With the relentless winter this season a group of 4 of us made a road trip to Zanesville Ohio this weekend for some riding Sat and Sunday. Denny and my self a couple 53 year olds and a couple 26 year old young bucks. Weather was great both days, sunny and 55 on Sat and cloudy and 50 on Sunday. We rode on farmland-all private property. Ohio is slick when wet so we got some great practice in that stuff, crossed about 100 cricks and climbed the slikc banks, rode off camber most of the time except if we were going up hill or down hill-all tight single track trails. 2 of the guys had virgin 2008 KTM's and they got 'em really dirty. On Saturday we were at "bill's" farm where he had the cleanest barn I ever seen in my life-we got to change clothes in it. We all had some interesting crashes given the difficulty of the terrain-but I think my slow Motion forward endo was a top contender. Going down a slick hill the front wheel dropped into a small hole but there was an unseen rock on the lip that stopped my tire and over I went. Dennny (TCTTrailrider) got to see it all. :nod:
After our ride Saturday we spent countless quarters at the car wash and cleaned the bike. Took shiowers and looked for food-found an obscure Italian restaurant and cked it out. It ended up being awesome food-a reald find.
Sunday we rode from another farm and the first loop was the most fun riding of the weekend. Up and down hills, off camber trails, through creeks-a real blast. We ended up ridng that loop 3-4 times. We went and helped remove some trees from the DS route for their upcoming event as our trail guides were laying out new trails. If a Michigan Dual Sporter went down there for this DS ride they would be in for a shock-this stuff is tougher than most MI/Indiana event trails!! This ain't dirt roads, 2 tracks and ORV trails fo sho!
Good times, great memories and great company all weekend. :cool:
After our ride Saturday we spent countless quarters at the car wash and cleaned the bike. Took shiowers and looked for food-found an obscure Italian restaurant and cked it out. It ended up being awesome food-a reald find.
Sunday we rode from another farm and the first loop was the most fun riding of the weekend. Up and down hills, off camber trails, through creeks-a real blast. We ended up ridng that loop 3-4 times. We went and helped remove some trees from the DS route for their upcoming event as our trail guides were laying out new trails. If a Michigan Dual Sporter went down there for this DS ride they would be in for a shock-this stuff is tougher than most MI/Indiana event trails!! This ain't dirt roads, 2 tracks and ORV trails fo sho!
Good times, great memories and great company all weekend. :cool:
