Went to the Blackrock Bike Festival this past weekend. Fat Larry and April stopped by my house early Saturday morning and we all headed down to Blackrock. Had a friend, Mike H that drove down from Vancouver B.C. to check out the local riding. He got off work and drove all the way down from Vancouver during the night. Plan was to ride Blackrock on Saturday then Post Canyon on Sunday. After the party on Saturday night, we were not ready to drive to Post Canyon. We then decided to stay in Blackrock for Sunday also. Dirk also made the trip down for the festival and rode with us on Saturday. He killed his rear wheel on a jump, so decided to head home.
This is Mike the Canadian tour guide that has showed me and a bunch of others around the trails in North Vancouver and the Woodlot in B.C. He's a great rider on super technical riding, but was never used to gap jumps like we have down here. However, he picked it up quickly.
Mike had no problems following me off of the drop to gap on Sictar Gnar. This is an older section of trail, but it is still pretty damn fun!
Jake was in good spirits as usual. He was doing the sound and music for the festival. All of us volunteers received nice t-shirts from the B.R.M.B.A. guys for helping with the festival.
The lead singe of Sons of Thunder...A.K.A. Mormon Craig was warming up for rocking the town of Falls City and all the riders. They mised rock, comedy and Craig breaking the jump on Sunday Stroll!We even talked him into hitting the road gap. I think this was his third time hitting it, but he had it dialed and looked like a local.
This was Fat Larry hitting the Sictar Gnar drop to gap for his first time.
I was feeling pretty good all weekend, I have been thinking about actually hitting the cliff drop and today was going to be the day.
I looked at it and I was thinking it was going to be a go...then a bunch of other people started showing up to watch. Which made me a bit nervous.
This was what it looks like from above. You don't see any of the landing until you are right on the jump. I think that this one is easy, you just have to convince yourself to go off the edge. I guess it leaves something for next time.
So we packed up Jake's stereo equipment and headed home. On the way home we stopped at Boondock's in Falls City. The waitress there looked just like Uma Thurman with black hair. Service was great, but the food took forever to get there. April paid for the food behind our backs which was not necessary...but very nice of her. Can't wait for next years festival...bigger and better!
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Atta Larry!
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