So Wilson's Motorsports puts on a desert trip for their customers each year. They invite all their customer's out to the dez for a couple days of riding and feeds lunch to everyone one day along with raffling off some great swag from some of their vendors. This was the 12th year they have put this on. I attended the event the last 2 years only for a day ride, but missed the lunch activities and raffle. (some of you may remember a thread where Bota and the one half owner of the shop locked the keys in my truck way out by Cuddy Back Dry lake). Well since I have purchased a bike from the shop this last year (CDA Jr's 350), we made a weekend out of this trip this year.
I was really bad about taking pictures this trip so my photo contribution is going to be a little weak. I will have to rely on Rack to contribute here.
The Mgr, CDA Jr and myself headed out Thursday around 3pm for the dez with the rolling condo hooked up. We had the Cat, Modded TTR and a couple mountain bikes secured in the garage out back. The game plan was to leave around 2 and we would try and time meeting Rack and crew just outside Mojave and follow each other out, but JR did a "SQUIRREL!" and did not get home until 2:45.
Well we rolled into Mojave to fuel up the truck as I already had fuel, water and food in the condo. We stopped at the supermarket there to grab some ice, some more fruit and dinner for the night. When I went to leave, we noticed that where I parked the driveway heading back out of the parking lot was covered in over grown tress and the condo would never make it through, so we had to snake our way around the parking lot to get out.
As I was making my last maneuver, my mgr informed me that I clipped the last tree as the rear of the condo likes to swing wide with turning..
So we are now out on the hwy and heading towards our destination. The sun is now going down and all is good. Condo looks pretty all lit up at night as I have never had her tooling down the road after dark.
We are about 20 mins away when Rack calls and says "where you at?" I told him the desert blows and I turned around and went home
. Said we are 20mins out and hung up. Looked in my mirror and notice it was really dark behind the cab of the truck. I tapped my breaks and about 41'11" back I could see my break lights come on...
What happened to my beautiful running lights?
I pulled over at "Y" of Garlock and Randsburg Rd. (for you locals) to take a look. Sure enough the trailer is dark, no running lights. I unplug and plug in the lights and nothing. I do have turn and break, so I jump back in the truck and head out. I will look at those later. I start to see headlights approaching in my Rear view mirror and think, I may want to let them know there is dark condo rolling down the street, so I hit the hazards for the rest of the way in.
We pull into camp, get setup, unloaded and enjoy some dinner. Hang out by the fire a meet a few new people and then hit the bed around 11pm for an early morning ride........
Stay Tuned....
I was really bad about taking pictures this trip so my photo contribution is going to be a little weak. I will have to rely on Rack to contribute here.
The Mgr, CDA Jr and myself headed out Thursday around 3pm for the dez with the rolling condo hooked up. We had the Cat, Modded TTR and a couple mountain bikes secured in the garage out back. The game plan was to leave around 2 and we would try and time meeting Rack and crew just outside Mojave and follow each other out, but JR did a "SQUIRREL!" and did not get home until 2:45.
Well we rolled into Mojave to fuel up the truck as I already had fuel, water and food in the condo. We stopped at the supermarket there to grab some ice, some more fruit and dinner for the night. When I went to leave, we noticed that where I parked the driveway heading back out of the parking lot was covered in over grown tress and the condo would never make it through, so we had to snake our way around the parking lot to get out.
As I was making my last maneuver, my mgr informed me that I clipped the last tree as the rear of the condo likes to swing wide with turning..
So we are now out on the hwy and heading towards our destination. The sun is now going down and all is good. Condo looks pretty all lit up at night as I have never had her tooling down the road after dark.We are about 20 mins away when Rack calls and says "where you at?" I told him the desert blows and I turned around and went home
. Said we are 20mins out and hung up. Looked in my mirror and notice it was really dark behind the cab of the truck. I tapped my breaks and about 41'11" back I could see my break lights come on... What happened to my beautiful running lights?I pulled over at "Y" of Garlock and Randsburg Rd. (for you locals) to take a look. Sure enough the trailer is dark, no running lights. I unplug and plug in the lights and nothing. I do have turn and break, so I jump back in the truck and head out. I will look at those later. I start to see headlights approaching in my Rear view mirror and think, I may want to let them know there is dark condo rolling down the street, so I hit the hazards for the rest of the way in.
We pull into camp, get setup, unloaded and enjoy some dinner. Hang out by the fire a meet a few new people and then hit the bed around 11pm for an early morning ride........
Stay Tuned....
off the back of the seat and hang on....We took the trail to the right of the picture all the way down to the hwy. I looked at the Max MPH on my trip meter on the bars and we saw 31.5 mph in this section. Some sweet whoops and rocks to fly through.
