So you want to race your 640 adventure "the Race"

[Gummee!]

Originally Posted by inte

So Les is off, we load up to burn to the final pit … all is going well…


…and then we see this. And this…

Crap.


We had heard “jokes� about the cars/trucks making up 2+ hours of time on the bikes … was this going to happen? Only one pit to go…

I don't get it... HowTF can trucks go THAT much faster than bikes??

M

[terry.mc]

Originally Posted by SDMike

I don't get it... HowTF can trucks go THAT much faster than bikes??

M

750 HP, 3 feet of suspension travel and a loose nut behind the wheel. In Baja we met a helicopter pilot who was describing how the trucks outrun the chopper over the lakebeds.

Go check out Dust to Glory to see how they pass one another

[Velocibiker]

Originally Posted by SDMike

I don't get it... HowTF can trucks go THAT much faster than bikes??

M

All wheel drive. 30+ inch suspension travel. 500+ hp. Driver AND navigator.

[meat popsicle]

Originally Posted by Velocibiker

All wheel drive. 30+ inch suspension travel. 500+ hp. Driver AND navigator.

4 wheels, no worries about tippin on the small stuff - just floor it!!!

what do you do on your MC with this?

[Velocibiker]

Originally Posted by meat popsicle

4 wheels, no worries about tippin on the small stuff - just floor it!!!

what do you do on your MC with this?

Find another way

[Sasquatch]

Originally Posted by meat popsicle

4 wheels, no worries about tippin on the small stuff - just floor it!!!

what do you do on your MC with this?

Pin it and get the front end light.

Going to see Dust to Glory tomorrow night. Looking forward to it. I grew up in a family that raced Baja and all the other SCORE races. My earliest memories were in sandy pits waiting for dad to come flying in. Unfortunatly we moved to Idaho before I was old enough to get into that kind of racing. If I had a way ($$) of doing it now.... I would.

[meat popsicle]

Originally Posted by Sasquatch

Pin it and get the front end light.

...

i'm no expert on washes, and you are right to want the front light for the sand; but what if your line wanders and you find a rock? with it pinned!

seems like a place where the MC has to find a line thru and the buggys and trucks just blast thru, maybe missing the large rocks. but they don't tip over or wash out right?

[Walker Sky Ranch]

Originally Posted by txrider

Did ya have a steering damper on that thing??

Yep an EMIG Racing set up, all bolt on.. could not of done it without.

[Walker Sky Ranch]

Originally Posted by meat popsicle

...

i'm no expert on washes, and you are right to want the front light for the sand; but what if your line wanders and you find a rock? with it pinned!

seems like a place where the MC has to find a line thru and the buggys and trucks just blast thru, maybe missing the large rocks. but they don't tip over or wash out right?

Yep keep your front tire light so that if you do come in contact with a rock, you can absorb it, and stear with your throttle, ie: getting through the turns

Make Sense? it's one of those things you have to do yourself to know what it feels like. I do know that slow is bad, you will fall!

[Walker Sky Ranch]

Originally Posted by SDMike

I don't get it... HowTF can trucks go THAT much faster than bikes??

M

250,000 dollar Trophy Trucks!

[Gummee!]

Originally Posted by surfphoto

250,000 dollar Trophy Trucks!

I guess I'll get a firsthand look when I'm helping Neduro at the 500...

M

[inte]

Originally Posted by Sasquatch

Pin it and get the front end away.

[meat popsicle]

Originally Posted by surfphoto

Yep keep your front tire light so that if you do come in contact with a rock, you can absorb it, and stear with your throttle, ie: getting through the turns

Make Sense? it's one of those things you have to do yourself to know what it feels like. I do know that slow is bad, you will fall!

you are, I am dead positive, more experienced with this but for clarity, front end light, absorb rocks, gotcha. but isn't the line awfully important? Pinnin the throttle seems a tad foolhearty (said by another not you).

if you were to meet a rock at the wrong vector it would be bad no?

[meat popsicle]

Originally Posted by inte

hey...

saw that one after a bit of gazing; cant imagine what it would be like to carry speed thru that corner, rear (and front probably) drifting thru, and see only for a second that my line leads right into that!!!

[neduro]

Originally Posted by surfphoto

250,000 dollar Trophy Trucks!

Give or take a million... you can't come close to the front running trophy trucks for that, from what I've heard.

Some of those teams have several helicopters up for the entire race ($10k an hour? more?), plus fleets of matching Diesel chase trucks, plus several 18 wheelers, all to support a single trophy truck. It's big money.

And Johnny still beats them on an XR 650R with less than $5k of easily available bolt ons. There's something cool about that.