It was all good at the dunes this weekend 6-18 to 6-20. Met up with Sandgod and Buddah and did some riding with them and their crew. Great guys, and we all rode out to Choke Cherry and back, hit some jumps (you can kill yourself trying to jump like Buddah [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img] ). Thanks guys!!

They were filming for a movie that will apparently be called Anticity 2, with a helicopter and some pro riders on quads and bikes. We saw them out at Choke Cherry and it was pretty cool.

Norm from Norm's Auto Electric in Ontario, OR was there with his 910cc Polaris twin hillshooter quad. It is positively insane! He does Choke Cherry like this: roll into the bottom as fast as you can get across the whoops which ain't movin very fast, get to the bottom at about 1/4 throttle, once facing uphill go 1/2 then 3/4 then full throttle, once full throttle is achieved without flipping over backwards hit the nitrous. Once on the button, he goes for about 2.5 or 3 seconds, hits 70 mph going straight up the hill, then at about 3/4 of the way up the hill, chop throttle, lock up the brakes, and skid the rest of the way UP the hill to keep from flying over the top to his death. It was almost indescribable. I have a film of Tyler (Shady JR) on the quadracer heading up the hill and Norm lit this thing up and went by him like a rifle shot, it gives quite a perspective!

Chased down Ryan Gibson from Boise and got to chat with him and Jennifer. He stopped by for a Shady Brewery "Hun Runner Ale" at our camp. Thanks for the Fat Tires, Ryan!

Tina & the gang from TNTQuadjunkies was there right near us but we never hooked up, we were all out riding at different times.

Saw Predatorkickass as usual and said hi.

There were at least 3 Hotrails sandrails as featured in the latest SandSports magazine there. Honda V-6 V-Tec engines, turbocharged. Works of art, and fast!

The sand was good every day except Saturday afternoon it was pretty choppy. But Thursday night it was real windy and Friday the sand was perfect, as it was on Sat morning and Sunday.

Norm also had a YFZ on nitrous, and it was tuned properly and quite a runner. Real fun to watch it go, one full gear higher on the hills than the regular piped YFZ's. Faster than that sounds to read it.

Both Shady Juniors (Tyler 13 and Ajay 10) are really getting on top of their game. Hard as I want to go, I turn around and they stay right up with me. They make those wheelers really talk, and both weigh about 80 pounds so they really skim across the top of the sand. It's a joy to see them open up the YFZ at Dead Horse Bowl!

Sorry for the long post, I just had to blab to someone and you're it! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/img]

 

AWESOME! What a way to spend fathers day......
I am glad everything went good for you. I wish I could have made it. Next Time...
What are you doing for Labor Day?

 

Labor day, heading for the dunes of course!

 

Shady,

Did those tires work out okay? Thanks for the post, sounds like you guys had a blast.

 

Hey Starky, the tires worked great! I wanted to get a picture doing a big roost on top of a dune, but you know when you get riding it's hard to stop and try and get good pictures. I did however get some taken doing airtime, some real long ones. And pix with me & Mrs Shady and some of the kids, so I'll post them later when they're developed.

I climbed Choke cherry pretty well even in difficult choppy wet sand conditions where the piped Raptors couldn't climb it I went over easy in second with fair speed at the top. When it was dry I climbed most of the way in third and finished high in second. They have a ton of traction, at first I thought I was running rich they bit so much. But I did run the hills as good or better than before with the old sand skate II's.

 

That's great to hear, sure wish I could have been there. Looking forward to seeing the pictures. I took the Griz trail riding this weekend and I was going to get some pics as well. I know exactly what you mean about stopping to take pictures when your having fun. Maybe I'll get some on the next trip.

 

great weekend good seeing ya again shady!!!

 

Good to meet Predatorskicka$$, Shady and family and TNT, al la, Tina and "Old man". LOL Tons of Predators!!! We had a good ride w/ Shady.. His kids are seasoned veterans on the dunes.. Just wished the rained would of held off each evening.. The place was pretty crowded for a non holiday weekend w/ people from at least a dozen states.. North Dakota had a strong showing..

 

Shady I was disapointed I didnt get to meet up with you guys..... I THINK I may have seen you at Choke now that I hear you talk about Norm. We wre out there that day too.......Norm does some work on one of our locals that was out there with us on a Raptor... Thats one insane quad hes got!! Ive seen some of his others..Just plain Sick machines!! It was hard rounding up such a large group since soooooo many were spread out [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] We have decicied were gonna get some 2- way radios for next year and there is talk of more riders wanting to meet up next mid June again. I think we now have an official annual dunetopia group ride . We had 27 riders this year and 22 last year......[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

We had a great time until the Predator grenated on us....[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] We got the motor all torn out and ready to ship off to Troys sponosr on Mon.Truned out, a local sponsor who does our work DIDNT do such a hot job and done some Extensive damage to the motor.... ITs ran great until they put ther hands on it, not happening again!!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img] Im sending it where I know the work will be reputable........

The riding was good.I met some very cool people and even beat some bigger dogs up Thunder later on in the week......[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] we left on Wed. and left with Approx 36 hours of seat time in 4.5 days .........Hope to meet up with you all again next summer...................Tina [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

heres the link to our pics of the wk end...... http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4286441549