So excited, leaving tomorrow...... 300 mile dual sport race across northern CA.... good times
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Re: 2006 SheetIron 300
Fri, May 19, 2006 - 2:48 PMtechnically it is not a race -
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Re: 2006 SheetIron 300
Fri, May 19, 2006 - 3:08 PMit is not a race <at all>
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Sun, May 21, 2006 - 10:01 PMyes.. you are mosty correct.....
i do think it is kinda sad though that someone tries to stimulate discussion and all the responses left are corrections to the origional and not actually adding or continuing the discussion.......
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Mon, May 22, 2006 - 9:04 AMI am just player hatin cuz I cannot go.....I am sure it was fun a little wet though huh? -
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Mon, May 22, 2006 - 4:00 PMIt was a little wet.
A little more hail than I would have wished for.
And the fog was not so great...
But great times. -
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Tue, May 23, 2006 - 1:52 AMIT WAS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!
Not too wet.... the last 10miles it was fairly rainy but other than that not bad. There was enough moisture to keep the dust down but really only sprinkles now and then. Wish I could write more but I need to get to bed. Find a way and go next year. For $60 entry and whatever for gas/hotel/food, you can't ask for more. The scenery was beautiful, great group of people, and fun ride. Go next year.
*I appologize for any spelling errors or incorrect information in advance
**Thank you Rebecca for lending me a hair tie; I really do owe you =) -
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Tue, May 23, 2006 - 11:46 AMput up a few pics in my photo album. The snow at the pass was so purty! -
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so jealous
Tue, May 23, 2006 - 5:49 PMSomeday I will actually manage to clear my calendar and sign up for the sheetiron.... sigh....
Going up to forest hill this weekend...camp, ride, bbq and booze
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Wed, May 24, 2006 - 10:18 AMgreat write up, Rebecca...it was fun!
i was on the old BMW G/S, so took the easy splits....accidentally routed myself through that deep water crossing, oh joy. But! your first rule of dirtbiking got me through, POWER ON! :-)
hope to actually meet you on some ride somewhere, but I live over in Mendocino, my ride home afterwards on Sunday was pretty moist too.
rubber side down!
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Wed, May 24, 2006 - 10:33 AMwere you riding with a brunette woman on (I think) a DR350 or something?
Gee, I wish I lived up there so I could take the long way home every so often. -
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Wed, May 24, 2006 - 11:02 AMHi
Yes, her boyfriend had to bail out at the last minute, so I told her I'd make sure she made it. Great rider, she was right there in my mirror almost the whole way. When she wasn't, it was because we were in that goo over the pass, and I was spraying mud everywhere behind me!
that got a little white-knuckle through there!
I love it up here, but it is a bit remote. anytime you and your friends need a place to camp out on the coast let me know, I've a trailer for biker buds. I want to get up to the lost coast next, while I have those nice dirt tires on.
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Wed, May 24, 2006 - 11:12 AMI'm in your photo album!
the guy in the orange shirt took a swim, twice, in that creek. Once going through, and once while trying to help me (sortof) .
That's me waiting on the other side of the creek for my turn.
Can't wait for next year! -
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Wed, May 24, 2006 - 11:21 AMThats a nice crosssing for a GS, well done.... I have seen a GS do a creek crossing before....Its like watching an elephant swim. Very spectacular indeed!! -
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Wed, May 24, 2006 - 11:56 AMI call the old beast...
Moby
you can guess why. In Covelo I rode the length of the gas line patting my tank and laughing like a maniac.
I could have done the whole round trip on one tank, but I wanted the ballast!
;-)
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Wed, May 24, 2006 - 11:48 AMCool!
I am hoping somebody took a better photo of the crossing, I was concentrating bigtime...thinking...watch your line, keep that POWER on, stay left, more power, oh shite, look at that hill!, "more power, scotty!"
and then it just flew up the hill, steaming like a locomotive
I love water crossings, I gotta say. fun! Of course, if I fell over, I might change my tune.
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Wed, May 24, 2006 - 12:05 PMYeah, it's a fine line between grinning and swearing.
I should be getting some better photos from the guy in the aerostich (in your photo) soonish.
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