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1st weekend back RR: Very long
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[QUOTE="bbbom, post: 86276, member: 16301"] I give, I give!!!! Lori, it was after one of my long reports, I told Michelle to top THAT!! I think she may have. I know what you mean Michelle by your partner not giving you enough of a rest - I always give my partner a much better rest than they give me! Glad to hear you enjoyed the race. For our weekend, we did a Mother's Day ride, which worked out great because my son was in trouble for not turning in homework so I had a free babysitter!! Karl got new riding pants and jersey for his birthday and I got a new set for Mother's Day - do my kids know how to shop!! ;) We were joined by my brother (KX250), two of his buddies (one on a KX250 and one with no left hand on a CR250) and another couple that rides with us frequently (XR400 and XR200). June is one of the funniest people to ride with. She's rides an 86 XR200 and can go ANYWHERE on it. She is not speedy but I have rarely witnessed her fall. She always rides behind me and she claims it is because she doesn't want to hold me up, I KNOW that isn't the truth, she really does it for the comedy! To get to the trails we ride a logging road through my property that is about 2 miles long to get to the Paper Company's property then onto the mountain. We had a nice trail that bypassed most of my logging road and was a nice fairly easy singletrack hillclimb but, it is getting rutted so we closed it off Saturday evening and at Karl's designation, we cleared another bypass trail. My comment when we were done was, YOU ARE NUTS! So Sunday morning about 11:00 the group arrives and Karl advises everyone that the old bypass trail is closed but we have a new trail name Stick Bush trail (appropriately named). I look at June, she looks at me and I tell her, we'll watch them and decide which way we go. Nod nod nod. So June and I watch from the bottom as Karl cruises up Stick Bush, my bro makes it up with little trouble, the XR400 takes some really interesting detours, the other KX250 makes it up and the guy on the CR250 gives up after 2 try's something about the combo of a hangover and the flu. June and I take the road! Something about starting out by dumping your bike in the bushes that just didn't appeal to us. We rode the Ridge trails which are great singletrack, twisty turney fairly decent speed stuff. Went down The Hill (this is the hill that I have to always TRY to make it back up on the way home. It isn't much better going down it either the huge rut is the problem - it's in my pic page in the Mica Riding Album with me on the KLX). Stopped at the powerlines and decided to give the Bog trail (a muddy messy thing) a run since my brother felt Karl's bike and my bike were too clean. I love the bog trail it is about 1/4 mile of GOO and my 500 loves it. The boys head out followed by myself and June. We get to the Bog and wait for the last guy to make it through - never get too close on the Bog! I'm sliming through the goo, come to a small crest where I see a big puddle and think to myself "that looks Gooooey". Bump over the hill, and fall over in the middle of the goo hole! "MY new gear - YUCK!!" My boot is sinking into the goo, my bars are stuck up to the triple clamp and the bike is still running. Shut it off, turn off the gas, pull off my gloves and start trying to dislodge the bars. June is behind me dieing of laughter. :p Get the bike up, then I have to try to pull my foot out of the goo without dumping the bike over the other way. Manage to get it all together and there are my gloves about 6 feet away. So, fire it up and finally get it out of the goo hole to park on the side of the trail and go back for my gloves. June cruises right by SMILING!! Made it up the rest of the Bog without incidence. Got to the top where the group was waiting and flung mud at all of them for laughing at me! :p We take off again, the guys tell us to go first & we decline, let em go so the dust will settle for us! Get to the next challenging hill, I'm cruising up in 2nd, come around the corner & there's the CR250 laid over, he's up & waving me on but I stall in the middle of the trail. I can hear June coming and I’m trying to get into neutral so I can get out of her way, too late, she's up and cuts a new line to miss me, phew! Everyone makes it up the hill and we try to catch up (yeah right) with the rest of the guys. Catch up to them - waiting for us & head down the trail. June & I take it easy on a rocky sandy rutted downhill stretch, she hates downhills and since my crash at Vantage, I'm not too impressed with em either! Get down to the next intersection, see the obvious corner roost marks and follow them. Down more steep rocky hills come to a section of old overgrown but easy road and come to a downed tree across the entire trail. It's one of those pretty fresh ones, at about a 45 degree angle to the trail - you know where even if you bump over it the first time you usually just crash on the other side. So, we try to determine if the boys went over it or up around it, looks like over it. June goes first as I am turning my bike around to get a better line. She bumps over it and FLOP. She jumps up (like a gymnast) and I holler "9.0"! I take another look and discover that I can just slide past it on the bank side - she comments "Wish I'd noticed that". Off we go. We come to a 4 way and the tracks look like they go down one leg we usually don't go down. We decide that they must have headed to 7 Fingers the normal way we go, so we go that way. We are cruising along having a great time, get to 7 Fingers and no one is there! Hmmmmm, call the cell phone, Karl answers. He tries to explain where they are, we point out that it is Mother's Day and we are at 7 Fingers and we'll wait for them there! The boys show up and one of them is having some mechanical problems (plug fouling) so June & I take off, knowing they WILL catch us soon enough. We all get to our destination Signal Point (also in the Mica Riding Album), guzzle some water and head for home. The kids have only called us 3 times by now and we have informed them of our location, approx duration and yes go ahead and eat lunch. :confused: Karl decides we need to check out a trail that he used to ride 8 years ago. After hopping our bikes over the 5th downed log, we finally got back to where we recognized the trails. The boys were way ahead of us, except one who was nice enough to make sure we saw the turns they took, well, until he lost them too. I lead the three of us once he lost their tracks and we headed straight up to the Powerline Hill, the normal stopping point before heading home. Hmmmm no one there! We knew they were ahead of us. Did they just continue to the house? Did they go back to look for us? We could hear a bike over there, then one over here........Finally we decided we would go back down the hill and wait at the first intersection. Sure enough, there are 2 of em. They look at us, we look at them, they ask us how we got past them and we say we don't know because we took the normal trail. They say we couldn't have because they had been sitting there waiting for us. One guy thought he had watched us make it to the top of the hill and hadn't gone past them. The XR400 had endoed somewhere below and had trouble starting (no injuries) and Karl had gone back looking for us. We tried the cellphone but no answer. My bro finally decided to go down to find the other two & tell them we were all here. We hear a thumper, a 500 and my bro come screaming up the hill. Finally we are regrouped. We head for The Hill. We get to The Hill and everyone is sitting at the bottom waiting. This is the normal procedure for going home. We all wait for the group to gather then one by one attempt the hill. My bro goes first, too easy. His buddy on his newly purchased KX250 (he's a good rider but has been bikeless for 5 years or so) decides he'll go next to give us all a laugh. He makes it about half way and runs out of GAS!! I check the time and find out it is 5:49 and parents and other guests are due at the house for a 6:00 barbeque (like they aren't used to me being late every time I go riding) so I take off down the road, not feeling like wasting the amount of time it usually takes for me to conquer The Hill. I arrive to a house full of guests. Ooooppps. Change clothes and proceed with dinner prep. Apparently everyone made it up The Hill. June tried to loop it but prevented a full loop and succeeded in her first attempt for the season at conquering The Hill (she rarely has problems on it but apparently she decided that since we had been working on taking the hills in second that she would try it on The Hill - guess not.). Had a great dinner with the mom's and grandmom (love barbequed Salmon) and CRASHED! Hmmm don't know Michelle, this may be a new record. ;) [/QUOTE]
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