Another Wildhorse Lookout video
Here's a video from another rider on this Wildhorse Lookout trail run. He's one of the better riders of the group on an XR250. Summit climb at 13:30 and more views from the top. He also includes the ride back down.
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Those are some amazing ride videos. I don't think I'd attempt that single track with the extreme drop-offs to the right. If you went off trail, you'd have a hell of a time getting the bike back up to the trail.
Here's a couple of vids from the trails around where I live. A friend (on his WR250R) and I often ride in the evening, which adds an additional level of difficulty when you can't see very well. Also +1 on the aggressive riding - I'm still working on that, but standing on the pegs and keeping the speed/momentum up helps immensely. Like most videos, it's a lot steeper than it looks First time for my Daughter-in-law on the KLX250, first time on this trail for my Son on the KLX250. About 1:30 I make a quick run through the trail: |
Looks like you know what you`re doing. Been awhile since I last rode any of the trails up McNutt-Breaker. Last ride up there I was on my KDX220 and my brother, on his KX125, fouled a plug high up on the mountain. At no point did the day go well afterwards, it was a long tedious tow(who has a spare plug along, eh?)
I was at the top 256th yesterday for work, think I need to go back with a bike again! Thanks for re-newing my interest in McNutt Greg |
Originally Posted by Angier
(Post 514366)
Looks like you know what you`re doing. Been awhile since I last rode any of the trails up McNutt-Breaker. Last ride up there I was on my KDX220 and my brother, on his KX125, fouled a plug high up on the mountain. At no point did the day go well afterwards, it was a long tedious tow(who has a spare plug along, eh?)
I was at the top 256th yesterday for work, think I need to go back with a bike again! Thanks for re-newing my interest in McNutt Greg My first time out at McNutt, my friend on his WR250R and I just 'blindly' went out through the trails, in the evening. After about 1.5 hours of hard riding (that honestly would take me about 30 mins now), we stopped for a break - his WR wouldn't start (fuel pump would fail when the gas was 'hot' - we found out after), we spent the next hour pushing his bike out the trail - of course it was pitch black by that time, and the 'trail' we ended up on was really just a dried up creek bed, quite steep and lots of rocks. We certainly got our workout. Then, 2 weeks ago, I picked up a 2009 KLX250S for my son - we went on a few easy trail rides, then one day tried a tougher trail - he ended up burning up his clutch, so we had to push his bike out. Definitely not as much fun pushing as it is riding. Luckily I carry a short rope, so in the steep uphill sections we had one of us pulling the bike with the rope, one on the bars pushing and one behind pushing - until we couldn't see any more, then two of us would run/walk back and get our bikes and ride up to the broken bike and leave one running with the headlight pointing up the trail so we could see where we were pushing. Luckily the clutch replacement was fairly cheap and pretty easy to do. |
Rabbit Creek
First ride of 2015 out in the Owyhee desert.
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IDR... that is NOT a 4C... trader!
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yabbut eez green!
The KLX is still in the shop and the KDX needed its first good ride on new top end and work over since picking it up in September. And the skinny girl's about 40 or so pounds lighter! . |
Out on the 2T this weekend.
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I have been thinking about getting a KDX, how is the low end compared to the KLX?
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Originally Posted by cmott426
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I have been thinking about getting a KDX, how is the low end compared to the KLX?
I worked on the pilot jetting and have it fairly close. Stock is a #42 which was 2 or 3 pilot jet sizes richer than it is now, which made a huge difference. Now I plan to fuss around with needle settings, needles, and main jet to see how it responds. Then, I have a 200 model carb (the larger one) which I plan to toy around with and send one of the carbs off to RB. I also have both the FMF desert/rev expansion chamber to try (bike came with woods/torque). As far as I can tell, the PO did little else to tune the bike other than throwing on an FMF exhaust system as the jets, filter, etc were stock and rich. I'm really enjoying the lightness of this bike. 40-50 pounds makes a big difference. Now, if it just had the suspension and low-end torque of the KLX! Mileage is only around 20 mpg at best based on the last two weekends of riding. A bit more tuning may improve this some and granted most of the riding was in 2nd and 3rd gear with a lot of throttle. |
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