MOB DOES ORAMM!

July 28, 2010

This past weekend was the 11th Annual Offroad Assault on Mt. Mitchell mountain bike ride and MOB was there to see what all the hoopla was about.  Among the ravenous pack of offroad, beer drinking, thrill seeking sadists were our local shop wrench turners Chucky Love and B-Nice.  What was anticipated by some to be a nice little stroll through the beautiful back-country hills of North Carolina quickly turned into a severe beating that lasted nearly 7 hours.

The ride started at 8:00am in beautiful Old Fort, NC.  Within minutes this glorious ride turned into a mad dash up a 5 mile paved climb to the start of some of the most technical singletrack in NC.

Chucky-Love looking smooth heading into rest stop 2 right around mile 30.

B-Nice heading into the same rest stop, looking, well, not so smooth and ready to call it a day after a rough two and a half hours.

The scene at one of the rest stops as the dirt heads dropped in for some coke and PB&J’s

Our good buddy Aaron “Awesome” Dawson rolling right on through looking tough as nails wondering why Brad is laying in the middle of the road with his shoes off.

At some point Chucky Love decided to take a snooze in the creek to take the edge off.  Charles is an experienced creek dozer, do not try this at home.

B-nice, finishing well ahead of the first place rider with a time of 2 hours and 40 minutes which would have been a course record had he ridden the entire loop; slightly defeated but well within his element.