I have some pretty big news to announce. I have sold MacNeil Bikes, and Ten Pack Distribution to my business partners Darcy Saccucci and Jamie McIntosh who’ll continue to run them like normal. I’ve also shut down Metro Events. After spending my entire life either on a bike, or working in the bike business I’m walking away from it.

While it’s pretty scary leaving it all behind, I’m super excited for the new life that lies ahead. I haven’t yet decided what that life will be. I’m going to take a while to relax and see what comes up.

I want to thank everyone whom I’ve ridden with, partied with, and worked with over the years. I especially want to thank Darcy, Jamie and everyone else that’s worked with me at MacNeil and Ten Pack. It’s been amazing!

- Jay

Jay’s been riding sample cruisers for a while, but when the production frame and forks came in, he couldn’t resist building a new bike up. He started with our frame and fork kit, got it custom painted, and then built it up with all our green parts! Check out more photos and full speck after the jump.

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Dillon Lloyd, Travis Collier, Jay and I headed up to Kelowna and Penticton for another leg of the Ten Pack Re-Session tour last weekend. We were only up there for 2 days, but we did so many things, it felt like we were there for a week! Huge thanks to all the locals, Geislinger, Lazerdick, and Al Shatz! The Inferno Jam was rad and we always have the best time up there.

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Kurt from BMX Union interviewed Jay for his site as well as the Dig site. The interviews turned out good and you can check them out here – Jay on BMX Union and Jay on Dig BMX.

Check out an interview with Jay on a dope local site, Vancouver Is Awesome!

Owain Clegg hit Jay up about the same time as he did his interview for Vital with some questions for the Seventies site. The interview turned out dope and you can check it out here!

Jay has an interview up on Viat. Check it out!

Jay, Travis Collier, Chris Martindale, and I headed down to L.A. to check out the Nike Lightning Bolts art show, hang out with Gary Young, and do some riding. The trip was awesome and It’s always rad to chill with our friends in California. The trip started with Jay and I driving down to Seattle to meet up with Chris Martindale, we got a cheep flight out of Seattle, so Travis met up with us later in the night after taking the train down…

The first day in LA was the Nike Lightning Bolts show and we had a blast. The show was rad and Travis and I had plates in it. The next day, we rode some street and had a night session at the Santa Monica park. On Friday, we headed down to San Diego to ride with Gary. It took us a bit to get down, but we had a lot of fun with Gary. Saturday, we were back in LA, where I hosted an art class with Nike, then we hit a birthday party for Jim Bauer and Mike Ardeleans friend. After an hour and a half sleep, we were up and on a plane back to Seattle.

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