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[QUOTE="CPT Jack, post: 272054, member: 19007"] [b]CPT Jack's report[/b] long one... I'm taking up my own page....:debil: Amanda and I left out of Redondo Beach at 3 AM Friday and arrived in Reno at 12 AM just in time for a well deserved nap. I was too tired for a pre-Renofest ride & good thing too b/c I was pretty sore by Sunday evening. Driving thru The Sacremento area was beautiful - really scenic with all the rolling wooded hills and open fields (Yeah I noticed that too!). I'll bet there's some fantastic riding there (if it's legal!). The Mexican restraunt the first evening was great. A lot of fun and I got to meet a lot of great new people including, E-Ticket (Randy) and The Ant(Susan), Mr.WR (Rick), and TTRGuy (finally - the Eel says your desert cooking skills are legendary!). A few drinks later and all was right with the world! It was already worth the drive. Got to sleep nice and early so Saturday morning was a cinch (not so for Sunday!) and conditions really were close to perfect. Strick greeted everyone & had 3 group planned: beginner, intermed., & advanced. I decided to go intermediate on the first day for a proper break-in. It can be said for certain that the Reno desert does not lack for Whoops! They were kicking my arse after the first 15 minutes! We were trekking along at a good clip & I lost it in one of the washes. I don't really know what happened but it was pretty soft landing. So after making my first "dirt angel" in Nevada I set the XR upright & begin the first of many kick-a-thon's. There must be a new *modified* drill to starting after dumping it since the installation of the pumper carb b/c it definitely doesn't work like before. Anyway after 100 or so kicks & a string of profanities it finally fires & off we go. Yee-haw! It was a pretty short loop so our fearlessleader led us back & took us out again for an ad-hoc jaunt into the hills. We got a bit of altitude climbing those desert hills - going through whoops & some quality singletrack and ending up w/ me out of breath. We stopped at 6700 ft (GPS) & took some group photos with the wide open valley floor below us. The trek ended with a big long sandy downhill (the last one of those I did in December ended with me bailing & hurting my ankle pretty good). The Ant and CJ on the Pampera were ahead of me & even though I was locked up on the brakes, I was closing rapidly. I knew I was going to smack into the rider in front of me if I didn't bail, so I decided I had to ditch lest things get real ugly & jumped clear. It turned out fine (nice & soft) so I let them get some distance, bumped it & rode it down, watching the guy on the yammie in front of me bite it face first. So Zio, you weren't the only one .... oh yeah, he was haulin' ass too! ;) Fun ride. I arrived back at the truck to find sandwiches & adult beverages. ...and there was much rejoicing ;) Saturday's final loop wore me out. The guys in front were haulin & not looking back. After a long downhill I was trying to keep contact w/ the guys in front & the rider behind me but the guys in front had vanished & we couldn't tell which tracks were theirs. So after the obligitory looking around & shrugging of shoulders the other rider & I stop to figure out what what to do now. Hey so you're Zio! I thought you were a chick! ...j/k. We decide to just explore (gotta love GPS) so we take off up this whooped out hill that never ends. The monkey-butt was killing me :moon: & we stop to rest. Sounds like a couple bikes coming our way & over the hill pops Thumbs & a couple other riders (FremontGuy?). Guess they got seperated too. We cruised back to camp at a good clip w/o incident ...'cept for soil sample Zio stopped to take! Sunday was a bit sore. Stayed out too late as well, but what are gonna do? Strick took us out for loop which saw a lot of people bail b/f even a quarter way thru. Although my legs were toast, that loop was a blast - especially that fire road leading up the mountain. Endoquest goes off thru the snow like there's some kind of trail there & I'm thinking "What the heck? why not." Man I was P.O.'d by the time I got out of the snow. I made 3 snow angels and kicked that freakin' bike about 250 times. I believe Marshall documented the debacle well in photo's 42-50. I fell into a bush on the last one when I couldn't get my foot down and got a stick in the butt and a hole tore in my (bike) seat. My butt is a deep shade of black & blue at the moment. Kinda like 'kaliedescope on pasty left cheek' (sorry for the visual). Well it was a great time overall. Got to ride a lot of cool bikes. E-Tickets KTM400, Tee's 200EXC, a GasGas 300EC, Zio's (Farmer john's) CR250, and Darth Bundy's YZ250f. And someone actually wanted to ride mine! Thanks Randy! The Pumper carb rules. That CR250 scared me but all the others were great. The biggest suprise was how immediately comfortable the 250f felt. Awesome bike. Here's a shocker - Amanda riding a dirt bike! She's never ridden before or expressed an interest. I figured she'd be in the casino's all day, but she actually got on a bike & rode! Wow, that was cool. Thanks to DougM's wife & everyone else for all their support. Really, everyone was so cool it's almost kind of unbelievable. Special Thanks to Strick & Mimi. Also Randy & Susan, The Tortoise & family, BrianC & family, Buddy & Mini, Pegasus & Marshall, and everyone else. See ya next time! [/QUOTE]
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