the rain storms have let up....a little tiny bit anyway, so we have been trying to get some rides in where we will have less of a chance of getting stuck in the high desert gumbo or get struck by lightning. Wednesday turned out to be a nice sunny day, so i drove up to the ranch that Kim lives at, and we rode out from there. I had a brand new Beta Factory/Sachs shock absorber for Bugz Beta that i had installed when there was still plenty of snow on the ground, so I was chomping at the bit so to speak, to trail test the bike with the fresh rear boinger on it. We saw a herd of elk on our way up to Aspen mountain, visiting Three Patches picnic ground on the way, and had fun following some pretty steep two track along the mountain range spine. From on top, we could see the remnants of an old homestead at the base of a bluff. So we wended our way down and zigzagged across the abandoned highway, now covered in dirt and rocks, most of the bridges washed out, the blacktop long gone for the most part. Then we headed west on some more two track until we found the old cabin tucked up in a canyon. From there, it was back to ranch before the afternoon turned to evening. The new shock absorber performed very well, and I may have to invest in the matching factory front fork kit as well. Yeah, it's blurry shot, I know. But we were so far away, and the elk were on the move, so I had very little time to whip out my old P&S A590 and get the telephoto shot with no place to steady the camera. So it is what it is.
dang yer living it. jealous. aint Beta just the best? if my 300 Heritage wasnt so pretty thered be a Beta in the moto shed right now.
