Hammer Time!! Nov 5-6 2016

[Bucho]

Have fun this weekend guys

[Rut Row]

with all the young whipper-snappers with modern tech doing the Hammer, you would think we'd have some DAMN pictures posted already!

[Wingfixer]

with all the young whipper-snappers with modern tech doing the Hammer, you would think we'd have some DAMN pictures posted already!

You would think but in truth, I didn't bring the GoPro (I mean really, once you've seen one stretch of whooped out sugar sand pit/trail you've seen them all) and I don't think I saw anybody taking any pictures.

We did see Sam, Vicky and her husband. Also ran into rurumonster on the trail. There was a The Table sighting as well. Great weekend, perfect weather. If you didn't go you missed a great one!

[Boom Boom]

Anyone have any idea what the rider turn out was? Sounds like it was huge.

[Skinny-J]

Anyone have any idea what the rider turn out was? Sounds like it was huge.

I don't know what the total count was but I know last year they had over 900 entries and this year looked and felt like more than last year. Yeah, that's a lot of people but Tri-County does an excellent job of organizing and running the event and once you are on the trail and spread out over 80 miles its your own ride.

I will be interested to hear what rurumonster and his buddy though of their first NJ dual sport; it was cool to run into them out on the trail on Sunday.

I had a total blast and second what WF said:" Great weekend, perfect weather. If you didn't go you missed a great one!"

Can't wait til next year.

[rurumonster]

I was under the impression I couldn't take pictures or film, they seemed pretty adamant on their flyer and I didn't want some dude yelling at me my first time. It's too bad though, it was frickin gorgeous, what a great experience. Sorry I didn't get a chance to drop by Saturday evening, I ended up fielding a minor family emergency from the hotel and had a pretty lame night. It was good running in to you guys on the trail, I was blown away by how fast some guys rip up that single track! Mark and I have only ridden single track like that once before, so we're still learning. By the end of the day, I felt much more comfortable and I definitely improved as a rider. I was as courteous as possible to the faster bros and yielded to them a lot, didn't want to hold anyone up. I got a thank you almost every time, which was nice. I only wish we hadn't started promptly at 8am, Mark and I must have been the first few guys out. It was impossible to tell if we were faster than anyone, since we'd never see the slow guys. Maybe next time we'll start late.

Great time, I can't wait to go back!

[Bucho]

Ahh, another year I miss this one...

Looks like it was a good one as usual. Glad some new guys got out there to ride it. Adam (rurumonster) and Mark needed some good single track practice!

[BigBird]

Anyone have any idea what the rider turn out was? Sounds like it was huge.

I think it was 1,200 & I think most of them passed me! LOL!

Had a VERY good weekend in spite of a brace on my hand for a bone I broke at Hatfield/McCoy the prior weekend.
Vicki Nielsen (my DARLING riding partner) had to buckle my helmet for me.

PS: Had a SUPER/EPIC day a week ago Sat with the R&T crew. Me and 2 youngsters took off from the bigger group and did 149,174,182,184,186,199 and a couple more single tracks. LOVE my Freeride

[Bucho]

Broken bones do not stop Sam from riding...

[Stinson]

First 30ish miles both days were epic. It is a shame how much trail has been lost over the years, but Tricounty has done a great job putting together as much trail as possible. Such a good all around event!