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 Topic: Ride ReportsThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
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The Tree Story
Posted by: EvMon on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 11:43 PM |
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Location: Calamity Pass CO
Rider: Ken Murphy
I was racing in Calamity Pass CO, in 1994. I was having a pretty good day, running in the top 3. I came upon an opening with about 30 spectators, and being an enduro rider, immediately sensed danger. Looking at the area where they were standing caused me to overshoot the very next corner. At the apex of the corner was a very large aspen tree. It was about 30' tall, and about 1.5' in dia. at the base.
I whacked it with the handguard, pivot turned and roosted away. About the time I hit second, I hear the crowd yelling. I remember thinking, man, that's pretty cool, those guys walked all the way out here just to root us on, when <THWOCK> <stars/lights/pain/numbness> and as I was falling off the bike, backwards, I wondered, "What the f*ck was that?" I thought I'd been hit by a meteor or something. I lay on the ground, my whole body from the neck down was buzzing like a funny bone bump.
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Location: Baja, Mexico
Riders: Brad, Bryce, Jay & Paul
Guides: Richard & HowardPre-Trip Planning…
This was not our ordinary Baja trip. We’d gone
before, but this was different. Usually, we’d find someplace to stay and then spend
several days riding in that general vicinity. This time the plan was different. We planned
to abandon the trucks for the week. We had the idea that we’d just ride until we
needed to sleep. Wherever we stopped, we’d spend the night. We planned this trip for
months. After much fiasco over selecting dates that we could all take off, we finally
settled on one. Well, I thought we had settled on a date. As it turns out, we had settled
on different dates. We ended up getting that worked out. I’ll save you the details.
Suffice it to say, all future dates will be documented on paper and conformed via
registered mail.
Anyway, I had a brand new bike, and it was time to concentrate on
planning. We decided to start in Tecate and ride to Mike’s Sky Ranch. After spending
the night at Mike’s, we’d ride over to the coast and spend the night, then head
back to Tecate. I thought we could follow the SCORE Baja 500 route, from last year. I
contacted SCORE to try to get maps. They informed me that this year’s course would be
laid out by then and suggested that we pre-run this year's course. Cool!
We made reservations at Mike’s. Brad and Bryce had met
Howard at Mike’s the year before and he had offered to be our guide for this
year’s trip. As it turned out Howard couldn’t get out of work in the middle of
the week. However, he suggested we call Richard, a friend of his, to see if he was
available. Sure enough, he was. Well I had reservations, I really didn’t think we
needed a guide. Hell, we had maps. With water on two sides of us, how lost could we get?
Well, everyone else was counting on a guide, so what the heck. Richard suggested that we
meet at Rancho Santa Veronica (just south of Tecate), so we made reservations for the
first and last nights there.
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