Georgia Trail Riders Forum
OPEN RIDES & EVENTS => Trail Rides & Open Events (Everyone's invited) => Topic started by: CopperCrawler on June 04, 2010, 11:32:56 AM
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Hey guys,
I'm new here and don't know much about the available (legal) wheeling in the (Byron/Warner Robins/Macon) area. I've tried to get out to River Rock several times but I travel A LOT and they haven't had any open rides when I was in town. I noticed on their calendar they show this Saturday as an "Open Ride". Does anyone know anything about it? Is anyone going out there? I have emailed them off their website in the past but have never recieved any response.
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Hey guys,
I'm new here and don't know much about the available (legal) wheeling in the (Byron/Warner Robins/Macon) area. I've tried to get out to River Rock several times but I travel A LOT and they haven't had any open rides when I was in town. I noticed on their calendar they show this Saturday as an "Open Ride". Does anyone know anything about it? Is anyone going out there? I have emailed them off their website in the past but have never recieved any response.
If the calender shows open ride, it is just that, open to anyone that shows up. I don't think my wife would be happy with me if I did 3 weekends in a row, so I'm out.
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Hey guys,
I'm new here and don't know much about the available (legal) wheeling in the (Byron/Warner Robins/Macon) area. I've tried to get out to River Rock several times but I travel A LOT and they haven't had any open rides when I was in town. I noticed on their calendar they show this Saturday as an "Open Ride". Does anyone know anything about it? Is anyone going out there? I have emailed them off their website in the past but have never recieved any response.
If the calender shows open ride, it is just that, open to anyone that shows up. I don't think my wife would be happy with me if I did 3 weekends in a row, so I'm out.
C'mon Mark, just tell her that your out in the garage ;D
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I am trying my best not to sound like a dumbass, but when the shoe fits I guess... {ehm}
I'm sure that none of you probably work at River Rock, but this is the first time I have seen their calendar say "open ride" without any club or person's name attached. Every "ride" I have been on, everyone meets at a specific time and a short while later the ride begins. So...I guess my big question is does this mean anyone who wants to ride that day shows up at a specific time and the River Rock folks have a structured ride for the day or is the park just open all day to anyone who shows up to ride on any trails they want?
Again (the dumbass in me comming out) I know the GAtrailRiders don't run River Rock, but maybe someone from the GATrailRiders has been on one of these open rides and knows how they work. Like I said before, I have emailed River Rock a few times and have never received a reply (a problem with their email perhaps?) otherwise I would just ask them.
Thanks for the help and hope to see some of you on the trail soon!
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I am trying my best not to sound like a dumbass, but when the shoe fits I guess... {ehm}
I'm sure that none of you probably work at River Rock, but this is the first time I have seen their calendar say "open ride" without any club or person's name attached. Every "ride" I have been on, everyone meets at a specific time and a short while later the ride begins. So...I guess my big question is does this mean anyone who wants to ride that day shows up at a specific time and the River Rock folks have a structured ride for the day or is the park just open all day to anyone who shows up to ride on any trails they want?
Again (the dumbass in me comming out) I know the GAtrailRiders don't run River Rock, but maybe someone from the GATrailRiders has been on one of these open rides and knows how they work. Like I said before, I have emailed River Rock a few times and have never received a reply (a problem with their email perhaps?) otherwise I would just ask them.
Thanks for the help and hope to see some of you on the trail soon!
No need to feel like a da... You just go out there and wheel. Where ever you want. Pm Will he kinda works there or use to. The only thing I dont know is how or who you pay on open rides.
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I am trying my best not to sound like a dumbass, but when the shoe fits I guess... {ehm}
I'm sure that none of you probably work at River Rock, but this is the first time I have seen their calendar say "open ride" without any club or person's name attached. Every "ride" I have been on, everyone meets at a specific time and a short while later the ride begins. So...I guess my big question is does this mean anyone who wants to ride that day shows up at a specific time and the River Rock folks have a structured ride for the day or is the park just open all day to anyone who shows up to ride on any trails they want?
Again (the dumbass in me comming out) I know the GAtrailRiders don't run River Rock, but maybe someone from the GATrailRiders has been on one of these open rides and knows how they work. Like I said before, I have emailed River Rock a few times and have never received a reply (a problem with their email perhaps?) otherwise I would just ask them.
Thanks for the help and hope to see some of you on the trail soon!
No need to feel like a da... You just go out there and wheel. Where ever you want. Pm Will he kinda works there or use to. The only thing I dont know is how or who you pay on open rides.
Will is in LaGrange, Kyle (rowingfish) has been doing more work out there lately. Here is how the open ride works. If in fact Steve (Owner) is opening the park, you just show up when ever you want. Go down to the camping area, can't miss it. Ask around to where Steve is, he will be wearing a Camo hat and riding on a side by side. Pay him, and ride wherever you want, on trails that is. River Rock does not do structured rides, heck ares aren't very structured, but we do have a meeting time.
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Thanks for the info!!! As of right now my wife and are are going to head out there tomorrow, baring any unforseen emergencies. If anyone else is there, please look us up. Wheelin' is always better with friends!! The Jeep in the avatar is mine and if anyone else's junk looks similar, mine is identifiable by the Big "U.S. Air Roce Retired" sticker on the back window.
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Turn left where the fence is.
First time out we weren't sure where to turn.
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Turn left where the fence is.
First time out we weren't sure where to turn.
There is a nice wood fence that will have off-road type banners on it, don't worry about stopping at the little pay house on the right unless you see someone at it, it's usually only manned at big events. Steve drives a White 4 door 4 wheel drive dually, and his wife Kim drives a White Tahoe.
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Turn left where the fence is.
First time out we weren't sure where to turn.
There is a nice wood fence that will have off-road type banners on it, don't worry about stopping at the little pay house on the right unless you see someone at it, it's usually only manned at big events. Steve drives a White 4 door 4 wheel drive dually, and his wife Kim drives a White Tahoe.
his truck is a gmc 3500 or a ford 350 srw. prob the gmc tho. on an open ride steve just normally expects people to be on the honor system and come find him to pay. most people that come out here have been enough or are with someone who knows what they are doing. I may be out there tonight. I'm off work today to go to a wedding in ft valley so depending on when that lets out I might head down to the river. anyone who goes hit me up. Kyle- 770.656.1630.
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kyle, i may be coming down in a few weeks with brandon to test his rig, ill hit you up..
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Well, we made it out to River Rock yesterday. Met some good people {toast}, almost backflipped my Jeep onto it's roof {no}, all-in-all, had a great tiime ;D. I have some videos and once I figure out how to get them on here I'll post them. They are too big to post as an attachment. Anybody want to share how to attach as a youtube video?
This was the first outing since the coil spring spacers, body lift and 35" tires and the Jeep did great!!
I found Steve right away. And yep, he is a great guy! In fact, because it had rained the night before and he wasn't sure of the condition of the trails, he gave me my money back and told me to go look around and if I ended up having a good time to pay his buddy Drapper. We met up with Drapper and his crew and they showed us some places to go. My buddy that went with us had a stock JK "X" and he got very nervous at quit a few of the places Drapper took us. He did take a lot of the bypasses, but I couldn't blame him. At the end of the day, Draper let me drive his XJ up some really cool stuff since I don't have lockers or anything. Like I said, it was a great time! Can't wait to go back.
Chuck
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Drapper is a cool guy, did he run all weekend with out bending a spring or breaking anything? He will usually beat his rig in the ground.
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At first it was just me and my buddy in his stock JK. Draper took us on what he called an easy trail. The trail turned out to be more than my buddy wanted to tackle so he took a bypass and I followed Draper. And it was a fairly easy trail (just behind the showers). When we came back out to the camping area, we stopped at what Draper called the "articulation park" (two "U" shaped trails right next to each other) which is where I almost backflipped my Jeep. Two other guys showed up, one driving what I believe was about a 2000 Toyota Landcruiser and the other driving a stock JK on street tires (his first time ever 4 wheeling). So after that, Draper took us where there was some medium hard stuff that also had bypasses so he didn't beat on his rig at all. He said they were going to go out again later anyway.
I must be doing something wrong attaching the video because it keeps attaching two of the same video, but here is the first one.
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Glad you made it. Now you'll be over there all the time with the rest of the middle GA crew..
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A couple more videos
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A couple more vids
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river rock is an awesome park. wish I could have met up with yall. steve is a great guy and always willing to help anyone who is friendly. drapper doesnt normally beat his junk too hard until he has about a 5th of jager in him. those guys from JMA are a fun crew to [night] ride with.
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Drapper is a cool guy, did he run all weekend with out bending a spring or breaking anything? He will usually beat his rig in the ground.
last time i saw him, he snaped the front driver leaf, refused to stop, beat on it somemore, then 5min later broke the passneger leaf, and repeated the next day..... but he sure is fun to watch. {toast}
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No damage to his rig when we left, but we left around 7:00 PM. I did exchange numbers with him so we can wheel with him again though! Here is the video taken about 30 seconds after I almost back-flipped the Jeep. The cameraman had left the camera in his Jeep and ran and got it after all of the excitement was over as you can tell by the comments at the beginning of the video.
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I guess there are some places lockers could help. I probably could have made it if I had aired down. I didn't have my compressor with me so we wheeled the entire day with full air pressures {hihi}.
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I see a locker in your future. Video's look good. {toast}
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And here is one more. i dont know why it wont show up as a video, but here is the link:
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I tried to fix it but I think its a youtube prob.