RR: Demo Days with Yeti, Chumba & Rocky Mountain

[OMR]

A great day was had by all. Hats off to Neil (Adrenline)... he and his troops put together a great event. Money was collected through donations and raffle, a fun poker ride through Santiago Oaks was orchestrated Adrenline and a BBQ lunch was provided by three cuties with a great sense of humor.

The ride itself was dry and dusty as you might suspect... the three bitches really strung the riders out as usual. This is the first time I've been back since the fire and yup! it looked like a moon scape. We desperately need rain!!! I just sort of let the 29er SS loose and Gene, Mike and I came into the last check point and found that we were the first to show up. Instead of riding back to the park, we broke Gene's cherry on Blair Witch... which is getting pretty sandy in spots but a ton of fun riding.

The hamburgers and New Castles waited for us back at the park. After most had eaten they picked the winning hand... which was won by Andy and his 3, errr, no 4.... errr, 5 queens. Although there was a growing suspicion that cards had been exchanged by many... Andy finally walked away with a cool set of Race Face cranks. The authorities have promised a full and complete investigation

Then the raffle began in earnest with most walking away with cool T shirts, tires, tubes, hats,hubs, swag bags and stickers (of course!)

Several bikes were given away ... Serge won his usual bike (a 24 incher) and a 29er SS was won by a girl... who promised to ride it!

I took some pictures, mostly of the gathering... one shot shows the mud hole that we all went through
The last two pictures speak for themselves... showing the releaxed atmosphere at the end of a great event. STR was well representerd at the event.

Again hats off to Adrenline Bike Shop, Yeti, Chumba and Rocky Mountain for organizing and supporting a really fun event. Quite a bit of $$$ was raised for a worthwhile cause... and speaking of that was that Neil who was last seen heading south with that bag of money???

Great job guys!!!!

OMR

[BrewMaster]

Great RR. Bummed I couldn't make it, but things come up.

By the way, what's a poke ride?

[Rob]

I heard the amount of people there doubled when everyone came back from the poker ride.

Thanks for coming! See you guys at tomorrow's demo!!

[TrailJesus]

Props to Adrenaline and all the bike companies who came out to make this event awesome! I'm stoked though on the Hadley hubs i won!!! Its funny because I was talking about getting a new wheel set and now this really helped me out because my budget wouldn't have allowed me to build something as strong as what I'm planning to build now.

[Rob]

Originally Posted by integradriv3r

Props to Adrenaline and all the bike companies who came out to make this event awesome! I'm stoked though on the Hadley hubs i won!!! Its funny because I was talking about getting a new wheel set and now this really helped me out because my budget wouldn't have allowed me to build something as strong as what I'm planning to build now.

Hey we have a bunch of Mavic 819's waiting for a home on a new bike!

[TrailJesus]

Originally Posted by Rob

Hey we have a bunch of Mavic 819's waiting for a home on a new bike!

I need to see what my financial situation is like at the moment and i'll be getting back to you. Being a college student blows

[OMR]

Originally Posted by BrewMaster

Great RR. Bummed I couldn't make it, but things come up.

By the way, what's a poke ride?

That's one beer more than a poker ride!

OMR

[26'er Zen Master]

Well Big Thanks to everyone who participated in this event. I had a great time and was stoked to be a part of it. Very special Thanks and a pat on the back to everyone from STR who helped out we raised $831 for high hopes!!!! The turnout was way better than we expected. Thank you to YETI CYCLES and Chad for coming out with 22 bikes for the demo damn that trailer is sick. Kurt your the man I kept hearing people talking about your bikes and I really appreciate your efforts at these events of ours. Jason thanks for rep'ing chumba and bringing the bikes out. Special Thanks to Hunter from DaKine and Vince the "mexican in charge" from KHS you guys stepped up and truely helped out by supplying the goods for the raffle. See anyone whos coming up to big bear in the morning and again thank you guys!

Also wanted to add Thank You to Jim for allowing us to do this, Thank You to Neil making this happen and facing the man and dodging and weaving around their attacks... Thanks to gabe for leading the ride and to jesse and rob for all their efforts!

Decided to post here to sorry for the double post just didnt know which one people would read. Thanks for the RR mtbr373

[genusmtbkr5]

It was another fine day spending time outdoors with friends for a good cause. Great turnout. Thanks to Adrenaline, High Hopes and the Bike reps for Chumba(Jason), Rocky Mountain and Yeti. Thanks to Traci, Megan and Marcy for doing the BBQing. Thanks to Gregg and Mike for taking me through Blair Witch. Congrats to all the winnners. STR had a fair share of winners for sure. Here are the pics.

[genusmtbkr5]

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[Neccros]

Originally Posted by Rob

Hey we have a bunch of Mavic 819's waiting for a home on a new bike!

These make some really nice wheels!

Originally Posted by BrewMaster

By the way, what's a poke ride?

Its a ride when you dont ride fast enough, gremlins pop out of the bushes and poke you with sharp metal objects!

I see Blair Witch is ridable again!! I took a friend through there after the rains in '04 and it was so overgrown that you couldn't even see the trail let alone ride it....

[OMR]

Originally Posted by genusmtbkr5

It was another fine day spending time outdoors with friends for a good cause. Great turnout. Thanks to Adrenaline, High Hopes and the Bike reps for Chumba(Jason), Rocky Mountain and Yeti. Thanks to Traci, Megan and Marcy for doing the BBQing. Thanks to Gregg and Mike for taking me through Blair Witch. Congrats to all the winnners. STR had a fair share of winners for sure. Here are the pics.

Great shots Gene! I don't know when you had time to take all these??? ... as you were riding with me most of the time! You are officially an STR photog!

See you next Sat for your To Beek's Place ride.

OMR

[foofighter]

love the shots! looks like great times yesterday!