Al's Moto Log

Day 2 was full of more beautiful moist dirt and fantastic views. The weather was a little warmer, but there was still very little dust, none on the single track and just a little on the ATV and roads. I’m already looking forward to next year’s Stanley get-a-way!

Notables:

1. Robo’s ravine: Robo looped his bike over and down a really steep ravine, took a couple guys and a few minutes to dead-lift his bike back up to the trail
2. Favorite line: “That’s a recipe for disaster, Wally charging the front and Brock pulling tail…” -TW (it did end up with a smashed $300 head-pipe)
3. Tim and Rich towing the dude on the broken bike to the ranger station, they missed the Paradise creek trail (which was siiicccckkkk), but caught back up with us at the head of Big Smokey
4. Brock’s tumble off the Big smokey trail and almost into the river, thankfully he didn’t get hurt!

Crew: same as day 1 minus the Weeks brothers.

Epic times as usual in Stanley, ID. It rained pretty good as we were traveling up there and the soil conditions were awesome! No dust and only a little bit greasy in a few places, mostly on the wooden bridges. We had 12 riders the first day and no major break-downs or casualties, unless you count Rich slipping on the ramp and throwing his shoulder out of socket… ouch! (watch the end of the video)

Crew: Jason, Jevan, Brock, Curtis, Ken, Levi, Breon, Tim, Rich, Brandon, Matt and me

Oh, and I didn’t put music to the video, so push play on your music player if you like music with your moto.

Yeah, I know I’m behind on posting a few rides, I’ll catch up one of these days, but I was just happy to get out and ride this weekend! This summer has been packed with family reunions, little vacation and tons of yard work. Couple that with a super long spring and closed roads into July and that really put a damper on the moto schedule for the year. Thanks to Chaz for making me feel guilty enough to ditch the landscaping and load up the moto.

Conditions were dusty, but it was beautiful out there. I think it’s still a lot greener up there that usual for this time of year, and there is still more water in all the little creeks. We got up there early and only saw one other ATV and two other motos the entire ride, which was unbelievable considering the long Labor day weekend. There were a lot of campers in all the camp spots though.

Wally had a little mishap in Gibson basin, came off his bike in 4th gear and tumbled until his bike drilled him in the back and landed on top of him. He was also in the back so nobody was there to help him out. We waited at the top of snowslide until he rolled up and looked pretty battered. He split off there and rolled home, when I talked to him later that night he said he was pretty sore… sorry man! Get better soon!

Crew: Wally, Chaz, Shawn, and me.

With all the snow still in the hills to the East, I’m afraid the only good riding we’ve got nearby is going to be over on the west side of Cache Valley. The riding was a lot of fun though, little snow, little greasy, lots of good times… we got ~40 miles in. Keston did awesome on the 85cc bike, I could barely keep up with him when he got on it!

Crew: Brandon, Keston, Rich, Braden and me.

Here’s some video, still pretty new to the helmet cam, need to work on a less shaky mount and my editing skills, pretty tedious stuff. It also becomes painfully obvious that I need to “twist it” more…