New Year 2011

January 1 2011 family time at the Imperial Sand Dunes (known as Glamis)

New Years Eve was a chilly night and after what seemed like forever the sun came up and warmed up a little bit. so we could go riding in the dunes. We make the trip to Patton Valley and let the T-Rex cool down and made a few passes up Patton hill. The DS650 of Adam and Paul is pretty fast (dont tell anyone it is a 720 and worked over a little bit, Shhhhh).

After spanking a few of the faster bikes we went south into the big dunes to do some bowl riding.

We found some good flows into several of the bowls and found a couple of bigger bowls to race around in. Adam Dusty and Paul in the picture above were able to go pretty fast through this one.

Andy was able to get a Kawasaki T-Rex from Dragonfire to do a little R and D (wink, wink) in the dunes. The suspension works real well and soaks up the whoops like a champ, it took quite a bit to get it to bottom out, about 40 mph at the bottom of a bowl.

At the sanddrags.

Most evenings on the bigger weekends people gather together and line the sand highway and watch anyone who wants to drag race the length of the crowd, some where between 1/4 and a 1/2 mile long. This goes on until the sun sets, usually lasts a couple of hours.


During the Day the popular spot is at Patton hill where the time is spent bragging who is fastest and then racing up the hill to prove it. Ben wasn't the fastest but was able to make it up everytime on the 400EX

Here is a sample of how fast the cars are at the drags check out the crowd in the background