TKO

Farah and Oli – Day 9 **Bonus

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Yes, some bonus content for you. These pics are all courtesy of Wyld Silly at Spectrum Techwear.

Yes, our setup is a bit twisted.

Harlan and Dean on Kobau, ready for lap 1.

Necker on my Chromag. As you can see, he’s plainly struggling adapting to the hardtail.

Oh hey, it’s me again.

..and again.

And Harlan.

Oh, and Rick. This is Rick’s second mountain bike ride ever. He’s a bit of a natural.

Awesome shot of Necker onthe hoodoos at the bottom of lap 1.

This one of Harlan is OK too.

Gary “does-this-lens-make-my-ass-look-fat” Pope.

OK, lap 2.

It’s called TKO. Rick has no idea why. He’s just hitting everything on his second ride.

You know, some of us had to practice to figure out how to ride this stuff.

Dean on some kind of ribcage type of manuever.

Harlan on the last hit of the day.

Farah and Oli – Day 9

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Well, that’s a week and a bit. I see a break in the weather too. We’ve got some more foreigners today. In fact, a bit of a possee has formed for another sesh on Kobau.

Farah needed some female company, so we got ‘stash to come along. She and Gary dropped a bit of a bombshell on the drive up. I guess they’re on the same program as me and Barb. Yup, a mini-Pope is on the way next year.

Brad also returned for another, and he brought one of them dumb red, uhhh….. Neckers along.

That’s him on my ChroMag. He busted his own bike yesterday. Which is total BS, as he earned some good karma points for doing trailwork up here.

Oh well, maybe he’s just cursed.

Whoa, Farah is moving fast. I can barely keep her in frame….

Necker.

I just like saying Necker. He’s long gone in the next shot.

So we’ll look at Farah instead.

Harlan and Dean were out today as well.

..and this would be Gary.

OK, and one more from Farah and that’s a wrap.

Oh right, we have another lap to go.

Now, here’s Dean. what you don’t see is my BRAND NEW OAKLEYS. Because about a hundred feet above that, I managed to lose them out of my poocket. Not that I noticed until the bottom. Maybe later in the year I’ll see if I can find them. Crap….

Brad didn’t care. He was more interested in this little road gap.

Then he entertained us with some random stories about his grandmother. It’s a surreal experience, this ride. Killer steep and gnarly, then high end winery.

Aww what do you care. Here. Check out this Chevelle.

Ruined – Day 6

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Absolutely ruined.

We’ll take it easy today then. A couple of mellow big moutnain lines down south oughta do it.

Don’t worry Jim, it doesn’t get steep ’til lap two.

There’s even a bunch of rad skinny log stuff on this one.

Complete with some mid-burl gaps even.

Poews got more into the action with a combo of steep AND skinny.

Well, sort of…

Mongo on a rare bail.

Here’s a reference shot for you to check out the scale.

That’s one of our American pals next. Stash on her last ride with the Banshee (she’s got a Knolly on order).

Gary on his last ride with the VPFree (he’s taking the Banshee).

And now for some killer postcard shots.

Round two and its SNOWING?

WTF is that about? Ah well, TKO is a better trail when it gets a bit of moisture. This sucker is steep, long, loose, and rad. Oh, and just shy of 5000 vertical feet.

Which is a hell of alonng way to walk. It’s easier to ride it….

Alpine to desert in one run. Sweetness.

I guess that snow meant some wind down lower. This trailer park got hit hard in OK Falls, and we found out later that a marina in Kelowna was destroyed by the 75 MPH winds. I guess we’ll be warming up the chainsaws again…

Let me introduce you to the inspiration behind Norco Jim’s new nickname. He shall be known henceforth as “Scabby Jim.”

Asif that wasn’t gross enough, check out the new record on the gas pump. The first $150 fill up. I guess prices at the old Bush Pilot will be going up next year.