Well on Feb. 24th 2007 it was decided that the newbies for SBR (South Bay Riders) needed to get dirty! The whole thing was organized by some great people and I appreciate them letting me tag along! I went to spectate and socialize meet some people that I have chatted with online and the whole deal, all in all I was in for a good time!

The place of dirty choice, Hollister Hills. HH is a State Vehicular Recreation Area, mouth full huh? So it does cost some money to park but the rest is play! Yes folks this is a dirty ride for dirt bikers! And yes Sunny gave it a try! 

Due to the nature of this day Tyke opted to stay home and catch up on some rest time, after the last few weekends of excitement I wasn't going to argue!

Started my day early meeting up with Pablo, a fellow SBRer. I didn't know where this place was or what to expect but Pablo made it easy and fun! He drove, showed me the sights, and got us there and back safely! I wasn't quiet sure what to expect having never been to a park such as this. I have only seen pictures. I must say the area is beautiful! I couldn't capture all of it in my photos. We got in kind of early but there were people already gearing up to go out and play! 120 riders and crew showed up to play today! What a fantastic number of folks!

We based our operation out of Radio Hill, if you haven't been to HH before it is kind of in the center of the park, accesable to cars and trucks anyway. It was a great place to get some good shots of the place. 

I didn't have a bike or equipment to play so I put myself to work helping out the ground crew, helping the riders check in, helping with lunch. It really wasn't hard at all! After lunch though I went for mini dirt bike adventure. (Someone got pictures of me getting ready and going, John I think, but I haven't seen them yet! Once I do I will post them). I must say it was fun, adventuresome but I don't think I will be running out to buy a dirt bike or gear just yet. Maybe next year. I want Tyke and I to adventure more before I take up another expensive hobby! :)

The day went smoothly and it was a great time.  I did meet a lot of people and put a lot of faces to names! That in itself was worth it!

So on with the photos!

Clear warnings posted everywhere

This neat dead tree

The tree actually is a home to these birds sorry I couldn't get a better shot of them.

Gisele trying out a new ride-

There are a lot of pictures where I don't know who is in them, geared up everyone practically looks the same! Sorry! I stayed at the 'base' area so I don't have trail shots.

 I know Joe is in the Flyers Jersy..

Jimmy! (in the jacket facing sidways)

Pablo my escort ready to ride!

Great meetings of minds

Okay ready to go! 

Our esteemed organizer organizing

More waiting to go, getting in groups was a hard task as people were all over the place at first. All and all everyone got where they needed to go!

Last minute tip - "No you are not going to die! Your going to get dirty!" 

Jimmy the rescue man! There were a few bikes that were having some issues and Super Jimmy swooped into action!

Next to Radio Hill is a mini track so that the smaller bikes and folks could get some riding in! There were these two little girls that were sharing this cute little pink ATV I just had to get a few pictures!

The cute little quad-

One young man was having so much trouble with his bike. I do hope he got to ride a little today but here is Super Jimmy to the rescue again!

One scary trail! Going up!?

A valley shot

The trail to no where... Not really but it is steep!

Super Jimmy rides again!

After the riders got off on their first journey the Ground Crew took a breather...

Geoff (sorry I called you Jeff!), Jimmy, and Mike. What did you do now  Geoff?

Gisele, Chris H, Geoff, Jimmy, and Mike, the only one I missed was Jimmy's wife, she went off to do something.

Cute little wind cycle

Ground Crew Mascot Daisy. (Owned by Jimmy and Chris)

Jimmy, again to the rescue! I just think he really wanted to be on the bike!

People coming back in a bit early

Random shot that I thought was cool

Somebody riding, Sunny working on paning a shot..

Nice skyline

Lunch, time to get started!

Who said plalying with fire was bad?

Mahito taking pictures

Dirty girl!

Even the little ones came out to play! Check out his bike! I gotta get me a set of those!

Another shot of the skyline

Daisy didn't like me this time around but she is still a great dog!

Look another dirty girl!

Just chilling

I think I need to get me a super camera if I want to get shots of birds like these, it flew away when I tried to get closer...

Someone just getting back & Joe

Another set of trails I didn't see before

It started to get late and so it was time to pack up!

Pablo's dirty bike!

Warning signs, everywhere

Chris (TrackMonkey) without any gear on!! Gasp there is a man under those leathers, pads, and or jersey's!!

Very tired Joe

It was a really great day!! That is the end of the dirty day. Though stay tuned for Pablo's clean adventure!

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Pablo's Clean Adventure

Well with the man being dirty, the bike being dirty, and certainly dirty gear it was time to clean up! The man wasn't to hard to clean up, a bit of wet cloth and easily remedied. Now if you remember above about the dirty bike, that was not going to come off easy. So it was off to the car wash!!

Pablo had yet to experience one of these great self serve carwashes before. Good thing I was along to explain how to put quarters into a machine and make sure it was on rinse and not wax!

The bike didn't like the idea of being to clean, afterall it is a dirt bike! So it got back at Pablo and made him dirty all over again!

Pablo really got into getting the bike clean

Squeeze and spray!

In the end though, the bike and truck were clean and Pablo, well Pablo was dirty again.

Two ladies pulled in with their bikes as well. They must be tired as they were waving the whole way over!

Hehe.