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don’t blame it was you that made me drink the bottle of bundy:P
don’t blame me it was you that made me drink the bottle of bundy:P
Ok this is for you old “it’s too wet, Ohh might get my bike wet” nancy Bulls,
It’s been raining up here off and on for months, so I rang around and got Two volunteers for a fun ride going yesterday.
Picked our area, a large expanse of land adjacent to a huge river, sandy loam and well grassed about 300-400 acres with lots of hillclimbs and scattered with groves of Oaks and other wetland species, sand riding and did I mention knarly hillclimbs.
The volunteers Greg (DBW forumite, sub 30 yr old been riding for 24 years) heavily modified S/T focused TTR250, and Brenton C. my 8 yr old son KX60. So away we went yesterday morning into the pouring rain, and hour later we landed at the chosen spot, underfoot was almost like it hadn’t rained for much more than a day. Ten minutes later geared up, bikes idleing away we rode to the first hillclimb.Short, 90 metres up, sharp (maybe 55 degrees) with small vert sections light grass and scattered trees, I initially piked, but Greg flew up with his new Pirelli MT43 trials tyre, so up I went on the rubbish Dunlop 952, a bit of slip sliding, clutchwork and light wheelspin and up i went in second, descended and went again, meanwhile the young fella was ridng up about 20 metres turning the bike around and going back down repeatedly.
We rode the whole area for the next 4 hours, Brenton came unstuck 3 times, hitting unseen stuff in the grass, Greg misjudged a clay hill with a goatrack up it and he came unglued, (we discovered if an MT43 doesn’t climb it or grip, neither can you on foot :dry: )Yours truly had no moments at all except for trying to flip a few times on the hillclimbs.
An interesting moment was when we swapped bikes and did the hillclimbs, Gregs TTR has been setup to lug down low and has Gold valves and good rear end, it is surefooted and torquey, you sorta plod into the hill building momentum as you can. I was expecting him to hate my bike as it is setup (after extensive research and $$$) to make a large amount of torque off idle, with “snap” and it has, it caught a TM300 jockey off guard one day and he hates that power delivery, to sudden too early he reckons… well greg pronounced my bike the perfect 250 2T for knarly conditions, compliant suspension that tracks, excellent steering, and what got him was the motor that refuses to flame out and just responds to the right wrist as if the rear wheel is attached to the throttle. Almost couldn’t get him off it he just tore into the steepest slopes he could find not once muffing it.
Did some sandriding in deep sand drifts, a bit of log hopping and ridge riding (brenton refused to ride one ridge, clever boy understands pain well and rides to his ability mostly.
after a bite to eat we fine tuned the TTRs rar suspesnion for S/T medium speed tracking, seem to have got it right, which was half the plan and I adjusted my bars around until I went back to where I had have them for 20 years :blush: , Brenton kept lapping around the area, doing little hillsclimbs and dropoffs having a ball, that alone was worth the effort, think he’s going to be an enduro rider rather than a track jockey by the looks of it, oh well whatever makes him smile…..
So all in all we had a great afternoon of laughs and riding in the rain, Greg just texted me to say he feels like he did a stint on the border ranges his body feels it today:) .So any Girls blouses who didn’t go for a ride because it was raining, there’s always somewhere if you think hard enough, and want it enough.
BC
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