Mountain Biking - Pedro's fest Pics !

OK ! I'm back from vacation and ready to Post some Pedros Pics!!

I took a lot so I have a lot to Post!

Lets start with the trip out there we went out thursday Night. definatly the way to go!

I always love this sign on the Mass Pike
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/trip01.jpg

then there is always this point of interest.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/trip02.jpg

So friday Morning , get up , eat , etc , etc
I start talking to the guy in the camp across from us , and he has this brand new Intense 5.5 , looks really nice , he then tells me its a free demo. and you can demo it free for the day ! ,

why Abuse my Bike when I can Break some one else! ;D for free!
So I went and got me one of them. it was full XT with Rapid rise.
I did not like , shifting ! every time I grabbed my front break , I also down shifted the front deraiuler. it was also equiped with tubeless tires and Just at the end of the ride I got a rear flat Not my Bike ,not my Worry , I just rolled it back to the intese booth and turned it in. but over all it was a very nice Bike!
here I am on it
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/pic01.jpg

Hey the wife is taking a Picture of me as we are about to depart on the 11AM intermediate ride.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/pic02.jpg
and here isthe picture she took
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/pic03.jpg
the ride started out as huge , and split into about 4 different rides. I was with the faster group , so I didn't get manny chances to take pics. but here we are taking a small break while the leaders decide where to go.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/ride03.jpg

and here we are a little farther along.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/ride04.jpg

and shortly after I got back , the Evil:bota crew showed up , so I went out for another ride with them. Unfortunalty I did not get any pics on that ride.

But am I satisfifed with just doing 2 ride in a day ? Hell No! I Night ride time ! and instead of using my own light, Lights and Motion was demoing HID systems , woo hoo brights lights.

we were a group of about 20
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/night103.jpg
then it sarted to rain!!!!
and the ride leaders really did not know the course and ran us around in circles.
we fianally brought it back , soaking wet and very muddy!
it is raining quite hard in this pic , but it is hard to tell.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/night102.jpg

the wife only did a small ride on friday , while I rode and she watched the kids , so on saturday , she went out and id an epic womans ride , while I hung out with the kids at the expo.

here are the kids in the trike race.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/trike.jpg

here the bike rags Guys doing a trials demo, we must jump fire.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/br01.jpg

now we crush coke can next to fire.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/br03.jpg

I thought this was an interesting picture.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/expo01.jpg

this just looked like injury written all over it.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/expo02.jpg

who needs 2 wheels
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/expo04.jpg

Well we did have a couple of small rain showers , and this followed the one.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/rainbow.jpg

and while we are at it , here is our camp taken from that other hill.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/camp.jpg


me riding around on PK's chopper
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/expo05.jpg

I know fining a Place to park was tough
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/expo03.jpg

Now it is MUD BOG racing time!

Since it was dry this year ( thank God)
so They had to Make Mud ! after that Beast in the previous photo tore things up a little .
the lanesboro FD helped too

http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/mud01.jpg

and I don't think we need word to descride the rest of these.

http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/mud02.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/mud03.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/mud04.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/mud05.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/mud06.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/mud07.jpg

well here are the riders back at camp evil ,
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/campevil.jpg

and then Sinister put on a demo, and was ripping up.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/sin01.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/sin02.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/sin03.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/sin09.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/sin10.jpg

Now it was Try 2 for the night ride ! was a beutiful night , and we had in excess of 50 riders , it should have been split but they did not. and of course we got lost --- again

wound up on Rt 7 and id 2 miles on the hiway to get back. but it was fun and dry !
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/night203.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/night202.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/night201.jpg

and finally did a ride on sunday , and this picture here was taken in the exact same spot as the 2 previous night shots!! amazing how different a little light makes it look.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/ride201.jpg

and I will have say this ting took more people down.! that root was tough.
http://home.comcast.net/~jgoeller/pedros/ride202.jpg

and that is all I have for now.

Looking good.

Schweet! Nice report. Sounds like you had a blast.

L8R

looks like a wicked good time.

i wanna go next time ;)

i especially like shot mud07.jpg i believe, do you have a high res original by any chance?

man that mud racing looks fun....i still wonder how that guy was in front of his bike like that in 04...the bike looks like its standing...weird

very wet mud , look like hippos bathing in mud there but v. nice pics rain wasn't that bad? added the fun, i guess?

looks like a wicked good time.

i wanna go next time ;)

i especially like shot mud07.jpg i believe, do you have a high res original by any chance?


Of course I do !!
PM me I'll get it to you

Awesome pix, and story!!!!!!!!! :) :)