KTMphil
Senior member
Cliff edges and more towing practice with Justin & Johnny
Riders:
Justin - KTM 525 exc
Johnny - Yamaha WR 450
Phil - Suzuki DRZ 400
Justin had got his front Nuetch Tubeliss innertube system to stay inflated (fitting-the-nuetech-tubeliss-tire-system-first-time-t454.html), so we decided to go give it a quick test.
" just a couple of hours of easy gravel trails to test it" said Justin. Sounded like a fun afternoon, as usual it went pear shaped.
We went over to the Hang Dong area again, as the terrain is quite stony and sandy, if it rained the trails would still be ride-able as the rain would soak through.
This is the route we took. You can see we took a couple of new trails that had not yet been mapped.
All fresh arriving at the trails, looking forward to an easy afternoons trail riding
Couple of quick trails and Johnny brought out his wet towels which had been frozen over night and then kept in a cool bag, very refreshing in the hot sun.
Justin very appreciative
...more to come
Johnny led us onto a new trail that hadn't been mapped, we looked at where the next mapped trail was and it looked like we could join the two up (there was a reason it wasn't mapped). this is near the start of the unmapped area, as you can see no trails and trees everywhere.
As we got deeper and deeper into the unmapped area, we got to the top of a big hill/ small mountain, then the only way was down and it was steep, with no real trails.
We sent Justin off first as scout, if there was no way through, then maybe all 3 of us could help him back up.
This was the top of the mountain, as you can see there was no trail - we'll give it to Auke to add to his GPS map
View from the above GPS position - no trails.
Our scout goes off in search of a way out
Too steep to ride --better to walk it down with the clutch
It never shows up steep in the photo
Justin disappears off below
Johnny next, who has a rekluse clutch, so little engine braking, he managed skillfully to walk the bike down with the front brake
Just before here on the way down I dropped the bike which ended up upside down
Riders:
Justin - KTM 525 exc
Johnny - Yamaha WR 450
Phil - Suzuki DRZ 400
Justin had got his front Nuetch Tubeliss innertube system to stay inflated (fitting-the-nuetech-tubeliss-tire-system-first-time-t454.html), so we decided to go give it a quick test.
" just a couple of hours of easy gravel trails to test it" said Justin. Sounded like a fun afternoon, as usual it went pear shaped.
We went over to the Hang Dong area again, as the terrain is quite stony and sandy, if it rained the trails would still be ride-able as the rain would soak through.
This is the route we took. You can see we took a couple of new trails that had not yet been mapped.
All fresh arriving at the trails, looking forward to an easy afternoons trail riding
Couple of quick trails and Johnny brought out his wet towels which had been frozen over night and then kept in a cool bag, very refreshing in the hot sun.
Justin very appreciative
...more to come
Johnny led us onto a new trail that hadn't been mapped, we looked at where the next mapped trail was and it looked like we could join the two up (there was a reason it wasn't mapped). this is near the start of the unmapped area, as you can see no trails and trees everywhere.
As we got deeper and deeper into the unmapped area, we got to the top of a big hill/ small mountain, then the only way was down and it was steep, with no real trails.
We sent Justin off first as scout, if there was no way through, then maybe all 3 of us could help him back up.
This was the top of the mountain, as you can see there was no trail - we'll give it to Auke to add to his GPS map
View from the above GPS position - no trails.
Our scout goes off in search of a way out
Too steep to ride --better to walk it down with the clutch
It never shows up steep in the photo
Justin disappears off below
Johnny next, who has a rekluse clutch, so little engine braking, he managed skillfully to walk the bike down with the front brake
Just before here on the way down I dropped the bike which ended up upside down
