kelsorat
Knucklehead Newbie
- Nov 5, 2001
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Well the family and I decided to celebrate part of Father's Day on Saturday, so the guilt factor played a part in my late Saturday departure. After broadsiding 4 rabbits on my drive out to Red Mountain in the middle of the night, I arrived at camp by 12:30am. I parked way away from the rest of the club parking so as not to awake everyone while I unloaded and pounded in stakes to secure the easy-up.
Sunday morning temps and ride temps were absolutely stellar, and since the club forecasted temps to be unbearable they moved the Keytime up to 8am and had a nice reset/water stop for everyone after 12 or miles. I thought that was a good idea for future hot weather races.
The race course started with a nice 2.6 mile ride down the pipeline road. This gave everyone ample time to warm up for the upcoming portion through the sandhills. I can't imagine what I would have done on a Maxxis IT, or any other intermediate tire for that matter. Luckily, I left my S12 on for one last race, and I needed it. Eighty percent of the course was deep sand. The organizers gave us all a specific course marker when a sand uphill was approaching, and if you did not look out for the warning, you would experience bogged down hell.
Also because of the predicted heat they arranged the course to be literally a 12 mile loop racetrack. I had a blast getting acquainted with the same terrain for what was almost 4 laps/loops.
After finishing I rode back to camp to find Capt Jack and wifey out for a playride,, but had to hurry up and get home to spend the rest of Sunday with family.
Sunday morning temps and ride temps were absolutely stellar, and since the club forecasted temps to be unbearable they moved the Keytime up to 8am and had a nice reset/water stop for everyone after 12 or miles. I thought that was a good idea for future hot weather races.
The race course started with a nice 2.6 mile ride down the pipeline road. This gave everyone ample time to warm up for the upcoming portion through the sandhills. I can't imagine what I would have done on a Maxxis IT, or any other intermediate tire for that matter. Luckily, I left my S12 on for one last race, and I needed it. Eighty percent of the course was deep sand. The organizers gave us all a specific course marker when a sand uphill was approaching, and if you did not look out for the warning, you would experience bogged down hell.
Also because of the predicted heat they arranged the course to be literally a 12 mile loop racetrack. I had a blast getting acquainted with the same terrain for what was almost 4 laps/loops.
After finishing I rode back to camp to find Capt Jack and wifey out for a playride,, but had to hurry up and get home to spend the rest of Sunday with family.