Rumble in dixie ride report

**Billy Golightly** · 04-24-2005, 08:15 PM

What an awesome weekend. Louis (LonesomeTriZ) and Melisa got here Saturday morning around 6:00AM. They brought a stretched out 86 Tri-Z with a +12 extended swingarm, and tricked out blaster, and very very nice condition (And rare) Yamaha Pro-hauler. Zack (atczack) and his friend Cameron got here around 9:00AM Saturday morning. They brought a 200x, 110, and a 400ex that Zack had dropped off earlier. Greg (Wheelieking) and his friend Mike got here around 3:00PM on Saturday after pulling an all nighter at work until 5:00AM that same morning. They brought a Yamaha Beartracker, a Suzuki Vinson 500, and the mintest ATC200S I've ever seen before. We got all kinds of riding done, Hill climbs (For florida, anyways), took my "Death trail" through the creek out front which is pretty challenging, Found some mud in a few places, overall I think it was a really good time. Didn't have quite as many people show up as I was hoping/expecting but everyone that came was great and we had an awesome little group. Weather was real good too actually, it rained a little bit (1/4 inch or so) at about 1:00AM saturday morning but not a drop since then. It was pretty cold last night. Still cool today, and not a single cloud in the whole sky all day.

Interesting occurnces during this weekend:

#1: I found out a Tri-Z runs alot cooler if the coolant hoses are hooked up in the right direction

#2: Mike and Greg got an interesting wake up call Sunday morning when Zack and I rolled our trikes over right next to their tent and then cranked both of them on the first kick and ran them wide open with the exhaust no less then 3ft away from the tent. It was flapping all around from the exhaust air hitting it.

#2: Greg found out that the rear rack on a bear tracker is actually alot tougher then it looks during a hill climb gone bad.

#3: Port-a-shitter seats are focking cold.

I have some pictures, and a whole bunch of video (Working on the video now, will hopefully be on here soon). Just click the link below, and then go up one number at a time afterwards. IE, change the 1 to 2, 2 to 3, ect until you get to 12.

http://www.3wheelerworldforums.com/remote/RID05/1.jpg

Thanks everyone for coming out and I can't wait to do this again. I think we got some ideas and theories for those of us who can go to Trikefest to make it happen. Hopefully there will be a decent sized representation from the FL boys this year up there.

**Howdy** · 04-25-2005, 09:08 AM

Sounds like it was fun. I wished I could have made it.
Howdy

**wheelie king** · 04-25-2005, 09:41 AM

Billy sure put on a great time- For those of you that did not make it, you REALLY missed out.

Also Mike's 2500# Warn winch on the front of his quad came in a little handy when some of us (not naming names) decided to get REALLY confident

I thank Billy for so delicately describing my quad-bending pile up result from a failed hillclimb. At least I tried

Also, thanks for the kind words about my 200s. I especially like pictures 12 and 13, but I'm kinda biased

Let's do it again soon!

Greg

**LonesomeTriZ** · 04-25-2005, 10:37 AM

We had a good time this weekend. We even brought our five month old baby boy and he had a ball. Between all the commotion, engine noises and trikes shooting by him he was wore out on the way home. He did great for his first camping trip and did not cause us any trouble. What a perfect baby is all about.

Billy and his parents went all out for this event. They rented port shitters and a very nice and well built canopy. Not to mention all the clearing and equipment that was in place when we arrived. They had the area well equipped to handle the large number of people who SAID they would show up. For those of you who said you would be there I think you owe Billy an apology. He went to a lot of trouble for you. Not to mention what Wheeling king spent on T shirts. I am annoyed about the whole thing.

Those of us who are hard core and keep stick to our commitments had a good time, and we hope to do it again soon.

**Lomax** · 04-25-2005, 12:37 PM

I hate that I missed it, the chance of rain was kinda high when i checked it thursday, as usual, the weather man was wrong and I lost out on a great opportunity to ride.

**LonesomeTriZ** · 04-25-2005, 01:13 PM

That is why Most Florida residents does not pay attention to such reports. The weather is so unpredictable that we just drive on with our plans regardless of what the whether reports states.

**LonesomeTriZ** · 04-25-2005, 06:51 PM

Hey where are the rest of the photographs?

I know every body else took some. We turned ours in to be developed last night. Hopefully I can get them scanned and posted soon.

**wheelie king** · 04-25-2005, 07:40 PM

I did not kill my whole roll, and the wife has some pics on it too, so she is taking it to be developed some time this week. She does the 1 hour thing, so it should not be too long. I then need to figure out how to work this scanner and get them posted. I am curious about the movies, cause I know zack and billy got some good ones.

**Billy Golightly** · 04-25-2005, 07:47 PM

**LonesomeTriZ** · 04-25-2005, 08:40 PM

I can not get them to work.

**wheelie king** · 04-25-2005, 09:10 PM

I just talked to Mike and he is trying to download the videos ( he has DSL) but has not said whether they work or not. I have dialup, so I'm not even gonna try.

**LonesomeTriZ** · 04-25-2005, 09:26 PM

God dammit!

I still can not get it to work.

Why must it tease me so?

Hey Zack, any luck getting your footage posted?

**Billy Golightly** · 04-25-2005, 09:31 PM

Little bit less colorful language if you dont mind Louis :P Whats the error your getting? You'll probably need to go and download the DivX player first. I'm going to try and burn all the video zack and I took to DVD's and mail them out to you guys so you can watch them. Theres probably 30-45 minutes or so of it.

**LonesomeTriZ** · 04-25-2005, 09:37 PM

I just tried again. Apperently my sound card is not working. I am not sure whay that is.

**Billy Golightly** · 04-25-2005, 09:41 PM

So you get video, but no sound?

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