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RE: Video Camera Fun Today

ibafran — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:31:28 GMT

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=359444

Hey! Modette (et al)

The above link is to practice vids from pikes peak. Hope all y'all enjoy that.

The downside is that the peak looks nearly all paved. Why the riders are using motard looking bikes is beyond me. They might as well have roadracers. There was a patch of sand near the start that looks like it could be ridden around at much faster pace than across it. Maybe the practice session was only for a particular section and not the whole course?

And there are armco guard rails. Its hard to tell if the bikes need the ARMCO covered in hay bales.

I am glad that I rode the peak when it was unpaved (mostly).

Normally, I would have stuck this bit of info in my heretofore personal thread of bits and pieces. But, it might be more fun to place it here. Our illustrious mod, the venerable Torqueman, can move it as necessary.

RE: Video Camera Fun Today

modette — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:36:02 GMT

In other news (so not to take up another thread) I was the first on the scene yestarday for a forest fire. Rafters flagged me down, but no cellphones work up there so they told me there is a phone booth 4 miles north. I got up there and called 911, they said someone had already called, so I decided to ride back to the fire and inform the rafters they can leave as help was on its way. I told them to get out before they close the roads.

They claimed it started from nothing, just in my 8 mile round trip ride to the phone booth and back half the mountain side was ablaze. I took a bunch of photo's, well you know now why I am out there (Motorcyclist Photos) and emailed them to the News Channel. They had me on at 10pm news over the phone. I was pretty nervous, so man did I sound like an idoit...LOL They used some of my pictures on TV the wife said.

They say it has spread to 140 acres, and that wa slast nights report. I'm waiting to hear if they put it out, or how big it has grown.

Here are some of the pictures:

RE: Video Camera Fun Today

modette — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:26:20 GMT

Cherrie (7/20/2008)

I read somewhere they were going to pave Pikes Peak. Fred and I have been up it a couple of times on the bike, and it was very hard packed dirt. I kinda wish they wouldn't pave it, cause it makes it different.

As they get money they pave more and more sections, but I do not think there is a timetable so who knows how long it will take or be till it is all paved. Once paved it will take Mt. Evans title away as the highist paved road.

RE: Video Camera Fun Today

Cherrie — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:11:11 GMT

RE: Video Camera Fun Today

torqueman — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:59:33 GMT

Very nice. I wish I could have made it to your neck of the woods this summer. Maybe next year.

RE: Video Camera Fun Today

ibafran — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:52:39 GMT

Thanx for that, modette. I dont have any trips planned for this year. Now I have a pretty good case of 'colorado bike trip fever' raging.

Whatever you do, dont post any video from Pikes Peak or Mt. Evans. And for goodness sake, dont mount that camera on a dual sport for some gravel roads or single mountain tracks. That would just about finish me off.

Video Camera Fun Today

modette — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:40:37 GMT

Actually these were taken with the Digital Camera today Not too bad.

US24 East to Colorado Springs

126 to Deckers, CO

Don't mind the sound of rattling plastic, I have a few cracked pieces that you can hear at slow speeds, which I never knew before this video...LOL Not that I know who is in the videos ;-)