RR #1...Saturday ...day 1...I have no pic's to share, Timo's got a few, A2's got some and so does Sun...not sure about any others.
Got there Friday night set up the rez...hooked up the trailer, power, etc, etc. Weatehr was cool butnot cold. Got up Sat AM to short sleeve weather at 6:30...Timo and A2 showed up roughly around 7:30...then Cleonard, Geek & Irish Hill, then Sun and SheFixIt....unloaded, chatted a little geared up and took off to a day of helll.....uhhhh fun. We decided to go on the Rattle Snake Canyon ride up and over the MOUNTAIN to Pioneer Taon to Pappy and Harriets for lunch. Geek and IH had to leave by 3:00 to get home for antoerh gig they needed to be at...Timo said, "NO PROBLEM, it's an easy ride...worst part is getting to the canyon"
...With the whoops out of the way we started up the canyon deeeeeeeeeeeep sand....
...We came up on a group of Jeepers. We stopped to take a break. When i pulled up I put my foot down and sank into the sand resulting in dumping the bike...I picked "IT" (as I will call it at this time...new name IT later) up and went and sat down. Time to saddle up for the next
miles of saaaaaaaaaaaaand. I tried but could'nt start IT, everyone had a go of it. Timo gave it a couple kicks when IT bit back and slapped him in the back fothe leg. He went down for a few and got up limping. I felt bad
for a minute. Finally got it started
. We took off and just aroudn the corner we come across a little trickle of water made the saaaaaaaaaaaand a little more tollerable. Got through that made a few more stops along the way where we had to wait for Geek...he was serious about ridign sweeper on this ride...Poor guy, once he caught up and Timo saw him he took off. On one stop he came aroudn the corner everyone tok off, I stayed and waited for him...he rolled up with a blank stare in his eyes looking straight ahead. I asked him if he needed a break, he never even looked at me just shook his head and said "I'm good" so off we went. Finally got out of THAT wash and onto hard pack...started seeing a lot of Joshua trees and pines mixed, I knew we were close to the top...then started seeing cabins, homes, ranches then came across the burned out quads that Timo had posted pics of a while back...weird site to see. Made our way through a small residential area
at the posted 10mph
then back onto dirt...then into ANOTHER FRICKEN WASH.....Geek was so thilled at this he could hardly hold back his emotions
...TIMO's A LIAR...EASY MY ASS....I didn't actually hear this but I'm sure it was being thought of by several if not most! Close to our destination andthe last wash we lost IH and Geek, they turned right instead of left....we heard em just couldn't see em. so we waited. Thankfully the trail they picked was dead end (a nice "look out" spot. We got back together..oh and mind you there were a couple more instances where IT wouldn't start without many attempts. We finally get to Pappy and Harriets. the place is crawlign with people...we foudn a couple tables inside, gave our orders just to hear the kitchens really backed up and our order will be a litle late. By this time there was no way were going to back to the rez by 3:00 so when Geek and IH hear this they were thrilled to no end...
...We told them they could hop on the 247 and be back there in 15 minutes
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...they decided not to chance it. Had a great lunch, sorry no picks you have to trust us however I will NEVER order chilly again when on a ride!
...we gear up, saddle up and IT won't start. I'm cussing liek a sailor when a guy and his wife and kid walks by and says "bet that'll be the last Husky YOU ever own..."
..even though the thought did go thru my mind I gave him the fuck you look through my helmet and polarized goggles
. I get it started and head to GIANT ROCK...not much sand to speak of and what there was was easier to ride in...we get to Giant Rock...Geek and IH are LATEa dreading the ride home let alone the greeting they're going to get once they get there. We gear up, get on the bikes and IT...or should I say EL DIABLO won't freeeeeeekin start AGAIN. We got to the point that A2 pulled me and bump started it pretty quick...what a relief (many thanks to A2 and Timo for havign the strap). The Geek's bike won't start...I thinking what a fricken relief...the lime light is off of me for a little bit. He finally gets his bike going and the ride back is nothing but road BUT no one knows which one to take so we just ride in THAT direction. Almost to the highway and EL DIABLO runs outof gas...
...I turn on reserve, kcik andno start kcik and kick and kick...
. I turn off the gas...oh yeah, this had become part fo the routine on and off, on and off...didn't seem to matter what position it was in it started whenever IT wanted to.) Turned the gas off and the choke on BAMMMM El Diablo sparked back to life. we're on our way however now at the highway where do we cross???? we skirt the highway on a little single track (kind of) I'm following A2, he's behind SheFixIt and SUN when I see SheFixIt's helmet bob, then a cloud of dust...all of a sudden I ride up and A2 has gone down into a ditch. I can't stop without rolling into it...he's laying off to the side on his back in the ditch. I roll down into the ditch and land MAYBE 6" inches from hitting him in the Johnson
...that was the look I saw on his face...He heard me yelling Oh FUuuuuuuuudge (not quite, more like the holy mother of cuss words.)...we wound up laughing since niether of us got hurt...got back up both bikes started
and off we went...Grouped back up and made our way back to the rez part of itwas cros country ending up riding across my ASSHOLE neighbors property "F" him I'm home!
...First thing that came to mind was "I amd too tired and sore, no way am I going to grill anything tonight...mroe to come...I have to take a break! There will be more input I'm am sure if it hasn'talready been posted.