Respect to all MX racers/riders!

[Sparky Bills]

Was on a WR250 on new years day. Spent nearly the whole day on it at the beach.
Had an absolute ball!!
Wheelies, roosting, eating sand!

The last few days, ive discovered that i have muscles that i never knew i had. SHIT IM SORE!!
Nothing but respect goes out to all mx riders, My arms felt like jelly when i got home.
Would do it all again in a flash, but shit! How do the racers keep going???

[Sketchy_Racer]

Why thank you.... we mxers are a hard bunch ;)

[Motu]

I don't ride MX,but a couple of laps around an MX track and I'm totaly exhausted - it takes a massive amount of upper body strength.Trail riding is less demanding with more periods of relaxed riding,but you are doing it for longer.Trials uses even more of your body,and after a trial even the muscles in my feet hurt! Just after a gravel road ride on monday I have sore shoulders and inner thighs,lots of body input required.

[Goblin]

I don't ride MX,but a couple of laps around an MX track and I'm totaly exhausted - it takes a massive amount of upper body strength.Trail riding is less demanding with more periods of relaxed riding,but you are doing it for longer.Trials uses even more of your body,and after a trial even the muscles in my feet hurt! Just after a gravel road ride on monday I have sore shoulders and inner thighs,lots of body input required.
Have to agree with that! I've only been on one trail ride but there was no relaxed riding. It pissed down the whole day & I was on a dodgey old XR200 with a fucked cluch, bugger all brakes and the kickstart kept flapping around banging my knee. The trail was so tight and windy and ruts were so deep I was afraid of falling in & never getting out. Over slippery tree roots, up & down steep hills and the weekend warriors roostertailed me at every opportunity. I only got half way round the 35k trail and the bike crapped out & wouldnt start again, got doubled back to base and the sweepers towed the bike back. For days after every muscle in my body ached, even my toes!!
So I take my hat off to all dirtbike riders!! You guys ROCK!!

[MOTOXXX]

u just a pussy bills.

you tend to find that when you have the muscle consistency of dough.

[WRT]

Got asked by a family member over xmas how long I have been going to the gym . . . gym? What gym? Just been getting out on the CR. 'Tis a good workout, to be sure!

And Sparky's right, it is a whole lotta fun. You guys only riding tarmac really dont know what your missing (and vice versa of course). But I guess then there's track, minimoto's, trials . . . so many aspects to bikes, gotta love it. Havent tried trials yet, dont think I really have the balance for it, but one day perhaps.

[Coyote]

I've ridden my brothers 125 a lot and I've ridden it as hard as I'm allowed to (can't ride it anymore as my brother doesn't want me to crash it) and I have nothing to show for it. I'm still a scrawny bastard. Never won an arm wrestle in my life

[flash]

i argee, im a dirt rider (mainly trails but also some mx) and over the christmas holidays i had a bit of a break. went back out on monday to the honda trail near auckland and shit!!!!,it was like the stifness i had when i first started,....well no, but it was close ;).

i feel proud, when i went my fastest only one 450cc passed me (im on a kdx200), and i passed atleast 30-40 riders

[Coyote]

i feel proud, when i went my fastest only one 450cc passed me (im on a kdx200), and i passed atleast 30-40 riders
That's really awesome. Best I've done is keep up with 12 year old on a KXF250. Allthough he did have 8 years more riding experience than I have.

[flash]

i agree some of those kids are fricken fast, even on their 100cc ktms.
their one of the hardest to pass because they dont let you!!

[Coyote]

i agree some of those kids are fricken fast, even on their 100cc ktms.
their one of the hardest to pass because they dont let you!!
I decided to just stay at the same speed as this 250. I was already pushing mmy luck riding the 125 as hard as I did. Now I'm banned from riding it :pinch:

When I started riding, those kids on their 50s were really bad for my confidence. I thought I was riding fast and jumping high, then a 50 would scream past you and clear the table top ahead. It sucked

[Sketchy_Racer]

LOL!! its funny when my brother (04 YZF250) get all pissed off cause i kick his arse on a old saggy RM 'X' 250 that has had the same piston and rings for 10 years and soooooo many hours on it :lol:

i love my RMX..... its just one of those bikes you love to hate ??? but its cool cause its mine!!!!!!!

[Coyote]

i love my RMX..... its just one of those bikes you love to hate ??? but its cool cause its mine!!!!!!!
I loved my 80. No powervalve so the power was on or off. Way too small for me but still wicked fun to ride. Made an awesome motard. Have to get another one some day, maybe make it road legal :p

[Sniper]

I have alot of respect for MX riders. They have bigger balls than I to race race so fast on gravel. Well done guys.

[Coyote]

I have alot of respect for MX riders. They have bigger balls than I to race race so fast on gravel. Well done guys.
And they have very minimal gear on. Most riders are only wearing T-shirts

[Goblin]

I have alot of respect for MX riders. They have bigger balls than I to race race so fast on gravel. Well done guys.
But they dont race on gravel....well I've never seen a gravel MX track:no: only dirt!

[cowpoos]

I ride off road daily...not always hard....but I love it...its a safer way to be a hooligin than on the road...plus it hurts less when u crash!!! [not always though]
and the skills you learn in bike control...ballance...throttle control and using your weight does wonders to your road riding...and fittness...even though the styles at times are complete opposites...

[flash]

But they dont race on gravel....well I've never seen a gravel MX track:no: only dirt!

trail riding has alot of gravel tracks (sometimes) and i race people around it, i just dont win anything

[Goblin]

trail riding has alot of gravel tracks (sometimes) and i race people around it, i just dont win anything
Yeah, there's no prizes on trailrides but there is the satisfaction of doing ya best & having shitloads of fun:second:

[Motu]

But they dont race on gravel....well I've never seen a gravel MX track:no: only dirt!

Mercer is sand/pumic,builds some big deep berms,some places it packs down hard,some places thick and deep - but about the closest you'll find to gravel....not dirt atleast anyway.

[Sniper]

Snipers dictionary:

Gravel (Gra vel) Noun: Anything that is not Tar seal.

[Brian d marge]

The gym and LOTS of it ( now you have been bitten...can see the purchase of an MX bike?????)

I cycle on the bike for 30 min each day . and every 3rd day 100 sit ups , 200 bench presses with 5kg and 10 min with a stretchy band thingy, and squat till u drop with 10 kg ( around 50)

diet, I aim to be 80 kg this year -84 now

All that and I can last 20 min max at race speed , then I am starting to puff and wheeze ,

Try the jumps they scare the nuts of you ...they look like the side of a mountain and you accelarate into it ... next thing you know your airbourne @!

MX is a whole lot of fun ....LOve it and its so cheap to do ..

I usually wear a back protector and elbow pads /and or / shoulder pads depending on how slippery and hard the surface is ,,,

Its great fun ...You can be as anti social as you like wheelies ,burnouts psychological warfare ( along side another by inches into a heavily rutted corner ,,,oh yeah !!!)

Stephen

Current state of play suspension 5 crankshaft up in smoke Suspension( running to lean on heavy right hand ) front and rear revalved and the heaviest springs fitted ...Seat neads recovering for stiffer foam with more height.
and want to try Motard in the summer ........

[Motu]

Yeah,body contact in corners is great,we used to do that on the dirt track - interlocking handlebars and rubbing front wheels together in the corners...if someone swooped in just as we laid it down I'd smack their left footpeg or rear axle...''I'm still here you bastard,and I'm THIS fucking close!'' You need confidance and respect in another rider to ride that close.

Don't confuse fitness and strength with big muscles - the top MX riders don't look like the Arnie,but they could run rings around someone like that in almost any area.I'm in the age group where you say - WTF happened to my body!!? Now I'm sweating and breathing hard just loading the bike onto the trailer....but after half an hour off road it's all forgotten.

[cowpoos]

Yeah,body contact in corners is great,we used to do that on the dirt track - interlocking handlebars and rubbing front wheels together in the corners...if someone swooped in just as we laid it down I'd smack their left footpeg or rear axle...''I'm still here you bastard,and I'm THIS fucking close!'' You need confidance and respect in another rider to ride that close.

Don't confuse fitness and strength with big muscles - the top MX riders don't look like the Arnie,but they could run rings around someone like that in almost any area.I'm in the age group where you say - WTF happened to my body!!? Now I'm sweating and breathing hard just loading the bike onto the trailer....but after half an hour off road it's all forgotten.

mx is one of the most pyhsical sports in not the most

[flash]

its the second, right behind professinal soccer (which dosnt count for much)

[merv]

Sparky if your muscles are sore, there is only one real cure, and that's do it all again. Use the same muscles over and over and the pain goes away. Back when I was younger I did enduros in the 80's and the usual go was: first hour feeling fine, second hour the pain starts (arm pump and stuff like that), keep riding and by the third hour the pain has worn off and all is sweet until the end - typically 6 to 8 hours they lasted back then - not sure what they do these days. Then the bad news was the day after the day after you feel real stiff. I'd had a few years break from competition when I started a couple of years of enduros and after the first one on a Sunday I could hardly walk up the stairs at work by Tuesday. The only cure was just do it more and more.

So you'll have to get a CRF250X and get into it big time (couldn't have a WR working for Motomart now eh!) and then you'll feel OK. Mind you, the same applies on the road. Try having a break not riding for a while, then the first time out again you find the muscles on the insides of your thighs will hurt a bit because they must be ones you don't use walking and doing other stuff and that's what happened to you riding the WR, you'll have been using muscles that you wouldn't normally use.

[flash]

they say those new 250 crf's need more maintiance than a two smoke

[Sparky Bills]

So you'll have to get a CRF250X and get into it big time (couldn't have a WR working for Motomart now eh!) and then you'll feel OK.


HAHA
Ill just wait for a demo model to come in and borow that from time to time:shifty:

[Sparky Bills]

they say those new 250 crf's need more maintiance than a two smoke


Four strokes do in general.

[myvice]

Gunna have to get back on one, its been about 10 years!
MX is great, I found I fell off heaps, but got hurt a lot less.

[inlinefour]

What does not kill us can only make us stronger. I need to harden my rear shock on the TT, anyone know how? Yea that and loose a few more KGs. Sure makes ya sleep well at night doing enduro riding, used to do MX as a teenager and I could not keep up with the rebuild costs. Not something I want to ever repeat MXing, not only is the riding hard, but the wipeouts are much harder.:doctor:

[krusty]

yes martin your puny little muscles 2 tired and sore afta trying to keep up with krusty. RESPECT.

[clint640]

Mountainbiking boys, mountainbiking.

I'm pretty slow off road but when I got back into it after few years without a dirtbike I found I could do it more & better than back when I had the 'ol XR185, simply because of all the mountainbiking I do now.

Gonna have to take the big orange beast up to the MX track next time I've got the knobblys on, it been a while since I had a bit of a jump session. :eek: ya know what they say about big trailbikes...

They fly like bird....













...& land like grand piano :pinch:

[Sparky Bills]

yes martin your puny little muscles 2 tired and sore afta trying to keep up with krusty. RESPECT.


Just remember buddy...
I can come back at you three times better:nono:
Or have you forgotten??:hitcher:

[Mattyc]

go to a honda fun day and beat the snot out of near new bikes that arent yours- oh what fun, jumping off at speed, letting the bike run into trees, lol (not that ive ever done that :P, well maybe a few years ago)


Dirt riding rules, i just wish there were trails to work so i could ride my mx bike to work, need to move cities for that i think

[krusty]

got me there enough said