Please note: If you are expecting tons of rad nasty trail pictures and helmet camera footage, you are in the wrong location. If you want a long winded post about a couple guys having good clean fun on spring break, you're in the right place.
Here recently I took a mini vacation to Moab Utah with a group of guys out of Lubbock Texas. All of them good guys, but for the most part inexperienced on bikes and one guy didn't even have a bike, so I let him ride one of mine.
Saturday, they drive from Lubbock to Gallup, spend the night on Property De Snowflake Sr.
Sunday, before we roll out, KTM bro reveals KTM isn't running very well well, bike won't start, ok dirty carb, we put it in the shop, thinking since its steel framed and we can see the carb it will be easy, well you have to pull the subframe off to get to it anyway, and we get that done, pull the carb, I removed the float to clean more thoroughly, after cleaning is done I leave to use the restroom and the rest of the fellas went ahead and put the bowl back on, so we slap the rest of the bike back together, and it now runs, but it dumps fuel out the overflows like crazy, we'll deal with it in Moab, so we drive up there, and all while we were driving and most of the night I was trying to figure out what could be wrong, eventually float issue clicked and I went to sleep, I woke up the following morning, unloaded it off his bike carrier and had it torn apart by our camper before everyone was up, the float had been put in backwards and one of the ends had broken off and jammed in the bowl. Phone calls were made, some dude had a carb off an 08 CRF450R off and offered to sell us the float if we thought it could work, I figured they were both FCR's so it would probably work, float was bought, it worked, KTM got ridden in Moab, good times were had.
KTM is put back together, we get a late start but we make our way out to Gemini Bridges, an easy trail that won't much up new riders. (KTM and dude on WR are still learning, other Kawi bro is golden) Blah blah, its basically a scenic ride for me, but on the return trip we made a journey down into bull canyon run, well on the way out, we notice that my borrowed WR and the quad in the group aren't with us, so with Dustin (kawi) and Blake (KTM) waiting at the branch off, I take off to see if I can't find them, and I ride past where we turn around, and still see nobody, and the trail is gradually getting harder and more technical and its like theres no way Taylor (riding my wr) made it through all this, at this point, I can see Dustin up above me on another trail and meet up with him, somehow Wanda and the Quad had made a wrong turn god knows where and had rejoined at the junction so we ride back up there, and everyone kinda decides to ride at their own pace back to the truck, I let everyone take off first, and figure I might as well have some fun and open it up a little since its all fast trail, pass the WR, catch and pass KTM, Dustin (other kawi) is way out front, so as we come down off the plateau and enter the rolling canyon before you climb out again, I lay the throttle wide open, and this was really fun for me, letting the rear end drift its way around corners and catching air under the front tire on elevation changes, Pass Dustin 5th gear tapped, and arrive at the trucks and wait.
Yours truly enjoying the view
Day 2 is time for cages, Blakes parents rented a jeep. We returned to Gemini Bridges so that their girlfriends could take in the view then headed for some more technical wheeling at Sand Flats recreation area, home of Fins'N Things and Hells Revenge (among others) started fins n'things but turned back since rent-a-jeep had to be returned at a certain time. After pointing them in the right direction, Dustin really wanted to do Hells Revenge (as did I) we discussed it for a few moments, time of day, what not, and for the first time in my life (only time) I said fuck it, you only live once and headed out to start the trail.
Here recently I took a mini vacation to Moab Utah with a group of guys out of Lubbock Texas. All of them good guys, but for the most part inexperienced on bikes and one guy didn't even have a bike, so I let him ride one of mine.
Saturday, they drive from Lubbock to Gallup, spend the night on Property De Snowflake Sr.
Sunday, before we roll out, KTM bro reveals KTM isn't running very well well, bike won't start, ok dirty carb, we put it in the shop, thinking since its steel framed and we can see the carb it will be easy, well you have to pull the subframe off to get to it anyway, and we get that done, pull the carb, I removed the float to clean more thoroughly, after cleaning is done I leave to use the restroom and the rest of the fellas went ahead and put the bowl back on, so we slap the rest of the bike back together, and it now runs, but it dumps fuel out the overflows like crazy, we'll deal with it in Moab, so we drive up there, and all while we were driving and most of the night I was trying to figure out what could be wrong, eventually float issue clicked and I went to sleep, I woke up the following morning, unloaded it off his bike carrier and had it torn apart by our camper before everyone was up, the float had been put in backwards and one of the ends had broken off and jammed in the bowl. Phone calls were made, some dude had a carb off an 08 CRF450R off and offered to sell us the float if we thought it could work, I figured they were both FCR's so it would probably work, float was bought, it worked, KTM got ridden in Moab, good times were had.
KTM is put back together, we get a late start but we make our way out to Gemini Bridges, an easy trail that won't much up new riders. (KTM and dude on WR are still learning, other Kawi bro is golden) Blah blah, its basically a scenic ride for me, but on the return trip we made a journey down into bull canyon run, well on the way out, we notice that my borrowed WR and the quad in the group aren't with us, so with Dustin (kawi) and Blake (KTM) waiting at the branch off, I take off to see if I can't find them, and I ride past where we turn around, and still see nobody, and the trail is gradually getting harder and more technical and its like theres no way Taylor (riding my wr) made it through all this, at this point, I can see Dustin up above me on another trail and meet up with him, somehow Wanda and the Quad had made a wrong turn god knows where and had rejoined at the junction so we ride back up there, and everyone kinda decides to ride at their own pace back to the truck, I let everyone take off first, and figure I might as well have some fun and open it up a little since its all fast trail, pass the WR, catch and pass KTM, Dustin (other kawi) is way out front, so as we come down off the plateau and enter the rolling canyon before you climb out again, I lay the throttle wide open, and this was really fun for me, letting the rear end drift its way around corners and catching air under the front tire on elevation changes, Pass Dustin 5th gear tapped, and arrive at the trucks and wait.
Yours truly enjoying the view
Day 2 is time for cages, Blakes parents rented a jeep. We returned to Gemini Bridges so that their girlfriends could take in the view then headed for some more technical wheeling at Sand Flats recreation area, home of Fins'N Things and Hells Revenge (among others) started fins n'things but turned back since rent-a-jeep had to be returned at a certain time. After pointing them in the right direction, Dustin really wanted to do Hells Revenge (as did I) we discussed it for a few moments, time of day, what not, and for the first time in my life (only time) I said fuck it, you only live once and headed out to start the trail.