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[QUOTE="sideways, post: 1474435, member: 145551"] Thank You mx547 and RM_guy for the welcome and advice. I have started watching the vid's suggested and will get the one's recommended by Okie as well. it's too late not to ride past my comfort level but I will sure avoid it in the future. The first time I remember experiencing pure adrenaline was a couple of weeks ago. I did about 70 miles and the first half was nearly all deep sugar sand interrupted from time to time by wet rutted red clay still wet from rain. I ran it way to fast for my experience level but was just to scared to back off the throttle to much. A little past the half way point I stopped at a friends house, parking on the road because he didn't know yet that I had lost my mind and decided to get into dirt bikes. As I walked up the driveway he started down to meet me and I yelled up that I had just stopped by for a glass of water and to get my heart back down out of my throat and see if my butt would begin to un-pucker a bit. I take a really small dose of blood pressure medicine and let me tell you I was wishing I had doubled up that morning. My buddy suggested a route that would lead me generally home that was much less challenging and I had an absolute blast !!! It was more than a bunny slope but it didn't make me fear for my life like the previous route. there was one hitch, not serious, kind of funny. I was coming into a down hill right hand corner and in the bottom was a mud hole, as I got to where I could see into the corner there are several 4-wheelers parked from one side to the other, young folks and mostly girls. I picked a spot on the far right and as I thought I was in the rut I had picked as the best ( in the curve) the front tire washed out off the trail and through the brush I went. the girls were trying their best not to let me see them laughing, not that I blamed them for laughing, I probably would have to. I manged to keep the bike moving in the right direction and made it back up onto the trail and as I was passing the last four wheeler with a teenage boy on it side saddle I slowed down and in a pleasant voice said " it wasn't near as damn funny to me as it was to you" and just kept on keeping on. That day pretty much set the hook. I really appreciate you folks being here and hope one day to be able to contribute something of value to someone else. Sideways [/QUOTE]
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