This past Saturday HardTaco and I went to Uwharrie to ride. I had never been there before, but HardTaco used to 4W there so he knows the place like the back of his hand.

Here's the helmet cam footage I took. I chopped down over 3 hours of video down to around 10 minutes. Most of the going is slow and rough. You might notice 3ft "jumps" every 50 feet or so. These are erosion control bumps. They are pretty fun, but after a while they get a little irritating because they keep you from being able to go very fast in the places that you otherwise could.

There was one hill here gave me some trouble at about 4 minutes in. We were going to go back for a 2nd try at it later, but the clouds started moving in and we could hear the thunder getting close, so we decided to pack it up. This place is like ice when it's wet. Some of the climbs here are very steep. I dont think the camera does it justice and it also tends to also flatten out the terrain. This is very rough and unforgiving trail system. The jacked up jeeps and 4WD off roaders crawl through here at about one mile per hour.

Enjoy!

http://www.vimeo.com/1222276 <<<<< use this one instead, it is better quality than youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRZ82iJIiSA

This is a photo from near the top of the hill that was giving me some trouble.










The Dunlop 606 rear tire did good in this stuff.




I had a great time, I loved those climbs. It should give an idea of how well the 450 lugs down low and still keeps tractoring. We'll definitely be going back there again sometime.

EDIT: add better quality vimeo link

 

THIS F'n FORUM[:@][:@][:@][:@]

 

Talk to me goose, what's wrong?

 

can't post more than a few word's

 

That looks great. You guys ever take offroad newbies along? I live down the road in Angier.

 

Hey toothman, we need to hook up and ride. We're thinking about a ride at Brushy Mountain soon, would you be interested? Do you have any good trails down your way? Angier is really close.

 

I tried to edit the original post, but I keep getting the forum error. But I uploaded to another service that seems to have much better quality video compression. Try this one and compare:

http://www.vimeo.com/1222276

 

Oh, I forgot to mention, at the gas station on the way home a couple of nice ladies in distress stopped by for assistance with opening their giant bottles of Heineken as we were at the pump. So out came the dirt bike tool kit with the KTM 12mm wrench on one end and bottle opener on the other. They were duly impressed. I may not be able to get chicks with my questionable dirt bike skillz, but they are always impressed with my tool.

 

Brian, why did you take off all the graphics on the ktm? didnt get a chance to watch the video yet.

 

right on bro nice vid and pics!!! the rocks are everywhere geez.[:-]