Simon Tabron @ Rockstar Energy Drink BMX

Me and Bucky at Busch Gardens last weekend

I rode at the 5th annual Clash at Clairemont event yesterday, along with Rockstar teammates Bucky Lasek, Rob Lorifice and Danny Mayer.
Dave Duncan kept the crowd entertained on the mic and a ton of money was raised for the Grind For Life Foundation.
It was an amazing event with vert, street and pool demos, along with bands including Agent Orange.
It was only the 2nd time I had ridden since getting KO’d and injuring my foot a few weeks back and it felt great to be back in action!
Here’s a couple of pics:

Update…

Written by: Simon Tabron

I’ve had a crazy couple of weeks; first, I got a call from Mat Hoffman asking me if I’d ride at the Grammys. Mat’s old friend Spike Jonze had recently directed a video for Arcade Fire and they wanted to recreate the bike riding from the video for their Grammy performance. Spike called Mat and they decided to have real bmxers instead of random people.
So, I found myself at the Staples center along with bmx legends Dave Voelker, Rooftop and Mat Hoffman. We rehearsed with the band for a couple of days and they worked out what they wanted us to do; essentially riding in circles and jumping a bit on an icy-slippery stage in no space with blinding strobe lights! It was a completely surreal experience but it all ended up going well as was a crazy once-in-a-lifetime experience.
There were so many crazy celebrities – Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, P Diddy, Eminem, Rhianna, just walking right past us in the hallways. Craziness!

Check out the bike I rode up for auction http://shop.ebay.com/hoffmanfundraisers/m.html

After the Grammys, I jumped in my car and whisked my girl off to Palm Springs for a surprise Valentine’s getaway.

By the time I got home, I was excited to ride and headed over to the ramp. About 25 minutes into my session, I missed my bars on a double barspin, landing no handed and looping out backwards. I hit the back of my head really hard and got knocked out. By the time I came round, I could feel insane pain in my foot and figured it was broken.
After a visit to Dr.Chao and some x-rays, it turned out that I had no breaks but he was suspicious that I had snapped a major ligament in my foot. 2 days later and I got my MRI results – NO LIGAMENT TEARS!!!!! Just a badly bruised bone.
So, 2 weeks in a boot and I should be good. feel like I dodged a bullet there!!!!!

So I’m really happy, I was scared that I was going to have surgery and 6 weeks off whereas now I’ll be back on my bike in about 2 weeks!

Here’s a couple of pics: