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| Yesterday @ 11:40pm | Me 'n disco on Sunday, that's nice.
What about the rest of you?????????????
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| Yesterday @ 11:39pm | Just get beter and come home you worn out old soldier.
"I'd like this thread to be for the organizing of the work day, so please try to keep it on subject."
send your comments to: devrodirt@hotmail.com
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| Yesterday @ 11:32pm | jeffro,
shut the F up and get your A out here and cut some trail!!!
We are in DESPERATE need of club members to pitch in with muscle, only!!!!~
If other club members do not pitch in this race is not going to happen.
And that is a plee to ALL you RVDRS who need to pitch in.
If we have to throw this race at the last notice because, "It's too far for me to drive." "I have a family you know." I have to work on Saturday and Sunday is my only day off." Whaa, Whaa, Waha!!
If we throw this race, this club is OVER.
devro! |
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| Yesterday @ 10:11pm | Holy crap Jimbo! I completely forgot about Zach's kickstarter. I feel like such a butthead. Too many concussions, or too many 2 stroke fumes. Snakes in my haid. My email is gastonjeff@rocketmail.com. My # is 912-996-5543. Tell me how I can send money to Zach, or buy him a new kicker and mail it, or whatever he wants and I'll do it. I just plain forgot. It's back home in Ar and I'm still in Ga. Might be here a while longer.
My bicep tore off the bone the other day. After an MRI they found my Rotator Cuff torn in 3 places as well. Then after some stomach problems they found a serious bacterial infection that can cause cancer, a Hiatal Hernia, and scar tissue on my stomach diaphraghm, or however you spell that word. I'm on some heavy antibiotics that are making me sick as a dog. My left shoulder hurts worse than the torn up one so it's probably torn up too. Long story, don't know how much longer I'll be here. I'm sick of surgery, I think I'm just gonna suck it up and opt for getting out now and not having any of it fixed. This place is driving me up the wall. |
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| Yesterday @ 9:58pm | Holy crap. How am I gonna read it on the toilet? Or when I take my bubble bath and light my candles and drink my Chardonnay? Poop on BRC. Do they do anything for the Singletrack rider anyway?  |
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| Yesterday @ 9:34pm | Pete, you know me, I always seem to disagree. My only big problem with the scenario is the thing about a C rider being able to complete the course without help. What does that mean anyway? There are always plenty of C riders who can climb any hill or do any obstacle you can find but aren't fast. (Remember Gary Gilmore? He'd ride every trail at Brock Creek, do 60 miles a day, but it would take him ALL DAY)! If that's what you mean by a C rider, great)!
I think even Scrambles should be fairly tough, at least some of them. I have had fun at really tough ones and really easy ones. My thinking is that when you have a motivated event sponsor who wants to make a trail and has some tough terrain, let em make it tough. If the wimps can't handle it, let em stay home and play video games. I helped Gorman make the trails at Cougar Canyon, and it was one of my favorite races. 80% of that track was wide enough for a Quad, was 3-4th gear wide open, and the other 20% was gnarly. Bee Branch was similar. It had everything. Big hills, wide open fields and roads, narrow trails, jumps, tight stuff, everything. I thought the last Old Crow on Crow Mtn was just about perfect. It had a bit of everything except any tough hills, which just aren't out there, not anyones fault. But it had everything else.
On the other hand, one of the most fun Scrambles ever was the one that Adam put on in Plummerville, on the farmland at his dads place near the Ar river. It was all easy and flat, bermed corners, but FUN! Just make the trail fit the terrain and race it, but put a significant amount of Singletrack in every one. To me it's all about conquering the terrain better and faster than the other guy. Or nowadays, better than the other guy or gal. They have gals out here in Ga that will kick your butt at a race. I mean several at every race who race in the mens classes and do well. And the womens classes are well represented too. I'm in love with a new gal on a regular basis, but they just don't seem to share my feelings. 
The Missouri HS series is TOUGH. It's so tough that the Enduro guys ride it on off weekends to train. Some say it's harder than SERA Enduros. Yet it has good attendence. It also has NO QUADS. There is also a seperate Quad series there which does well and is flouishing. I'm not saying that has to be the case necessarily, but it can work that way. When AHSCS first started some of the races were actually harder than the average Enduro, yet the series grew anyway. I know of many riders who got bored with Quad trail and went to Enduros rather than stay in AHSCS. Balance is the key I think. But to me, balance means 75% Singletrack and 25% Twotrack.
Speaking of balance, GNCCs are a joke these days. I just went to Aonia Pass here in Ga and watched one last weekend. It was so easy a kid on a skateboard could have ridden it. No challenge at all. Boring to watch, probably boring to ride. They say Loretta Lynns is one of the harder ones these days, and there is NO SINGLETRACK! How can it be hard with no singletrack? I rode it a few yrs ago and it was easy. It was tiring due to it being completely worn out by Quads, rough as heck, rutted as heck, rocky as heck, exposed roots, huge water bars that had to be built due to the wide Quad trails we were forced to use, but BORING! Leave me out. I'll ride Nat Enduros or local Enduros or Trailride. If I want to ride Quad trail I'd much rather ride DS with Devro and Disco, drink some whiskey afterward, eat a steak, get a Devro local history lesson, do a 120 mile day, and have 10 times more fun for 1/4 of the cost. Why drive all over creation to ride a worn out Quad trail and pay money to enter it when you can do that for free with your buds and see the Ozarks, take pictures, ride 3 times the miles, and have 10 times the fun? Did I mention it's FREE!?
Offroad race motorcycles were designed for SINGLETRACK. Leave Singletrack out of the picture and leave me out of the picture. Me and many of my riding buddies. |
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| March 7, 2010 @ 8:38pm | Pete is going to drop off the club tools with Doug, disco will pick them up there.
disco and I are headed out to the race site Sunday morning and will be working all day on the trails.
If you would like to tie-in with us just post here or give one of us a call.
The more the merrier!!!!
devro |
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| Race Track | March 7, 2010 @ 10:35am | | Mowing the grass sure sounds good but I doubt the discing would work. It could be really bad with a rain. I glad the land owner would be willing to offer to do it. |
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| March 7, 2010 @ 7:53am | Vic; think that ribbon you found was where Jim had placed the Short Course cut off. I know of a spot on the couse that I laid out where it will take 30 minutes with a chain saw to clear. It an old skidder road where trees have fallen across it; can't miss it! I will gladly take control and clear that since I flagged that trail.
In regards to trail trimming: Trail trimming comes in many forms, in this case we have virgin trail which presents it's own challenges. Becoming a skilled trail maker takes a bit of experience and sometimes restraint. Trail making is an acquired skill and also somewhat subjective. I can trim a trail and think "Its GOOD!” Then come back the next day on the same trail and find stuff I missed and more that needs to be done. You can also get yourself in a bind if you are not familiar with the terrain & how it will feel on a bike at speed. What looks good from 20 meters may change to "not so good" when you are standing on that piece of ground.
At the race site I had flagged a trail to a creek bed that looked like a good line from where I had first started. But once I was at the creek and saw the climb in and out and how technical it would be I decided to not go that route. It may have been ok for B+ riders but below that it would have been trouble and lead to a hillside bottleneck problem.
Also remember all those little technical sections add up to a rider after awhile. They might not seem too bad individually but after miles of them it can take the fun out of the race.
Pete Petrick
PREZ, RVDRs
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| March 7, 2010 @ 7:08am | Jim,
Since I have a much of the club equipment, I'll need to hand it off to someone else soon as I will be playing Army from the 11-14. I have loppers, a new Stihl brush cutter, ribbon, Chain saw, oil etc.
Who wants it????
Or I can bring it all out to the site on the 15th (Monday)
Pete Petrick
PREZ, RVDRs |
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