Darn! Hate when youtube clips get posted...I have to wait until I'm home to look at them (blocked at work)!! I'll check them out tonight, sounds interesting.
Whew! I got tired just watching that! Been there and done that, so I can appreciate the learning curve! Looks like she learned through the school of tough love like I did (I like how the guys are standing around while she's picking up her bike) Thanks for sharing...got more of her? Not that you guys aren't cool and all but it's cool to see the ladies out there having fun too!
I don't. That's why I ride with the guys; so they can help me pick up my bike. At my age, I don't get a fallen 280 pound trail bike off the trail so great any more.
Oh, we learned in the first year not to help unless she asked. She would get mad, she wants to do it herself and most of the time she does. she is in this one, I think that was the last time i had to ride her bike for her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lMfLiFYtCc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_fHjcEhBHo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJIAiyaPmJw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipl5Uw88XDI Good memories. Later,
Thanks for posting the additional videos jmetteer! Only had time to watch the first two so I'll check out the rest tonight. One word for Margie: TENACIOUS!
MB getting the props on the Cafe I'll attest that girl can flat out ride. She has bigger cojones and talent than most of the men who ride with us. Wish I had a pic of her stuck in the 3ft deep mud puddle at the hangover scramble. On a KDX220 with a trials tire . She literally swam out of the hole after the bike had become fossilized in the Washougal mud. Most of my male buddies skipped that race. Not MB though Nice pics guys. Thanks for sharing
Can you guys stop saying that! I have a horrible mental picture i don't want to think about next time i ride with her
I didn't even unload my bike. It was just over a month old at the time and no way was I subjecting it to that crap. Later,
Especially liked the last one with the snow in it. That brought back Northwest enduro memories for me. Margie tends to yell a lot in the videos, but more in delight than anything else. I didn't hear one swear word out of her on any of those crashes. I'd have certainly been all:foul: on every fall.
I filled in for a guy that broke his wrist at the 6 hour last month. It was on a team with one of the trials guys. The team name was "It's all about the ride". Our team started with the first rider bending a sprocket and tossing a chain in the first 15 minutes of the race. The second rider started our first lap in last place 17 minutes behind everyone else. That changed the mood of the race to lets go have fun instead of the serious racer mode. The first lap was barely completed with a blown up bike that would idle but not run. He pushed and coasted through the final checkpoint and the bike did run so we got to keep the lap. I was rider number 3, so I started lap 2 in 98th position. and came back in 73rd. I also rode the first two night laps 9 & 10, then went and got some sleep for my 1:30am wake up. My last lap was lap 18, again it was in the night. I had an absolute blast! We ended up finishing 12th overall and 9th in open expert after they bumped a sandbagging amateur team that finished 6th overall into open expert. The funny thing is the 17 minutes we lost at the beginning had no affect on our overall finish, the team ahead of us was out there by 48 minutes. It sure relieved me of a bunch of pressure though and I got to ride fast because I wanted to not because I had to. Later,
Someone posted a partial vid of the track... http://www.vimeo.com/7481910 And... And a full writup... http://www.omraoffroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7339
WOW even more brilliant, that course looks like bowl of spaghetti. Great post and great job from all, from the organizers to the riders. That is an epic event!! very cool. R more vids??
