Whole thing was a bit of a boondoggle. This guy from the states, Ryan Hamilos, rich white dude with dreadlocks, was into mountain biking and had hooked up with some local dreadlocked mountain bikers. You live down there-ish, so I assume you are far more educated in the dread/straight animus that can at times exist. It was an education for me, for sure.
Anyway, these guys had a patch of land with a big rundown house, I think it was somewhere between Westmoreland and Holetown, but it was about 1995 and we were smoking weed by the fistful, so my memory is super spotty about the exact geo-details. They had access to some more land over on the east side of the island, and were running mtb day trips for tourists, and hoping to build up a whole lodge/eco-resort/trail center, but I think at some point Ryan lost interest or the dynamic between everyone changed. I was mostly hanging out with a former runway model named Eamon Healy-Singh (who I think is rescuing turtles in Tobago and trying to spread mtb stoke there now) and the very fit Bradley Babb (who had never been off the island but was ungodly quick on a bike. Last I heard he was doing permaculture work in New Mexico).
Sept. 8, 2022, 9:49 a.m. - Mike Ferrentino
Whole thing was a bit of a boondoggle. This guy from the states, Ryan Hamilos, rich white dude with dreadlocks, was into mountain biking and had hooked up with some local dreadlocked mountain bikers. You live down there-ish, so I assume you are far more educated in the dread/straight animus that can at times exist. It was an education for me, for sure. Anyway, these guys had a patch of land with a big rundown house, I think it was somewhere between Westmoreland and Holetown, but it was about 1995 and we were smoking weed by the fistful, so my memory is super spotty about the exact geo-details. They had access to some more land over on the east side of the island, and were running mtb day trips for tourists, and hoping to build up a whole lodge/eco-resort/trail center, but I think at some point Ryan lost interest or the dynamic between everyone changed. I was mostly hanging out with a former runway model named Eamon Healy-Singh (who I think is rescuing turtles in Tobago and trying to spread mtb stoke there now) and the very fit Bradley Babb (who had never been off the island but was ungodly quick on a bike. Last I heard he was doing permaculture work in New Mexico).