Sunday, May 18, 2008

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??

Saturday, May 17, 2008

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.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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


Monday, May 12, 2008

A package arrived...

Look what I found when I came home:
The NEW carburetor came for the Blaster... Whoo hooo..

Sunday, May 11, 2008

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....


Thursday, May 8, 2008

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!

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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!!!


Monday, May 5, 2008

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

Thursday, May 1, 2008

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.