Wow! Wendover 300 Was Wicked!!!

This nice little "beginner race" was 136 miles of pain and damage.  With motorcycles, quads, and eve some SxSs falling to the brutal terrain.  Jared and I both finished the race (Jared in 6th place with a time of 5hr 14mins and me right behind him (ok a 1/2 an hour behind) in 7 place with a time of 5hrs 43mins).  Frankly I am just happy to have finished the race as I wiped out 3 times (no exageration, off my bike 3 complete times and all were painful).  I will add more description of the pain later when I am more emotionally stable.  It was a brutal destructive course, but I got 2  T-shirts for the $130 entry fee:).

For now here are a couple of the videos of us starting, coming in at the 85mile, or so, pit stop and finishing the race.










 


 

Bor Quad rules

Here is the rules we use for the Wendover race and we missed early registration, so now it is $15 and $90 or $40 and $90. 

Most important is spark arrestor, helmet, boots, and front and rear number plates.  Rocky Mountain ATV has them for cheap.

Fill out the registration forms (there are two) and have cash as they won't take checks or credit cards on Friday or Sat morning.

Jared/Emily and Dan, let's do this thing!!!!!  It will be some good memories I guarantee it.  Em my wife is coming so you guys will have to snap fotos for us.

Listened to Conf while cleaning the garage

It has been a good Saturday.  I went in to do a little catch up at the office and then came home before noon.  When the next session of conference started I headed out to the garage with my MP3 player and a coat..  It was good to listen to those good people share their strength.  I especially liked Elder Holland's talk, he sure has a wonderful way of sharing.  The garage is full, but at least it looks better, and more importantly my wife can now park back where she normally does.  All in all it has been a productive and relaxing Saturday.  I plan on hitting the Priesthood session in about a 1/2 an hour and then enjoying the evening with my wife and the TV.

:)

Still pretty full, but better.

Road Side Ride, Nice Little Place to Ride ATVs with our Neighbors

We took off to check out a little place to ride that is about 20 minutes from our home!  We went out with our good neighbors from across the street.  Lots of good fun, and this is the kind of place we can go ride at for just a couple hours (this time we were out for about 3hrs of good riding).

Dune Bergs sticker finds a home

J & E gave me this sweet sticker for my birthday and I finally found a place to stick it.

The Breeze had no stickers on it but the registration ones, it needed a little spice.

I found my 1984 Honda Big Red 200ES!!!

Last night and this morning I posted a WTB add in a couple spots on KSL's classifieds. Response was limited but successful. And I got a little note from KSL for posting my ad in the wrong place. It was worth it I had an older gentleman in my same town call and express interest, but he wanted to work some kind of joint-ownership timeshare thing, so I went to look. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for, it had the busted front shocks. Another fellow down in Payson had one that was in good mechanical condition but really ugly, so of course I was interested. I am heading down in a few minutes to see if it is all he says it is, and I am excited!

Here are a couple of the pictures he sent of this almost 26 year old classic.


No rear fender, ripped seat, almost bald front tire, yep this the one.

My favorite part is it is already tagged and good till next year!

1987 Honda TRX 250R

Chinese 250 4 stroke, sold after 6 months.

The old 77 Sporty, cause of marital disputes for 6 years.

What I got in trade for the Harley, not a solution to the marital problem, but a step closer.


I forgot to post these pictures from the past. The Honda 250R is long gone now but it needs to be noted in this ATV history. While I was living in CA I purchased an old '77 Sportster from a jerk in LA. The experience was horrible, although I did enjoy the road trip to pick it up. While I was still in CA D came and picked it up (he was going to finish the bike for me). After all these years I decided to free D of the bike (it had been in his garage for like 6 years) so I traded for this awesome 250R.

I only had this historic bike out once to the dunes and couldn't quite figure out the wonderful 2stroke power band so I decided to trade it away (boy was it noisy). The bike I traded for was awesome, but as we were about to move I sold it for $3800 (Honda 450R 2wheeler), which ended up being a nice profit from the original price of the Harley, not that I would do it again.

The white ATV is from our first Chinese batch of ATVs that we got for Christmas 2007. It was a 250 four stroke, and ran pretty good once you got it started (although it handled poorly) we sold it for $600 (I think?) after we got J the Blaster. The Blaster, 11 years older, still dramatically out performed the Chinese 250, and J was able to control it much easier.

I'll never forget going out to 5mile with J's fam and taking the Chinese 250 up a huge hill with J. It got rocky and the chain got knocked off stranding me way up a hill. We tried what we could but due to a poor design the chain was wedged. Eventually J went to get tow straps and I waited on the hill. After a few minutes I decided to try and coast the bike down, and it workd the chain popped back on and I was back in action.

Knolls

Nate post ride.
Chillin in G-pa's trailer

Playing in the sand





MMM, no-bake cookies...
Taotao, Yamaha x 2, Honda x 2, Polaris x 2, CanAm x 2, Kawasaki

L riding the dune, he also tried out jumping (accidental and on purpose)

Forgot N's glasses, so he was riding basically blind, but he still logged more hours than anybody else.


Was great! Lots of adventures, good weather, great family time, some jumps, and several crashes (my hip and shoulder are still feeling it).


More pictures later!

C is setting up a ATV trip to The Knolls!!!

Destination: The Knolls Click here for a Map
Meeting place: Walmart in Riverton (corner of 134000 and Bangerter)
Estimated Time of Departure: 1200
Estimated Arrival Time at the Knolls: 1330

Items to bring: Snacks, H2O, Fuel, ATVs, goggles, helmets etc.

I anticipate that we will really enjoy both the weather and the riding.

Link to a site that has info on The Knolls

Sounds like
D, C, and A
E and J
All of my brood
D, N, maybe S and J
Too bad J's fam can't come:(

More from the Knolls

Salt Flats
Trail Riding
Sand Dunes

My new favorite ride spot!!!
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