Volume 1 Chapter 22: The Desert Hurts
The temple returned, and the days continued. In addition to managing the website, buying and selling second-hand. Xing Yu prefers to mix in the maintenance area and learn some car repair problems, which is the advice given by the Eastern Army, otherwise he would have been thrown on the road when he went out that day. When the earth is not spiritual, you can't give up the vehicle, and let's go on foot.
The club is still buzzing. Events take place every week. There are always one or two times a month. The car is not broken and does not change. How can there be any money?
Autumn in Shaanxi is not obvious, and it is still very hot at the end of September. That's when the club began to plan Eleven's activities. Eleven FBLass organizes a party in the desert. There will also be competitions, and some bigwigs, Lu Ningjun, and Xu Lang, will also participate. Riders from all over the world are even more flocking to it.
With such a good opportunity to showcase, the club will not give up. The car that has just been changed also has a place to use. The aroma of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, and it is also a pain to guard Baoshan without outsiders.
Prepare, race, play, logistics. It's a troublesome process, no matter how big or small. Xing Yu updated his outdoor equipment at Hadron, and Dongjun also generously sent a professional outdoor bag. Personal preparation is considered to be alive. The rest is all together, and all the participants paid the activity fee in advance, and all of them received more than 20,000 yuan.
Xing Yu also had to cooperate with the Eastern Army in procuring necessary supplies. All this money was loaded on Xing Yu. The night before departure, Xing Yu actually lost it. More than 15,000 were lost, and I couldn't find them after looking for hours.
Originally, Xing Yu made money by himself, but he followed Shen Yin to all kinds of happiness, bought a new set of outdoor equipment, and invested in the car. Xing Yu can't take out 15,000 like this, he is responsible for losing the money, the time is tight, and he can finally set off on time the next day.
The Eastern Army drove the 4500 of the Dragon Dragon. No way, there is too much equipment. The Cherokee can't pull that much.
There were three people sitting in the car, Dongjun, Xing Yu, and Xiao Yin, a maintenance master in the factory. Drive to your destination to set up camp first. The others waited for the holiday and set off with the large army.
The 4500 is close to full load, but still full of power. All the way through northern Shaanxi at high speed, into Inner Mongolia. The destination is near the Qixing Lake Scenic Area in the Kubuqi Desert.
Just run along the Baomao high-speed, and you can meet many teams with FBLIFE stickers on the road, and they are also friends from all over the country who come to participate in the event. People will honk each other or flash their overtaking lights a few times.
The farther the road, the closer the heart. The rot people in the world are all brothers, and everyone they meet on this road must have gone to participate in the event together. Say hello, that's basic courtesy.
There was no danger, and at eleven o'clock in the night we finally arrived at the edge of the desert. It's a little late, and the camps arranged by the organizing committee are all in the hinterland of the desert, so it's really not so easy to find in the dark......
I had to find a relatively flat site and only set up the tents of the Eastern Army. Xing Yu's new tent was too big, and it was also very troublesome to set up. I will spend the night, and the next day I will find a local restaurant, eat roasted wheat, and serve milk tea.
made Xing Yu feel like he had returned to Xinjiang, but there was still pork for sale in the bun restaurant. In Xing Yu's impression, ethnic minorities all believe in Islam, and the Eastern Army laughed at him for this......
The Kubuqi Desert is located on the south bank of the Yellow River in the Yellow River bend of the Hetao Plain (some people call it the Hetao Desert), with the Yellow River in the north and the Wolf Mountain area in the western section of the Yinshan Mountain in the north. It is the seventh largest desert in China, with high and low sand slopes, and the highest can be nearly 100 meters high.
Although Xing Yu is from Xinjiang, his home is in the northwest of Xinjiang, with fewer deserts and a relatively young age, so he has visited a small Haizi like 185 Mingsha Mountain.
The first time I came here, I was also very excited, and I started along the road, holding up the camera, the Eastern Army was much calmer, and Xiao Yin was even more uninterested in sitting behind and falling asleep.
After the paved road was completed, according to the direction of the organizing committee, it was necessary to go down to the desert, and the Eastern Army hung the neutral gear, released the accelerator, and let the car automatically slide to a stop at the edge of the desert. This is a trick, desert parking can not be directly stepped on to death, if you step on it to death, it is easy to get stuck in the car.
Park the car, hook up the axle head clutch, and start to release the tire pressure. This is also particular, generally road tires need 2.5 pressure, in the desert to put 1.0 to 1.5 pressure. This helps to increase the contact surface between the tires and the sand, avoiding unnecessary trapping, and also protects the clutch fit of the vehicle from burning the clutch plates......
Of course, the flagpole is indispensable, and a simple fishing rod is used to fix it to the back of the car, and a small flag is hung on it. This is because the desert is constantly undulating, and there is a flag under the sand nest to let passing vehicles see you and avoid unnecessary collisions...... Along the way, the Eastern Army also taught Xing Yu some experience.
Dongjun said that when they first came to the desert, they didn't know how to put the tire pressure, and it was difficult for the car to start, it was difficult to accelerate, and the car was stuck at every turn.
When a few people were helpless on the sand slope on a motorcycle, a herdsman next to him rode an old Suzuki AX100 and rushed up the sand slope "What are you doing?" "Race? is it better than climbing? Relax a little, it's good to ride, don't start too fast......" And then under the disdainful gaze of the herdsman, they learned how to ride in the desert. Really a ten-year racer, not as good as a local veteran driver.
The local veteran driver is also a legendary industry, where he runs every day at his own doorstep. How many years later, Xing Yu went to participate in the Mohe Ice and Snow Rally, and he met a driver who was always ahead of the way on the frozen Songhua River. ran directly into the manufacturer's team, but unfortunately in addition to the ice and snow road other inexperience, the later games were not crowded.
Dongjun said that when they first Tengger, a domineering one overturned, the roof of the co-pilot car was directly sunk in, and the girder was also somewhat deformed. A few herdsmen came to the local area, and they started directly and pushed the car right. I got in the car and tried it, and said that the car was in beautiful condition, so I drove it out......
There is also a story about the original state of the China Tour of the Tower Rally, when everything was not so standardized. There are four Uyghur compatriots, and they drove a Tianjin Xiali whose interior was about to be demolished. There is no four-wheel drive, nothing is right, we have speed, and we still fly close to the ground in the desert. The car was trapped, it was okay, and the four of them got out of the car and moved it directly.
Not to mention that they can't lift the car, these compatriots grew up eating beef and mutton. Xing Yu played against a minority school in high school, watched the goalkeeper serve, and didn't pay attention to the ball and went straight into the ...... No one could study the skills of the time, but the four of them drove this little Xiali to complete the race......
Of course, this is also a legend circulating in the circle, the real situation is that there is an old man who drove Xiali around the edge of the race and ran a lap. Legends are often hearsay and people's imagination, and when they are passed on, they become legends.
Finally, I arrived at the base camp of the organizing committee, and there were special people responsible for registration and allocation of venues. Find the camping site arranged by the organizing committee, which is also a sand nest.
First pull up a cordon around it, indicating that there is an owner in this place for the time being, and it is also a warning to the surrounding vehicles not to rush over and cause unnecessary injury.
Awnings, tents are erected together. Some members of the club also arrived early, and they found together through the contact of the hand. Together, the speed of building is also very fast.
Someone actually brought a marching tent for the troops, which was set up like a simple house. Each province and city has its own independent camp, which is not a club, but it is a township party and a potential customer. It's all about having fun, and everyone is happy to help together.
At this time, you can see it when you climb to a high place. In the middle of the desert, there is an area where all kinds of tents are set up. It's like a large village. Xing Yu's new tent was Coleman's five-person tent, though not as big as the troop marching tent. But it's not small. Standing in the center of the camp, the red and white colors are very conspicuous.
There was a country party who actually came behind the overbearing with a CRF250, which is Honda's professional track off-road racing. The owner also changed the American XTRIG joint plate assembly, GMX stainless steel racing fuel tank, the new Ollins top rear reduction, Yoshimura full-section carbon fiber exhaust, Portugal modified car body, Talon imported wheels, aluminum alloy enlarged water tank, DRC imported water pipe, titanium alloy custom screws for the whole car, and CNC imported modified parts for the whole car. The whole car is changed down, and it is more expensive than a small cut. The ARB crossing bars installed on the 4500 are all from the auxiliary factory.
After setting up the camp, everyone gathered together to chat. This CRF is too attractive to Xing Yu, Pingsha District tried it, and the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. Xing Yu and the owner agreed to go deeper into the desert to play together, and the owner drove domineeringly, walked together, and rode by himself for a while......
Hiding from the Eastern Army, a few people set off. There is no problem with the small sand slopes around the camp. Xing Yu is wearing a professional helmet, which is said to be an American product, but Europeans and Americans have pointed heads, which is very uncomfortable, and the head door is too tight. It feels like I'm under a tight spell.
It feels good to go over the first dune, and remember the basic principles of less clutching, slow refueling, and slow gear shifting. Xing Yu also rode over decently. After running for a while, I felt that I could get used to the car, and I started to accelerate. The domineering also began to accelerate, with fewer people and fewer cars. People don't go crazy and vain teenagers......
Following around the domineering, they also climbed over several high sand dunes together. Then I came across a chicken nest (bunker) that was not too small, and the domineering needed shabu-shabu to come out. But according to the few previous experiences, Xing Yu boldly rushed up the throttle.
With the roar of the motor, it seems that it is about to reach the top of the sand, and the car can not slow down when it reaches the sand peak, otherwise it is easy to support the bottom. There is also a saying that it is better to bear than to fly. But the motorcycle is not afraid, the bold will fly over directly, and the timid can stop on the edge of the blade.
But after all, Xing Yu was riding a bicycle in the desert for the first time, and it was someone else's. When I was about to go uphill, I started to slow down, and when I got to the edge of the blade, the speed was reduced, but it was still not well controlled, and the front of the car was raised and passed the blade.
The opposite side is also a sharp knife beam, that is, it is still a steep slope, a very steep slope. Xing Yu was in a hurry all of a sudden, bent down and began to press the front of the car, (the correct way should be to control the vehicle with an upright body, and the rear wheels hit the ground first.) The soft sand directly sank into the front of the car, and Xing Yu flew out straight. In mid-air, he subconsciously held his head, landed on his back, and slid down the sand......