Central Oregon Fly and Ride - Powered Parachute Meet

Just returned from the Central Oregon Powered Parachute Meet. Had a great time . There were 15 PPC's (Powered Parachutes) that showed up and most everyone brought along a motorcycle to play with during the day when we couldn't fly. There were a handful of Honda Trail 90's, several Lifen dirt bikes, a TW200, my KTM 530, our two minibikes, and even an old Honda 55.

The event was held on Beasly Dry Lake just south of Fort Rock OR. We were camped on the lake bed for 4 days, lots of great flying, riding and just having fun. Can't wait till next year...Fun Stuff.

Here are a few pics from the event.

Here's a shot of everyone's campers parked on the lake bed...and runway.




And a couple more angles of the lake bed. The main lake bed is hard and smooth.






A PPC getting ready to become airborne.




Heading towards Fort Rock. You can see the town of Fort Rock also.




This is a cool museum stop in Fort Rock if your ever passing through and have the time. These are all original buildings from the turn of the century from around this area, they were all moved here to create a museum. Very cool!




Heading towards Fort Rock to have a look.




The wind started picking up so the PPC's headed back into the lake bed to land.










During the days we would play with the bikes and just explore the area.

My son and I cruising the desert...putting along in first gear.




What's this??? My son thought this dead coyote was very cool.






We went into Fort Rock to check out the museum. Very cool!






Mike on the Honda powered baja minibike.




My son on his Skuut bike. These are popular in Europe for teaching kids how to ride a bike. They just push them along and eventually learn to pick up their feet and coast. They can transition from the Skuut to a bicycle without using training wheels, he loves it. He was getting where he could coast quite a ways out on the playa.









And more flying. Sweeeeeeeet!
















This guy must only own the circle...his house is on a little pie slice of it. Interesting.




Line up of everyone's machines.




Picture of Fort Rock.




TW out on the Playa.




Playin around.




Old hood out on the lake bed.




KTM on the sand dunes.




One of the pilots drew out this coarse on the playa, everyone was timed to see who could go the slowest without going out of bounds or putting a foot down. I got 1 min 50 sec, next best was 1 min.








Highly modified Honda Trail 90. They guy that owns this bike rode a Vespa P200 scooter to Alaska and back....in the 70's when it was all gravel! He said the Vespa had over 170,000 miles on it when he sold it. WOW!




My uncle and I landing on the lake bed. Go-Pro camera attached in front of the rear tire.




Had a great time. Next PPC meet is at the end of August on the Alvord Dry Lake bed in OR if anyone wants to join in....Good chance you can take a ride in a PPC!

Flying, biking, very cool

Tom it looks like you had a great time, how was the weather? down here in Reno the wind has been blowing every day. tomorrow i head to Fields OR and the hot springs

Another great report Tom.....

I wished I knew you were going to be down there, I would've rode down for a visit.

Okay, that is the coolest weekend ever! All I did was ride my dirt bike around. LOL

Tom,

Was good to meet you out at Beasley. Nice report and great pics. That little video cam really works well. Here's a pic of Hole in the Ground since you didn't post one.

Q

hugemoth wrote:

Tom,

Was good to meet you out at Beasley. Nice report and great pics. That little video cam really works well. Here's a pic of Hole in the Ground since you didn't post one.

Q

Thanks for the pic. Awesome country down there. It was great meeting you as well, hopefully I'll see you at some other PPC meets.

Hodakaguy

Backwoods Boogie wrote:

Another great report Tom.....

I wished I knew you were going to be down there, I would've rode down for a visit.

Yeah I should have posted up on the BDS forum to see if anyone wanted to come down for some riding and PPC flights. There is always the Alvord at the end of August

Hodakaguy