They would need dynamite to dig a hole in my dirt/rocks!Did they offer you a soda or burger after the fact?

 

Eat there children.

 

I have never really thought about paying attention for intentionally set traps or obsticles. I seem to have a tough enough time just avoiding trees and rocks. I will have to start looking for this on regularly traveled trails though. Oh and by the way, you should of stuck dude in the hole and really drove over him!

Mike

 

you gotta watch out for man made obsticles too.I once ran into about 500 feet of house wire that a tweeker was running across the road to steal power with.I was lucky that it got stuck between my front wheel and front fender(3-wheeler).Two feet higher and I might have lost my head.

It took me a couple of seconds to stop,by then I had pulled the wire about 100 feet,and removed a lot of wire from the walls of his house at the same time!

 

Here about a year ago, we were riding on some public trails. I was burnin' along on the bro-in-law's 400EX, when I came to an intersection. Out in front of me comes this go-kart. I mean some small **** home-made go-kart. This dude wasn't thinking. Luckily the brakes on the 400 are very responsive, otherwise I would have ran right over the top of him. He had no bussiness being out in public off road trails with a go-kart.

 

yeah chris 142 i know about that area. was running near soggy dry lake years ago and after a heavy rain, a D8 cat had dug a drainage ditvh across the road..... no rocks or anything to warn!. cost me over a grand in surgery, a new DKW and a used Yamaha 125!... that weekend sucketh in the extremeth! without a full faced helmet, (what we now call mx helmet) i'd be long cold...... just another close call.
resilient folks, these americans, eh??? ;p

 

one can see the long term results of the disaster as i now strongly resemble chris himself......HEY....did you own a D8 cat in 1974?
;p

 

Nope,No D8's here.I was on soggy about a year ago and there are large cracks in it from the dirt compacting together due to no rain.Some were 10ft wide and 2 feet deep.........ouch!

 

My99Banshee,

THANKS! No seriously, thanks. You just gave me a good reason to now carry a Louisville Slugger in my rack bag.

 

One of my buddies was out riding his bike and there were a whole bunch of young kids out standing on the end of a trial and when my buddy got close to them, he was goin to stop and talk to them, they all pulled out paintball guns and let him have it. I bet he had over a hundred whelps on him from it. Thank God he was wearing a helmet and googles. He went home and grabbed his gun and returned quickly but Thank God for them and him they were long gone. Be Careful Out there. Dennis