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[QUOTE="Hucker, post: 336254, member: 19868"] Man, where to start!! Friday night, 12pm, thinking of getting some sleep before the 3am departure to Paragon. Well go figure that I had about a million things to do, and by the time bedtime rolled around FLYIN_KAW was in my driveway hooking up the trailer. I think I fell asleep somewhere on the I90E, woke up at the I81S junction then cursed that damn highway the rest of the way. We arrive @ Paragon at around 10am or so and find no vehicles, no nothing with DRN stickers. We got our trail passes and while walking back to the truck Lori and Dave were just pulling in. First time I had ever met any DRN'ers, plus I got to see a orange bike up close! Ronman and knobbiethrower were unseen to us and came up about 5 mins later. Papakeith pulled in and this actually started to look like a spodefest. I was drooling over the 500 in the back of PapaKeith's truck and was assured a "ride" on it before the weekend was up. Me and FLYIN_KAW kept on getting weird looks of insanity from everyone, stock MX bikes, no chest protectors, no hydration systems, no bark busters, no pipe guards, skidplates, no nothing. Baggy pants at that!! We start off on our ride and I was super pumped to be riding with a bunch of DRN'ers. We rip down the road and into this little valley. A couple of nice bug hillclimbs await us, with OffroadWarrior handy with the helmet cam. We rip up and down the hillclimbs for 15 mins or so then off to the "hell ride". LoriKTM warned us not to follow Dave into the woods, cause we would never come out again. I was 3rd in line behind OffroadWarrior and Knobbiethrower. Man, did they ever ride fast, it was unreal and how fast they would disappear infront of me. We rode for about 2 hours, with frequent stops inbetween just to make sure the pack was still together. I heard them mention some about a "rock garden" and "the Turtle" I found out later in the day what they meant! We ended up in this insanely tight, ignorant little forest of death if you ask me. For the life of me I couldn't get my bars inbetween 2 tree's without having to "swim" them through, one bar end, then the other. my clutch hand became so sore from trying to control the MX machine underneath me that I almost gave up. The worst part of the "hell ride" was we'd get about 15-20ft from the road, then Dave would just lead us back in. What torture!! We ended up on the road, I took my gloves off and my knuckles were just tore to bits. Homemade bark busters I called them. Papakeith, Knobbiethrower and Offroadwarrior got a kick out of leading us through that really tight stuff. OffroadWarrior rated that to be about a 8.5 on a 1-10 scale so I knew now, what "real" woods riding was like. We headed back to the staging area for a lunch break and some refreshment. Me and FLYIN_KAW finally got to open up our bikes and ripped back to the staging area in a friendly little race, luckily for me he over shot the turn and I tucker her in there :) After lunch, some more introductions we headed out for "the turtle". I had no idea what the hell this thing was but, they way they talked about it, I knew I was in for it. We had a really brutal rocky down hill then into this giant rock garden. It was like riding in my worst nightmare. Big rocks, I mean BIG nicely strewn everywear, just enough for me not to be able to pick a proper line. I followed Papakeith and figured out that the 500 was capable of throwing baseball size roost at me. I'm thinking Papakeith needs a sign on his back "Stay back 200 meters" ha ha. We did some more putting around and finally called it a day with probably one of the best runs of the weekend. My first run up this garnly uphill loaded with rocks that took a good 7-10 minutes to make it to the top. I got to the top with a huge smile on my face, blabbering like a idiot on how awesome it was. Back to camp with Trigger leading the way pointing out the window and rocking out to some country music! :aj: We setup camp and the yanks had a little fun while we tried to unload our bikes. They all just stood around and laughed at us!! They must have thought we were crazy because we wanted to let the "pressure" off our forks for the night. Bench racing that night just about made me pee my pants. Every 5 minutes Trigger would ask "What do you call this in Canada?" The one thing (I can't say here) almost put me in the fire I was laughin so hard. Then we awed the crowd at just how much a Dunlop D756 was in Canada. We got many offers to take used tires, and Ronman was going to hook us up with some nice deals across the border. The night finished at about 1am, with the beer running out. Off to bed, only to started laughin cause Ronman was sawing the whole forest down!! I guess we were laughing just to hard, because Papakeith mentioned it to us the next morning. I wake up to Knobbiethrower leaning over the top of our tent with camera in hand. Trig's american flag had "somehow" been stolen and placed on one of the "Canadian" bikes. That was good for a couple of laughs. I've never had syrup injected sausages before, but there's a first time for everything. Back to Paragon with my badly leaking countershaft and another day of great riding. Papakeith offered me his spare hydration system and I glady accepted. We made it down to one of the really hard hill climbs that LoriKTM and OffroadWarrior talked about. If I didn't try it, I knew I would have regretted it, plus I had to give my new DRN buddy's something to laugh at. PapaKeith had the first and best attempt at the hill. His front tire was about a foot short of the top before traction became a problem. He got turned around and it was my turn. I gave it my all, and ended up about 3-4ft from the top, I had to use my superhuman strength to get the bike turned around. Once down, I turned around and tried the beast again, not even close this time. Finally got her back down, parked it against a tree and fell over. OffroadWarrior had the impromtu interview session after the 2 failed attempts. I don't even remember what I said. I think I did pretty good for the weekend until I decided to dump my bike in a creek. RM_Guy was telling me that I got water inside. I refused saying no way, I picked the bike up fast enough. Go figure that 2 gallons of water comes shooting out after I get it started up. Me and FLYIN_KAW wrapped it up at around 2:30, just beat down after 2 days of awesome riding. We got back to the stagin area, cleaned up and packed up. Waited for the rest of the DRN crew to arrive for the group photo and then departed. I have never met a better group of people to this day. You guys have no idea how much we appreciated the invite. The ride on the 500 will be carved into my brain (thanks Papakeith) along with the 4 pounds of mud you roosted on me through that giant puddle :) OffroadWarrior is definetly the BOFH, I will admit to that. Knobbiethrower liked to "ease" into my back tire any chance he got. LoriKTM gave me a rock shower in the first hour of our ride, and kept warning me about OffroadWarrior. ( I should have listened). RM_Guy was worried that the trail he took us on wasn't hard enough! :) All in all it was the best ride I have ever had in the past 2 years of riding my bike. You guys were great hosts, and now I have a whole bunch of people I consider my friends. Thanks alot and I can't wait to do it again.... [/QUOTE]
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