Events: Dinosaur Point Fun Run

Dinosaur Point Fun Run - 7/28/02

Reflections of Organizer and Riders
Posted By: Steve Pearl on 7/31/02 @ 7: 44 a.m.

Guys and Gals:

From Wild Fro, Steve, Marilyn, Jennifer, David and Guy our sincere thanks for you making our 3rd Annual "FunDay" the best ever.

Our thanks to all the great sponsors: Red Bull, Purple Skunk, Randal Design, Moe Speed, Inc., Xtreme Wheelz, Gravity Publishing, Gargoyle Composites and Streetluge.net.

This "FunDay" we had 24 luge, 3 Standup, 2 Inline and 2 "FlowFab" riders, all tolled 31 Guys and Gals had a great time.
The biggest load going up the road had 18 riders in and on the pickup with the station wagon following with a load. It was not uncommon to have 10-12 luge riders on the road at one time followed by inline and or standup.

The largest group of luges that came down on one run was 15. Fastest riders stopped at very end of brake area, the next fastest stopped a ways back from them, the third fastest stopped a little shorter and the last group of riders stopped even further back.

Jay Farbman, a professional freelance photographer, who had taken our street luge training only a short time before was out riding with everyone with a DV camera strapped to one leg and still camera strapped to another. He has some freaken awesome footage with incredible sound (I saw and heard a small segment out at the road) and stills.

The Lancour brothers, WeFilmU, were out with their DV lipstick camera system. If I'm not mistaken they strapped the system on Jeff Shonzeit. They also must have some awesome footage.

Andy Gatley took a page from Olivera Wagner's book of "FunDay" 2001....And the Winner is...Andy Gatley. Andy did what Olivera did last year, he purchased 50 extra drawing tickets and it really paid off.

The luges were running in the 70's (it was not a very fast day with the winds). I did not see it myself, but I was told that someone was clocked at 74+ with the GPS. If that rider was on the road with Dave Auld, Dave had to really be smoking. Dave was the first down the hill every time I saw them.

We hope everyone enjoyed themselves and had Fun!!!!.
Thanks again.
Steve
Wild Fro Racing LLC


Posted By: John Lewis On: 7/31/02 @ 8:35:44 AM

Steve, Marilyn, Jennifer, David, and Guy, Thank you all for a great time, Theresa, John M., Frank, and I had a great time!! You are a wonderful bunch of people that made the day very fun and exciting.

I didn't think it would be possible, but if I remember correctly, every person that was present for the drawing won something, along with a great day of riding!

I would recommend that anyone who has the chance to ride this road, to go out and ride it, it is a great road, and a ton of fun.

After my first run, I was running right behind Dave Auld all day, and I am sure that at some point on the road, Dave and I were reaching speeds of 75 or over, with almost all of the others reaching speeds near 70 if not more.

We arrived late, after packing up Chris McBrides hotel, and stopping by to see him, we finally got there about 2:30 in the afternoon. Even being as late as we were, I got in at least 14-15 runs, that was 35+ miles of riding!! WOW !! I didn't think that there would be any chance that we would get in more than a few runs, because we were so late, but you were really on top of things, and kept the truck running up the hill as quick as possible, and everything was really run smoothly, it was great.

Thanks again, and we will be back as soon as we get the chance. Thanks again, and if anyone got pics from there, I would love to get copies, and if someone would like to display them, I have the room on the site for them, and will gladly put them up on the site for you with photo credit.

Thanks,
John, Theresa, Frank, and John M.


Posted By: Smokin Joe on 7/29/02 @ 6: 16 p.m.

Well Big Air was cool!! Hope its still there next year!!! The party was great met a lot of cool people made some new friends an ate good, Red Bull does a good job of taking care of its riders!

The next day I headed down to dino only to be the only one! (7:30am). Well around 8:30 Steve showed up with his crew and set everything up.

Beautiful day it was, a little breezy at times but nice! Slowly but surly everyone showed up. First run went good, never been that fast before but it went without a hitch. Cranked down the trucks and headed down again. We averaged about low 70's at top speed all without breaking! One of the runs we had about 11-12 riders at once going down, what a trip!! Drafting,pulling passing,and down right gettin it!

I seem to be someone to get behind me cause a lot of people like drafting off me. I was wondering why they flew by so fast. I couldn't get a draft - new nick name:Hoover. Like a vacuum I'll suck you in (quote:john lewis)

Just wanted to say thanks Steve for the good time, very professionally done! You have a very lovely wife (has to be to put up with you!!lol), very beautiful daughter (fast too!), and a good crew! Glad I could help in some way!! Thanks for the good time, I'll surly be back again soon.

Smokin Joe!!!



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