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From: stephen.packer on 2 Jul 2010 16:02 So, those that have been paying attention will know that Andy's latest stupidity is a proposed desert rally. I'm rather proud that in his search for the stupid and easily led I was high on the list. However I'm not quite stupid enough to do it with little recent off road experience (excluding flying into trees). So I booked a day here: http://www.yamaha-offroad-experience.co.uk/ I can thoroughly recommend it. Two sessions of about three hours riding off road in forests in wales. Learnt a few things about where to put weight for turning, how to stick a leg out, when to stand, when to sit etc. etc. I have done a little off road riding but nothing much recently. At the beginning of the day I wasn't comfortable with the rear wheel spinning up and losing traction or the front sort of 'floating' on gravel which it does at speed. At the end of the day I was able to comfortably corner with the back end sliding (slightly, but under control) on shale and also to hammer the bike up steep slopes with 12-18" deep puddles plus 'lumps' from tree roots causing the bike to launch itself (briefly) into the air. Anyway... really, really good fun. Got absolutey soaked, my knees are tired, my hands ache and I'm shattered. Probably shouldn't have ridden the 240 mile round trip on top off the off-road stuff. Really friendly and helpfull team running the event. I'm going back to do the 'plus' day later in the year. The bikes- WR250 feels a bit gutless going up steep hills but has enough power to go faster than you want sometimes. WR450 has plenty of power, sometimes too much if you don't apply the throttle with respect. Wheelies nicely when you want it to though. Would recommend it to anyone- these people deserve to do well.
From: ogden on 2 Jul 2010 16:56 wrote: > So, those that have been paying attention will know that Andy's latest > stupidity is a proposed desert rally. > > So I booked a day here: > http://www.yamaha-offroad-experience.co.uk/ > > Would recommend it to anyone- these people deserve to do well. Hoping to do that in a month or two for the same reason if Andy pulls his finger out. My off-road experience amounts to a day of riding trails (and falling off) in Fuerteventura and I'm not sure that's going to suffice. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250
From: zymurgy on 2 Jul 2010 20:41 On 2 July, 21:56, ogden <og...(a)pre.org> wrote: > wrote: > > So, those that have been paying attention will know that Andy's latest > > stupidity is a proposed desert rally. > > > So I booked a day here: > >http://www.yamaha-offroad-experience.co.uk/ > > > Would recommend it to anyone- these people deserve to do well. > > Hoping to do that in a month or two for the same reason if Andy pulls > his finger out. My off-road experience amounts to a day of riding trails > (and falling off) in Fuerteventura and I'm not sure that's going to suffice. Heh. We did some gentle greenlaning on gravel in France on the MT500's. Going downhill, my engine decided to race away, so I clutched in and stood on the rear brake. The bloke following me thought I was a goner when the bike pivoted through 90 degrees :) Paul.
From: darsy on 3 Jul 2010 05:18 On Jul 2, 9:56 pm, ogden <og...(a)pre.org> wrote: > wrote: > > So, those that have been paying attention will know that Andy's latest > > stupidity is a proposed desert rally. > > > So I booked a day here: > >http://www.yamaha-offroad-experience.co.uk/ > > > Would recommend it to anyone- these people deserve to do well. > > Hoping to do that in a month or two for the same reason if Andy pulls > his finger out. My off-road experience amounts to a day of riding trails > (and falling off) in Fuerteventura and I'm not sure that's going to > suffice. I'd be interested too. My off-road experience amounts to riding a C90 field bike around a building site when I was 15, and more recently, putting my Bandit 1200 into a corn field the first day I owned it (I didn't drop it - just rode it into a corn field). -- d.
From: Nige on 3 Jul 2010 06:14
darsy wrote: > On Jul 2, 9:56 pm, ogden <og...(a)pre.org> wrote: >> wrote: >>> So, those that have been paying attention will know that Andy's latest >>> stupidity is a proposed desert rally. >> >>> So I booked a day here: >>> http://www.yamaha-offroad-experience.co.uk/ >> >>> Would recommend it to anyone- these people deserve to do well. >> >> Hoping to do that in a month or two for the same reason if Andy pulls >> his finger out. My off-road experience amounts to a day of riding trails >> (and falling off) in Fuerteventura and I'm not sure that's going to >> suffice. > > I'd be interested too. > > My off-road experience amounts to riding a C90 field bike around a > building site when I was 15, and more recently, putting my Bandit 1200 > into a corn field the first day I owned it (I didn't drop it - just > rode it into a corn field). The C90 is *everyones* first off roader :) -- Nige, 'Candygram for Mongo' R1 |