- Aug 24, 2000
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Ahhhh what a beautiful day, sunny, breezy and temps in the mid sixties. Dave and I rolled out of Ames at about 8:00, headed for waterloo, to meet up with motometal, Jake, John, Rich and a few others for a ride.
We met up at moto's place and helped him finish driving a seal into a fork leg, loaded him up and headed to the riding area, which is just a few miles away (nice, huh?)
The area is located on the Cedar River, and is, for the most part, flat. There is a kiddy track at the front, and two moto tracks. I didn't spend much time on the moto tracks, as I was riding the WR. The tracks are nice, with some decent and forgiving jumps, and, of course, a few jumps that made me pucker just looking at them. Motometal and his friends were having a pretty good time on the track, even though they said the wind was making jumping a little dicey.
While the moto guys were running the track, Dave and I headed down to the timber, and I must say, I am going to have a lot of fun on that little WR! It corners really well, the suspension soaks up everything, the brakes are good and seems quite nimble on all conditions. We had mud, hard pack, deep nasty sand, rocks, bricks, and everything in between. The river trails are lots of fun, you can do whatever you want, tight cornering and acceleration/braking sections, to wide open semi-whooped straight aways.
Up from the river trails, and back towards the moto tracks we found some cool tight single track trails, that tested our trials riding skills. They weren't too much fun for Dave on his CR450, because of gearing, but the WR, with that granny low, was nothing but a hoot to balance and shuffle through the willows, rocks and logs.
After that, motometal took us out to some prety well untouched timber, where we weaved in and out of trees, up and down the hillside and just really had no actual course of travel, just messing around. Motometal was tearing around those trees like a deer. That guy is bad fast on any kind of terrain, so is Jake.
We spent the entire day like that, just riding, re-arranging the real estate and haveing a good time in general.
Then it was time for motometal to demonstrate his latest fmx move, which he fondly calls a "no hander, no footer, rear fender grape crusher ".............................OK, so I'm kidding!
I only put the WR on the ground a few times, so now it looks used. You gotta get that out of the way right off, ya know? This week I'll start doing the necessary mods to make it a little better in the power department and set up the suspension a little better.
Fun was had by all, no broken bikes, no broken bones.
Waterloo.............WooooooHooooooo!
We met up at moto's place and helped him finish driving a seal into a fork leg, loaded him up and headed to the riding area, which is just a few miles away (nice, huh?)
The area is located on the Cedar River, and is, for the most part, flat. There is a kiddy track at the front, and two moto tracks. I didn't spend much time on the moto tracks, as I was riding the WR. The tracks are nice, with some decent and forgiving jumps, and, of course, a few jumps that made me pucker just looking at them. Motometal and his friends were having a pretty good time on the track, even though they said the wind was making jumping a little dicey.
While the moto guys were running the track, Dave and I headed down to the timber, and I must say, I am going to have a lot of fun on that little WR! It corners really well, the suspension soaks up everything, the brakes are good and seems quite nimble on all conditions. We had mud, hard pack, deep nasty sand, rocks, bricks, and everything in between. The river trails are lots of fun, you can do whatever you want, tight cornering and acceleration/braking sections, to wide open semi-whooped straight aways.
Up from the river trails, and back towards the moto tracks we found some cool tight single track trails, that tested our trials riding skills. They weren't too much fun for Dave on his CR450, because of gearing, but the WR, with that granny low, was nothing but a hoot to balance and shuffle through the willows, rocks and logs.
After that, motometal took us out to some prety well untouched timber, where we weaved in and out of trees, up and down the hillside and just really had no actual course of travel, just messing around. Motometal was tearing around those trees like a deer. That guy is bad fast on any kind of terrain, so is Jake.
We spent the entire day like that, just riding, re-arranging the real estate and haveing a good time in general.
Then it was time for motometal to demonstrate his latest fmx move, which he fondly calls a "no hander, no footer, rear fender grape crusher ".............................OK, so I'm kidding!
I only put the WR on the ground a few times, so now it looks used. You gotta get that out of the way right off, ya know? This week I'll start doing the necessary mods to make it a little better in the power department and set up the suspension a little better.
Fun was had by all, no broken bikes, no broken bones.
Waterloo.............WooooooHooooooo!
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