One more! this weekend is going to be good again!!!!!
It was a cool and clear November morning as I labored to load bikes, gear, cooler and chairs into the old Ford, while the wife cooked up a pancake, eqq and bacon breakfast for me, the daughter and grandkids as we prepared for our final trip to Briarcliff for the year 2016.,
We paid our entry, rolled down the drive, unloaded, and began our day of fun and thrills riding on well prepared tracks amongst a parking lot of friends and like minded strangers. We must of put in 250 laps on the kiddy track with the eldest grandson on his Pdub, while the 4-yr old and I chased on the RT100. We made a couple trips trying our hand at mastering the woods loop, and exploring a course that seems different with every lap. On a couple of occasions that the kids exhausted themselves and required lunch or drink and snack breaks, I managed to steal away for a handful of hot laps on the MX tracks where I done my best to gain back some speed, reinforce good riding habits, and just have some good ole fun dicing it up with other motivated riders. It was a blast, as usual.
As the closing hour approached, and the kids, weary and spent, fell to the chairs and began changing to street clothes, I made a trip over to the big track. The sun was low in the sky, the shadows were long, and the track was all aglow in a halo of yellow, gold and brown light. Varieties of corner ruts were well cut and defined, excel and breaker bumps everywhere, and the jumps looked exciting.
The track looked as perfect as it ever could and was a portrait of everything we love about motocross. As I made my way around, not jumping a single jump, I rode slowly and drank it all in before it was gone for the year. It could never be more picture perfect than at that moment. . . . . . .And Mike (beenridin) missed it!