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Share some stories! Post some pics! Bears!
About a month and a half ago we were trying to book a semi-last minute trip to Vegas for the Nellis AFB open house, but that didn't pan out. By some miracle we ended up with almost 70 degree weather and sunshine over on the Oregon coast, which is insane for November. The riding was oh so good, started my semi amateur FMX career. Good times!
About a month and a half ago we were trying to book a semi-last minute trip to Vegas for the Nellis AFB open house, but that didn't pan out. By some miracle we ended up with almost 70 degree weather and sunshine over on the Oregon coast, which is insane for November. The riding was oh so good, started my semi amateur FMX career. Good times!
The Shop
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Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
I take 10 minutes to load my bike...drive 30 minutes to the closest decent riding spot...spend 20 minutes unloading my bike and getting my gear on...2 minutes warming up my bike...hop on...ride for 5 minutes, and noticed I've got a coolant leak (the o ring where the radiator hose goes into the top of the head)...ride 5 minutes back to the trailer...spend 20 minutes loading my bike and getting my gear off...drive 30 minutes home...spend 10 minutes unloading my bike.
Drive 30 minutes to the dealership, buy a $4.00 o ring...drive 30 minutes home...spend 30 more minutes replacing the o ring. Forgot to buy coolant...crap...drive 15 minutes to the parts store...15 minutes back...
Afternoon completely wasted!
One day I went to the track after learning about this thing called "detonation" on trusty Vitalmx. I drove 45 minutes to the track, paid 25 bucks, rode ONE warmup lap and swore my bike was pinging. Loaded up and went home. Thought it had to be a leak of some kind. Ended up taking it to the shop and it was completely fine, it was literally just in my head. So fuckin stupid. So at least your bike actually had a problem.
I never got the bike warm enough in the garage to build up enough pressure in the cooling system to cause it to leak...but it looks like the heat from when it overheated cooked that rubber o ring (it was crispy)...
The thing that stinks even more is that there is a winter storm coming in and temps are dropping from the low 60's to the 40's and 30's the rest of this week....last weekend may very well have been the last decent riding weekend until spring.
Stonyford, CA
+30 B
20 miles in I smash my foot real bad (Special Test #2). I can tell it's serious. Blood in boot. I keep going (need points for WEST CHEC series). End up completing the race (85 miles). Manage to get my boot off. Foot looks mangled at first. Lots of blood, big toenail completely dislodged.
Drive 4 hours home (pops at the wheel). Go to the ER. Doc tells me I'm lucky not to have severed my big toe completely. Calls in podiatrist to do the repair. Ended up compounding big toe bone. It pushed up into the back of the toenail. Front part of the bone is broken into a bunch of little pieces. They sewed me up and sent me home around midnight. Follow up appointment tomorrow. Still a small chance I lose the tip of the big toe.
Had better days, I can tell you that much.
I just cruised and worked on trying to "flow" better through some of the turns, over all I had a great day and I'm sore as hell this afternoon!
Pit Row
On the ground freestyle is the future. Same with seat standing wheelies.
All the trees around these pic burned down a couple of years ago. And then we had major flood last year which closed this trail for a while. I was expecting some other catastrophe this year, but the locusts never showed up.
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