Extreme 24 - Weekend Of Motocross, Wakeboarding, and Mountain Biking
Written by Jon Dunn    Friday, 03 July 2009 19:57    PDF Print E-mail

Xtreme 24 Weekend Event

Mountain Biking

This was one crazy weekend!  My friend Ty and his Dad Slade who both race motocross, wakeboard, mountain bike, snowboard etc decided we needed to do as many extreme sports in one day as we could.  Two years later or so I get an email from Ty with sign up form to join the Extreme 24.  I was like "I'M IN!" "I'M IN!"  Sign up sheet said to meet at Blue Springs, MO at the Landahl mountain bike trails ONE minute after Midnight.  Bring Your Lights!


About 14 dudes showed up right at 12:01 AM it was crazy.  Everyone had really bright lights.  I put two glow sticks in each wheel, duct taped two 6V lantern batteires and used to solder and wired up two lights.  One under bike and one on my handle bars.  Then two little led keychain lights uder my bars.  Plus a bright LED light strapped to my head.  This dude Tim used a freaking Koon Hunting light on his head and had a big battery pack strapped to him.  It was super bright.  He won the most creative lighting system.  I felt like I was robbed but at the same time I'm a graphic designer and am pretty creative so I would have robbed him.  haha

I think about 5 or more dudes went over the bars in the dark running into trees and other riders.  We ran two laps or so first one on the beginner trail and second one on the advanced.  It was a hell of a work out!

Then at about 2:30 AM the crew headed to Waffle house.  Boy did the waffle house people enjoy having a bunch of crazy MX heads in the place at 3:00 AM

Wakeboarding

Wakeboarding was set to launch at 6:00 AM at Sunrise on Blue Springs lake.  I was a huge pansey and slept in and missed the wakeboard session.  Someone got some sort of award for best crash or something like that.  WIsh I would of got up!

Motocross

The Motocross portion was insane and the longest!  We all headed to Tim's house to ride, race, and BBQ!  Started out at about Noon.  We all did a parade lap through the 2 mile round loop in the super tight trails.  I will finish writing this in a few days.   I have to go wakeboard now...

Enjoy the Pics!  Will have Video up at some point.