Wow, great ride. I was a bit disappointed not riding the MoonShine, but man, I think we made up for it toady with a nice fast paced hard ride. I spent the first hour trying to tune my bike to run a higher front tire PSI and I think I am real close. We circled back to hook up with Brad and two new friends and those guys hung tough for a good hour or so. With little recent seat time and even less tuned bikes. The KTM 450 was fairly easy to rough in quick as you don't even need a screw driver to dial in the upper forks and CRF guy was able to recite a decent base line dial . The guy was over 10 clicks out from the "recommended" tune and road very well after some quick hacking on the bike. Terry was at quite a disadvantage on a late 80's Yamaha XT and the bike showed some damage in short order. Trigger would be proud. Get that 03 WR 426 on the tail bro! Those Big Bore Blue Bikes are Unstoppable! You both need bark busters, gears, and some tuning and you will be on the pace with some practice! Oh and put some used tires on that KTM 450, you'll be very happy with the improved grip :nener: . I know the one guy slammed his finger pretty hard.
Anyway, they peeled off the group after we crossed Burmma road and the 4 of us just slid into a freaking awesome groove and pace! we were all 4 just about 1.5 bikes off the next guy and just started ramping up the pace. I think CRF guy was just doing everything he could to rachet up the PSI on Steve who was second wheel but just could not be dropped today! I think I may have even seen Gordon almost ask for a break even though there was no reason to wait for anyone :p Steve's riding is right on par and his conditioning / off bike training system seems to have improved his stamina despite the high cost of the program!
With not having to wait for anyone, we just started running sections back to back. I started standing up on the pegs and grabbing gears! We were Cooking! We ran the fire tower section and that is a LONG HARD TECH section since it does not cross any other trails for maybe 5 miles so we ran it all! I think we were on great pace to run a decent race. I think maybe we were in the 45 mile range today (?) but I'm not sure I could have handled 70 miles or so without a break and I would need some fuel and water. I was good and tired after the ride so that's awesome. I even had to pit stop at KFC in Pottsville on the way home. CRF guy was kind enough to try and share some water with me on the ride home on Rt 61 @ 70 MPH, so I tried to share a drumstick with Steve who was driving CRF guy's truck, but I think he had his window rolled up so I'm not sure he got any of that Original Recipe loving or not, LOL :p
Lots of fun!
