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Well after a fairly extensive period of not riding dirt bikes I finally got back into it and in a pretty big way when I bought Firstman's WR450 off of him. He arrived Sunday night in Plano around 10:45PM after about 14 hours driving and 45 minutes sitting about an hour and a half in park on I30 two hours from Dallas. You know how kids feel the night before Christmas that was me waiting in the apartment for Santa to arrive with my new toy. But here she is in the apartment where she will live while not out on the trails/track:
First thing we did was swap out what we thought was a 14 tooth sprocket for the 13 tooth only to find that the 13 tooth was already on it so the swap went back. The whole night I couldn't sleep! Kept waking up to see this bike sitting there and we were going to be hitting a real live bike park with a MX track in less than 10 hours!
Next morning I was up at 5, I wanted to leave my buddy sleeping to recover which in retrospect wasn't a brilliant idea, it would be easier to keep up if he was fatigued! Not soon enough he was up and we got all our gear on. Brushy Creek is only 33 miles from my apartment so changing there would be a waste of time. After a Sonic breakfast we pulled into the park.
I was ready to ride but the battery was low and it took a few kicks to get her to life. Well a lot of kicks, it'd been more than a month since she'd been run. Finally we got her running and headed over to the MX track. I followed Firstman around a couple laps and it was pretty good. I was taking it easy since it'd been a while since I rode a bike like this and the WR has plenty of fire in her pants! She will catch air without a problem and accelerates like a banshee but is a fantastically easy bike to control. We headed back into the trails after a few MX laps and it's a pretty park, lots of turns in the trees and some nice technical stuff. One of the trails has some excellent s curves with just the right amount of berm to bank off of. Firstman is a really good lead and stops often to let you catch up. Plus he generally doesn't pick trails that were too tough. Still we were taking breaks pretty often so I could catch my breath, pretty out of shape!
We did about four rides ending each one with a few laps on the MX track. I started getting the hang of the downhills. The second and third rides I started feeling confidence on the turns and by the forth my arms were getting noodly. I thought the stabilizer had creeped up to 8 it was getting hard to turn. It was an excellent first day back in the dirt and I had the best time I've had in a while.
Thursday we are going to Red River to spend the day riding and I can't wait although I have discovered a number of muscles that have been napping for a while. Still pretty sore
First thing we did was swap out what we thought was a 14 tooth sprocket for the 13 tooth only to find that the 13 tooth was already on it so the swap went back. The whole night I couldn't sleep! Kept waking up to see this bike sitting there and we were going to be hitting a real live bike park with a MX track in less than 10 hours!
Next morning I was up at 5, I wanted to leave my buddy sleeping to recover which in retrospect wasn't a brilliant idea, it would be easier to keep up if he was fatigued! Not soon enough he was up and we got all our gear on. Brushy Creek is only 33 miles from my apartment so changing there would be a waste of time. After a Sonic breakfast we pulled into the park.
I was ready to ride but the battery was low and it took a few kicks to get her to life. Well a lot of kicks, it'd been more than a month since she'd been run. Finally we got her running and headed over to the MX track. I followed Firstman around a couple laps and it was pretty good. I was taking it easy since it'd been a while since I rode a bike like this and the WR has plenty of fire in her pants! She will catch air without a problem and accelerates like a banshee but is a fantastically easy bike to control. We headed back into the trails after a few MX laps and it's a pretty park, lots of turns in the trees and some nice technical stuff. One of the trails has some excellent s curves with just the right amount of berm to bank off of. Firstman is a really good lead and stops often to let you catch up. Plus he generally doesn't pick trails that were too tough. Still we were taking breaks pretty often so I could catch my breath, pretty out of shape!
We did about four rides ending each one with a few laps on the MX track. I started getting the hang of the downhills. The second and third rides I started feeling confidence on the turns and by the forth my arms were getting noodly. I thought the stabilizer had creeped up to 8 it was getting hard to turn. It was an excellent first day back in the dirt and I had the best time I've had in a while.
Thursday we are going to Red River to spend the day riding and I can't wait although I have discovered a number of muscles that have been napping for a while. Still pretty sore