Dirt bike recommendations?

[fridayflash]

deluge all over the country today..i just saw noah sail past

[unstuck]

Well I'd better get going. Put the bike on the trailer myself, also hooked the trailer up myself too I hope neither fall off. Additionally I don't much know how to drive a trailer, or worse, ride a dirt bike. Disaster!

Your trailer has a motor? WTF, where can I get one of those.

[buffstar]

Yehah!! have fun - Woodhill is fun in the wet, it makes the sand much easier to ride & Tony is a good teacher.

Just remember, we all sucked when we started - I hope you learn heaps & have a blast!

PS driving with a trailer is just the same as learning to ride a dirtbike.... you'll just get better and better, when I first started I was trying to back my trailer out of a big ass driveway & still managed to take out a pole - *ahem* can now do a three point turn

[leathel]

Well I'd better get going. Put the bike on the trailer myself, also hooked the trailer up myself too I hope neither fall off. Additionally I don't much know how to drive a trailer, or worse, ride a dirt bike. Disaster!

practice makes perfect....you wont get better not doing it

[fridayflash]

im rained off work today..tempted to grab my lil crf230 and go down the rive for a mudblast

[unstuck]

Big paddock is the best place to practice the backing skills with a trailer. Backing a truck and trailer, now that can be a mind fuck when you first start.

[fridayflash]

i agree mate, luckilly i only had to do a straight 'back up' when i went for my trailer lic
them steering front axle trailers is weird to back!

[bosslady]

Well that went ok I thought. Better now have a sense of relief that although I'm far from great maybe I'm not as bad as I thought. Best things i got out of the lesson was probably keeping me fingies over the clutch always and when i start to panic, which i do and it gets me into trouble, just pull it in a bit, that and also looking where i want to go, which i always try to do but made more of an effort. Only dropped the bike once, when i panicked and grabbed a handful of throttle. Also i think i gave him the shits when i panicked, looked where i DIDNT want to go and gassed it Big time towards some trees haha.

I Tried to back the trailer down the drive but was most unsuccessful so just went in front first. Now i have to wash the effing thing blarghhh

[unstuck]

See, it does get easier. Good on ya for washing the bike down too, so many of my mates just leave them until the next ride, then wonder why their bikes are always falling apart.

[bosslady]

See, it does get easier. Good on ya for washing the bike down too, so many of my mates just leave them until the next ride, then wonder why their bikes are always falling apart.

Don't praise me yet, it's still sitting outside hahaha. Can't NOT wash it, Flatmate would call me a lazy bitch and rip me a new one for messing up his carpeted garage.

[bosslady]

Went to Woodhill again today. Epic.Fail. I think I need more lessons. I tried to put into practice the things I learnt with Tony but started confusing myself, not knowing what to do when confronted with corners (if you can call em that), hills (they weren't even hills!!!!), "loose" sand. I guess also cause there were a fair few people there the sand got "ripped up" (for lack of a better word) which I am told doesn't matter but just seeing it made me panic.

Dropped my bike maybe a half dozen times, almost always in places where I saw there was bunch of loose sand. And try as I might I couldn't 'relax and constantly kept looking at the ground. I tensed up so much that I got major arm pump, I could hardly even pull in my clutch because of it. Biggest problem was just not able to RELAX. I kept winding myself up, freaking out and pretty sure I had a wee baby panic attack LOL.

I don't want to admit defeat, that's for sure. But I need more lessons because I'm totally struggling to be honest. Tired!!

[Ocean1]

Dropped my bike maybe a half dozen times

Fucking amateur.

[bosslady]

Fucking amateur.

I know eh. Think I might have even screamed a little once before I went down too, lol

[nzspokes]

To be honest I find The Sandpit is bloody hard riding when your learning. I cant say I enjoy it there. Im still very much learning. it would be good to see you get a good ride in at Thundercross park in the dry. I love it there. B trail is easy slow and is still fun fast. Great place for a learner.

[fridayflash]

raced in the mercer 'sand prix' years ago..kinda a fun day thing, kool fun but deep sand is a learned skill
like woodhill..wfo is best but when slowing down for corners you can get into a bit of a weave