Quarry Run D/S - 8/9&10

[WoodsRider]

Anyone going to the Quarry Run this coming weekend?

Rode this event in '03 (wet & muddy) and again in '05 (dry & dusty). Hoping conditions are somewhere in the middle. Probably one of the best d/s rides I've ever attended. My only complaint is the riders who don't understand that yelling "trail" means "you're going to get passed, don't act like a jerk."

Planning to head down Friday afternoon with a buddy. Look for a pop-up camper with a blue Gasser (no graphics) and a Husky in a Tundra.

 

[Cruiser]

Have fun up there!! I'll be working the signup table at my clubs HS,, just a couple hrs south,, in exotic catawissa pa..

 

[eff]

I was thinking of doing the Quarry Run and bringin the family. Didn't work out this year.

O/T, Steve does your club do a turkey run down there? That would be a good opportinitu to visit some family. I may be going to Catawissa for Thanksgiving this year.

 

[GMP]

Quarry Run is not to be missed if at all possible. I love that terrain dispite getting bit there. To bad I'm out this year. Surgery next Tues. Maybe I'll ride up to Hancock on the Hyper, some great roads up there too.

 

[Skidad]

Quarry Run is not to be missed if at all possible. I love that terrain dispite getting bit there. To bad I'm out this year. Surgery next Tues. Maybe I'll ride up to Hancock on the Hyper, some great roads up there too.

Good luck with the surgery!!!

I just got my first up close look at your Hyper Motard this past weekend at an Italian car/bike show at the Lars Anderson Museum in Brookline MA. What a cool bike that is...Trouble with a capital "T" if I owned it. But Ohhhhh the Lamborghini cars. How about a $370,000 Merchilago? Sweeeeeeeeeet.

Sadly I will miss the Quarry Run again this year and do a local ride instead to save $$$. It's agreat ride for sure.


Skidad

 

[eff]

Skidad, going to Noble Woods? That's a great ride too.

 

[Skidad]

Skidad, going to Noble Woods? That's a great ride too.

Yeah, I'm gonna try to make the Turkey Run on Sunday. The enduro on Sat. is out because I pick up my kids from camp. Hopefully I get up there for Sunday. It is a really good ride.

You going?


Skidad

 

[WoodsRider]

Rode the Noble Woods Enduro in '06. Great terrain, hardly any rocks to speak of. Didn't seem like I was in New England. Had a great time despite the brand-x brain-phart check-burn by three minutes, nearly castrating myself in a crash and getting lost in the last section.

Hard to choose between the two. Four-plus hours of toll roads vs. less than two hours and no toll roads for me. I'm also not chasing enduro points this year. I can handle two days of casual trail riding, but a day of busting my hump followed by a day of casual trail riding might do me in. However I think the deciding factor was the post-Sunday ride chicken bbq dinner.

 

[eff]

Skidad, no I'm heading out to go camping with my family until Monday.

I think the enduro is AMA rules this year.

 

[GMP]

Gotta love that garbage can chicken!

Hancock is the only place I thought my 250 could use more snot. The hills are epic! Great people up there too, so good to see locals support an event.

Skidad,

Thanks, plate is comming out Tues. If all is well and no complications maybe I'll get some fall riding in. The breaks should be healed now its just a matter of screw holes filling in. Clavicle is not that big of a bone so 4mm holes are relatively large. The Hyper is way cool if your street bound though. I've got a trimmable open loop race ECU comming I won on ebay to defeat the emmissions crap and let that baby have the fuel it needs.

 

[skid jackson]

Been wanting to do the hancock ride ...
signed up for the noblewoods enduro this year ...
It's only forty minutes away.
My first ever enduro .... should be interesting!!
Doubt I'll have enough in me to ride sunday too ...
maybe, but I doubt it ...

 

[Cruiser]

We only get to do one ride in catawissa a year,, sadly as its a good ride.. I will make it to hancock one of these years.. Gelnn good luck on tuesday,, had my knee and lower back MRI done early this am.. get the good/bad next week sometime..
Just wish I was back on a bike by now, or at least back at work,, never thought I'd say that,,
Have fun this weekend and stay safe!

 

[eff]

Good luck Steve...and you too Glenn.

 

[WoodsRider]

Glenn/Steve - No more talk of injuries. Don't need to jinx myself. Hope both you guys heal up soon though. I might organize another Gas Gas ride in the fall.

I do agree with Glenn about having more power at the QR. I've ridden it on both a 250 and a 300. Even though I didn't have any problems with the hills on the 250, the 300 just climed everything easier/faster. Although I do remember passing a couple guys on BMW adventure bikes who were struggling to get up one of the easier hills. All the power in the world doesn't mean squat if you can't get it to the ground. The guy I'm going with has a 125 Husky which might have some issues. He's debating throwing a trials tire on back right now.

I've been taking it easy this year. Doing a lot more family activities and just going on fun rides with friends. Did a ~50-mile ride out of Manchester, VT last month. Plenty of long climbs and washed out trails which was good practice for the QR.

 

[GMP]

A good trials tire is the bomb in Hancock. Mitas or Dunlop are better for the road sections. I rode my brother's TE450 at the '07 Kamuggamugga ride, with a trials tire. It flattened the hills with the front end floating a few inches off the trail, you had to be real carefull. The extra weight made it a good higher speed rock bike too. At the QR a few months later I had my '07 EC250 and it was pinned on some of the smoother hills. A 300 would have been perfect.

Bill have fun and I'll look for you if I head up on a road ride. Missed you at the Black Fly, I just went for Sat where my kid rode PeeWee.

 

[WoodsRider]

Missed you at the Black Fly, I just went for Sat where my kid rode PeeWee.

I was there, but probably out in the woods sacrificing blood to the mosquitos. Hope your son had fun at the PeeWee. My oldest may ride it next year.

 

[GMP]

He was the smallest kid there by far, on a PW50. My wife and I both thought that after crashing on the parade lap and getting back last he would not want to ride, but he did and finnished, I think ahead of a couple other kids. He was doing real well for awhile and then hit something tearing the pipe off the bike, which then ran like crap and stalled a lot. He had a tough no quit attitude though I was proud of. We will probably go to Somers CT and if he's still interested then a new bike for next year.

You guys ran an excellent event for the kids, I was very pleased with how things went.

 

[WoodsRider]

Keep me in mind when you get ready to upgrade unless the PW is earmarked for a family member. My boy is probably too big for a PW50, but he needs to start somewhere and I'd rather he start with something less intimidating. Plus I have two more coming up behind him, so it won't be a one-season then pass along bike. I already upgraded him to a bicycle with hand brakes this year.

 

[GMP]

I was headed up there yesterday for some backroad fun and to meet up with some of my friends who were there. Got to Narrowsburg on #97 and between the rain and traffic it was just not fun anymore so I turned the Hyper to clearer skies. Carved it up for over 150 miles. Hope you had fun Bill, and you get first dibs on the PW.

 

[Cruiser]

We had bad storms early in the am in Catawissa,, then just as the adult race was in the last lap,, heavy rain and hail,, always fun.. 220 adult racers.. new record for our race..