5th Annual Damn Yankee Dirt Rider’s Spring ride

[Cruiser]

Hey Bill,
I might be up for the ride this year, I moved now I'm 40 minutes south of paragon. New house, new computor, dont have your email handy. You should really shoot down to my place for a ride sometime.
I'm on the Mt just above Jim Thorpe off 903.
Later,
Steve Cruise
HMDR
03 GG 250ec
97 GG 250ec

 

[scooter1130]

Just checking my schedule and I know I wont be there for the 12...and not sure about the 11 but I will try.
So who was the idiot that scheduled this ride for the same weekend as Southwick anyway :bang:

 

[Treejumper]

I'd say we ride saturday and all goto Southwick on sunday but its probably too far away for me to do in a day.

 

[scooter1130]

Southwick is about 3-3 1/2 hours from Paragon

 

[Treejumper]

An i'm 3 hours from Paragon. Hmmm. Would have to take work off on monday morning. Might just do it.

 

[scooter1130]

let me know if you want to...I am half way in between so you could leave your truck at my place if you wanted to do southwick...but let me know at least a week ahead so i can get 2 pit passes instead of just one

 

[Treejumper]

Cool, will do~!

 

[DaveRS575]

:yeehaw:

Gettin closer! It looks like this will be a good weekend for me!!!

If anyone wants to ride easy trails...I certainly won't mind joining them.. especially after some of those "easy" rides last year...

:rotfl:

 

[scooter1130]

hmmm now I gotta decide do I want to be in front of dave on the hill climbs or behind him where can I get the best shot of his attempts :laugh:

 

[DaveRS575]

hmmm now I gotta decide do I want to be in front of dave on the hill climbs or behind him where can I get the best shot of his attempts :laugh:

Hey now!!! It took me a couple years, but I haven't crashed a hill climb in the last 10 rides!! :) :aj:

Of cousrse...now that I've said that........ :bang:

 

[RM_guy]

Oh, the hill. I like that hil cuz it gives me a chance to rest while either Dave tries to climb it or Scooter tries to get his bike started with a dead battery :debil:

 

[DaveRS575]

Ok....Now all of you who are joining us for the first time take heed... :)

The one time you wipe out (Yes, I only wiped ONCE on this hill) if spectacular enough, will live on in infamy! I havent dumped on this hill since then...but of course.. the ONE TIME I wheelied off into the woods, ass hanging, wide open throttle because trying to catch the thing with my legs flailing in the air (Yes, there are photos, these guys made sure of that!) has been remembered above and beyond my multitude of successful climbs since then. As remembered was my spectacular surprise downhill run directly into a tree (no photos of that thankfully but a punctured chest protector as evidence of the impact)

No worries.. if they take you someplace to crash, THEY will know where it will happen, and they WILL have a camera handy.

Every DYR is an aweomse experienc though... truly

 

[scooter1130]

You had some successful attempts at that hil.....hmmmm I dont seem to remember that :rotfl:

 

[DaveRS575]

You had some successful attempts at that hil.....hmmmm I dont seem to remember that :rotfl:

Perhaps it's because you didn't show up for the last four rides with us... HMMMMMM???? :nener:

 

[JasonJ]

Ok....Now all of you who are joining us for the first time take heed... :)

. As remembered was my spectacular surprise downhill run directly into a tree (no photos of that thankfully but a punctured chest protector as evidence of the impact)

No worries.. if they take you someplace to crash, THEY will know where it will happen, and they WILL have a camera handy.

Every DYR is an aweomse experienc though... truly

Dave, I was trying to post for that one too, but since it ended up on top of a narrow ridge, I could not find a place to stick my bike so I could get the shoot, I knew it was going to be good when we poped up over the first ridge to find a steep downhill followed by an even bigger climb :aj: . I should have just stopped at the botom :coocoo: . But hey! we DO help you push your bike up after your all whooped from trying to ride it up!
BTW, no way we are letting you regress to "easy" rinding, our goal is to hone our camera,,,,,, eerrrrr your riding skills until your the guy taking the pics instead of making them. :yeehaw:
Oh and for the record, even though this http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jasnker/pics/Paragon/midsizepics/Dave3.jpg
looks like Dave has lost the trail, he must have found a better line because thats now where the trail has migrated to avoid "the rock"

 

[DaveRS575]

:) hehehe....well...that's true... you guys have helped me push that KDX out of some interesting locations... lol

I actually had a very interesting experience there the last ride I took, we ended up on top of the mountain in a rock garden that would have pissed off even the likes of Eugene. We found an awesome ridge though overlooking the entire park, and spent the next 4 hours basically walking our bikes through 2 feet of water and rocks until finally intersecting with Turtle somewhere in the middle.


BTW, Turtle was getting to be quite the challange the last time we were there. I did manage to ride the entire length up, but it very washed out..and i would think down would have been rough to say the least. I wonder what the snow has done to it since then.

No matter what trails we do, I'm totally psyched to get the dust off and get out there and to see all of you guys again! I noticed Nate has not chimed in here.... NATE???? Where are you????

 

[scooter1130]

Yeah I know I missed a few rides last season. But believe me I would have gladly taken your place and given everyone new storries to tell by crashed on some hills instead of sitting out the rides with a broken foot. :ugg:

Nate did chime in for the ride at Hatfield McCoy, but I havent heard him here yet. I'm sure he will be around soon enough.

 

[NRB]

Now Dave you know I'm going to be at the spring ride, I haven't missed one in the last two years. It is amazing how much abuse that KDX will take with you at the helm. I was behind you that day you went over that ridge and rammed that tree. Plus I have to be there with the spare battery for Scooter and the tire tools for Trigger and Jason.

 

[scooter1130]

I should be good I have a spare battery to carry with me now

 

[DaveRS575]

I should be good I have a spare battery to carry with me now

Heck....you COULD always use that 2 stroke that's been collecting dust! :)

Nate! Glad to hear you survived the winter! Can't wait to see ya!

 

[Treejumper]

I should be good I have a spare battery to carry with me now

Those really should come with a kick starter.

 

[scooter1130]

a kickstarter would be useless with a dead battery. The fuel injection wont work without a battery, even with a kickstarter. Ahh the joys of technology :coocoo:

 

[RM_guy]

a kickstarter would be useless with a dead battery. The fuel injection wont work without a battery, even with a kickstarter. Ahh the joys of technology :coocoo:

Those should really come with a carb.

 

[scooter1130]

Those should really come with a carb.

Yeah I know and those suzukis should really come with a pink skirt instead of that yellow one they give you :moon:

 

[DaveRS575]

Yeah I know and those suzukis should really come with a pink skirt instead of that yellow one they give you :moon:

DOH!!! :rotfl: