Thanks Troy for creating this thread!
As you have seen in the link that Troy pointed out, we have been pretty busy working on the house, but I really want to enjoy some of the riding around here. The area is probably not as steep as Colorado, but it is somewhat montainous with a lot of trees and pretty rough jeep trail or single trail.
My cousin, my old riding buddy told me last monday that they had a ride scheduled for this sunday and that I needed to find myself a motorcycle. I did some looking around and here is what I found, an 03 WRz which if I understand right is a YZ to which they have chnaged the 5th gear to a longer one. Some of you might know Peterhansel and that is the kind of bikes he used to race when he was not busy winning the Dakar.
Here is the bike, pretty nice looking, I hope I can resell it pretty quickly when I come back to the US.
Here are the bikes of a few of the guys I rode with a 350DR and a 125 EXC.
So we went and joined a few other riders. Well, needless to say that it was probably not the best idea to get used of a new bike.
Here are the trails I was dealing with:
As usual, it looks much flatter than it was and it was wet and I had a freking motocross bike to follow some people that ride around every weekend. Well the opening of the valves got me quite a few times by surprise and I either passed people on the rear wheel or climb walls much faster than anticipated. Anyway after a few huffing and pushing I got a little bit more used to the bike and the terrain. And had a great time!
Here are a few pictures I took sorry I did not take more, it took quite a bit for me to keep up.
Here is the result of my fall:
I also managed to bust the light fixture in the process:
We only ended up going about 60 Km when I hit reserve, but it took us almost 4 hours to do that.
I will keep posting as I go on more rides!
If you guys want to come and visit, please come on over and we'll make sure that we find something for you to ride!