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I met up with a guy from the local TRF today and he lead me around some awesome lanes. I am not gonna even try and show where we went coz I don’t have a clue LOL but we covered around 60 miles of the dirty stuff!
It was my first time really (not counting the lil lane I found the other day) spending this long in the saddel on the bike and it really showed its true colours and love of brown slimey stuff!
Saying that I found a limitation of the bike: It wont run on water! LOL we came across a very deep puddle (upto the front mudguard on the KTM!) and although I got through it ok, I didn’t keep the revs on when I got to the end of it and the carb filled with water! Quick carb drain with a leatherman and it burst back to life again :
There was one lane called the corkskrew or something like that, it was hair pin after hair pin as we climed the side of this hill, had the back end drifting out and everything! Another climb beat me and I ran out of stamina, lost my momentum and that was it, stuck on a slope too narrow to turn around, to slippy to start from where I was! So I got off and tried pushing it up the hill in gear engine running and got about 20m and was dead! the bike started to overheat too and water appeared to be coming outta the head gasget!
My mate Mark parked up and came down to help me but I was too tired so he got on the bike and I walked up behind him pushing when he lost grip and eating mud when he span the rear! :p LOL
I was kinda worried about the possible HGF issues that were appearing on my 250 mile old bike! :0 so we called it a day once we got to the end of that lane and went to find a jet wash!
After cleaning the bikes we moseyed on home and I then cleaned the bike again and no sign of the dreaded HGF but now the bike was clean I could see that it was probably coolant coming out of the overflow as it got hot and dribbling down onto the engine (fingers crossed thats all it was!)
I was nearly punched by an old guy in a petrol station as he got the hump when I parked behind a car that had finished fueling and gone off to pay. I nearly lost my rag with him big style as he was restling the fuel nozzel out my hands and getting fuel all over my hot engine, his misses didn’t help as she was goading him on. If it wern’t for all the familys about I’d have lost my temper properly. As it goes I moved to a different pump and filled up before the lass had payed and the guy was still waiting to fuel up! LOL
An eventful day thats for sure!
The pics:
Mark
The bikes
Mark had just ridden both bikes up this climb, I couldnt do it[
]Time for a clean
The broken handguard was here LOL
After garotting myself on a loop of thorns dangling down from a tree in a noose type way
Sweaty after playing
Now wheres me bed? LOL
Wow fantastic, you can almost see the ‘tide mark’ on the bikes. Glad to see the bike being used like that, it looks a great tool.
Last shot looks like a Bond villain audition, think you had a bit too much coffee Pete!
hahaha I was still wired from the ride, I wholeheartedly recommend people having a go at green laning if they get the oportunity to do so!
(but possibly avoid the angry old gits at petrol stations! LOL)Wired from the ride, yes[
], but also add the thought of waiting for your next biking fix [:p] Its cold turkey kicking in by the look of it [:p]Good grief Pete! I read this at lunchtime. You really are enjoying this bike to the max already! Is the Gixxer getting a look in these days?
Went out on the gixer on Saturday, still love it but in a different way, I can see why peeps give up sports bikes for these things tho, can’t see myself doing that just yet tho!
I actually hurt myself more on the gixer than I did on the KTM and I stayed on the suzook and fell off the KTM 3 times! LOL I whacked my knee on a cats-eye on my way back from the ride, nearly took me off the side of the bike and made me unsure if I was gonna be able to ride the KTM on the Sunday! :0
I am getting used to the servicing of the KTM, do the bits and bobs to it (including repairs from each ride so far!) :$ during the week and then breaking it again at the weekends!
Am off to an MX track on Sat which should be fun, hopefully I’ll stay on it this weekend! :$ :$ :$
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Originally posted by Pete247Went out on the gixer on Saturday…………..I actually hurt myself more on the gixer than I did on the KTM and I stayed on the suzook and fell off the KTM 3 times! LOL I whacked my knee on a cats-eye on my way back from the ride, nearly took me off the side of the bike and made me unsure if I was gonna be able to ride the KTM on the Sunday! :0
That sure sounds like it could have been very nasty, let alone painful. Is the experience your getting from riding “with a loose rear end” helping on the road yet?
Havn’t ridden the gixer hard enough to find out! I think it’ll help on track, but not really on the road except maybe in the wet.
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