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Message: [QUOTE="miko, post: 799379, member: 48924"] Hi all, I am a fairly recent convert to the sport (got a YZ250 last october) and I'm struggling to make some jumps at the local track. Basically the ones that give me troubles are the small doubles that have a short run up to the jump. I thought that was a speed problem but now I'm not sure: My YZ has a lot of torque, and the guys on 125 have no trouble getting the speed between the turn and the jump. Yesterday I was watching this guy on a YZ250. He looked like he was going really slow around the turn, but then he would manage to make the small double effortly. I couldn't pick up anything special he was doing with his body (no obvious preloading or anything like this) So at this point I'm scratching my head. Would it makes a difference if say he is hitting the jump still accelerating and I'm hitting it coasting ? thanks, miko. [/QUOTE]