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<blockquote data-quote="rogdeb" data-source="post: 451591" data-attributes="member: 345"><p>" quote" -- Heavy rain after a couple hours south of Dawson. Wearing an Motocross style helmet’s not too bad, the rains pelting your face, keep you on your game, making you feel alive. Then the hail hits, the bigger than the size of double ought buckshot, hurts like hell, no hiding from it with the angle it’s coming from. You start scrubbing of speed, downshifting fast, ten miles an hour and still getting blasted, trying to hide behind the short windshield, then the asphalt stops and you’ve run into more repaving work. Freshly laid non compacted gravel, three inches thick….get on the gas or dump it right here, right now. So your on the gas, bikes wagging it’s tail, and bar are shaking, gotta stand up to reign in the terror, and immediately it feels as if your face is being blasted by a shotgun, for the next mile and a half. Finally pavement and you pull over to see if that’s water on your face or blood , man I love this stuff don’t you ? Beats work any day ! --"quote"</p><p></p><p>Too cool :clapping: We felt like we were there with you. Great stuff Dave, great stuff.</p><p></p><p>Rog n Debs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rogdeb, post: 451591, member: 345"] " quote" -- Heavy rain after a couple hours south of Dawson. Wearing an Motocross style helmet’s not too bad, the rains pelting your face, keep you on your game, making you feel alive. Then the hail hits, the bigger than the size of double ought buckshot, hurts like hell, no hiding from it with the angle it’s coming from. You start scrubbing of speed, downshifting fast, ten miles an hour and still getting blasted, trying to hide behind the short windshield, then the asphalt stops and you’ve run into more repaving work. Freshly laid non compacted gravel, three inches thick….get on the gas or dump it right here, right now. So your on the gas, bikes wagging it’s tail, and bar are shaking, gotta stand up to reign in the terror, and immediately it feels as if your face is being blasted by a shotgun, for the next mile and a half. Finally pavement and you pull over to see if that’s water on your face or blood , man I love this stuff don’t you ? Beats work any day ! --"quote" Too cool :clapping: We felt like we were there with you. Great stuff Dave, great stuff. Rog n Debs [/QUOTE]
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