Not to be confused with 16 candles, 13 of us met in marlboro country for
some kick ass mountain biking.  Lets see it was rob mills (rookie -
first time on a group ride!), big steve, suzy (allias joe), crash
brothers (craig & brian), 6 pack brothers (ed & dave), natch, cgm (ken),
Lloyd (Lefty), rich g (trouble), gary (senior pissalot) and myself in
rare bastard form.  Out past the green gate I look back - what a stream
of bikers behind me - willing to follow me blindly into the wasteland of
meshomasic forest.  Starting with a technical climb, then another...
this is my usual mode, one for the money and 10 for the road - sorry for
the tangent anyway, about 5 more technical climbs to the 'top' at the
fire road (not even a dab yet for me - ha!).  We continued on and added
an extra loop so that chris and captain ron could catch up (I left them
a map).  Seniore' pissalot gets a flat and fixes it in record time. Cgm
followed me up the rocky fire road follow the leader style lunging up
every doable (and not so doable) boulder.  Then Down the yellow awesome
downhilll cgm and craig followed (even off trail on occasion!!) and we
hit the bottom in record time (everyone had permagin and white knuckles
at the bottom).  Took a quick trail to reeves road and trouble bailed
back to the car for some carbo loading.  We cruised to the triangle and
entered the woods once again.  The back of the back was starting to drag
again but I assured them it was all downhill soon (after the longest
most technical suck the life out of you climb to area 51- that is).
Once we reached the top, down a short steep tech section I heard gary
hit some trees behind me.  We are now in hell (according to the
pavement).  Time for stair and manhole stunts, but the oil tank was too
big even for the pukemaster to try - yes.   Ok joe and big steve split -
its dark.  Now for the most awesome downhill in existence back to the
car.  Did I mention it was dark.  Ignorance is bliss.  The trail was
"grabbing" craig and I as we lead the pack blindly through lots of fun
rocks.  Gap section rules!  Over the bars this trip - to my knowledge
lets see Pukemaster (with style of course), Suzy (x2), brian, rookie.
Back to the cars beers were consumed in mass quantities and we were
being stalked by teenage girls (big steve wishes he didnt take off) in a
pickup truck.  Internet laws will not allow us go into further detail on
this one.  Hey I actually have to work today so gotta go - nice ride.

p.s.  Lloyd - whatever happened to the chick near rte 2 with all the
beers for us - thanks for dissing US!

p.s.s.  It appears that barbie and captain ron were busy on the merrit
chasing barking dogs or eachother or something.  Barb, why didnt you
hike your skirt up and call sikorski to  get heli lifted to marlboro?  I
gave you the coordinates.  a-5 hit.
NExt time

p.s.s.s - natch please forward to whoever I left out and well coordinate
our list soon.