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What's more fun, street riding or dirt riding?
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[QUOTE="Steve St.Laurent, post: 1216100, member: 66902"] Depends on the individual really - here's my $.02. I've ridden on the street for 22 years. I road raced back in the 80's and LOVED it (had to retire when I broke my back and did some brain damage in a RR crash). The thing I loved about racing was the 100% mental and physical focus necessary - every ounce of me was focused on the task at hand. I rode on the dirt then but it was just for training for my road racing (learning to be comfortable sliding the front tire mostly). After road racing I exclusively rode on the street - about 8,000 miles a year (from April-Oct, our street riding season). A friend had been trying to talk me into trail riding for years but I kept telling him he was nuts riding through trees, etc. A year and a half ago I traded a poker table for a couple play bikes to play around in the yard in winter - the non riding season from Nov-Mar drove me NUTS! I was having so much fun riding those that I decided to get a bigger bike to ride on the trails - my friend and the guys he rides with ride off road year round. So at first the idea was to off road to get me through the long winter. Well, I had SOOOOO much fun doing it that I now ride the bike year round - and am entering my first enduro this weekend. I still ride my street bike a lot but if it had to come down to selling one or the other (I hope it NEVER comes down to this) I'd sell the street bike. The thing I enjoy about trail riding is that 100% mental and physical focus that I used to get when I was road racing - but I'm an adrenaline junky so consider that. On the street I can't hang it out all the way - one because it's completely unsafe and two because there's a good chance I'll break out in handcuffs. I don't ride above 70% on the street because I need that extra 30% to deal with the unexpected. Off road I can hang it out all the way and ride at 100% (or over sometimes) and I don't have to worry about the law, cars, trucks, etc. I find that my street riding has slowed down quite a bit now that I'm trail riding. I really wouldn't want to give up my street bike either though. If your sole question though is which is more fun I'd have to say off roading. [/QUOTE]
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