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Reminds me of the old race cars with big inline airplane engines. There's footage of a few doing a road hillclimb somewhere.

Looks like you have a penchant for big iron. My friend is a longtime motorcycle mechanic and he recently did a stint working on the Italian bikes. He's had a few stories to tell. Serviceability, what, you want serviceability? ;) Enjoy, take care

I had old school 70's Fox all leather boots without the various reinforcements like modern boots have. But I see your point for modern boots. A better rider used to scold me about (not) riding on the balls of my feet to protect my feet from tree stumps and rocks, but he had a 250 and a...

You've got two choices. Stock gearing and feather the clutch in the tight stuff. Or drop your gearing and have a shorter run in each gear and a bruise on the top of your left foot from shifting. Ask me how I know this. :) Your boot might start to wear out too. When I switched to a mid bore...

Aaaah the days of spaghetti forks.... dial up the compression and rebound on the rear oops wrong epoch. Had a 1976 Harley street/trail bike in this style.

A friend of mine was an ex track racer turned shop owner and he periodically tried to get me to go to a track day. I never did but I did experience the craziness of a 1000cc bike once. Wheelie up, wheelie down, up, down. My friend told me if he downshifted to 3rd on the highway he could spin...

thx will pass it on. I went through a mental change from liking mx leaps, speed and roosting to enjoying threading between tree trunks occasionally clipping one with the bars while only occasionally actually spinning the rear wheel. Had no access to mx tracks and my knees went on strike:)...

My son's out in SanFran right now and he's into mountain biking. Are there good cross use riding areas, or nary the twain shall meet? Any tips, info I can pass on to him? He'd have to rent equipment. Is that last pic forest access road or broken/made rec trail?

What's up with the no snow in the middle of winter? Your terrain reminds me of my original prairie turf in Saskatchewan. I used to do gravel road riding just like your video when I was young. Surroundings looked almost identical. Gives a kid a sense of freedom. I'd do 10 to 20 miles round...

From the comic books, your choice DC or Marvel, Trask Industries or Stark Industries (ala Iron Man). Well, not really. Successor to the Altra.

Anyone speak Russian? Can you tell us the highlights. Looks like it was a kx.

Gerry, that's standard mx pace on any mx bike. It's a rather hyper activity. However, only the pro's do the big air. Us normal guys like our bones intact. I remember the thrill I used to get, about 17 or 18 years old, wind the bike up as fast as I could across a farmer's field, catch a rise...

I was doing some research on electric chainsaws which lead to the e-bike crowd which lead to resurrecting my interest in electric dirt bikes. Progress has been made. So it appears. :)

The nostalgia machine got me thinking back to another mind opening experience. I stepped off a yz125 tiddler to my friend's early 80's TT600. Hill climb went from bwaaaaaaawwawwaahhhhh to thud thud thud... I told him his bike was like a tractor and imagined the wheel spinning a bit each thud...

Anyone else ever ridden a radically different bike? Back in 06 or 07 I chanced across guys I knew who were in process of test riding the Ohlins(?)/Yamaha 2WD with the hydraulic system. Around that time +/- they put a few through the Dakar. The guys were watching me scour every detail of the...

Chest/back protector for the precious lad? Mount a water bottle and tube onto it, good habit for the lad - hydrate. My son's last bike was a KDX80. Vintage air cooled 2 smoke. Mellow power, trail geared and light. Was the enduro light on arrowing and heavy on reading the route sheet? Hare...

Bodean, that's not a factory tank on your ktm, it's a guppy tank right? How many gallons vs stock? What were the basics of your enduro rules? Avg speed timed sections with checkpoints? I think there's different sets of rules floating around through the years.

You might awaken the beast. Snow and ice isn't out of the shadows till quite a bit later here. Teases you cause going there everything looks clear, roads into the forest look clear then you look in and the trail is full of chunks of ice. And frozen dirt with slime mud on top. Been a while...

I find it intriguing how perceptions work. I worked my way into very remedial mx, maybe small doubles and that was it before my knees said "hello, remember me?" and then got indoctrinated into forest trail riding which now feels comfortable. My friend who owned a motorcycle shop would...

If you've got determination you can trail ride a KLR through the woods. Just remember your mirrors stick out and you've got no bark busters and it can pin you pretty good if you go down. Tight trails 1st 2nd, more open trails ride the rev range in 2nd with a bit of clutch work. You don't want...