Subject: Re: EAST digest 928 From: Robert Armitage Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:41:20 -0400 Chrispy wrote: (soggily!) >> I had a great time (as usual) at RCR X. West Virginia is a >> fantastic location--good roads (and not-so-good goat trails) nearly >> everywhere you turn. Besides, where else can you whitewater on a Hayabusa? >> I had some difficulty getting out of there--I blew off trying >> until the afternoon when I heard word that Minden was flooded (in >> fact, the lower parking lot at the dining hall was knee-deep in water >> when I walked up the hill after breakfast. Fortunately, I found a >> shallow place to ford the drainage ditch at the next tent site up, >> ignored the "one way" sign and went up the hill rather than down, and >> went up over the hill and out of there. Whatsa matta? Didn't order the 'knobby tires option' on the Busa? I only had a bit of difficulty in one spot... While heading up the gravel road hill, there was an alpine switchback with a small RIVER cascading across it,a nd I couldn't accuately judge where the worst of the ruts were under the water... Luckily the ole Bandit is a far better dirt/mud machine than I would have ever guessed. (Either that, or I was increddibly lucky... I'll cheerfully chalk it up to skill!) >> That was the most amazing storm I'd ever seen. Pretty damned cool. I saw a seven strike lightning bolt. >> Thank you as well to Ian for letting me bum two cups of the best >> coffee I've had in some time, and to Jon, Mark, and Meredith for >> tolerating my soggy presence this morning. Word got in that that poor Fredneck, after an 8:30 departure (BEFORE the town flooded) only made it 12~15 miles north before the infamous GS850 Amazing Melting Alternator trick came into play. I gotta say that Fred had a FAR better sense of humor about it than me, cuase were it mine, that sucker'd have BEEN IN the New River Gorge. (!!!!) I called his son, and filled him in, and he said that Fred was in MD in a rental car, so irony is fulfilled with his "Hope that seat is comfy" award, cause the rental cars seat is QUITE comfy compared to that upolstered 2X12 masquarading as a seat on his bike. Jim & I made it back without any fanfare. There was a mudslide on RT 19, but they'd cleaned it up by the time we got there. We saw a gas station and a coupla BIG dump trucks under water. I gotta say I feel bad for the poor folks in Mindon... It looked like they didn't have a pot to piss in, and now the pot they don't have is flooded. See y'all next year!!!! (or sooner ) -_Buz... #0076