Elephant Ride Was Great!
It’s been a long time since I’ve had that much fun. I did the Elephant Ride this past weekend and there is no question I will be going to more of these Adventure Rider events.
I mentioned before that I had been invited to ride monkey with Dom Chang on his Ural sidecar rig and that made a huge difference. To participate rather than observe was a big, big difference.
But as much as I liked getting to ride, it was really the party the night before that I enjoyed the most. For 30 years my friends and I used to go winter camping in March. They’ve all wussed out on me at this point, and our annual camping trip came to an end about 5 years ago. For the hard-core riders of the Elephant Ride, the event really starts the night before. Some people camp, others have campers, but standing out around the blazing fire while the frigid wind blew, talking about motorcycles and a lot of other things, drinking and (in some cases) getting way too drunk–it was just like old times. I absolutely loved it!
Yes, it was cold crawling in the sleeping bag, and even worse getting out of the bag in the middle of the night to offload some of the beer, but I just loved it.
Oh, and hey, we did ride motorcycles way up Guanella Pass. Most of us didn’t make it all the way up, and nobody made it over to Georgetown. No matter, we tried, and that’s more than about 5 billion other people on this planet can say.
Here’s a shot of the Urals as they arrived in a squadron.
Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner
Elephant Ride assails snowy mountain pass on motorcycles
Biker Quote for Today
I’m old enough to know better, but young enough to do it all again!
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February 15th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
You were a great Monkey Ken! I didn’t hear one single cry of terror or gasp of horror as we fishtailed over some of the more “interesting” parts of the road up to Guanella Pass.
February 16th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Oh to be you….what a place to live….