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[Front Royalty]

TBird1, on 11 July 2012 - 04:35 PM, said:

I stayed a couple of nights in Front Royal when I went down Skyline Dr./BRP. Jeez, I didn't think it was bad at all. Had a couple of great meals at the Stonewall Jackson restaurant. They even had Makers Mark there! You could be doin' a lot worse than to be in Front Royal. Unless...there's something you're not telling us...

I never said it was bad.I never complained. I chose to biy my home here and I am proud to live here.

[ddewey78 TT Newbie]

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[malfunkti0n TT Silver Member]

Greenisbest, on 11 July 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

I came across two 450's, the riders said they blew their motors at the same time, little weird, also a dude with yz250 decked out in my little pony stuff, his gear was too, my best guess is that it was some sort of joke/ irony.

Google Brony ... with caution. Sometimes I don't want to live on this planet.

[Tubs26 TT Member]

holy shit i could read these all day, after reading im debaiting on buying a glock or somthin and a holster. i go into the woods a good ammount, once me and my friend went up to silverton forrest on the winter and his mom drops us off and theres a foot of snow, only armed with a air rifle. we start walking through trees and all of a sudden a HUGE PIG/boar/pot belly? came half charging and running/walking at us, the snow was too deep to run so we split as fast as we could eventually we got away, later we found a platforms in trees with a latters (actually 5 if i remember) for hunting deer and what not, a cyote was following us in the bushes along with a mountain lion.

same friend goes alone and says he sees deer heads tied to trees all the time with dead cats everywhere. in the same forrest we saw a model t ford from like 1920.

just recently me and a few friends were biking on this like 8 mile cement path and accasionally (i live in the city/sub's) the path breaks and you need to cross a street or over pass or whatever so we decided to go all the way this time and at one point it turns into a little boardwalk bridge section. next to it a dirt trail starts and goes about 150ft through this feild and into these trees (verry uncommon to see where we live lol) we had to go adventure it so we left out bikes and walked like wow cool never whouldof guessed. we kept walking through the trees and all of a sudden BAM theres a HUGE FEILD that would be perfect for dirtbikes with single track trails through the tall grass and no building around and its hidden WELL! so we keep walking the feild and we come across a fork in the trail that goes into a forrest area AGAIN! at this point were like wow this keeps getting better and better! we walk one trail and we see abunch of trash and ignore it then we see what looked like a pile of trash and a man with long hair was laying on it, not dead, we ran out and went down the next trail, we walk and walk and all of a sudden we see a tent and were like oh ok? and we get closer and theres a guy sitting on a lawn chair reading a book with a shotgun next to him, by the time we saw him we were like 5 feet away and could hear him breathing the 3 of us stop and die inside about 5 seconds pass and finaly we quetly come back to life, he dident even look up at us it was verry scary he had clothes hanging it was dliverance i swear he even had a pretty mouth...lol it was spookey no dirtbikes involved but well almost lol

[crf450bbq TT Member]

Not terribly weird, but I do have video evidence...  Keep in mind that the vast majority of the video is my mediocre middle-aged riding, but...

8:18  -  Ford Bronco that has slid off a trail that it probably had no business being on in the first place.

8:25  -  Butterbean the tow truck driver up on a ridge that is steeper in person than the GoPro shows.  Not sure exactly how all the trucks reached the top of this ridge, but I don't think they came up the same way I came up or down.

And I just thought Butterbean was a deputy in Alabama...

[Front Royalty]

Totally got chased out of the newest riding spot we had been using last weekend by about 12 thugs with no protective gear on. I was last in the pack and I swear I could "feel" a quad ramming my tire from behind. Head on a swivel that day! Not cool. Another reason to carry. Public property that a bunch of idiots considered theirs.

[originalmonk]

Last winter I was out for a drive with a friend of mine. We headed up this crazy switch back road that leads up to a old mine. Its about -15c out, about 2inches of snow on the ground and as I come around one of these switch backs, an old man, probably about 60yrs old is absolutely fly down the road toward us on good old 10speed. There is no suspension and you could tell it was one of those old steel framed bikes. He had a huge winter jacket on, jeans and no gloves. We were literally in the middle of nowhere. It was quite entertaining because as we continued to drive up this road, you could see every single spot where he crashed. It would be a single bicycle track in the snow and then every so often a huge patch of dirt where he blew off the bike.

I was talking one of the engineers later on that worked at the mine and he said it was a homeless guy that lived up there and apparently he has about 30 dogs that are quite dangerous. Good thing we decided to not hike into that mine that day.

[UtahTrailRider TT Newbie]

slideleft, on 04 January 2011 - 01:08 PM, said:

weird,ok a pipe form a ktm. how do you not know your pipe fell off ?

My Vortip muffler fell off my xr400 and I didnt notice for the whole afternoon Tht thing was gone forever

[happy seal TT Platinum Member]

UtahTider, on 25 July 2012 - 12:47 PM, said:

My Vortip muffler fell off my xr400 and I didnt notice for the whole afternoon Tht thing was gone forever

did you really back us up too Jan of 2011?  really?    

[smokeylp TT Member]

This goes with the stories about people setting up trail traps. Around where i live there was a guy who was sick of kids riding through the back of his property on quads, so he set up a wire going across a trail. Two kids riding on a quad just happened to be on that trail going fast, and they didn't see the wire. The one driving ended up having his head separated from his shoulders because of that wire. There's a memorial on the side of the highway next to where it happened for him. Another story, there was a guy who was sick of kids riding his cranberry bogs. So one day he saw some kids on quads riding, and decided to jump in his truck and chase them off. He ran one of them down and I believe he killed him, and did some jail time for it.

[Front Royalty]

smokeylp, on 25 July 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:

This goes with the stories about people setting up trail traps. Around where i live there was a guy who was sick of kids riding through the back of his property on quads, so he set up a wire going across a trail. Two kids riding on a quad just happened to be on that trail going fast, and they didn't see the wire. The one driving ended up having his head separated from his shoulders because of that wire. There's a memorial on the side of the highway next to where it happened for him. Another story, there was a guy who was sick of kids riding his cranberry bogs. So one day he saw some kids on quads riding, and decided to jump in his truck and chase them off. He ran one of them down and I believe he killed him, and did some jail time for it.

I've heard about nightmares like this, I just prefer not to think about them. Trail riding is sketchy as hell.

[Justin Pearson]

smokeylp, on 25 July 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:

The one driving ended up having his head separated from his shoulders because of that wire. There's a memorial on the side of the highway next to where it happened for him.

I sure hope he did some serious jail time for this?

[teamgreen TT Titanium Member]

Startled & Armed Military (Mexico).

A Mountain-Lion and her cub.

Dope Growers (Thankfully, -I- was armed)

[UtahTrailRider TT Newbie]

happy seal, on 25 July 2012 - 01:59 PM, said:

did you really back us up too Jan of 2011?  really?    

Hahaah I'm laughing way to hard at that! Yeah that's how I do. They call me the reviver

[Captain891 TT Bronze Member]

Last summer my family and some friends were camping at Foresthill in Nor-Cal. At around 3 in the morning a guy went up to our friends tent waking them up and asking for help while bleeding and panicking. He said he crashed his truck filled with friends in the middle of the forest. The next morning we went out for an early ride to find his brand new Dodge Ram slammed head first into a huge tree. We went to ride over and get a closer look until four CHP's yelled at us saying to turn around and leave. As we turned around we saw the guy in handcuffs. Funny part was is that one off the motorcycle cops came over to the trail entrance looked down and called us F#$%^ing crazy. Not too weird but definitely won't forget it

[Justin Pearson]

Fatal?

[Kibbs597 TT Member]

Front Royalty, on 25 July 2012 - 05:05 PM, said:

I've heard about nightmares like this, I just prefer not to think about them. Trail riding is sketchy as hell.

happened to my friend, he was 4th gear tapped and hit a steel cable on his 450(quad), good thing the cable was a bit to low, caught the quad and not him, really messed up the quad and he went flying but didnt have an injuries, theres some crazy people out there

[terrobelone TT Platinum Member]

smokeylp, on 25 July 2012 - 04:20 PM, said:

This goes with the stories about people setting up trail traps. Around where i live there was a guy who was sick of kids riding through the back of his property on quads, so he set up a wire going across a trail. Two kids riding on a quad just happened to be on that trail going fast, and they didn't see the wire. The one driving ended up having his head separated from his shoulders because of that wire. There's a memorial on the side of the highway next to where it happened for him. Another story, there was a guy who was sick of kids riding his cranberry bogs. So one day he saw some kids on quads riding, and decided to jump in his truck and chase them off. He ran one of them down and I believe he killed him, and did some jail time for it.

what town ? i have heard of the first story ..not the second

[smokeylp TT Member]

terrobelone, on 08 August 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:

what town ? i have heard of the first story ..not the second

The second one happened in Freetown, which I believe the first one did too, off 24 maybe?

[Captain891 TT Bronze Member]

Justin Pearson, on 27 July 2012 - 08:00 AM, said:

Fatal?

No, from what i saw evryone was okay