Fryin Finn
14th July 2008, 07:43
Totara Park trail ride 13th July (13th unlucky for some)
I spent the day as travelling marshall and spent a fair time helping others out on the slippery slopes of moral decline. Well actually the slippery slopes around Upper Hutt. I helped one kid out of a stream and he stalled and fell off a few times in the next Km or so but I was pleased to see him still riding at the end of the day.
Not so lucky was a KTM EXC 250 rider whose sprocket decided to detach itself from the rear hub at speed. We managed to get the wheel off and remove the offending item and then a long wait for Steve on his Kawasaki 700 quad to tow him out. Steve was busy all day towing stranded bikes.
On my next lap came across another KTM 250 which would not start at the bottom of a long hill - in all directions. As it turned out he was the brother of the guy with the sheared sprocket - is this a genetic condition.
My friend Mikey has a KTM and was a little more than worried about how things were turning against this particular brand of motorcycle.
Mind you my day wasn't that flash - the riding was great but discovered a knackered wheel bearing on the trailer so I offloaded my bike onto a mates ute and gingerly drove the trailer home - praying for no bad luck.
I spent the day as travelling marshall and spent a fair time helping others out on the slippery slopes of moral decline. Well actually the slippery slopes around Upper Hutt. I helped one kid out of a stream and he stalled and fell off a few times in the next Km or so but I was pleased to see him still riding at the end of the day.
Not so lucky was a KTM EXC 250 rider whose sprocket decided to detach itself from the rear hub at speed. We managed to get the wheel off and remove the offending item and then a long wait for Steve on his Kawasaki 700 quad to tow him out. Steve was busy all day towing stranded bikes.
On my next lap came across another KTM 250 which would not start at the bottom of a long hill - in all directions. As it turned out he was the brother of the guy with the sheared sprocket - is this a genetic condition.
My friend Mikey has a KTM and was a little more than worried about how things were turning against this particular brand of motorcycle.
Mind you my day wasn't that flash - the riding was great but discovered a knackered wheel bearing on the trailer so I offloaded my bike onto a mates ute and gingerly drove the trailer home - praying for no bad luck.