Re-reading it, it sure sounds like he's saying he's the fastest on his own little beach. Using this thought process, one could probaby argue the point that there's also a beach somewhere in the world where the fastest speed is recorded on a NASA wing.:evil:

you know you really really missed it....You should have been here! I got all the pie! yum yum for my tum tum!

Nasa Wings are pimp though. I'm going to paint Aj wheels green at the lake bed next year.

I know I missed it, but work was a calling, hard to say no to double time. Besides, I still got out and took advantage of some 25mph winds here.

Pablo, just make sure you save up for the spring time. You'll need to be here before and after NABX. That is if it doesn't 'rain' on the lakebed in march. It's the best here in march and april. Huge beaches and tons of wind.

Trust me, I've got something like 2 months of banked holidays. I'll be down in seaside lots in the spring. Ya can't get rid of me that easily, just look for the black menace bombing down the beach.

yyyyeaeeeeahhhhhh

If you happen to find an anchor tied to the back axle of your buggy while I'm down there, I know nothing.

you're supposed to pic on ellis when your down here. I'm on your side. He never finds the stickers i put on his stuff.

Yeah, but I know I'll eventually pass Ellis if I stay out for a couple hours. You on the other hand........

I take pre-race bribes. I think i want you to earn it though. I'll get your first second third fourth...beers and so on if you pass me on an upwind reach. If i find and anchor on my buggy, I'll take it off melt it down and make proper weights. If there is a team enduro we should put together a team repping the NWBPA.

Truth is Eli, following guys like you, Jon, Jim have made me a way better rider. I can learn and practice what I see, but I'm having just a little trouble trying to think up a new tactic that works that you guys haven't thought up yet. I might have to take up Slaweks advice and (GULP) eat less pies. I could bribe, but it'd be a hollow victory. If I can just stay close enough, any given sunday, well who knows. May actually score a win.

I'd love to run in an enduro with you as well. I'm sure you could make up for the ground I lose.

So I took 5 years of sailing at southern oregon university just to be able to keep up thie Jellis. The basic rule of a race, mirror your competition. Stay right in his tracks, if he(she) is in front of you there is a good reason why, if your behind the rider in front of you, this is the only way not to loose ground. Tack and jybe and hold his line, acceleration is the key to winning. Finishing a race should be every riders goal. Winning is a challenge!

So all I need is to follow your tracks, and have someone hang back at the rear of the pack and fowl your lines on your last lap as you're lapping them, got it.

but, you'll need to come up with something original. that's been done before, call it the L J. Even had romnake try to get me. Sound like we'll have some pre-race clinics and some practice too! West winds tomorrow!

Would it be any more even if we made it a triathlon, buggy, atb, surf?

Pablo said "Yeah, but I know I'll eventually pass Ellis if I stay out for a couple hours. "

First Wake up your dreaming!
Second JoJo RM+ and Libre Vampir Race Pro rules the beach at Sunset
Third Get a race buggy
Fourth Quit saying "Aye" all the time and concentrate on your course
Fifth Stop following Eli because he is following me
Sixth %*&^()&(*&^%% and )(&*(^%^%% I could go on and on
jellis

you're on a roll jon...so I guess you will be racing nabx this year. he he he

Sounds great Eli but who else will want to run a FISLY race? You know those hard rules "wind from the right has the right away over a buggy with wind from the left side in a crossing" or "do not cause a buggier being passed to alter his course" etc etc
Jon

i memorized fisly rules back in like 2000. I think it's a major advantage to know the rules. Don't you Jon? There really is no way to push the limits in a race if you can't follow the rules. Wind right is a the best way to remember he who has wind on his right shoulder has the right away over another rider crossing with his left shoulder into the wind.

Hey Jon, don't you worry, I spent some quality time studying your buggy while you were sleeping. I've had the welder going and think I've got the super truck tuned in better than it's ever been, just need the new rubber mounted and it should be good.

She's not the same buggy she was 3 months ago. Still needs fine tuning though. I do need some good wind and a low tide. I'ts sort of hard to dial stuff in with either 4mph winds or 30mph winds and a small crowded park.

When's the first race of the new year?

Rode from about 9pm to 12am. Straight west winds about 20-25. I went out with a 2.5 cult, so fun cruising about 30-40 in the dark. Longest run from 18th ave all the way to seaside. In seaside the lights from the resorts made it like day. Tyson Baker was there, rode until it started raining again. The night sessions are piling up for tyson and I.

It's going to blow us off the map on Sunday. 75-100 mph winds via AI out of WWU MM5. Get rested up Ellis, we have work to do:bird:

WINDS UP TO 100MPH BY THIS EVENING WILL BE GENTLY ROCKING ME TO SLEEP.

i've measured 63mph on my hand held wind meter, just found a report for 110 coming sometime tonight through tomorrow night, at about 1145 am. I'm closing up. going home! Danger!!! ONce we get this sorted and the power comes back, I'll let everyone know the new speed record in a buggy, WITHOUT A KITE!!!

5th day no power. hard work keeping up. hope everyone is well.

What a crappy start to the holiday season!
Yeah we saw the reports on tv from the damage and flooding there, what a mess!
5 days with no power, I'd have gone nuts long before that!

The winds from that storm got to around 40 mph gusts here, it got warm and took all our snow..:barf:

We wouldn't know what to do with winds over 65 mph!

Hope things get back to normal for everyone there soon!

wow, so living here in winds like that poses many difficult situations. Firstly, I LOVE to watch MM5, It's artificial intelligence, it builds models of the storms, I have no idea how. But it afforded me the opportunity to see how worked over the coast would be. Low pressure built up big enough to cover half the pacific towards AK and Jpn. Other smaller forming low pressure built behind it, backfeeding the "big one". Know that it was coming.

Sunday.....Yeah, we flew quite a bit in the 20-40mph winds. Then I recoreded 65 on my wind meter, then it shut off in a huge gust.
MM5 showed by the hour the velocity and direction of the wind was to be strongest between sunday late and early monday.

The power went out on sunday...

monday... morning it was cold, the second storm on its way the temp increase about 20 degrees. NOw its warm, all the sudden tooo. WE came to the shop just to check things out. Without cell or land phones, no internet cable, power, how was I going to check in with anyone. Around 10 a.m. while trying to make coffee with misc coleman appliances Dave and Keli Colbert knocked on my door! Asked if we were ok and just wanted to let us know they were leaving the LB penninsula, heading through floods, closed highways to get to portland to pick up supplies. I felt like I had it under control, that day the winds shook my house, ripped up all the trees, blew roofing off houses. We got out on I went to the market, backup power only all the products in the store depleted, I bought all the canned food and room temp beer I could. people stealing... I got home monday afternoon...took a look at the bay and ocean next too my house. Water spouts sand blowing a hundred feet into the air WHILE IT WAS RAINGIN constantly. Decided to go for a short drive to look at Sunset Beach, 50 trees down, could barely see the beach from atop the hill. I felt that felling, THIS IS A BAD IDEA. There was one radio station alive, reporting all they could about shelters, emergeny numbers, there was nothing we could do. Stuck in town, floods on both sides, hundred and thousands of trees everywhere. I caught word there were 45ft seas coming and to be careful of tidal waves and more flooding.

Teusday the winds were perfect on shore 20mph, I had nothing in me that wanted to kite. Just clean and prepare for a week without power. There were I beam billboard twisted and bent over. Not a street , or traffic light still conected to the light posts.

an amazing storm,

from about teus on when I went out you could see many PGE trucks GE, pacific power truck picking up the pieces. LIke convoys of army trucks, the utilities companies were everywhere. Portland area companies brought down truck loads of generators. I have no idea how many people were working on clatsop county, but it had to be in the thousands.

I would recommend much organization going into a situation like this, thats' all I had to do during the storm, keep organizing, keep clean, stay stocked on water and non perishable foods. FORGET ABOUT DOING ANYTHING in winds that strong, just walking around with flying debris everywhere isn't a good idea. I spent the last 5 days on the phone assuring family and friends that everything is ok...

the coast gaurd lost communications, noaa was down, everything gone for first two days, not even 911 worked.

the max gust were somewhere betweeen 125-150mph!