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[QUOTE="Ol'89r, post: 1198368, member: 17212"] Ok, here's my version of the story. (Disregard all previous versions.) ;) It was a BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD day. Ok, not really a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad day because anytime you get to go riding with a friend instead of working is a good day. So, this fella showed up in my front yard and said, "Howdy, I'm Gomer from South Carolina, wanna go riding? Well I didn't know who the hell this guy was but he said the magic words. "Wanna go riding?" :nod: After a while I started to remember who he was. It was the famous High Lord Gomer. Anyway, to make a long story even longer, I noticed he showed up with his gearbag so he must'a been serious about riding. We tried to get the XR Valdez running but it sprung a leak. Imagine that.LOL. After a little deliberation, I decided to take the smoker. Hadn't ridden it in a while and it was jetted for GP's. We started out and headed up to the repeater towers on Santiago Peak. The ride started out pretty good until we got up to about 3/4's of the way to the towers. The richly jetted smoker with its cold plug was not very happy with the leisurely pace we were setting and at about 3,000 feet it eventually spooged itself to death. We figured, no problem, we'll just pull the plug and replace it with the one I usually keep strapped to the tank shroud. Guess what? When I was cleaning the bike, I removed the spare plug and forgot to put it back on. Dayum, I thought Gomer was gonna' bitchslap me. We tried to coast back but there were too many uphills that required that we push the bike. These things arn't made for pushing especially while wearing MX gear. So, we borrowed a length of barbed wire to use as a tow rope and decided to pull the smoker back. Now, I'm starting to remember why I don't ride smokers anymore. This all started out pretty good, especially on the uphills. BUT, on the downhills, I was trying to hold both of us back using the brakes on the CR2fitty. This became quite interesting on the loose, rocky, downhill sections as Gomer pulled the smoker with the 450 and never looked back. I had the rear brake locked up, the front brake locked up and all the while doing tank slappers everytime the big 450 yanked on the lil' smoker. Ya see, the tow rope, (barbed wire) had gravitated over to one side of the handlebar clamp. Every time Gomer gassed it, or my brakes made the tow rope tight, it would put me into a tank slapper. I crashed about 3 or 4 times, but the 450 would yank me back up before I actually hit the ground. :yikes: All the while, I was sure I could hear some maniacal laughter coming from Gomers helmet. Too bad you didn't turn around Gomer, it was a pretty funny sight. I remember looking at the barbed wire and thinking I had to keep it tight to keep it from tangling up in Gomers rear wheel or in my front wheel. I kept thinking, if I fall into that it would take a week to get me untangled and would probably use several boxes of bandaids. Anyway, we finally got back to the house and spent the rest of the day drinking beer and telling lies. Oh, we went and checked out one of our local race tracks too. I really enjoyed having you Mike. Oops, You know what I mean. Thanks for coming out and next time give us a little warning and we will get the Wrecking Crew together and plan a real ride. Hope you had fun. :cool: I sure did. [/QUOTE]
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