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[QUOTE="JasonJ, post: 675181, member: 23758"] Hehehe, great pics. Lets start a list for new handels for Chuck. Stuck Chuck What the F**k Chuck? Muddy Mud Skipper Blue Submarine LOL, man thats quite a hole you found there my firend! Hey, I had to drill out the hole in the bottom of the WR airbox so water would drain, it was sealed shut from the factory! Sorry I missed you Sunday, Kerry came up Saturday night to ride with us Sunday AM, but she stopped by Wal-mart to pick up a new air mattress for us, and some nuckel head (probably a quad rider) decied to climb the shelf in the next isle over and knocked a half dozen of the air mattres down from the top shelf on her head!!! She was a bit woozey Sat night, and had a sore neck and a bad head ache Sunday AM so she decided not to ride and drive home :( . She was VERY disapointed and almost in tears, but it was the right thing to do, with a sore neck, the last thing you want to do is put on a helmet and ride in the damp cold air. I met some friends that came up for the first time and decided to show them around and ride the day with them on the McAdoo side. Saturday was an awesome day. Me, NRB, Eugene (sp?) Steve I think, Dave, and I cant recall the names of the guys on the XR 400 and KX 125. Seven in all started out in the AM. We warm up and head up valley road to the single track. I led in and not even 100 feet in I kick up a dead white birtch tree and it catapolts up into my front wheel, explodes my front fender off into many small bits, and darn near whacks me in the face! We kinda miss the trail next and end up mired in the woods. There was a tree down but still like 4 feet up across the trail and we just didnt see that was the trail. I moved the tree for Nate and Dave so it can be ridden over as the others tear down the single track. I find two of them at the first intersection wondering where the single track goes so the three of us take off on the trail. we catch Eugene sitting in the woods a few minutes later wondering where the trail goes and where his buddy on the KTM is. We wait for a minute and decide to roll out as a group of 4. The single track was hard to follow as the leaves were down on the ground and the markers were hard to spot in the collage of fall colors in the woods, but we got rolling pretty good and fast. I really got into the grove and was just blasting through the woods. I must have been doing ok as I was able to keep the European on the KTM measured behind me. Riding at that speed in the still moist woods from Friday nights rains, we all had our share of slips and spills. but none to bad. My fender was the worst casulty of the single track that day. We even rode the crazy bamboo tight section and it was very challengeing as always . When we came out of that section, we met Nate and Dave. We took a quick scout for the missing rider after hearing reports of sightings from some quad riders who spotted him. We worked our way to the top of the hill where he was last seen but could not spot the MIA rider. We decided to find some trails and start to work our way back to the parking area as it was nearing noon. I broke off from the group at the top of Valley road to head back to camp to nurse my broken fender and a flat front tire (what esle is new right?). Back in the pitts,I put some air in my front tire and I grabbed and wire coat hanger and 3 inch wide duct tape and reconstructed my wasted fender with a repair that was the envy of all the guys when I returned to the parking area to grab some hot dogs and get ready for the next ride session. The repair worked great and kept the mud and water out of my face for the rest of a very wet weekend. Eugene and his KTM partner in crime headed out together for some riding and the remaining 5 of us headed out for some faster quad trails. We ripped thorugh the rocks, woods, mud, jeeps, hummers and more. Great ride, we rode untill like 5 and I was even pretty whooped. Ive been fighting a cold and have been kinda beat, but I felt fine to ride all day. The cold starts to set on in the evening time and morning, I payed the price at night though :( . No one got hurt to bad, I think Dave was the worst with some sore ribs and a cracked chest protector from a very cool trail no one had been on before that went up about 10 feet and down about 25 not to far in . He was not sure if it was the handle bar, tree or what happened. He and Nate had a tough time on a 30 ft hill on the same trail but hung tough and rode every thing well. Dave is much improved since our last ride I feel, but still needs to work out on some coal hills to hone his hill confidence. Nate is faster too when we force him to ride in front :) . The dude on the KX 125 had a hard day, no bark buster in the single track left his fingers with lever marks across the nuckles Im sure, but he showed the lever who was boss when he removed the better part of his front brake lever in the muddy ground with a very tricky 180 flat spin out at speed move . The KX was not palying well in the tight woods and fouled a few plugs but all in all, the bikes ran well. It was probably a good thing I did not ride Paragon Sunday, I was riding some coal hills, jumped, and herd a clunking grinding sound. I herd it agian when jumping on a hill under power and stopped to have a look. My counter sprocket looked like a hockey player, all the teeth were broken off! I was not far from camp and was able to ride it back in and throw on a 14 tooth I had in the van to replace the hammered 13 I normaly run for paragon. Oh, and my front tire is still falt, that ell teach me to pay to have a new tube put in :) . [/QUOTE]
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