Nice to meet and ride with everyone today. fun times eh?
Joe

I sorta thought Reiter was rocky but then I look at the pics. I think the pics make it look worse than it was. I kept finding a line between them all.

If someone were to do 40 miles at Reiter in one day they'd be beaten!

Good stuff!! I couldn't have asked for a better time. Thank you all for coming out, and to everyone. Thanks to David for organizing and coordinating. Really enjoyed meeting everyone, can't wait to do it again....

BTW, it's raining

Thanks for letting us tag along on a killer ride. I'm hooked.
Darrin
(one of the dudes on a CRF)

Me and the boys will be there again today at noon. White uhaul boxvan full of mini-bikes

so ill take it the road up to the 3rd pit is STILL closed? I wish i was paid by the hour....

ridin_red said:

Yep, sign said August something...

ridin_red said:

Aren't we all...? I'm gonna die someday, divide up whatever I made, by the hours lived

Today was good, everything getting wet. Dust gone Deer creek area is a slimy root festival...nothing like yesterday...no traction left to be had. I hit the ground a couple times today. The kid jumped a log, the rear squirted, boy hit ground hard. Bruised his chest/ribs...forearms scraped. It was up near checkpoint two. It started raining hard about 5pm, so we packed up and headed home. I think a quad rider went out in an ambulance as we were leaving...not positive who got hurt or how.

BTW, if anybody has pictures from Saturday's ride, that shows the license of one of the 3 toyotas camped at the top of the powerlines...they left so much garbage up there, I couldn't carry it all out.

Slackkinhard said:

Total dopewads! They were idiots when I saw them first and then they pull a stunt like that. Too bad the power lines didn't zap 'em.

shrubitup said:

I'm hopin at least the sterilization effect worked!

Was it the white toyota with the dome tent? I have a long distance shot of it I will try to zoom in on it. So you get the license number, then what?
Are they any worse than the people who left the xmas lights and garden xmas light holders at the road checkpoint area from the buttstomper? Or how about the 6 arrows on the tree. which I found handy

How bout a broken up weber barbecue grill, broken chairs, many beer boxes, bottles, cans toilet paper, plastic bags, etc.

If ya gotta picture, showing all of these in active use at the campsite, and I have much of the evidence in my trash out front...some of it, the big stuff, is still up there. I'm assuming that a littering ticket could be issued...

Way to go Brett in trying to track this down. what a bunch of low lifes...trashing the spot that they picked out to camp! i was wondering about them....none so much as tried to say hi or even acknowledge our presence while we were there (and we stopped for over 1/2 hour). DNR is in the process of taking over this area and its in the planning process right now. obviously this "spot" right up top under the powerline towers will be blocked off if trash dumping continues.
Brett....hope your son is ok and gets right back "in the saddle"

Joe

Oh yeah, one more thing about saturdays ride at reiter.....when was the last time anyone had a group of 11 riders, and only ONE was on an orange bike?? years and years for me! Mine was the only KTM along with a Kawasaki, two Hondas, three Yammies, four Huskys ( huskies? husquies? husqys?) .
Joe

glassman25 said:

First I have heard of this. I worked that checkpoint for awhile but was not there for the final pack up as I was doing a final sweep and pulling arrows.

If anything was left up there it was inadvertant. I know from experience that packing up a checkpoint after a 24 hour race is tough as you are basically in a dazed state from lack of sleep.

The people that worked that checkpoint are dedicated to our sport and taking care of our riding areas. I can guarantee you that if anything was left up there it was not on purpose. Now that we know about it the next time anyone of us is up there we will take care of it.

Unless of course you stepped up and took care of it....?

Wiz636 said:

I didn't notice anything at checkpoint 2, so I think it was taken care of.

The way I look at it, authorities know who was up there during an organized event, and if they feel the need to have the organizer do additional cleanup, that could be taken care of. A closed loop situation. What these campers did was shamefull. In nearly 40yrs I've never scene a campsite so utterly abandoned. Even if no legal punishment can occur, I would hope that a letter could be sent to the owners of these vehicles identifying them as having been observed. Custodians of the forest has to mean something. I'm not trying to be an arse, or even punish these young folk. I would like the chance to make them aware to the fact they are not invisible. If they want that type of attention, I'll give it to them.

glassman25 said:

Yeah... this is very odd:confused: I cleaned that course and not only did I make sure that EVERY arrow was pulled, I do not remember anything in the way of lights or garbage in and around that road check. By time I got there the checkpoint workers had pulled out.

Perhaps Scone or Rhino can chime in here?

Like Slackinhard said, if anything was there, it was overlooked not only by me cleaning the course but by the checkpoint workers... all of us have made every Reiter clean up the last 5 years in a row and most of us have been riding Reiter since we were little kids... that makes us VERY different than shitheads that go up and dump their crap and leave it:prof:

Oh yeah, what was so handy about the six arrows?

Probably made it it easy for Dave to follow the Buttstomper! I personally only saw a couple of arrows, which is no big deal and didn't see any lights and no garbage.

Those campers pulled into their makeshift campsite while we were waiting for some other riders. They were young in 4 x 4's, tat'd up and listening to some hardcore music...rebels with absolutely no cause!

David

SJMC_DON said:

Oh by the way, we had 11 riders! It was a great ride and everyone was able to get a taste of Reiter...rocks...boulders...roots...logs...YUMMY! As Joe said, it was really weird to have only one KTM and there 4 2008 Husqvarna's, 3 Yamaha's, 2 Honda's and 1 Kawasaki KLX 125. I think Jake tried them all and used the ride as an opportunity to demo some bikes! Man, Jake is fun to watch on a bike (very smooth) and his trials skill really comes in handy on that type of riding. He would intentionally take the hardest line bunny hopping everything.

The hardest part of going with a group that big is keeping everyone together as it is really easy to get go a different direction at Reiter. Too bad I got a flat because I really wanted to do a complete loop of the Buttstomper. I threw in a couple of challenging hill climbs and one was impossible as Jake and Brett noted that it probably a downhill only. Here are some pictures and 2 videos of Jake (jmetteer) and Brian (BTC) giving their best shot at that hill climb.

David