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[QUOTE="the Eel, post: 747010, member: 19952"] Awesome day of riding ... couldn’t ask for much more - old friends (John, Dave), racing buds (Thumbs), relatively new friends (Tator, Jake), new riding spot, and nice weather. I REALLY liked the trails here. Thanks again John for another introduction ... add this to the Gorman group ride grand tour and also the TWMC introduction. Ballinger is pretty small but it’s definitely quality in my book. Lots of roller coaster stuff and really tight twisty canyon type trails. It’s amazing how many skills you don’t practice riding in the desert. I was multi-tasking like crazy ... blip the throttle, lean forward, hit the brakes hard, brake slide, down shift, blip the throttle, turn, miss that tree, brake slide, turn left, turn right, turn left, left, right ... duck ! This riding was pretty intense. Loved it ! It’s too bad TWMC doesn’t race there anymore ... though I can see the difficulties in it. Anyway ... we did a 25 or 30-miler and then John and Dave had to take off ... work duties for David. John’s new KX/KDX hybrid was trick and he rode the wheels off it both along the ridges and through the twisties. We started off from camp and “he who shall not be named” took a very hard crash ... got badly out of shape in some big whoops ! I missed the actual crash and only came upon him after ... laying facing down, not moving, arms at his side like a rag doll's ... I was pretty freaked when I rounded the bend and saw that .... always a bad thing. Tony had witnessed the carnage and was already checking him out ... he came around slowly and I suspect he mighta been KO’d for a bit there. But we ran him through a battery of tests and he wasn’t complaining about any weird feelings so we headed off again after taking an extended and much needed breather. Glad you’re OK man .. a good excuse to treat yourself to a trick new helmet .. there are alot of nice ones out there right now ! We got out of the whoops and then hit some big roller coasters, with nice sweeping, open sections between where you could go WFO for a stretch ... WFO ... fifth-gear pinned, baby, scar tissue time ! :joke: Then it was into the woods sections - which were just fantastic ... much tighter than the Gorman woods and made even more technical because of the mud holes and mud ruts that would pop up around every blind corner ... so much fun. Later on we hit the canyon single track where you were like riding under the walls almost at times ... riding under these overhangs of dark brown dirt. Everyone was riding great and Tator blew me away by handling his 426 like it was a toy in the tight. The only other carnage was PlaceLast’s hand ... which no longer looked like his hand anymore but a giant‘s hand. OUCH ! Hope it’s not broken ................ bet it is. :p I almost joined the carnage list just as we were descending a long whopped out downhill in view of camp .. I got the urge to blitz it and the back end rebounded and sent me up off the seat, feet in the air, white knuckle grip ! Lucky that time. Well that loop had to end eventually and we got back to camp and John and Dave headed off after farewells. Thumbsy was fighting off the nasty bug that’s been going around, so he too called it a day ... which left Tator, myself, and MelloYello for one more quick loop - quick as it was now 1 PM, and way hotter than it should be for this time of year. We headed off the same way we started the 1st loop .. took 6 out of camp, hung a right on 7 (I think) .. then straight through on 14 (up those white concrete tiles this time instead of down) and then on 50 to 36, where we hung a left, intending to bang another left onto 52, hoping 52 was another canyon twisty. However, before we hit the left turn for 52 we passed a lightly used trail on the left with an un-numbered marker with only a white diamond on it. We circled back and checked it out, and sure enough, a hidden trail .. the dream of many a trail rider. And what a trail it was ! Twisty uphill singletrack, off-camber, in and out of little gulleys, all sandy and with logs across the trail to navigate and bushes to fight off. This one is definitely not on the map, but there it was. Awesome trail, ending with an uphill that Tator almost made if it wasn’t for the fact that his bike was now boiling over and his clutch was pretty much toast ! We rested at the top ... which spit us out at the intersection of 52 and 51. We took 51 back to 50, then to 34, then 34 back down 14 again, and then finished up taking 24 back to camp. Tired and satisfied. :) [/QUOTE]
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