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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 26, 2015 - 11:38am PT
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Riding my Honda 250 X through chocolate cake single-track on a cool day with my buddies or my sons brings me just as much joy as being on a long high Sierra ridgeline.
I love the way my garage smells like two stroke fuel.
I love the sound of my son's Kx 65 hitting the power band and watching the grin in his eyes.
I love holding raw power in my throttle hand knowing it can hurt me in an instant but can bring me joy if I caress her just right.
I just saw this fantastic video on "The Rip to Cabo" and cannot wait to get down there someday.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Any of yall love dirtbikes as much as I do?
Share stories, share wipe-outs, share videos from the interwebs, geek out on mix ratios and jetting! This is the thread for all you who have octane in your veins!
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BigFeet
Trad climber
Texas
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Aug 26, 2015 - 11:49am PT
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I love the way my garage smells like two stroke fuel.
Ah, I remember those days not long ago - KTM250.
I'm older and slower and would probably get myself into trouble if I still had it, but damn was it fun.
This is the two wheeler I ride now.
micronut... you are making me start to itch!
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2015 - 11:52am PT
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I'll start with the hardware. I ride a beater upper Honda 250 X.
Adam (Macronut, climbing and dirtbike pardner rolls on a Yamaha 250)
I used to roll a sweet BMW 650 Challenge X. I miss it.
Our boys ride with us usually. Everything from 50's to 110's.
But it's my little guy who is the real mad man. No fear. 100% throttle at all times. Just graduated to his first two stroke. A mean little kx 65.
This kid is gonna go pro by the time he's ten. Just mark my words.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Aug 26, 2015 - 12:09pm PT
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Aug 26, 2015 - 01:55pm PT
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I love it! Didn't start till I 45 and I always wanted one but climbing/MTBing were my main gigs. I can't believe how much I dig and am totally captured by it mentally. I only trail ride in MT and ID and I have a lifetimes worth of singletrack to check out. My favorite zones are N.ID, the Stanley area and anything along the stateline.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2015 - 02:07pm PT
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Nice PUD! Yall are all in.
Where in the desert do you go? We lurk in the desert too.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 26, 2015 - 02:14pm PT
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Have fun lads.....hope you don't tear up the environment to the point where you have trouble sleeping.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Aug 26, 2015 - 02:21pm PT
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Have fun lads.....hope you don't tear up the environment to the point where you have trouble sleeping.
I never done permanent damage to a rock jim, can you say the same?
don't be a hypocrite
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Aug 26, 2015 - 02:32pm PT
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Man Jealous here. My highly risk averse mom let me ride my brothers buddies bike once, while she watched. You know to be sure it was safe. I rolled the throttle on that big old CanAm 400, and launched my 12 year old self right into a pine tree. That was the end of my dirt bike riding carrier; she got me a horse instead. /kickin rocks
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Steve Belford
Sport climber
Poway, CA
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Aug 26, 2015 - 03:01pm PT
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I recently got a new bike after not having one for over 10 years. The peer pressure from some of my climbing friends that also ride finally became too much so I gave in. My brother-in-law is a KTM guy so I needed to go orange to keep peace in the family. This is my first dual sport bike. I am hoping that it will help me keep me riding mellow. Not working so far.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Aug 26, 2015 - 03:21pm PT
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cheap stoke.
sorry.
i'm calling you out.
the entire pursuit revolves
around petrol: wasteful.
you're sitting there twisting a wrist
standing now and then: lazy.
not to mention noisy as f*#k
and those things stamp a heavy footprint.
i get it.
"i'm middle age and got a demanding career!
i still like adrenaline, but i'm too sedated
to earn it. it's my right."
dirtbike pukes they earn no respect.
i say that whole sport can f*#k off.
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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Aug 26, 2015 - 03:46pm PT
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Not really worried about it considering my first 45 years I primarily commuted by bike to work and have very limited jet travel. I prefer to live where I don't have to travel far for my fun/life pursuits. I burn about 2 gallons a week on the moto and ride trails. Sure I spin oout every now and then but not in purpose as traction is the only. I doubt that the riding I do 5 months of the year will greatly enlarge my footprint. The other aspects of my lifestyle help with this. 700sq ft house, 1 jet ride about once a year to Sacramento, very little meat consumption, I could go on but when others judge based on singular activities I figured I'd throw it out there. Flame away or insert a sparky!!
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Aug 26, 2015 - 03:49pm PT
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sounds like noise pollution to me.
but, you know, like heroin: tons of fun, anyone can do it, and it will chop you just like that
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Aug 26, 2015 - 04:02pm PT
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I gave up mountain biking because it tears the hell out of the earth and leaves horrendous trails that keep getting wider and wider.
You can imagine what I think of noisy dirt bikes that cause even worse destruction.
Go dirt biking on your own property, not public lands, please.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Aug 26, 2015 - 04:08pm PT
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Looks like some good days..lotta fun.
I envy those who can enjoy it reasonably safely. I always have known that a motorcycle and me would be a deadly mix. Bicycles have messed me up worse than any other sport.. let alone one with a motor..lol
I just have a need to push things too far ...at least on skis the crash surface is softer.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2015 - 04:18pm PT
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Norwegian why all the hate!!!
you're sitting there twisting a wrist
standing now and then: lazy.
You know not of what you speak! I am more worked after a long day on my bike in the desert than I am after a day in the alpine. No lie. Hard work it is.
This thread is all about the love! My dirtbike is the yin to my climbing yang. She takes me places. She grants me passage to parts of my soul that remain locked via all other modes of travel. She cries out to me with her siren call from the garage at night. Often I just go out and caress her neoprene saddle, run my hands over her shining busom of a header, listen to her as she softly whispers promise of headlong adventure.
She is no worse for the environment than the Wawona Tunnel I might beg. Is she more harmful to our wild places than the cables on Half Dome? More intrusive on the land than Degnan's Deli or camp 4 for that matter? Someday I'll swing by your cabin in the woods, lure off your porch, hand you a helmet and let her take you for a ride. She'll melt your heart. I know it.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 26, 2015 - 04:43pm PT
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And WHOAH! Nice KTM Mike! I'm jelly.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Aug 26, 2015 - 04:43pm PT
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Lately it seems I have less and less in common with the folks around here.
The hypocrisy has become pathetic.
I think it may be time to take a break.
Carry on.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Aug 26, 2015 - 05:15pm PT
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Yeah, could've told you up to 1/3 of the replies here would be negative. Many people are too ignorant or too limited in their views to see things from another perspective.
Most people will burn a lot more fuel in their drive to go climbing than someone would on a 250 lb motorcycle riding all day.
It's a lot of exercise. I wouldn't say a lot of work because it's too fun. Take a few laps around an motocross track and tell me it's easy lol.
There are plenty of places to ride where no one will hear you who doesn't want to hear you and any additional erosion / wildlife disturbance is negligible.
Sure there are idiots on OHVs who ride where they shouldn't and tear stuff up, but there's idiot climbers too (who leave trash and shit).
People on bikes are usually pretty safe. Compare that too quad riders. NTTAWWT my son has a quad. But on a bike you feel exposed and ready to be injured at any moment. So people on bikes usually really try to stay under control. There's lots of yahoos on quads, and because they feel more stable and easy to ride people go faster and take chances they wouldn't on a bike and end up getting hurt way more often. They have passed laws for quads that don't apply to bikes in California due to people getting wrecked on quads. e.g. quads you must wear a helmet in state recreation areas, bikes you don't. I wear a helmet anyway but sometimes it's nice to ride slow or pull your bike onto the trailer without a helmet and not have to worry about getting a ticket for it. And on a bike you can have a passenger, on a quad you can't unless it's a a huge quad built with a back seat.
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Caveman
climber
Cumberland Plateau
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Aug 26, 2015 - 05:30pm PT
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"Lately it seems I have less and less in common with the folks around here."
It could be worse. You could live in the south!
Nice looking bikes.
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