- Mar 28, 2003
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So, I just wanted to share my woes with all of my dirtbiking pals...
Yesterday, Rooster and I went out riding so he could dial in the suspension on his YZ before we leave for Tower City this coming Friday morning. There's a small woods loop across the street from PK's house that a friend of his owns and allows us to ride on.
Saturday it rained all day, at some points during the day it came down HARD. So, when we got out there yesterday afternoon it was tacky. It wasn't too muddy or anything like that...
I am coming around a corner, a left hand S curve type corner, and I'm going at a good speed (for me) in 2nd gear. The mud, or the trees, or something, causes my front end to wash out and BOOM into the tree the bike goes and down onto the ground I go. I get up and save the bike as quickly as possible, fully realizing that I didn't hit hard so I'm okay. I managed to throw the chain, so Rooster fixes that for me.
I go to take off and as I shift into 2nd gear I hear a strange noise, so I pull off the next place there's an opening and start checking things out. The chain is pretty loose - so I figure it's chain noise. I tell Rooster and we go back to PK's house to tighten the chain.
After the chain is tightened we go back to the loop. I start off in first and then bump up into 2nd. The noise is back. Hmm... :think: I can't figure out what it is as I'm not really mechanically inclined when it comes to these bikes. I pull off and stop Rooster as he comes around. He rides the bike and reports back to me that he didn't hear anything strange or out of the ordinary. Well, okay I think, maybe a stick was stuck somewhere we didn't see and it's gone now.
Off I go again, back into 2nd gear - the sound is back AGAIN :pissed: Well by now I'm getting aggravated. So I do a few more laps, until I can't take the noise anymore, and pull off again. Rooster stops, tells me the YZ is practically out of gas so we have to go back anyway. I ask him if he took the TTR out of 1st when he rode it - of course not. So he takes it again and then gets into 2nd, and tries 3rd. The noise is 2nd gear only. He thinks I sheared a gear :| PK takes the bike for a ride over to the farm and back - he agrees.
Well - Rooster brought the bike to the shop today - and they can fix it - to the tune of $800-$1000 :yikes:
Well I have no real choice but to fix the bike - I can't sell a broken bike and even if I did I can't get as much for it as I owe on it! I love my bike anyway - so I'm getting it fixed and I'm going to keep it forever :laugh:
Yesterday, Rooster and I went out riding so he could dial in the suspension on his YZ before we leave for Tower City this coming Friday morning. There's a small woods loop across the street from PK's house that a friend of his owns and allows us to ride on.
Saturday it rained all day, at some points during the day it came down HARD. So, when we got out there yesterday afternoon it was tacky. It wasn't too muddy or anything like that...
I am coming around a corner, a left hand S curve type corner, and I'm going at a good speed (for me) in 2nd gear. The mud, or the trees, or something, causes my front end to wash out and BOOM into the tree the bike goes and down onto the ground I go. I get up and save the bike as quickly as possible, fully realizing that I didn't hit hard so I'm okay. I managed to throw the chain, so Rooster fixes that for me.
I go to take off and as I shift into 2nd gear I hear a strange noise, so I pull off the next place there's an opening and start checking things out. The chain is pretty loose - so I figure it's chain noise. I tell Rooster and we go back to PK's house to tighten the chain.
After the chain is tightened we go back to the loop. I start off in first and then bump up into 2nd. The noise is back. Hmm... :think: I can't figure out what it is as I'm not really mechanically inclined when it comes to these bikes. I pull off and stop Rooster as he comes around. He rides the bike and reports back to me that he didn't hear anything strange or out of the ordinary. Well, okay I think, maybe a stick was stuck somewhere we didn't see and it's gone now.
Off I go again, back into 2nd gear - the sound is back AGAIN :pissed: Well by now I'm getting aggravated. So I do a few more laps, until I can't take the noise anymore, and pull off again. Rooster stops, tells me the YZ is practically out of gas so we have to go back anyway. I ask him if he took the TTR out of 1st when he rode it - of course not. So he takes it again and then gets into 2nd, and tries 3rd. The noise is 2nd gear only. He thinks I sheared a gear :| PK takes the bike for a ride over to the farm and back - he agrees.
Well - Rooster brought the bike to the shop today - and they can fix it - to the tune of $800-$1000 :yikes:
Well I have no real choice but to fix the bike - I can't sell a broken bike and even if I did I can't get as much for it as I owe on it! I love my bike anyway - so I'm getting it fixed and I'm going to keep it forever :laugh: