(Note to self - I gotta speed up the footage somehow!) Some of the footage is from a drone that my mom gave him when we visited: Here is a video my son put together from Switchback MX. I was impressed, watching him put together jump sections that never even occurred to me. I like to think I helped him work on his passing skills. A couple times it was just me and him out on the track at the same time. This place is awesome! I wasn't doing a few of the bigger jumps, because I had forgotten to pack my balls, but it was still fun.Ĭade Clason (a very fast pro) was riding there too, a quick stop on his way to or from some Arenacross races. Our last riding stop was on the way home, at Switchback MX in Butler, Pennsylvania. Note that in the above photo the bent clutch lever is from another grand kid. One nice thing about the Alta is that when I am riding ahead of my son, I can hear him behind me, I don't have to keep looking back constantly to see if he is keeping up, or lost in a sippy hole or something. The cost for this? Free! Miles and miles of trails. While we were in Arkansas, we went to the Ouachita Forrest Wolf Pen Gap to ride: Not good, but my mom has a Yamaha TTR-125 for the grand-kids to ride, so we were still in business. After pressure-washing it, I pulled the tank off and flipped the bike upside down, and took out the spark plug. We continued on to my mom's house in Arkansas, and when we got there we started taking the bike apart. One of the Jeep owners was very nice and he used a tow strap and his Jeep to pull the bike out of the sippy hole. It was about 4 feet deep! He hit it and went over the bars, and for a second he and his bike were completely submerged! He popped up out of the sippy hole, gasping for breath. The only problem was that it wasn't 6" deep. My dumb-ass son, who had been riding well all day, decides to go through a 6" deep puddle that a bunch of Jeeps have been playing around in all day. I get the term "sippy hole" from one of my (redneck) friends who uses it to describe big mud holes. Most of the people there were on quads and side by sides, but there were a couple other dirt bikes there.Īll went well and we were having fun. I rode the Alta and my son rode his Kawasaki KX85. You pay $15 per person and you can ride all day. Some folks here ain't never heard of a 'lectric motorsickle before Our next stop was the next day at Wooly's Offroad in Tennessee. Over 320,000 square feet including over 45 trails, Jump Lines, Pump Tracks, Dual Slalom, BMX, Cross Country and Single Track all in a former limestone cavern 100 feet sub-surface. Yeah, that's right, underground mountain biking. Our first stop was at Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky, for underground mountain biking. We were driving from NY to Arkansas to visit my mom, so we brought the trailer packed with dirt bikes and mountain bikes, and made some stops along the way. Last week my son and I made our spring break a dirt-bike spring break.
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