Silver Lake, MI Oct 11, 2008

Waiting in line to enter the park.
Chad and Fred leading the pack.
Sean doing donuts.
Scott jumping.
Jana trying to jump.

The little blaster that could definitely not make it up the Test Hill.
What happens when Sean isn't paying attention to what Jana is doing.
Our adorable little cottage.

Fw: RE: Silver Lake Oct. 3rd 4th 5th

From: Larry Pilon Subject: RE: Silver Lake Oct. 3rd 4th 5th Yo Silver Lake crew, Due to over whelming demand we are being forced to schedule a trip to our favorite sand box. The new crew members only had a taste of cat box size sand pits and now want more! So far the first weekend of October looks good for half of us. Calling all Silver Lake riding veterans Chad , Greg, and Fred, please let me know first if you are interested. Second, see if the first weekend of October is open for you. Third, what the hell will Greg be riding?!?!? Chad can you also forward the map to our new camp ground? The new camp ground is very close to a pond where you can fish if you would like. That is where Chad caught Greg, but he was too small and had to throw him back in. He maybe a keeper this year! Also feel free to invite anyone that maybe interested. Silver Lake Websites http://www.thinkdunes.com/ http://www.silverlakesanddunes.net/

Atlanta, MI - July 26th Recap Day 2

Day 2, started out at the DNR site, here are the guys getting ready:
Jana all set:

Taking a break:
Having fun:

Atlanta, MI - July 26th Recap Day 1

We drove up Friday night and stayed here:

We woke up bright and early the next day (had a great breakfast in town - forgot the name, Nettie's place??)
We started out at the DNR parking but decided to look for something more in the middle of the trails:

We drove on some ATV routes as well as some really tight trails. We had a few mishaps in the trails:

Here's were we stopped for lunch:
Sean and Scott were practicing their wheelies!! That is Sean on his back:

Jana practicing her power slides:
Oops Scott found some deep water and mud!

Atlanta, MI - July 26th

We are driving up Friday night and staying near Atlanta..Riding in Atlanta Saturday... staying somewhere Saturday night... riding early Sunday and then heading home.

Yikes, it's been over 3 mos since my last ride....here we come? Are you game???

A MTR Mention on the Simpsons

The Mounds in Mount Morris, May 17, 2008

We have no pictures from today but it was a fun day. We started out really early and arrived at the park around 930am. It was already getting full. The weather was beautiful...unlike they forecasted...

An hour later we were taking Scott (his first time here) around some high technical area, when another group of riders turned the corner at the same time as us... with the path only a foot or so wider than the Big Bear, there wasn't a whole lot of room for us to go.

I was leading, so of course I got hit. Not by one but two of their riders.... wheels were up in the air, rims were bent, and the steering on the big bear is slightly off now, but no one was hurt. Luckily. Everyone was pretty apologetic...but secretly I blame them...

The park was really dry, in fact we've never seen it so dry before. But we did manage to come across two of the muddiest places in the park.

First, since I'm on the Big Bear, I get to go first at a water passing. I came to one I thought was just bit too mysterious, so I turned around and took off another way. Apparently Scott had other plans and buried the Suzuki in the water pretty good. I came back and found him standing on his machine. We tried to pull him out going forward and successfully succeeded in burying the Big Bear (with 4 wheel drive). I blame it all on Sean's bad directions. We pulled the Big Bear out with the Outlaw and then went around and pulled the Suzuki out backwards with the Big Bear. And found another way across.

The second muddy place we found was here: (but with out the trucks).

A bunch of ATV's were testing their skills at crossing it. Although already knowing this was a bad idea, I listened to Sean and attempting to cross. I got about 3/4 of the way through muddy soupy mess and the Big Bear once again got stuck. A guy with a winch came over and helped my out. Suggested I get my own winch.... Sean???

We got everything loaded and home before the rain actually came=a semi-successful day!!

How was your weekend??

St. Helens May 17th

Well here are the key moments of the May 17th St.Helens trip. It was the debut of the LT230.

Then there was a big puddle.
Rode by a shoe tree, very rare in this part of Michigan,.




Greg got stuck.

And well...Greg stayed stuck,

so we left him.

If his wife calls looking for him just say you last seen him at a power sports dealership buying a new quad.

Change of plans for May 17th weekend

We are going to meet at the Mounds instead of St. Helens.  Sean has to fine tune the Blaster some more so we really need a closer place. 

 

Sorry to the guys going to St. Helens, Have fun!!

 

Anyone else who wants to come to the Mounds, let us know.

 

Thanks and Ride on!!!  LOL

A package arrived...

Look what I found when I came home:

The NEW carburetor came for the Blaster... Whoo hooo..

Schedule

So as a (small) group, we came up with a short list of some weekends in the Summer, this is what we have so far:

May 16-17
Scott and Sean are going to go up on Friday am, Jana will drive up Friday afternoon, and Larry Saturday am. Who else is going up and what time? Maybe we can meet up. What is this campground like????

May 23rd (Memorial Day Weekend)
Scott, Jen, and Dan are planning to go to Atlanta, MI if anyone else is interested.

May 30-31
Mio - Dan, Jen, Jana. & Sean, anyone interested?

Sept 12-15 (Tentatively)
UP, north of Newberry, approx. 4 days. Scott, Dan, Jen, Jana, & Sean are all in, anyone else?

Obviously, most of us are still open to short trips (i.e. Mounds, St Helens, etc) and even Silver lake (What weekend does everyone else have in mind? )

If anyone else has any ideas, post them!! Have a good week.

For Larz

Saw these driving yesterday:

Close up:
This guy is WAY too into his Banshee....

Club Meeting 5/9 - Dinner

We are going to meet at 6pm at the Chilli's at 12 mile and Mound in Warren. Please let me know if you will be coming. If there is a lot of us, I may have to make a reservation.

I have no clue who voted for which days...sorry!

So leave a comment or email me!

Also...I have everyone in the club signed up to receive email when there is a comment. If you don't want this, no problem... but let me know. I understand it could become a pain or fill up your mailbox.

Ride on!

Club Meeting 5/9

Edited to Add (ETA): Sunnybrook has NO open bowling this week. We might have to find another place to bowl.

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Due to the overwhelming response of our "What night should we meet week of May 5?" poll..our meeting has been scheduled for Friday, May 9th. The plan is to meet for dinner and then go bowling afterwards.

If you are unable to attend, I suggest putting together a list of available weekends and places you want to ride. Either comment with that list to this post or send out an email before Friday night.

More details to follow.

Thanks and Enjoy!!!

Larz

Larz

Club Meeting Poll

We should try and have a club meeting this week. Members please check out the poll on the right hand side!

Thanks

Let's Plan the Next Club Outting

I know some of you have different plans for the next month or so...Mother's day Weekend..Memorial Day Weekend...

Let's talk about the weekend after Memorial Weekend... May 30th weekend!
Who's in?
Where shall we go?
Camping, cottage, rental, hotel??? (check out this link)

If you leave a comment, we can see what everyone plans to do.

April 17 BBQ and 19th Ride

We had our first un-official Club BBQ on April 17th at Dan and Jen's place. We also did some maintenance on the machines and loaded up the trailer for our Sunday ride up to St. Helens, MI.
Here are some photos:

Scott, Sean, Larry and I (Jana) drove up to St. Helens, it was a blast. Still waiting on some photos from Larry. We drove two of the NEW machines for the first time on trails (the Suzuki and the Outlaw). What were the highlights guys???

St. Helens 2008

Scott's Z400.

Sean's Outlaw 500

Breaking in the Outlaw by moving some dirt around.

Jana and Sean wondering why I'am taking pictures and not riding.

Beaver Lake, St. Helens.