Nash's to Nash's - Dust to Dust

During my illustrious (<--sarcasm) trials career, every event seems to top the last one. Like women in a beauty pagent, the last one you see is always the best looking. This trials definitely exceeded all expectations. With the Boy Scouts and their parents preparing food, an incredible all you can eat rib dinner, the U.S. National Guard busting their ass, and the Oakland fire dept doing their best to knock down all the dust in the air, this trials has to go down as one of my favorites. As busy as Charlie stayed, and as hard as he worked, I'm not sure he didn't bring in the perfect weather throughout the weekend. Great job by everyone. I probably didn't scratch the surface on all the people I need to thank, but what a great time! This is one of the two pics I captured over the weekend. The other pic will stay in my possesion until I need to blackmail the individual in the picture. The above pic is of Dean in a mean, mean C section. I dropped quite a few points in this C and I doubt I was its's only victim. Dean hasn't rode a trials event in over 15 years and decided this trials would be the one to make his return. I think his confidence was shot down pretty early because the novice riders started on a very technical C section in which Dean promptly wrecked. A few more sections later, he high sided on a hill and fell for about a minute and a half before a rock broke his fall. A half of a loop later Dean ends up with a flat front tire. At this point, after returning from 15 years of retirement, I would be thinking about hanging up my trials boots. But Dean had no quit in him. After replacing his front tire tube, Dean headed out and finished the trials and finished the trials very well. In the pic above, Dean is in the process of cleaning this section and finished the trials with some very impressive rides. I for one was very impressed. For anyone riding the modern historic novice class (Captain Dick), you may want to pay close attention to this fellow!

Thanks again Charlie and Wanda!

Camp Nash

If the trials event held in Paris Tennessee this coming weekend is half as fun as the time I had on Sunday, we're all in for a treat. With the weather being as nice as it was, the weekend was poised to be a great one. When I first got a glance of Nash's land I thought to myself "this place was made for trials". This land has all the normal slopes and off-camber turns associated with trials, along with some sandy bottoms that will undoubtedly acquire some points from even the best of the best trials riders (that means you Jessie).

After a few hours of pulling tape, Charlie introduced us to Wanda. Wanda prepared a lunch fit for a king. We were treated as absolute royalty during this meal and then we were sent out the door with an assortment of snacks to munch on. Thank You Wanda.

After cleaning up and taping off the few remaining sections, we retired to a few beers and some of Wanda's trail mix. From the little time I spent out in Paris, I can tell that there have been some people who have worked their ass off to make this a great event. I have no doubt that it will not disappoint.

Oh yeah...there's also a pond on the property with some fish in it.

Huge thanks to PeeWee for hauling ass back up to the truck to retrieve his camera and snap these shots. Hell, I still don't believe the fish I caught, so I know that nobody else would either.

I'd Rather Be Riding Trials

This video is an example of 1 very good reason to pass on all that motocross stuff and purchase a trials bike.



2 broken scapulas (whatever that is), 1 broken rib, and a bruised lung. Sounds like he was pretty lucky - depending on what a scapula is. OOOh I just looked it up - it connects the arm bone to the collar bone. I still think he was lucky. That looked nasty!