MC Techfest, day 2
Day 2 – out to the west side of the Catalina Mountains, just north of Tucson. A “recovery day” of sorts.
Scoped out a few new lines.
Managed to spook Mike on some classic ones (all found by Louis and crew).
I had the pleasure of riding Mike’s 5″ Lunchbox bike (he was on the 6″ version). I loved the feel of the bike. It’s a super manual machine, and the techy climbing was a highlight of the day, despite riding with less than fresh legs. The rear end was bottoming out too easily for me, though, so I wasn’t feeling confident on the bigger moves. Convenient excuse? You might say so.
Here are a few short clips from the day. Hard to decide whether to take stills or movie vids out there.
Up…
… down:
I’ve never ridden that one. Not sure I plan to, either. Mike had to do it, pretty much, by his own internal honor code. You see, his arch rival Fritz had ridden it last year when I took him on a similar tour.
Launching just high enough to catch some waning light:
Not wanting the day to end, we blasted down the lower 50 towards the state park:
