Enough already....

[Sev]

Dear diary,

Today i went for a ride. It made me very happy.

PS - Florida is waaayyy to flat for my tastes. Combine that with the high amount of q-tips driving there... No thanks.

Dear Diary,

Today I contemplated the horrible searing death I intend to inflict upon Geoff.



MELT DAMN YOU SNOW.

eep
If it helps, i crashed today as well. And slammed my back into a tree when i hit the ground.

I wish I could say that made me feel better, but now I just feel bad.

Hope you're okay.

[Ninja Geoff]

LOL i'm fine. The back protector did (somewhat) it's job and it was rather slow hitting it. Basically, i was going to go up this 4 foot hump to go around this tree, and i TRIED to click down to one. But it hit neutral. And over i went DOWN the hill. So, about 4 ft up, the bike tips ove the wrong way, i hit the ground on my left side/chest and right against the tree. The biggest pain in the "O Ring" was lifting the bike back up

I really really need to rebuild that trans.

And i left it vague on purpose to make you feel bad, that's for the "Searing death for geoff comment". *

And besides, if i were really hurt, i'd be sleeping off the pain instead of posting here at 1:25 AM. Pain's already gone, the spot that hit isn't even tender really.

*-Not really.

[Sev]

See that's funny, because when I had my crash, this is where I went first. Made a post, then took some painkillers and passed out.

And yeah, I figured you weren't to bad off, and I knew yuo'd be wearing a back protector. That being said, glad you're okay, and maybe we'll just make it a gruesome death, rather then a firey one?

[Ninja Geoff]

See that's funny, because when I had my crash, this is where I went first. Made a post, then took some painkillers and passed out.

And yeah, I figured you weren't to bad off, and I knew yuo'd be wearing a back protector. That being said, glad you're okay, and maybe we'll just make it a gruesome death, rather then a firey one?

LOL fine. But can i choose how to go? And it's really the armor in my tourmaster jacket. Though to be honest, it leaves me wanting a dedicated set of armor for the dirt and leave my TM jacket for road riding, assuming i can actually get a job and a road bike.

[jmillheiser]

I would get some MX gear for trail riding.

I would like to try some dirt riding, but getting a dirt bike would nesscessitate me getting a truck again to haul the bike (just sold the last truck I had).

Only dual sports I could tolerate owning are way out of my price range (BMW F650GS and R1200GS)

[Ninja Geoff]

I would get some MX gear for trail riding.

I would like to try some dirt riding, but getting a dirt bike would nesscessitate me getting a truck again to haul the bike (just sold the last truck I had).

Only dual sports I could tolerate owning are way out of my price range (BMW F650GS and R1200GS)

I wouldn't want to take a BMW on the trails i ride. First off, too big. Secondly, I'd feel like total "poo poo" if i dropped one as hard as i've dropped my XR. Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to own one of those two, they'd just never see more than a dirt road when it comes to "hostile conditions".

Dirt riding is fun and helps build skills and reflexes that are hard to safely learn on the road. Mainly because the consenquences are much less severe. Let's put it this way: if i had crashed a sport bike as hard as this dirt bike, it'd probably be considered totaled by insurance. I wouldn't have plastics left and "poo poo"'d be plain broken. Dirt bikes are just a lot more sturdy and damage resistant than most ANY road bike, faired or other wise.

[jmillheiser]

Have you seen the BMW ad with the F650 Dakar catching about 4ft of air. there is also an ad with an R1200GS adventure slogging its way through a pretty deep mudhole. they can definately handle the trail, just expensive when you do manage to break something.

That new HP2 is practically a sportbike built for dirt and those with REALLY long legs, I tried to sit on an HP2, I could flat foot it with one foot and the bike leaned over quite a bit. I couldn't even tippy toe it with both feet on the ground.

for the most part me and dual sports dont mix very well. there are only 2 650cc+ dual sports I can flat foot, the suzuki DR650 and BMW F650GS. I am tippy toed on a V-Strom, cant touch ground at all on a DR-Z400, up on the balls of my feet on a KLR and XR650.

I am 5'10" with a 32" inseam. Standards and sport tourers tend to fit me best, im not particularly fond of most super sports. Best fitting bike I have found for me so far is the FZ6, with a bunch of close seconds ranging from the ninja 650 to the K1200S, I even found the ducati monster to be pretty comfy

[BuzZz]

Crashing a dirt bike is normal. For a 10 year period, if I didn't crash at least once per ride, I wasn't riding hard enough.

It's not like crashing a streetbike, you just pick it back up, get the bars and levers back to some sort of usable position, pick the mud out as best you can, and try it again. Most of the time. Some times you bust something that ends your day. Or ring your bell dam good. A little blood is nothing to worry about as long as there's no bone showing through. But that's rare.

Not impossible though. That's why riding off-road alone is less than desirable. Bring a phone. The older I got, the less people I could find to ride with and ended up riding alone far too often. And I rode my bustedupass back to the truck on a f'd up bike more than once.

[Ninja Geoff]

Crashing a dirt bike is normal. For a 10 year period, if I didn't crash at least once per ride, I wasn't riding hard enough.

It's not like crashing a streetbike, you just pick it back up, get the bars and levers back to some sort of usable position, pick the mud out as best you can, and try it again. Most of the time. Some times you bust something that ends your day. Or ring your bell dam good. A little blood is nothing to worry about as long as there's no bone showing through. But that's rare.

Not impossible though. That's why riding off-road alone is less than desirable. Bring a phone. The older I got, the less people I could find to ride with and ended up riding alone far too often. And I rode my bustedupass back to the truck on a f'd up bike more than once.

I need to get a tripple tree pouch of some sort for said phone and a few tools. BUT the good thing is that in 3 directions there a road, most cases less than 5 miles. So if i start blindly meandering in a direction with blood gushing from me, eventually, i'll come out to a road where i can promptly pass out in it and hope not to get run over

I've already been in the hospital once for a dirtbike related accident, i don't want to go again.