Some friends from Seattle stopped by to check out the good stuff down here on the way down to Central Oregon for the Chinahat ISDE. We had a great ride, perfect trails, fast group. Was a real good day. 2 KTM 250F's with 300 and 315 kits on them (fast girl on the orange one), 1 WR250 1 GG300 and my little 125. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl9lo9WgJhI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq9Ud06CYto will upload some stills soon. Great day with great people.
Awesome area and great videos! That 1.2.5. sounds so crisp...you got that thing dialed. ***almost forgot...you guys were flying***
Dude.....wheres the rocks and roots? Karl Spangler must be out there with a "trailskeeper" team and 1000 landscapers with rakes!
Actually there are sections with miles of jagged rocks, we rode that later in the day and was done with the cam by that time. I'll shoot a real rocky section next time up.
Those pics are all Photo Shopped, so Kelly can sucker the clueless into a "Death March" ride! Looks awesome to ride!
Funny you say that as I describe the area as super EZ nothing hard. Then realized after helping get up a few hills there is some semi challenging stuff up there. The snow has just melted off and the clay holds water forever and is very slick in areas. You would be in dust one second and sliding on clay the next. On this ride 85% of it was perfect coffee grounds. the second vid has rocks for about 20 feet right at the beginning
I need to get down there. When is the next one ? What did you think of the ktm 300 and 315 ? I heard the motors are sweeet ! Russ
We were having so much fun railing we never traded. Trav says the 300 is better than the 315, Rev quicker and is smoother.
i love the log dodging on the trail in the second video (which is actually 001 on youtube, i think)! i'm sure you had a better view in reality, but on the wide angle video, it looks like you had milliseconds to pick a path and hope for the best!
There is a lot of that here. You learn to keep the front end light and get over trail trash. You also learn to cross trail trash at shallow angles and stay loose / let your bike move / drift. After years of it you hardly see the trail trash anymore. Oh wait, your from Seattle, you probably already know this.
lol... i haven't been out on a trail around here, yet... socal (where i moved from a few months ago) has lots of dead grass and small rocks to dodge? soon, though, and i can't wait to start exploring! the CRF is almost back in one piece and there should be a friendly Husky sitting around waiting to be ridden in a little bit, too...
Nice stuff K! The scenery doesn't look familiar, but I would like it to (hint, hint ) The lil' ripper does sound nice. I rode my buddies YZ125 last weekend and it was SO much fun. Like a mtn bike with 35hp. I think its time to sell the KX to finance a 125. We should get together for a ride soon so I can sample it
