• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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SangaMoto..a few laps on my homegrown mx track

i wish we had a pond....if i put one in it would take most of the track up but it would be nice to have something to water it with lol
 
BadMotoWeazal said:
You need to beat it in a little too.... the dirt looks good & the turns should berm up easily
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beat it in a little? that mean hit the corners faster? i do "ok" on the little burmed corners but the flatones kill me i rode yessterday and had the bike wash out from me 2 or 3 times.....killin me hahaha i cant find the sweetspot for the flat corners on this bike. im wondering if its just the ergos of the txc that its made more for straighter stretches than the tight curves orrr its still me haha
 
WHITEROCKET5.9 said:
beat it in a little? that mean hit the corners faster? i do "ok" on the little burmed corners but the flatones kill me i rode yessterday and had the bike wash out from me 2 or 3 times.....killin me hahaha i cant find the sweetspot for the flat corners on this bike. im wondering if its just the ergos of the txc that its made more for straighter stretches than the tight curves orrr its still me haha
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Sorry, you'll have to excuse my Southerness, LOL... "Beat it in".... It needs to be ridden more & more so that your bike pushes the berms up so they'll be easier to negotiate.... We use the term "beat it in" after cutting fresh trail, get all your friends to ride the same trail multiple times, forwards & backwards until the "ride line" develops. The flat turns are for dirt-track style.... See this:
 
WHITEROCKET5.9 said:
beat it in a little? that mean hit the corners faster? i do "ok" on the little burmed corners but the flatones kill me i rode yessterday and had the bike wash out from me 2 or 3 times.....killin me hahaha i cant find the sweetspot for the flat corners on this bike. im wondering if its just the ergos of the txc that its made more for straighter stretches than the tight curves orrr its still me haha
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Maybe try moving forward on the bike more in the corner ... I like to park my butt way up on the tank in some corners ... I was reading where some other rider recommended this and he said "Move forward and look down at where you are sitting" ... I did this and realized, I was not moving forward enough .

There are other things you need to do with your body also when corning ...

Sliding the fork tubes up in the triple clamps can help here just a little also ...
 
Sliding the forks will help but only slightly ... As the BadMoto guys says... Its the rider (again :) ) ... Move forward on the bike, get (get...get .. ) aggressive AND maybe use the clutch to control your speed and help maintain traction ...
 
Practice, practice... drink some water & then, you guessed it.... More practice. If I had a riding area in my own yard, I'd ride everyday...... Sometime's I learn more just goofing off & play riding than I do on a 4 hour trek through the woods.
 
BadMotoWeazal said:
Practice, practice... drink some water & then, you guessed it.... More practice. If I had a riding area in my own yard, I'd ride everyday...... Sometime's I learn more just goofing off & play riding than I do on a 4 hour trek through the woods.
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Yep, playing around to me can be useful ...

Here is what I do ... This is possible because the tracks here do not have riders most of the time during the week so I have the entire track to my self or just a couple other riders are present sometimes ...

But I'll ride the track in sections ... I'll cut the track and practice a single jump and\or set of turns together over and over ... maybe 15-20 times in a row, over and over, before I move on to another section of the track OR try a different line over the same jump or corner ... ESP the inside and outside lines of a corner ... You gotta know different lines because in a race, you can get blocked as many will follow the most apparent racing line, no matter what their speed is ...

I have a very hard time doing all the small stuff needed for each section of a track ... I'll usually have to do some work at very slow pace to understand what I'm really doing so that I can fix all the bad\incorrect stuff I'm doing at race pace ...

Maybe at the end of the day, I'll ride the entire track at something close to race pace to ensure I can tie all the sections together and carry some speed...

And don't be afraid of using the clutch at almost anytime on the bike ... It is the best thing to learn other than twisting the throttle open ... It's a throttle in its own right ...
 
one thing i can say is that after riding on the flat corners for awhile and then makin some with burms its crazy how much easier the burm turns are lol
 
WHITEROCKET5.9 said:
one thing i can say is that after riding on the flat corners for awhile and then makin some with burms its crazy how much easier the burm turns are lol
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Yep and you got the dirt for some good sized berms ... after you go around a corner a few times, you'll get ruts and ruts are sort of miniature berms ...

You might wanna add some big berms like in this pic and have a pivot point in front of the berm to allow 2 lines ... either brake hard and pivot or rail the berm and carry speed ... you could have a small jump coming out of a corner like this ...

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i actually did something similar to this to the big sand sweeper, youll see it on the next vid. they outside isnt quite as built up but there are two lanes now.
 
rode some tonight, i think some of the problem on the marbly slick flat corners is ive been too far up front. its not my sweet spot for that kinda stuff....230ish without riding gear and testing out the stuff it seems that me being up front like that really makes the front washout. a few inches back is where it feels more evened out. if the track was manicured nicely up on the tank would probably be the place but for how slick and dusty it is, its better (for me at least) to have a little more balanced spot on the seat. hell that will more than likely change with the suspension work but it is what it is. was a fun ride anyway
 
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