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All posts will be there from now. Small learning curve, but actually WordPress easier than Blogger.

Eventually
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Boohermuda Triangle Ride - Rincon Trail

Following Potter on the upper portion of the Rincon Trail.

Boohermuda Triangle Ride

A quick break-down of the ride - more video/pix/stories to follow I'm sure. A true Mag 5: Booher, Dano, Mantz, Potter, & Special Ed, completed the "Triangle" around Lake Isabella.

• Day 1 - 70 miles of single track in the Piutes. Per Mag 5 requirement there was some fear of not making it back, but we were able to bum some gas off of fellow dirt bikers camped at Landers Campground. Followed by dinner and beers at Kern River Brewery. Can you say "Just Outstanding IPA"?
• Day 2 - Rincon to Sherman Pass. We were thwarted by too many downed trees and too much snow to make it all the way up to Sherman Pass. An out-n-back run on the Rincon trail was halted by the heavy flow of Dirwood Creek. Still we completed 40 miles of trail riding adventure. Followed by steaks and cocktails at Ewing's On The River.
• Day 3 - Breckenridge. Up Squirrel Meadow Trail and Down Mill Creek Trail. 25 miles. Followed by a soak in the hot springs.

Boohermuda triangle complete.

Barry Chinen Memorial

Lots of great photos of Barry towards the end of the video.



Video by Tony Schroeder

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Barry Chinen Tribute Ride

Cool Art

Latest from artist Scott Dickson. I really dig his style.
http://www.scottdickson.ca/Scott_Dickson.html

El Magnifico Cinco

Schwiing!

Full Boner Ok

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Day at The Ranch

We showed up at Freddy's this weekend thinking this was the ride at his ranch. (Since all I was told was "the first weekend in April"). To our chagrin we were greeted by a locked gate, a dried out track, and not a soul around. Felt like an April Fools joke. Apparently to San Diegans (San Diegoans?) the first weekend in April means the second weekend of April. We salvaged the day by going to "The Ranch" (Formerly Rynoland). It's super fun, with a bunch of different tracks and super mellow vibe. Even has a fun single track loop that we hit at the end of the day.

Tyler bustin' out the classic "Pool Shooter" move.

Dano's best attempt at a whip.

Ed scrubbing up the Stairway to Heaven

Dano on the stairway.

Ed throwin' roost

Dan & Ed battle

Booher's return to Motocross.

B. Snider with a classic cross up

Matt-John lookin pretty good these days on an MX track

Tyler berm shot

Tyler absolutely burying Dano in Roost!

This is the "1980's Track". Which consisted of lots of off cambers, drop away jumps, a few small tables, and grins for everyone.

View of the main track. Good rolling layout, a couple technical sections, but overall fun.
I'd give it an A-.

Claro que si, es Modelo.

Ed styled the Mag 5 out with 5 pounds of carne asada tacos.
"Another perfect day."

First video is Dan following Ed on main track, 2nd video is Dan following Tyler on the 1980's track.

Ride this coming Weekend @ Freddie's MX Ranch

Supposed to be good and "flowy", being that he owns a heavy equipment company he has the "tools" to make it happen. Anxious to twist the grip.

Got 'em, Smoke 'em

According to B. Snider, Ryan Hughes and Jessica Patterson will be racing YZ144's this weekend at Glen Helen's 2 Stroke Smoke Out. Braaaap!

Cannonball!

Or is that a jackknife?

Special Ed Reps the Mag 5 @ Keyesville Classic

The Mag 5 was well represented at the 23rd annual Keyesville Classic by none other then our own Special Ed Paulsen. As you know Ed always goes big, entering all 3 events; 8 mile XC, Short Track and Downhill events.

Nice shirt Ed, how much did that cost?

Saturday's XC race was a one 8 mile sprint around the Keyesville Classic track, with Ed smiling as he pulls the holeshot. Steady Eddie...it's a long race...and it was as Ed let a few fast guys by.

Sunday's Short Track was about 1 mile loop, 8 lap sprint. Ed again started fast and picked off a few riders at the end to a 3rd in class and 8th overall. Ed would later say he was totally gassed and just needed a cup of coffee and some more chew.

The final event was the downhill time trail. Pooher, Art & Ed did a pre-run on Saturday and there was a tricky drop-off into the trees, heavily padded for the impending crash to come. The guy pre-running ahead of us crashed and cracked his helmet, a sure sign of things to come. Bad weather forced Pooher and Art to leave before Ed's race but did not disappoint winning his class.

Great job Ed!

MX History

Hakan Carlqvist was so far out front at the Citadel (GP of Namur) that he pulled over and drank a beer with the fans. The Citadel track literally wrapped in and out of a historic castle in Belgium. The track was lined with cafes and bars. Hence the beer stop. Probably my favorite motocross story of all time (besides Ed winning the Catalina GP on a $200 bike). Sadly the race and the track are no more.








Check out this link for a track walk around the Citadel
http://www.pbase.com/jefro98/trackwalk

Ravioli Cairoli at the Citadel.

Gnar.

Here's the cafe where Hakan pulled over for his celebration beer.

Big air in a Belgian castle.

Castillo Addendum

Blue skies, green grass, black dirt.

As Ed said, track was in burrito supreme condition. It was obvious Gustavo did a lot of work. "Yimmy" was in Mexico with his new girlfriend. Cheers.

Lots of sand added to key sections.

Travis hitting the new freestyle jump. I told him "I'm out", then he said, "you gotta do it while you're still young," so I did. Didn't quite lay it as flat as T.Marks.

Other comments: Ed was flyin, Tyler coming to terms with the 450 clearing the big table-step-down, Potter pressured/passed me per usual, consensus on San Jose-Aaron is faster on his 450 than his Service Honda CR500, Tigert maybe the fastest guy on the track when not picking himself up off the ground, Rich "this Husky doesn't work in the sand" Schauwecker, I had moments of feeling like my old self interspersed with serious episodes of whiskey throttle ... Yee haw! Mag 5 well represented, but missed the spice of Dougo, Dax, Booher, et al.

Photo creds: Tigert, JunkoIkari

Tony Schroeder following Tyler

Castillo then Zaca

Is it never not the time of our lives when we double down? Castillo was probably the best its ever been. Mellowed out the "Sharks tooth" double double, the big step down had a smooth landing and the "triple" is really just a big tabletop now. Dano looked smooth as usual, Tigert is learning to get the frequent flyer miles, Potter was just messing with me all day before he uncorked a couple of hot laps to pelt me with plenty of the Castillo gravel, Matt shook off the deamons of his broken Tib/Fib and Waynium won.

Oh yeah, one more thing we all rolled around the SX track. It had been re-done for Chad Reed and showed. Only the absolute top supercross racers have any business on that track. TV does no justice to what those obstacles are really like. Once you roll up to the lip of the jump and both your bikes tires are off the ground its scary, when you roll thru the canyon gap to the landing and the same thing happens it becomes very clear that guys like me have noooo business even dreaming about riding a real supercross track.

After getting to bed by a sesible 930pm we were all rested and ready to ride by 9am even with the stupid spring forward time change. I don't think the whole team got the "early to bed for good moto" memo...

Dano still has the knack.

The drive from AZ was well worth it.

Matt clearing the gap clean. No broken bones this trip

Situation #2 was getting this crew out of the chairs and onto the track for some photos... It was harder than situation #1 below.
Situation #1. Cows blocking the road to Zaca. Wouldnt move for shit, I guess the white lightning perv van just wasnt menacing enough. I let Maggie out of the car and those cows took off like they had seen the Devil himself!
No idea who this is, but based on the proper form, I will assume he is a mag 5 associate.