Been fighting with my computer trying to put pics up for a week, just gave up and am using my wife's.
Can you believe they still plow by horse drawn plow?
Getting the skinny
Hey Bob and Scott - Maybe we should go on a double date!
OOOOHH Lord Please give me the strength!!!
Ok I'm ready
Rich checking it out
This is after J.T. and I split from the group - and attempted to go over the mountain heading west.
Rich said it was embedded rock and took Milton and himself 6 hours to cross, with break downs, going about 10mph. WELLLL Jt and I thought we could do it in 4hrs with no breakdowns.
DIDN'T HAPPEN!!!! :dunno
I crashed 3 times coming out of mud holes only to start another endless hill climb.
:p3rry
Took a wrong turn on a spur and we got separated. Went to hang a U-turn, up on a berm I made the mistake of looking over the 3000 foot ledge, lost momentum and stopped. Guess what? My feet would NOT touch the ground - dropped the bike. :muutt
If you yell for help in the woods, did it really happen? - NO is the answer. Where is Stingray when you need him? I know Scott would have loved it up here. Could not pick the bike up and thought; ooh well, looks like it will be a nice night. Took the thousand lb bags off and the bike almost righted itself. Hallelujah!!
Back on the trail losing light by myself. I was OK with that, the bike was up and running. After about a 5,000 ft hill climb with serious switchbacks, my headlight brackets - all four of them, broke off the forks and started bouncing all over. Kept riding. Up the trail I ran into JT again, said he had a few issues, which enabled me to catch up and we're back together again.:freaky
He gave me a bungee cord to secure my headlight so I looped it around the light and hooked them to the handlebars. Sounds good right? Wrong, what was I thinking?! The arm for the Scotts damper was ripping my wiring apart every time I turned the handlebars. Great!!! Lost my headlight and my radiator fan. :eek1
Temp. got up to 270 and never boiled over. Matter of fact the bike loved it, started 1st kick ever since.
Took my sunglasses off and put my yellow trail "brightening" glasses on and it helped me see the trail, UNTIL it got as black as the oil in Milton's motorcycle.
:rofl
I was blind with no headlight on class 4 trails and had to tailgate JT to use his light. After a while came upon single lane cement, on a steep downhill with switchbacks and deep grooves for traction. Coming out of the mountains we passed two pickup trucks, new ones with oil or natural gas logos on the side. We were home free:rilla
Well JT got ahead of me on the pass and there I was blind again! Came around a switchback and hit some large sharp rocks that a truck spilled on the turn and left a two track.
High sided at about 25 or 30 I'd guess. All I thought was: "when will I stop sliding down this steep hill?" Finally did. :norton
The Mexicans in the pickups were out of their seats and offering assistance before I stopped sliding.
I got up and dusted myself off, I only had a strawberry on one knee (planned on wearing knee pad but forgot those along with my gloves - bought new gloves but no pads) all in all came out unscathed.
That armored jacket was a real pain but I am soooo glad I wore it!
JT and I got the last room in Arenberri (sp) near 10 pm. Restaurants were closed, so on an empty stomach we split a bottle of tequila I had in my saddle bags - that didn't break. All was well in Mexico! :freaky
I would definitely do it again, with less in the saddle bags and trail gearing. I was planning on class 1 and 2 with pavement. Our forearms got a workout with all the clutch slipping and throttle work for 6 hrs. straight. JT- a man among men probably didn't even feel it. And no we did not beat Rich and Milton's time! :deal
There was a nice spot next to this guy I thought: hmmmmm