How to jump a log.

[Mick DMember]

How do you go at jumping logs?? As a trailrider it is a handy skill to have. Kye Anderson from Wauchope has it sussed,check these pics out.

That my friends is how to jump a log!!!!

[GregMember]

Nice action photos Mick where did you find them? I wonder how the box section alloy frame under that YZ goes after a few of those impacts :laugh: I read somewhere that AJ Roberts was quoted saying when he raced those extreme enduros overseas a few years ago that after a race weekend the frames would be squashed flat by the impacts :ohmy: throw away jobs as such

TB

[Mick DMember]

I got them from Kye. (It is his dad that has Natrad in Port Macquarie) I had seen them some time back and thought they would be a good talking point on here.
I dont think, Kye has to worry to much about frames etc. He has a KTM sponsorship of sorts now. NIce young bloke too.

[Eric SmithMember]

Logs, that’s something I have to work on… but I’ll never be able to take on a log like that one! Jeebus!:blink:

Thanks for posting Mick, great sequence! Would be better with a better camera obviously!

[Mick DMember]

ECKS-Man wrote:

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Logs, that’s something I have to work on… but I’ll never be able to take on a log like that one! Jeebus!:blink:

Thanks for posting Mick, great sequence! Would be better with a better camera obviously!

Yeah ECKS, it was obviously taken on a phone camera.

I like the last pic best with that roost of charcoal.

[Craig HattonMember]

Forget the log, I couldn’t wheelie that much to start with :laugh: :laugh:

Hatto

[RoyMember]

We had to get over a log a bit smaller than that (it was about the same size but the bottom bit was buried in the ground) on a guided ride once. Was shitting myself but had no choice. I definitely didn’t do it with that sort of style but I did manage to get up on top and then push myself over and I was happy with that. Mate I ride with does that sort of stuff. Just makes you feel inadequate watching them do it.

[Mick DMember]

Not for me on flat ground,let alone going up hill.

[simon burkeMember]

Bundyroy wrote:

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We had to get over a log a bit smaller than that (it was about the same size but the bottom bit was buried in the ground) on a guided ride once. Was shitting myself but had no choice. I definitely didn’t do it with that sort of style but I did manage to get up on top and then push myself over and I was happy with that. Mate I ride with does that sort of stuff. Just makes you feel inadequate watching them do it.

Is this the one you were talking about Roy?…on our Batemans Bay tour? I broke my gonads on the handle bars.And Newbs fell down under it and got wedged :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Log wasn’t too bad…the landing on the otherside is what bought us all un done …..ahhhh…logs

[RoyMember]

No not that one. The one about 500 metres further up when you thought that you must be over the worst of it by now. We were the first there and had to do it off natural surface. I think they piled a few sticks in front to help the later riders after we went through.

[simon burkeMember]

oh yeah…i remember now…that was a big bastard :ohmy:
i was too shagged by then to take a photo

[AlexMember]

That tree the young bloke is hitting is huuuuuuge!
I could barely climb over that nowdays.
That’s serious commitment. He’s nearly vertical… I don’t think I would have tried that when I was his age. Well done.

[Bruce CurtisMember]

It’s a really useful skill that young bloke has there Mick, looks like committment ++ as he approaches, pity it looks so damn easy but is so damn daunting on logs that size.

[Mick DMember]

Mr Blue wrote:

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It’s a really useful skill that young bloke has there Mick, looks like committment ++ as he approaches, pity it looks so damn easy but is so damn daunting on logs that size.

Especially with a expansion chamber, like you have to think about Bruce.

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Must be a lifetime of smoking thing Mick, but I haven’t squashed a chamber since I was a tacker, I dent them up on rocks and stuff, must be a thing you develop without thinking sorta like the true big bore riders not noticing weight it’s all in the technique.

Logs is one of the things where the 2T “SNAP” is a godsend, do it right and you sail over and look like a master, get it wrong and you just look like a scrub turkey flying out of the bush…

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