Moab ride report
4-5-08 to 4-8-08
Here’s a short ride report for my first trip to Moab at the invitation of Buzzard and company. Unfortunately, I have waited to long to write the report so I’m sure that a good portion of the details will not be included. However, I’m sure the essence of ride will be captured.
Arrived in Moab on Friday April 4th and met up with the now infamous Cheeseber at the Slickrock campground. Cheeseberger was all smiles sporting his brand new 07 650, what a beauty! After setting up the toy hauler, set about helping Cheeseberger get his 650 sorted as it would not idle without the choke on. As suspected lot’s of crap in the float bowl and a clogged pilot jet. Also put in a DVR needle set at position #6 (thanks Taffy!!), and a Factory Pro HDJ emulsion tube that I had with me, fired her up and set the fms and ready to ride on Saturday.
We met up with Buzzard and his crew shortly after they arrived at the Virginian motel and made plans to meet for breakfast the next morning.
Saturday morning and we’re all at breakfast and making plans on where to ride that day. I can’t recall the name of the staging area, or the trails we rode that first day, but, the staging area was just north of town. We ended up riding about 45 miles that first day, and it was mainly slick rock riding, and two track riding. What a trip! I kept feeling like I was riding in a Coyote/Road Runner cartoon. The scenery was truly amazing. The thing that really stands out to me, is how the terrain is either rock, or sand that is like the kind you find at the beach, very little intermediate soil.
I do remember that we rode to Gemeni bridges, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen a natural bridge let alone two right next to each other!!
We also rode to another Arch that many in the group (13 of us) were teasing me about riding across, and they all kept telling me that they did it. This of course made me suspicious……….. The Arch in question was of course death defying to cross, really not that hard I suppose, but, any mistake and you were dead, no question. Needless to say, I’ll leave that feat to less faint of heart!!
On the way back to the truck we had some great sights to take in and everyone made it back to the truck without incident.
On the second day Cheeseberger’s friend Conan joined our group to make it an even 14 for our ride up Pritchard Canyon, a mainly rock crawling trail that had all but just a couple of us needing some helping hands to clear the obstacles, myself included. In the first 3 hours we made about 11 miles, with the final “bigâ€Â
4-5-08 to 4-8-08
Here’s a short ride report for my first trip to Moab at the invitation of Buzzard and company. Unfortunately, I have waited to long to write the report so I’m sure that a good portion of the details will not be included. However, I’m sure the essence of ride will be captured.
Arrived in Moab on Friday April 4th and met up with the now infamous Cheeseber at the Slickrock campground. Cheeseberger was all smiles sporting his brand new 07 650, what a beauty! After setting up the toy hauler, set about helping Cheeseberger get his 650 sorted as it would not idle without the choke on. As suspected lot’s of crap in the float bowl and a clogged pilot jet. Also put in a DVR needle set at position #6 (thanks Taffy!!), and a Factory Pro HDJ emulsion tube that I had with me, fired her up and set the fms and ready to ride on Saturday.
We met up with Buzzard and his crew shortly after they arrived at the Virginian motel and made plans to meet for breakfast the next morning.
Saturday morning and we’re all at breakfast and making plans on where to ride that day. I can’t recall the name of the staging area, or the trails we rode that first day, but, the staging area was just north of town. We ended up riding about 45 miles that first day, and it was mainly slick rock riding, and two track riding. What a trip! I kept feeling like I was riding in a Coyote/Road Runner cartoon. The scenery was truly amazing. The thing that really stands out to me, is how the terrain is either rock, or sand that is like the kind you find at the beach, very little intermediate soil.
I do remember that we rode to Gemeni bridges, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen a natural bridge let alone two right next to each other!!
We also rode to another Arch that many in the group (13 of us) were teasing me about riding across, and they all kept telling me that they did it. This of course made me suspicious……….. The Arch in question was of course death defying to cross, really not that hard I suppose, but, any mistake and you were dead, no question. Needless to say, I’ll leave that feat to less faint of heart!!
On the way back to the truck we had some great sights to take in and everyone made it back to the truck without incident.
On the second day Cheeseberger’s friend Conan joined our group to make it an even 14 for our ride up Pritchard Canyon, a mainly rock crawling trail that had all but just a couple of us needing some helping hands to clear the obstacles, myself included. In the first 3 hours we made about 11 miles, with the final “bigâ€Â
