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[QUOTE="WoodsRider, post: 125326, member: 16545"] All good advice, but let me add some more. What are your surroundings like? Small saplings easily deflect out of the way (hopefully you have solid mounted handguards). Pine and oak have about half an inch of bark that gives, birch and other hardwoods do not. Mowing down saplings and scraping bark off trees is perfectly acceptable behavior in the woods. Is the trail littered with roots, rocks and stumps? Keep the front wheel light if it is. There will be less chance of the front deflecting off these obstacles and sending you in another direction. Pull in you clutch before chopping the throttle this eliminates the compression braking effect which weights the front end. If you sit down a lot (most XR600 riders do) you need to take on more of a Scott Summers riding style. He sits farther back on the seat and his elbows are dropped. This defies all known logic about riding dirtbikes, but it works for him as well as Curt and Shawn Wilcox. Most important piece of advice. Is your suspension properly set-up? Are your springs matched to your weight? Have the fork and shock been serviced recently/regularly? Is the rear sag properly set? I've found that a properly set-up suspension is far better than excessive amounts of power in the woods. I know a very fast A rider that races several National Enduros and HS'. He weighs somewhere between 250 and 300 lbs., sits down almost all the time and is equally fast on a 125 2-stroke or a 600 4-stroke. He doesn't perform any engine modifications, just sets the suspension up for his riding style. [/QUOTE]
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