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What a day. Dropped in to Suttos to look at the quads and bikes.
Spoke to the guys there and they were very helpful and seemed keen on what we are doing.
The bikes themselves,,,,,,,,,,,,, beautiful. These are great looking bikes.
The 250SX (2 stroke) was recommended to us for our show. Great looking bike. I am torn between it and the new 350SX-F.
2t vs 4t,,,
Have a descision to make now between the local guy up here and Hondas or Suttos and KTM’s. Both dealers are great to deal with and keen and the bikes are all very nice.
Ouch, Jesus TB. The black rubber stuff down and the shiny stuff up
Hope you get better soon.
Hehe, we will do these silly things. :laugh:
I got back on and did some more as well. No issue getting up there, just that fine line to keep it up and going.
More practice!!!!
Nearly got back on it,,,,,,, but then it all went pear shaped
Yep, having a muck about and seeing what worked and what doesn’t.
Decided that we are going to buy 2 Honda TRX 450 quads and 2 Honda CRF 450’s (or the same in a Yamaha, Kawasaki or Suzuki, but I am leaning towards Hondas)for the show. We need reliable, powerful machines.
Holy Crap, I even kinda look like I know what I am doing
Part 2 of the further Adventures of Mal, Twobanger and Capt. Furious (you’d know why my friends gave me the name if you had seen me in the aforementioned boghole trying to start my bike, my superpower is the ability to get really really angry
)The guys took pity on me and we headed to some easier single track and some blasts along the firetrails. Now this I like, some stuff to jump, some corners to slide around,,,,, sometimes at the same time.
Started to head up a nice hill with some erosion bank jumps on it with Mal in the lead, then Twobanger and then me. I opened up the KTM and went past Twobanger like he was standing still, mainly beacuse I don’t think he knew we were racing
Damn ice is slippery!!!! My rear wheel stepped out so far that if it had been a race it would have won!!!! I figured as oong as my front wheel was pointing in the direction I wanted to go I would keep the old girl pinned and ride it out,,, which I did,,, straight over the next jump. I was having flashbacks to my motocross days. Oh yes, the older I get the better I was.
When we pulled up at the top for a chat Twobanger was covered in ice from my back wheel and saying something about “I thought you were going to die!!!!”.
Much fun.
Off we go again and into some single tracks again. Starting to get the hang of it. I liked this one, some ruts and little berms so I just dropped on into them and railed them around, that’s more like it. According to Mal all us ex-motocrossers are the same, give us a rut and we are happy :laugh:
And so the day went on. Lots of very icy tracks, some jumps and some bogholes and laughs. I took a line around the outside of a mudhole that turned out to be frozen over and covered in dirt, broke straight through and it swallowed my front wheel. Bloody ice. Bit wet and cold now. Took the lads for a blast along the trails to a little grassy down and up track that I usually ride on the horses. Cracking along one trail there is a very sharp left hander that was, you guessed it, covered in ice. Jumped on the hangers and actually got faster through this corner!!! I could hear Mal and Twobanger coming in hot behind me so was hoping my locked up brake slide through the corner was a giveaway that it was sharp and slippery.
I didnt see it (too busy trying not to die) but I hear Mal went into BoyRacer mode and slipped on past Twobanger whilst he too was busy “Trying Not to Die”.
Quick chat at the top of the hill and I headed off home whilst Mal and Twobanger went back to fuel up and hit some more hils.
Had great day and realised how out of practice I am, how slow I am and how unfit I am. Mucho fun.
Thanks to Mal and Twobanger for asking me on the ride. I had a great time.
Got up, geared up and it was bloody cold. -1 at our place when the lads turned up to pick me up. We headed out to some single tracks. My first time on single track so I took it easy as they were pretty slippery (for me anyway) with ice and mud. I was just taking it easy when I dropped into a mudhole about the length of my bike and sank. I dropeed it back to first to get up the steep other side and promptly started to dig a trench to China! When I out my left foot down to steady myself it slipped on the slippery sloping wall on that side and I did a very embarrasing slide under the bike as it laid over on me :blush:
Thank God there was no-one there to see it,,,,,,,,, though I could have done with a hand to get the bloody thing off me!!
So, after pushing, sliding and strugglinh I managed to get out from uder it. By now of course my brand spanking new AXO boots and Acerbis kneeguards are covered in filth and my socks are feeling a bit damp as the water was up over my boots.
About this time I could hear the two two-strokes suddenly stop. Bugger.
Caught my breath and tried to get the 400 going. Bloody left sided kickstarts!!!! No where to stand in this slippery, muddy hole and I am trying to kick this thing facing backwards as I can’t kickstart it left footed!!! Arghhhhh.
Finally got it going and clutched and walked it out of the mud and ice,,,,,, as I was doing this I looked to my right and saw the nice dry(ish) and smooth line that the other two guys had taken
Met them on the way back looking for me and Mal and Twobanger had had adventures of their own. Off to my place to do some running repairs to Mal’s rear brake and we were off again.
More to follow.
