My first trip of a kind and it was so awesome I can't find a word to describe it
Only downside for me was those long asphalted roads. Don't get me wrong, those roads are really nice, but I wanted ofroad, offroad and then a little bit more offroad :D. Also the fact we were on knobbies didn't help in that aspect.
But the amount of offroad we had was nice anyway. There were
some streams,
some mud (everywhere),
some rocks,
some uphills,
some puddles,
some downhills,
some trees on the track,
some roots,
some ledges and
some low hanging branches attacking non-suspecting riders with open visors. (hello to the emergency room
)
Also I now regret we didn't go to see the famous carburetor hill (
see it while I was still on two eyes
). After we did Hensley's Settlement option that was rated as extreme and we all could make it to the end, anyway. I don't think I would conquer it, but still regret I haven't tried it. Perhaps even won't start, could chicken out, but still..
The company was awesome, some of guys would never miss the opportunity to laugh at you if something went wrong
And we're all just a group of posers.. when there is a nice view behind!
There should be more pics coming. I had only a few and nothing really cool, just
WF changing tubes. cause that's what I saw whenever I pulled my camera from the backpack
I have tons of video though, but it needs to be edited before anyone could watch it and I have a busy week now, so don't know when I'll finish that.
Thinking of a relatively short video with only fails on it. Would be grateful if other guys who have captured fails would send 'em to me. I know
beejaytee got at least one nice ditch exploring video
My bike seems to be very well after the trip. Nothing major came out. Instead tracked some problem zones that would need some attention, like cooling system weakness I have on slow sections, but even after a couple of times
warming it up to 250 went w/o any consequences (I think). And one cooling session under a waterfall when it was almost 250
Hate returning to real life
, but even writing this and remembering was nice
P.S. how/if can I insert full quality pics? What's the size limit it would allow to drag'n'drop in browser?