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Message: [QUOTE="Michelle, post: 640901, member: 16598"] Lori, to be honest, I felt like I was letting the side down by even contemplating a smaller bike for Riverhead, it feels like cheating. But I also felt like riding my KDX there wasn't improving my riding fast enough and a lot of the times I got stuck I'd need help getting unstuck. I really was impressed by how I wouldn't think twice about tackling stuff that on my KDX I'd be looking at & going "no way, you've got to be ****ting me". I remember one ride last summer where I stuffed up the approach to a bridge (a lot of bridges over the yuck stuff) and because it had a uphill at the back of the bike, a step onto the bridge, I was stuck proper. I couldn't start the bike (couldn't reach the ground), kept laying the bike down hoping to move it far enough so I could start it and after about half an hour of this, someone came along & got me unstuck. T & I rode the same bridge on Sunday (I recognised it afterwards) and had no problems and she looked in disbelief at me when I told her I'd been stuck there on the KDX ;) I think it was drier Sunday than the other time, but that might also be my mistaken memory. I'm hoping that after two seasons on this bike I'll feel confident enough to take the KDX back there and not be so intimidated by it all. If we didn't have to get back by a certain time for the kids, I think we'd have hit the harder deviations but we both hope to over summer. It has definitely given me more confidence in the place. I also had to laugh when the top NZ enduro rider asked me how it was going and he commented that it was a better fit for paddling than the KDX (which I'd bought off him). I just couldn't imagine him paddling anywhere but apparently he does sometimes too (just a lot faster than most of us). Bbbom, damn, I wish I'd thought of that ;) Wonder how much you can lower it by? I still don't know how you ride that beast lol [/QUOTE]

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