The Legend of Greyballs — Day 2

Mountain bikes…pffffft. REAL men ride cruisers.

So, according to this picture, the clearance on the van with bikes is just a teensy bit under 11 feet. Guess I should try to write that down somewhere……

Today we rode two laps of Arawana. Here’s Dave getting warmed up…

Dom styles out a long skinny on his 3rd try.

One MASSIVE stepdown. No-one wanted to even try. That thing is a solid twenty vertical up in the air, and maybe twenty-five out. Way bigger than it looks in that crappy pic.

Railing the corners at the bottom.

Some sweet canyon bottom singletrack.

The infamous liquid lunch.

Sure it was a long run, but one is never enough. Even though everyone tried to weasel out of a second one, it’s the second run that makes the day.

Bob checks his sphincter on the sidehill.

The Birthday Boy in the canyon again.

Barracho on the same line.

End of the line. Pass me a beer willya?

Of course, one beer leads to another, and the next thing you know we are rock stars.

Like all good rock stars, after trashing the hotel we went out partying. Nite Moves never disappoints on the long weekend.

“Can you make him go away please?”

Arawana

Well, we seem to be having some van troubles. Got a new battery last night, maybe that’s all it was.

This little guy seemed to be having more troubles. No water for miles.

Scott continues his dominance of the big gaps of the BC interior. Here he is on Bud Height. Today was tough. We were really tired and the mercury hit 39 C. That’s about 103 for you southern types.

..and a little wooden berm.

OK. So it wasn’t the battery. Had to stop at Canadian Tire for a new alternator. The van completely died in the parking lot. At least we got a new one installed in under an hour. Do you believe it? Some days you get the good with the bad.

On to the Shore…

Air, I Wanna (Arawana)

How can every day be so epic. Especially when you get so tired.

So very tired.

The crack of noon freeriding team…

Stewie on the log that broke Emandem’s foot.

Actually, he didn’t make it that far on the log. Or even this far….

More Gadget Lags.

If a man rides a tree in the forest and no one is there, will anyone notice?

Everyone pushed it up a notch for this one. Here’s Mark on a little gapper.

OK, now to the big stuff. Yours truly, wood to wood. I had to put it up because this hit has been buggin’ me for three years. Feels so good to step up. Thanks for getting the pic, Llew.

Glen, going big.

Barb, going bigger.

Another casualty. Mark was OK but his bike took one on the nose. The injured Emandem lent him his bike for the rest of the ride. Whattaniceguyeh?

Another big move was a gap across a barbwire fence to platform to drop. Here’s Glen on takeoff.

….and ride right to the lake where the cold ones are waiting.

OK then. Not bad for a rest day.