I'd rather walk...
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yamafitter
Reigning NERDS Granite Lane Gold Medalist
Next time try twisting the throttle. Why were going so slow??
There are times when momentum is your friend and it just does not appear to be that bad.
HotRodZilla
GOD BLESS AMERICA
How deep was that snow? I was thinking you shoulda just dropped it in there and ripped it. But then again, WTF do I know, I wasn't there.
FastSpy
Well-known member
too deep to go anywhere up that steepness.. here is the 19 minutes or so of footage up to that point.. go to the end of this (last 5 minutes) and you will see the problems with the snow.. it will all make sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kewvrwNSwHQ
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FastSpy
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yes stupid me.. you would think with all the podium places I achieved from racing moto cross I would know better.. LOL
garyahouse
newbs need the forum
It's been a long time since I was on a dirt bike. Now I know why.
Gary
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Gary
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MrTwisty
Well-known member
The camera disguises the steepness of the slope. I've taken pictures and videos of my friends on what we thought was some pretty gnarly stuff and it looks like the ground is almost flat. That makes these two videos even scarier.
yamafitter
Reigning NERDS Granite Lane Gold Medalist
Too many times I've been on a trail where some liberal application of throttle and some momentum would have saved my ass but instead I tried to finesse it and came up a crocker. Case in point ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa5sweekSoM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa5sweekSoM
HotRodZilla
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Now I see...That snow sucked! That's how it gets around here. Icy, slushy, and packed, so there is no driving through it. That's why I said, "I wasn't there." I know it looks like you coulda done something different, but unless it's my ass that has to dig the bike out and figure how to unfuck myself, I won't condemm any decisions. Haha...That ride seems way steeper than the video makes it look too.
Dammit...That there is just kind of funny. I have done the same shit. As soon as I saw that bridge, I thought, I would have just ridden over it, but if I had been there, my self preservation may have kicked in and told me to walk it over like you did...And I prolly would have eaten shit...Just like you did. Guess that's the difference between us and the guys that make crazy money doing that shit for a living.
BigPaz
Target Fixationalist
hmmmm... let's see. sheer mountain face on one side, NOT on the other. path just wide enough to get my fat ass through, much less the bike....
Pass... :blink:
Pass... :blink:
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