Well sunday was a beautiful sunny day and there was a foot of untouched powder on the trail :cool: . I couldn't sleep at home so I ended up arriving at 6am and was tired enough by then to catch some z's in the backseat. Young Ted woke me up at about 9:10 when he pulled up along side me. We got geared up and after 10minutes of kicking I got the wr to fire.
The trail was actually fairly easy to ride I didn't have any problems riding in Inca's tracks. I didn't get thrown around by his ruts, mostly because I keep the front end so light. Sitting that far back gave me great traction and kept me out of the trees, more than normal anyways. This technic worked especially well climbing hills and when I started to lose taction a seat bounce dug me right in and shot me forward. It scared me the first time when I wheelied part of the way up a hill :yikes: . Which goes to show just how much traction you can get with a seat bounce even in a foot of snow. Inca didn't do so great in the snow, Ted couldn't sit back as far as I could and the over spinning wore the screws down quick. Sometime past the half way point I desided I was going to turn Inca's screws around, because I was starting to exceed my target heart rate. It was a good work out but as the screws got duller I began spending too much time pushing down and forward on Inca's rear fender when it got steep and slippery.
My bike wasn't starting so well on the trail, before I was to rich and now I'm a little lean :think: . Of course riding so slow and not getting a good amount of powder on the engine made it even warmer. I had trouble restarting twice before I thought about using the hot start. What made matters worse was not being able to use my e-start because I didn't realize my rectifer was touching my exhaust and not charging the battery very well. This wasn't a big deal, it took 30seconds to fix. After that I just turned on my radiator fan and didn't shut the bike of when we stopped to take a break.
We only did the bottom loop, Ted had enough cardio for the day I had to get something to drink. I'd have gone back out but I'm still holding true to my New Years resolution. "I will ride every weekend and not ride alone".
All in all a great ride, the company was good and I got to blast up some sweet hills IN THE SNOW! :yeehaw:
The trail was actually fairly easy to ride I didn't have any problems riding in Inca's tracks. I didn't get thrown around by his ruts, mostly because I keep the front end so light. Sitting that far back gave me great traction and kept me out of the trees, more than normal anyways. This technic worked especially well climbing hills and when I started to lose taction a seat bounce dug me right in and shot me forward. It scared me the first time when I wheelied part of the way up a hill :yikes: . Which goes to show just how much traction you can get with a seat bounce even in a foot of snow. Inca didn't do so great in the snow, Ted couldn't sit back as far as I could and the over spinning wore the screws down quick. Sometime past the half way point I desided I was going to turn Inca's screws around, because I was starting to exceed my target heart rate. It was a good work out but as the screws got duller I began spending too much time pushing down and forward on Inca's rear fender when it got steep and slippery.
My bike wasn't starting so well on the trail, before I was to rich and now I'm a little lean :think: . Of course riding so slow and not getting a good amount of powder on the engine made it even warmer. I had trouble restarting twice before I thought about using the hot start. What made matters worse was not being able to use my e-start because I didn't realize my rectifer was touching my exhaust and not charging the battery very well. This wasn't a big deal, it took 30seconds to fix. After that I just turned on my radiator fan and didn't shut the bike of when we stopped to take a break.
We only did the bottom loop, Ted had enough cardio for the day I had to get something to drink. I'd have gone back out but I'm still holding true to my New Years resolution. "I will ride every weekend and not ride alone".
All in all a great ride, the company was good and I got to blast up some sweet hills IN THE SNOW! :yeehaw: