Yawkey circles singing "caught in a trap"/ Suspicious Minds- Elvis, while playing with the Timbershaft technical. Jim went to retrieve wave runner, kept riding over to Huntington Rocky Flat/ Chute so not to cheat myself. Jim didn't let me down, water toy trailered.
Jack shows later Friday night, his theme for weekend "all smiles", he claimed he didn't know any Pirates. ha
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| Smiling Jack |
Saturday, game was Ricoh beatdown (ride all day or until tapout) with the le Mac (Squirrel Fest) Timbershaft trial trail competition inbetween. Started at Yawkey again, met up with Cuyana Nick and group of Fest'ers. Rode the stuff for a while, le Mac shows to officiate the Timbershaft game.
Timbershaft trial race- figured some of the bike cultures/ Morc's/ Porter's would have skill (?). Farm Carl and Farm Ben showed to up the ante, flashbacks of days of old at the Farm. First round was no time just clean, count your dabs. I was last in line and wasn't there for instructions (thought time was factor). Had a good run, cleaned all the super tech, but dabbed on an easy spot, I caught up to the bike culture in front of me as he was falling off the main skinny, which caught my eye off line, dab, dang it. Ended with 2 dabs (I call it 1.5). 4th place said Jack.
Jack, Ben and Nick had no dabs. They went for round 2 and title of "Timbershaft". This time it was dabs plus time. In the end Smiling Jack took a seat with Stealth Doug, the Pirate showed up with no dabs and time of 2:14, and claimed title "Timbershaft". Pirate = LCR Superstar (not me).
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| TimberShaft Champ- The Pirate |
While Timbershaft game going on, Jim got his hand on wave runner trailer. He made it back in time to throw a big tri allen wrench in the Timbershaft title. Jim had a great run, 1 dab at 2:21, but couldn't take down the Pirate. Tied me for 4th.
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| Whoisdiss? |
Ricoh logic- Jim was satisified he collected his points on us, Gold? My clean run on Timbershaft was blocked by Smiling Jack and his out of the medals fall over. Doomed himself with the mumbling "7 cleans in a row, number 8 next, arrrggg." Maybe that's when the Pirate deciced to show up?
Rest of day, beatdown. Rode pretty much all the trails even did Demo/ my rock spot, ha, and circling the good stuff, we were ready for water toy. Jim launched his wave runner (aka sea doo) in Serpent lake for us to play around on. No token pictures, dang it. Jim showed us that you can stand up on it like the moto snowmobilers do these days. Didn't believe the thing went 60 mph, but do now.
Random Notes- Ya Betcha Bar has a very good burger (check it) and nice support to the Fest. North Country Cafe has real bacon, favorite non timbershaft trail- Endo Alley, jump in Miner lake for a cool dip, don't ride 4 wheelers in town, thanks to le Mac for putting together the Fest.
Timbershaft backwards = scary, even for a Pirate, claimed He had the shakes...
Sunday we trekked down to St Cloud and looped around the Jail Trail. That one rock garden when slick is just as tricky as parts of Timbershaft.
Richy Race up next... Experts ride the teeter, Cat 1's always skip it.
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