Birken Vogt
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- Apr 5, 2002
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Well I am just back from some lengthy riding in the desert on my XR600. It felt lonely, you know, since I have been riding my CR500 a lot more. I had not really ridden it hard at all before this, so it was all pretty much new to me. Of course the sheer weight can be a problem. I am 6' 165 lb and the tank can be a lot to handle sometimes. I am really impressed on how it handles whoops.
But anyway to get to my questions, I felt like I was not fully in control when on sand. Now I am used to sand and lots of it on my CR and it does not bug me one bit. But on the XR, riding flat sandy roads at high speed I could not shake the feeling that I was about to go splat, all the time.
Then of course there is the berm problems where basically you come into a well established berm hoping to power off of it but in reality all that happens is you plow through the berm like a bulldozer and end up laying on your side. I suppose the answer to that one is "slow down" eh?
But anyway to get to my questions, I felt like I was not fully in control when on sand. Now I am used to sand and lots of it on my CR and it does not bug me one bit. But on the XR, riding flat sandy roads at high speed I could not shake the feeling that I was about to go splat, all the time.
Then of course there is the berm problems where basically you come into a well established berm hoping to power off of it but in reality all that happens is you plow through the berm like a bulldozer and end up laying on your side. I suppose the answer to that one is "slow down" eh?