Dirty weekend photos

[Silver Penguin]

OK, so it's not the kind of dirty weekend that most people think of but we had a LOT of fun in the post-rainstorms desert. Remember I posted up pix of my shiny new Honda 230? It's not so shiny any more. It's beginning to look like a real, off-road bike.

Holly Road. Normally a hard-packed dustbowl of a road, leading from SR-22 (Salton Sea to Borrego Springs), to the places we like to camp. In all the time we've camped there, I've never seen a drop of water on this road.

Saw a big puddle and decided to ride through it, just to see how it felt. It was kinda fun, so we did it again, and again and again.

Not so clean and shiny now!

Got the bike (and rider) a few scratches when I took a trip over the bars. As the main trail crossed a wash, I started to lose the back end in the mud. Thought I'd saved it but realised that I wasn't headed for the place I meant to be. The edge of the wash had a few gentle slopes, cut by previous vehicles and some vertical walls about 12" high. I chose the former but ended up hitting the latter. The front wheel stopped but the back wheel and I kept going. That would have made for some entertaining video! I did learn that I can pick the bike up on my own, and that ATGATT is always a good thing, even at 20mph in sand. The chin bar of the helmet took the brunt of the face-plant onto the instruments.

Andy's Yamaha WR250. Looks kinda cool at sunset doesn't it? I went for a ride on his bike, but didn't get it dirty, Honest!

And this is how he justified buying the pressure washer that he has been drooling over for months. Every well equipped garage should have one, for cleaning off the bikes.

Last but not least, what's a camping trip without a dog or two? Siggy loves his desert trips.

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

I loved the pictures and commentary! But I have to tell you that isn't a puddle -- I've seen kiddie pools with more water.

Pressure washers are nice, aren't they?

Sunsets in the deserts are pretty -- you are fortunate. Glad you had your ATGAT on and no damage done. Ruts are the biggest PIA aren't they?

I love your weekend ride reports, especially when I am on-call and can't get out into the woods and REAL mud. LOL

 

[S76]

Sounds like a fun weekend. I'm jealous.

In New England we don't have sandy desert mud but rather thick black mud in the woods and swampy areas. At the end of the day the goal was to not be able to tell the real color of the bike. Or the person for that matter.

Great fun.

Don't forget a pressure washer is not only effective on the bikes it is also good for all the riding gear before it goes to the washer.

 

[madjackdog]

Jill, you dirty, dirty girl, you.

 

[vabrzn]

Looks like a great time ! I plowed snow from my driveway

 

[RsvlFeej]

Saw a big puddle and decided to ride through it, just to see how it felt. It was kinda fun, so we did it again, and again and again.

My 4 year-old did the exact same thing today on his bicycle, laughing maniacally with each pass.

 

[Silver Penguin]

My 4 year-old did the exact same thing today on his bicycle, laughing maniacally with each pass.

LOL! I can empathize with your four year old! Know exactly how he felt. For us rookie off-roaders it was the most water we'd ever ridden through. We got that manic laugh down real well after a few passes.

 

[MotorToad]

Got the bike (and rider) a few scratches when I took a trip over the bars.

The neat thing about dirt riding is how often, when you manage to make a slight error, you're travelling perpendicular to the brunt of the error. It also teaches you to look where you want to go, whether you want to learn that bit or not.

Also, in common vernacular it's "over the bars and showing the scars."

 

[dcarver]

Jill, you are fem heroine from this point forward! Good on yah gal! It's not easy to take a hit, then get back on, and do it *again* for the 'fun' of it all.. I get it, I really do..

Love your spirit....

 

[Silver Penguin]

Jill, you are fem heroine from this point forward! Good on yah gal! It's not easy to take a hit, then get back on, and do it *again* for the 'fun' of it all.. I get it, I really do.. Love your spirit....

Thanks Don. That's high praise coming from you, and much appreciated. The fact is that me and my bike were all alone (since Andy was ahead and didn't have mirrors on his bike) and the feel-better-medicine was in the ice-chest in the tent. I thought for a miilisecond about lying there and crying, but then thought of the cold beer back at camp, Andy did come back for me but I was up and riding by then. He was kind (and smart) enough to open a beer for me as soon as I got my helmet off.



Also, in common vernacular it's "over the bars and showing the scars."

LOL! No scars, thanks to good gear but I'm feeling a lot older today than I was yesterday. Wish I'd learned to do this as a kid when the owies healed more quickly.

 

[MotorToad]

LOL! No scars, thanks to good gear but I'm feeling a lot older today than I was yesterday. Wish I'd learned to do this as a kid when the owies healed more quickly.

Hey, you'll still heal.

... Or not... :-D

One way or the other it'll be done with! :yahoo:

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

I thought for a miilisecond about lying there and crying, but then thought of the cold beer back at camp, Andy did come back for me but I was up and riding by then.

I love the attitude, though personally I think I'll shed a few if it happens again. Go girl!

 

[johnny80s]

Looks like I missed out on this trip. I did get in my share off off road activity and mud on the DVD trip. Even got to ride Carver's wee strom. Gonna get one of those babies.

 

[Silver Penguin]

Looks like I missed out on this trip. I did get in my share off off road activity and mud on the DVD trip. Even got to ride Carver's wee strom. Gonna get one of those babies.

Next time, John. We're planning another trip in two weeks. If you're free, send me a PM and I'll give you the details.