It's cold and gray today, tomorrow it's going to rain (and snow out in the high desert), but yesterday was beautiful short sleeve shirt weather for riding.
Getting it squared away. Fiddling with the carb, figuring out how to kickstart the bike, replaced the springs at both ends of the suspension and will be doing a bit of valving shortly to make it less bouncy in the rocks. I replaced the stock front brake pads with some Rocky Mountain ATV Tusk sintered metal pads, so that they would merely be stoppie strong, instead of face plant strong. It is the best handling mid sized bike that I have ever ridden, both stable in on the straights and really quick, yet planted in the tight stuff. Very well balanced, and decently quiet as well. And yes, I have playing with the editing tools a bit too much lately.
The graininess of the photos and the background remind me of "the hills have eyes"... apparent that you should not park for too long to take pics, looks like an opening scene.... Nice trails! looks like a blast
The editing tool to get that look is called "high dynamic" (at least I think that's what it's called) and the hills DO have eyes. They are the eyes of mountain lions (along with bobcat, mule deer, fox, coyote and a host of other critters), so yes, if you are by yourself out there, you don't want to be stopped for too long in any one spot.
Great photographs. I need to get out there to ride. Love SC riding, but miss CA riding. Thanks for posting.
And by the way, the following Tuesday wasn't short sleeve tee shirt weather anymore! Although the snow was melting fast. It's probably all gone by now, except for the patches from the deepest drifts
More of a snow midget. I tried to get another shot of him at a better angle, but he fell off. Then I was too lazy to build another one (well, actually my hands were cold from scooping up the snow, and I'd had enough of that).
