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MM Festival 2008

MM Festival 2008 was Fantastic!.. we had all the guys there Jeff, Karl, Ryan, Chris, Doug and myself all came up on Thursday and the first day we rode Moto all day long in super tight trails out in the forests of Windrock TN.
I think we may have ridden close to 50 Miles of single track!… It was pretty funny because I was the first one to arrive at Dougs place and we went off to the Trails and met up with the rest of the guys out there.
Anyways we had this other guy who who we met up with to go riding and we were all hanging out by the trucks when Karl and Jeff showed up and of course Jeff made a scene.. he showed up in Dungarees and a mexican face mask! We weren’t sure what the other guy was thinking at that time… it was pretty funny.

We rode Moto for the 2 days straight! 2nd day was Epic! it rained all day and in some of those tight woods we were struggling getting up some of those hills…it was a major effort!
That night was what MM was all about! We all put on our most… “fancy clothes” and we went out to the strip club!! We all had wigs on and some crazy silly outfits on! We all looked like we all came from some Kiss band from hell!!.. Chris looked like a Reno 911 cop and Jeff I guess looked like a …… mexican wrestler from Satans den!… I looked like a crack head Surfer with my wig… it was pretty funny watching peoples reactions to us as we walked into Walmart…. most of everyone just laughed uncontrolable and one woman thought we may be some kind of murders or something and called security but fortunately security knew we were just dressed up… Then off to the strip club!!

Third day of MM some of the guys felt they hadn’t had enough moto so they went out for another full day of it!! Crazy… Karl and I went to ride DH and we met up with a buddy of ours there and rode some of the trails and they were a little slippery with the leaves falling now.
Windmill trail was great! they have done some changes here and there.
That night we went to the 12 hour race to heckle riders as they went by but we ended up chilling by the camp fire and drink free foamy beer all night… I had a ton of fun… thats all I’m going to say… we ended the night going back to the strip club and supporting single moms… Its always fun to see some of the weird people that come to these places!! One guy thought he was so cool and had sunglasses on and would always come up when people came up and would say that this is how you do it!! and would shoot probably about $20- $50 , $1 bills into the air… it was probably half his monthly sallary he spent..

We ended the weekend with some DH runs at Windrock which was great and so much fun!! It was almost super chilled out and a great way to end the weekend….
I would say that this years MM Festival was the best one so far… Good times and good memories!

Cheers!

Collegiate training in Boone

This past week was the first full weekend of riding that I have had in a long time! Chris Herndon and I went for a 2 hour XC ride up in Pisgah national forest along with fast XC collegiate rider Tristan Cowie.
It was such a perfect day that I thought I would need to blog all about it. The leaves are finally turning bright yellow and red and the weather was just perfect not to cold and not to hot! It was sunny all day long.
The only thing that kind of put a hold on the fast downhill sections were (in Family Guy terms) ” Leafers”
These are out of towners who come up to the mountains to watch the leafs turn their bright colours of red and yellow… so we were always on the watch out for people hiking slowly. Amazingly we managed not to piss any of the hikers off.

The XC ride was great and after a great meal at the Hawg Wild BBQ spot we went to this secret pump track that Chris made up and is local only! It was pretty awesome!! it was one of Chris Herndons many great tracks that he had built and was shaped in a almost hexagon!?… very cool and made for some great line choices!

The next day I got up early picked up Chris and headed off to Banner Elk where the Collegiate nationals are to be held this coming weekend.
Chris had spent a number of days building and working on a new Slalom track for the race.
We had a ton of College riders who all came out to train on the new slalom track.
I brought out with me the Free Lap Timing system that everybody was pretty happy about!…
At first none of them were sure how it would help them but slowly they all started to notice the difference that it made for them so it made me feel good that I had somehow contributed towards some possible wins!
Chris and myself had a couple of races just to inspire them to go fast… I had fun just scrubbing the one big hump into the big berms! so sick…

So ya it was a good weekend of riding and so far been the only good weekend of harder riding since my shoulder injury!.

Check out the pics… there aren’t a lot but some good ones.

Cheers….

Preparing for the Meth Mouth Festival Foolery!…

I think this may be some of the best photoshoping I have ever done…..

We are super Pals!…. except Ryan…. we just have our way with him…