Where do you camp at the river? I may come down and look you up.

charlie

 

We'll just cross the r/r tracks and go past the first big turnoff to the river about another 100 feet and there is a little turn to the right and you can drive right out on it. We'll be right in that area.

Aaron

 

Aaron,
Our plans have changed for this weekend. I have to go to Norman on Friday afternoon, Dallas early Saturday morning and OKC airport early Sunday morning. I had a chance to purchase some brand new suspenion seats for the sand rail at 1/2 price. Needless to say I'm going to Dallas Saturday to get them.

Bob,
I will honk my horn when I go acroos the Purcell bridge Sunday morning for Aaron. It should be about the same time that you will be going by.

Ronnie

 

Did any of you all watch the CBS Evening News? I usually do not watch CBS as they are usually a little left of center for my tastes but that is a different story. I intentionally watched their program this evening because they had advertised a spot on ATV's and safety. Well I tuned in and watched their segment and I will say that it was quite balanced and represented concerns from both sides arguing the point, that being about children riding ATV's.

It was not the representation of ATV's in the media that irritated me but rather it was that of the attitude projected by a couple in Oregon who had a child that was killed while riding his ATV. The child was 10 years old and was riding an Arctic Cat that looked like a 400 if I were to guess. Not only was the child unsupervised, but the parents were not even at home. The parents first blamed the government because and I quote "If there had been a law against children under 16 riding these things our child would be alive today." They then went on to blame the dealer that sold them the machine saying "I can not believe he would sell us anything that would be that dangerous."

So the parents have blamed the government and the dealer. Hmmmm.....who else could be responsible for the set of circumstances that led to the death of their child? Could it be the parents who paid for the machine? Could it be the parents who routinely allowed the child to ride unsupervised (but he did have on a helmet)? Could it be the parents who were not even home when the child had the accident (we are talking about a 10 year old home alone regardless of ATV usage)? Then to close out the segment it shows the kid's tombstone and on the tombstone is a picture of an ATV. These parents knew the child rode the quad all the time yet they never thought to worry that he might be misusing the thing. The thing that annoyed me the most however was the fact that they blamed EVERYONE except themselves. I guess that is indicative of someone who is not responsible enough to monitor and control the acts of their child, apparently they feel that was the role of the goverment or the dealer or someone else.

Anyway to finally get to my point, tomorrow evening they are supposed to have a follow up segment with hidden cameras allegedlly showing dealers trying to talk parents into buying quads for their kids or somethign to that extent. I think it will be interesting to see. I am not a parent so I am really hesitant to cast aspersions on the way others raise their children. But even a semi-intelligent fatman from Del City would have the forsight to go so far as to remove the spark plug form my son's quad if I could not keep him from riding it without adult supervision.


Bob "Like ALL aspects of life, quad safety is matter of common sense and descretion" Bobman


P.S. I don't wear a helmet....but I accept all responsibilities for any damages sustained to my empty noggin.

 

Tyler
I will be at the track Sunday if its not to muddy, but if it doesnt rain anymore the track will be awesome. It need some water it was
realy dry and dusty last sunday. I've got a call in to Mike(the guy i rode with last sunday) to see if he will be there.
Let me know if you are interested!


Raymond

 

Ronnie
I might be able to get you some air ride seats out of a Mack truck[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

raymond,

I will try to be ther on sunday. what time are you going? I will try to talk my friends into coming. The only way I can get my quad there is if my friend wants to go. I have to use his trailer, cause my work truck's transmission is not strong enough to pull anything. But to make a long story short, I will try to get him to come. Thanks.

Tyler

 

Im going to ride Saturday for shure, If you can make it Sunday Ill be glad to ride then to.
I'm going to try to be there around 10:30am the track should be in good shape with the rain that it needed.

Raymond

 

Aaron,
I went across the Purcell bridge today and the water level is great. You should have a blast riding. They didn't get the rain that everybody else did. Heck we didn't even get a 1/10th of an inch in Ada.

Ronnie

 

Thanks Ronnie, I was a little worried about that after the Storms yesterday. We are still planning on getting there about 3 and we will be camping there, so all are welcome.

Aaron