Al's Moto Log

New rider in the family!

Finally found a deal on the bike I’ve been wanting to get for Alisha. We’re excited to get out as a family, I think we’re going to head out to the west desert this weekend for Memorial Day.

Here’s the family line-up for this year:

Alisha – ’08 KLX 140L
Logan (almost 8 yrs. old, 70lbs.) – ’04 KLX 110, he’s excited that mom got a bike to match his.
Landon (6 1/2 yrs. old, 45lbs.) – ’05 PW50

Posted by al on May 20, 2008 in fun

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Zac’s Hollow – Session #3

May 14

Awesome!

Full photo album (this crew rides too fast to get a lot of pictures, I was just trying not to hold them up too long):

http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/ZacSHollowSession3

Crew: Zac, Nate, Brandon, Tim, Chaz, Matt, me.

Notables:

These guys are fast and I’m still out of shape.
Got into some seriously thick trees
Rocky climbs were a lot harder and ground was getting looser
GPS stopped working, missed a bunch of data 🙁
Matt found out one of the stream jumps was a lot further than it looked and cased it hard on the other side, hope you didn’t have too big a headache the next morning Matt!

Highlights pics:

The GPS data is incomplete, I’m guessing we had between 30-40 miles total although the graph shows only 22.

Here are all three rides layered… pretty fun!

Posted by al on May 14, 2008 in fun, Trails

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Zac’s Hollow – Session #2

May 10

Wow… session #2 was even better than the first go-around! I’ll let the pictures talk for themselves, check out the whole album here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/ZacSHollow5102008

Crew: Zac, Zane, Nate, and myself.

Notables:

The dirt was perfect, corn dirt in most places, a little mud, a little snow, and no dust at all
Need to pick up one of these saws, Nate had one and it worked surprisingly well, thickest log we cut through was about 4 inches
A lot of the tough parts from a few days ago were a lot easier with the hook-up we were getting
Nate hitting a slick log and sitting in 6 inches of mud
Zac hitting snow at 40mph, almost making it, going down and sliding forever
Zane getting attacked by every tree that could reach him
I’m still out of shape…

The orange trail is the first attempt, the blue trail is session #2.

Posted by al on May 10, 2008 in Trails

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Went to ride the sod farm track tonight and we got T-Boned in Chaz’s truck pulling into the parking area, obviously we couldn’t let something like that spoil a night of riding, so after the police report and making sure the truck could drive away we put in about an hour session, it was fun. Sorry about your truck Chaz!

After watching Chaz and Lance hit one of the step-up jumps and making it look easy, I finally worked up enough courage to hit it, it took a few tries before I was able to start landing on top, but it was a rush. Here’s Chaz showing us how it’s done…

Posted by al on May 8, 2008 in Tracks

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Zac’s Hollow

May 07

Got to go ride some private land in an undisclosed location today. It was beautiful and had a perfect mix of all kinds of riding: stream crossings, mud, rocks, climbs, trees, etc. etc… Definitely the funnest time I’ve had on my bike so far this year!

Notables:

Nate’s looped out billings montana style flip at the top of the climb
Griffin in the stream up to his knees
Griffin was the only one to make it all the way to the top of the climb
Kept raining until we were dressed and starting the bikes, then we didn’t see another drop the whole evening.
Zac barreling through trees and over logs like he had a score to settle…
Way more fun than I’m allowed to have.
I’m out of shape.

Check out the photo album here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/ZacSHollow

Here’s a couple of highlight pics: