- Jun 9, 2002
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It was an uneventful 7 hour :yikes: commute to Merwin on Saturday to carry mark montgomery's new bike on it's last leg of the journey.
Merwin was everything that Lou described. The track is a natural terrain track with a few man made objects (jumps and berms) thrown in to keep the bikes out of the trees. It was rutted up bad and was in need of some serious dirtwork. Dirtwork that appeared to be in the offing soon as evidenced by the large piles of really nice loam near a couple of turns. Two woops sections and 3~4 nice size table tops made for an interesting ride for this (admitted) MX novice.
There was a practice loop that had 3 smallish jumps and a couple of turns that could be railed. It was fun as well.
Lou lead us on one confusing loop through the woods. We kept running back and forth across a stream bed and the inevitable finally happened. Lou got MUD on the 450. It was a site to see and frankly Lou handled it quite well. Knowing that he had a nice new powerwasher back at home probably help ease the pain. The loop was overgrown to the point that it was difficult to get through the branches in some places, but it was more familiar to me than the track.
The afternoon wound down with me trying to capture Lou with his new camera riding a wheelie through the woops section. Between his riding and my reaction times, we may have managed a good shot. That ended when Lou flatted his rear tire.
Dinner at Jazz, was great except for the fact that the Turbo Dogs were too good. I thought they were great and was doing fine until ... well as mark said, it wasn't the first two that got me ... it was the last two. ;) Coupled with 1 hour of sleep on Friday, they signed me out.
The drive back from KC was uneventful, although longer by about an hour and a half. I followed I35 back and after going both ways in one weekend, I can't imagine ever going I35 again. 75/69/I44/71 is much shorter and considerably more direct.
The bike is still in the back of the truck and it rained this morning so the mud will be much easier to knock off once the sun comes up.
It was great to see Lou and Eddie again and to meet Mark.
I had a great time guys and let's get together again ... :yeehaw:
Merwin was everything that Lou described. The track is a natural terrain track with a few man made objects (jumps and berms) thrown in to keep the bikes out of the trees. It was rutted up bad and was in need of some serious dirtwork. Dirtwork that appeared to be in the offing soon as evidenced by the large piles of really nice loam near a couple of turns. Two woops sections and 3~4 nice size table tops made for an interesting ride for this (admitted) MX novice.
There was a practice loop that had 3 smallish jumps and a couple of turns that could be railed. It was fun as well.
Lou lead us on one confusing loop through the woods. We kept running back and forth across a stream bed and the inevitable finally happened. Lou got MUD on the 450. It was a site to see and frankly Lou handled it quite well. Knowing that he had a nice new powerwasher back at home probably help ease the pain. The loop was overgrown to the point that it was difficult to get through the branches in some places, but it was more familiar to me than the track.
The afternoon wound down with me trying to capture Lou with his new camera riding a wheelie through the woops section. Between his riding and my reaction times, we may have managed a good shot. That ended when Lou flatted his rear tire.
Dinner at Jazz, was great except for the fact that the Turbo Dogs were too good. I thought they were great and was doing fine until ... well as mark said, it wasn't the first two that got me ... it was the last two. ;) Coupled with 1 hour of sleep on Friday, they signed me out.
The drive back from KC was uneventful, although longer by about an hour and a half. I followed I35 back and after going both ways in one weekend, I can't imagine ever going I35 again. 75/69/I44/71 is much shorter and considerably more direct.
The bike is still in the back of the truck and it rained this morning so the mud will be much easier to knock off once the sun comes up.
It was great to see Lou and Eddie again and to meet Mark.
I had a great time guys and let's get together again ... :yeehaw: