro sponsorship.  I wonder if any girls at bars call me the “O.M.” nowadays?….

Photo
This photo just goes to show you how stoked I was with my new Haro sponsorship. In ALL of the years I have been riding (26 years), I had never took a photo of just my bike. Man, I was stoked to ride the Haro Monocoque! I can’t tell you how many of them frames that I bent in half!