Sandpit this weekend? (6 Dec)

**REDRIDER** · 6th December 2009, 05:56

telliman, see you up there mate, should be good with all the rain yesterday.....

**SpikedPunch** · 6th December 2009, 08:46

I had one off on the farm loop. 'Looped' it out, funnily enough. Why do I always land on my head?

Anyway, was very good fun

Drier than I thought it would be, but still puddles up to [my] knees. Snake bite was my pick of the day, hadn't done that one in a wee while. Prob go to Paparimu next weekend.

**flyingcr250** · 6th December 2009, 16:46

geez it was abit of hard work today, it was quite dry and powdery in most places, it didnt really suit me but had a good time anyway. big group of KB'ers out there today

**Midget200** · 6th December 2009, 18:04

Originally Posted by SpikedPunch

I had one off on the farm loop. 'Looped' it out, funnily enough. Why do I always land on my head?

Anyway, was very good fun

Drier than I thought it would be, but still puddles up to [my] knees. Snake bite was my pick of the day, hadn't done that one in a wee while. Prob go to Paparimu next weekend.

Geez didn't see you out there Spiked Punch, darn it! You must have been riding hard! I test rode a KDX200, awesome, really good up the woops! Oh no another bike change! Have heard really great things about the 200, no one has a negative thing to say! Yeah they're a little bit heavy, but what the hell. Very much like a man, there's no perfect man, and there's definitely no perfect bike for a vertically challenged female!

Glad that you're out riding again, have missed you over the past couple of months.

**cheese** · 6th December 2009, 18:32

Had a blast out there today. It was a bit dry, but all good!!

**camchain** · 6th December 2009, 19:24

Was nice meeting some KBers today. Kept an eye out for you on the trails redrider but it's a pretty big place!
Noobi and I swapped bikes and had a bit of fun comparing. (BTW Mine is 265mm across the frame above pegs) Judging by following noobi through the convict, Chris Birch training is good stuff. Riding well mate, looked quick and clean!

**noobi** · 6th December 2009, 19:50

Originally Posted by camchain

Noobi and I swapped bikes and had a bit of fun comparing. (BTW Mine is 265mm across the frame above pegs) Judging by following noobi through the convict, Chris Birch training is good stuff. Riding well mate, looked quick and clean!

I tried to get a measure, best i could was 270-280mm between the frame at the pegs and about 220mm across the bottom of the seat area. Whats yours across the bottom of the seat?

Thanks mate, its good to be at a point where im not completely useless...

**camchain** · 6th December 2009, 20:09

Hard to measure noobi, roughly 170-ish across seat base where it meets tank. My worn seat cover had lower coefficient of friction.
But your seat measures a little higher on the 'rockwell scale' though (ask the old fella on that one Lol).

Heard a rumour you were there today Reckless?

**noobi** · 6th December 2009, 20:21

Originally Posted by camchain

Hard to measure noobi, roughly 170-ish across seat base where it meets tank. My worn seat cover had lower coefficient of friction.
But your seat measures a little higher on the 'rockwell scale' though (ask the old fella on that one Lol).

I guess that makes sense then, its not so much the bike are kato is fatter through the pegs more that its just tapers more severely towards the seat, meaning it was further away from the knee area....
The gg tapers around 50mm between pegs and seat, KTM tapers about 100mm.

**camchain** · 6th December 2009, 20:37

I think that's a good conclusion. Would very quickly get used to differences like these though. Interesting to see we both had different ideas on what we felt were the major differences though. First thing I noticed was how much lighter yours felt in the tight stuff, it really surprised me. Just the ticket for an event like the Redbull City Scramble or Te Puke endurocross I'd say.