FourTwentyTwo

Another fairly cool morning, but it looks like the snow is gone. We met up with a full crew of maniacs at Red Shreds for a day of shuttles on the in town trails.

A few stars were out, like Super T, James Doerfling, Glew, et al.

For our warm up, we hit a steep line called Sweet Pete. Some good exposure here (about 100′ of the side of this) keeps you sharp.

Then we went over to Mitch’s Brew to get some more air. After yesterday’s inspection runs, it was a lot smoother.

Well, except for Mitch. He looks ike he’s posing for a backlit shot here, right?

Wrong. It was still a little slick, and he figured at the last second that he didn’t have enough speed to make the gap from 14′ up. His bike just about hit me, but everyone was OK.

The view from the repeater tower.

After the ride we retired to Shreddies place at the lake for a little outdoor ROAM premiere. About 150 people braved the chill to attend.

As usual, we had plenty of fire and beer to keep us warm.

Not enough wimmin though. It was the usual sausage party.

…although JJ is sorta cute….

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FourTwentyOne

Hmmm…..a little colder this morning. Oh well, I should be used to it. It’s still better to go riding than to sit around shivering inthe snow.

Nothing like a cold call first thing inthe morning.

Gustav, off the wall.

The Chromag boys showed up mid morning. Find your shoes yet, JJ?

The weather improved throughout the day. Masters tweaks it out.

Gustav throws a one hander on the road gap.

First group shot in the new van!!!

More tweakage from Masters.

..and still more tweaking.

Dan, with a stylie air and a funny face. I missed the shot on his whip. Pretty sure he had the back wheel in front of the forks on that one.

Kevin from Chromag throwing down with the hardtail and the clipless.

.. and everyone’s favourite Williams Lake girly rider Nelly goes big on her new dualie.

Tyler (or is it Cody? Always get the groms mixed up) with a sweet X-up.

Mootchell in DH mode.

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FourTwenty

Ahh yes. April 20th…the unofficial start of the season out here. As usual, I went to Williams Lake to kick start the festivities. It looks like someone else was having fun too.

OK, that was from last year, but it was new to me and Dan (Skogland came along for the ride). We made it up to the Puddle in time for a couple of quick laps and to try out the beautiful new rack that HUKK made for me. Sorry, no riding pics today.

I did run across this bike though. It’s a 2 wheel drive enduro machine that a frieind brought back from Africa. Seems that one of the Paris Dakar racers had a spill on it and left it in the desert. When John’s BMW broke down, there were no parts to be had but this was sitting there ready to ride. 700km range on those big tanks. The front wheel has a hydraulic drive similar to a Bobcat that gets up to 15% of the powere when the rear wheel starts to slip.

Super cool….

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