Offroad Ecastsy

[IronicCapers]

I got the bike fever its driving me crazy i cant sleep properly all my dreams are of bikes. Bike magazines have replaced my playboy mags! BIKE PORN!!! My mate and i have this craziness that just cant be satisfied by 1 great ride alone, we want more and always look for terrain and different challenges. Now the reason for this post is not to state a fact that im sure every1 on this site probably has the same or similar symtoms.
What im really interested in is how there are some people within the bike world who just don't have the same thrist for bikes that no electrolyte sports drink can possibly quench. Even the ones who can't express their excitment off the bike through jumping up and down you can simply see that tell tale look in their eyes, its like fire in their eyes but with a bike at the forefront...well im sure you get my drift.
Anyway ive got this mate in my riding crew who just always seems to procrastinate about riding with us and hes usually free got no other life i think so whats stopping him. He ain't fussed on riding but all he does is talk himself up saying hes gona backflip today but you cant flip very far when hes just a foot off the ground. While off that same jump we get enough air to twist the bike a bit in the air. But is it because he has never found that spark when you look at a bike then imagine yourself riding looking great in front the ladies doing insane speeds and jumping 80ft gaps doing a Heart attack, or is it just that he fears his KX250 fmf piped bike so much that he looks for any excuse to not ride it with others for the simple fact that he is not sure he can handle the bike with the proper accord that MX machine needs. Could it be that his fear is so consuming but his love for bikes is the only reason he keeps the bike and he dreams of 1day breaking in the stallion that is the KX250.

[far queue]

What are ya, a wanna be psychologist? Who cares. You're enjoying yourself arn't ya, just get out there and keep enjoying it. If your mate doesn't want to come and play that's up to him - what ever - do you own thing.

[IronicCapers]

lol i like ur bluntness nah just venting my frustrations. Hes just one of my good mates and wen he does ride its quite fun because he gets beta all the time and its more fun to ride with ur mates than by urself

[Brian d marge]

me matewaslike that, hes so careful its embarassing , No somepeople like the dirt others dont. Me I wouldnt be here if I had a Sports bike , ( a friend of mine has just pick up the 06 ZX10R , size of a 600 and f %^&* quick ( we dont know yet as It has Zero km on it ) but I cant be trusted on the things , so I dont ride them ( even when I was a bike mechanic , prefered a second opinion, the bosses !!)
But the dirt just aint him, I love air and have become an airtime junky , he doesnt like the bike slipping and slidin , and HATES falling off

Secretly all these road riders are big girly blouses , and only real men get dirty

Stephen

[NordieBoy]

me matewaslike that, hes so careful its embarassing , No somepeople like the dirt others dont. But the dirt just aint him, I love air and have become an airtime junky , he doesnt like the bike slipping and slidin , and HATES falling off

Secretly all these road riders are big girly blouses , and only real men get dirty

Stephen

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[Motu]

Ah,those were the days! Hard to believe I had that much mental and physical energy....

Like the sportsbike guys,he may have bought himself a bike far beyond his abilities,to be ''in with the in crowd''.A KX250 is a profession level MX bike,mere mortals are seldom able to extract everything they have to give - certainly not at play bike level,and for a learner would be pretty daunting to open up.He needs to be on a bike that is at or below his abilities - then he can push the bike as hard as he can,and when he reaches it's limits he can push beyond.It's soooo much more empowering to have to push the rear wheel out,to hit a jump as fast as you can and force the bike into the air by will alone - than to have the bike snake sideways at a touch of throttle,to leap into the air at the slightest bump,pick up the front wheel at every gearchange.

But it would be pretty humbling to step down several levels of bike,and admit the bike of your dreams is too much for you to handle - to do that he needs friends,he needs good riding buddies who won't laugh at his slow bike,mates who will laugh with him when he falls off,and not at him.....he needs his riding experiance to be uplifting,no matter what level he's at.

Are you up to it?.....

[IronicCapers]

Everyday a new challenge appears, its precense is something not to be ignored but to be respected and utterly destroyed so that no one will ever say you went half cocked.
Yes we very much force him to ride harder after every ride we talk of what happened and we try to push to go harder tell him what we can so that he can use our riding experience as base for finding his own style of riding. if he refuses to go down a hill we go down heaps and then in turn say how easy it is. Good riding mates can be in short supply, ones that do laugh with you but also at you in good jest are the ones that every rider needs as when i was very much a rookie when i first started and very hard on myself and kept falling off couldnt always keep up for long.