24 Hrs Of Moab Report

Darter and I flew into Salt Lake City early Friday morning to pick up what would be our home for the next 8 days. Little did we know we would immediately be inducted into some secret cult and find every hippie-semi washed, hirsute man and woman waving at us, talking to us and asking us what year as if we were comparing infant age. ?Um, we just rented this Westfalia, it?s not ours,?
was the fastest way to shut down the inevitable ear bleeding
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We met up with our friends from Santa Fe and the 5 of us formed, Velo Morits aka the spinning dead. We were set with pit crew, Mountain hardware Everest base camp dome . the heat demon and the Astro smurf. Who needs the Four Seasons?
Our team had a strong start, our team captain killin? it with a blazing 1:19 in the friggin? peanut butter start.

Nic killed it on his Santa Cruz with a 1:23 (the first time they timed us) and Darter crushed on his Super Moto with a 1:21 (the first time the timed us) I followed it up with a respectable 1:34 (the first time they timed us, then all hell broke loose, it rained harder and herded and J9 headed out for her 1st and only lap, taking one for the team this poor girl
clocked in a 2:26. Swift water, fog, and painfully slow and dangerous lap times, they stopped the race due to bad weather some concussions and a few missing teeth.
Tent city was all a hum with fires, people working on trashed drive trains, generators purring to keep the softies in the RVs warm.
Daylight broke, team meeting and they asked the group
1) call the race
2) continue racing and drop the last lap

After a group hug and a coom-by-fucking-ya, we started up again, our team got two laps in and we finished 2nd, so we thought. They changed the scoring again, and included the stormy lap time?!?!?
Supposedly we got 2nd, technically we got bumped to 12th, you figure it out, Granny Gear is still trying to.

Confused, we drank champagne and Tecate.

Darter and I stayed in Moab for the rest of the week, did laps on Porcupine rim, rode slick *ock and Amasaback.
We did the epic and rode the rim from TOWN, the second lap I left the boys on the climb (I was riding my racer X and they were on their bigger travel bikes) and did the whole ride alone and then didn?t want to waste my knobbies on the pavement so I hitchhiked back to town and caught up with them after a shower and 2 beers.

The 3rd lap we paid the shuttle and extra $5 and got more 8 miles of exposed, technical single track. DO IT if you can.

THE VITALS
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CLEAN YOUR BODY: Showers at Poison Spider $1.50 for two minutes, indulge and go for 3 minutes, you?re worth it.
GET A LIFT
Shuttle: Poison Spider $10 per person ask about the $5 add on
CLEAN YOUR GEAR: Poison Spider has bike washing and wrenching area

GET YOUR SPRO? ON: Chile Pepper Bikes: Espresso that will make your nose hairs salute.

FILL YOUR PIE HOLE: Miguel?s Baja Grill.
GET HAMMERED: Moab Brewery.
CAMP RAT: Sand Flats at Slick Rock. $10 per night
Site D11 rocks
Don?t mistake the free-range cows for a vibrating black berry.

We hit snow in the higher elevations; rain down low dramatic weather all around.

darter is sending pics. stay tuned.