Canterbury Trail Rides?

**F5 Dave** · 13th June 2022, 18:39

Lucky, there was some crazy weather and no rides up here for. . . Well only enduros posted bar Taupo Berm Busters.

I also had a sweet spot for no rain. Testing new to me GasGas Trialsy. Fell off in carpark then a few times later. Didn't go more than about 300m from the van. Had a blast.

Need to get the other one going so I can blood some of my mates into this.

**SVboy** · 13th June 2022, 20:55

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Lucky, there was some crazy weather and no rides up here for. . . Well only enduros posted bar Taupo Berm Busters.

I also had a sweet spot for no rain. Testing new to me GasGas Trialsy. Fell off in carpark then a few times later. Didn't go more than about 300m from the van. Had a blast.

Need to get the other one going so I can blood some of my mates into this.

I am tempted to get one of these but I don't think I could do it justice because of time constraints-life getting in the way again!

**F5 Dave** · 14th June 2022, 08:32

I sold my 200 yrs ago for same reason. But you only need a tiny bit of land and an hour to practice doing something. It will teach skills for dirtbike. I got another (actually 2) as rides up here are a bit sparce, but also as I missed it.

**george formby** · 14th June 2022, 17:12

Originally Posted by SVboy

I am tempted to get one of these but I don't think I could do it justice because of time constraints-life getting in the way again!

Do it! A bit of log on a slope will tie you in knots for months trying to perfect balance and angles. Then get a bigger log..

T'other thing I get from my trialsy is utter exhaustion after doing nothing whatsoever spectacular. They are cruel and unusual machines, love em.

**Kickaha** · 14th June 2022, 18:13

Originally Posted by SVboy

Lowry Peaks was......good. The main track was 32kms of straight forward farm track-not too muddy or slippery. The weather was probably the best weather in NZ at that time! However the enduro sections required Jarvis like skills! I could not even get my bike pointed in the right direction for the first hillclimb! If it was not for the help of the talented rider I ride with, my corpse would still be there. #Bittenoffmore than hecouldchew!

Forecast looked shit and given how crap and muddy it was there last time I didn't bother, off for another ride down a river next weekend though, weather permitting

Originally Posted by SVboy

I am tempted to get one of these but I don't think I could do it justice because of time constraints-life getting in the way again!

I've had a go on a couple but I just don't have the attention span to put the time in to get good at it, I'll stick to just being mediocre on a trail bike rather than on both a Trail bike and a Trials bike

**dangerous** · 14th June 2022, 19:42

Originally Posted by Kickaha

off for another ride down a river next weekend though, weather permitting

WELL... my 30 MILE river circuit is now fucked... the selwyn is in flood, all that effort I put into cutting new tracks... ahhhh well... I knew it would happen, kinda hoped Id get another month or 2 out of it tho

**Kickaha** · 14th June 2022, 21:38

Originally Posted by dangerous

WELL... my 30 MILE river circuit is now fucked...

Mile ? what kind of fucktarded interbred hillbilly uses miles as a measurement ?

**F5 Dave** · 15th June 2022, 07:18

There's a whole country I can think of that are rearing to prove your point.

**dangerous** · 16th June 2022, 18:42

Originally Posted by Kickaha

Mile ? what kind of fucktarded interbred hillbilly uses miles as a measurement ?

Megero kawasaki... the trip meter is in miles mate

**dangerous** · 26th June 2022, 18:18

Originally Posted by dangerous

WELL... my 30 MILE river circuit is now fucked... the selwyn is in flood, all that effort I put into cutting new tracks... ahhhh well... I knew it would happen, kinda hoped Id get another month or 2 out of it tho

well... actually now that the level is back to the norm, after all the work that has been done to redirect the river away from farmlands... it was a rather awesome ride today, theres even areas you can treat like a Mcross circuit didnt ride as far as usual tho as some new tracks need to be forged... but hey always next weekend

**F5 Dave** · 26th June 2022, 19:03

We celebrated Matariki up in the Maungatukus. Some of the Bush tracks are pretty good
Transport sections are a bit fast and dull and stoney.

Xtrainer is a world better than std, used to be skittering on that shit.

But then rode a mates 21 Beta Race. Like my GasGas, but BettaBetta. Fantastic machine. If I could touch the ground.

**SVboy** · 27th June 2022, 11:32

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

We celebrated Matariki up in the Maungatukus. Some of the Bush tracks are pretty good
Transport sections are a bit fast and dull and stoney.

Xtrainer is a world better than std, used to be skittering on that shit.

But then rode a mates 21 Beta Race. Like my GasGas, but BettaBetta. Fantastic machine. If I could touch the ground.

I empathize. I rode a mates BETA 200rr. Great bike, just too tall!

**george formby** · 27th June 2022, 11:52

Leftfield question..

Any of you fullas running mousses?

My interest has been piqued listening to Johnny Walkers commentary at Erzberg. He was talking about how the grip from soft tyres and mousses have pushed hard enduro to the level we see now.

I'm used to a soft trials tyre but they are pants in wet clay.

Anything to keep me upright..

**F5 Dave** · 27th June 2022, 12:48

Tubliss is the go for trail riders. Bit like cheating. Local bikeshop will have them. Just the rear makes easy jump in traction. Haven't tried a front.