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[QUOTE="SirThumper, post: 544467, member: 19789"] Sunday day two I wake from a dream I was having about riding, only I was lost in a sea of bubbles as far as the eye could see. The night before the wind had really come up and I was worried a little about sundays ride being a little nasty, I spent a while going to sleep listening to the wind howl up a storm. Looking out the window, I see one of the prettiest blue skies I have seen in a while. The wind had calmed a bit but was still brisk. After meeting at the storage building and loading up the bikes we were on our way to moonrocks. As soon a I arrive and have my bike unloaded Strick comes over as tells me I am going to be riding with a friend of his, a former Hare and Hound #1 plate holder, I believe his name was Ray. If I am mistaken I will refer to him as the Silver bullet, do to the all silver KTM he was riding, and the speed at which he rides it. As soon as I was ready, I head over to the silver KTM and am greeten by Angryjim, his bro, kelly, Ray and Mike. Soon we were off, the first ten minutes into the ride, I start to wonder just how far I can go on 1.9 gallons of gas at this speed. My second thought was just how far am I going to be away from moonrocks when it happens. We kept up a quick pace up for a 3 to 4 miles I guess and the Silver bullet comes to a stop to see how we all feel and if we were comfortable with the speed. We all agree its ok, not at any one point yet, have we been off each others rear tire. Ray explains that we are going to make a loop over to a distant snowcovered mountain, it looked to be in California somewhere so I mentioned I was probably the worst off for gas. Turns out Mike has a small gas tank too, at least I wouldn't run out of gas alone ;) . After many hills, washes and just plain having a blast riding we head out across the valley floor which consist of more sand washes and some hard pack road. It was along this stretch that Mike has a near get off and spectacular save, maybe he should take up flattracking. This was a pretty open section of the floor so I was able to open the YZ450 up and soon passed the Angrybro's and caught Mike. We dice it out for a little bit before I show him just how fast the 450 is on a long straight. He later comments that he is going to add a 6th gear to his CR250, I think that is cheating since I only have 4. lol. Mike leads the way in the wash with me applying heavy pressure, all of a sudden, he blows a corner and I go around him and pin it, determined not to let him get me back in the wash. I Think Ray was feeling sorry for us and had slowed down because I caught him as we exited the wash and headed out across the desert. I felt pretty good at this point in the ride and was right on Ray as we made one of the coolest slolom trails, weaving in and out of sagebrush across the valley. The next adventureous thing to happend was my near getoff on a downhill, loose, rocky hill. At one point my front tire was on a rolling rock and my rear tire was atop a rolling rock, both at the same time going in opposite directions. I didn't panic and was somehow able to save the out of control maneuver. I hear AngryJim let out a whooooohooohooo behind me and I give him a lookback as if to say "you saw that huh", I shake my head and continue on. On the next stop a short time later, we realize that Kelly is missing. AngryJim goes back to look for him and is back with no luck, he mentions seein where someone wadded it up and footprints being all around, but no Kelly. The Silver bullet decides that a couple of us would stay put and the rest would go hit the beginning of the trail again and soon they were back with Kelly who had gone back to the crashsite knowing we would look for him. Back across the valley toward moonrocks we entered a wash and started up, soon everyone was stopped and ray was looking up a waterfall, I see everyone go up and over one at a time. The next one we get to is steeper with a slick, flat face to it. Someone motions to me that were heading down. I turn around and head down only to be called back, as soon as I turn around to look to see what was going on (still moving down the wash) I hit a rock with my rear brake lever "SMACK", my bike locks up and my lever is tucked under the case. Thank god someone was carrying tools and 20min later and with everyone taking their turn working on it, it was at least operational. Now up the second waterfall....I think AngryJim's bro is the only one that made it up cleanly, the rest of us needed assistance, two guys on either side, one guy on the bike and one behind. I still managed to drop my once brand new bike on its side bending my shift lever this time. we all finally made it. About this time Kelly sees in horror that his front axle is bent due to the earlier crash. The bearings were showing and I believe he got weak in the knees when it was mentioned that he had just came across that valley floor at about 70mph. :scream: The rest of the ride was more railing and flying low back to moonrocks. We were ready for a rest and a short lunch. The second ride of the day was without Ray but we did add Les. More of the same singletrack trails and small number of whoops :laugh:. we decided to slow the pace down some, but I'm not sure if we really did or not. We climbed some goat trails and I began to tire both physicaly and mentaly, I have only been on a limited number of rides this year and it was starting to show. I was making more and more mistakes, hitting bushes and rocks I normaly wouldn't have. On the last ridge back to the truck I slowed down and let the Angrybro's and Mike get away from me. I hung back and kept it safe and just cruised over to the last downhill. Sitting atop the hill I could see the moonrock area and was revived like a barn sour horse, I tucked in behind the bro's and Mike and we motored back to the staging area with Les in tow. When we arrived Mike gives me the "I'm about to die" look, I return the "I'm about to die" look and we shake our heads. What a great day of riding, There is no other way to say this but to say that you guys haul ass. It was a blast and I cannot wait til next year. With the Angrybro's similar riding styles, I swear they were never more than 5 feet apart from each other. Can't wait to ride with you guys again next year. Mike, it was cool to meet you and I hope to ride with you again next year. Bobby says you haven't been riding all that long, well, let me tell you, you have some natural riding skills my friend. You rocked. Les it was nice to meet you and ride with you. Ray, thank you for telling us you haven't raced since 1990, that made us all feel real...SLOW. lol. It was cool meeting and riding with you. Strick's ex-Silverbullet can still scoot. Kelly, to bad about the axle man, I kind of wish I would have seen the crash. hehe. Had a blast, can't wait till next year. Maybe you'll have a new bike then. My bike was awesome all weekend long, the 4 speed tranny proved to be no dissadvantage except when I got really tired in the tight stuff. Other than that this bike rocks!. I layed the bike over once the first day and I fell on the waterfall the second day, and yet the bike looks like it's been in a war zone. The cheap shroud stickers are tore up in the front from the sagebrush, I have some scratches along he right shroud from a rock I got a little close to, I have to replace my rear brake lever,and straighten my shift lever, I think she is finally broke in. :thumb: [/QUOTE]
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