Thanks for the tons of effort put in by Richard, his wife, all the volunteers, and rest of the crew for this great event. Lonestar BMW put up some great door prizes,
http://www.lonestarcycle.com/, and the awards for the Challenge and Adventure ride were awesome!
We had the honor of Uncle' his-self setting down with us and chatting, telling us how this started as a little ole' ride and now grown into an epic Terlingua event.
The expanded route included some incredible dirt roads, with everything you could ask for with sweepers, sand, and rolling hills. We were able to practice a lot of dual sport riding techniques on this road since it had great line of sight and let you could set up left/right combos.
Our crew included ThumperGirl, JetDR21, SWAanimal, and UlyBrad, along with about 5-6 others that tagged along. JetDR was sporting an awesome new KTM 500!
We started out cloudy and a bit overcast, but perfect riding weather the bikes were happy!
BlackGap was earlier, good to get the roughest done sooner!
Here is our HERO of Uncles! This awesome dude, 19 years old, rode 750 miles to Uncles, did both the Challenge and Adventure, and rode back home! A true inspiration......he handled everything Uncles threw at him!
Here he is, the HERO!
Maybe I should get out of the way....
ThumperGirl makes her approach! What an awesome day for her, the goal was to finish all 200 miles and she did it! No matter going down a few times, she pulled through to the finish.
Back at our campsite!
ThumperGirl and UlyBrad completed the Challenge, and the next day we spent some time railing, some of the Challenge route back roads, fantastic stuff!
Tasty way to end our first day, just outside of Terlingua.
Some worn out bikes and riders!
Beautiful end to a fantastic weekend!