Pine Nut misadventure trail ride

[2strokeYardSale]

Oscar (CRF250) near the staging area:

Johnny (YZ250) at the staging area:

Johnny led us to a dead end with a view:

When he tried to go up this muddy side hill with little speed and incorrect body position, I thought it would not end well. It didn't but it was amusing:

Flat front tire getting fixed on the only tree stump in Nevada:

YZ250 and WR450F, ?Quien es Mas Macho?

You don't see this every day:

Exhausted Oscar wants to turn back, but that means going up a nasty muddy hill:

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[2strokeYardSale]

Johnny goes up the muddy hill first, completing ignoring the right line I told him to take. (Who would listen to someone with "Yard Sale" on his bike?)

It wasn't pretty but he made it:

Yard Sale takes the right line:

Oscar takes the tree line:

(Notice Kay's encouraging hand gesture from atop the hill. Open throttle facking poosey!)


Kay rides Oscar's bike up the muddy hill:

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[2strokeYardSale]

Starved-for-hills Yard Sale plays:

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[2strokeYardSale]

Kay attaches Yard Sale's tow strap to his WR450F for Johnny's seized YZ250:

El luchador:

"!Vámonos a casa, ya es muy tarde!"

The tow strap rubbed against the tire and broke:

Somewhere over there are the trucks and the van:

Some other day we should check that out:

We got too close:

If they got this giant equipment in here, there should be dirt roads good enough for towing back to the main road.


I didn't know we were in a city:

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Prologue: This is the dirtiest my bike has been in six years. Moonrocks sand is nothing compared to this.

 

[RedKawi]

sweet pictures. where in nevada is this?

 

[pecha]

sweet pictures. where in nevada is this?

simple google search: map

 

[Choppa650]

Great pics as always, what happened to the seized smoker??

 

[2strokeYardSale]

It stalled and the kickstarter wouldn't budge. I pulled the spark plug and told him he was fooked after seeing it (grey with aluminum bits). After putting in my spare plug and letting it cool off, the kickstarter moved but without much compression. The bike later ran but seized again.

Funny thing was he left his gas behind. I gave him my spare premix, then he went and got more gas and Ace hardware store 2 stroke oil. So he was burning three different oils, bad juju. But it was clearly an air-fuel issue, not a lubrication issue. I'm thinking air leak unless he had really lean jets in there.

 

[Dandelion]

sweet pictures. where in nevada is this?

my backyard

 

[2strokeYardSale]

When I was trying to find an escape route to tow Johnny back I kept running into fenced-off horse pastures. I wondered which was yours.

 

[n10sive]

my backyard

Literally.

Nice pics E! I miss riding out there. Dandelion wants me to get dirt bikes again. I don' think we realized how fun it is to ride out there until we got rid of the dirt bikes. We still have fun at the track though!

 

[n10sive]

When I was trying to find an escape route to tow Johnny back I kept running into fenced-off horse pastures. I wondered which was yours.

we don't do no stinkin fences. Hate those!

They ruined a lot of good tracks out there by fencing off NOTHING!

 

[Ouches]

I think you just sold me on buying a dirt bike!

 

[ThumperX]

YES! YES! Oh YES!! YES YES YES!

 

[2strokeYardSale]

I should mention when Johnny's bike seized Oscar called his wife and had her start fixing a home-cooked meal for four hungry, slightly disgruntled men. Sweet.

I should also mention the young'ns, 24 and 34 I think, were beat and us old guys were like, "Well so much for the beginner warm-up loop. Now let's start the real ride."

I need to learn to stop and take my camera out on the technical sections. There was a muddy snowmelt downhill that was a hoot, and a rocky hill climb that was a blast. At least we got the short muddy hill climb.

That hill I'm playing on is so steep you can't see the bottom from the top. When I went up it I got cocky and launched off a rock step and smacked into another rock step and got all out of shape, so that's why my feet are off the pegs at the top.

Hot ticket: Michelin S-12 18" rear tire. It hooked up in soupy mud and made me look like a pro. I keep saying I'm going to get a trials tire, then I wonder about days like this.

That big piece of machinery is used to eradicate vegetation for wildfire abatement. It turns sagebrush into mulch. We should have climbed in and fired that thing up and blazed a trail when we were towing Johnny looking for the road.

 

[Roadstergal]

When he tried to go up this muddy side hill with little speed and incorrect body position, I thought it would not end well. It didn't but it was amusing:

Oscar takes the tree line:

Good thing that bike is bending his foot the right way. That kind of dump is why I want them to make Crossfires in 36.

Kay attaches Yard Sale's tow strap to his WR450F for Johnny's seized YZ250:

Mmm... FI.

 

[2strokeYardSale]

Oscar looked like Arte Johnson tipping over his tricycle. Like we were making a movie and he was a bad stunt rider and couldn't make a deliberate crash look accidental.

WR450F has no FI, has a carb, pain in the ass to get to ... Dinner conversation follows...

Kay: "That kinda sucked. It was either mud or dust, you couldn't wheelie."
Yard Sale: "Really? I pulled wheelies in all five gears."

 

[Roadstergal]

WR450F has no FI

Ja, I was more thinking of my future misadventures on the 250X. Especially ones involving altitude changes.

(FMF EFI reprogrammer and header are backordered. I should check out the Moose one.)

 

[2strokeYardSale]

Get the DynoJet. It worked out of the box and you can get a custom dyno tune with it. Kinda wish I did it first and didn't bother with the pipe.

 

[kxmike]

I've ridden that area before. Think I recognize the second pic...is that by the fairgrounds?