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The new looking light weight DRZ arrived on friday night delivered fresh from Jenny Craig. Naturally I waited a whole 14 hours to hit the trails with it and test it out. The light plastics are strikingly different to the old ones but the weight difference is amazing the bike is a joy to punch through the single trails and it actually goes where you aim it which is very different to how it was. Amongst the super tight stuff it is an absolute waepon and once I get used to it Im wondering if Ill shit myself before it runs out of capability.
As it came back from Jenny Craig
As the day was to be spent marking out new single trails it was a perfect way to break in the bike and get a feel for what it can do. We managed to complete aloop of around 15km of singles and unused forrest tracks which while almost totally flat is very technical and really suited to the light beast. Only a few blemishes on the ride, the first when I hit the anchors to avoid some roos and suddenly discovered it stops better than me and I did some forensic study of the red nundle mud. The second came when I tried to ride it like the old bike and discovered it does need a lower gear more revs and is a lot less forgiving than the diesel motor on the heavy DRZ.
Even managed to dameage the new beast notfar from home when I picked up a random length of fence wire in the middle of nowhere which wrapped around the brake side of the rear wheel bending the rear brake arm slightly and breaking a spoke, so one ride and its virginity is well and truly gone.
Im not like Boony so I wont slag off at the heavy DRZ which served me so well but this new lightweight DRZ is shit hot and I rekon it will take a week or so to get the smile off my face from this first outing. Thanks again to Matt at Bikes and Bits Tamworth for making the weight loss program possible.
Back on the trailer at the cabin
Nice one Snow , bike looks great and it sounds like your getting into it
I have found the Crf less forgiving than the Drz but it takes no time to get used to them and you won’t know yourself
Enjoy the new toy mate !!
Nick
At this rate, soon it will be OLD BULL CRF CLUB :pinch: :laugh:
Good to see the new improved lightweight DRZ with some dirt on it
Cheers Snow
Not likely gregory
singletrackmind wrote:Trailboss wrote:LC4skin wrote:250 front wheel reaching for the sky……..pfftI have to agree with you LC. Crash owns both reckon he could explain best. Nothing claws for the sky like a big bore :woohoo:
TB
Been almost 12 months since I have seen Crash on his BRP and that was at Coffs and he wished he was on his 250x. :whistle: :laugh: :laugh:
STM
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Whistle all you want STM talking about front wheel reaching for the sky not any ride in particular :whistle:
Hope your better through that tight track over to Glenray then you were on you old 250 felt embrassed for you :laugh: when blew past on my 650 Yes and I fell off on the widow maker :pinch:
TB
Trailboss wrote:singletrackmind wrote:Trailboss wrote:LC4skin wrote:250 front wheel reaching for the sky……..pfftI have to agree with you LC. Crash owns both reckon he could explain best. Nothing claws for the sky like a big bore :woohoo:
TB
Been almost 12 months since I have seen Crash on his BRP and that was at Coffs and he wished he was on his 250x. :whistle: :laugh: :laugh:
STM
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Whistle all you want STM talking about front wheel reaching for the sky not any ride in particular :whistle:
Hope your better through that tight track over to Glenray then you were on you old 250 felt embrassed for you :laugh: when blew past on my 650 Yes and I fell off on the widow maker :pinch:
TB
Thought you would enjoy that one :laugh:
STM
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