Yeah, if it's dried mud mixed with little grass the fire might have a change, but with you keeping a fresh, wet coat on at all times, fugedaboudit! [8D]

 

ROFL !!

 

But seriously, last summer when I got my wife her bike, and another couple went riding with us we got up in the mountains and the roads started to have a lot of the 2ft tall really dry grass on it. It was a really hot summer, and we decided to turn around. It just takes a second and poof. Be careful out there, I don't want to see anyone here on the news that has started a fire and has to pay millions of dollars, plus I would get your bike until you got out of jail. But at least you know it would be taken care of right?

 

And it would be clean!

 

You can better believe that was on my mind. After I put the stick out by digging down to the wet earth below and making sure everything was completely cold, I hung around for another 15 or 20 minutes sniffing the air and looking for any sparks that I might have missed. In fact, I'm probably not going to bushwhack any more when the woods are dry - I never really thought that this could happen so easily. Seems like there's a much greater probability of a fire being started this way than by a spark out the exhaust pipe due to the lack of a spark arrestor or by a backfire due to the lack of a backfire screen.

I guess this is probably one case where that ceramic cloth header wrap would have probably come in handy as I think it probably would have prevented the stick from catching fire.

Be vigilant about this - if it can happen to me it can happen to you too.