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Incident #4: Remember that glove Marsolais borrowed from Tombs? Yep, that was because he threw himself in a swamp in an effort to keep his bike dry. Quickly enjoying a useless pair of soaking gloves, he borrows a pair and promises to return them. Little did the loaner know, they would be burned & useless at that time. Incident #5: The war zone…. two 300 yard sections of root, stump, logs, muck, and Yoda….. Hughes might of dropped his bike once or twice…. But it wasn't until the 5th time that he ripped the fuel tank off the frame mounts splitting the flange open and pour- ing fuel everywhere. OSHA are you out there? Incident #6: Coming out of the Yoda swamp, Johnny gets hung up on a root/rock/log/muck hole and Ghost launches his bike 6 feet in the air! Two results…. A) It comes out of the hole…. B) he earns a roaring round of applause from the 30 spectators. Incident #7: We inspect the bike, find the tank mounting bolt & flange under the seat has been ripped off a gap in the tank. Nothing McGyver wouldn't try and fix so we do the same. Not sure why I did, but leaving the truck that morning I threw a few extra things in my pack, one of which was a stick of JB Weld. Good call that was…. A little putty, some sunlight to speed the setting and we are back in action….. Incident #8: We happen upon a farmer and his sister/cousin/wife? He's drinking Natural Light, she's smok- ing filters less camels. Nice folk though, couldn't be happier to have us stop by. Probably because Tim Ross has been sitting there with him for an hour… waiting on the chase truck to pick up his broken motorbike. I reach out to shake the man's hand and he sticks a half drunk natural light in it. It didn't remain half druken for long, as I made it all drunken. He runs to get anotha from his 12 pack sitting in the sun….. I open it up, have a pull and pass it around… harjy trys to bogart it but tombs rips it away, hits it once and passes it to Nitro then to Hughes. Anotha natural light… GONE! Turns out the old bucks name is Goofy! Who knew? Incident #8 ½: Forgot to finish the story….. I guess Mr Ross's bike gave up the hunt and would come off idle…. Time to retiree the old '97 300exc! Let's get this over with and cut to Incident #12: We return to HMS and find Marsolais missing keys on the seat of his truck…. Too bad the doors are locked. We had a flippin blast... All Day Long! Can't wait to do it again:) Till next time Viking Children! Trail Boss August 2016 15