View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhExz1gHZLc blast from the past to remind to get onto the bicycle......for the next few weeks
our annual 1 day of hell ride (it actually has a name given by the sponsors) is back for 2016. 2 years ago I got a finisher jacket on my OEM stock 2 hours new TE300, while getting stupid bad (high float level) gas mileage. @ 25 miles to reserve. This year bike is way better jetted and tuned. But ride is slated to be super hardcore. will do some peddling prior to this one.
Good luck! Not my cup of tea. I have more fun riding my bike than pushing it around the country side. But I get the draw of rides like this. A huge challenge and the reward of finishing something most others cannot. Have fun.
truthfully that one section was just that...one section of carnage on that year (and some of the guys you see pushing and hacking--are AA/WORCS Pro level guys). we have been up and down that trail on various rides in that zone (semi cleanly). One of the Mantras of the sponsoring group is sporting yes, challenging yes----but no carrying bikes up or down stuff. The follow on viddy is more like the 85% of the ride a couple tired guys getting hung up and falling but no dragging bikes. I do understand your thoughts, I feel the same way. PS Clay this ride usually draws some of the Colo crew out, the Colo. mountain rocky riders are always hardcore.
I'm all for a section or two of gnarly type stuff like that first vid. So long as they are snort and there's plenty of fun sections to break them up. Second vid looks like much more fun. I'd love to make it out there sometime for a ride.
more background set up, 200 yards back is beautiful between trees grassy valley trail,,,,then we drop into a black rocky/muddy stream and immediately climb the bank up onto rocks slick with mud, where some of the others are coming from, or go around to the right where me and steamy kato Massimo(cam guy) went along with others and find one of many paths between the rocks. BTW that's me on the right in red axo gear near the end of the viddy, that guy that fell wrenched his knee under his Honda X..did not finish the ride, bailed onto access road...we probably could have been more proactive as minders.......oh well, hey at least I went over to him to help after the fact, Massimo just continued to viddy like a boss!! We sooo love this shite don't we?!!! the start of another year View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im8y12OHH9w#t=120
from 2010 version... View: https://vimeo.com/10367531 Cyril YZ250 Ron CRF450X Tommy 525XC-W Rob TXC450, the thing was really working well at that time in the rocky stuff.
Reading a book "Men T Match My Mountains" by Irving Stone, about settling the West and the various efforts to ctoss the mountain ranges. Lots of stories of slow going......like this.
I thought very hard after Tecate about leaving my 125 down there with you and flying down again for this ride. It sounds really awesome! Later,
just met with one of the artists creating this course, his take, if 70 sign on less than 20 will finish the entire course without bypasses. he also made me feel good and said indeed I can and will finish.....lets not put a hex on this thing---one of the other creators, a former AA/ isde guy cracked his wrist during the course layout last week....and will not be leading a group on the course as planned, just handing out food and beer for the day.
