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[QUOTE="Feanor, post: 813586, member: 55364"] [b]Update![/b] Sorry for the delay in posting an update... I got the bike last week on Wednesday by borrowing an "add-a-bike" hitch carrier from my next door neighbor... Got it home and immediately went nuts wanting to ride the thing :) It had a gallon or so of gas in it from the dealer (from their testing I assume) and this being my first motorcycle ever, I was even too nervous to start it up in the garage! LoL! Anyhow, my younger brother solved that dilemna for me by coming over right after work, firing it up and tooling around out on the sidewalk :) At that point, hearing it roar to life the first time was assurance that all was well, and fun was to be had soon! Here's the synopsis of what happened on the first ride at Sand Hill (which is a private riding park about 20 minutes away from me) ============ First Motocycle (KDX-220R) First Real Ride (Sandhill) Only thing I can say is damn my stupididty for not starting this when I was 18! I'm over forty now and not looking forward to any injuries in the future, but today was such a huge BLAST that I want to do it again tomorrow! (We were there for about 7 hours) but I'm sore as hell and nursing all sorts of weird cramps in muscles I never new existed! I thought the road cycling, another hobby (about 150 miles a week) would help fitness wise, but even with that the cramping is kind of irritating... More gatorade next time! I stayed mainly on the TT track area and got pretty comfortable with the little infield section as well. I "almost" got to the point after many laps of holding a continuous rear end slide though there were more bad ones than good ones. The infield section is a short twisty path with two small berms along the way; You turn into the section at one side of the TT oval and it spits you out over on the other side... There are two 180 degree turns on rather slippery gravel type surface, and that was good practice for practicing reversing direction and proper body position, hand position etc... Lots of fun getting that rear end out under power! :) I went on the main motocross track a few times but felt like I was being a nuisance to the more experience riders and maybe even a danger because I was tooling along so slow... There is one turn on the left back side of the track that goes uphill steeply (you have to carry alot of speed when you hit it), it then turns at the top and heads back down to a short tabletop at the bottom and it was particulary nervewarcking for me since there's no real way to cut off that section since there is a large berm splitting the entrance to the turn with the downhill exit. It felt like a terrifying balancing act at the very top of that turn, where the only thing that seemed to keep you stuck on the face of the hill upright was your forward momentum (If you stopped at the top of the turn, you'd have a nice long slide, or tumble, down to the bottom :( ) Its my personal goal now to make that section feel comfortable. I never got any "air" anywhere because I would either hit the jumps far to slow, or would back off right before, and that made me feel pretty silly... My brother made me feel better though after I told him how embarassing that was by saying "Geez! its your second time on a motorcycle and you want to get air already? Ease up!" :) Despite all the things I was trying to do but couldn't, I still had one of the best times of my life and hope to go out again soon.. I spoke to Phil who runs the place (he came over and told my brother and I not to ride an area we were riding) and after I apologized, he said "Brand new KDX huh?" and I said brand new everything! *laughing* including rider! He talked about the classes he holds there for beginners and I will DEFINTELY do SOME beginner class no matter what the cost... I hate not feeling in control of the machine... its nervewracking... Thanks everyone for all the great advice and support! Feanor [/QUOTE]
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