Busco Beach in NC October 7-9, 2011

[mightymaxIV]

Thanks for posting the videos Lewis, I enjoyed watching them.

[Don]

Very cool. 'wish we could've made this one- looks like everyone had a blast. Great footage!

[Model Citizen]

There are no words to describe those videos. Smilies will work.



You guys ROCK!

Bridget

[Mike]

Did my ears hear right? It sounded like admin mike was calling for race to attack me when i got hung up for a second.

No, you've got it all wrong. I quickly realized that racerone3 was headed on a path that would splash you with mud. I was concerned for you and that's why I kept saying "uh-oh" and why I was trying to get racerone3's attention to get him to change his course. Sorry that I couldn't warn him in time.

[racerone3]

I was just doing what I was told , Not even sure who gave the order. I might have been In the pimpfoot, but I was still in combat mode from driving Rhonda earlier in the day

[amphibious drew]

Ok ive been waiting for footage to show up of this. Did my ears hear right? It sounded like admin mike was calling for race to attack me when i got hung up for a second. What a blast!!!

[lewis]

[lewis]

As i said earlier RDR has some computer problems so he asked me to post these videos that were taken on his flip....so here they are.

[Mike]

If you posted a picture in this thread and see that it is gone, I am in the middle of creating a separate Busco Beach category in the gallery under the trail ride section and have been moving photos there. I thought I would finish tonight and have time to correct everything but I didn't. Just wanted to let you know what was happening with the photos. If any of you have more photos to upload to the gallery, just upload them to the Fall 2011 Busco Beach category. Thanks.

[jpswift1]

I like the picture of Jeff's Hustler. Just look at all that mud.

Agreed! Nice shots there, Mark.

[Mike]

I like the picture of Jeff's Hustler. Just look at all that mud.

[MAX IV Mark]

here are a few of the photos I took
DSC00001.jpgDSC00006.jpgDSC00005.jpgDSC00019.jpgDSC00020.jpg

[racerone3]

We rolled in from Busco about 6pm on Sunday. Beth took off to Drop off Becky and pick up Wyatt, while I unloaded the Items that we didn't want left out in the monsoons that were forecast for the week.

I dove into the new job Monday morning and got initiated the right way. 12 hour days with an hour commute on either end we also got to work today, but knocked off early at the 10 hour mark... The hours have sucked, but it feels good to be working (and doing something I love) again.

Tonight it was still daylight when I got home, so I finally got the machines off the trailer. Cept for the Wild Wolf, which is still at McCoy's house. I pressure washed till I ran out of daylight and gas.

Beth suffered a mild concussion Friday morning when a roll cage smacked her in the side of the head (thanks for the STOUT cage Mike). She rolled the Max down a hill, but jumped right back in and kept riding. She wouldn't admit to any of the symptoms because she wanted to keep riding (Dummy) (I would have done the same thing)

Becky spent much of the weekend as a passenger in the tank after the second fragged bearing took the Wild Wolf out of commision (hence the near sinking in the above video). The advantage of having a passenger, was that I handed her the camera and she went nuts with it. I've uploaded a few pics, and will get the rest up shortly. The Video camera is still mounted to the Pimpfoot. I will try to someday make something of the footage (still haven't gotten around to the video from the spring ride)

All the machines came home in reasonable shape. Despite her flipping it down a hill, Beth's machine is good to go as is the Hustler. The Tank ran great all weekend, and I couldn't be happier with it's performance. I did break a LR hub on the tank in about the last 20 min of riding... I don't get why these 40 year old parts keep failing The Wolf... well... she needs bearings all the way around. Hopefully in the next few weeks I can start rounding up parts for the conversion to 1 1/4 axles in both the Wolf and the Tank. My ultimate goal is a skidplate and axles in the Wolf before the spring ride to see if I can make it Becky-Proof

[lewis]

Lewis was that 650 HD with the 25" swimmer tires as fast as your machine in the water? Thanks for the video Lewis.

Dan, i don't know, Doug was pretty fast and so was JP and the Max machines but i wasn't checking i was just cruising around.

[mightymaxIV]

Lewis was that 650 HD with the 25" swimmer tires as fast as your machine in the water? Thanks for the video Lewis.