Enduro crashes

Old Mar 8, 2008 | 03:40 PM
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That was a great vid.....looked like he road in at least 10 different enduros. After a couple of those wipeouts you can hear him sucking air hard...lol... been there done that. Easy to fall when you're tired.

Pine Barrons looks a lot like the riding I do down here, I gotta get up there one day.
 
Old Mar 8, 2008 | 04:09 PM
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Wow.. What a waste of a perfectly good KTM!

 
Old Mar 8, 2008 | 05:02 PM
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Good stuff! Screw riding in all those trees - like being a pinball. He's also going so slow in most of the crashes - No forward momentum = No balance baby!
 
Old Mar 8, 2008 | 05:11 PM
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I can't believe the way those trees kept walking out in front of him. He probably felt like his bars were five feet wide.
 
Old Mar 8, 2008 | 11:03 PM
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Ditto on the speed. It was almost like he was trying to crash in more than one spot.

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Good stuff! Screw riding in all those trees - like being a pinball. He's also going so slow in most of the crashes - No forward momentum = No balance baby!
 
Old Mar 9, 2008 | 11:24 PM
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probably better then i could do after 80 miles in the woods...
 
Old Mar 10, 2008 | 05:08 PM
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As incredible as KTM's are, I bet the KLX would do alot better on trails like that. Lower bike with lower center of gravity is definitely a plus. I followed some Quads on a trail like that and they lost me quick but the KLX excells in that environment IMO.
Trust me the klx does not. I raced in most of them last year on the KLX. Great bike but I picked up a ktm 2 stroke for this year. What hurts the klx is weight and it carries it high. He must be a decent rider because his starting postion for most races is pretty low A or B rider. It's unbelievable how tired you get during these events and something as simple as a little log becomes that much harder. The average event is 5 hours long and if its plus 80 degrees with the gear its that much harder.
 
Old Mar 10, 2008 | 05:44 PM
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Mike, are you going to the Sandy Lane this Sunday? I'll be there on the KLX.
 
Old Mar 10, 2008 | 05:49 PM
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It seemed to me that the bike was geared awful tall for the tight trails. Or he was in a high gear. Also the ktm's are so tall if you have to put a foot down in an off camber place it's hard not to fall. Anyway, sure looked like some fun riding.
 
Old Mar 10, 2008 | 08:38 PM
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I didn't see one crash that he couldn't have averted had he simply put his feet down.
 

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