Barstow to Vegas Ride

On January 16th-17th the Haslam/Withers clan planned a dirt biking trip from Barstow, CA to Las Vegas, NV. The boys rode the dirt bikes and the girls drove the chase vehicles. (Tyaan had another event she had to attend that day, so she wasn't able to go with us.) They had been planning this for some time and done a lot of preparation for it. Jon had it all mapped out and they had calculated how many miles each bike got on a tank of gas. The day finally came, we loaded up the bikes and headed to Barstow.

Here are the 4 boys ready to get riding. Brandon, Jon, Mike, and Russell.






They set up 2 stop points along the way where we could meet up with them and fill up the bikes. The first stop was just outside of Baker, CA. We went up a highway several miles and crossed the path they were taking. We actually found another truck there that was doing the same thing we were. Soon a couple other bikers came in and filled up with her and headed out again. I guess our boys weren't the only ones who thought this would be fun.

By the time they got to the 2nd stop at state line (Primm, NV) they were pretty beat and had some trouble with one of the bikes. We had rooms reserved there so Jon and Brandon decided to make that the end of their trip. Russell and Mike took 2 bikes that were still running well and headed to Vegas to finish the trip. They made it all the way!






































































Barstow to Primm is about 114 miles, and Barstow to Vegas is about 150 miles, so it was a lot of riding in 1 day.



We stayed the night at State Line and headed home the next morning. It was a lot of fun and they're always talking about doing it again!