Looking for dirt bikes

Saturday Dan spent the morning unpacking all his clothes boxes and I scrubbed all the grime and dirt off the walls of our new place, thank god our place is small!

Fortunately we were both done around noon so we decided to go look at a dirt bike for sale for me, the bike was an '03 and it was a little worked but super cheap at $900...Dan was only going to offer the girl $750 for is since it was so beat, but that's a perfect for me because I'm sure I'll be laying it down and crashing into tree's in the beginning and I don't want to spend the money on a brand new spanking bike.

After that we headed over to Colorado Powersports to poke around because there was a leftover '07 inventory bike that Dan had his eye on. We sat down with a sales guy and figured out what his payments would be on the thing....very very doable in our opinion. Dan wasn't ready to commit yet because we were going to look at a used bike later in the evening. Unfortunately the used bike turned out to be in worse shape than the bike for me so Dan passed on it...I think he'll be back at Co Powersports on Tuesday to sign the deal :) Getting a new bike for Dan isn't a big deal since he grew up on dirt bikes and knows how to ride it....getting a new bike for me would be silly.

He's going to look at a '06 bike for me tonight that's only been ridden a few times and is also really cheap at $900...fingers crossed he comes home with it! I guess the guy that owns it only rode the bike around the track chasing his kids around when they were just learning and now he doesn't need to do that anymore so the bike is useless to him.

-Kim

Marshall Mesa Nite Ride

Last night was our first night ride of the season, we started at UBikes and headed out....picked up a few people @ 15th & Walnut, The Southern Sun and at the Trailhead. We rode up to part of Marshall up to The High Plains trail, back to Dowdy Draw and back to the shop, we left at 7pm and got home at 10pm.


You can't really see the cows crossing the trail in front of us here, but we spooked one of them when we thought it was clear to ride and it charged us :0


I was beat from riding the CX bike and my light died just as we got off the trail, luckily we rode bike paths all the way home so at least there was light. We stuffed our faces as soon as we got home and passed out in bed.

I learned that on longer rides trail rides the CX beats me up! Next week I'm riding the 6.6 and have way more fun! Maybe my hardtail will even be built up by then :)

-Kim

I noticed something today about our neighborhood this morning

EVERYONE owns a Prius.....

Look mom, we bought some grown up furniture!

Sunday was the day that Dan was going to clean out the cellar so we were could unpack the trailer and I was going to scrub the walls so I'd stop looking at them and staying "gross" but first we had some errands to run and some storage stuff to buy.

On one of our stops we picked up some stuff we needed to get and I went off to look at the furniture to see if I could find a nice wood storage cabinet to put in our living room to hide all of Dan's clutter :) I noticed a nice comfy sofa and oversized chair and decided to see how comfy it actually was....OMG....it was sooooo comfy. I promptly went over and got Dan to try it out and he was equally impressed by it. I could not believe the deal we were going to get on the sofa, oversized chair, coffee table and matching end table...we couldn't pass it up!

So we spent the rest of Sunday afternoon making room for our new grown up stuff! I would have really like to have had a chance to scrub the place down but just couldn't pass up the opportunity to get rid of our craiglist college furniture.




Okay, hopefully next week we'll actually get back on the bikes. I unpacked the boxes that had all the lights and charges so hopefully we'll be able to take advantage to Dan new schedule of getting out at 6pm. Some night rides are already planned!

-Kim

Endurocross

Saturday night we headed off to Denver with Tracy & Jason to watch an Endurocross event.

As soon as we got there, Tracy made a bee line for the bike she liked!

And she made Jason hold all her stuff :)


The lights started getting dark and the announcers came out so we decided to head to our seats and settle in. OMG! This was my first time at one of these events and I was giddy like a schoolgirl! The first couple events were the Open Class and it was really really hard to see everything, there was carnage everywhere! The stuff these people were riding was TOUGH! I can't imagine how tired they would be after just one lap and to top it off by doing what they were doing in front of soooo many people, my hat's off to them!

After the Open Class came the Expert Classes and the Trials Riders and the riding got noticibly better. Although getting thru a lap clean was still a hard feat to make happen just because the obstacles were so tough and exhausting. After all the heats and the Last Chance Heat came the Dash for Cash Heat and the winner took home a bunch of cash, $500 bucks I thing. One of the trials riders actually won the Dash For Cash event and got a place in the Main Event! Unfortunately, he had to ride a regular bike and not a trials bike but he still did it and had to line up immediately after the Dash For Cash event...pretty hardcore it you ask me!

There were only 2 women in the Open Class, one I don't remember seeing race but the other girl struggled with the huge obstacles but she didn't finish last :)

Here's one of the girls making her way thru the loose log pile section


I loved the trials riders....I think I'd like to have one of those bikes to play with. They're lighter and more agile and they seem like they could make their way up some pretty steep rocks and have an easier time getting through tough technical sections, only problem is you're standing up while riding the entire time :(

Today I thought we were totally going to go look at dirt bikes to buy but other things came up and we ended up buying some grown up living room furniture instead! While dirt bikes are more fun, our new furniture looks so purdy and we got an amazingly good deal on everything!

More pics here, they kinda suck....it was so dirty and dusty in there my camera kept picking up all the dust. And there was sooooooo much going on I had to whip out my camera really fast and most of them turned out blurry because of it....that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it :)


-Kim

Today's sunrise

Catching the sunrise

Okay, I really need to start bringing the camera with me on my morning walk with the dog at Mt. Sanitas.

This morning, the sun wasn't quite up yet but the rays were extending up in the sky like I've never seen before. I looked over my shoulder to see where the boy went and I was struck by what I saw and just stared for about 5 minutes. *sigh*

We are truely blessed to live where we live.

Now if we can just get moved I can get on my damn bike...soon....soon. I'm unpacking the lights this weekend so Dan and I can start our night adventures on dirt.

-Kim